In one of today's readings it reminded me of the repeated pattern of God in all his works. There is a Hierarchy, a pattern, which can be found in all things physical and spiritual and even repeated down on smaller and smaller levels or larger as well. As I understand it, like a fractal, or maybe that's just another example as well.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; 24 whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, 25 that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
“My blessed daughter, every created thing has a
distinct office that it occupies, and although the will of all
is one, not all however do the same thing, it would not be order, nor virtue of
Divine Wisdom, that one created thing might
repeat that which the other does, but since one is the Will that dominates
them, the glory that one receives, I give the other, because all the substance
that they possess and the good and the value with which they are invested, is
that they can say: I am one continuous
act of Will of my Creator, glory, honor, virtue more great he could
not give me, than to be one single act of Divine Will, so much so that the
little blade of grass, with its littleness, the little space that it occupies of the earth, it seems that
it does nothing, no one looks at it, and yet, because thus my Will wanted it,
nor does it seek to do more than that which a blade of grass can do, in order
to do my Will equals the glory that the sun gives Me, that rules with so much majesty over
the earth, that one can call it continuous miracle of all the Creation. And since all created things are united
between themselves, the sun with all its majesty, with its light kisses and warms, the little blade of grass, the wind caress it, the water waters it, the earth gives the little spot where to
form its little life, and yet what thing does a blade of grass do? One can say nothing, but since it possess my
Will, it will hold its virtue of doing good to the human generations, because having created
everything for love, and in order to do good to creatures, all hold a secret virtue to give the good that they possess.
“You see therefore that everything is in doing my
Will, to never go out from his Divine and interminable enclosures; already with
doing my Will, although it seems that one does nothing, it is not true, already
one finds oneself together with the Divine work and one can say: that which God does, I do. And to you it seems little? God does everything and the soul takes part
in everything. So that it is not the
diversity of the actions or of the offices that the creature can say that she
does great things, but my Will that confirms, annuls them, puts them in the Divine order and puts
there his image, as seal of his works.
“In regards to the diversity
of offices and of action instead it is order, harmony of my infinite Wisdom, also in Heaven there is diversity of choirs of Angels, diversity of Saints, one is martyr, one is virgin, one is confessor. Upon the earth my providence maintains so
many diverse offices, one is king, one is judge, one priest, one is people, one commands, one is under, if everyone might do one single office, what would be of the earth? A
complete disorder. Oh! If
everyone might understand that only my Divine Will knows how to do great
things, and although they might be little and insignificant, oh, how content
everyone would be, and each one would love the little spot, the office in which
God has put her, but since they let themselves be controlled by the human
volition, they would like to give of themselves, to make great actions, that
they can not do, therefore they are always discontent with the conditions or posts in
which the Divine Providence has put them for their
good. Therefore content yourself to do
the little united with my Will, and not the great without Him, more so than
being immense you will find yourself in all his acts, and you will find
yourself in his love, in his power, in his works, in a way that you can not do
anything without Him, and He can not do anything without you. Behold therefore that with living in my
Volition such prodigies race together that it gives of the incredible,
the nothing of the creature in the power of the all, the nothing in prey of a Will that can do
everything. What thing wouldn’t this
nothing do? She will do works worthy of
a Supreme Fiat. Hence the most beautiful
act, most solemn, most pleasant for Us is the nothing of the creature, giving
us freely in order to let us do that which we want.”
Vol. 33, Oct. 4, 1935
His lessons are all right before us, broadly displayed in the universe. The harmony of the spheres that composers glimpsed, the uniqueness or certain souls, the difference between the creature acting in the Divine Will verses the creature acting under grace are all visible in his Creation.
His lessons are all right before us, broadly displayed in the universe. The harmony of the spheres that composers glimpsed, the uniqueness or certain souls, the difference between the creature acting in the Divine Will verses the creature acting under grace are all visible in his Creation.
“My daughter, all the
Creation symbolizes God, the order of the diversity of the Saints and of souls. His harmony, the union that all the Creation possesses, the order,
the inseparability, it symbolizes the
Celestial Hierarchy with its Creator at (the) Head. Look (at) the Sky that extends
itself everywhere and holds under its azure vault all created things, reigning
over everyone, in a way that no one can escape from its sight and from its
empire; oh, how it symbolizes God, who extends his dominion everywhere and no one can escape
from his sight! This Sky while it
contains all, one sees however a great diversity in created things, some are as
immediate to the Sky, and they are the stars, that although from the base they appear little, beyond they are so
very great and with such variety of colors and beauty, and they have a
symphony in their dizzying course with
all the Creation, as to form one of the most beautiful musics, their motion sounds so sweet and vibrating as to not be
able to compare to any of the most beautiful musics of down here. These Stars it seems that they live of the
Sky, they are so identified with It, symbol of the souls that will live of
the Divine Will: they will be so very
immediate and identified with God, as to receive all the varieties of the
Divine qualities and to live of them in a way as to form the most beautiful
ornament to Heaven of their Creator. My daughter look still: under this Sky, but as detached from it,
between the Sky and the earth one sees the Sun, star put forth to the benefit
of the earth; its light descends into the base and elevates itself on high as
if it might want to embrace Heaven and earth, hence one can
say that its light touching the Sky it lives of Sky, symbol of those souls
chosen by God in order to make graces descend from Heaven, and to make
them descend upon the earth in order to recall them to live in the Divine Will,
and the first one is my Celestial Mama, unique as the Sun, who stretches forth her wings of light, and this light raises
itself on high, descends into the baseness, in order to reunite God and man, in
order to reconcile him and to conduct him through means of her light to her
Creator: the stars it seems that they
live by themselves, united with the Divine Sky, instead the Sun lives of God
but gives itself to everyone, and its mission is to do good to everyone; such
is the Sovereign Queen, but this Sun won’t be
alone, so many other little suns will arise that will draw light from this
great Sun, and they will be those few ones that will have for mission to make
my Divine Will known. Whence the
baseness of the earth, the sea, the plants, the flowers, the trees, the mountains, the forests in bloom, they symbolize the Saints, the good
souls and all those that enter in the door of salvation. But see the great
difference: the Sky, the stars, the Sun
don’t have need of the earth, rather they give much to the earth, they give
life to it, they sustain it; not only, but all things created by us that are in
the heights are always at their post, they never change, nor do they increase
nor do they decrease, because they have such fullness that they don’t need
anything. Instead the earth, the plants,
the sea and so on, they change, now they take on a beautiful appearance and now
they arrive to disappear entirely; they have need of everything, of water, of light, of heat, of seed in order to reproduce. What difference, created things that are in
the heights can give and they need God alone in order to be conserved; instead
the earth not only has need of God but of everything, and if the human hand
might not work it, it would remain sterile, without making any great good.
Such is the difference; one who lives in my Will feels only the need of
God in order to live her life, instead one who doesn’t have His life for beginning
goes begging support and help from everyone, and when she doesn’t
find them she remains as earth, that doesn’t know how to produce anything great
of good. Therefore let your life and the
beginning of all your acts be my Divine Will alone, if you want to feel only
the need of your Jesus, you will always find me ready, I more desirous to give
you him than you to receive him; instead the helps of creatures become given
hardly and unwillingly, so much so that one who receives them feels the
bitterness of the help that becomes given by the
creature. Instead my helps bring joy and happiness.”
Vol. 29, March 16, 1931
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