Finding myself in my usual state, I was saying in my interior: “Lord, let it be that I may be all Yours and that I may be always, always with You, and that I may never separate from You. However, while I am with You, do not permit that I may be a goad that embitters You, that I may bother You, that I may displease You, but that I may be a goad that is present in You to sustain You when You are tired or oppressed, that consoles You when You are bothered by the other creatures.” While I was saying this, blessed Jesus told me: "My daughter, one who is in the continuous attitude of loving Me is always with Me, and can never be a goad that gives Me bother, but a goad that sustains Me, that relieves Me, that soothes Me. In fact, true love has this as its own: it renders the beloved content. Besides, one who always loves Me can never displease Me, because love absorbs the whole person. At the most, there might be little things, and the soul herself does not even realize that she may displease Me, but love itself takes on the commitment to purify her, so that I may always find My delights in her."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 20, 1922 Volume 13
I was all concerned, with the addition that I saw myself as so bad that only Jesus can know the miserable state of my soul. And my sweet Jesus, all goodness, came and told me: "My daughter, why do you oppress yourself? Do you know how one’s own things are in My Will? They are like many miserable rags and tatters, which give more dishonor than honor to the soul, and remind her that she used to be a poor one, and possessed not even one garment that was whole. When I want to call a soul into My Will, that she may establish her residence in It, I act like a great lord who would want to take one of the poorest women into His palace, so that, laying down her clothes of poor, she may be clothed according to His same condition, living together with Him, and sharing in all of His goods. Now, this lord goes around all the streets of the city, and as he finds one of the poorest women, homeless, without a bed, covered only with filthy rags, he takes her and brings her to his palace as a triumph of his charity. However, he orders her to lay down her rags, to clean herself and to clothe herself with the most beautiful garments; and in order to keep no memory of her poverty, to burn her rags. In fact, since he is extremely rich, he does not admit anything in his house which may recall poverty. Now, if the poor one sadly misses her rags, and afflicts herself because she has brought nothing of her own, would she not offend the goodness, the magnanimity of that lord?
“So I am; and if that lord goes around one city, I go around the whole world, and maybe all generations; and wherever I find the littlest, the poorest one, I take her and place her in the eternal sphere of My Volition, saying to her: ‘Work together with Me in My Will. What is Mine is yours. If you have something from your own — lay it down, because in the Sanctity and in the immense riches of My Will, it is nothing but miserable rags.’
"Wanting to have one’s own merits is of servants, of slaves — not of children. What belongs to the father, belongs to his children. Besides, what are all the merits that you could acquire compared to one single act of My Will? All merits have their own little value, weight and measure; but who could ever measure one single act of My Will? No one — no one. And then, what are your merits compared to Mine? In My Will you will find them all, and I make of you the owner. Aren’t you happy? …”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 19, 1912 Volume 10
As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen with a little rope in His hand, and with it He kept binding hearts, clasping them very tightly to Himself, in such a way as to make them lose their own feeling and make them feel the whole of Jesus. In feeling themselves so clasped, the hearts wriggled about, and as they wriggled about the knot which Jesus had made over them loosened, as they feared that it was a detriment to them no longer to feel themselves. All afflicted because of this behavior of souls, Jesus told me: "My daughter, have you seen how souls render My tendernesses of Love vain? I keep binding hearts to unite them closely with Me, to make them lose all that is human; but instead of letting Me do it, on seeing their human being broken, they lose air, they struggle, they wriggle about, and they also want to look a little bit themselves at how cold, dry or warm they are. By this looking at themselves, struggling, wriggling about, the knot I had made becomes loose, and they want to be with Me at a distance, but not clasped in such a way as no longer to feel themselves. This afflicts Me very much, and they prevent My games of Love. And do not think that these are only souls who are far away from you – rather, these are also those who are around you. You will make them comprehend well the sorrow that they give Me, and that if they do not let themselves be clasped by Me to the point of losing the feeling of themselves, I will never be able to expand My graces and My charisms with them. Have you understood?"
And I: “Yes, O Jesus, I understood! Poor ones, if they understood the secret contained in Your clasping, they would not do this – they would let You do it; even more, they themselves would make themselves smaller so as to let You tighten the knot more.” At that moment, I made myself very small; Jesus clasped me, and instead of wriggling about, I let Him squeeze me more tightly; and as He squeezed me, I felt the life of Jesus — losing my own. Oh! how happy I felt with the life of Jesus! I was able to love more, and I could reach everything that Jesus wanted.
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 18, 1928 Volume 23
… I was thinking to myself about the big issue concerning the writings on the Divine Will, that are in Messina, brought there by the blessed memory of venerable Father Di Francia: how myself and my other superiors absolutely want them here, while the superiors in Messina, rigorously recommended by the venerable Father before dying, want to keep them over there, for their publication when God pleases. So, we do nothing but [send] letters of fire, back and forth—them, to keep them, and us, to get them back.
And I was feeling all worried, bored and tired, and was saying to myself: “How could Good Jesus allow all this? Who knows whether He too feels disappointed?”
And He, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, you are worried, but I am not disappointed at all; on the contrary I enjoy in seeing the interest that Priests take in these Writings that will form the Kingdom of My Will. This means that they appreciate the great good of them, and each one would want to keep such a great Treasure with himself, to be the first to communicate it to others. And while the issue of who is going to win lasts, one approaches the other in order to consult one another on what to do. And I enjoy that more of My Ministers get to know that there is this treasure so great, of making known the Kingdom of My Divine Will; and I use this to form the first Priests of My coming Kingdom of My Fiat.
“My daughter, it is a great necessity to form the first Priests; they will serve Me like the Apostles served Me to form My Church; and the ones who will occupy themselves with these Writings in order to publish them, putting them out to print them—to make them known, will be the new evangelists of the Kingdom of My Supreme Will. And just as the ones who are most mentioned in My Gospel are the four Evangelists who wrote It, to their highest honor and My Glory, so it will be for those who will occupy themselves with writing the knowledges on My Will in order to publish them. Like new evangelists, there will be greater mention of them in the Kingdom of My Will, to their highest honor and My great Glory in seeing the order of the creature, the life of Heaven on earth—the only purpose of Creation—return into My bosom.
“Therefore, in these circumstances I expand the circle, and, like a fisherman, I catch those who must serve Me for a Kingdom so holy. Therefore, let Me do, and do not be worried.”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 17, 1921 Volume 12
I felt my poor mind immersed in the immense sea of the Divine Volition. I could see the mark of the FIAT everywhere. I saw it in the sun, and it seemed to me that the echo of the FIAT in the sun brought me Divine Love, which darted through me, wounded me and flashed through me. And I, on the wings of the FIAT of the sun, went up to the Eternal One bringing, in the name of the whole human family, the Love which darted, wounded, and flashed through the Supreme Majesty. And I said: “In Your FIAT You gave me all this Love, and only in the FIAT can I return it to You.”
I looked at the stars and I could see the FIAT in them; and in their sweet and meek glittering, this FIAT brought me pacific Love, sweet Love, hidden Love, compassionate Love in the very night of sin. And I, in the FIAT of the stars, in the name of all, brought to the Throne of the Eternal One pacific Love in order to put peace between Heaven and earth, the sweet Love of the loving souls, the hidden Love of many others, the Love of the creatures when, after sin, they come back to God. But who can say all that I understood and did in the many FIATs which were scattered over all Creation? I would be too long; so I stop here.
Then, my sweet Jesus took my hands in His own, and squeezing them tightly, told me: "My daughter, the FIAT is all full of Life — even more, It is Life Itself, and this is why all lives and all things come from within the FIAT. Creation came out from My ‘FIAT’; therefore in each created thing one can see the mark of the FIAT. Redemption came out from the ‘FIAT MIHI’ of My dear Mama, pronounced in My Volition and carrying the same Power of My Creative ‘FIAT.’ Therefore, there is nothing in Redemption which does not contain the mark of the ‘FIAT MIHI’ of My Mama. Even My very Humanity, My steps, words and works were marked by Her ‘FIAT MIHI.’ My pains, My wounds, My thorns, My Cross, My Blood, had the mark of Her ‘FIAT MIHI’, because things carry the mark of the origin from which they come. My origin in time was the ‘FIAT MIHI’ of the Immaculate Mama; therefore all of My works carry the mark of Her ‘FIAT MIHI.’ So, Her ‘FIAT MIHI’ is in each Sacramental Host; if man rises again from sin, if the newborn is baptized, if Heaven opens to receive souls, it is the ‘FIAT MIHI’ of My Mama that marks everything, follows everything, and from It everything proceeds. Oh, power of the FIAT! It rises every instant; It multiplies, and It becomes life of all goods.
Now I want to tell you why I asked for your ‘FIAT’ — your ‘yes’ in My Volition. I want the prayer which I taught — the ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut in Coelo et in terra’ — this prayer of so many centuries, of so many generations — to have its fulfillment and completion. This is why I wanted another ‘yes’ in My Volition — another ‘FIAT’ containing the Creative Power. I want the ‘FIAT’ that rises every instant, and multiplies in everyone. I want, in one soul, My own ‘FIAT’ which ascends to My Throne and, by its Creative Power, brings upon earth the life of the ‘FIAT on earth as It is in Heaven’."
Surprised and annihilated in hearing this, I said: “Jesus, what are You saying? Yet, You know how bad and incapable of anything I am.” And He: "My daughter, it is my usual way to choose the most abject, unable, poor souls for My greatest works. Even My Mama had nothing extraordinary in her exterior life; no miracles — not a sign that would distinguish Her from other women. Her only distinction was perfect virtue, to which almost no one paid attention. And if to other Saints I gave the distinction of miracles, and I adorned others with My wounds, to My Mama, nothing — nothing. Yet, She was the portent of portents, the miracle of miracles, the true and perfect crucified — no one else like Her. …”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 16, 1930 Volume 27
I was following the Divine Fiat in the work of Creation, and—oh! how beautiful, pure, majestic, ordered It seemed to me, worthy of He who had created It. It seemed to me that each created thing had its little story to tell me, that it enclosed, about that Fiat that had given it life; and as It issued them to the light of the day, they were to narrate it so as to make known what they knew of the Divine Will. And, united together, they were to narrate the long story of that Fiat that had not only created them, but, in preserving them, gave them the task to narrate Its long story, giving each created thing a lesson to narrate to creatures, to make known that Divine Will that had created them. …
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 15, 1920 Volume 12
I was pouring all of myself into the Divine Volition, to be able to substitute for everything that the creature is obliged to do toward the Supreme Majesty; and while I was doing this, I said to myself: “Where can I find enough love to be able to give my sweet Jesus love for all?” And He told me in my interior: "My daughter, in My Will you will find this Love, which can make up for the love of all, because one who enters My Will will find many springing founts; and as much as he may take, they never decrease one drop. There is the fount of Love, which impetuously spouts its waves; but as much as it spouts, it always springs forth. There is the fount of Beauty, and no matter how many beauties it releases, it never fades; on the contrary, it springs with ever new and more rare beauties. There is the fount of Wisdom, the fount of Contentments, the fount of Goodness, of Power, of Mercy, of Justice, and of all the rest of My qualities.
“They all spring up, and each one pours into the other, in such a way that Love is Beautiful, is Wise, is Powerful, etc. The fount of Beauty gives Beauty of Love, Wise and Powerful, and with such Power as to keep the whole of Heaven enraptured, without ever tiring It. These springing founts form such a Harmony, such a Contentment and an enchanting show that all the Blessed remain so sweetly enchanted that they never move, even one glance, so as not to miss even one of these Contentments. Therefore, My daughter, for one who wants to love, repair and substitute for all, there is the strict necessity to live in My Volition, from where everything springs; where things multiply as many times as needed, and remain all coined with the Divine Imprint. This Divine Imprint forms the other founts, whose waves rise and rise so much, that in pouring out, they flood everything and do good to all. Therefore, always – always in My Will. There I await you — there I want you."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 14, 1934 Volume 33
… So finding myself suffering a little more then usual, I thought to myself: “O! how I would want that my sufferings would form wings for me in order to let me fly into my Celestial Fatherland, and instead of afflicting me, my little sufferings would make for me a feast.”
And I felt worried by this, and my beloved Jesus added: “My daughter, do not marvel. sufferings smile before Glory; they feel triumphant in seeing the conquests that they have acquired. sufferings confirm and establish the greater or lesser Glory in the creature, and according to the sufferings, so she feels painted the most beautiful and various tints of Beauty, and seeing themselves transformed into the rarest Beauty, they celebrate. In fact, on earth sufferings cry, at the doors of Heaven they begin their Eternal smile that does not end anymore. The sufferings on earth are bearers of humiliations, at the Eternal Doors they are bearers of Glory. On earth they make the poor creature unhappy, but with the Miraculous Secret that they possess, they labor in the most intimate fibers and in the whole human being the Eternal Kingdom in a way that every suffering takes its distinct Office: some act as chisel, some hammer, some file, some brush, some color. And then they leave the creature entrusted to them, when each suffering has completed its labor, and triumphantly they conduct her to Heaven and then they leave here when they see each suffering exchanged into distinct Joys and into Perennial Happiness—provided, however, that the creature receives them with love. And they feel and receive in every suffering the kiss, the embraces, and the strong squeezes of My Divine Will.
“Sufferings, then, possess this Miraculous Virtue, otherwise they become as if they did not have suitable instruments in order to complete their labor. But do you want to know who the suffering is? I Am the suffering, who hides inside of it in order to form somber labors for My Celestial Fatherland, and I abundantly exchange the brief residence that they have given Me on earth. I am imprisoned in the poor jail of the creature in order to continue My Life of sufferings down below. It is just that this Life of Mine receive Its Joys, Its Happiness, Its exchange of Glory in the Celestial Regions. Therefore your marvels will cease in hearing that your sufferings smile before the Victories, before the Triumphs, and before the Conquests.”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 13, 1927 Volume 20
… After I wrote this, I was thinking to myself that what is written above is not necessary; more so since, continuing to be feverish, I write with difficulty, and I write just a little to make Jesus content. And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, in order to live in My Will, the soul must ascend; and in order to ascend in It, she must leave that which does not belong to My Will. She must leave her miserable rags, her vulgar habits, her vile foods, her miseries. Everything she must leave, in order to make use of the royal garment, of Divine habits, of precious and nourishing foods, of infinite riches – in sum, of everything that belongs to My Will. What you have written serves you for now — it serves the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat. Then it will be the rule for those who must live in It – how they must use all of the operating acts of My Will in order to maintain themselves within the boundaries of My Kingdom. Therefore, that which to you does not seem to be necessary, is necessary for the formation of My Supreme Kingdom.”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 12, 1932
[Jesus speaking] “…Now, blessed daughter, wanting to give the Kingdom of My Divine Will, it is necessary that you go around in Its Divine Properties, and I, leading you by the hand, make known to you Its interminable Seas, the Goods, the Prodigies, the surprising Wonders, the Joys, the Happinesses, all the things of infinite Value that It possesses, so that by knowing It you love It. And you would fall in love so much, that you would not only not know how to live without It, but would give your life in order to acquire a Kingdom so holy, peaceful, and beautiful.
“But this is not yet everything, your part is needed, your pledges, your advances and contracts. And Our Love and Goodness is so much, that It wants to give Our Will as property that It belongs to the creature, that It places at her disposition what It has done so that creatures might make use of it as equivalent pledges and contracts in order to receive a Gift so great. Now as you go around in Creation and look at the sky, and you feel happy in seeing the beautiful azure vault studded with stars, the sun shinning with light, and recognize and feel still beating the Divine Fiat that has created it for Love of creatures, and your little love springing forth from your heart loves He who has loved you so much, your love is sealed in the heights of the sky, in the light of the sun. And you give Us the sky for pledge, the stars for advance, the sun for contract, because they were created for you, and it is enough that you possess Our Will as Life, that It is already yours and can be the valid contract in order to obtain Its Kingdom.
“And the same with as you go around in all the other created things. You would recognize them and love Us, and however many times you repeat your going around, so many times you repeat the pledges, you make the contracts, and you arrange to dispose things, to give graces and helps in order to give as Kingdom the great Gift of the Fiat Voluntas Tua as in Heaven so on earth. We know that the creature does not have anything to give Us, and Our Love imposes itself to giving Our Acts as if they were hers, placing Our Works in her hands as Divine Money, so that she would have sufficient means in order to be able to contract with Our Supreme Being. But if she doesn’t have anything, she has the little love, issued from Ours in the act of creating her; therefore she has a particle of the infinite Love of God. And when the creature loves Us, she places the Infinite at attention, We feel the magnetic strength of the particle of Our Infinite Love that, hovering in her, loves Us, elevates, extends, and reaches even to Us, and wants to enter into the infinite from which she came forth.
“O! how she enraptures Us, and in the Ardor of Our Love We say: ‘Who can resist the strength of Our Infinite Love that issues forth from the creature and loves Us?’ To give heavens and earth seems to Us as little in exchange for her little love, that although little, possesses a particle of the Infinite, and this is enough for Us. O! how sweet and dear is the precious pledge of the love of the creature! …”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 11, 1922 Volume 13
… Then, afterwards, I was praying, all abandoned in the Will of Jesus, and almost without thinking, I said: “My Love — everything in Your Will: my little pains, my prayers, my heartbeat, my breathing — all I am and all I can, united to all that You are, so as to give proper growth to the members of the Mystical Body." In hearing me, Jesus made Himself seen again, and smiling with satisfaction, added: "How beautiful it is to see My Truths in your heart as fount of Life immediately having the development and the effect for which they have communicated themselves! Therefore, correspond with Me, and as soon as I see one truth developed, I will make it an honor for Myself to make another fount of truth arise."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 10, 1917 Volume 11
This morning my lovable Jesus told me: "My daughter, sanctity is formed of little things; so, one who despises the little things cannot be holy. It would be like someone who despises the little grains of wheat which, as many of them are united together, form the mass of the wheat; and by neglecting to unite them, he would cause the necessary and daily nourishment for the human life to be lacking. In the same way, one who neglected to unite many little acts together, would cause the nourishment of sanctity to be lacking; and just as one cannot live without food, in the same way, without the food of the little acts, the true shape of sanctity, and the mass sufficient to form sanctity, would be lacking."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 9, 1920 Volume 12
I was praying, and with my thought I was fusing myself in the Eternal Volition; and bringing myself before the Supreme Majesty, I said: “Eternal Majesty, I come to Your feet in the name of the whole human family, from the first to the last man of the future generations, to adore You profoundly. At your Most Holy feet I want to seal the adorations of all; I come to recognize You in the name of all as Creator and absolute ruler of all. I come to love You for all and for each one; I come to return love to You for all, because of each created thing, in which You placed so much love that the creature will never find enough love to repay You in love. But in Your Will I find this love, and wanting that my love, as well as the other acts, be complete, full and for all, I have come into Your Will where everything is immense and eternal, and where I can find love to be able to love You for all. So, I love You for each star You have created; I love You for all the drops of light and for all the intensity of heat which You have placed in the Sun...” But who can tell all that my poor mind was saying? I would be too long; therefore I stop here.
Now, while I was doing this, a thought told me: “How is it, and in what way did Our Lord place rivers of love for the creature in each created thing?” And a light answered my thought: "Indeed, My daughter, My Love poured out in torrents toward the creature in each created thing. I told you elsewhere and I confirm to you now that, as My uncreated Love created the Sun, It placed oceans of Love in it. In each drop of light which was to inundate the eye, the step, the hand, and everything of the creature, My Love ran toward her; and almost pounding sweetly on her eye, hand, step and mouth, It gives her my eternal kiss and It holds out My Love to her.
“Together with light, runs the heat, and pounding on her again, a little more strongly, almost impatient for the love of the creature, to the extent of pelting her, I repeat to her more intensely My eternal ‘I love you.’ And if the Sun fecundates the plants with Its light and heat, it is My Love that runs to nourish man; and if I extended the heavens above man’s head, studding it with stars, it is My Love that, wanting to delight the eyes of man, also at night, repeats to him My ‘I love you’ in every sparkling of star... So, each created thing holds out My Love to man; and if it were not so, Creation would have no purpose; and I do nothing without purpose. Everything has been made for man; but man does not recognize it, and he has turned into sorrow for Me.
“Therefore, My daughter, if you want to soothe My sorrow, come often into My Will and give Me, in the name of all, adoration, love, gratitude and thanksgiving for everything."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 8, 1919 Volume 12
Jesus disappeared, and I remained with a nail inside my heart because of what He had told me, and almost restless, thinking about the pains of my sweet Jesus and the destiny of the poor creatures. Then Jesus came back, and surrounding my neck with His arm, added: "My beloved, courage. Enter into Me, come and swim in the immense sea of My Volition, of My Love. Hide yourself inside the uncreated Will and Love of your Creator. My Volition has the power to render infinite all that enters into My Will, and to raise and transform the acts of the creatures into eternal acts. In fact, all that enters into My Will acquires Eternity, Infinity, Immensity, losing all that has a beginning, that which is finite, little. All that My Will is, so It renders their acts. Therefore, say - shout loudly in My Will: ‘I Love You.’ I will hear the note of My Eternal Love; I will feel the created love hidden inside the uncreated Love, and I will feel Myself being loved by the creature with an eternal, infinite, immense Love - a Love worthy of Me, which stands in for Me, and which can compensate Me for the love of all."
I remained surprised and enchanted, and I said: “Jesus, what are You saying?” And He: "My dear, do not be surprised. Everything is eternal in Me - nothing has a beginning, nor will it have an end. You yourself and all creatures were eternal in My Mind. The Love with which I formed Creation, which was unleashed from Me and which endowed every heart, was eternal. What is the wonder, then, if the creature, leaving her own will, enters into Mine, and uniting herself to the Love which longed for her and loved her from Eternity, and binding herself with that Eternal Love from which she came, performs her acts, loves Me, and acquires eternal, infinite, immense value and power? Oh, how little it is known about My Will! This is why It is not loved nor appreciated; and because of this, the creature is content with remaining down below, operating as if she did not have an eternal origin, but a temporary one."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 7, 1927
Then, I was following the acts of the Divine Will, accompanying them with my “I love You;” and I could comprehend the great difference in greatness and magnitude of the works of the Divine Fiat and of my little “I love You.” Oh! how little I felt, and truly just newly born before that Fiat that can do everything and embraces everything.
And my lovable Jesus, clasping me in His arms, told me: “My daughter, one who lives in My Divine Will is My rich bank upon earth; and as you say your ‘I love You,’ I invest it with My own, and from little it becomes great, it diffuses in the infinite, in such a way that the riches of My Love become immeasurable, and I deposit them in the bank of your soul. And as you continue your acts, I invest them with Mine, and I deposit them in your bank so as to have My Divine bank upon earth. Therefore, your little acts done in My Divine Volition serve Me in order to give Me something to do, to make Our Divine Qualities, that are infinite, flow in your little acts, that are finite, mix them together and make of them as many acts of Ours, depositing them in the bank of your soul, so that Our bank may find in you its Heaven.
“Don’t you know that one who must live in Our Divine Fiat must be a nimbus of Heaven? Such that, as it lowers itself upon earth—but so much as to eliminate any distance—at that point of the earth where there is the fortunate creature, one must see Heaven, not earth. Nor would My Divine Will be without Its Heaven; It Itself would form It for Itself, and the drapes of Heaven would lower themselves to pay homage to that Fiat from which they recognize their existence. Therefore, all the Blessed remain stupefied in seeing a nimbus of Heaven upon earth; but their stupefaction ceases immediately, when they see that that Divine Will that forms their Heaven and all their happiness is present as reigning in that creature, precisely at that point where they see that the drapes of Heaven, lowering themselves, surround that creature to sing the praises of My Supreme Fiat.
“Therefore, be attentive, My daughter, and if I tell you this, it is to let you know the great gift of making My Will known to you, and how It wants to form Its Kingdom in you, so that you may thank Me and be grateful.”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 6, 1927
Then, after this, I was thinking about the Holy Magi, when they visited the little baby Jesus in the grotto of Bethlehem; and my always lovable Jesus told me: “My daughter, see the order of My Divine Providence: for the great portent of My Incarnation, I chose and used a Virgin, humble and poor; and the Virgin Saint Joseph as My custodian, who acted as a father to Me, and who was so poor that he needed to work in order to sustain our lives. See how in the greatest works – and the mystery of the Incarnation could not be greater – We use people whose outward appearance attracts no attention from anyone, because dignities, scepters, riches, are always fumes which blind the soul, and prevent her from penetrating into the celestial mysteries in order to receive a great act of God — and God Himself. But in order to manifest to the peoples the coming of Myself, Word of the Father, upon earth, I wanted and used royal authorities, learned and erudite men, so that, by their authority, they might diffuse the knowledges of the Incarnate God and, eventually, also impose themselves to the peoples. In spite of this, the star was seen by everyone, yet only three of them move, pay attention and follow it. This says that, among all, these alone possessed a certain dominion over themselves, which formed a little empty space in their interior. So, beyond the appearance of the star, they felt My call which echoed within their interior; and heedless of sacrifices, of gossip, of mockeries – because their were leaving for an unknown place and they had to hear much of it – disregarding everything and dominating themselves, they followed the star united to my call, which resounded in their interior as more than a speaking star. It enlightened them, it attracted them, and said many things about the One whom they were to visit; and, drunk with joy, they followed the star.
“See then, how in order to give the great gift of the Incarnation, it took a Virgin who had no human will, who was more of Heaven than of earth, and who was disposed to this great portent by a continuous miracle. So, We had no need of external things and of human appearances, which might draw the attention of the peoples. However, in spite of this, also to manifest Myself, I wanted men who had dominion over themselves, and who would make a little space within their interior, to let the echo of My call resound in it. But was not their surprise in seeing the star stop, not over a royal palace, but over a vile hovel? They did not know what to think, and convinced themselves that there was a mystery – not human, but Divine. When they animated themselves with faith, entered the grotto and, kneeling, adored Me, as they bent their knees, I revealed Myself, and I let My Divinity shine forth from My little Humanity, and they recognized Me as the King of kings – the One who had come to save them. Immediately, they offered themselves to serve Me and to lay down their lives for love of Me; but My Will made Itself known, and sent them again into their region, to let them be the messengers of My coming upon earth in the midst of those peoples. See then, how necessary dominion of oneself and emptiness of heart are, to let My call resound, and to be fitting for knowing the truth and for manifesting it to others.”
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 5, 1907 Volume 7
Having read about a soul who had scruples about everything, and who feared that everything might be sin, I was thinking to myself: “And I? How lax I am! I too would like to think that everything may be sin so as to be more attentive not to offend the Lord.” Then, when blessed Jesus came, He told me: "My daughter, this is nonsense, and the soul remains stuck on the path of sanctity, while true and solid sanctity consists of receiving anything which may happen to her or which she may be doing, be it even the most indifferent thing, as a specialty of Divine Love, just as it would be if she found a food enjoyable or disgusting. A specialty of Love in the enjoyment, thinking that it is Jesus that produces that enjoyment in the food, and that He loves her to the point of giving her pleasure even in material things. A specialty of Love in the disgust, thinking that He loves her so much as to produce that disgust for her in order to make her similar to Himself in mortification, giving her, Himself, a little coin that she can offer to Him. A specialty of Divine Love if she is humiliated, if she is exalted, if she is healthy, if she is infirm, if she is poor or rich. A specialty of Love her breathing, her sight, her speech – everything, everything; and just as she must receive everything - everything as a specialty of Divine Love, she must give everything back to God as a special love of hers. So, she must receive the wave of the Love of God, and must give to God the wave of her love. Oh, what a sanctifying bath is this wave of Love! It purifies her, it sanctifies her, it makes her advance without her realizing it; it is a life more of Heaven than of earth. This is what I want from you. Sin, and the thought of sin, must not exist in you."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 4, 1925 Volume 17
Having completed my whole day, I was thinking to myself: “What else is left for me to do?” And in my interior, I heard: "You have to do the most important thing – your last act of fusing yourself in the Divine Will."
So, according to my usual way, I started to fuse all my poor being in the Supreme Will; and as I was doing so, it seemed to me that the Heavens were opening, and I went to meet the whole Celestial Court, and all of Heaven came toward me. And my sweet Jesus told me: "My daughter, fusing yourself in My Will is the most solemn act, the greatest one, the most important of all your life. To fuse yourself in My Will is to enter the sphere of Eternity, embrace It, kiss It, and receive the deposit of the goods which the Eternal Will contains. Even more, as the soul fuses herself in the Supreme Volition, all go to meet her, in order to communicate to her all the goods and the glory they have. The Angels, the Saints, the very Divinity — they all communicate, knowing that they communicate in that same Will in Which everything is safe. Even more, in receiving these goods, the soul multiplies them through her acts in the Divine Will, and gives back double glory and honor to the whole of Heaven. Therefore, by fusing yourself in My Will, you put Heaven and earth in motion. It is a new feast for the whole Heaven.
“And since to fuse oneself in My Will is to love and to give, for each one and for all, without excluding anyone — in My Goodness, so as not to be won over in love by the creature, I place in her – in My Will – the goods of all, and all the possible goods I contain within Me. Nor can there be a lack of space in which to place all the goods, because My Will is immense, and is capable of receiving everything. If you knew what you do and what happens when you fuse yourself in My Will, you would eagerly yearn to do it continuously.”
Afterwards, I was thinking about whether I had to write what is written above, or not. I didn’t see it as necessary, or as an important thing; more so, since obedience had given me no order to do it. And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: "My daughter, how can it not be important to make it known that fusing oneself in My Will is to live in It? The soul who fuses herself in My Will receives, as though in deposit, all My Divine and eternal goods. The very Saints compete with each other in order to deposit their merits in the soul fused in My Will, because they feel in her the Glory, the Power of My Will, and feel glorified in a Divine manner by the littleness of the creature.
“Listen, My daughter: to live in My Will surpasses even martyrdom in merit. Martyrdom kills the body, but living in My Will implies that the creature kills her own will with a Divine hand, and It gives her the nobility of a Divine martyrdom. And every time the soul decides to live in My Will, My Volition prepares the blow in order to kill the human will, and forms the noble martyrdom of the soul. But in order to reach this happy state, the human will and the Divine Will must be tied together: one has to give the place to the Other, and the human will must be content with remaining extinguished under the power of the Divine Will. Therefore, every time you dispose yourself to live in My Volition, you dispose yourself to undergo the martyrdom of your will.
“Do you see, then, what it means to fuse oneself in My Will? It is to be the continuous martyr of My Supreme Will. And you think it’s trivial, or not important?"
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 3, 1907 Volume 7
Continuing in my usual state, I saw blessed Jesus for just a little, and He told me: "My daughter, if one fears much, it is a sign that she relies much on herself, because in noticing nothing but weaknesses and miseries within herself, she naturally and justly fears. On the other hand, if one fears nothing, it is a sign that she relies on God, because by relying on God, her miseries and weaknesses are dissolved in God, and as she feels invested by the Divine Being, it is no longer she who operates, but God within her. So, what can she fear? Therefore, true trust reproduces Divine Life in the soul."
Divine Will for every day of the year - January 2, 1938 Volume 35
[Jesus speaking]
“You must know that before she enters to Live in Our Will, We purify everything—We cover and hide everything inside Our Love, so that we won’t see anything but Love in this creature. Once Our Love has hidden everything—even the miseries—she takes her place inside Our Will; further, every time she performs her acts, she is purified first, and then Our Will Invests her, making of her whatever It wants.
“My daughter, in My Will there are neither judgments nor judges; so Great and so much is the Sanctity, the Order, the Purity and the utility of Our Ways, that all have to lower their foreheads and adore whatever We do. Therefore, do not lose Peace—don’t think about the miseries and the circumstances. Leave them at the Mercy of My Will, so that It may make of them Its Portents of Love.”