Forgiveness; Fruit of the Redemption

Honestly I thought I was done with this series on sin but it seems God wants another posting.  I've tried to focus on what I thought was the next step, Adam, but have not been able to focus on this topic at this time.  All it took was a traffic ticket to set me off.  Anger, pride, discouragement which led to sloth all came into play.  Obviously it doesn't take much for me to start taking a tour of the seven deadly.  It seemed the only thing I could focus on was forgiveness.  I needed to forgive the officer who was just doing his job and I needed to forgive myself and I needed God to forgive me and I wasn't feeling very forgiving at all nor did I even feel like praying which leads to this post. 

I wanted to continue to speak, but Jesus, making me see many devout souls and showing He did not want to hear what I wanted to tell Him, began again to speak:  “That which most displeases Me about these souls is their instability in doing good.  One little thing, one disappointment, even one defect, is enough; and while that is the time in which it is more necessary for them to cling more to Me, they become irritated, they get disturbed, and they neglect the good which they had started.  How many times I have prepared graces to give to them, but in seeing them so unstable, I have been forced to hold them back.” 

Vol. 2, June 19, 1899 


Ouch...

‘Lord, forgive those who renew for You these sorrowful steps, because too great is the weakness that man contains.’  At that moment blessed Jesus came for just a little and told me:  “My daughter, that which is said to be human weakness, most of the time is lack of vigilance and of attention from one who is leader – that is, from parents and superiors.  In fact, when a creature is watched over and checked, and is not given the freedom she wants, not receiving its nourishment, the weakness is destroyed by itself, while yielding to one’s weakness is nourishment to becoming worse in that weakness.”  Then He added:  “Ah, my daughter, just as the soul becomes impregnated with virtue like a dry sponge becomes soaked with water – that is, with light, with beauty, with grace, with love - in the same way, sin and the weaknesses that one yields to, impregnate the soul just like a sponge becomes soaked with mud – that is, with darkness, with ugliness, and even with hatred against God.”

Vol. 6, December 29, 1904



Double ouch....  And then there's the Our Father where we know that we must forgive to be forgiven.  It's only in this way that charity becomes perfect.

After this I added: ‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.’ So, charity also will be perfect. Then will forgiveness have the mark of heroism, as I had it on the Cross - once man has eaten the bread of my Will as my Humanity ate it. Then will the virtues be absorbed into my Will and receive the mark of true heroism and of divine virtues; they will be like many little rivulets which will gush forth from the bosom of the great sea of my Will.

Vol. 15, May 2, 1923



And then we need to feel sorrow for having offended God in order to receive forgiveness.

“My daughter, I had a special sorrow for each sin, and upon my sorrow hung the pardon for the sinner. Now, this sorrow of mine is suspended in my Will, waiting for the sinner when he offends Me, so that, as he feels sorrow for having offended Me, my sorrow may descend to feel sorrow together with his, and immediately grant him forgiveness. But, how many offend Me and do not feel sorrow? So, my sorrow and forgiveness are suspended in my Will, and as though isolated. Thank you, my daughter, for coming into my Will to keep company with my sorrow and with my forgiveness. Please continue to go around in my Will; and making my sorrow your own, cry out, for each offense: ‘Sorrow! Forgiveness!’, so that I may not be the only One who feels sorrow and impetrates forgiveness, but I may have the company of the little daughter of my Will, who feels sorrow together with Me.”
Vol. 18, October 21, 1925

Even more so going to Confession without being sorry for our sins is an offence to God and ends up hardening the sinner more so.

But, do not stop, keep flying, and you will hear the anguishing moans of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Penance. How much ingratitude, how many abuses and profanations, on the part of those who administer it and on the part of those who receive it. In this Sacrament, my Blood places Itself in act over the contrite sinner, in order to descend upon his soul, to wash him, embellish him, heal him and strengthen him, to give back to him the lost grace, to place in his hands the keys of Heaven, which sin had snatched away from him; to impress on his forehead the peacemaking kiss of forgiveness. But, ah! how many harrowing moans, in seeing souls approaching this Sacrament of Penance without sorrow, out of habit, almost as a vent of the human heart. Others – horrible to be said – instead of going to find the life of their souls, of grace, go to find death, to pour out their passions. So, the Sacrament is reduced to a mockery, to a nice chat; and my Blood, instead of descending as a bath, descends as fire, which withers them even more. And so, in each Confession, Our love cries inconsolably and, sobbing, repeats: ‘Human ingratitude, how great you are. Everywhere you try to offend Me; and while I offer you life, you turn the very life I offer you into death.’ See, then, how Our moans await your requital of love in the Sacrament of Penance.
Vol. 18, November 5, 1925

But the whole outpouring of the Redemption was just this to win man back to God through his tender, compassionate, merciful love, in order to forgive and to place the life of man back in safety.

On the other hand, in incarnating Myself in the maternal womb, Our ardor of Love which, as We could not contain it, overflowed from Us and did the same race as in Creation, was ardor of love, of tenderness, of compassion, of mercy, and it put at risk the Life of a God in order to find man and give him its kisses of love, tender and compassionate; its kisses of forgiveness; and enclosing the life of all creatures within its sea of love, it gave them the kiss of life, laying down its life of love to give life to man. Our Love reached the excess in the Incarnation, because It was not, as in Creation, love that celebrates, that rejoices, but sorrowful love, suffering love, sacrificed love, that would give its life to make a prey of the life of man.
Vol. 27, December 18, 1929

Jesus repaired for everyone and everything that was done.  He sorrowed for each and every sin and obtained forgiveness for all.  We can join in his acts when we also repair for sin against God and in doing so he will not be outdone so he obtains forgiveness for such a soul in a special way and further embellishes her.

“My daughter, you are my goad – my love is cornered by your violences.  If you knew how much I suffer in seeing you suffer because of Me!  But it is Justice that wants to pour Itself out, and your very violences force Me to hide.  Things will rage more; therefore, patience.  Besides, know that the reparations done for others have done great good to you, because in repairing for others, you intended to do what I did, and I repaired for all, and also for you; I asked forgiveness for all, I grieved for the offenses of all, and I also asked forgiveness for you, and for you also I grieved.  Therefore, as you do what I did, you also take the reparations, the forgiveness and the sorrow I had for you.  So, what could do more good to you – my reparations, my forgiveness, my sorrow, or yours?  And then, I never let Myself be surpassed in love.  When I see that, for love of Me, the soul is all intent on repairing Me, loving Me, apologizing to Me and asking forgiveness for sinners, to give her tit for tat I ask forgiveness for her in a special way, I repair and love for her, and I keep embellishing her soul with my love, with my reparations and forgiveness.  Therefore, continue to repair, and do not raise conflicts between you and Me.”

Vol. 11, November 30, 1916



For as difficult as it might seem to us to dispose the creature to receive salvation through all the sufferings of Jesus in the Redemption he states that this was and is the easy part of his plan.  But forgiveness and salvation is first necessary in order to dispose him to receive the Divine Will and return him to his original state.

Oh! how much easier it was for Me to impetrate his salvation than to reorder his interior in my Supreme Volition. And had I not done this, Redemption would not have been complete, nor a work worthy of a God. I would have neither balanced nor ordered all the accounts of man, nor would I have restored in him that sanctity which he had lost by withdrawing from the Divine Will and by breaking his relations with It. The plan is already done, but in order to make it known, first it was necessary for man to know that with my Life and Passion he could obtain forgiveness and salvation, in order to dispose him to know how I had impetrated for him the greatest and most important thing – the new rising of his will in Mine, to give back to him his nobility, the relations with my Will which had been broken, and with it, his state of origin.

Vol. 16, August 13, 1923



Again Jesus affirms that in the Redemption, where Mary was placed as the head, his purpose was redeem and forgive man.  In this next part of his plan he will return man lost nobility to him with repairing the bonds of God's Will with mans will. 

It was just that she be little: if I placed a little one at the head of Redemption, I had to place another little one at the head of the Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it is in Heaven. Between two little ones I was to enclose the purpose of the creation of man - I was to realize my designs upon him: through one, I was to redeem him, wash him of his ugliness with my Blood, and give him forgiveness; through the other one, I was to make him return to his beginning, to his origin, to the lost nobility, to the bonds of my Will broken by him, admitting him once again to the smile of my Eternal Will

Vol. 16, November 10, 1923

The Divine Will vs. Sin

²⁸ One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” ²⁹ Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; ³⁰ you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:28-31




In the post Sin; What is it?, it talked about how when the creature sins it places distance between God and the soul as if someone were to hide from the sun.  In order for the soul to purge itself of voluntary and involuntary sin there is needed sorrow and resignation.  And then to avoid any future sin there is needed the highest of attention.  It's a lot of work just to avoid sin but where is the grow in sanctity if we are all consumed with just avoiding evil?  We have to go further.  The attention can't be on avoiding occasions of sin but on growing in sanity.  When we glorify God we preserve his Creative Work in us.  When we focus on his suffering and join in his reparation for others we join in his Redemptive Work.  And it is in the perfection of these Works that his Sanctifying Work arises in the soul.  But God must always be the center and the focus because when we take our eyes off of God and therefore our focus it's then that we can fall into temptation.

“My daughter, one who makes use of her senses to offend Me deforms my image within herself; therefore sin gives death to the soul, not because she really dies, but because it gives death to everything which is Divine.  If then she uses her senses to glorify Me, I can say:  “You are my eye, my hearing, my mouth, my hands and my feet.”  By this, she preserves my Creative Work within herself; and if to her glorifying Me she adds suffering, satisfying and repairing for others, she preserves within herself my Redemptive Work.  And as she perfects these Works of Mine within herself, my Sanctifying Work rises again, sanctifying everything and preserving it within her soul.  In fact, for everything I have done in the Creative, Redemptive and Sanctifying Works, I have transfused in the soul a participation in my very operating; however, everything is in whether the soul corresponds to my work.

Vol. 5, June 15, 1903


This can't be done by the creature alone.  Rather it can only be done through the Divine Will where the creature allows Him to act in her acts.  Now it becomes not simply avoiding sin but the Divine Will actually allows the soul to grow strong in sanctity.

If the blood circulates well, man is robust and strong, he feels no disquiet; but if some irregularity begins in the blood circulation, indispositions, weaknesses and consumption begin; and if the circulation becomes quite irregular, he remains paralyzed, because that blood which does not circulate and does not flow rapidly in his veins forms the grave evils of the human nature.  What would creatures not do if they knew that there is a remedy for the regularity of blood circulation!  They would go who knows where to have it, so as to incur no malady.  And yet, there is the great remedy of my Will to avoid any evil of the soul, so as not to become paralyzed in good, but to grow strong and robust in sanctity – and who takes it?  And still, it is a remedy given out for free, nor do they have to wander round in order to get It; rather, It is always ready to give Itself and constitute Itself as the regular life of the creature.

Vol. 19, August 31, 1926




And when the soul gives itself wholly and completely without reserve into the power of the Divine Will, the Divine Will holds the power to rid the soul of the life of evil.  This can only happen however in one who does not hold anything back for themselves, everything must be Divine Will for the soul.

“Blessed daughter, when the soul gives herself into the authority of my Will she holds the virtue to make the life of evil be lost, there is no sin or passion that she not feeling, gives it death more than by deadly force, rather by themselves they die as my Will reigns in the soul, thus they feel themselves lose life.  He is as the frost to the plants that withers them for evil, dries them and makes them die.  He is as the light to the darkness, which as the light appears, the darkness disappears and dies, rather one does not even know where it has gone.  My Will is as the heat to the cold, the cold dies under the virtue of the heat.  If the frost, the light, the heat hold the virtue to make plants, darkness, cold die.  More so my Divine Will holds the virtue to make all the evils die together, at the most if the soul does not let herself be always dominated by my Will where He doesn’t always reign he can not always communicate all the goods and convert into Divine life the whole of the creature and where the Divine life is lacking evil arises and it can happen as to the plants, if the force of the frost retires, the plants(,) although with difficultly(,) commence to be renewed, if the light retires the darkness arises again and if the heat retires the cold acquires its life again.  Behold therefore the great necessity to always do my Will and live in Him, if you want to scatter all the evils and also eradicate the roots of the passions. 

Vol. 31, January 6, 1933




An example of this was given to me by Martine where she came to understand the soul to be like an oyster in the ocean which has the constant motion of the currents and tides coursing through it.  It is constantly being cleaned of anything that might dirty it.  And when a soul is under the constant motion of the Divine Will it is constantly being cleaned and there is no need of the purging fires of Purgatory to clean her further when she dies.  I find this amazing.  The saints of old, with all their great sacrifices and acts and even miricles, just wanted to make it into Purgatory in order to assure their Heaven but here the soul living in the Divine Will, seemingly doing nothing, totally bypasses this step.

“My daughter, why do you afflict yourself if I am the master of all of you?  When a soul comes to rendering Me the master of her mind, of her arms, of her heart and of her feet, sin cannot reign; and if something involuntary enters into her, since I am the master and the soul is under the influence of my lordship, she is in continuous attitude of purgation, and that something immediately goes out of her.  Furthermore, since I am Holy, it is difficult for her to retain within herself anything which is not holy.  Even more, since she has given all of herself to Me in life, it is justice that I give all of Myself to her at her death, admitting her to the beatific vision without delay.  So, if one gives herself completely to Me, the flames of Purgatory have nothing to do with her.”

Vol. 5,   July 3, 1903       



And here we have the completion of Jeremiah and again in Hebrews.

³¹ The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. ³² It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. ³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 31:31-34




¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

¹⁶ “This is the covenant that I will make with them
    after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds,”

¹⁷ he also adds,  “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Hebrews 10:15-17



This occurs intimately between the soul and God.  God teaches the soul and cares for her and the soul come to know her God.  Where the Divine Will exists in his full rule, in his Kingdom, sin can not exist.  There is no sin to remember.  Jesus further confirms this and goes on to say that these souls will be distinguished as children of Its Kingdom, preserved from any evil since sin and Divine Will can not exist together.  This will not just be restricted to the soul but the body as well will undergo change.

 

  The Kingdom of the Divine Fiat will make the great miracle of banishing all evils, all miseries, all fears, because It will not perform a miracle at time and circumstance, but will keep the children of Its Kingdom with Itself with an act of continuous miracle, to preserve them from any evil, and let them be distinguished as the children of Its Kingdom.  This, in the souls; but also in the body there will be many modifications, because it is always sin that is the nourishment of all evils. Once sin is removed, there will be no nourishment for evil; more so, since my Will and sin cannot exist together, therefore the human nature also will have its beneficial effects. 

Vol. 20,   October 22, 1926
 

Mary, herself, confirms this in the book, The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.  She states that her nature being conceived without sin and living completely of the Divine Will was spared illness and indisposition.  Instead her pains all belonged in the supernatural order.

 

In fact, I did not know illness or any slight indisposition; in my nature, conceived without sin and lived completely of Divine Will, the seed of natural evils was missing.  If pains courted Me so much, they were all in the supernatural order, and these pains were triumphs and honors for your Celestial Mama, and gave Me the field so that my Maternity would not be sterile, but conqueror of many children.  Do you see then, dear child, what it means to live of Divine Will?  It means to lose the seed of natural evils, which produce, not honors and triumphs, but weaknesses, miseries and defeats.

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 31

So this is not to say that a creature living in the Divine Will will no longer be totally isolated from the effects of sin.  Instead it's explained that souls will be placed in the same position as Jesus' Humanity who felt the effects of sin in order to repair them.  So he was placed between the horror of the sin and the joys of the Divine feeling joy and pain at the same time.  The trick is to not focus on these as something of our own but to use them to repair and glorify God which in turn advances the work of Sanctification in us as well. 

 

“Daughter, one who truly does my Will is placed in the same condition as my Humanity.  I was Man and God.  As God, I contained within Myself all the happinesses, beatitudes, beauties, and all the goods that I possess.  On one hand my Humanity participated in my Divinity, and therefore It was blissful, happy, and Its beatific vision never escaped It.  On the other hand, having taken upon Itself the satisfaction for creatures before Divine Justice, my Humanity was tormented by the clear sight of all sins; and having to take them upon Itself in order to satisfy for them, It felt the horror of each sin with its own special torment.  Therefore, It felt joy and pain at the same time; love on the part of my Divinity, freezing cold on the part of creatures; sanctity on one hand, sin on the other.  There was nothing which the creature would do that could escape Me, be it even the littlest thing.  Now my Humanity is no longer capable of suffering, therefore I live in one who does my Will - she serves as my humanity.  This is why on one hand the soul feels love, peace, firmness in good, fortitude and the like; on the other hand, coldness, bothers, tiredness, etc.  If the soul remains completely in my Will and takes these things, not as her own things, but as things that I Myself suffer, she will not lose heart, but will compassionate Me, and will have the honor of sharing in my pains, because she is nothing other than a veil that covers Me.  She will feel nothing but the bothers of the pricks, of the cold, but it is into Me, into my Heart, that they are driven.”

Vol. 11, July 9, 1915  




And the reason we feel the effects of sin are all part of Gods plan so that  we might be spurred on to love more and repair God for the sins of creatures.


 
  
Ah! you would not have loved so much to suffer in order to repair Me, had you not felt within you the effects of sin and how much your Jesus suffers in being offended.
Vol. 28, July 9, 1930




And in doing this we take part in bringing about the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of the Divine Will in the earth of our bodies and upon the earth to restore God's Creation to it's origin, beautiful as he brought it forth in the beginning.

     “My daughter, the earth, created by God as fertile and beautiful, with a most refulgent sun that illuminated it and delighted it, became full of thorns and all stony because of sin; the human will put to flight the Sun of Mine, and thick darkness covered it. And I keep you alive because you must remove all the stones from the earth and render it fertile again. Each act of the human will has been a stone that covered the beautiful earth created by Me; each venial sin has been a thorn, each grave sin has been a poison, and each good done outside of my Will has been like sand scattered over the land which, invading it completely, prevented the vegetation of even the smallest plant or some blade of grass which might sprout from underneath the stones.

Vol. 18, June 20, 1927