Story of the soul

O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,

to silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars that you have established;

what are human beings that you are mindful of them,

mortals that you care for them?

Yet you have made them a little lower than God,

and crowned them with glory and honor.

You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under their feet,

all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8

Man was the masterpiece of all of Creation.  Created in an excess of love, in the image and likeness of God, even to being a made a little god.  God was so enamored with him He made Himself the center of him, his life and guard, even giving him all dominion and expecting him to be all His.  God made each of us so beautiful that we were to enchant Him, God.  It's beyond words and proper understanding.  But with sin we, ourselves, placing so little value on ourselves, dirty ourselves with sin, ruining His masterpiece. 

“My daughter, you have said nothing about the creation of man - the masterpiece of the creative power, in whom, not in sprays, but in waves, in rivers, the Eternal One poured His love, His beauty, His mastery; and taken by excess of love, He placed Himself as the center of man.   But He wanted a worthy dwelling; so, what does this Uncreated Majesty do?   He creates man in His image and likeness.  He draws a breath from the depth of His love, and with His omnipotent breath He infuses life in him, endowing man with all His qualities, proportioned to a creature, making him a little god.   So, everything you see in Creation was absolutely nothing compared to the creation of man.  Oh! how many more beautiful heavens, stars, suns, He extended in the created soul; how much variety of beauty, how many harmonies.  It is enough to say that He looked at man created, and He found him so beautiful as to become enamored with him.  And jealous of this portent of His, He Himself made Himself the custodian and possessor of man, and said:  ‘I have created everything for you; I give you dominion over everything – everything is yours; and you will be all mine.”

“You will not be able to comprehend everything - the seas of love, the intimate and direct relations, the likeness that runs between Creator and creature.  Ah! daughter of my Heart, if the creature knew how beautiful her soul is, how many divine qualities it contains, and how, among all created things, it surpasses everything in beauty, in power, in light – so much so, that it can be said that it is a little god, and a little world which contains everything within itself – oh! how much more would she esteem herself, and would not dirty with the slightest sin a beauty so rare, so portentous a prodigy of the creative power.   But the creature, almost blind in knowing herself, and much more blind in knowing her Creator, keeps dirtying herself among a thousand filthy things, to the point of disfiguring the work of the Creator; so much so, that she can barely be recognized.  Think, you yourself, of what Our sorrow is.   Therefore, come into my Will, and together with Me come to substitute for our brothers before the throne of the Eternal One - for all the acts which they should do for having been created as a prodigy of love of His omnipotence; and yet, they are so ungrateful.”

Vol. 12, February 24, 1919

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.

In your book were written

all the days that were formed for me,

when none of them as yet existed.

Psalm 139: 13-16

Within the Divine Will there is a story of each person.  How this story should develop was written 'ab eterno' by God before they were ever born.  He has loved each of us from before time and each part of our own story even to doing all of our acts for us, held within His bosom ready to be copied as our lives unfold.  Every time we do our own will we spoil this design of God, making erasures to the story He has written for us with so much love.  Instead we change these pages into sorrow and confusion and the story of love becomes vile and base instead.  We were created to be inseparable with our Creator, not as servants but as noble children.  Our every breath and act depends on Him but when we do not allow His Will to reign in us we hold His hands tied and do not let Him develop His story of love for each of us.  When His Will does not reign and we "take control" our acts remain lifeless, without heat, without strength, without divine light.  They are dead of any good, and thereby form evil and end in horror.

My abandonment continues in the Divine Volition I feel hidden by his eternal waves, in which he hides everything, nothing escapes from his immensity, so that one who wants to find everything, embrace everything, hearing the story of each one, must enter in this sea of the Supreme Fiat.   But while my mind was lost in Him, my sweet Jesus, visiting my little soul said to me:

“Blessed daughter, my Will encloses everything, rather for every creature he holds there his written page, of how her story should develop and form her life, and this written page was ‘ab eterno’ written in the light of our Will.  So that the life of every creature in time had its beginning, but in our Supreme Being she didn’t have beginning and she was loved by us with love without beginning and without end.  Now all the Creation, didn’t yet exist and we loved her, because she was already within us: we held the great birth of all creatures enclosed within the Sanctuary of our Divinity, we looked in each one of them (at) our written page, her circumstances, her little tale, and according to this, what was more or less written, what should be completed and glorified our Most Holy Will thus we loved her more intensely.  You didn’t exist, but our Will enclosed you and loving you we gave you the place, the rest on our Paternal knees, we gave you the various lessons on our Fiat, and oh! how much pleasure we took in seeing you listen and write in your soul as copying, that which was written in our eternal page.  Because you should know, that which we want that the creature does of our Will, first becomes done by us, formed by us in our same Volition, and then overflowing from us, he wants to do it and form it in the creature making his field of divine action with her.  So much is our love that we don’t want other than that she does that which we have done, giving her the model of our act, so that she makes the copy of it, and how much help, assistance don’t we give, while she makes the copy, giving her our same Will as her act, as prime material, so that the copy succeeds according to our design.

“Now every act of one who does her will does none other than spoil our design, forming some erasures on our written page.   Our every written word, contained a special and eternal love, it contained the development of her life according to our likeness in which it should enclose his story of love and the completion of his Divine Will toward her Creator.  The human volition doesn’t do other than counterfeit this page, throw into confusion our likeness.  And instead of forming the copy of our page, written with so much love for her, she has formed her page written with notes of sorrow, of confusion and with a story so vile and base that the centuries won’t make a memory of it, and the Eternal One will not find in her the echo of the written story in her page in which his divine story should be praised in the creature.

“My daughter, there is a mistaken knowledge in the base world, and they believe that the creature can live as removed from us:   what mistake!   What mistake!  All the creation is none other than an inheritance gone forth, gone forth from us, hence it is ours; she belongs to us, so much so that although she went forth, but we have brought her forth inseparable from us, and we want the honor, the glory of our inheritance, and that creatures be not our vile servants, but children and as so many princelings of our kingdom.  And this principality is given by the inseparability of our Will, so much so that the creature can not do less of it than with Him, nor can she live, nor separate herself, not even in hell itself.  At the most, some hold him working and some hold him conservative of her being, without giving him the ease to let him work good.  To live without my Will would be like the body living without the soul, that which would be impossible, and one sees that when a member is truncated from the body it doesn’t have motion, it loses the heat and rots because there lacks the soul.  Thus would it be if she might lack my Will, everything would be changed into nothing.

“Now living in my Will is really this, to feel flow in (one’s) whole being, in all the acts, the light, the divine strength, the life of my Will; because where there is not his working life, that act remains without life, without heat, without strength and divine light.  It is as dead for good, and when there is no good inside, it forms evil and finishes with putrefying.   Oh! if the creature might be able to see herself without the working life of my Volition, she would see herself so counterfeit, that she herself would be horrified to look at herself.  Therefore allow yourself to be always overwhelmed by the eternal waves of my Volition in which you will find your written page, your story woven with so much love on you, and thus you will not make an appearance anymore (of) that which we have disposed for you. You will find everything as things that belong to you and that of absolute necessity must form your life, to fill your story, and to satisfy our need of love, that ‘ab eterno’ we wanted to make our Will known.  Be faithful and do not impede our love, and leave us free to develop our admirable designs formed over you.”

Vol. 31 , September 18, 1932

When a soul does not live in the Divine Will the communication between God and the soul, the breath, is stopped and God can not develop His life in the soul as He wants.  This makes the work of Creation incomplete and leaves voids of passions, sins and deformity.  Instead when the soul lives in the Divine Will all her acts become as material for Jesus to build the most sumptuous palace even to stupefy all of Heaven.

...the human family, it turns around us, but since their will is not one with ours, they don’t breath our Volition that puts forth the order, the sanctity, the union, the harmony with its Creator, and therefore it remains scattered, disordered and as lost from us, they are unhappy beings, the peace, the happiness, the abundance of goods is far from them, and all the evil comes from that our Will is not theirs, we don’t breathe each other, and this prevents the communication of our goods, the perfect union with our Supreme Being.  Our creative hand that should form its masterpiece and the most beautiful one in every single creature, because there lacks our Will, it becomes stopped, it doesn’t find their souls pre-arranged, adaptable in order to make our Divine art feasible, where there lacks our Volition we don’t know what to do with that creature.

“Behold the cause why we long so much that our Divine Will reigns and forms there his life in them, because our creative work is impeded, our works suspended, the work of the Creation is incomplete, and in order to obtain this one must be the Will of Heaven and of earth, one the life, one the love, one the breath, and this is the greatest good that we want for creatures, we still hold to do so many beautiful works, but the human volition impedes our step, ties our arms, and makes inactive our creative hands.  Therefore who wants to do our Will and live in Him, gives us the work and we make of her that which we want.

“Now you should know, that as the creature decides to live of Divine Will, she puts to security her salvation, her sanctity, we are in her as in our house, and her will serves us as material in which we pronounce the Fiat in her every act in order to form our worthy works of He who lives in her, we do as a king that makes use of the stones, tufa and bricks and mortar in order to form a sumptuous Palace as to amaze the whole world, poor king if might not have the stones, the necessary material in order to form the palace, with all that he might have his good will and coins to spend in order to form it, yet lacking the prime material, he would remain without palace.

“Thus are we, if there lacks us the will of the soul, with all our power and will that we hold, lacking the material we can not form in the soul the beautiful worthy palace of our residence.  Therefore when the creature gives us her will and takes ours, we are secure, we find everything at our disposition, little things and great things, natural things and spiritual things, everything is ours, and of everything we make use (of it) in order to make our omnipotent Fiat work.  And since our Will doesn’t know how to be without his work, he makes the re-call of all his works, in the palace that with so much love he has formed in the creature, he surrounds himself with all the works of the creation, Heavens, Sun, stars, they make homage, he puts in order in her all that which I did in the Redemption, my life, my birth, my infantile tears, my sufferings and prayers, everything, where my Will is nothing should lack, because everything from Him has gone forth, with right everything is his, and therefore where He reigns he forms the centralization of all his works.  And oh the beauties, the order, the harmony, the divine goods that become formed in this creature, the Heavens (are) stupefied and everyone admires the love, the Power of the Divine Will and trembling they adore him.  Therefore leave (the) work to Him, and He will do great things as to make you stupefied.

“Beyond this our love, our eternal Wisdom has established all the graces that we should give to the creature, the degrees of sanctity that she should acquire, the beauty with which we should pearl her, the love with which she should love us, and the acts themselves that she should do, where our Fiat reigns, everything becomes realized, the Divine order is in full vigor, not even a comma becomes moved, our work is in full harmony with the works of the creature, and oh how we delight ourselves, and when we have given her our last love in time, and she will have completed our last act of Divine Will in her mortal life, our love will give her the flight into the Celestial Country and our Will will receive her in Heaven, as triumph of His working and conquering Will that with so much love conquered upon the earth.  So that her last act will be the opening that she will make in Heaven, in order to give beginning in our Will so very happy, that will never have end.

“Instead where our Volition doesn’t reign, the divine order doesn’t exist, how many works of ours broken and no effect, how many divine voids, and filled perhaps with passions, with sins, there is no beauty, but deformity to make one pity.  Therefore be attentive and make that our Volition reigns and lives in you.”

Vol. 34, June 14, 1936

God's jealousy for a soul living in His Divine Will is so great even for all her acts and all that which interacts with her and all her attention and all her love.  It is none other than God's Divine Jealously for His own lives which He wants to form.  And the creature also acquires this same Divine jealousy wanting everything from God alone she comes to be the bearer of everything and everyone and she thereby wants to re-give all to God from whom she has received all, love for love.

This is (a) work of God, to hold (the) virtue to be able to form so many Divine lives for how many creatures have been put forth to the light of day.  After all the creature is ours, created by us, we live together, and because we love her, our love carries us with an irresistible force and power all ours to form ourselves as life in her, and our creative art, that not content with creating creatures, in the enthusiasm of his love he wants to create himself in the created person.  You see therefore in what conditions we find ourselves in the midst of the human family, in (the) act of always forming our lives in them, but our creative art remains rejected, suffocated without being able to continue our Divine Creation, while we live together with them, they live at our expense, they live because they live of us, and yet we have the great sorrow of not being able to form our life in them.  While this would be our maximum contentment, the greatest glory that they would give us if they might give us the liberty of making us life of every single creature.

“But do you know where we are free to form this life of ours? in one who lives in our Will, our Divine Fiat prepares for us the prime matter in order to form our life, he puts forth in attitude his power, his sanctity, his love and calls us in the depth of the soul, and we finding the adaptable and practical matter, we form with indescribable love our Divine Life, we not only form it, but we raise it and with our highest gusto and delight, we develop our creative art around this Celestial creature, and they commence the chain of the prodigies, she possessing her Creator, our Will working in her, becomes the bearer of everyone and of everything, if she thinks she brings us the thoughts of everyone and makes herself supplier and repairer of all the human intelligences, if she speaks, if she works, if she walks, she carries the words, the works, the steps of everyone, the Creation itself makes for her (a) decorous cortege, and makes herself bearer of the Sky, of the stars, of the Sun, of the wind, of everything, she leaves nothing behind, she brings us the homage, the glory of all our created things, even the homage of the sweet song of the little birdie, possessing the life of He who has created her, she makes them all crown, indeed everything wants to be brought by she who possesses the speaking act, so that for each one she tells the speaking story of love, for which they have been created by their Creator.

“So that who possesses our Volition acquires our Jealousy of love, that we want everything for us, and this with highest justice, because there is no thing that we have not given, hence with justice we want everything.  Thus she taken by our same folly of love wants everything, in order to give us everything and jealous she wants to bring us everything in order to say to us for everyone and for every single created thing her little word of love.

“Therefore who lives in our Volition, never remains alone, first she is with her Creator, with whom they always remain in competition of love, how can they love more, and all things being around her she makes herself bearer of everything to He whom she loves, that being infinite Love wants to see converted in the creature all things converted in love for his love.”

Vol. 34, July 4, 1937

The breath of God, in the soul living in the Divine Will forms, sip by sip, the completion of His divine life in her.   When He has filled the creature to the point where there is no more room to add even one more divine breath the life of the creature ceases, finished on earth to open to the immortal breath of God in Heaven.  This completed act is a masterpiece that glorifies God the most and holds Him enraptured but it can only occur in a soul living in the Divine Will.  When a creature lives of her own will she binds God's hands and prevents Him from accomplishing His desired plan ruining His story of love written for her and changing it to sorrow.  One can not enter Heaven unless they contain some portion of His divine life, be it even conception, or birth.  But the degree of glory that the soul will enjoy depends on the development of His divine life in her whether it is more or less complete.

This first act of ours, while it serves to give beginning and to form the life, the continuation, it serves in order to make of the creature a completed act of ours, and as we breathe (in) her thus we form in her our continuous acts in order to complete our divine life.  Our breath, as we give it, forms sip by sip the growth of this life of ours in the creature.  Our breath, as it gives itself, thus it forms our completed act of sanctity, of beauty, of love, of goodness and so on, and when we have filled her so much, in a way that we don’t have anywhere more to put our act in the creature, because she is limited, our breath ceases and her life finishes in earth, and in order to immortalize our breath in Heaven, we transport our fully grown life in her, our completed act, into our Celestial Country as triumph of our Creation.   There is no more beautiful rarity than these lives and completed acts of ours in the Celestial sojourn, they are the narrators of our power, of the enthusiasm of our love, they are speaking voices of our omnipotent breath, that alone could form the divine life, our completed act in the creature.  But do you know where we can form this life and this completed act of ours, for how much it is possible and imaginable for a creature to receive from her Creator?  [In] the soul that lives in our Divine Will and lets herself be dominated by Him.  Ah! only in her can we form the divine life and develop our completed act; our Volition disposes the creature to receive all the qualities and divine colors, and our breath not ever interrupted, as expert brush/(artist), paints with admirable and inimitable mastery the most beautiful tones and forms there the images of our Supreme Being; if it might not be for these images there would not have been that great work of the Creation, nor great work of the power of our creative hands, creating the Sun, the Sky, the stars and all the universe would have been a beautiful nothing for our power.  But instead all our power, the art of our divine arts, the indescribable excess of our intense love, it is to do our completed act in the creature with forming our life in her and so much is our gratification, that we ourselves remain enraptured in our act that we develop.  For us to do a completed act it is the greatest glory that glorifies us most, it is the most intense love that praises us most, it is the power that praises us continually.  But alas! for one who doesn’t live in our Volition, how many broken acts of ours, without conclusion, how many divine lives of ours hardly conceived or at the most born without growing.  [Creatures] break the continuation of our work and bind our arms without being able to go ahead; they put us in the impotence of a master who holds his earth and is prevented by his ungrateful servants from doing the work that he wants to in his earth, to sow it, to plant the plants that he wants; poor proprietor, to hold sterile earth, without the fruit that he could receive, for reason of his iniquitous servants.  Our earths are creatures and the ungrateful servant is the human volition, which opposing ours with hers puts us in impotence from forming our divine life in them.  Now you should know that in Heaven one doesn’t enter if one doesn’t possess our divine life, or at least conceived or born, and such will be the glory, the beatitude of the blessed, for how much growth has been formed of our life in them.  Now what will be the difference for one who has hardly let him be conceived, be born or grown with little proportions, from one who has let us form complete life? So much will be the difference, that it is incomprehensible to the human creature.  Those will be as the people of the Celestial kingdom, instead our images will be as princes, ministers, the noble court, the regal army of the great King.  Therefore one who does my Divine Will and lives in Him can say:  ‘I do all and I also belong from this earth to the family of my Celestial Father.’”

Vol. 29, October 12, 1931

I guess in the end the question comes down to who do you want, who do you trust to be the author of the story of your life?

Praise the Lord!

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

for his steadfast love endures forever.

Who can utter the mighty doings of the Lord,

or declare all his praise?

Happy are those who observe justice,

who do righteousness at all times.

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;

help me when you deliver them;

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones,

that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,

that I may glory in your heritage.

Psalm 106: 1-5

The Wicked Tenants

The parable of the wicked tenants is well known and I have listened to it in the past feeling it was an assurance that I was on the right side of things.  Certainly this parable is only about those people who do not recognize Jesus as the Christ, Savior and Redeemer, the Son of God.  A parable to the Chief Priests and Pharisees who connived to have Jesus killed or now for those who spitefully reject Him and His Church?  A light came to me while listening to this gospel reading during mass that this parable, like so many things that come from God, has another deeper meaning as well.

33 “Listen to another parable.  There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower.  Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country.  34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.  36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37  Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38  But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’  39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.  40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”  41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

‘The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone;

this was the Lord’s doing,

and it is amazing in our eyes’?

43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.  44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.  46 They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.

Matthew 21: 33-46

In fact we, ourselves, are the fields of God.  All of our acts/fruits are His by right and when we act of our own will instead of His we are denying Him His due.  

Further in the Bible from this Gospel St Paul writes to the Corinthians telling them that he and Apollos are merely servants of God doing His work, planting and watering.  But we are the fields of God where they work but all the growth is of and from God Himself. 

What then is Apollos?  What is Paul?  Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.  The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each.  For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3:5-9

In the Volumes the land and earth are common images of the humanity of the creature, even the name Adam means red/fair earth.  An even clearer example is found in the book, The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, where she speaks of her birth, the earth of her Humanity and all the flowerings  and prodigies that came from it, meaning her acts in the Divine Will.

'Child of my Heart, my birth was prodigious; no other birth can be said to be similar to mine.  I enclosed within Myself the Heaven, the Sun of the Divine Will, and also the earth of my humanity - but a blessed and holy earth, which enclosed the most beautiful flowerings.  And even though I was just newly born, I enclosed the prodigy of the greatest prodigies:  the Divine Will reigning in Me, which enclosed in Me a Heaven more beautiful, a Sun more refulgent than those of Creation, of which I was also Queen, as well as a sea of graces without boundaries, which constantly murmured:  “Love, love to my Creator.” '

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 10

Now Mary was immaculate from the moment of her conception and all her acts came from the fount of the Divine Will.  She did not contain the stain of original sin or it's effects denying life to her human will from the moment of her conception.  And these divine acts formed fruit in the manner of suns.   Lights that give to all and give eternally.  These are the types of fruitful acts that we were originally created to do, that should come forth from humanity, that God is still owed, but because of original sin and it's effects we are then prevented from doing them as was intended by God.

"You must know that I knew my human will only to keep it sacrificed in homage to my Creator.  My life was all of Divine Will; from the first instant of my Conception, I was molded, warmed and placed into Its light, which purified my human seed with Its power, in such a way that I was conceived without original sin.   Therefore, if my Conception was spotless and so glorious as to form the honor of the Divine Family, it was only because the Omnipotent Fiat poured Itself upon my seed, and I was conceived pure and holy.   So, if the Divine Will had not poured Itself upon my seed more than a tender mother, in order to prevent the effects of original sin, I would have encountered the sad destiny of the other creatures, of being conceived with original sin.  Therefore, the primary cause was, entirely, the Divine Will; to It be honor, glory, thanksgiving, for my having been conceived without original sin. 

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 1

Such is one who operates in my Will.  Her acts acquire the continuity - they are always repeated without ever ceasing.  They are the true Sun which, from the moment It was created by God, has given Its first act of light - but so great, as to fill Heaven and earth with one single act.  And It repeats this act always, without ever ceasing, in such a way that all can take Its act of light, though one was the act that constituted itself act of perennial light for all.  If the Sun could repeat Its act of light, one would see as many Suns for as many acts as It could repeat; but since the act of light that It did is one, one sees only one Sun and no more.  But what the Sun did not do the Sovereign Queen did, and one who operates in my Will does also:  as many Suns for as many acts, and these Suns are fused together, though distinct among them in beauty, in light, in the glory that they give to their Creator, and in the universal good that they make descend upon all creatures.  These acts have a divine power; by virtue of these acts the Most Holy Virgin could obtain the coming of the Word upon earth, and by virtue of these acts my Kingdom will come upon earth.  One act repeated incessantly in my Fiat has a conquering, enrapturing and enchanting virtue before Our Divinity.  That continuous repetition in the Divine Volition is the strength of the soul, the invincible weapon that debilitates her Creator and conquers Him with weapons of love, and He feels honored to let Himself be conquered by the creature.”

Vol. 24, June 25, 1928

This manner of acting, of producing fruit, that is, Divine eternal suns is possible not just to the Immaculate Virgin Mary, but now in the fullness of time it is opened to all who would live of the Divine Will.  Meaning wanting Him to reign in us, act in us and never giving life to our own will again.  When the Divine Will sows He sows seeds of light, which germinate in the field of the soul to produce Divine suns.   We will only see the fullness of these fruits/suns in Heaven.

“Good daughter, the great good of living of a Divine Volition is surprising and almost incomprehensible to the human creature.   You should know that all that which one does of good, of sanctity in my Divine Will, they are none other than seeds that germinate in the field of the soul, putting forth as so many seeds of Divine light, that put forth a beginning that won’t have an end, because all that which one does in my Divine Will is sowed, germinates, grows in an admirable way, upon the earth while she lives, but the completion will be formed in Heaven, the ultimate development, the variety of beauties, the tones, the most beautiful and specious tints, will be given in the Celestial Country.

Vol. 21, June 8, 1931

While on earth we may never fully realize the beauty and delight of Jesus' work and harvest in our souls.  We may even feel the weight and the seeming abandonment of Jesus but these sufferings are akin to the field of our souls being worked and tilled to ready it for another sowing.

  “My daughter, why do you afflict yourself so much?  Abandon yourself in Me and let Me do; and when it seems to you that everything declines and dies, your Jesus will make everything rise again, but more beautiful and more fecund.  You must know that the soul is my field in which I work, sow and harvest; but my favorite field is the soul who lives in my Will.  In this field my work is delightful; I do not get muddy when I sow, because my Will has converted it into a field of light.  Its ground is virgin, pure and celestial, and I amuse Myself very much in sowing little lights into it, almost like dew which forms the Sun of my Will.

"Oh! how beautiful it is to see this field of the soul all covered with many drops of light, and as they gradually grow, many suns will form.  This sight is enchanting; all Heaven is enraptured at the sight of it, and they are all attentive on looking at the Celestial Farmer who cultivates this field with such great mastery, and who possesses a seed so noble as to convert it into sun.  Now, my daughter, this field is mine and I do with it whatever I want.  Once these suns have formed, I collect them and take them to Heaven, as the most beautiful conquest of my Will, and then I return to the work of my field.  So, I put everything upside down, and the little daughter of my Will feels everything ending, everything dying within her.  In the place of the suns, so refulgent with light, she sees the drops of light which I am sowing, and she thinks that everything is perishing.  How you deceive yourself - this is the new harvest that must be prepared; and since I want to make it more beautiful than the previous one, and make it larger so as to be able to double my harvest, at first sight the work seems to be more difficult, and the soul suffers more.  But those pains are like strokes of the hoe into the ground, which make the seed sink deeper down so as to make it germinate more safely, with greater fecundity and beauty.  Don’t you see, when a field is harvested, how squalid and poor it remains?  But wait until it is sown again, and you will see it more flowery than before.  Therefore, let me do; and you, by living in my Will, will always be at work with Me; we will sow the little drops of light together, and we will compete to see who sows more.  So, we will amuse ourselves, now in sowing, now in resting – but always together.  I know, I know what your strongest concern is – that I might leave you.  No, no, I do not leave you; one who lives in my Will is inseparable from Me.” 

Vol. 16, Oct. 20, 1923

The soul participates in the Divine work by lending her acts to Jesus as earth in which He can place His divine seed.  He will never leave such a precious soul alone but will keep producing more and more beautiful harvests and conquests in her.   Jesus says that in such a one He is able to germinate the Divine Being in them so that one who does and lives in the Divine Will reproduces her Creator and He resides within her.

“Blessed daughter, it is I who forms the celestial atmosphere inside and outside of the creature, because no sooner than she enters into my Divine Volition than I put myself to watch of the act that she goes doing, and she forms the ground with her acts, and I form the divine seed in order to cast in the act of the creature.  So that her acts serve as earth, and I, Celestial Farmer, by filling her with my seeds I make use of it to gather the harvest of the works that are done in my Will.   Do you see therefore what the continuations of the acts done in the Divine Will serve to?   They serve to give me the labor and the occasions to never leave the creature, because she always gives Me to do.   And I don’t want nor can I leave empty a ground so precious, formed in my Will and exposed to the vivifying rays of the Divine Sun.  Hence He calls you to the work in my Volition and you call me, and oh, how very sweet it is to work together in my Fiat!  It is a labor that doesn’t tire; rather it is bearer of rest and of the most beautiful conquests.”

Vol. 30, July 14, 1932

"More so that every act done by the Divine Will in the act of the creature is a divine seed that germinates in it.  The act prepares the earth where my Will casts his seed in order to make it germinate into (a) divine plant, because according to the seed that is cast in the bosom of the earth, that plant is born.  If the seed is of flowers, the flower is born; if the seed is of fruit, the fruit is born.  Now my Divine Will in every act of the creature casts a distinct seed:  there he casts the seed of sanctity, there the seed of love, in others the seed of goodness, and so on.  How many more acts [the creature] does in Him, so much more earth is prepared where my Volition prepares his distinct seed in order to fill the earth of these human acts.  Whence one who lets herself be dominated by my Divine Will, is beautiful, is specious; every act of hers, containing the variety of divine seeds, is a note of her Creator:  one act says sanctity, another mercy, others justice, wisdom, beauty, love; in short one sees a divine harmony, with such order, that shows the finger of God working in her.  Do you see therefore the necessity of the act of the creature, in order to be able to try the earth where to enclose our divine seed?  Otherwise where do we cast it?  We don’t hold any earth.  Therefore there is [earth] formed with her acts, in order to be able to germinate with our seeds our Divine Being in the creature.  Therefore one who does and lives in our Divine Volition can be called She who reproduces her Creator and lodges in herself He who has created her.”

Vol. 30, Nov. 16, 1931

Jesus tells Luisa that it is God's aim to form, grow and mature completed acts in the creature but this can only occur in a creature living in the Divine Will.  When we don't live in the Divine Will we break his acts and they remain incomplete and as handicapped.  When we operate with our own will we frustrate the plans of the owner of vineyard from his designs on it.  Jesus clearly states that the earth represents his creatures and the ungrateful servants are our own human volitions which frustrate his works and kill his designs.

 

“My good daughter, only my Volition maintains and conserves intact, with a continuous act, the beginning of the Creation of the creature.  Our Supreme Being gave the beginning and animated her life with the power of our divine breath; this breath should not ever be broken, more so that when we give and we do an act we never withdraw it, and this serves in order to form the completed work of the being that we put forth to the light.  This first act of ours, while it serves to give beginning and to form the life, the continuation, it serves in order to make of the creature a completed act of ours, and as we breathe (in) her thus we form in her our continuous acts in order to complete our divine life.  Our breath, as we give it, forms sip by sip the growth of this life of ours in the creature.  Our breath, as it gives itself, thus it forms our completed act of sanctity, of beauty, of love, of goodness and so on, and when we have filled her so much, in a way that we don’t have anywhere more to put our act in the creature, because she is limited, our breath ceases and her life finishes in earth, and in order to immortalize our breath in Heaven, we transport our fully grown life in her, our completed act, into our Celestial Country as triumph of our Creation.  There is no more beautiful rarity than these lives and completed acts of ours in the Celestial sojourn, they are the narrators of our power, of the enthusiasm of our love, they are speaking voices of our omnipotent breath, that alone could form the divine life, our completed act in the creature.  But do you know where we can form this life and this completed act of ours, for how much it is possible and imaginable for a creature to receive from her Creator?  [In] the soul that lives in our Divine Will and lets herself be dominated by Him.  Ah! only in her can we form the divine life and develop our completed act; our Volition disposes the creature to receive all the qualities and divine colors, and our breath not ever interrupted, as expert brush/(artist), paints with admirable and inimitable mastery the most beautiful tones and forms there the images of our Supreme Being; if it might not be for these images there would not have been that great work of the Creation, nor great work of the power of our creative hands, creating the Sun, the Sky, the stars and all the universe would have been a beautiful nothing for our power.  But instead all our power, the art of our divine arts, the indescribable excess of our intense love, it is to do our completed act in the creature with forming our life in her and so much is our gratification, that we ourselves remain enraptured in our act that we develop. For us to do a completed act it is the greatest glory that glorifies us most, it is the most intense love that praises us most, it is the power that praises us continually.  But alas! for one who doesn’t live in our Volition, how many broken acts of ours, without conclusion, how many divine lives of ours hardly conceived or at the most born without growing.  [Creatures] break the continuation of our work and bind our arms without being able to go ahead; they put us in the impotence of a master who holds his earth and is prevented by his ungrateful servants from doing the work that he wants to in his earth, to sow it, to plant the plants that he wants; poor proprietor, to hold sterile earth, without the fruit that he could receive, for reason of his iniquitous servants.  Our earths are creatures and the ungrateful servant is the human volition, which opposing ours with hers puts us in impotence from forming our divine life in them.  Now you should know that in Heaven one doesn’t enter if one doesn’t possess our divine life, or at least conceived or born, and such will be the glory, the beatitude of the blessed, for how much growth has been formed of our life in them.  Now what will be the difference for one who has hardly let him be conceived, be born or grown with little proportions, from one who has let us form complete life?  So much will be the difference, that it is incomprehensible to the human creature.  Those will be as the people of the Celestial kingdom, instead our images will be as princes, ministers, the noble court, the regal army of the great King.  Therefore one who does my Divine Will and lives in Him can say:  ‘I do all and I also belong from this earth to the family of my Celestial Father.’”

Vol. 29, October 12, 1931

So all of us are guilty in one way or another of being a wicked tenant.  Everyone except for the Virgin Mary, who has been born with original sin, have done acts that originated from our own wills thereby denying God his due.  But now we have been given, by the mercy of God, the chance to return to Him all the fruit that He is owed.  All the praise, honor, glory, adoration, love and thanksgiving that is His by right, not only for ourselves but for everyone else too.  We have been given the opportunity to live in His Will, just as Mary did by grace and Jesus did by nature.  His glory is our joy.  At best those of the past have only achieved hard won resignation to the Will of God in the practice of the virtues.  But God will never be satisfied with half measures and until He achieves His desired goal of children whole and legitimate living in His Will, complete and beautiful as He intended He will not quit His work.  If you are reading this and can understand this call it is to you.  How many will never listen to or understand the intimacies that God desires of them.

The Queen of Peace

On this anniversary of Our Lady's first apparition in Medjugorje and her title "Queen of Peace," I wanted to look in the Volumes on this topic.

Jesus states that His Kingdom, a Kingdom of Peace, was in the heart of His Mother.  She never experienced a single moment where she was disturbed or anxious even in the Passion.  Without any such disturbance Jesus was able to extend His Kingdom in her to freely in fullness.  This shows how important it is for us to remain in the Peace of Jesus so that He can always extend His Kingdom in us. 

This morning, Jesus renewed in me the pains of the crucifixion; our Queen Mama was also present, and Jesus, speaking of Her, said: “My Kingdom was in the Heart of my Mother, and this, because Her Heart was never disturbed even slightly; so much so, that in the immense sea of the Passion, She suffered immense pains, and Her Heart was pierced through by the sword of sorrow, but She did not receive the slightest breath of disturbance. Therefore, since my Kingdom is a Kingdom of peace, I was able to lay my Kingdom within Her, and to reign freely without any obstacle.”

Vol. 2, July 4, 1899

In the book, The Virgin Mary In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will, Mary tells her story that in learning about the sad story of mankind how her heart went out and she began pleading with God to save us.  God in turn satisfies her giving her the title of Peacemaker between God and man.  He tells her that the destiny of mankind is in her hands.

Now, in the middle of our loving stratagems, I remembered the painful state of my human family upon earth, for I too was of their offspring - and how I grieved and prayed that the Eternal Word would descend and put a remedy to it.  And I would say this with such tenderness as to reach the point of changing smile and feast into crying.  The Most High was so moved by my tears, more so, since they were the tears of a little one; and pressing Me to the divine bosom, They dried my tears and said to Me:   “Daughter, do not cry, pluck up courage.  Into your hands We have placed the destiny of mankind; We gave You the mandate, and now, to console You more, We make of You the Peacemaker between Us and the human family.   So, to You it is given to reconcile us. The power of Our Will that reigns in You compels Us to give the kiss of peace to poor humanity, decayed and unsafe.”

Who can tell you, my child, what my Heart felt at this divine condescension?  My love was so great that I felt faint and, in delirium, I was restless, looking for more love as relief for my love.

Now a word to you, my child.  If you listen to Me by banishing your will and giving the royal place to the Divine Fiat, you too will be loved with striking love by your Creator; you will be His smile, you will put Him in feast, and will be bond of peace between the world and God.

THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL, Day 9

Jesus elaborates on this by saying that all who lives in the Divine Will also takes on the vocation of peacemaker between God and man.  The human will began and wages war with God it is with those who submit themselves to live in the Divine Will and allow Him to reign in them that God will form bonds of order, peace and love to overcome mankind.  

“My daughter, one who lives in my Volition becomes the peacemaker between God and the creature; all her acts, words, steps, her prayers, her little sacrifices, are like so many bonds of peace between Heaven and earth, they are as weapons of peace with which she combats her Creator with weapons of peace and love in order to disarm him and to make him propitious and exchange the scourges into mercy.  And as the human will formed the war in order to wage war with He who had created her, not only, but broke the accord, the order and the peace, thus my Volition, with the force of his omnipotence reigning in the creature converts that which the creature does into bonds of accord, of order, of peace and of love.  So that from her goes forth as a little white cloud, that elevating itself spreads out and rises up even to the Divine throne, that bursts forth in so many voices for how many acts she has done (and) says:  ‘Great God, I bring you peace from the earth, and You give me your peace in order to bring it as bond of peace between You and the human generation.’  This little cloud rises and descends, descends and rises and does the office of peacemaker between Heaven and earth.”

Vol. 29, July 13, 1931

And here we see the meaning behind the small white cloud of Elijah which has been seen as a symbol of Mary.  A small cloud that brought about the great rain ending the drought. ( How a cloud in the Bible became a symbol of Mary )

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; there he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees. 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” Then he said, “Go again seven times.” 44 At the seventh time he said, “Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.” Then he said, “Go say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’” 45 In a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was a heavy rain. Ahab rode off and went to Jezreel. 46 But the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran in front of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1Kings 18:  42-46

We are all called to live in the Divine Will.  We are all called to be a Peacemaker between man and God.  We are all called to be the small white cloud rising to God and descending to the earth bringing the beneficial rain to mankind ending the long drought.  None can equal our Lady, Queen of Heaven in whom the Divine Will reigned from the moment of her conception but we are all called to share in her work.  All are called but few will respond and be chosen.

What is Truth?

When I was young it seemed so easy to know what was true, what was right and what was wrong.   In today's world there is deception everywhere even where one thinks it would not be possible.  So I want to review this topic so that truth can be known clearly because Jesus frequently speaks on this in the Volumes.  When Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?"  Jesus was ready to answer but was not given the chance.  All of Jesus is truth and it can be witnessed in everything He is, says and does.

I was following the Hours of the Passion of my sweet Jesus, especially when He was presented to Pilate, who asked Him what His Kingdom was.  And my always lovable Jesus told me:  “My daughter, that was the first time in my terrestrial Life that I dealt with a gentile authority, who asked Me what my Kingdom was.  And I answered him that my Kingdom is not of this world, for if it were of this world, thousands of legions of Angels would defend Me.  But with this, I opened my Kingdom to the gentiles, and communicated my celestial doctrines to them; so much so, that Pilate asked me:  ‘What? You are a king?’  And immediately I answered him:  ‘I am King, and I have come into the world to teach the truth.’  With this, I wanted to make my way into his mind in order to make Myself known; so much so that, touched, he asked Me:  ‘What is the truth?’  But he did not wait for my answer; I did not have the good of making Myself understood.  I would have said to him:  ‘I am the truth; everything is truth in Me.  Truth is my patience in the midst of so many insults; truth is my sweet gaze among so many derisions, slanders, contempts.  Truths are my gentle and attractive manners in the midst of so many enemies, who hate Me while I love them, and who want to give Me death, while I want to embrace them and give them Life.  Truths are my words, full of dignity and of celestial wisdom - everything is truth in Me.  The truth is more than majestic sun which, as much as one may want to trample upon it, rises more beautiful and bright, to the point of shaming its very enemies, and of knocking them down at its feet.

Pilate asked Me with sincerity of heart, and I was ready to answer.  Herod, rather, asked Me with malice and curiosity, and I did not answer.  So, to those who want to know holy things with sincerity, I reveal Myself more than they expect; but with those who want to know them with malice and curiosity, I hide Myself, and while they want to make fun of Me, I confound them and make fun of them.  However, since my Person carried the truth with Itself, It performed Its office also in front of Herod.  My silence at the stormy questions of Herod, my humble gaze, the air of my Person, all full of sweetness, of dignity and of nobility, were all truths - and operating truths.”

Vol. 14, June 1, 1922

Although Jesus would have spoken to Pilate He remained silent before Herod because Herod had no real desire to know the truth.  Herod only wanted to make a fool of Jesus.  If Jesus had answered him the truth would have made a fool of Herod so He remained silent.

 “My daughter, Herod did not question Me in order to know the truth, but out of curiosity and to make a fool of Me; and if I had answered, I would have made a fool of him, because when the will to know the truth and to execute it is missing, the humor in order to receive the heat which the light of my truths brings with itself, is missing in the soul.  Not finding the humidity in order to make the truths germinate and fecundate, this heat burns even more, and makes the good it can produce wither.  It happens as to the sun:  when it does not find humidity on the plants, its heat serves to wither and burn the life of the plants; but if it finds humidity, it makes prodigies.  So, the truth is beautiful, it is lovable, it is the reviver and the fecundator of souls; with its light and heat it forms prodigies of development, of graces and of sanctity – but for those who love to know it in order to execute it.  On the other hand, with those who do not love to execute it, it is the truth that mocks them, rather than remaining mocked itself.”

Vol. 20, January 4, 1927

When one wants to know a truth and desires it, it is like the appetite that prepares the soul, disposing the intelligence to understand it, the memory to remember it.   This moves God to give it to the soul, making the truth known to her because the soul will be satisfied and content with receiving it and God will never do a useless act.  Without the desire of the good the soul would only be nauseated and disgusted by it.  So that those who do not long for the truths of God will instead loose what little they might have.  This is the meaning in the Gospel: Matt 25:29   "... to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away."

Because you should know that He holds a longing, an ardent desire to always want to work, but he goes finding one who wants to listen and one who wants to receive his creative virtue, in order not to expose his works to uselessness, and in order to be secure he goes finding his same Will in the soul, and finding him he finds his works guaranteed by his same Divine Fiat, therefore he does not spare anything and he makes for you the most beautiful works and the greatest prodigies. Oh, Power of my omnipotent Volition, if everyone might know you, they might love you and might let you reign, earth would be changed into Heaven!”

Vol. 29, August 22, 1931

“My daughter, the desire for a good, for knowing it, purges the soul and disposes her intelligence to comprehend it, her memory to remember it; her will feels its appetite for it being whet, to make of it its food and life; and it moves God to give her that good and to make it known.  So, the desire for a good, for knowing it, is like the appetite for food.  When there is appetite, one feels the taste, eats with pleasure, remains satisfied and content with having taken that food, and is left with the desire to enjoy it again.  On the other hand, if there is no appetite, that same food which is enjoyed so eagerly by someone, causes nausea and disgust to someone else who has no appetite, and he may reach the point of suffering because of it.  Such is the desire for the soul - it is like appetite; and in seeing that the desire for my things is her delight, to the point of making of them her food and life, I abound – I abound so much in giving, that I never tire of giving.  On the other hand, one who does not desire them, because the appetite is missing, will feel nausea for my things, and that Gospel saying will be repeated:  ‘It will be given to one who has, while one who does not desire my goods, my truths, celestial things, will be deprived of the little he has’.  Just penalty for one who does not desire, has no appetite for, and wants to know nothing about the things that belong to Me.  And if he has any little thing at all, it is right that it be taken away from him and be given to those who possess much.”

Vol. 19, September 3, 1926

Jesus states that He is the way, the truth and the life.  The one flows into the other and from them proceeds life.  So here we find another image of the Holy Trinity and Jesus explains how he is the living truth that leads to the Father.  To manifest a truth to the creature is to give Himself  to the creature and in giving Himself He binds the creature more and more to God with a greater happiness, because truth/Jesus belongs to God and God is life.  God wants to give and give in abundance but He is limited by man's capacity, his desire and response to His gifts.

4 And you know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14: 4-7

Jesus is light, and light is truth.

As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus made Himself seen all light, and said these simple words:  “I am light - but what is light made of?  What is the principle of it?  It is truth.  So, I am light because I am truth.  Therefore, in order for the soul to be light and to have light in all of her actions, these must come from truth.  Wherever there is artifice, deception and duplicity, there cannot be light - but darkness.”  And He disappeared like a flash.

Vol. 8, September 3, 1908

“Listen:  my Being is led by an irresistible force to communicate Itself to the creature.  I have yet many more things to tell you - many more truths which you do not know.  All of my truths carry the happiness that each one contains, and as many truths as the soul knows, so many different happinesses she acquires.
Vol. 13, January 5, 1922

"...do you want to know what are our most beautiful gifts that we make the creature?  To manifest to her a knowledge of our Supreme Being, a truth that pertains to us, one secret of ours is the most beautiful gift that we make her; each of these gifts is one more bond that we put between Her and us, our every truth is a property that we put in her soul."  

Vol. 29, Aug.3, 1931. 

 

“My daughter, courage, do not fear; there is no darkness in you, because only sin is darkness, while good is light.  Don’t you see how I have come out a foundation of light from within your interior?  But do you know what this light is?  It is all the interior operating that you do.  Each additional act you do is one more filament of your will which you bind to the current of the eternal light; and that filament turns into light.  So, the more acts you do, adding more filaments, the more full, intense and bright the light will become.  Therefore, what you have done is the light that you see, and what is left for you to do is the void that you see within that same light.  And I will remain always in the midst of this light, not only to enjoy it, but to bind the filaments of the human will to the current of the eternal light, because I am the origin, the foundation, the current of the light.  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.”

Vol. 17, March 1, 1925

Not everyone will understand these truths, these gifts of God, but they can still enjoy it's effects to some degree.  But not being truly appreciated, longed for, nor loved they will be considered little more than a trifle and often put aside.  Jesus, however, will not be stopped, just like the sun can not be stopped.  He will continue His course with His truths with others who will appreciate them and make them the center of their lives.

See, also the things which can be seen down here are not understood by man.  Who can ever tell how I created the sun, or how much light and heat it contains?  Yet, they see it, they enjoy its effects; it is with them all day, and its heat and light follow them everywhere.  Yet, with all this, they neither know nor can they tell its height, or the light and heat it possesses.  And if anyone wanted to raise himself in order to know it, the light would eclipse him, and the heat would burn him up.  So, man is forced to keep his eyes low and enjoy its light, without being able to investigate it, contenting himself with saying:  ‘It is sun’.

        So, if this happens with the sun which can be seen and which I created for the natural good of man, more so with the truths, which contain, oh! how much more light and heat than the sun itself; especially the truths that regard my Will, which contain eternal effects, goods and value.  Who can ever measure all that It contains?  It would be as though wanting to be eclipsed.  It would be better for them to lower their foreheads and enjoy the light which my truth brings, loving it and making that little light which the human intelligence comprehends their own, rather than putting it aside, as something which does not belong to them, because they do not comprehend all the fullness of its light.  So, they enjoy the light of the sun as much as they can, although they do not comprehend it; they make use of it in order to work, to walk, to look and – oh! how they long for daytime, so that its light may keep them company and live with them.  But then, my truths, which are more than light and make the sun of the day rise in the human minds, are neither regarded, nor loved, nor longed for, and are considered as a trifle.  What sorrow!  However, when I see that they put my truths aside, I put them aside, and I allow my truths to follow their course with souls who love them and long for them, and use their light in order to model their lives and become one with them.  Do you think that I have told you everything about the truths, the effects and the value that my truth contains?  Oh, how many more suns I have to make rise!  And do not be surprised if you do not comprehend everything.  Be content with living of Its light - this is enough for Me.”
Vol. 14, June 23, 1922

It is my Will that wants to follow Its course to make Itself known; and my Will is more than sun, and it takes too much to hide the light of the sun - it is completely impossible.  If they stop it on one side, it surpasses the obstacle which they have placed before it, and squeezing through the other sides, it follows its way with majesty, leaving those who wanted to prevent its course confused, because they have seen it escape from all sides without being able to catch it.  A lamp can be hidden, but the sun – never.  Such is my Will - more than sun; and if you want to hide It, it will be impossible for you.  Therefore be quiet, my daughter, and let the eternal Sun of my Will follow Its course, whether through the writings, or through print, or through your words and your manners.  Let It escape like light, and cover the whole world - I long for it, I want it.  And besides, how much, really, of the truths about my Will was put out?  It can be said it was just the atoms of Its light; and even though atoms still - if you knew the good they do!  What will happen when, after all the truths I have spoken to you about my Will have been gathered together, the fecundity of Its light, the goods It contains, united all together, will form, not just the atoms or the rising sun, but its full midday?  What good will this eternal Sun not produce in the midst of creatures?  And you and I will be happier in seeing my Will known, loved and fulfilled.  Therefore, let Me do.

Vol. 17, April 26, 1925

Each truth is a new creation formed in the soul that  Jesus wants to extend throughout so that everyone might know them.  Wanting to hide these truths is to dishonor God.  When the truth is made known it is like light which by itself extends itself everywhere.  It's light is so great that it would eclipse the sun.  What Jesus does in the soul with these truths is greater than the Creation

“My daughter, my word is creative, and when I speak, making known a truth that belongs to Me, it is nothing less than new divine creations that I make in the soul.  And just as, when I created the heavens, with one single Fiat I stretched them out and studded them with billions of stars - so much so, that there is not one place of the earth from which this heaven cannot be seen; and if from some points it could not be seen, it would be a dishonor for the creative power, and some could say that the creative force did not have the power to extend everywhere - in the same way, my truths are more than heavens, which I would want to make known to all, from one end of the earth to another, and make them pass from mouth to mouth like many stars, to adorn the heaven of the truths I manifested.

“If the creature wanted to hide my truths, it would be as if she wanted to prevent Me from creating the heavens; and by the secret she would want to keep, she would dishonor Me, as if someone wanted to prevent others from looking at the heavens, at the sun, and at all the other things created by Me, so as not to make Me known.  Ah! my daughter, the truth is light, and light extends by itself; but in order for it to extend, it is necessary to make it known - the rest it will do by itself.  Otherwise, it will remain compressed, without the good of being able to illuminate, and to follow the course it wants.  Therefore, be attentive, and do not prevent Me from extending the light of my truths.”

Vol. 13, January 30, 1922

‘How good Jesus is.  It seems to me that He greatly delights in communicating Himself to the creature, and that He takes so much pleasure in manifesting His truths, that while He is saying one, that very truth is a spur for Him, and almost draws Him with an irresistible force to manifest more truths.  What goodness!  What love!’  And Jesus came out again from within my interior, and placing His face close to mine, added:  “My daughter, you do not know what it means to manifest my truths, and this is why you marvel at my pleasure and at the irresistible force I feel to manifest Myself to the creature.  And one who is willing to listen to Me forms my joy and my delights in conversing with her.  You must know that when I manifest one truth of mine which is not known, it is a new creation that I make, and I love very much to unleash from Myself the many goods and secrets which I contain.  But as much as I may speak, since I am that Act ever new that never repeats Itself, I always yearn to say more; and as I speak, I always have more new things that I would like to say, because that newness is never exhausted in Me - I am always new in love, new in beauty, new in contentments, in harmonies – new in everything, and ever new.  And this is why I do not tire anyone, I always have new things to give and to say, and the irresistible force that pushes Me to manifest Myself is my immense love.  In an outpouring of love I issued the Creation; everything that can be seen in the whole universe was all inside of Me.  Love made the shadow of my light overflow from my interior, and I created the sun; the shadow of my immensity and of my harmonies, and I stretched out the heavens, harmonizing them with many stars and celestial spheres.  These and other things which I created were nothing other than shadows of mine which I issued from Myself; and my love had its outpouring, and I took great delight in seeing what was contained in Me, spread out in little particles hovering over all Creation.

Now, what will my joy be in manifesting my truths, which are not shadows of mine that come out of Me, but the substance of the goods that I contain within Me; and which speak of Me, not in a mute language like all created things do, but with clear, sonorous and eloquent voice; and which, since my word is creative, like a new creation create in the soul the truths that I manifest?  If with one Fiat I created many things, in manifesting my truths it is not just one Fiat that I pronounce, but as many words for as many as are needed in order to manifest and to have souls comprehend that which I want them to understand.  Imagine, then, what my contentment is in manifesting my truths to the soul who, not in a mute language, but with speaking voice, will manifest my goods, my truths, to others, in order to infuse in others the good she has received.  Therefore, in manifesting my truths, my love finds its outpouring and becomes festive, and I greatly love one who is willing to listen to Me.”

Vol. 15, July 1, 1923

my second confessor came, who is also deceased, and he told me:  “Tell me what Jesus said to you - I want to hear it, so that the light of the divine truths may unite to the many lights of the truths which the Lord spoke to you, and with which, in hearing them from you when I was alive, I remained as though impregnated.  Now the Lord has sent me to confirm for me the recompense of the merit I acquired by wanting to hear those truths.  If you knew what it means to hear the divine truths, what charm of light they contain, such that the sun would remain eclipsed, and the good they bring to the one who speaks them and to the one who listens to them, you would compete – you, in speaking them, and the one who feels the duty to do so, in listening to them.  Therefore, hurry, tell me - what did He say to you?”  And I, remembering that Jesus had told me what charity means, told him that.  My words turned into light and invested him; then, all content, he disappeared from me.

Now I will say what Jesus had told me about charity:  “My daughter, true charity, with its power, can convert all things into love. Look at fire:  all varieties of wood and any other thing - it converts them all into fire; and if it did not have the power to convert everything into fire, it could not be given the name of true fire.  The same for the soul: if she does not convert all things into love – both supernatural and natural things, joys and bitternesses, and everything that surrounds her – she cannot be said to possess true charity.”
Vol. 15, June 15, 1923

“My daughter, everything I do in the soul – oh, how it surpasses all that I did in Creation!   See, each knowledge of my perfections which I manifest, each truth which pertains to the Divinity, is a new heaven that I extend within the soul.   And as the soul rises in the truths she has known in order to resemble her Creator, it is new suns that I come to form within the space of these heavens.   Each grace I pour and each time I renew her union with Me, are seas that are laid in the soul; and her love and correspondence form the sweet murmuring of these seas, as well as mighty waves which rise up to Heaven and come to unload themselves at the foot of the divine throne.  As the soul practices her virtues, since the body too contributes to the exercise of them, the body can be called the little field of the soul, over which I lay the most beautiful flowery meadows, in which I delight in creating ever new flowers, plants and fruits.

Vol. 19, April 4, 1926

Each truth revealed to the creature and accepted by them is a new happiness, a new beatitude, which causes all of Heaven to rejoice, but the truths which contain the most glory are about the Divine Will.  For a soul to receive these truths they must first want to live of the Divine Will, then want to know It, and thirdly truly appreciate It, valuing It above all things.

Each truth contains within itself a distinct beatitude, happiness, joy and beauty.  What it means to have known on earth one more truth about the Divine Will when the soul is in Heaven.

“My daughter, the more truths I manifest to you, the more specialties of beatitudes I give to you as gift.  Each truth contains within itself a distinct beatitude, happiness, joy and beauty; so, every additional truth you know brings beatitude, happiness, joy and beauty into yourself, with which you are enriched.  These are divine seeds that the soul receives, and by manifesting them to others, she communicates these seeds and enriches whomever receives them.  Now, since the truths that one has known on earth are divine seeds which sprout with beatitudes, joy, etc., when the soul is in her Fatherland in Heaven they will be like electric wires of communication through which the Divinity will release from Its womb so many acts of beatitude for as many truths as she has known.  Oh! how inundated the soul will be, as though by many different immense seas.  She already has the seed, and by having the seed, she has the space in which to receive these immense seas of happiness, of joy and of beauty.  One who does not have the seed - who has not known a truth while on earth - lacks the space to be able to receive these beatitudes. 

“It happens as to a little one who did not want to study all the languages.  As he grows up, and hears these languages being spoken, which he did not want to study, or which he was not given the opportunity of studying - he will understand nothing.  In fact, by not wanting to study, his intelligence remained closed, and he made no effort to prepare a little space in order to comprehend those languages.  At the most, he will be amazed, and will enjoy from someone else’s happiness, but he will not possess it, nor will he be the cause of happiness for others.  See then, what it means to know one truth more, or one truth less - if all knew what great goods they miss, they would compete in order to acquire truths.

“Now, the truths are the secretaries of my beatitudes, and if I do not manifest them to souls, they do not break the secret which they contain.  They swim within my Divinity, waiting for their turn to act as divine agents, and make Me known - how many more beatitudes I contain.  And the longer they have remained hidden in my womb, the more uproariously and majestically they come out to inundate the creatures and manifest my glory. 

“Do you believe that all of Heaven is aware of all my goods?  No, no!  Oh! how much remains for It to enjoy, which It does not enjoy today.  Each creature who enters into Heaven, having known one more truth, which was unknown to the others, will carry within herself the seed so as to have new contentments, new joys and new beauty released from Me.  And these souls will be their cause and fount, while the others will take part in them.  The last day will not come if I do not find souls who are disposed, so that I may reveal all my truths - so that the Celestial Jerusalem may resound with my complete glory, and all the Blessed may share in all of my beatitudes, some as direct cause for having known that truth, and some as indirect cause, through the one who has known it.

“Now, my daughter, in order to console you, and so that you may be more attentive in listening to my truths, I want to tell you which ones are the truths that glorify Me the most:  they are those which regard my Will, since the primary reason for which I created man was that his will be one with his Creator.  But man, having withdrawn from my Will, rendered himself unworthy to know the values, the effects and all the truths It contains.  This is the reason for all my attentions with you:  that between Me and you, our wills would run together, and be always in highest accord.  In fact, so that the soul may open the doors and become disposed to knowing the truths that my Will contains, the first thing is wanting to live of my Will, the second is wanting to know It, the third is to appreciate It.  Therefore, with you I opened the doors of my Will, that you might know Its secrets, which man had buried inside my womb, as well as Its effects and the value It contains; and as many truths as you come to know about my Will, so many seeds you receive, and so many divine secretaries form your cortege.  Oh! how they make feast around you, having found one to whom to confide their secret.  But they will make the most beautiful feast when they will bring you to Heaven - when the Divinity, at your very entrance, will release so many different beatitudes of joy, of happiness and of beauty, all different among themselves, which will not only inundate you, but all the Blessed will take part in them.  Oh! how Heaven awaits your coming, to enjoy these new contentments.”

Vol. 13, January 25, 1922

... the confessor told me (Luisa's late confessor):  “You must know that when Jesus speaks to you and manifests His truths to you, it is rays of light that drop upon you.  Back then, when you manifested them to me, not having His virtue, you manifested them drop by drop, and yet my soul remained all filled with those drops of light.  That light gave me greater spur, more desire to hear more truths, to be able to receive more light, because the truths bring celestial fragrance and divine sensation - and this, by just hearing them.  What will it be for those who practice them?  This is why I loved - I desired so much to hear what Jesus told you, and I wanted to tell others:  it was light and fragrance that I felt, and I wanted others to share in them.  If you knew the great good that my soul has received in hearing the truths which Jesus was saying to you!  How it still drips with light, and emanates celestial fragrance, which not only gives me refreshment, but serves as light to me and to those who are near me.  And as you do your acts in the Divine Volition, I take special part in them, because I feel the seed of His Most Holy Will which you were sowing in me.”  And I:  ‘Let me see your soul - how does it drip with light?’  He opened himself on the side of the heart, and I saw his soul all dripping with light.  Those drops were merging and separating, one flowing over the other - it was beautiful to look at.  And he:  “Have you seen?  How beautiful it is to hear the truths!  Those who do not hear them drip with such darkness as to strike terror.”

Vol. 14, March 13, 1922

Truth can be known only when it is loved.  Without love the creature would not strive to know the truth nor put it into practice.  It is in this work of "chewing on the truths" that the creature takes possession of the good within the truth.  Then the soul must put these truths into action in order that they will have their effect.  Without this effort the creature will never fully understand and value it but will instead pass ignorant judgements on it.  This is so true that it is easier for the simple to acquire these truths than the learned because the learned are often blinded by pride.  If one is not disposed to receive the truth they receive nothing and do not understand anything in these readings.  More so they will only remain more confused being dazzled by the light of God's Truths.

"...know that a truth in order to know it it is necessary to love it.  Love makes the appetite arise, the appetite forms the taste, the taste makes arise the hunger to eat of it to satiate, and chewing very well the substance of a food, or rather my truths.  The chewing produces the easy digestion in a way that one feels the possession of the great good that my truth possesses and produces.  Then the doubts quit, difficulties melt as snow before the rays of a scorching sun.  Now if hardly they have grazed them without eating them, with a profound study, with a love that generates the appetite what wonder!  What makes doubts and difficulty?  Oh, how they would have done better to say:  ‘it is not food for us, we don’t have (the) will to eat it’, rather than to give judgments.  But one knows, that my truths find post more in the simple hearts than in the learned hearts.  This happened in my Redemption, with my sorrow not one learned one followed Me; but all the poor, ignorant and simple ones.  You should know that my truths are seeds that I the Celestial Farmer continue to sow in souls, and if I make my seeding(,) with certainty I must gather the fruit."  

Vol. 31, Feb. 24, 1933

 

 

 

Our Lord made Himself seen once again with the crown of thorns on His head, all dripping with blood; and turning to me, He said:  “Daughter, take a look at what men do to Me.  In these sad times their pride is so great that they have poisoned all the air; and the stench that spreads everywhere is such that it has reached even before my throne in Heaven.  They act in such a way as to close Heaven by themselves.  The miserable ones do not have eyes to know the truth, because they are obfuscated by the sin of pride, followed by the other vices which they bring with themselves.  O please! give Me a relief from so many bitter spasms, and a reparation for so many wrongdoings against Me.” 

Vol. 1, The victim begins to perform her office, taking part in the pains of Jesus crowned with thorns, to make reparation for sins, especially pride.  Fasting begins for Luisa.

“My daughter, in order to know the truths, it is necessary to have the will, the desire, to know them.  Imagine a room in which the shutters are closed:  no matter how much sun there may be outside, the room remains always in the dark.  Now, opening the shutters means wanting light.  But this is not enough if one does not take advantage of the light to reorder the room, dust it, and put himself to work, so as not to kill the light which is given, and become ungrateful.  In the same way, it is not enough to have the will to know the truths if, at the light of the truth which illuminates him, one does not try to dust himself of his own weaknesses, reorder himself according to the light of the truth he knows, and put himself to work together with the light of truth, making of it his own substance, in such a way that the light of the truth which he has absorbed may shine forth from his mouth, from his hands, from his bearing.  It would be as if he killed the truth; and by not putting it into practice, it would be like remaining in total disorder before the light.  Poor room full of light, but all messy, upside down, in total disorder, with a person in it who does not take the care of reordering it - how pitiful would it not be?  Such is one who knows the truths, and does not put them into practice. 

“However, know that simplicity enters into all truths as the first nourishment.  If the truths were not simple, they would not be light, and they could not penetrate into human minds to enlighten them; and where there is no light, objects cannot be distinguished.  Simplicity is not only light, but it is like the air that one breathes which, though it cannot be seen, gives respiration to all; and if it wasn’t for the air, the earth and everyone would remain without motion.  Therefore, if the virtues, the truths, do not carry the mark of simplicity, they will be without light and without air.”
Vol. 13, November 19, 1921

“My operating is communicative and always in act, without ever stopping.  However, many times these channels are covered with mud by creatures; others throw stones into them, and the water does not flow freely, but with difficulty.  It is not that the sea does not want to give water, or that the water cannot penetrate everywhere because it is not clear; rather, it is the creatures that oppose such a great good.  Therefore, if they read these truths not being disposed, they will not understand a thing.  They will remain confused and dazzled by the Light of my Truths.  For those who are disposed, it will be Light which will light them up, and water which will quench their thirst, in such a way that they will never want to detach themselves from these channels because of the great good they feel, and the new life which flows in them.  Therefore, you too should be happy to open these channels for the good of your brothers, neglecting nothing about my truths - not even the tiniest thing, because as tiny as it may be, it can serve one of your brothers in order to draw water.  So, be attentive in opening these channels, and in contenting your Jesus, who has done so much for you.”
Vol. 13, October 23, 1921

When the truth enters souls it illuminates and vivifies them, making them fecund with virtues, however voluntary defects can block the truth from entering, but when it is involuntary defects the truth can pierce these shadows, melting them away.

“The truth is light, which the Word brought upon earth.  Just as the sun illuminates, vivifies and fecundates the earth, so does the light of truth give life and light, and it renders souls fecund with virtues.  Even though many clouds obfuscate this light of truth, which are the iniquities of men, in spite of this, it does not cease to send forth glimmers of vivifying light from behind the clouds, so as to warm souls.  And if these clouds are clouds of imperfection and of involuntary defects, this light, piercing them with its heat, makes them vanish and it penetrates freely into the soul.”  

I understood that the soul must be attentive not to fall even into a shade of voluntary defects, which are those dangerous clouds that prevent the entrance of divine light.
Vol. 3, February 12, 1900 

The soul must ruminate within her mind on the truths she has learned.

I was thinking: ‘How bad I have become – yet, the Lord does not correct me; He does not scold me.’  While I was thinking of this, I felt Him move in my interior, telling me:  “My daughter, keep walking, keep walking… If I am goodness, mercy, sweetness, I am also justice, strength, power.  If I saw you go backward or commit voluntary defects after the so many graces I have given you, you would deserve to be struck by lightning, and indeed I would strike you.  If I do not do it, you yourself can understand why; and if I do not always speak to you - ruminate constantly in your mind on all the truths I have taught you, then enter into your interior, unite yourself with Me, and I will always be with you, operating interiorly.”

Vol. 8, July 4, 1907

However inconstancy and volubility are signs that the truth has not taken full possession of the soul.  When the light of truth takes possession of a soul she is constant and willing to sacrifice everything for the love of it, despising everything that doesn't belong to the truth.

My daughter, the thing that displeases Me the most is inconstancy and volubility, because this is the sign that the truth has not taken possession of these souls. Even in things of religion, it may be that they find their satisfaction, their own convenience and interest, or that they just find themselves in that party; but tomorrow these things may be missing, or they may find themselves involved in other parties - and here is how they deviate from religion, and with no regret they give themselves to other sects. Indeed, when the true light of Truth enters a soul and takes possession of a heart, she is not subject to inconstancy. On the contrary, she sacrifices everything for love of It and to let herself be mastered by It alone; and with unconquered heart she despises everything else which does not belong to the Truth.”

Vol. 4, March 31, 1901

To enjoy the benefits of the sun one must keeps ones eyes open, so it is with the light of truth.  In order to reach the fullness of this, one must act to please Jesus alone.  Everyone else remains in darkness.  So, because of pride not everyone will recognize truth and likewise they won't accept the work that God has done in Luisa.   The same as with Jesus' own life on earth.  This is especially true with the priests and the spiritual authorities just as in Jesus' days.  The higher up one is the greater the temptation to pride, but crosses act as a press to the soul forcing pride, self love and the passions out of the soul.  This leaves a snow white canvas for the virtues to apply themselves.  The same for when Jesus is about to reveal a truth on His Will.  First the crosses pave the way to remove that which is human in order to make way for the Divine and the greater the truth to greater the cross.  Wanting everything to go smoothly, easily, and to be accepted by all is to deviate from the imitation of Jesus' own Life.

“The sun is there for the benefit of all, but not everyone enjoys its beneficial effects.  In the same way, the Divine Sun gives Its light to all, but who enjoys Its beneficial effects?  One who keeps his eyes open to the light of truth.  All others, even if they are exposed to the Sun, remain in the dark.  However, it is one who is all intent on pleasing Me that truly enjoys and receives all the fullness of this Sun.”
Vol. 5, June 16, 1903

And Jesus: “My daughter, crosses, sorrows, pains, are like a press for the soul.   Just as the wine-press serves to crush and peel the grapes, in such a way that the wine remains on one side and the skin on the other; in the same way, crosses and pains, like a press, peel the soul of pride, of love of self, of passions, and of all that is human, leaving the pure wine of virtues.  And so my virtues find the way to communicate themselves and lay themselves within the soul as on a snow-white canvas, with indelible characters.  How can you fear, then, if every time I have manifested to you my truths on my Will, these truths have always been preceded by crosses, sorrows and pains – and the higher the truths, the more intense and the stronger the pains?  It was nothing other than the pressure of the press which I exercised in you, in order to peel you of all that is human.  It was my interest, more than yours, that these truths would not be mixed with the skin of human passions.”

Vol. 16,  December 26, 1923

“My daughter, my Will wants to give Itself to you more and more; and in order to give Itself more, It wants to make Itself understood more.  And in order to render what It manifests to you more stable, safer, more estimable, It gives you new pains so as to dispose you more, and to prepare in you the empty space in which to place Its truths.  It wants the noble cortege of pain in order to be sure about the soul, and to be able to trust her.  It is always pain and crosses that open the doors to new manifestations, to more secret lessons, to the greatest gifts which I want to place in you.  In fact, if the soul bears my suffering and sorrowful Will, she will become capable of receiving my delighting Will, and will acquire the hearing in order to understand the new lessons of my Will.  Pain will make her acquire the celestial language, in such a way that she will be able to repeat the new lessons she has learned.”

Vol. 17, June 25, 1925

Jesus appeared a little disappointed with him, because it seemed that the confessor wanted everyone to approve that my situation was a work from God, and almost wanted to convince other priests by showing them something of my interior.

Jesus turned to the confessor and said to him:  “This is impossible. Even I received oppositions, and from people among the most distinguished, and also from priests and other authorities.  They found fault with my holy works, to the point of saying that I was possessed by the devil.  But I allow these oppositions, even from religious people, so that the truth may shine more in its own time.  If you want to consult with two or three priests among the most good and holy, and also learned, in order to receive enlightenment and also to do what I want in the things to be done, which is advice from the good and prayer - this, I allow.  But the rest - no, no.  It would be as though wanting to waste my works, making fun of them - which displeases Me very much.”

Then He said to me:  “All I want from you is an upright and simple operating.  Do not bother about the pros and the cons of creatures; let them think what they want, without being the least troubled, since wanting that all be favorable is wanting to deviate from the imitation of my own Life.”

Vol. 2, May 31, 1899

The sun, symbol of God's grace and truth, is freely given to all but many walk deliberately with their eyes closed and voluntarily live in the dark amidst enemies and danger.  Some would even reach such ingratitude as to pluck out their own eyes.  But still God's grace continues to follow them always trying to send them glimmers of light, of truth.

 “Take a look at how ungrateful men are to Me.  The light of the sun fills the whole earth, from one end to another, in such a way that there is no land which does not enjoy the benefit of its light, and there is no one who can complain about being without its beneficial influence.  In fact, investing the whole universe, the sun takes it as though in hand to be able to give light to all.  Only one who, escaping from its hand, goes to hide in dark places can complain of not enjoying its light; and yet, continuing its charitable office, the sun does not cease to send him a few glimmers of light through its fingers.  So is my Grace, an image of the sun, which inundates the people everywhere:  poor and rich, ignorant and learned, Christians and unbelievers - no one, no one can say he is without it, because the light of truth and the influence of my Grace fill the earth, more than the sun in its full midday. 

But what pain is mine in seeing people who, passing through this light with their eyes closed and confronting my Grace with the pestilent torrent of their iniquities, deviate from this light and live voluntarily in dark places, in the midst of cruel enemies?  They are exposed to a thousand dangers, because, not having light, they cannot know clearly whether they are in the midst of friends or enemies, and therefore shun the dangers that surround them. 

Ah, if the sun had reason and men were able to give this affront to its light, and some of them, to irritate its light and not to see it, reached such ingratitude as to pluck their eyes out so as to be more sure of living in darkness – ah!, instead of sending light, the sun would send laments and cries of sorrow, such as to turn all nature upside down!   Yet, that which one would have horror in doing to natural light, men reach such excess as to do to my Grace, treating it in this way.  But my Grace, always benign with them, in the midst of darkness itself and of the madness of their blindness, always sends glimmers of light, because my Grace never leaves anyone.   It is man who voluntarily goes out of it, and Grace, not having him within itself, tries to follow him with glimmers of its light.”

Vol. 3, March 9, 1900

This is why it is so necessary to keep one's mind open to the light of the truth otherwise one will not understand anything.  But Jesus will continue little by little to reveal this way of living in the Divine Will.

This is also why I often speak to you about the living in my Will, which I have not manifested to anyone until now.  At the most, they have known the shadow of my Will, the grace, the sweetness that doing It contains; but to penetrate inside of It, to embrace immensity, to multiply oneself with Me and penetrate everywhere, even while being on earth, both into Heaven and into the hearts, to lay down the human ways and act with the divine ways - this is not yet known; so much so, that not to a few will it appear strange, and those who do not keep their minds open to the light of truth will not understand a thing.  But I, little by little, will make my way, manifesting now one truth, now another, of this living in my Will, so that they will end up comprehending It. 

Vol. 12, January 29, 1919

God is eternal Truth, unable to deceive and unable to be deceived.  When the soul clearly sees her nothingness  arriving to a point of no self-interest and her complete dependence on God, this creates the void where God communicates His Grace of truth so that the creature can see the truth in everything becoming, through Grace, what God is by nature.  But the soul must love and "chew" on these truths in order to make a permanent home for them within herself.  Jesus wanted to be circumcised in order to demonstrate this necessity of humility because the soul must humble herself in order to understand the truth.   In doing so she comes to understand her nothingness and then wants to strive along the path of virtues.

This morning blessed Jesus made Himself seen for just a little, and told me:  “My daughter, the greatest honor that the creature can give to God is to depend on His Divine Will in everything; and the Creator, in seeing that the creature fulfills her duty of creature toward the Creator, communicates His Grace to her.”  And while He was saying this, a light came out of blessed Jesus, which made me comprehend the way in which He communicates Grace. 

I understood it in this way.  For example, the soul feels within herself the annihilation of herself; she sees her nothingness, her misery, her inability to do a shadow of good.  Now, while she feels this way, God communicates His Grace, and the Grace of truth, in such a way that the soul can see the truth in everything without deceit, without darkness.  And here is how, what God is by nature – eternal Truth which cannot deceive nor be deceived – the soul becomes by Grace.  That is to say, the soul feels detachment from the things of the earth, she sees their fleetingness, their instability, how everything is false, everything is rot, which deserves to be abhorred rather than loved.  While the soul feels this state, God communicates His Grace, and the Grace of true love and of eternal love; He communicates His beauty, in such a way as to make the loving soul go mad, and the soul remains filled with the love and the beauty of God.  And here is how, what God is by nature – love and eternal beauty – the soul becomes by Grace; and so with all the other divine virtues, such that if I wanted to say everything, I would be too long.  I only add that Grace anticipates the soul, It excites her, but only when the soul masticates those truths, and swallows them like food into her bosom, then It communicates Itself and enters to take possession of her.  This is why not everyone receives the effects described above – because they let them escape from their minds like lightnings, and do not make a place for them.
Vol. 6, February 28, 1906

“My daughter, why do you want to move away from my likeness?  I never thought about Myself; the Sanctity of my Humanity was complete absence of self-interest.  I did nothing for Myself, but I did and suffered everything for creatures.  My love can be called true, because it is marked by disinterest for my own self.  Wherever there is interest, it cannot be said that there is a fount of truth.  On the other hand, the soul with no self-interest is the one who comes forward the most; and as she comes forward, the sea of my grace takes her from behind, inundating her, in such a way as to make her remain completely submerged, without her thinking about it.  On the contrary, one who thinks about herself is last; the sea of my grace is in front of her, and she is the one who has to cross the sea by arm strokes - if she manages at all.  In fact, the thought of herself will create many obstacles for her, such as to strike into her the fear of diving into my sea; and she runs the risk of remaining on the shore.”

Vol. 12, June 22, 1920

“The more the soul humiliates herself and knows herself, the closer she draws to the truth; and being in the truth, she tries to push herself along the path of virtues, from which she sees herself very far away.  And if she sees herself on the path of virtues, immediately she realizes how much there is left for her to do, because virtues have no end – they are infinite, as I am.  So, being in the truth, the soul always tries to perfect herself, but she will never arrive at seeing herself perfect.  And this serves her, and it will make her work continuously, striving to perfect herself more, without wasting time in idleness.  And I, pleased with this work, keep retouching her little by little, in order to portray my likeness in her. 

This is why I wanted to be circumcised – to give an example of highest humility, which rendered the very Angels of Heaven stunned.” 
Vol. 3, January 1, 1900

I saw little Baby Jesus with a fistful of light in His hand, and rays flowing out through His fingers.  I remained enchanted, and He told me:  “My daughter, perfection is light, and one who says he wants to reach it acts just like one who would want to clasp a body of light in his hand:  as he tries to clasp it, the light itself flows out through his fingers; except, his hand remains immersed in that light.  Now, the light is God, and God alone is perfect, and the soul who wants to be perfect does nothing but seize shadows - the little drops of God; and sometimes she does nothing but live in the light alone, that is, in the Truth.  And just as the light penetrates deeper and occupies more space the greater the void it finds, and the deeper the place is - in the same way, the more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates Its graces and perfections to her.”
Vol. 6, December 22, 1904

By continually returning to these truths it is as if they give off their fragrance, perfuming Heaven and Earth and this causes Jesus to want to make still more truths revealed.  The Divine Truths always have more to give than the creature can receive.

“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, and as soon as I see one truth developed, I will make it an honor for Myself to make another fount of truth arise.”
Vol. 13, January 11, 1922

 

The more one thinks about the truths, reads them, writes them, talks about them, and diffuses them, the more fragrance they give off.

Out of obedience, I was reviewing, in my writings, that which I had to mark so that it might be copied; and I thought to myself:  ‘What is the purpose of so many sacrifices?  What good will come from them?’  And while I was thinking and doing this, blessed Jesus took my hand in His, and squeezing it tightly told me:  “My daughter, just as the flower, when touched, gives off its fragrance with greater intensity - so much so that, if it is not touched, it seems that it does not contain so much fragrance, and the air does not receive the balm of that scent - the same for my truths:   the more one thinks about them, reads them, writes them, talks about them, and diffuses them, the more fragrance they give off, in such a way as to perfume everything and reach even into Heaven.   And I smell the fragrance of my truths, and I feel like manifesting more truths, in seeing that the truths I manifested spread the light and the fragrance which they contain.   On the other hand, if my truths are not touched, the fragrance and the light remain as though compressed and do not spread; the good and the utility which my truths contain remain without effect, and I feel defrauded of the purpose for which I manifested my truths.  Therefore, if only to let Me smell the fragrance of my words and make Me content, you should be happy to make the sacrifice.”

Vol. 14, August 26, 1922

The light of the Divine Will continues to envelop me; and my little intelligence, while swimming in the immense sea of this light, can just barely take a few drops of light and a few little flames of the so many truths, knowledges and happinesses that this endless sea of the Eternal Will contains.  And many times I cannot find the right words in order to put on paper that little bit of light; I say little compared to the much I leave out, because my little and poor intelligence takes as much as is enough to fill me – the rest I have to leave out.  It happens as to a person who dives into the sea:  he becomes all wet, water flows everywhere on him, and maybe even in his bowels; but as he goes out of the sea, how much of all the water of the sea does he carry with himself?  Very little – indeed almost nothing compared to the water that remains in the sea.  And by having been in the sea, can he perhaps say how much water, how many species of fish and quantities of them there are in the sea?  Certainly not; but he will be able to speak of the little he has seen of the sea.  Such is my poor soul.

Vol. 19, May 31, 1926

In order to determine between grace, nature, the devil, and truth and falsehood, the intellect must be illumined with belief (faith.)  Those who believe have faith, hope and love written in their hearts and they will see things clearly and find the truth.  This keeps the soul calm and at peace.  For those who do not have this they have nothing and everything is confusion as light fractured into a multitude of broken pieces.

Everything is written in the hearts of those who believe, hope and love.

This morning I was feeling all oppressed, and since Monsignor had come to visit me, saying that he was not sure that it was Jesus Christ who operated in me, when blessed Jesus came, He told me:  “My daughter, in order to comprehend a subject well it takes belief, because without belief everything is dark in the human intellect.  On the other hand, the mere believing turns on a light in the mind, and by means of this light one can recognize with clarity truth and falsehood, when it is grace that operates, when it is nature, and when the devil.  See, the Gospel is known to all, but who comprehends the meaning of my words, and the truths contained in It?  Who keeps them in his heart and makes of them a treasure with which to purchase the eternal kingdom?  One who believes.  As for all others, not only do they not understand a thing, but they use my words to mock them and to make fun of the holiest things.  So, it can be said that everything is written in the hearts of those who believe, hope and love, while nothing is written for everyone else.  The same with you:  one who has a little bit of belief sees things with clarity and finds the truth; one who does not, sees things as all confused.”

Vol. 4, January 9, 1903

 “My daughter, when a river is exposed to the rays of the sun, in looking into it one sees the same sun that is there in the heavens.  However, this happens when the river is calm, with no wind that ripples its waters.  But if the waters are rippled, even though the river is completely exposed to the sun, one can see nothing – everything is confusion.  The same for the soul:  when she is exposed to the rays of the Divine Sun, if she is calm she perceives the Divine Sun within herself, she feels Its heat, she sees the light and understands the truth.  But if she is disturbed, even though she has It within herself, she feels nothing but confusion and disturbance.  Therefore, hold peace as your greatest treasure if you cherish being united with Me.”
Vol. 6, April 12, 1904

The creature is a  finite being and can never truly understand the infinite.  There will always be some enigma, some mystery with God, but all of this only makes the truth shine more.  The truth is recognized as truth when one remains in peace and sees true virtue produced. 

Doubts of the confessor.  The answer of Jesus.

Since the confessor had raised some doubts, as blessed Jesus came, I saw the confessor with Him, and He was saying to him:  “My operating is always leaning on the truth, and even though many times it appears obscure, under enigmas, however, one cannot help saying that it is the truth.  And even though the creature does not understand my operating with clarity, this does not destroy the truth; on the contrary, it makes one comprehend much better that it is a Divine way of operating.  In fact, since the creature is finite, she cannot embrace and comprehend the infinite; at the most, she can comprehend and embrace a few glimmers.  As for example, the many things said by Me in Scripture, and my way of operating in the Saints – has this perhaps been understood with all clarity?  Oh, how many things are left obscured and amidst enigma!  And yet, how many minds of the erudite and learned have tired themselves in interpreting them?  And what have they yet understood?  One can say absolutely nothing, compared to what is left to be known.  But does this perhaps prejudice the truth?  Not at all – on the contrary, it makes it shine more.  Therefore, your eye must be kept on whether there is true virtue, and whether, in everything, it can be felt that the truth is present, though sometimes obscured; as for the rest, one must remain tranquil and in holy peace.”  Having said this, He disappeared, and I returned inside myself.

Vol. 4, July 27, 1901

A sure sign of it being Jesus' word, which is truth and light, is where it enters it produces sanctity and order such that the soul feels the virtues; patience, humility, charity and such come forth.  Even more so truth has the inherent ability to transform the soul into the truth itself, giving the very good that it contains.  Whereas if it is the devil who speaks it is empty of good, of life, of grace.

My word is not only truth, but also light, and when a light enters a dark room – what does it do?  It dispels the darkness, and makes one distinguish the objects that are in it, whether they are ugly or beautiful, whether there is order or disorder; and from the way that room is found, one judges the person that occupies it.   Now, the human life is the dark room, and when the light of truth enters a soul, it dispels the darkness – that is, it makes her distinguish what is true from what is false, the temporal from the eternal, in such a way that she casts vices away from herself and places the order of virtues within her.  In fact, since my light is holy - it is my very Divinity - it cannot communicate anything but sanctity and order, and so the soul feels light of patience, of humility, of charity and the like come out of herself.   If my word produces these signs in you, why fear?”

Vol. 2, August 18, 1899

The words of Jesus are full of truth and of light, and they carry with them the substance and the virtue of transforming the soul into truth itself, into light itself, and into the very good which they contain.

 I was thinking about what has been 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 transforming the soul into truth itself, into light itself, and into the very good which they contain, in such a way that the soul does not only know the truth, but she feels within her the substance of operating according to the truth which she has known.  Further, my truths are full of beauty and 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 have been 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 own ornament.  And if this is in the order of created things, much more so in my truths, which reside within my Divinity.  While it seems that they reach the soul, they are like solar rays, which hit and warm the earth without ever departing 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 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 to put them into practice.  Therefore, the truths that your Jesus tells you are full of life and of all that my truths contain.  Why do you doubt?”
Vol. 14, March 7, 1922

When God speaks the soul not only sees the truths of the words but feels a movement in her interior which only comes from the Divine.

...finding myself outside of myself, I saw the confessor and I told him what blessed Jesus had told me.  I asked him whether it was according to the truth, and he said to me:  “Yes.”  Not only this, but he added that the divine speaking could be recognized well, because when God speaks and the soul relates it, one who listens not only sees the truths of the words, but feels a movement in his interior, which only the Divine Spirit possesses.
Vol. 5, October 29, 1903

If the devil speaks about virtue he can only project repugnance and hatred for the virtue within the soul.  But when it is God who speaks His word is full of life and fecund with the virtue of which He speaks because truth is strength, light, and support for anyone who embraces it. 

Another time, I remember that since I feared that my state might be a work of the devil, good Jesus told me:  “My daughter, the devil can also speak about virtue, but while speaking about virtue, he casts repugnance and hatred for virtue itself into the interior of the soul.  So, the poor soul finds herself in contradiction, and without the strength to practice good.  On the other hand, when it is I who speak, since I am the truth, my word is full of life; it is not sterile, but fecund, therefore while I speak I infuse love for virtue, and I produce that very virtue in the soul.  In fact, the truth is strength, it is light, it is support and a second nature for the soul who lets herself be guided by the truth.”
Vol. 7, May 9, 1907

Ultimately the devil knows nothing about the Will of God since he rejected it, therefore he can not speak about It.  So seeing the creature doing the Will of God is the thing which he hates the most.  He cares little about whether the creature receives the Sacraments or prays, or preforms miracles but to see the creature do God's Will doubles Hell for him.  Therefore the devil can not speak about God's Will and his word is empty of grace and carries neither happiness nor peace.

“My daughter, why do you fear?  Don’t you know that the thing which the infernal serpent knows the least about Me is my Will?  In fact, he did not want to do It, and by not doing It, he did not know It, nor love It.  And even less did he penetrate the secrets of my inscrutable Volition in order to know the effects and the value of my Will; and if he does not know them, how can he speak of them?  Even more, the thing that he abhors the most is that the creature do my Will.  He does not care about whether the soul prays, goes to Confession, receives Communion, does penance or performs miracles; but the thing that harms him the most is that the soul do my Will.  In fact, as he rebelled against my Will, so was hell created in him – his unhappy state, the rage that consumes him.  So, my Will is hell for him, and every time he sees the soul who is submitted to my Will knowing Its qualities, value and sanctity, he feels his hell being doubled, because he sees the paradise, the happiness and the peace he lost, being created in the soul.  And the more my Will is known, the more tormented and furious he becomes.  So, how can he possibly speak to you about my Will, if It forms his hell?  And if he did speak to you, his words would form hell in you, because he knows my Will only to hate It, not to love It; and what is hated never brings happiness and peace.  And besides, his word is empty of grace, therefore he cannot confer the grace to do my Will.”

Vol. 16, September 9, 1923

why do you fear that it might be the enemy that puts you in this state?  When it is the enemy that makes one suffer, he casts desperation, impatience, disturbances; on the other hand, when it is I, I infuse love, patience and peace, light and truth.  Do you perhaps feel impatient, desperate, that you fear it might be the enemy?”  And I:  ‘No, my Jesus; on the contrary, I feel as though plunged into an immense and deep sea – your Will; and my only fear is that I might go out of the abyss of this sea.  But while I fear, I feel its waves rising more powerfully over me, plunging me even deeper.’  And Jesus:  “And this is why the enemy cannot get close – because the waves of the sea of my Will, while plunging you into the abyss of It, maintain the guard and keep even the shadow of the enemy far away.  In fact, he knows nothing of what the soul does and suffers in my Will, nor does he have the means, the ways or the doors to be able to enter into It; on the contrary, It is the thing which he abhors the most.  And if sometimes my wisdom manifests something of what the soul does in my Will, the enemy feels such rage as to feel his infernal pains being multiplied, because my Will, loved and fulfilled in the soul, forms paradise, while not loved and not fulfilled, it forms hell.  Therefore, if you want to be safe from any diabolical snare, take to heart my Will and living continuously in It.”

Vol. 16, April 23, 1924

I heard a horrible din from afar, from some who were beating each other and roaring with such clamor as to strike fear.  And I, turning to my Jesus, said to Him:  ‘My Jesus, my Love, who is making such a din?  They seemed to me like enraged demons.  What do they want that they rage so much?’  And Jesus:  “My daughter, it really is them.  They would want you not to write about my Will; and when they see you write more important truths on the living in my Will, they suffer a double hell and they torment all the damned even more.  They fear so much that these writings on my Will might come out, because they see themselves losing their kingdom upon earth, which they acquired when man, withdrawing from the Divine Will, gave free step to his human will.  Ah! yes, it was precisely then that the enemy acquired his kingdom on earth; and if my Will could reign upon earth, my enemy, on his own, would shut himself up into the deepest abysses.  This is why they rage with such fury:  they feel the power of my Will in these writings, and at the mere thought that they might come out, they fly into a rage and try anything they can in order to impede a good so great.  You, however, do not pay attention to them, and learn from this to appreciate my teachings.”

Vol. 17, September 22, 1924

At most evil can only put on a temporary façade of false peace.  Unless things come from a foundation of truth they can not last long.  When there is no truth there is no love and without love there is no life to sustain it.  As it was in Jesus day so will it be again.

“My daughter, the more it seems that the world is apparently in peace, and they sing the praises of peace, the more they hide wars, revolutions and tragic scenes for poor humanity, under that ephemeral and masked peace.  And the more it seems that they favor my Church, and sing hymns of victories and triumphs, and practices of union between State and Church, the closer the brawl is which they are preparing against Her.  The same was for Me.  Up until they acclaimed Me as King and received Me in triumph, I was able to live in the midst of the peoples; but after my triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, they no longer let Me live; and after a few days they shouted at Me: ‘Crucify Him!’; and all taking arms against Me, they made Me die.  When things do not start from a foundation of truth, they have no strength to reign for a long time, because, since truth is missing, love is missing, and the life that sustains it is missing.  Therefore, what they were hiding easily comes out, and they turn peace into war, and favors into revenges.  Oh! how many unexpected things they are preparing.”

Vol. 18, January 24, 1926

When creatures apply themselves to these writings on the Divine Will however they will be transformed, spiritualized and divinized and then the Church will be renewed, which will transform the face of the earth.  At most the creature may not fully understand them as it will eclipse the human intellect but they will still find every word to be truth.

I see that these writings will be for my Church like a new sun which will rise in Her midst; and drawn by its blazing light, creatures will apply themselves in order to be transformed into this light and become spiritualized and divinized, in such a way that, as the Church will be renewed, they will transform the face of the earth.  The doctrine on my Will is the purest, the most beautiful, not subject to any shadow of the material or of interest, both in the supernatural and in the natural order.  Therefore, like sun, it will be the most penetrating, the most fecund, and the most welcomed and appreciated.  And being light, of its own it will make itself understood and will make its way.  It will not be subject to doubts or suspicions of error; and if some word is not understood, it will be because of too much light which, eclipsing the human intellect, will not allow them to comprehend the whole fullness of the truth.  However, they will find not a word which is not truth.  At the most, they will not be able to comprehend it fully.  Therefore, in view of the good which I see, I push you to neglect nothing in writing.  One saying, one effect, one simile about my Will can be like beneficial dew upon souls, just as dew is beneficial on the plants after a day of burning sun, or like a pouring rain after long months of drought.  You cannot understand all the good, the light, the strength contained in each word; but your Jesus knows it, and knows the ones whom it must serve and the good it must do.”

Vol. 16, February 10, 1924

Every truth about the Divine Fiat is more prodigious than a physical miracle.  The words, alone, on the sanctity and power of the Fiat will resurrect the soul to their origin in God, heal them of the spiritual leprosy of sin, give them eyes to see the Kingdom of the Divine Will and a tongue to speak of it's mysteries.  More so in giving a Divine Will to each creature which contains within Itself all goods together. 

 

Each truth about my Eternal Fiat contains more power and prodigious virtue than if a dead man were resurrected, a leper were healed, a blind one could see, or a mute could speak.  In fact, my words on the sanctity and power of my Fiat will resurrect the souls to their origin; they will heal them from the leprosy produced by the human will.  They will give them the sight to be able to see the goods of the Kingdom of my Will, because until now they have been like blind.  They will give speech to many mute who, while they were able to say many other things, only for my Will were like many mute without speech; and then, the great miracle of being able to give to each creature a Divine Will which contains all goods.  What will It not give them when It will be in possession of the children of Its Kingdom?  This is why I keep you all occupied with the work of this Kingdom of Mine - and there is much to do in order to prepare the great miracle that the Kingdom of the Fiat be known and possessed.  Therefore, be attentive in crossing the endless sea of my Will, so that the order between Creator and creature may be established; in this way, through you, I will be able to make the great miracle that man return to Me – into the origin from which he came.”
Vol. 20, October 22, 1926

So there remains the work of spreading these truths, the truths of the Kingdom of the Divine Will in order to renew the face of the earth.  When someone only works only for human purposes it is exhausting and yields little reward, but when one works in the Divine Will they operate in the realm of truths that carry no physical weight but are of incalculable value, but the responsibility that comes with this is immense as each truth carries the weight of God and the loss of one truth effects all of mankind.

 

I saw two people before me.   One of them went on picking up rocks, old rags, rusty iron, pieces of clay - all things which are heavy and of very little value.   Poor one, he struggled and sweated under the weight of that rubbish; more so, since it did not give him the value necessary to satisfy his hunger.  The other one went on picking up grains of diamond, little gems and precious stones – all things which are very light but of incalculable value.  My sweet Jesus added:

“The one who keeps picking up rubbish is the image of one who operates for human purposes.  That which is human always carries the weight of matter.  The other is the image of one who operates in order to do the Divine Will.  What a difference between the two!  The grains of diamond are my truths – the knowledges regarding my Will which, picked up by the soul, form as many diamonds for her.  Now, if one loses some of that rubbish or does not pick it up, he will cause almost no harm; but if one loses or does not pick up one of these tiny grains of diamond, he will cause great harm, because they are of incalculable value and they weigh as much as a God can weigh.  And if it is lost because of someone who has the office of picking them up, what account will he not have to give, having caused the loss of a grain of infinite value, which could have done who knows how much good to the other creatures?”

Vol. 19, May 13, 1926