Every mother and father hang on the first words spoken by their child. So did God with the first words spoken by Adam. Until I began reading the Volumes I had never even given it a thought or what it meant to God to hear from the lips of Adam, "I love you."
The first word that Adam
pronounced, that was the first lesson that God gave him. The Divine Will working in man.
I am always the little tiny ignorant one of the Supreme Being, and when the Divine Will plunges me in his seas, I see that hardly
the vowels, if yet, I know of his
adorable Majesty, my littleness is so much,
that hardly some drop I know how to swallow of so much that the
Creator possesses.
Whence turning in the works of the Divine Fiat I
detained myself in Eden, in which was made present
to me the Creation of man and I thought to myself: what could be the first word that Adam said when he was created by God,
and my Highest Good Jesus, visiting me with his brief little visit, all
goodness, as if He himself wanted to tell me it said to me:
“My daughter, I also feel the desire to tell you what was the first
word pronounced from the lips of the first creature created by
Us. You should know that no sooner than
Adam felt life, motion, reason, he saw his God before
himself and understood that He had formed him, he felt in himself, in all his
yet fresh being the impressions, the touch of his created and thankful hands,
in an impetus of love he pronounced his first word: ‘I love you my God, my Father, author of this my life’, but it was not only the
word, but the breath, the heartbeat, the drops of his blood, that raced in his veins, the motion, all his being, united together they said as in chorus: ‘I love you, I love you, I
love you.’ So that the first lesson that
he learned from his Creator, the first word that he learned to say, the first
thought that had life in his mind, the first beat that formed in his heart, it
was I love you, I love you, he felt himself loved, and he loved. I could say that his I love you never ended,
it was so long that then it was interrupted when he had the misfortune to fall into sin. Whence our Divinity felt wounded in hearing on the
lips of man I love you, I love you, it was the same word that we had created in
the organ of his voice, that said to us I love you, it was our love created by us in the
creature, that said to us I love you, how not to be wounded? How not to repay him with a larger love,
stronger(,) worthy of our magnificence, as we heard said I love you, thus We repeated to them I love you, but
in our I love you, we made it flow in all, his being, the working life of our
Divine Will. So that we enclosed in man,
as within one of our Temples, our Will, so that he was enclosed in the human circle, while he remained in us, so that he might work great things and He
might be the thought, the word, the heartbeat, the step and the work of man, our I love
you could not give a thing more holy, more beautiful, more powerful, that alone
could form the life of the Creator in the creature, than our Will working in
Him, and oh how pleasant it proved to us to see that our Will held his post of
actress, and the human volition dazzled by his light, enjoyed his
Paradise, and giving him full liberty, let him do that which he wanted, giving him supremacy in everything, and the post of
honor that is appropriate to a
Volition so holy.
“You see therefore the beginning of the life of Adam was an act full of love toward
God with all his being, what sublime lesson, as the beginning of love should
race in all the work of the creature.
The first lesson that he received from our Supreme Being, in the exchange of his I love you, was that while he loved tenderly
responding to him I love you, he gave him the first lesson on our Divine Will
and while he instructed him he communicated the life to him of Him and the
infused science of what our Divine Fiat means and every time
that turn he said to us I love you, our love prepared for him other more
beautiful lessons on our Volition. He remained enraptured and we delighted ourselves in
conversing with him and we made flow over him rivers of love and perennial joys, so that the human life became enclosed by Us in love and in our Will.
“Therefore my daughter,
there is no greater sorrow for Us, than to see our love as broken in the
creature and our Will impeded, smothered, without his working life and as
subject to the human volition. Hence be
attentive and in all things have for beginning love and my Divine Will.”
Vol. 33, Dec. 10, 1933
Adam's "I love you" to God, while living in the Divine Will, was more than just lip service. It became a palpating life in every act of his being. When Adam and Eve sinned that living love became a finite "I love you." which ended with the words themselves. When this living exchange of love ended God didn't stop loving the creature but he no longer had someone with whom he could exchange the gifts his love held to give. So it was in creating the Virgin Mary Immaculate, who wholly lived in the Divine Will, he formed a way not only to continue his exchange of love with a creature but through her he could love all his creatures anew.
Love of God hidden in the Virgin. The Divine Paternity gives her the Divine
Maternity and generates in Her the human generations as her children. How the Divine immensity renders all his
works inseparable.
My abandonment continues in the Divine Volition and finding all that
which had been done in Him, the little atom of my soul turns and returns in
order to also give my little I love you, for all that which in the turn of
Eternity he had done for love of all
creatures, and my beloved Jesus stopped me, in the waves of the interminable
love of the Conception of my Celestial Mama and all goodness he said to me:
“Little daughter of my Volition, your I love you, for how very little
wounds our love and from those wounds
that it makes us, it gives us the occasion to make our hidden love go forth and
to make himself revealing of our intimate secrets and how we have loved
creatures. Now you should know that We
loved all mankind, but we were constrained to
hold hidden in our Divine Being all the immense enthusiasm of our love, because we didn’t
find in him neither beauty that enraptured our love, nor love that wounding
us might make our love emerge in order to flood them in order to make himself
known, to love them, and to make himself loved.
Rather they were immersed in the lethargy of the faults as to make us horrified only to
look at them. But our love burned, we loved him and we wanted to make our love arrive to everyone. How to do it?
We had to use a great contrivance of our love in order to arrive to this
and behold how. We called to life the
Little Tiny Virgin Maria, and creating her all pure, all holy, all beautiful, all love, without
stain of original sin, and making our own Divine Will conceived together with Her so that
between Her and Us there might be free access, perennial union and inseparability. Now the Celestial Queen with her beauty enraptured us
and our love raced, raced, with her love she wounded us and our love
overflowing hid itself in Her, and looking through her beauty, and with her
love (of) all creatures our love vented itself, and I loved all creatures with
hidden love in this Celestial Queen. So
that we loved everyone in Her, through her beauty they don’t seem ugly to us anymore, our love was not
restrained in Us anymore, but diffused in the heart of a creature so holy, that
communicating our Divine Paternity to her, and loving everyone in
Her, she acquired the Divine Maternity in order to be able to love everyone as
her children, generated by her Celestial
Father, as she felt that we loved all creatures in Her, thus she felt that
our love, formed the new generation of mankind in her Maternal heart. Can one say greater contrivance of love,
stratagems more loving, than our Paternal goodness in order to love
creatures, and even those that offended us, to elect from this same stock a
creature, to form her how much more beautiful we were able to, so that our love
might not be able to find obstacles in order to be able to love
everyone in Her and to make her love everyone?
In this Celestial Queen everyone can find our hidden love in Her, much
more so that possessing our Divine Will she dominated us, to make us love
everyone and We with our sweet empire we dominated Her to be the most
affectionate Mother of everyone.
True love doesn’t know how to be without loving, and uses all the arts, takes (the) occasion from the littlest things, as (well as) from the
greatest in order to love, our love now is hidden, now it is made clear, now
direct, and now in an indirect way, in order to make itself known that we love
with incessant love She whom we brought forth from the depth of our love. Greater gift we could not give to all the
generations, (than) in giving this
inimitable creature as Mother of everyone, and as bearer of our hidden love in Her, in
order to take it to all her children.”
After this I continued to
think of the Divine Will, the thought that my Celestial Mama possessed in her Maternal Heart the hidden love with which my
Creator loved me, it filled me with joy, and to think that I was looked at by
God, from inside my dear Celestial Mother, through her Sanctity and with her enrapturing beauty, oh! How happy I felt with all trust that I no more had to be loved
and looked at alone, but loved and looked at together with my Mama. Oh!
She in order to make me loved more by my Jesus, will cover me with her
virtues, will dress me with her beauty and will hide my miseries and my weaknesses, but a thought wanted to devastate my joy, that Our Lord might do this as long as the
Queen of Heaven lived upon the earth,
but when she was carried into Heaven, this contrivance of Divine love ended,
and my sweet Jesus returning added:
“My blessed daughter, our works always continue and they are
inseparable from Us, so that our hidden love continues in the Queen of Heaven and will always
continue, it would not be (a) work from God, if all that which we do might be
able to separate from Us, and not have perennial life. Therefore We love, we flow over creatures, it
seems that our love departs from Us, but no, it departs and remains with Us and
the love that flows over creatures is inseparable from Us, and renders inseparable
She who has received our love. So that
all our works, Heaven and earth, creatures that went forth to the light of day,
it seems that they depart from Us, but no, they are all inseparable from Us,
and this in virtue of our immensity, that involving everything, there is no point where he doesn’t find
himself and he renders inseparable all that which We do, hence neither our
works can be separated from Us, nor We from them, one can say that they form
one single body for Us, and our immensity and power it is as circulation
of blood that maintains everyone and all
life, at the most there can be distinct works the one from the other, but
separable not ever.”
Whence I in hearing this was amazed I said: “And yet my Love there are the reprobates already separated from you, they
are also works gone forth from you, how is it therefore that they don’t belong
to you anymore?” And Jesus:
“You are wrong my daughter,
they don’t belong to me by way of love, but by way of justice, my immensity that involves them holds his power over them,
and if they might not belong to my punitive justice it would not have to
punish (them), because if things might not belong to me at the instant they
lose life, but if this life exists there is one who conserves it and who justly
punishes it. Therefore our hidden love
toward every single creature in Heaven, the Sovereign Lady possesses it still, rather it is
her greatest triumph and contentment that she feels all creatures
loved by her Creator in her Maternal Heart, and doing as true Mother how many times she hides them (from) me in her
love, in order to make them loved, in her sorrows in order to make them
forgiven, in her prayers in order to make given to them the greatest
graces. Oh! She is the copier who knows how to cover and
to excuse her children near the throne of our Majesty, therefore let your Celestial Mama cover (you) who will think to
the needs of her daughter.”
Vol. 33, Feb. 4, 1934
How grateful we should be to Mary, a mother so pure and holy, who covers us with her own virtues so to make us loved anew by God with his hidden love. And when we lack the necessary love to return to God for all his gifts to us hers stands ready to substitute and support our own. How grateful we should be to God who contrives any means in order to love and save his own. But this is still not the end of the story. It still remains for us to fully return the "I love you" to God as he desires in the fullness of the Divine Will and renew the game of his love. Luisa shows us how to do this in the Volumes, and not only for ourselves but for all our brothers and sisters throughout all time.
I felt little, little, so much so as to not know how to move a step, and having made holy Communion, I felt the need as child to shelter myself in the arms of Jesus, in order to tell him “I love you, I love you a great deal”, not knowing how to say other, because too little an ignorant one but my sweet Jesus waited that I might say other, and I added: “Jesus I love you together with the love of our Celestial Mama”. And Jesus said to me:
“How sweet, refreshing it is to me, to feel myself loved together with the love of the daughter and our Mama, I feel her maternal tenderness, her enthusiasms of love, her chaste embraces, her ardent kisses, that pouring themselves in the daughter, Mama and daughter love me, they kiss me and they squeeze me between their arms with one single embrace, to find the daughter together with my Celestial Mama, that wants to love me, and she loves me as my Mama loves me, they are my most dear delights, my outlets of love, and I find the most pleasant exchange to the so many excesses of my love. But tell me, together with whom else do you want to love me?”
And he became silent, waiting that I might tell him together with whom else I would like to love him. And I, almost a little embarrassed added: “My divine Jesus, I want to love you together with the Father and with the Holy Spirit”; but it seemed that he was not yet content, and I: “I want to love you together with all the Angels and Saints”; and He: “and with whom else?” “With all the wayfarers and even up to the last creature that will exist upon the earth, I want to bring everyone and everything to you, even the Sky, the Sun, the wind, the sea in order to love you together with everyone.” And Jesus all love, that it seemed that he could not contain the flames, added:
“My daughter, behold my Heaven in the creature, the Sacrosanct Trinity, who surrenders his love in order to love me together with her, the Angels and Saints, who make competition to surrender their love in order to love me together with her, this is the great act, to bring everyone in the All that is God and the All in everyone. Your littleness, your infantile ways in my Divine Will, embrace everything and everyone, (and) you want to give me everything, even the same adorable Trinity, and since you are little, no one wants to deny you anything, rather they unite themselves with you and they love together with the tiny little one. And with bringing me everyone in the All and with loving me, you diffuse the All in everyone, my love being bond of union and of inseparability, I find everything in the soul, my Paradise, my works and everyone, and I can say nothing lacks to me, neither Heaven, nor my Celestial Mama, nor the cortege of the Angels and Saints, all are with me, and all love me. These are (the) stratagems and loving industries of one who loves me, that calls everyone, to ask love from everyone, in order to love me and make me loved by everyone.”
Vol. 32, Oct. 22, 1933
So Jesus has created yet a new way, a new contrivance of his love, to make a way for his love to reach creatures. With the Divine Will animating our little "I love you" we renew the exchange of love with God and he finds a new way to pour out his love not only with us but on all his children from the first to the last throughout all generations. How grateful we should be.
I was reminded in Church today that there is something else to add to this post. With loving God in each act and creature and all Creation and with the love of the Triune God Himself in every moment we then fulfill the command in the Bible.
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 22:36-40
