I think most Christians realize that Jesus died for all and each in particular as well as that he suffered for each individual sin as well.
After this, I seemed to find myself on mount
Calvary, in the act of the crucifixion of Our Lord, and while He suffered the
crucifixion, I could see – I don’t know how – all generations, past, present
and future, in Jesus. And since Jesus had everyone within Himself, He
felt all the offenses that each of us would give Him, and He suffered for all
in general, and for each individual in particular, in such a way that I could
see also my sins, and the pains that He suffered for me individually; and I
could also see the remedy that He administered to us, with the exception of no
one, for our evils and for our eternal salvation. Now, who can say all
that I saw in blessed Jesus?: from the first to the last man. As I
was outside of myself, I could see things clearly and distinctly; but finding
myself inside myself, I see them all confused. So, in order to avoid
nonsense, I stop here.
Vol. 4, April 5, 1901What some may not realize is that his crucifixion was not limited to either the three hours that he hung on the cross or the three nails by which he was crucified. The Divine Will nailed every particle of his being and he remained crucified throughout his entire life from the moment of his conception.
How Jesus was nailed to the Cross in the Will of the Father.
This morning I was thinking of Our Lord in the act
in which they were nailing Him to the cross; I was compassionating all of Him,
and blessed Jesus told me: “My daughter, not only my hands and feet were
nailed to the cross, but all the particles of my Humanity, soul and Divinity
were all nailed in the Will of the Father. In fact, the crucifixion was
the Will of the Father, therefore I was nailed and transmuted completely in His
Will. This was necessary because, what is sin but withdrawing from the
Will of God, from everything that is good and holy which God has given us,
believing to be something of one’s own, and offending the Creator? And I,
in order to repair for this audacity and for this self idol which the creature
makes of herself, wanted to dissolve my will completely and live from the Will
of the Father at the cost of great sacrifice.”
Vol. 7, February 23, 1906
Vol. 7, February 23, 1906
It is only because of the Divine Will that Jesus was able to complete the Redemption for all mankind. This universal act in the Divine Will is not restricted to Jesus but he wants this completeness of act in the Creature as well.
I was lamenting to my sweet
Jesus, saying to Him: ‘Where are your promises? No more cross, no more likeness to You. Everything has vanished, and
there is nothing left for me but to cry over my sorrowful end.’ And
Jesus, moving, told me in my interior:
“My daughter, my crucifixion
was complete - and do you know why? Because it was done in the Eternal
Will of my Father. In this Will, the
Cross became so long and so wide as to
embrace all centuries and penetrate into every heart,
present, past and future, in such a way that I remained crucified in each heart of creature.
This Divine Will put nails through all of my interior – into my desires, into my affections and heartbeats. I can say
that I did not have a life of my own, but the Life of the Eternal Will, which
enclosed in Me all creatures, and which wanted Me to answer for
everything. My crucifixion could never have been complete and so extended
as to embrace all, if the Eternal Volition had not been the Actor.
“I want that in you also the crucifixion be complete
and extended to all. This is the reason for the continuous call into my
Will, for the spurs to bring the whole human family before the Supreme Majesty, and
to emit, in the name of all, the acts which they do not do. The oblivion of yourself, the lack of
self-reflections, are nothing other than the
nails that my Will puts. My Will
does not know how to do incomplete and small things; and forming a circle around the soul, It wants her
within Itself; and extending her within the whole sphere of Its Eternal Volition, It
places on her the seal of Its completion. My Will empties the interior of the creature of all that is
human, and places in it all that is divine; and in order to be more sure, It
keeps sealing all of her interior with as many nails for as many human acts as
can have life in the creature, substituting them with as many divine
acts. In this way, It forms in her the true crucifixion – and not for a
time, but for her entire life.”
Vol. 12, May 15, 1920Jesus states that true crucifixion is not the physical manifestation that we are accustomed to seeing of our Lord crucified on the cross but encompasses one's entire life.
So there is to be a Divine exchange. Where our human wills brought about the crucifixion of the Divine so the Divine wants to be the cross to the human will in a permanent bond. But there is a great difference between the two. The human will brings about a cross of suffering while the Divine cross brings about light, beauty and happiness.
The human will cross of the divine; and the divine cross of the human. How in the Divine Volition things change themselves, dissimilarities don't exist. How Jesus makes up for all that which can be missing to one who lives in his Volition.
I
feel the life of the divine Fiat in my soul, which wants to be my motion, my breath and heartbeat; he wants such union with the human will, that in nothing must one be opposed to that which he wants to do,
otherwise he laments, is displeased and feels put on (the) cross by the human volition. And my beloved, repeating his
brief little visit with me said to me:
“My
blessed daughter, how much my Will
suffers in the creature! It is enough to
say to you, each time that one does ones will it puts mine on (the) cross. So that the cross of my Will
is the human volition; but not with three nails, as I was crucified upon the cross, but with so many
nails for how many times one is opposed to mine, how
many times he is not recognized; and while he wants to do good, he becomes
rejected with the nails of ingratitude. How excruciating is this
crucifixion of my Will in the creature; how many times he feels the nails put forth to his breath, heartbeat and motion, because not being known that he is life of the breath, heartbeat and
motion, the human breath, motion and heartbeat, serve as nails that impede him from developing
in them the good that (is) needed. Oh,
how he feels (on the) cross in the human volition! He with his divine motion wants to make sprout the day in
the human motion, and the creature puts the divine motion (on the) cross and
with her motion she makes sprout the night and she puts (on the) cross the
light; how my light sorrows in seeing itself repressed, crucified, put in the
state of inability by the human volition!
“With
his breath he wants to make his breathed in order to give
her the life of his sanctity, of his fortitude; and the creature, by not receiving it, puts forth
the nails of sin, of her passions and weaknesses; my poor Will, in what (a) state of
sorrow and of continuous crucifixion he finds himself in the human volition! She does none other than to
put (on the) cross our love and all the goods that we want to
give her are filled by her nails.
“Only
one who lives in mine doesn’t put (on the) cross my Will; rather, I can say that
I form her cross, but her cross is well different. With mine my Volition knows how to put forth
nails of light, of sanctity, of love, in order to make her strong with our own divine fortitude,
which doesn’t give sorrows, rather, he renders her happy, beautiful with an
enchanting beauty, and they are carriers of great conquests, and one who has tried it so
much is the happiness that she feels, that she prays us, begs us that we hold
her always (on the) cross with our divine nails.
“From
here she can not escaped; if two wills, human and divine, are not united, hers
will form our cross and ours hers; rather, so much is our love and
jealousy that we don’t leave her free not even a breath without our nail of light and of
love, in order to always have her with us, in order to be able to say: ‘That which we do she does, and she wants
that which we want.’
“Rather,
you must know that as the creature enters into our Volition, all is
transformed, the darknesses are changed into light, weakness into fortitude,
poverty into riches, passions into virtue; such mutation happens that one is not recognized anymore from that of
before; her state is no more of the most vile slave, but of noble queen, our divine being loves her so much that it races into her acts in order to do that which she
does; and since our motion is continuous, we move and we love her, we
move and we embrace her; our motion moves itself and kisses her, makes her more beautiful,
sanctifies her more; in every motion we give her of ours; and in the emphasis
of our love, we speak to her of our supreme being, we make ourselves known who we are and how much we love her. Such identification passes between her and
us, being one our Will with hers, that we feel her in our divine motion, and hers doing that which is ours, she loves us with our love, she
gives our inaccessible light to us, in order to glorify our sanctity, in order to extol us and say to us:
‘Holy, holy, three times holy you are; you enclose everything, you are
everything.’
“How
beautiful it is to see the human littleness in our Volition, that holds in her
power our divine being in order to
re-give it to us, in order to love us and to glorify us as we want and we
justly merit; in our Volition the parts
make themselves equal, the dissimilarities disappear, our unity unites
everything and everyone and makes it one single act of everyone, in order to
make itself act of everyone.”
In
hearing this I understood the sanctity, the beauty, the greatness, of living in the Divine Volition, and I thought to
myself: It seems difficult to me living
in him; how ever can the creature arrive to so much? Human weakness, the circumstances of life,
many times too painful, the unexpected meetings, the so many difficulties that
one doesn’t even know what to do, divert the poor creature from a living so holy
and that wants (from) us a highest attention?
And my sweet Jesus resuming his speech, with an inexpressible tenderness
as to feel my heart burst, added:
“My
little daughter of my Volition, so much is my interest, my continuous yearning
that I want that the creature live in my Volition, that when we have taken the
accord, I and she, with firm decision that she must live in my Fiat, being my Will, I am the first to make the sacrifice. In order to obtain the intent
that she can live in him, I put myself at her disposition, I give her all the graces, light, love, knowledge of my own Will, in a way that
she herself must feel the need of living in him; when I want a thing, and she
with promptness accepts to do that which I want, it is I that think to
everything; and when (she doesn’t do it) from weakness, from circumstance, not
from will, from carelessness, I arrive to supply for and do that which she
owed, and I cede to her that which I have done as if she might have done
it. My daughter, the living in my
Volition is life that I must form it is not virtue, and life has need of motion and continuous acts; if this were not so it would not be life anymore, it could be at the
most work that doesn’t have need of continuous acts but not life. Hence when for involuntary indisposition, for
weakness (she doesn’t do it), I don’t break the life, I continue it, and
perhaps in those same indispositions there is yet that my Will permits those
weaknesses; hence the will of the creature already races in mine.
“And
then (above) everything I look at the accord taken together, the firm decision
made, of which there has been no other decision (to the) contrary, and in view
of this follows the pledge of supplying for her in that which she lacks. Rather, I double the graces, surround her anew with love, with new stratagems of love in order to
have her be more attentive, I arouse in her heart an extreme need of living in my
Will this need serves her as she feels the weaknesses thus she throws herself
into the arms of my Will and prays him to hold her so very
tight, so that she might be able to always live together with him.”
Fiat!!!
Vol. 36, Sept. 5, 1938
So the union of the cross is an eternal bond for which Jesus, with just having our firm decision, will supply for all that we might be lacking. He even states that the bond of the cross is even longer lasting than the Sacrament of Communion. When the species of communion are consumed the sacramental union ceases but the union established by the cross is forever.
Later, after I received Communion, having renewed in me the pains of the
crucifixion, He added: “My daughter, how precious is the cross! See
now: in giving Itself to the soul, the Sacrament of my Body unites her
with Me, It transforms her, to the point that she becomes one with Me. But
as the species are consumed, the union, truly established, ceases. Not
with the cross. The cross takes God and unites Him with the soul forever,
and It places Itself more surely as a seal. Therefore, the cross seals
God in the soul, in such a way that there is never separation between God and
the crucified soul.”
Vol. 3, April 21, 1900
No wonder in the Hours of the Passions Jesus so ardently longs for the cross. It not only secures the salvation of his beloved creatures but binds them to him in a permanent nuptial bond with him.
They have you find the cross already prepared, which you are seeking
with great longing. You look at it with
love and go straight to it, to embrace it.
But first you kiss it; and as a shiver of joy surges through your most
holy humanity, you look at it with the utmost contentment, measuring its length
and width. You now establish the portion
in it for each creature. You endow them
with sufficient cross in order to bind them to the divinity with a nuptial bond
and make them heirs of the kingdom of heaven.
Then, unable to contain the love with which you love them, you kiss the
cross again, and say to it:
"Adorable
cross, I embrace you at last! You were
the longing of my heart, the martyrdom of my love. You, O cross, lingered until now, while my steps
were always directed toward you. Holy
cross, you were the goal of my desires, the purpose of my existence here
below. In you I concentrate my whole
being; in you I place all my children.
You will be their life and their light, their defense, their guard and
their strength. You will come to their
assistance in everything and will bring them to me glorious, in heaven. O cross, seat of wisdom, you alone will teach
true holiness; you alone will form heroes, athletes, martyrs and saints. Beautiful cross, you are my throne; and
having to depart from the earth myself, you will remain in my place. I give all souls to you as your dowry. Keep them for me, save them for me; I entrust
them to you."
The Hours of the Passion, Jesus takes up the Cross and Sets out for Calvary
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