Breath of Life

Well, I once again find myself before a huge subject, which will by necessity become more than one, maybe more than two posts.  It started back with Creation Sunday, (and yes I've been working on it since then,) and the first reading in mass that brought me back to a draft which I've had in storage on the Breath of Life.


⁷ then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 
Genesis 2:7



There are so many references in the Volumes on the Divine Breath; on the moment of the Creation of man and all that that breath encompassed, to the intimate union between the breath of man and the breath of God, to the suffering caused by the division of man and God with original sin, and to the renewal of man in the Divine Will through the Divine Breath once again breathing into man.  I began this thinking that it might be a quick topic but it has once again caught me in a labyrinth of material and I get the feeling that Jesus is having a good laugh over my predicament. 

Even in the translation from Italian to English there are layers to appreciate.  The Italian word for breath often used in the Volumes is Fiato and from that can be seen the close spelling of the word Fiat or the expressed word of God, the second person of God, Jesus.  Jesus in one reading also refers to creatures as his fiati which is normally translated as "breaths" but also has the possible translation of "wind instruments."  So you can see even in the words there is a lesson where God is the spirit, the motion, the breath and we are the instruments through which he creates his music.  So I will leave it to God to find the order and path through this maze of information.

So I think I'll start "in the beginning" so to speak... For those of us who feel ourselves removed from something which happened so long ago Jesus clearly states in the Volumes that that moment in the Creation is relevant to all of us and that we all participate in it.

Therefore, you must know that, in creating Adam, all creatures were created in him; all were present to Us – none of them escaped Us; We loved all creatures as him, and in him. And when, with so much love, We formed his humanity, molding it and working it with Our creative hands, forming the bones, extending the nerves, covering them with flesh, forming all the harmonies of the human life, in Adam, all creatures were molded and worked. In all of them We formed the bones, extended the nerves; and covering them with flesh, We left the touch of Our creative hands, the mark of Our Love, the vivifying virtue of Our Will. And as We infused the soul in him with the power of Our omnipotent breath, souls were formed in all the bodies with the same power in which the soul of Adam was formed.
See, then, how each creature is a new creation, as if We had created the new Adam; because in each of them We want to renew the great prodigy of the creation, the installation of the center of Our Love, the carrying out of the Life of Our Fiat. So great was the excess of Our Love in creating man, that until the last creature comes on earth, We will remain in continuous act of creation, to give to each one what was given to the first man created – Our overflowing Love, the touch of Our creative hands for the formation of each of them. Therefore, my daughter, I recommend to you that you know how to recognize and preserve within yourself the installation of Our Love and the operating Life of Our Fiat; and you will feel the prodigies of the continuous creation, and Our Love overflowing, such that, as It drowns you with love, you will feel nothing but Love and Divine Will.”
Vol. 28, August 24, 1930

Just as in the Redemption where Jesus suffered and died one time but because he is Divine this is applied to each creature so that each can say he suffered and died for me so it is in the Creation as well.  Each creature is a new creation and each receives this breath of God and an act done by God lasts perpetually and will not turn back from it's intent.  All of Creation hinges upon God's breath which continually renews life for all things.

“This is the way God works: to do an act which lasts for centuries and centuries, and even for all eternity, because Our outpouring of love, [and] Our breath springs forth continuously from Our Divine Womb, and flows to give the breath of life to the generation of creatures.  Thus Our outpouring of love, hovering in all of creation, invests heaven and earth, sun and sea, wind and water, and runs towards the creature.  If it were not that way, the heavens would draw up, the stars would be lost, the sun would lack light, water would be lacking, and the earth would produce neither plants nor fruit because they would lack the life of Our love which hovers in all things; they would withdraw from Our source from which they come.  And if the generations ever came to lack Our Breath they would be finished, because creatures are nothing other than a spark which Our Breath sends to make the growing generations fruitful.

Vol. 21, April 24, 1927          



Each person is able to receive all the love and all the gifts which God granted Adam in that moment of Creation and all of it is as immersed and overflowing in love because God is love and his breath breathes forth love.  Each person is given God's whole life to the capacity to which each creature can contain.

“My blessed daughter, you should know that our Divine Being is none other than a substance all of love, so that as a consequence everything, inside and outside of us, everything is love, hence our breath is love and the air that we breathe is love....

Vol. 32, April 2, 1933

And as I created man, I breathed on him with my breath, infusing life in him; but in this life I infused in him, I placed my whole Life, according to what human capacity was able to contain.  But I placed everything in him.  There was nothing of my own which I did not share with him.  See, even his breath is the reflection of my breath with which I give him continuous life; while his breath is reflected in mine, and I feel it continuously within Me. 

“See then, how many relations there are between Myself and the creature.  This is why I love him so much:  because I look at him as a birth from Me, exclusively mine.  And then, how did I ennoble the will of man?  I linked it with Mine, giving it all my prerogatives.  I made it free, just like Mine; and if to the body I had given two little lights, limited and circumscribed, which started from my Eternal Light, the human will I made all eyes.  Therefore, as many acts as the human will forms, so many eyes can it say it possesses.  It looks to the right, to the left, to the back and to the front; and if the human life is not animated by my Will, it will do nothing good.  In creating it, I said to it:  ‘You will be my sister on earth; my Will from Heaven will animate yours; we will be in continuous reflections, and whatever I will do, you will do as well - I, by nature, and you, by the grace of my continuous reflections.  I will follow you like a shadow.  I will never leave you.’

Vol. 13, November 4, 1921



With this gift of the whole life of God man was also created so that there was complete love and trust between God and man with the bonds of intimate paternal familiarity.  This was broken with man's fall but God wants to renew this bond and he will do so with his Divine Breath just as he created him in the beginning.

“My daughter, this is precisely the reason why I often come to you, even to the point that it might appear strange to some and out of My usual way of dealing with a soul - because there is hardly another to whom I have come to so very often.  All [this] is to reorder My first act, of the way that I created the creature.  So I return to you and I tarry, more than a most loving father would with his daughter.  How many times have I filled you with My Breath to the point of [your] not being able to any longer contain My Omnipotent Exhalation?  I poured forth in you My repressed love, even to the point of filling your soul to the very brim.  All this was nothing other than the renewal of the solemn act of creation. I wanted to feel that great satisfaction as when I created man, and so I come to you not only to renew it, but to reorder the order, harmony, and love between Creator and creature, just in the way as he was created.  In the beginning of man’s creation there was no distance between him and Me, there was only familiarity; and he had only to call Me and I was there.  I loved him as a son, and as a son I felt myself so inclined toward him that I could not help but go and remain with him very often.  With you I am renewing the beginning of creation, so be attentive to receive such a great good.”

Vol. 21, April 22, 1927



This Divine breath preserves and nourishes not only the soul of the creature but the body as well and when his last ordained breath finishes with the creature then her soul leaves for Heaven.

 And Jesus, to cheer me, placed Himself with His face in front of my chest, and as He breathed over me, a light came out of His breath, which served not only for my soul, but also to recompose my whole body.  As the breath would cease, my body would fall apart; and Jesus, to cheer me, said to me:  “My daughter, courage, don’t you see that the mere breath and light of my Will recomposes also your body?  So, if I stop my breath, your body will fall apart and you will immediately take the way to Our Celestial Fatherland.”

Vol. 20, January 23, 1927


But only a soul living in the Divine Will has the capacity to receive this Divine Breath continuously and thereby form a complete and mature life.

“My good daughter, only my Volition maintains and conserves intact, with a continuous act, the beginning of the Creation of the creature.  Our Supreme Being gave the beginning and animated her life with the power of our divine breath; this breath should not ever be broken, more so that when we give and we do an act we never withdraw it, and this serves in order to form the completed work of the being that we put forth to the light.  This first act of ours, while it serves to give beginning and to form the life, the continuation, it serves in order to make of the creature a completed act of ours, and as we breathe (in) her thus we form in her our continuous acts in order to complete our divine life.  Our breath, as we give it, forms sip by sip the growth of this life of ours in the creature.  Our breath, as it gives itself, thus it forms our completed act of sanctity, of beauty, of love, of goodness and so on, and when we have filled her so much, in a way that we don’t have anywhere more to put our act in the creature, because she is limited, our breath ceases and her life finishes in earth, and in order to immortalize our breath in Heaven, we transport our fully grown life in her, our completed act, into our Celestial Country as triumph of our Creation.  There is no more beautiful rarity than these lives and completed acts of ours in the Celestial sojourn, they are the narrators of our power, of the enthusiasm of our love, they are speaking voices of our omnipotent breath, that alone could form the divine life, our completed act in the creature.  But do you know where we can form this life and this completed act of ours, for how much it is possible and imaginable for a creature to receive from her Creator?  [In] the soul that lives in our Divine Will and lets herself be dominated by Him.  Ah! only in her can we form the divine life and develop our completed act; our Volition disposes the creature to receive all the qualities and divine colors, and our breath not ever interrupted, as expert brush/(artist), paints with admirable and inimitable mastery the most beautiful tones and forms there the images of our Supreme Being; if it might not be for these images there would not have been that great work of the Creation, nor great work of the power of our creative hands, creating the Sun, the Sky, the stars and all the universe would have been a beautiful nothing for our power.  But instead all our power, the art of our divine arts, the indescribable excess of our intense love, it is to do our completed act in the creature with forming our life in her and so much is our gratification, that we ourselves remain enraptured in our act that we develop. For us to do a completed act it is the greatest glory that glorifies us most, it is the most intense love that praises us most, it is the power that praises us continually.  But alas! for one who doesn’t live in our Volition, how many broken acts of ours, without conclusion, how many divine lives of ours hardly conceived or at the most born without growing.  [Creatures] break the continuation of our work and bind our arms without being able to go ahead; they put us in the impotence of a master who holds his earth and is prevented by his ungrateful servants from doing the work that he wants to in his earth, to sow it, to plant the plants that he wants; poor proprietor, to hold sterile earth, without the fruit that he could receive, for reason of his iniquitous servants.  Our earths are creatures and the ungrateful servant is the human volition, which opposing ours with hers puts us in impotence from forming our divine life in them.  Now you should know that in Heaven one doesn’t enter if one doesn’t possess our divine life, or at least conceived or born, and such will be the glory, the beatitude of the blessed, for how much growth has been formed of our life in them.  Now what will be the difference for one who has hardly let him be conceived, be born or grown with little proportions, from one who has let us form complete life?  So much will be the difference, that it is incomprehensible to the human creature.  Those will be as the people of the Celestial kingdom, instead our images will be as princes, ministers, the noble court, the regal army of the great King.  Therefore one who does my Divine Will and lives in Him can say:  ‘I do all and I also belong from this earth to the family of my Celestial Father.’”

Vol. 29, October 12, 1931

The "I love you." Part 1

I didn't feel capable at this time to take on a long difficult topic.  Then it occurred to me that I'd like to explore the "little" topic of the "I love you."  Funny Jesus and his "little" jokes.  I have yet to finish looking through all the Volumes and already have much more than one day's post can hold and my head is swimming in the enormity of it all.  So here is the topic of the "I love you."  I leave it to Jesus in order to organize it all and make sense of it.



Jesus talks about what it means to love.  That of wanting to possess that which one loves and to create a permanent bond depending on how intense one loves.  When one loves God in all things and in all moments it becomes the love of a child toward her Father and gives her the right of child of God.  But this also gives God the right of Father and the duty to act thusly as well.

“My daughter, to love means to possess and to want to make one’s own the person or object that one loves.  To love means bond, now of friendship, now of relative, now of progeny, according to more or less the intensity of love.  So that if between the creature and God there is not one void of divine love, if all her acts race toward God in order to love him, if they have beginning from love and they finish in love, if she looks at all the things that belong to the Supreme Being as hers, this says love of child toward her Father, because in this way she doesn’t go out neither from the divine proprieties nor from the residence of the celestial Father.  Because true love constitutes a right in the creature:  right of progeny, right of shared goods, right of being loved.  Her every act of love is a vibrating note that palpates in the divine heart and with its sound says ‘I love you’, and ‘love me’, and the sound doesn’t end if it doesn’t feel the note of her Creator, who making echo to the sound of the soul he responds ‘I love you, O child.’  Oh, how we await the ‘I love you’ of the creature to make her take the post in our love, in order to have the sweet gusto in order to be able to say to her ‘I love you, O child’, and thus to be able to give greater right to be able to love us and to make her belong to our family.  A broken love doesn’t make our things hers, nor does she defend them, it can not be called love of child; at the most it can be love of friendship, love of circumstance, love of interest, love of necessity, that doesn’t constitute a right, because only the children have the right to possess the goods of the Father, and the Father holds the sacrosanct duty, also with divine and human rights, to make (his) goods possessed by his children.  Therefore love always, so that he finds in all your acts the love, the meeting, your kiss to your Creator.”

Vol. 30, Nov. 16, 1931



With this exchange of love between Creator and creature there is formed the contest to love each other more and more, and the one inflames the other to greater love.  Love is so important to the creature that Jesus compares it to blood.  Where his Will is life it is Love which circulates and renews and sustains this life.  Without love she is anemic and sickly.  Being weak and unable to act, all the virtues become weak and inoperative changing even into defects.  It is this lack of love in the world which so afflicts mankind leading them to ruin.

And so much is our satisfaction that our look is always fixed in looking at her, our ears always intent to listen to her, the power of our Volition calls our continuous attention.  And as she says to us ‘I love you’, thus we repeat to her:  ‘We love you, O daughter.’ As she repairs to us, thus we press her to (our) heart; as she thanks us, praises and blesses us, thus we go repeating to her:  ‘We thank you because you thank us, we praise you because you praise us, we bless you because you bless us.’  We can say that we put ourselves in competition with her.  Heavens and earth are stupefied because the Creator puts himself in competition with his beloved creature.  Therefore always in my Will I want you, because in Him you give us to do and to say and form our outlet of love.”

Vol. 30, April 23, 1932

“Little daughter of my Volition, you should know that I love your ‘I love you‘ and I always remain in the act of awaiting it.  I always love you, nor do I ever cease loving you, and if you make standstills in loving me, I feel that I give you my continuous love and you do not give it to me, and my love feels as stolen by you.  Instead when my ‘I love you’ races, and yours makes itself found ready in order to give to me and to receive my ‘I love you’, mine feels repaid, and it happens that your ‘I love you’ does not give time to mine, and mine does not give time to yours, a race happens, a competition of love between Creator and creature.  More so when I see that you are about to tell me ‘I love you’, my Will invests your ‘I love you’ in order to make it from little (to) great, and I find my love in yours, as mine, should I love it and want it?  Daughter, they are my usual stratagems, my industries, because I give in order to receive, this is my commerce:  I love, I give love in order to receive love, and when I am not loved my commerce remains failed, and since my passion is love, I don’t get tired, nor do I (draw) back:  I commence afresh, I repeat, I repeat the industries, I abound with stratagems and with tenderness in order to re-do my failed love in the creature.  Oh! if you might know how my Heart remains wounded and sorrowful when I say ‘I love you’ and she doesn’t feel the call that mine makes her in order to have hers.

“Beyond this, you should know that love is the blood of the soul.  As my Will is the life, and as in the natural order life can not function without blood, and blood can not circulate if it doesn’t have a life, and according to the abundance of the Blood, thus one enjoys health, thus in the supernatural order, the soul, my Divine Will can not function without the blood of love, how much more love so much more will one feel strong, robust, active in working.  Otherwise she will suffer from anemia and could finish in consumption, so that when there is not the sufficient blood of the love of my Will himself for how much (there) is life, she becomes sick in the soul, and inoperative, because she lacks the blood of love in order to function.  All the virtues are made anemic, and instead of patience, of fortitude, of sanctity, all these virtues will be seen to fade, changing into defects.  Therefore there is much anemia in the world, because there lacks the pure blood of my love, and accordingly they go toward a terrible consumption, that brings them to ruin in the soul and in the body.  Behold therefore I so very love your ‘I love you‘ and I want it in all my acts, in all created things, in every act of (the) creature, in order to be able to form much blood as antidote and remedy to the anemia that exists, and this will be (the) preparation to the kingdom of my Will.  Therefore I feel the need of your love, it is true that it is little, but I don’t look at whether it is little or great, rather I look at whether it has been done in the power of my Will, that the littlest acts are done for me it makes them great and it invests her with such beauty as to feel myself enraptured.  Hence it is enough for you to know that I want it, it pleases me, it makes me content in order to do it, whether I see it is little or great, and this ‘I love you’ of yours I want it in the heartbeat of your heart, in the air that you breath, in the Sky, in the sun, in short in everything.  Oh! how I would like to see that your ‘I love you’ invests Heaven and earth, creatures and Creator.”

Vol. 31, Aug. 21, 1932



Love is not only the blood which nourishes the life of the Divine Will but love in the Divine Will forms Divine life as well.  Every "I love you" in the Divine Will forms a Divine Life.  And being Divine that life goes out to the good of all.

“My daughter, love is life, and when this love goes forth from the soul that lives in my Will, it holds the virtue to form in God himself the life of love; and since the substance of Divine Life is love, hence the creature with her love forms in God another Divine life, and we feel in ourselves our life formed by the creature.  This life that [the creature has formed] with her love united to our Will, because it is He that administers the power (so) that the creature can arrive to form the same divine life all of love in God, this life is God’s triumph and the triumph of the creature; and in the act of triumph we take this divine life that the creature has formed in ourselves and we give him to (the) good of all creatures, as precious gift that the little daughter of our Volition makes to everyone, and with anxiety we await that with her love she comes to form other divine lives in our Supreme Being.  My daughter, our love is not sterile, rather it holds the germ/seed to generate continuous life.  So that as you said:  ‘I love you’ in my heartbeat, in my breath, thus I generated another heartbeat, another breath, and so on with all the rest, in a way that I felt in myself the new generation of your ‘I love you’ that formed the new life of my love, and oh, how happy I felt thinking that my daughter was forming inside of me my own life in me, all of love!  If you might know how moving this act of the creature is that she gives God to God with her love!  Oh, how it enraptures us!  And feeling ourselves enraptured we give other love in order to have the contentment to have her repeat our new lives of love.  Therefore love, love a great deal and you will make your sweet Jesus more happy.”

Vol. 29, Feb. 15, 1931