Sunday, August 11, 2013

History of the "I love you" in the creature. Part 3

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

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