My state continues in
the flight of the light of the Divine Will, and I was praying the pretty little
Baby that, just as the old year was dying never to be born again, so He would
make my will die and live no more; and as present for the new year, He would
give me His Will, just as I gave Him the gift of mine, so as to place it as
footstool at His tender little feet, that it might have no other life but His
Will alone. Now, while I was saying this and other things, my sweet Jesus
came out from within my interior, and told me: “Daughter of my Will, how
I love, want - yearn that your will may end in you. Oh, how I accept your
present! How pleasing it will be for Me to keep it as soft footstool at
my feet. In fact, as long as it remains in the creature, outside of its
center which is God, the human will is hard; but when it enters again into the
center from which it came, serving as footstool at the feet of your little Baby
Jesus, it becomes soft, and I use it to amuse Myself. Is it not right
that, little as I am, I have an amusement? And that in the midst of so
many sorrows, privations and tears, I have your will to make Me smile?
Now, you must know that
one who puts an end to her will, returns into the origin from which she came,
and the new life, the life of light, the perennial life of my Will, begins in
her. See, when I came upon earth, I wanted to give many examples and
similes of how I wanted the human will to end. I wanted to be born at
midnight, so as to break the night of the human will with the refulgent day of
Mine. And even though at midnight the night continues, it does not finish,
it is yet the beginning of a new day; and my Angels, to give honor to my birth
and to point out to everyone the day of my Will, from midnight on, gladdened
the vault of the heavens with new stars and new suns, such as to turn the night
into more than daylight. This was the homage that the Angels gave to my
little Humanity, in which resided the full day of the Sun of my Divine Will,
and the calling of the creature into the full day of It. Still little, I
submitted Myself to the so very cruel cut of circumcision, which made Me shed
bitter tears for the pain – and not only Me, but with Me cried my Mama and dear
St. Joseph. It was the cut of the human will that I wanted to make, so
that creatures might let the Divine Will flow within that cut, and so that a
broken will might have life no more - but only Mine, which had run within that
cut in order to begin Its life again.
Still little, I wanted
to flee to Egypt. A tyrannical and iniquitous will wanted to kill Me –
symbol of the human will which wants to kill Mine; and I fled, in order to say
to all: ‘Flee the human will, if you do not want Mine to be
killed.’ My whole life was nothing other than the calling of the Divine
Will into the human. In Egypt I lived like a stranger in the midst of
that people – symbol of my Will, which they keep as though estranged within
their midst; and symbolizing that whoever wants to live in peace and united
with my Will, must live as though estranged from the human will.
Otherwise, there will always be war between the two of them - they are two
irreconcilable wills.
After my exile, I
returned to my fatherland – symbol of my Will which, after Its long exile of
centuries upon centuries, will return to Its dear fatherland, into the midst of
Its children in order to reign. And as I went through these stages in my
life, I kept forming Its Kingdom in Me, and I called It with incessant prayers,
with pains and with tears, to come to reign in the midst of creatures. I
returned to my fatherland and I lived hidden and unknown. Oh! how this symbolizes
the sorrow of my Will which, while living in the midst of the peoples, lives
unknown and hidden. And with my hiddenness, I impetrated that the Supreme
Will be known, that It might receive the homage and the glory which are due to
It. There was nothing I did which did not symbolize a sorrow of my Will,
the condition in which creatures put It, and a call I made in order to return
Its Kingdom to It. And this is what I want your life to be: the
continuous calling of the Kingdom of my Will into the midst of creatures.”
Vol. 20, Jan. 1, 1927In this following passage, which was written well before the first. Jesus also show how he likes to give presents on the New Year. A hint of things to come, a ring that he has prepared to give Luisa when he will "espouse" her. Even though it is to Luisa that he is speaking he holds all these gifts prepared for us as well, for the time when we too might be ready to receive them.
“Come, come to Me. Today is the New Year,
I want to give you a present.” (That morning was precisely the first day
of the year). So, He drew His most pure lips to mine and poured a most
sweet milk; He kissed me, He took a ring from within His side and said to
me: “Today I want to show you the ring I have prepared for you, for when
I espouse you.”
Vol. 1, Luisa resists Jesus when he wants her to suffer, because the confessor’s consent is lacking. Finally, Jesus imposes himself, communicating the state of suffering to her; and as proof to the confessor that this is his Will, he announces the outcome of the war between Italy and Africa.
Happy New Year.
