From the Calendar--March 9, 1926 Volume 19

My poor mind was swimming in the endless sea of the Divine Volition, and my always lovable Jesus made me see the whole Creation in act.  What order, what harmony, how many different beauties!  Each thing carried the seal of an uncreated love that ran toward creatures, and in descending into the depth of each heart, all things cried out in their mute language:  “Love—love the One who so much loves you!”  I felt a sweet enchantment in seeing the whole Creation.  Its loving muteness, more than powerful voice, wounded my poor heart, to the point that I felt faint.  And my sweet Jesus, sustaining me in His arms, told me:  “My daughter, all Creation says:  ‘Glory and adoration to our Creator—love to creatures!”  So, Creation is a mute glory and adoration for Us, because no freedom was conceded to It—either to grow, or to decrease.  We issued It from Ourselves, but We kept It within Us—that is, in Our Will—to sing, though mute, the praises of Our power, beauty, magnificence and glory.  So, We Ourselves sing the praises of Our own power, of Our glory, of Our infinite love, power, goodness, harmony and beauty.  Creation gives Us nothing by Itself; although, being the outpouring of all Our Divine Being, It serves man as mirror in order to look at and to know his Creator, and It gives to him sublime lessons of order, of harmonies, of sanctity and of love.  One can say that the Creator Himself, assuming the attitude of Divine Master, gives as many lessons for as many things as He created—from the greatest to the littlest work which came out of His creative hands.”

From the Calendar--March 8, 1912 Volume 11

[Jesus speaking] “…My hidden life was victim for the whole interior life of man; so it satisfied for the bad thoughts, desires, tendencies and affections.  

“Everything that man does externally is nothing other than the outpouring of his interior.  If so much evil shows on the outside, what must the interior be like?  Therefore, the redoing of the interior of man cost Me very much; it is enough to say that it took Me as long as thirty years.  My thought, My heartbeat, breath and desire were always intent on running close to the thought, heartbeat, breath and desire of man, in order to repair them, satisfy for them and sanctify them. …”

From the Calendar--March 7, 1922 Volume 14

I was thinking about what is written, and I said to myself:  “Is it really Jesus that speaks to me, or is it a trick of the enemy and of my fantasy?”  And Jesus, on coming, told me:  “My daughter, my words are full of truth and of light, and they carry with them the substance and the virtue of transmuting the soul into the same truth, into the same light, and into the very good which they contain, in such a way that the soul not only knows the truth, but feels within herself the substance of operating according to the truth that she has known.  Moreover, My truths are full of beauty and of attraction, in such a way that the soul, taken by their beauty, lets herself be enraptured by them.  

“In Me everything is order, harmony and beauty.  See, I created the heavens; they alone could be enough—but no, I wanted to adorn them with stars, almost studding them with beauty, so that the human eye might enjoy more from the works of its Creator.  I created the earth, and I adorned it with many plants and flowers.  I created nothing which did not have its ornament.  And if this is in the order of created things, much more so in My truths, which reside in My Divinity, such that, while it seems that they reach the soul, they are like solar rays which, while they hit and warm the earth, yet never depart from the center of the sun.  And the soul remains so enamored with My truths, that she finds it almost impossible not to put into practice the truths that she has known, even at the cost of her life.

“On the other hand, when it is the enemy or the speculation of fantasy that want to speak about truths, they bring neither light, nor substance, nor beauty, nor attraction—they are empty truths, without life, and the soul does not feel the grace to sacrifice herself in order to put them into practice.  So, the truths that your Jesus tells you are full of life and of everything that My truths contain.  Why do you doubt?”

From the Calendar--March 6, 1937 Volume 34

I continue to swim in the immense sea of the Divine Volition; and I thought to myself:  “But, how can the creature form this Life of the Fiat within her?  I feel so small that it seems impossible to me.  Perhaps to live inside of It is easier, because I find so much space that I cannot see where Its boundaries reach; but to enclose It inside of me, I feel I lack the space to be able to do this.”  And my always lovable Jesus, with His usual goodness, told me:  “My daughter, you must know that Our Power is so great, that We take delight in forming Our Life within the littleness of the creature, as long as it is not cluttered with other things that do not belong to Us.  Even more, many times We do the greatest things over sheer nothingness, and since it is Our Will for the creature to form and possess this Life of Our Will in her soul, everything We have created and that exists in Heaven and on earth, they all have the mandate from Us to help and serve the creature as means in order to form and grow this Life in her.

“So, the first thing that is there to communicate and make the creature feel the Power, the Love of My Will, is the whole Creation.  Creation has this virtue, given by Us:  that while It increases, nourishes, helps and sustains the natural life, in the same way, penetrating inside the soul by means of the human acts, It penetrates into the soul and performs a double office; and if It finds the little Life of My Will, then My same Will that is found in the created things kisses My Will present in her, molds her, blows Its breath into her, expands her capacity, and finding Its little paradise, It rests and administers the aids and means which that created thing contains so that nothing may be lacking in order to raise and maintain the Life of My Will in the creature.”

From the Calendar--March 5, 1927 Volume 21

[Jesus speaking]“My daughter, do not fear, I am here with you.  What I want is that you never go out of My Will, and that you continue your acts—always, without ever moving from the boundaries of the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat.  And this will give you the firmness which will make you be like your Creator, for once He has done an act, that act has continuous life, without ever ceasing.  An act ever continuous is only of God, who suffers no interruption in His acts.  This is why Our firmness is unshakeable, and extending everywhere with Our immensity, it renders Our acts uninterrupted; and whatever place We lean on, We find Our firmness, which gives Us the greatest honor—it makes Us known as the Supreme Being, Creator of everything, and it renders Our Being and Our acts unshakeable.  In fact, whatever place We want to lean on, We find Our firmness that sustains everything.  My daughter, firmness is of divine nature and a divine quality, and it is right that We give this participation and quality of divine nature to one who must be daughter of Our Divine Fiat and must live in Our Kingdom.  So, your continuing your acts in It, without ever interrupting them, reveals that you are already in possession of the quality of Our firmness.  How many things firmness says:  it says that the soul moves only for God; it says that she moves with reason and out of pure love—not with passion and out of self-interest; it says that she knows the good she does, and therefore she remains firm in it, without ever interrupting it.  Firmness says, with indelible characters:  ‘Here there is the finger of God.’  Therefore, be firm in your acts, and you will have Our divine firmness in your operating.”

From the Calendar--March 4, 1904 Volume 6

As I was very afflicted and in suffering because of the loss of my good Jesus, I saw Him for just a little, and He told me:  “My daughter, your soul must try to maintain the flight of an eagle—that is, to dwell up high, above all the low things of this earth; and so high that no enemy may harm it.  In fact, one who lives up high can harm the enemies, but cannot be harmed.  And she must not only live up high, but must try to have purity and sharpness of eyes, similar to those of an eagle.  Though living up high, through the sharpness of her sight, she penetrates the divine things—not in passing, but by chewing them to the point of making of them her favorite food, despising any other thing.  And she also penetrates the necessities of her neighbor, nor is she afraid to descend into their midst and do good to them; and if needed, she lays down her life.  Through the purity of her sight, the love of God and the love of neighbor, from two she makes them one, rectifying everything for God.  So must the soul be if she wants to please Me.”

From the Calendar--March 3, 1912 Volume 11

Continuing in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came and told me:  “My daughter, one who does My Will loses her temperament and acquires Mine, and since in My temperament there are many melodies which form the paradise of the Blessed—such that music is My sweet temperament, music the goodness, music the sanctity, music the beauty, the power, the wisdom, the immensity, and so with all the rest of My Being—the soul, taking part in all the qualities of My temperament, receives within herself all the varieties of these melodies.  As she goes along doing even the littlest actions, she makes a melody for Me, and as I hear it, I immediately recognize that it is music that the soul has taken from My Will—that is, from My temperament—and I run to listen to it, and I like it so much that I am amused and cheered of all the wrongs which the other creatures do to Me.  

“My daughter, what will happen when these melodies will pass into Heaven?  I will put the soul in front of Me; I will play My music, and she will play her own—we will dart through each other; the sound of one will be the echo of the sound of the other; the harmonies will mix together.  In clear notes it will be known to all the Blessed that this soul is nothing other than the fruit of My Will—the portent of My Will; and all Heaven will enjoy one more paradise.  

“These are the souls to whom I keep repeating:  ‘Had I not created the heavens, for you alone I would create them.’  In them I lay the Heaven of My Will, and I make of them the true images of Myself; and within these Heavens I keep wandering about, amusing Myself and playing with them.  To these Heavens I repeat:  ‘Had I not left Myself in the Sacrament, for you alone I would have done it.’  In fact, they are My true hosts, and just as I could not live without a Will, in the same way I cannot live without these Heavens of My Will; rather, they are not only My true Hosts, but My Calvary and My very Life.  These Heavens of My Will are more dear to Me and more privileged than the Tabernacles and the very consecrated Hosts, because in the Host My Life ends as the species is consumed, while in these Heavens of My Will My Life never ends; even more, they serve as My Hosts on earth and will be eternal Hosts in Heaven.  To these Heavens of My Will I add:  ‘Had I not incarnated Myself in the womb of My Mother, for these souls alone I would have incarnated Myself, and for them I would have suffered My Passion,’ because in them I find the true fruit of My Incarnation and Passion.”

From the Calendar--March 2, 1921 Volume 12

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me:  “My daughter, the third Fiat—My ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as It is in Heaven’—will be like the rainbow that appeared in the sky after the Flood, which, like iris of peace, assured man that the Flood had ceased.  So it will be with the third Fiat.  As It becomes known, and loving and disinterested souls come to live life in My Fiat, they will be like rainbows which, as irises of peace, will reconcile Heaven and earth, and will dispel the flood of so many sins that inundate the earth.  These irises of peace will have the third Fiat as life; so, My ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua’ will have completion in them.  And just as the second Fiat called Me upon earth to live among men, so will the third Fiat call My Will into souls, and in them It will reign ‘on earth as It is in Heaven.’” 

Then, since I was sad because of His absence, He added:  “My daughter, rise—come into My Will.  I chose you amid thousands and thousands, so that My Will may have full completion in you, and you may be like an iris of peace which, from its seven colors, draws others to live life in My Will.  Therefore, let us put the earth aside; up until now I have kept you together with Me to placate My Justice and prevent harder chastisements from pouring upon the earth.  Now let us allow the current of human evil to run, and I want you together with Me, in My Volition, to occupy yourself with preparing the Era of My Will.  

“As you go forward on the path of My Volition, the iris of peace will form, which will form the link of connection between the Divine Will and human will.  From it, My Will will have life upon earth, and the fulfillment will begin, of My prayer and the prayer of the whole Church:  ‘Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as It is in Heaven.’”  

From the Calendar--March 1, 1925 Volume 17

[Jesus speaking] “But do you know what true light is?  True light is the truth.  The truth, known, embraced, loved and put into practice by the soul, is the true light, which transforms her into light itself, and causes new and continuous births of light to be placed inside and outside of her.  This truth forms the true Life of God within the soul, because God is truth, and the soul is bound to the truth—even more, she possesses it.  God is light, and she is bound to the light, and is nourished with light and with truth.  However, while I nourish the soul with truth and with light, she must keep the current of her will opened, in order to receive the current of the divine communication.  Otherwise, it can happen as with the electric current, to which its own electrical characteristics are not enough—the light is lacking, the preparations are needed in order to receive it.  And, still, the light does not reach everyone equally, but according to the light bulbs they have:  those who have one, receive one light; those who have ten, receive light for ten.  And if the light bulbs contain more electric filaments, the lamps appear as more full of light; if they have less filaments, even though there is room inside the glass, the light is small.  And even if the place where the current comes from can give more light, one does not receive it, because the strength of the electricity in order to receive it is lacking in the light bulbs. Therefore, it takes the celestial current which wants to give, as well as the human current in order to receive it; and according to your operating, you will add more filaments to render more complete the light which I want to enclose within you.” 

From the Calendar--February 28, 1899 Volume 2

Volume 2 was actually Luisa’s first written volume. She was later directed to write her earlier spiritual memories, which have now become known as Volume 1.

This passage is from Luisa’s very first writing, on the very first day.

Purity of intention.

While He [Jesus] was saying this, I don’t know how, I saw the confessor near Jesus; and the Lord told him:  “See, everything you do passes into Heaven.  Therefore, see with what purity you must operate, thinking that all your steps, words and works come before My presence, and if they are pure—that is, if they are done for Me—I take greatest delight in them and I feel them around Me like many messengers that remind Me continuously of you.  But if they are done for low and earthly purposes, I feel bothered by them.”  And as He was saying this, He seemed to take his hands, and lifting them up to Heaven, He said to him:  “Your eye always on high; you belong to Heaven—operate for Heaven.”

While I was seeing the confessor, and Jesus saying this to him, in my mind it seemed to me that if one operated in that way, it would happen as when a person has to move out of one house to go to another.  What does he do?  First he sends all his things and everything he possesses, and then he goes himself.  In the same way, we first send our works to take a place for us in Heaven, and then, when our time comes, we go ourselves.  Oh! what a beautiful cortege they will make for us!

From the Calendar--February 27, 1919 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking] “Oh! what a free outpouring My love will have.  I will have free field in everything—no more hindrance; as many tabernacles as I want, so many will I have.  The hosts will be innumerable; at each instant we will communicate each other, together; and I too will cry out:  ‘Freedom! Freedom!  Come all into My Will, and you will enjoy true freedom!’  Outside of My Will, how many hindrances does the soul not find; but in My Will she is free.  I leave her free to love Me as she wants; even more, I tell her:  ‘Lay down your human guises—take the divine.  I am not stingy and jealous of My goods; I want you to take everything.  Love Me immensely; take—take all My love, make it your own; My power, My beauty—make it your own.  The more you take, the happier your Jesus will be.’  The earth forms few tabernacles for Me; the hosts are almost numbered.  And then, the sacrileges, the irreverences that they do to Me—oh! how offended and hindered is My love.  In My Will, instead, no hindrance—there is not a shadow of offense; and the creature gives Me love, divine reparations and complete correspondence; and she substitutes together with Me for all the evils of the human family.  Be attentive, and do not move from the point at which I call you and want you.”

From the Calendar--February 26, 1900 Volume 3

After going through several days of privation—at most, He came a few times like a shadow, and He ran away—I felt such pain that I consumed myself with tears.  Having compassion for my sorrow, blessed Jesus came, and He looked and looked at me again; and then He said to me:  “My daughter, do not fear for I do not leave you.  However, when you are without My presence I do not want you to lose heart, but rather, from today on, when you are without Me, I want you to take My Will and to delight in It, loving Me and glorifying Me in My Will, and holding My Will as if It were My very Person.  By doing so, you will hold Me in your own hands.  What forms the beatitude of Paradise?  Certainly My Divinity.  Now, what would form the beatitude of My dear ones on earth?  With certainty, My Will.  My Will can never escape you; you will always have It in your possession, and if you remain in the circle of My Will, there you will experience the joys most ineffable and the pleasures most pure.  By never going out of the circle of My Will, the soul becomes noble, divinized, and all of her operations reverberate in the center of the Divine Sun, just as the sun’s rays reverberate on the surface of the earth—not one of them goes out of their center, which is God.  The soul who does My Will is alone the noble queen who nourishes herself from My breath, because she takes her food and her drink from no place but My Will, and by nourishing herself of My Will all Holy, a most pure blood will flow in her veins, and her breath will spread a fragrant perfume, which will cheer the whole of Me, because it is produced by My very breath.  Therefore, I want nothing else from you but that you form your beatitude in the circle of My Will, without ever going out of It, not even for a brief instant.”

From the Calendar--February 25, 1928 Volume 23

[Jesus speaking] “… It wants to form Its Kingdom on earth, It wants to have Its chosen and faithful people; and therefore, even though It is present in the midst of creatures and lives unknown and suffocated, It does not stop, It does not depart for Its celestial regions, but persists in remaining in their midst to make Itself known.  It would want to make everyone know the good It wants to do, Its celestial laws, Its insuperable love, Its heartbeat that palpitates light, sanctity, love, gifts, peace, happiness; and such does It want the children of Its Kingdom.  And this is the reason for Its life in you, for Its knowledges—to make known what Divine Will means.  And I enjoy and remain hidden in My very Will, to give It all the field and the carrying out of Its life in you.”

From the Calendar--February 24, 1912 Volume 11

After I saw various souls around Jesus, especially one who was more sensitive, Jesus told me:  “My daughter, if the souls with sensitive temperament start doing good, they make more progress than the others, because their sensitivity leads them to arduous and great enterprises.”  I prayed that He would take what was left of her human sensitivity away from that soul, and that He would clasp her more closely to Himself and tell her that He loved her, for He would conquer her completely, as she would hear that He loved her.  “You will see that You will succeed.  Have You not conquered me in this way, telling me that You loved me very, very much?”  And Jesus:  “Yes, yes, I will do it, but I want her cooperation—that she escape as much as she can from the people who excite her sensitivity.”   

So I added:  “My Love, tell me, what about my temperament—what is it?”  And Jesus:  “One who lives in My Will loses her temperament and acquires Mine.  So, in the soul who lives in My Will one finds a pleasant, attractive, penetrating, dignified temperament, and simple at the same time—of a child-like simplicity; in sum, she looks like Me in everything.  Even more, she keeps her temperament within her power as she wants and as is needed.  Since she lives in My Will, she takes part in My power, so she has all things, and herself, at her disposal, and according to the circumstances and the people she deals with, she takes My temperament and applies it.”

From the Calendar--February 23, 1903 Volume 4

As I was outside of myself, I found myself near a garden which seemed to be the Church.  Near it there seemed to be people plotting an attack against the Church and the Pope, and in their midst there was Our Lord, crucified, but without a head.  Who can say the pity, the horror—to see His Most Holy Body in that state!  I comprehended how men do not want Jesus Christ as their head, and since the Church represents Him on this earth, they try to destroy what stands in His place.

Then I found myself in another place in which I found other people who were asking me:  “What do you say about the Church?”  And I, feeling a light within my mind, said:  “The Church will always be Church.  At the most, She might be washed in Her own blood, but this bath will render Her more beautiful and glorious.”  On hearing this, they said:  “This is false—let us call on our god and see what he says.”  So a man came out who surpassed everyone in height, with a crown on his head, and he said:  “The Church will be destroyed, there will be no more public services—at the most, some hidden ones; and the Madonna will no longer be recognized.”  On hearing this, I said:  “And who are you to dare to say this?  Aren’t you perhaps that serpent condemned by God to crawl on the earth?  And now you are so daring as to make yourself believed a king, deceiving the people?  I command you to let yourself be known for what you are.”  While I was saying this, from tall he became very, very short; he assumed the shape of a serpent, and making a flash, he plunged himself down deep.  Then I found myself inside myself.

From the Calendar--February 22, 1921 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking] “At the Creating Fiat, the intellect of man remains as though enraptured—and how many things he comprehends of Me and of how I love him, as I am hidden in all created things to make Myself known and to give him love in order to make Myself loved.  In the Fiat of Redemption, his memory remains as though enchained by the excesses of my love in suffering so much in order to help and save man in the state of sin.  In the third Fiat, My love wants to display even more; I want to assail the human will, I want to place My very Will as support of his will, in such a way that the human will will remain not only enraptured, enchained, but sustained by an Eternal Will, such that, making Itself prop for the whole of man, he will almost be unable to escape It.  

“The generations will not end until My Will reigns upon earth.  My Redeeming Fiat will place Itself in the middle, between the Creating Fiat and the Sanctifying Fiat.  They will intertwine, all three together, and will accomplish the sanctification of man.  The third Fiat will give such grace to the creature as to make her return almost to the state of origin; and then, once I have seen man just as he came out of Me, My work will be complete, and I will take My perpetual rest in the last Fiat.  Only the life in My Volition will give back to man the state of origin.  Therefore, be attentive, and together with Me, help Me to complete the sanctification of the creature.”

From the Calendar--February 21, 1927 Volume 20

[Jesus speaking] “Now, My daughter, the reason for which We issued the Creation and created man was to give Our riches, so that the external glory of Our works may unite to the internal glory and the immense happiness which We possess.  So, since the creature is not in Our Will, We feel her far away from Us; there is no one who surrounds Us with her ‘thank You,’ nor anyone who smiles at Us with delight for Our works.  Everything is isolation; We are surrounded by immense riches, but because Our creatures are far away from Us, We have no one to whom to give them; We have no one who admires Our works in order to enjoy them.  We are happy, but because of Ourselves, nor is there anyone who could slightly disturb Our happiness; but We are forced to see the unhappiness of creatures, because, being disunited from Us, they cannot take and We cannot give.  The human will has formed the fences, and has locked the doors of communication.  To give is liberality, heroism, love—to receive is grace; and the creature, by doing her own will, hinders Our liberality, Our heroism, Our Love.  And if something is given, it is always restricted, and given by dint of strains, of intrigues, because since the order between them and Us is missing, things do not run freely.  We are not capable of sorrow—Our Being is untouchable by all evils; but if We were capable of sorrow, the creature would poison Our existence.  This is, then, the reason for all Our interest in wanting to make Our Will known, and that It reign in the midst of creatures:  We want to give, We want to see them happy of Our own happiness; and Our Will alone can do all this—realizing the purpose of Creation and allowing Us to place Our goods in common.”

Oh Will of God, how admirable, powerful and desirable You are.  O please! with Your empire, conquer all, make Yourself known, and make us all surrender to You.

From the Calendar--February 20, 1919 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I spent it together with my sweet Jesus; and He made Himself seen, now as a child, now crucified; and transforming me into Himself, He told me:  “My daughter, enter into Me—into My Divinity, and run in My Eternal Will.  In It you will find the creative power as though in act of issuing the machine of the entire universe.  In each thing I created, I placed a relation, a channel of graces, a special love between the Supreme Majesty and the creature.  But the creature would not consider these relations, these graces, this love; so, God would have suspended the Creation, not recognized and appreciated.  But in seeing My Humanity, which would appreciate such a great good, and which, for each created thing, would have Its relations with the Eternal One, recognizing Him, loving Him, not only for Itself, but for the whole human family, He did not look at the wrong of the other children, and with highest contentment, He extended the heavens, dotting them with stars, knowing that those stars would be many and varied relations, innumerable graces, rivers of love, which would flow between My Humanity and the Supreme Being.  

“The Eternal One looked at the heavens and remained content in seeing the immense harmonies, the communications of love which He opened between Heaven and earth.  Therefore, He moved forward, and with one single creative word He created the sun, as the continuous relater of His Supreme Being, endowing it with light, with heat, placing it suspended between Heaven and earth, in act of holding everything, of fecundating, warming, illuminating everything.  With its searching eye of light, it seems to say to all:  ‘I am the most perfect preacher of the Divine Being.  Reflect yourselves in me, and you will recognize Him.  He is immense light, He is endless love, He gives life to everything, He has need of nothing; no one can touch Him.  Look well at me, and you will recognize Him; I am His shadow, the reflection of His majesty, His continuous relater.’     

“Oh! what oceans of love, of relations, opened between My Humanity and the Supreme Majesty.  So, each thing you see, even the tiniest little flower of the field, was one more relation between the creature and the Creator.  Therefore, it was right for Him to want a recognition for it, one more love on the part of creatures.  I undertook everything; I recognized Him, and I adored the creative power for all.  But My love toward such great goodness is not content; I would want other creatures to recognize, love and adore this creative power, and—as much as it is possible for creature —o take part in these relations which the Eternal One has spread through the whole world, and, in the name of all, to pay homage to this act of creation of the Eternal One.  

“But do you know who can pay this homage?  The souls who live in My Will.  In fact, as they enter into It, they find, as though in act, all the acts of the Supreme Majesty; and since this Will is present in everything and in everyone, they remain multiplied in everything, and can pay honor, glory, adoration and love for all.  Therefore, come into My Will, come together with Me before the Divine Height, as the first one to pay Him homage as the Creator of everything.”

I am unable to say how, I entered into this Divine Volition, but always together with my sweet Jesus, and I could see this Supreme Majesty in act of issuing the entire Creation.  Oh! God, what love.  Each created thing received the imprint of love, the key of communication, the mute language to eloquently speak of God.  But to whom?  To the ungrateful creature.  But I don’t know how to go on in saying this; my little intelligence was lost in seeing the many openings of communication, the immense love that came out of them; and the creature, who rendered all these goods as though extraneous.  Then, together with Jesus, as though multiplying ourselves in everyone, we adored, thanked and recognized the creative power in the name of all; and the Eternal One received the glory of Creation.  Jesus disappeared, and I returned into myself.

From the Calendar--February 19, 1902 Volume 4

As I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus made Himself seen in my interior, sleeping, spreading many rays of golden light from Himself.  I was content to see Him, but also discontent for not being able to hear the sweetness and gentleness of His creative voice.  Then, after much waiting, He returned to let Himself be seen, and seeing my discontent, He told me:  “My daughter, in My public ministry the use of My voice is necessary so as to make Myself understood, but in My private ministry My Presence alone is enough for everything.  In fact, seeing Me and understanding the harmony of My virtues in order to copy them within oneself is all the same.  So, the attention of the soul must be on seeing Me and on conforming, in everything, to the interior operations of the Word; because when I draw the soul to Myself, it can be said that at least for the time in which I keep her in My Presence, she lives Divine Life.  My light is like the brush with which to paint; My virtues provide the different colors, and the soul is like a canvas, receiving the portrait of the Divine Image within herself.  It happens as to those high bridges:  the higher they are, the deeper below them drops a pouring rain.  In the same way, before My Presence, the soul puts herself in the place that befits her—that is, at the bottom, in her nothingness, so much so, as to feel herself being destroyed; and the Divinity pours grace in torrents upon her, and reaches the point of submerging her within Itself.  Therefore, she must be content with everything—content if I speak, content if I do not speak.”  While He was saying this, I felt myself as though being submerged in God, and then I found myself inside myself.

From the Calendar--February 18, 1924 Volume 16

I was fusing myself in the Divine Will according to my usual way, in order to find all created things and to be able to give my return of love, for myself and for all.  Now, as I was doing this, I thought to myself:  “My Jesus says that He has created everything for love of me and for love of each one.  But how can this be if many created things I don’t even know?  So many fishes that dart in the sea, so many birds that fly in the air, so many plants, so many flowers, such great variety of beauty contained in the whole universe—who knows them?  Just a small number of them.  Therefore, if I don’t even know them—especially I, then, who have been confined in a bed for years and years—how can He say that all created things have the mark, the seal of His ‘I love you’ for me?” Now, while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, in the act of pricking up His ears in order to listen to me, and told me:  “My daughter, yet, it is true that each created thing has a distinct love for you.  It is also true that you do not know them all, but this says nothing; on the contrary, it reveals to you My love even more, and tells you in clear notes that My ‘I love you’ for you is both near and far from you, both hidden and unveiled.  I do not act like creatures, who, when they are close, are all love, but as soon as they move away, they become cold and are no longer able to love.  My love is stable and fixed; it is near as much as it is far, hidden and secret; it has one single sound, never interrupted:  ‘I love you...’.

“See, you know the light of the sun, it is true.  Indeed you receive its light and its heat as much as you want; but more light surpasses you—so much as to fill the whole earth.  If you wanted more light, the sun would give it to you—even all of it.  Now, all the light of the sun tells you My ‘I love you,’ both that which is near and that which is far.  Even more, as it covers the earth, it carries the little sonata of My ‘I love you’ for you.  And yet, you know neither the paths which the light covers, nor the lands it illuminates, nor the people who enjoy the beneficial influence of the solar ray.  But even though you do not know everything that the light does, you are in that same light, and if you do not take it all, it is because you lack the capacity to be able to absorb it into yourself; but in spite of this, you cannot say that all the light of the sun does not say to you:  ‘I love you.’ On the contrary, it makes a greater display of love, because, as it invades the earth, it keeps narrating My ‘I love you’ to all.  The same for all the drops of water:  you cannot drink them all and enclose them within yourself; but in spite of this you cannot say that they do not tell you My ‘I love you.’  So, all created things—whether known or unknown—all have the mark of My ‘I love you,’ because all of them serve the harmony of the universe, the decorum of Creation, the mastery of Our creative hand.  I acted like a rich and tender father, who loves his son.  Since the son has to leave the paternal house to take his position, the father prepares a sumptuous palace with innumerable rooms, each of which contains a certain something that can be of use to his son.  Now, since those rooms are many, the son does not always see them; even more, some of them he does not know, because no necessity to use them has arisen for him.  But in spite of this, can anyone perhaps deny that in each room there is a special paternal love for the son, as the paternal goodness has provided also for that which might or might not be necessary to the son?  So I did.  This son came out of My womb, and I wanted him to lack nothing; even more, I created many different things, and some enjoy one thing, some another; but everything has one single sound:  ‘I love you.’”