At first Our Lady was sad and then decisive.
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Everything begins with humility and so important is this virtue that without nothing else can pass to man from God. In the Volumes Jesus speaks frequently about this virtue and it's importance. Humility is a guard against sin and causes the soul to keep close to God and it equally keeps the devil far away.
He told me that because of lack of humility I had committed many sins, and that if I had been more humble, I would have kept closer to Him and I would not have done so much evil.
Vol. 1, The soul is sorry for the sins it committed in the past, but Jesus does not want it to lose its time thinking about them.
In seeing you humble and resigned, all plunged into your nothingness, the devil will not have the power to get close.
Vol. 1, The soul experiences that it cannot do anything without Jesus and that everything it does is all due to him. Jesus, the true spiritual director, teaches the soul what to do in various situations.
Only with humility can God do with the soul as he wants. Humility keeps defects away from the soul by keeping ones sight clear and it lightens the cross making it sweet.
...she humbles herself, she resigns herself, and the cross becomes light and brings her light and sweetness.
Vol. 9, November 20, 1909
Only with a humble soul does God have a place to put his light. Humility creates the empty space, the void where light can exist. And with the presence of light becomes communicated all of its graces and perfections.
The more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates its graces and perfections to her.
Jesus will always and only work through, with and in humble souls.
21 At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Luke 10:21
“Holy Father, glorify your Name; confuse the proud and hide Yourself from them, and manifest Yourself to the humble, because only one who is humble recognizes You as his Creator, and recognizes himself as your creature.”
Vol. 4, March 9, 1903
But in truth we are not capable of true humility but only a knowledge of self. Only Jesus can say that he is humble. One must be something to be able to be humble. We are nothing, just the potential to give the little space that we are to the work of God.
And a sign of true humility is true charity that esteem others and searches out the good in everyone and every situation.
“Lack of esteem for others is lack of true Christian humility and of sweetness, because a humble and sweet spirit knows how to respect everyone and interprets the things of others always for the good.”
Vol. 3, June 3, 1900
This calls for the wisdom of Heaven. To believe oneself to be something before men on this earth is to be nothing before God. More so he states such a one is abominable to him. Jesus will not work with the proud and has never done so.
Gods Will is a decree which can not be stopped and will not be resisted. Although those learned and in authority might try to bury God's truth to block his Kingdom it is only a matter of time. Where one might refuse God will search out and dispose others who are more simple and humble to serve him.
Mary states that only a humble soul can open their heart to Jesus and that this is the starting point to unity with her son so that he might be able to act.
"My Son will act from within you and through you, because you will be “one”. My motherly heart yearns for this – for unity of all of my children – through my Son."
(See top entry)
It is only in this unity, this living in the Divine Will that God can act within and through the creature and where there is unity there can be no disparity. God puts his love into action doubling it, multiplying it as much as he will until the creature loves with his own love, an equal love. So that the little humble creature who recognizes her nothing through the grace of God become all, in the reflection of the All.
God's love is so much for his creature, his children that when he can not conquer by way of love and grace he strikes with the cross. Because it is only with the cross that God can bring the creature to the point of humility where he can then act. And even in this point of last resort he entrusts souls to the hands of his Mother and when she holds them securely they can not be lost.
Everything begins with humility and so important is this virtue that without nothing else can pass to man from God. In the Volumes Jesus speaks frequently about this virtue and it's importance. Humility is a guard against sin and causes the soul to keep close to God and it equally keeps the devil far away.
He told me that because of lack of humility I had committed many sins, and that if I had been more humble, I would have kept closer to Him and I would not have done so much evil.
Vol. 1, The soul is sorry for the sins it committed in the past, but Jesus does not want it to lose its time thinking about them.
In seeing you humble and resigned, all plunged into your nothingness, the devil will not have the power to get close.
Vol. 1, The soul experiences that it cannot do anything without Jesus and that everything it does is all due to him. Jesus, the true spiritual director, teaches the soul what to do in various situations.
Only with humility can God do with the soul as he wants. Humility keeps defects away from the soul by keeping ones sight clear and it lightens the cross making it sweet.
“My daughter, humility is a flower without thorns,
and because it is without thorns, it can be held in one’s hand, it can be
clasped, it can be placed wherever one wants, without fear of being bothered or
pricked. Such is the humble soul. One can say that she does not
have the pricks of defects; and since she is without pricks, one can do with
her whatever he wants. Not having thorns, naturally she does not prick
nor cause bother to others, because thorns are given by one who has them; but
if one does not have them, how can he give them?
Not only this, but humility is a flower which strengthens and clears
one’s sight; and with its clearness, it knows how to stay away from the thorns
themselves.”
Vol. 6, February 24, 1905...she humbles herself, she resigns herself, and the cross becomes light and brings her light and sweetness.
Vol. 9, November 20, 1909
Only with a humble soul does God have a place to put his light. Humility creates the empty space, the void where light can exist. And with the presence of light becomes communicated all of its graces and perfections.
The more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates its graces and perfections to her.
As I was in my usual state, 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, 1904Jesus will always and only work through, with and in humble souls.
21 At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Luke 10:21
“Holy Father, glorify your Name; confuse the proud and hide Yourself from them, and manifest Yourself to the humble, because only one who is humble recognizes You as his Creator, and recognizes himself as your creature.”
Vol. 4, March 9, 1903
But in truth we are not capable of true humility but only a knowledge of self. Only Jesus can say that he is humble. One must be something to be able to be humble. We are nothing, just the potential to give the little space that we are to the work of God.
"I alone can say that I am humble, because in man, that which is said to be humility should rather be called knowledge of self; and one who does not know himself already walks in falsehood.”
...
Here is the beautiful
sister of the knowledge of self, which is humility.
Ah, yes, humility draws grace; humility breaks the
strongest chains, which are sin. Humility surmounts any wall of division
between the soul and God, and brings her back to Him. Humility is a
little plant, but always green and flowery, not subject to being gnawed by
worms; nor will winds, hail or heat be able to do harm to it, or make it
wither, even slightly. Though being the littlest plant, humility produces
very high branches, which penetrate even into Heaven, braiding around the Heart
of Our Lord; and only the branches which come from this plant have free access
into that adorable Heart. Humility is the anchor of peace during the
storms of the sea waves of this life. Humility is the salt which spices
all virtues and preserves the soul from the corruption of sin. Humility
is the little grass which sprouts along the way treaded by wayfarers; while
being treaded, it disappears, but soon one can see it sprout again, more
beautiful than before. Humility is like a gentle graft, which renders the
wild plant gentle. Humility is the sunset of guilt. Humility is the
newborn of grace. Humility is like the moon, which guides us in the
darkness of the night of this life. Humility is like that shrewd merchant
who knows well how to trade his riches, and wastes not even one cent of the
grace that is given to him. Humility is the key of the door of Heaven,
such that no one can enter into It if he does not keep this key in good
custody. Finally – otherwise I would never end and I would be too long –
humility is the smile of God and of all Heaven, and it is the crying of all
hell.
Vol. 3, January 12, 1900And a sign of true humility is true charity that esteem others and searches out the good in everyone and every situation.
“Lack of esteem for others is lack of true Christian humility and of sweetness, because a humble and sweet spirit knows how to respect everyone and interprets the things of others always for the good.”
Vol. 3, June 3, 1900
This calls for the wisdom of Heaven. To believe oneself to be something before men on this earth is to be nothing before God. More so he states such a one is abominable to him. Jesus will not work with the proud and has never done so.
After this, I saw people who believed themselves to
be something greater than others; and blessed Jesus said: “My daughter,
one who believes himself to be something before Me and before men, is worth
nothing. One who believes himself to be nothing is worth everything –
first, before Me, because if he does something, he does not think he does it
because he can do it, having the strength and the capacity, but rather, because
he receives from God the grace, the helps and the lights; therefore it can be
said that he does it by virtue of divine power, and one who has divine power
with him is already worth everything. Second, before men, because this
acting by virtue of divine power makes him operate in a completely different
way, and he does nothing but send forth the light of the divine power he
contains within himself, in such a way that the most perverted ones, without
wanting it, feel the strength of this light and submit to his volition; and
here is how he is worth everything also before men. On the contrary, one
who believes himself to be something, in addition to being worth nothing, is
abominable to my presence, and because of his ostentatious and particular
manners - for he believes he is something and makes fun of others - men keep him
pointed out as an object of derision and of persecution.”
Vol. 4, Dec. 24, 1902
“I communicate
Myself both to the humble and to the simple, because they immediately believe
in my graces and take them into great consideration, though they may be
ignorant and poor. But with these others you see, I am very reluctant,
because the first step which draws the soul near Me is belief; and it happens
that these, with all of their science and doctrine, and even holiness, never come
to experience a ray of celestial light – that is, they walk along the natural
way, and they never arrive at touching, even slightly, that which is
supernatural. This is also the reason for which in the course of my
mortal life there was not one learned, one priest, one man of power, among my
followers, but all ignorant and of low condition – because these were more
humble and simple, and also more disposed to make great sacrifices for
Me.”
Vol. 2, May 19, 1899
Gods Will is a decree which can not be stopped and will not be resisted. Although those learned and in authority might try to bury God's truth to block his Kingdom it is only a matter of time. Where one might refuse God will search out and dispose others who are more simple and humble to serve him.
...it is a decree of the Divinity that the Kingdom of my Divine Will be known; and
when We decree there is no human power that can resist Us; at the most, it will
be a matter of time. And in spite of the oppositions and adverse judgments of
these authoritative people, I will make my way; and if these, with their
judgments, want to bury a good so great and so many Divine Lives of my truths,
I will put them aside and will make my way, disposing other people, more humble
and simple, and who more easily believe in my admirable and multiple ways which
I use with souls. And with their simplicity, instead of finding quibbles and
difficulties, they will recognize, as gift of Heaven, what I have manifested on
my Divine Will; and these will serve Me in an admirable way to propagate in the
world the knowledges about my Fiat.
Vol. 28, July
9, 1930Mary states that only a humble soul can open their heart to Jesus and that this is the starting point to unity with her son so that he might be able to act.
"My Son will act from within you and through you, because you will be “one”. My motherly heart yearns for this – for unity of all of my children – through my Son."
(See top entry)
It is only in this unity, this living in the Divine Will that God can act within and through the creature and where there is unity there can be no disparity. God puts his love into action doubling it, multiplying it as much as he will until the creature loves with his own love, an equal love. So that the little humble creature who recognizes her nothing through the grace of God become all, in the reflection of the All.
God
loves himself in the creature, everything is his, hence there is no wonder that
he puts in field his
always new love, doubles it, hundred folds it
how much he wants, and he gives grace to her to
make her love with his same love, if this were not so, one would see great
disparity between who can love and between who can not love, and the poor creature
would remain humble, annihilated, without rush and union of love
with her Creator, and when two beings can not love with equal love, the
inequality indeed produces unhappiness, while our Will is Unity and freely gives his
love to the creature in order to make her love, he gives his sanctity in order
to make her holy, his wisdom in order
to make her know, there is nothing that he possesses that he would not give
her.
Vol. 34, January 5, 1936God's love is so much for his creature, his children that when he can not conquer by way of love and grace he strikes with the cross. Because it is only with the cross that God can bring the creature to the point of humility where he can then act. And even in this point of last resort he entrusts souls to the hands of his Mother and when she holds them securely they can not be lost.
“My daughter courage, everything will serve to the triumph of my Will, if I strike it is because I want to restore health, my love is so much, that when I can not conquer by way of love and graces, I seek to conquer by way of terror and fright, human weakness is so much that many times she doesn’t care for my graces, she is deaf to my voices, laughs at my love, but it is enough to touch (her) skin, to take away the necessary things to natural life, that she abases her arrogance, feels so humiliated that she makes herself a rag, and I do that which I want with her, especially if they don’t have a perfidious and obstinate will, it is enough one chastisement, to see herself on the edge of the sepulcher, that they return in my arms. You should know that I always love my children, my beloved creatures, I would eviscerate Myself in order not to see them stricken, so much so that in the deadly times to come, I have put them all in the hands of my Celestial Mama, to Her I have entrusted them, so that she holds them for Me under her secure mantle, I will give (to Her) all those that She will want, death itself won’t have power over those that will be in (the) custody of my Mama.”
Vol. 33, June 6, 1935 
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