The Exultation of the Cross and the Value of Love

 

One morning – it was the day of the Exaltation of the Cross – my sweet Jesus transported me to the holy sites; and first, He told me many things about the virtue of the cross.  I don’t remember all, but just a few things:  “My beloved, do you want to be beautiful?  The cross will give you the most beautiful features that can possibly be found, both in Heaven and on earth; so much so, as to enamor God, who contains all beauties within Himself.” 

Jesus continued:  “Do you want to be filled with immense riches - not for a short time, but for all eternity?  Well then, the cross will administer to you all kinds of riches - from the tiniest cents, which are the little crosses, up to the greatest amounts, which are the heavier crosses.  Yet, men are so greedy to earn a temporal penny, which they soon will have to leave, but do not give a thought to earning one eternal cent.  And when I, having compassion for them, in seeing their carelessness for all that regards eternity, kindly offer them the opportunity - instead of cherishing it, they get angry and offend Me.  What human madness – it seems that they understand it upside down.  My beloved, in the cross are all the triumphs, all the victories, and the greatest gains.  You must have no aim other than the cross, and it will be enough for you, in everything. 

Vol. 1, September 14, 1899  The excellence of the cross.  In place of the cross she had till now, Luisa receives another much larger one.

In the first reading on the day of the Exultation of the Cross:

4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” 6 Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Numbers 21: 4-9

When I hear this reading I think of how the people had prayed to have the serpents taken away but God does not do this.  The serpents were a just punishment for complaining.  A balanced counter reaction to their action.  God couldn't just undo it.  Instead he gives them a way out.  He takes the punishment and makes a remedy for it just as he does with Jesus in the crucifixion.  Adam and Eve's action of abandoning the Divine Will for their own was embracing death over life and doomed them and their posterity to die.  So God, instead of undoing the deed and removing the punishment, now gives them a way out of it with the death of his own son Jesus.  He gives them a way to find a remedy from the punishment by using the image of the punishment man still dies but now with looking with the eyes of faith at Jesus' death we find our way through to his life..

Today, however, it seemed that God wanted to go a little deeper with me with this reading.  The punishment with the serpents poisoning them for complaining.  It always seemed a bit harsh to me.  Quite honestly I think if I had gotten bitten by a snake for complaining my first reaction wouldn't be to repent, it would be to graduate to cussing.  But the effects of complaining, of doubting the goodness of God, is just like a poison which continues to encourage greater doubt even to doubting the love of God for us and leads us to spiritual death.  When we doubt God's love for us we fall.  The first step into sin is doubting the love of God, which is death, just as it was with Adam and Eve.

In fact, do you want to know why Adam sinned? Because he forgot that I loved him, and he forgot to love Me. This was the first seed of his fall. Had he thought that I loved him very much and that he was obliged to love Me, he would never have decided to disobey Me. So, love ceased first, and then sin began; and as he ceased to love his God, true love toward himself also ceased. His members and powers rebelled against him; he lost dominion, order, and became fearful. Not only this, but true love toward other creatures ceased, while I had created him with the same love which reigned among the Divine Persons, by which one was to be the image of the other, the happiness, the joy and life of the other. This is why, in coming upon earth, the thing on which I placed greatest importance was that they love one another as they were loved by Me, in order to give them my first love, to let the love of the Most Holy Trinity hover over the earth.

Vol. 16, September 6, 1923

 

The Jews, bitten by the serpents, prayed for the punishment to be taken away but the punishment remained.  When bitten they still suffered the pain of the bite but God gave them a way through it so it would not lead to death.  When we sin we can't avoid or go around the punishment, but God is so good he gives us a way through to the other side.  Now what does this serve.  God is God and can do anything but will not go against Himself and will not do anything that is not useful.  When someone repents what then is the purpose of maintaining the punishment even when there is a way through it.

The true antidote to the poison of sin which causes man to doubt and disbelieve in the love of God is to teach man the true value and cost of love so that he would not cast it aside as flippantly as Adam and Eve did in the garden of Eden and so that in the future he will remember God's love for him in all instances.

Would you not condemn a man who, taken by a childish affection for a child, only to have him around a little bit, to amuse himself with him, would give him a banknote worth a thousand; and the little boy, not knowing the value of it, tears it to a thousand pieces after a few minutes? But if, on the other hand, first he makes the child desire it, then he makes him know its value, then the good which that banknote of a thousand can do for him, and then he gives it to him - that child will not tear it to pieces, but will go put it under lock and key, appreciating the gift and loving the giver more; and you would praise that man who had the ability to make known to the little child the value of money. If man does so, much more I do, who give my gifts with wisdom, with justice and with true love. Here is, therefore, the necessity of the dispositions, of the knowledge of the gift, of the esteem and appreciation, and of love for the gift itself. Therefore, knowledge of It is like the herald of the gift of my Will which I want to give to the creature. Knowledge prepares the way; knowledge is like the contract I want to make of the gift I want to give; and the more knowledge I send to the soul, the more she is spurred on to desire the gift and to solicit the Divine Writer to place the final signature – that the gift is hers and she possesses it. So, the sign that in these times I want to give this gift of my Will is the knowledge of It. Therefore, be attentive not to let anything escape you of what I manifest to you about my Will, if you want Me to place the final signature on the gift which I yearn to give to creatures.”

Vol. 18, December 25, 1925

When God's justice calls a punishment the remedy to the punishment is also a teaching to bring about a greater knowledge and esteem of God's love for us.  He uses everything to always draw us closer to himself.

In the gospel of the same day Jesus tells Nicodemus:   13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.  16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.  17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 

John 3: 13-17

and later in John,

31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people[a] to myself.” 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.

John 12:31-33

When we look at our Savior on the Cross we see the cost of love.  We see the just punishment which is our due for turning away from the Divine Will, the Divine Life and the Divine Love.  We have an advantage that Adam and Eve never had, an example to learn the price that one pays for sinning.  

Poor Adam, how much it cost him to withdraw from my Will.  Just by feeling isolated, no longer surrounded by the cortege of the whole Creation, he felt such fright and horror, that he became the fearful man.  He was afraid of everything – even of my very works; and with reason, because it is said:  ‘One who is not with Me is against Me’.  Since he was no longer linked with them, by justice they were to put themselves against him.  Poor Adam, there is much reason to have compassion for him.  He had no example of anyone else who had fallen, and of the great evil that had occurred to him, so that he might be watchful in order not to fall.  He had no idea of evil.  In fact, my daughter, the evil, the sin, the fall of someone else has two effects:  for one who is evil and wants to fall, it serves as example, as a spur, as an incentive to fall into the abyss of evil; for one who is good and does not want to fall, it serves as antidote, as deterrent, as help and defense so as not to fall.  In fact, seeing the great evil, the misfortune of someone else, serves as an example in order not to fall and not to follow that same path, so as not to find oneself in that same misfortune.  So, the evil of someone else causes one to be watchful and on guard.  Therefore, the fall of Adam is for you a great help, a lesson and a call, while he had no lesson from evil, because, then, evil did not exist.”

Vol. 20, November 10, 1926

Adam and Eve had Divine Love and Life freely given to them with no cost.  They didn't know it's value.  They could not esteem it.  They threw it away because they were not able to know it rightly.  They did not know the cost of sin.  We only have to look at the crucifix and meditate on the Passion of our Lord to understand his incalculable love for us and to understand the horror of sin against God as well as the effects it has on us.  By not removing the punishment which we all have incurred from original sin but by giving us a way to go through it to the other side we now have the opportunity to know God better in his Love for us, to know ourselves better and our dependence on Him, to know the price that we pay when we turn away from His Divine Will and to know God himself and ourselves better.  God can not do useless things but always with highest wisdom, mercy and love to effect the greatest good for each and for all.  God can only Will good. 

He would say:  “My Spouse, virtues become weak if they are not strengthened and fortified by the grafting of the cross.  Before my coming upon earth, pains, confusions, disgraces, calumnies, sufferings, poverty, illnesses, and especially the cross, were considered dishonors; but from the moment they were borne by Me, they were all sanctified and divinized by my contact.  They all changed their appearance, becoming sweet, pleasant, and the soul who has the good of having some of them, receives honor - and this, because she has received the vestment of Me, Son of God.  Only those who look and stop at the cortex of the cross experience the contrary; finding it bitter, they are disgusted by it, they complain, as if someone had done wrong to them.  But those who penetrate into it, finding it enjoyable, form their happiness in it.  My beloved daughter, I yearn for nothing else but to crucify you, body and soul.” 

Vol. 1, Third marriage:  the Marriage of the Cross.

 “If you knew what good the cross contains within itself, how precious it renders the soul, and what a gem of inestimable value one acquires, who has the good of possessing sufferings…  It is enough to tell you only that, in coming upon earth, I did not choose riches or pleasures, but I cherished as dear and intimate sisters, the cross, poverty, sufferings and ignominies.”

Vol. 1, Preciousness of the cross.  Jesus renews Luisa’s crucifixion many times.

Disease as Chastisement, Loss of the Mass and Reparation

Since the world is focused on pandemics at this time I started to look through the Volumes for what was said about these type of world diseases.  He pointedly states that these are chastisements due to the too many offenses from mankind.

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen all embittered and afflicted, and He told me:  “My daughter, my Justice has grown too heavy, and the offenses I receive from men are so many that I can no longer sustain them.  So, the scythe of death is about to harvest much - suddenly and by means of diseases.  The chastisements I will pour upon the world are so many, that they will be a sort of judgment.”  Who can say the so many chastisements He showed me, and how terrified and frightened I was left?  The pain that my soul feels is so great, that I believe it is better to keep silent.

But I continue, because obedience wants it so.  I seemed to see streets filled with human flesh, and blood inundating the ground, and cities besieged by enemies who spared not even children.  They seemed to be like many furies come out of hell; they respected neither churches nor priests.  The Lord seemed to send a chastisement from Heaven - what it is I don’t know; it just seemed to me that we will all receive a mortal blow, and some will be victims of death, others will recover.  I also seemed to see plants withered, and many other troubles which are to come over the harvests.  Oh God, what pain to see these things, and to be forced to manifest them!  Ah, Lord, placate Yourself!  I hope that your Blood and your wounds will be our remedy.  Or rather, pour the chastisements upon this sinner, for I deserve them; or otherwise take me, and then You will be free to do whatever You want; but as long as I live, I will do everything I can to oppose it.

Vol. 2, March 10, 1899


His Justice demands the reparation and must find it's compensation for all the sins of men.

He made me see a multitude of people, who were committing every kind of evil.  Indignant with them, Jesus would make different kinds of contagious diseases swoop down into their midst, and many would die black as charcoal.  It seemed that Jesus would exterminate that multitude of people from the face of the earth.  While seeing this, I prayed Jesus to pour His bitternesses into me, so as to spare the people, but He would not pay attention to me in this either....“My daughter, it is my Justice that wants to pour Itself out over the creatures.  The number of sins in men is almost complete, and Justice wants to come out, to make pomp of Its fury, and to find reparation for the injustices of men.  Look - to show you how embittered I am and to content you a little bit, I want to pour only my breath into you.”  And so, drawing His lips near mine, He sent me His breath, which was so bitter that I felt my mouth, my heart and my whole person being intoxicated.  If His mere breath was so bitter, what must be the rest of Jesus?  He left me with such pain, that I felt my heart pierced through.

Vol. 2, May 9, 1899

I went about looking at my sweet and only Good, and I saw that He was holding two lightnings in His hands:  in one hand, as though equipped, He had a strong earthquake and a war; in the other, many kinds of sudden deaths and contagious diseases.  I began to pray Him to pour those lightnings upon me, and I almost wanted to remove them from His hands, but to prevent me from doing this, He began to move away from me.  I tried to follow Him, and so I found myself outside of myself, but Jesus disappeared from me and I remained alone.

Now, finding myself alone, I went round a little, and I found myself in a place where, in this season, they harvest.  It seemed that uproars of war were happening there, and I wanted to go to help those poor people, but the demons prevented me from going there where such things were about to happen, and they beat me so that I would not be able to help or to prevent their artifices.  They used so much strength as to make me draw back.

Vol.3, November 17, 1899

What she saw at that point which so horrified her was only the beginning of what was being prepared.

...my daughter, the chastisements I am sending are still nothing compared to those which have been prepared.  Therefore, do not want to afflict yourself with these, because they are not a matter of great affliction.”

As He was saying this, in front of me I saw many people affected by contagious diseases, who were dying; so, taken by horror, I said to Him:  ‘Ah! Lord, that’s all we need!  What are You doing? What are You doing?  If You want to do this, take me away from this earth, for my heart cannot bear the sight of scenes so gloomy.  
Vol. 3, July 3, 1900



This will come to the point where it is no longer reparation or chastisement for sins to turn man back to God but these scourges will be used to stop Man's rebellion by destroying him.  Utter destruction. 

As I was in my usual state, I seemed to see the Most Holy Trinity, as if They wanted to resolve what They should do with the world, and I was in Their midst.  It seemed that They were saying:  “If most fierce scourges are not sent to the world, everything is over for it concerning religion, and they will become worse than barbarians themselves.”  And while They were saying this, it seemed that wars of every kind, earthquakes destroying entire cities and diseases were coming down upon earth.  On seeing this, all trembling, I said:  ‘Supreme Majesty, forgive the human ingratitude; now more than ever the heart of man has rebelled, but if man sees himself being mortified he will rebel even more, adding outrages upon outrages against your Majesty.’  And a voice coming from Their midst said:  “Man can rebel when he is merely mortified, but when he is destroyed his rebellion ceases.  Here We speak not of mortification, but of destruction.”

Vol. 4, December 30, 1902

Continuing in my usual state, I just barely saw blessed Jesus and many purging souls, whom Jesus Christ was sending to the help of the peoples.  It seemed that many disgraces of contagious diseases were to happen to the peoples, and earthquakes in some places.  Some were killing themselves, some were throwing themselves into wells or into the sea, and some were killing others.  It seems that man is tired of himself, because without God he does not feel the strength to continue living.  Oh, God, how many chastisements, and how many thousands of people will be victims of these scourges!

Vol. 7, March 9, 1906

The Queen Mother intervenes on our behalf but not with complete deliverance from the scourges.

Then, around nighttime, Jesus came back with the Queen Mama, calling me by name, as if they wanted me to pay attention.  How beautiful it was to see Mama and Jesus speaking to each other.  The Celestial Mama was saying:

“My Son, what are You doing?  What You want to do is too much.  I have the rights of Mother, and I grieve that my children have to suffer so much.  You want to open Heaven to scourges, and destroy creatures and the food that will serve to nourish them; with infectious diseases You want to inundate them.  What shall they do?  You say that You love this daughter of mine - how much will she suffer if You do this.  So as not to embitter her, You will not do it.” 

And She pulled Him toward Me; but Jesus, determined, answered:

“I cannot.  I divert many evils because of her - but not everything.  My Mama, let us allow the whirl of evils to pass, so that they may surrender.”

Vol 12, May 28, 1918

And if one should think that all of these predictions have already occurred in the past and are not relevant to today or tomorrow this one shows that they are still relevant to us.  Even though it was written during WWI it still has yet to come to completion.  He even says that it will not be soon but it will come to pass.

“Now I want to tell you something consoling.  Italy, France, now win, and Germany loses.  All nations have some black stains, and all of them deserve humiliations and crushings.  There will be a general uproar - confusion everywhere; by the sword, by fire and by water, by sudden deaths, by contagious diseases, I will renew the world - I will make new things.  The nations will form a sort of tower of Babel; they will reach the point of being unable even to understand one another; the peoples will rebel among themselves, they will no longer want kings.  All will be humiliated, and peace will come only from Me.  And if you hear them say ‘peace’, it will not be true, but apparent.  Once I have purged everything, I will place my finger in a surprising way, and will give the true peace.  And then, all those who are humiliated will return to Me; and Germany will be Catholic - I have great designs upon her; England, Russia, and every place where blood was shed, will rise again to faith and will be incorporated into my Church.  There will be the great triumph and the union of peoples.  Therefore, pray - and it takes patience, because this will not be so soon, but it will take time.”

Vol. 12, October 16, 1918

The diseases that Luisa sees could only be compared to leprosy and we all know what a dread disease that was in history, and still continues in some places to this day.  She sees diseases which will touch all Nations.

I found myself outside of myself, and I saw as if contagious diseases were to come, and many were carried to leper hospitals. A general fright was reigning, and many other maladies of new kinds. But I hope that Jesus may want to placate Himself by the merits of His most precious Blood.

Vol. 15, June 21, 1923

my sweet Jesus escaped me like a flash, and I wanted to follow Him, but, to my highest bitterness, in that flash I saw that contagious diseases were to come, which will spread almost in all nations, not excluding our Italy.  It seemed that many were dying of it, to the extent of depopulating homes.  In several nations the scourge would rage more strongly, but almost all of them will be touched.  It seems that they hold hands in offending the Lord, and Our Lord touches everyone with the same scourges.  But I hope that He may want to placate Himself, so the peoples will suffer less.
Vol 20, December 29, 1926

Jesus makes it very clear that the human will acting on its own without the Divine Will to preserve the soul and body is to blame for contagions which cause disease.  Without the Divine Will reigning in the creature the human will emits putrid clouds which poison the body in the same way that the soul is poisoned.  The only true cure is for the Divine Will to once again reign in the creature so that it can be healed by receiving again the Divine life which will heal and overcome all the evils of the human nature.




Now, as Adam sinned, his human will remained alone, and he no longer had the one who would diffuse in his will the light, the varieties of so many fragrances which, being transfused outside, preserved the soul and the body as it had been created by God. Instead, thick clouds, putrid air, perfumes of weakness and of miseries began to emanate from within his human will, in such a way that the body also lost its freshness, its beauty. It became debilitated and remained subject to all evils, sharing in all the evils of the human will, just as it had shared in the good. So, if the human will is healed by receiving again the life of my Divine Will, all the evils of the human nature will have life no more, as if by magic.

Does, perhaps, the same not happen when a putrid, bad, stinking air surrounds the creatures? How many more evils does it not increase, as the stink reaches the point of taking one’s breath away, penetrating deep into one’s bowels, to the extent of producing contagious diseases that lead one to the tomb? And if some air from outside can cause so much harm, much greater harm can the foggy and putrid air of the human will cause, which comes from within the creature, from the depth of her whole being. And then, there is the palpable example of the plants. How many times, in a garden or a flowery field for which the farmer was all in feast hoping for an abundant harvest or expecting to pick many beautiful fruits, a fog was enough to strip the trees and make all the fruits fall to the ground, or an air too cold was enough to cast mourning over the flowery field, to blacken it and make it die, putting the poor farmer in mourning.        

If the air is good, it communicates the life of good; if it is bad, it communicates the life of evil, and even death. The exhalation of the air, if it is good, can be called life; if it is bad, it can be called death for the poor creatures. If you knew how much I suffered in my public life, when blind, mute people, lepers etc. presented themselves before Me… In them I recognized all the exhalations of the human will, and how man, without my Will, becomes deformed in soul and body. In fact, only my Fiat has the virtue of preserving Our works whole, fresh and beautiful, as they came out of Our creative hands.”          
Vol 24, July 7, 1928

Luisa constantly strove to repair and lessen all the chastisements that she witnessed.  In the beginning Volumes she frequently spoke about how she would do this and Jesus, himself, would teach her.  It begins by identifying oneself with Jesus so that everything is done together with him united in his Will.

“If you want to be safe, repair always, and repair together with Me.  Identify yourself with Me so much, as to form one single echo of reparations between Me and you.  Wherever there is reparation, the soul is as though under shelter, where she is protected from cold, from hail and from everything.  But where there is no reparation, it is like being out in the middle of the street, exposed to lightnings, to hail and to all evils.  Times are most sad, and if the circle of reparations does not expand, there is the danger that those who remain uncovered may be struck by the lightnings of Divine Justice.”

Vol. 12,  June 4, 1918 

Prayer, adoration and reparation disarm Divine Justice.  Arguments and worry do nothing.

‘My beloved Jesus, when it is about chastisements, one must no longer argue, but only pray.’  And so I began to pray, to kiss His wounds, and to make acts of reparation.  And while I was doing this, every now and then He would say to me:  “My daughter, do not use violence on Me.  By doing this, you want to use violence on Me by force; therefore, calm yourself.”

Vol. 3,  October 30, 1899

One particular was Luisa used was the Laudate Dominum, (click on link,) which she prayed in union with Jesus for all mankind.  It's so important to praise the Lord at all times.  Truly ingratitude is a horrible offense against such a generous, merciful God.

 ‘Do You want some reparation?  Let us do it together; in this way my reparations, united to Yours, will have the effects of Yours, for if I do them on my own I believe they will disgust You more.’  So I took His hand, dripping with blood, and kissing it, I recited the Laudate Dominum [Praise the Lord] with the Gloria Patri [Glory Be] – Jesus one part, I the other – to repair for the many evil works that are committed, placing the intention of praising Him as many times for as many offenses as He receives because of evil works.  How moving it was to see Jesus praying!  Then I continued to do the same to the other hand, placing the intention of praising Him as many times for as many offenses as He receives because of sins of causes.  Then, His feet, with the intention of praising Him as many times for as many evil steps and as many wrong paths which are covered, even under the appearance of piety and sanctity.  Lastly, His Heart, with the intention of praising Him for as many times as the human heart does not palpitate, does not love, and does not desire God.  My beloved Jesus seemed all refreshed by these reparations done together with Him...

Vol. 4, January 5, 1901 

Another way was to recite three Glory Be's, again in union with Jesus, to repair for all the glory that creatures owe God, followed by a Hail Mary as well to repair for the glory owed to Her.

 ‘Dear little One of my heart, let us recite three Glory Be’s, placing the intention of giving to your Divinity all the glory that the creature owes It, so You will receive at least a reparation.’  And He:  “Yes, yes, let us recite them.”  So we recited them together.  Then we recited one Hail Mary, placing the intention of giving the Queen Mother also all the glory that creatures owe Her.  Oh, how beautiful it was to pray with blessed Jesus!  I felt so much at ease that I said:  ‘My beloved, how I would like to make the profession of faith in your hands by reciting the Creed together with You.’  And He:  “The Creed you will recite by yourself, because that is for you, not for Me, and you will say it in the name of all creatures so as to give Me more glory and honor.”  So I placed my hands in His and I recited the Creed. 

Vol. 6, April 26, 1904 

The best way is to act with the intention of always living in the Divine Will.  This way Jesus, Himself, disposes the intentions for all of one's acts as best pleases Him.  And this fusing oneself in the Divine Will several times a day serves to maintain the balance of all reparations, satisfaction and glory owed to the Father just as Jesus did in his Humanity.

Another time I was thinking about what would be the best way to offer our actions, prayers, etc. - whether as reparations, as adorations, etc.  And my always benign Jesus told me: 

“My daughter, one who is in my Will and does her things because I want it, does not need to dispose her intentions herself.  Since she is in my Will, as she operates, prays, suffers, I Myself dispose these things as I best please.  Do I like reparation?  I place them as reparation.  Do I like love?  I take them as love.  Being the owner, I do with them whatever I want.  Not so for those who are not in my Will:  they are the ones who dispose, and I comply with their will.” 

 Vol. 11,  September 29, 1912 

 Know, however, that your mere fusing yourself in Me every day, and several times a day, serves to maintain the balance of all the reparations, because only one who enters into Me and takes from Me the origin of everything she does, can balance the reparations of everyone and of everything.  She can balance the glory of the Father on the part of creatures, because, since in Me is an eternal origin, an Eternal Will, I was able to balance everything:  satisfaction, reparation and complete glory of the Celestial Father on the part of all.   “So, as you enter into Me, you come to renew the balance of all the reparations and of the glory of the Eternal Majesty.  And do you think this is little?  Don’t you yourself feel that you cannot do without it, and that I do not leave you if, before, I do not see you fuse yourself in all my single parts, to receive from you the balance of all the reparations, as you substitute in the name of the whole human family?  Try, as much as you can, to repair Me for everything.  If you knew how much good the world receives when a soul, without a shadow of personal interest, but only for love of Me, rises between Heaven and earth and, united with Me, balances the reparations of all!” 

Vol. 12,  September 3, 1919

Know however that when we repair in the Divine Will we form Suns through which God looks at the earth making the earth less "disgusting" to God.  But man's sins often reduce the effect of the light on the earth.

 I said:  ‘Jesus, I multiply my thoughts in your Will, to give to each one of your thoughts a kiss of a divine thought, an adoration, a recognition of You, a reparation, a love of divine thoughts, as if another Jesus were doing it.  And this, in the name of all and for all the human thoughts, past, present and future; and I intend to compensate even for the intelligences of lost souls.  I want that the glory of all creatures be complete, and that no one miss the roll-call; and what they do not do, I do in your Will, to give You divine and complete glory.” Then, looking at me, Jesus was waiting, as if He wanted a reparation to His eyes.  And I said:  ‘Jesus, I multiply myself in your gazes, so that I too may have as many gazes for as many times as You have gazed upon the creature with love; in your tears, so that I too may cry for all the sins of creatures, to be able to give You, in the name of all, gazes of divine love and divine tears, to give You complete glory and reparation for all the gazes of all creatures.’ Then, Jesus wanted me to continue the reparations to everything - to His mouth, to His Heart, to His desires, etc., multiplying everything in His Will, such that it would be too long for me to say everything, therefore I move forward.  Then Jesus added: 

“My daughter, as you were doing the acts in my Will, many suns were formed between Heaven and earth; and I look at the earth through these suns, otherwise the earth would be so disgusting to Me that I would not be able to look at it.  But the earth receives little of these suns, because the darkness that they spread is such that, as it comes up against these suns, they can receive neither all the light, nor the heat.”

Vol. 12,  April 7, 1919 

Now as to the recent loss of public Mass.  Jesus stated that the offenses against the Sacraments, particularly those against the Most Holy Mass, would become so great that churches would remain deserted with no one to administer the Sacraments.  The pain of the loss of the Sacraments felt by those who want to receive them will be used as reparation for those who ignore or disdain them.

“My Justice can take no more.  I feel wounded by everyone – by priests, by devout people, by the secular, especially because of the abuse of the Sacraments.  Some do not care about them at all, adding despises; others, who attend them, turn them into a conversation for their own pleasure; and others, not satisfied in their whims, because of this reach the point of offending Me.  Oh, how tortured my Heart is in seeing the Sacraments reduced to painted pictures, or like those statues of stone which seem to be alive and operating from afar, but as one draws near them, one begins to discover the deceit.  Then, one goes about touching them, and what does he find?  Paper, stone, wood - inanimate objects; and here is how they are disillusioned completely.  This is how the Sacraments have been reduced for the most part – there is nothing but mere appearance.  What to say, then, about those who remain more filthy than clean?  And then, the spirit of interest that reigns among the religious – it is something to be wept over!  Don’t you think that they are all eyes where there is a most wretched penny, to the point of degrading their dignity?  But where there is no interest they have no hands nor feet to move a tiny bit.  This spirit of interest fills their interior so much that it overflows outside, to the point that the secular themselves feel the stench of it, are scandalized by it, and this causes them to give no credence to their words.  Ah, yes, no one spares Me!  There are some who offend Me directly, and some who, though they could prevent so much evil, do not bother doing it; so, I do not know to whom to turn.  But I will chastise them in such a way as to render them incapable, and some I will destroy completely.  They will reach such a point that churches will remain deserted, with no one to administer the Sacraments.” 

Interrupting His speaking, all frightened I said:  ‘Lord, what are You saying?!  If there are some who abuse the Sacraments, there are also many good daughters who receive them with the due dispositions, and who would suffer very much if they could not attend them.’  And He:  “Too scarce is their number; and then, their pain for not being able to receive them will work as reparation for Me, and to make them victims for those who abuse them.”  Who can say how tormented I was left by these words of blessed Jesus?  But I hope that He will placate Himself out of His infinite Mercy. 

Vol. 2, September 30, 1899 

Jesus early on told Luisa how important the Eucharistic Sacrament was and that in it he repeated constantly everything he did in his 33 years of life on the earth.  He wanted her to unite herself in thought with him in the Sacrament at the altar 33 times a day to repeat all of his intentions and honor each year of his life.

3. As for the visits and the acts of reparation, you must know that everything I did in the course of thirty-three years, from when I was born up to when I died, I am continuing in the Sacrament of the altar.  Therefore I want you to visit Me thirty-three times a day, honoring my years and also uniting with Me in the Sacrament with my own intentions – that is, reparation, adoration… You will do this at all times:  with the first thought of the morning, fly before the tabernacle in which I am present for love of you, and visit Me; and also with the last thought of the evening, while you sleep at night, before and after your meal, at the beginning of each one of your actions, while walking, working…” 

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.



Truly we have much to repair for all mankind.

Kindness and truth shall meet;

justice and peace shall kiss.

Truth shall spring out of the earth,

and justice shall look down from heaven.

Psalm 85:10-11

This Psalm always strikes me deeply when I come across it.  It's the promise of the fulfillment of the Kingdom.  It's the promise of true justice and true peace.  It's the promise of the reconciliation between heaven and earth and their union.  It's full promise has yet to be revealed and fulfilled.

It seems truth, on earth, is more often hard and cold.  Justice is often severe and oppressive or it is not just at all.  The earth seems to breed lies and deception and we all wait for the next "shoe to drop" from Heaven on us.  Jesus tells us that we ourselves close the door on Heaven.  That pride blinds us making us unable to see the truth.

In these sad times their pride is so great that they have poisoned all the air; and the stench that spreads everywhere is such that it has reached even before my throne in Heaven.  They act in such a way as to close Heaven by themselves.  The miserable ones do not have eyes to know the truth, because they are obfuscated by the sin of pride, followed by the other vices which they bring with themselves. 

Vol. 1, The victim begins to perform her office, taking part in the pains of Jesus crowned with thorns, to make reparation for sins, especially pride.  Fasting begins for Luisa.


In opposition to pride which blinds us, only simplicity and humility draws Jesus to communicate his truths to the soul.  Learned, even holy people that lack this lack the foundation to touch the supernatural for all of their science, doctrine and holiness.

Then He showed me many religious people and, among them, priests - even of holy life.  But as good as they were, they lacked that spirit of simplicity in believing in the many graces and the many ways the Lord uses with souls.  Jesus said to me:  “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 

Divine truth, by it's own nature, is infinite light, which is love.  It attracts love and causes an increase in love.  One truth is enough light to fill all of Heaven and earth.

Whence I did how much more I could to abandon all of myself in the Divine Will, and I thought of the so many truths that Blessed Jesus had manifested to me concerning his Holy Volition.  Every truth embraced the infinite and contained so much light as to fill Heaven and earth; and I felt the strength of the light and the weight of the infinite, that invading all of me with an indescribable love they invited me to love them and to make them mine with putting them into practice.

Vol. 29, February 13, 1931



Each truth revealed by God to the soul is a bond with God.  It is a divine property, which forms the Divine residence for God himself.  This can occur only in a soul where the Divine Will reigns.

Each truth revealed by God to man is a gift of priceless value, another bond that God makes with man.  It is a divine property endowed to the creature.  Only in one who lives in his Will can a creature contain the the full potential of these properties.  Each one carries with it a unique gift of God's distinct attributes which bind the creature more and more to God and God to her.

...do you want to know what are our most beautiful gifts that we make the creature?  To manifest to her a knowledge of our Supreme Being, a truth that pertains to us, one secret of ours is the most beautiful gift that we make her; each of these gifts is one more bond that we put between Her and us, our every truth is a property that we put in her soul.  Behold therefore that in the soul where our Will reigns we find our Divine foods, our property for how much it is possible for a creature, our residence, hence we find ourselves in our house, in our center, in the midst of our properties.  Do you see therefore what it means to make our Will reign and the great good to make you know our truths?  Our every knowledge carries, each one, its distinct gift, some carry his light, some fortitude, some goodness, some wisdom, some love and so on, each one of them binds the creature in a special way to God and God to her.  

Vol. 29,  August 3, 1931





God wants to make a permanent residence with each of his creatures but He can only do this in a creature where his Will reigns, where the creature allows herself to be touched by his light.  So that the light of his truths fecundates, forms, purifies, and beautifies the creature.

“My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Will always has something to do with the light, never with the darkness; and since the light is fertile, it gives birth in the soul to the truths that It possesses.  The virtue of the light is marvelous and miraculous, and while with looking one doesn’t see other than light, inside it possesses the fullness of goods, but it doesn’t communicate these goods to one who only looks, but to one who lets herself be touched, molded, embraced, kissed with its ardent kisses, as it touches it purifies, as it molds it transforms, as it embraces thus it encloses its light in the soul and with its fecundity that doesn’t know how to ever be idle, its work is incessant, it communicates the beautiful rainbow of the colors and divine beauties, and with its kisses it infuses the most beautiful truths and the ineffable secrets of its Creator.  Living in the light of my Divine Will and not to be able to be light of the divine things, of our secrets, to not feel the fecundating virtue of this light, would be as if God might want to make life separate from his creature; instead it was this the unique purpose that we want that our Will be also that of the creature, because we want to make life together and permanent with her.  Hence it would be absurd to live in my Volition and to not feel the fecundity of his goods that this light possesses, that is that of making life of God (the) same (with) the creature.”
Vol. 29, July 23, 1931

Only Jesus is capable of guarding these truths which he does from within the creature.  These truths are the guarantee that God's Kingdom will come upon the earth and that it has already begun it's reign.

“My daughter, every word that I have said to you on my Divine Will has been none other than so many little visits that I have made you, leaving in you the substance of the good that every word of mine contains.  And not entrusting myself to you, because you were incapable of guarding one single word of mine, I left myself to guard the infinite value of my truths that I deposed in your soul.  Hence your fears are not just.  I am at watch over everything.  They are celestial truths, stuff of heaven, outlets of repressed love of my Will, and for so many centuries.  And before deciding to speak to you, already I have decided to remain in you in order to guard that which I deposed in you.  You enter into the secondary order, I am the first custodian.

“Now these little visits of mine being bearers of celestial stuff, you will bring them with you into the Celestial Country as triumph of my Will, and as guarantee that his kingdom will not only come upon the earth, but that he has established his beginning of his reign.  Those that will remain upon the paper will leave in perennial memory that my Will wants to reign in the midst of the human generations, and they will be spurs, incitements, divine supplications, irresistible force, celestial messengers, commanders of the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat; and also powerful reproach to one whom should occupy themselves to make such a good known; and that for laziness and for vain fears they won’t leave themselves to turn through all the world, so that they bring the cheerful news of the happy era of the Kingdom of my Will.  Therefore abandon yourself in me and leave me to do it.”

Vol. 30, January 24, 1932

All of the truths that God manifests to the creature are pledges that God makes in establishing his Kingdom.  The more the creature embraces these truths and turns in them the more pledges God makes to the creature.

“My Will is everything and in order to give himself to the creature he wants to be recognized, he wants to have (something) to do, wants to bargain over it with her; and how much more [the creature] visits him in his acts, so much more does [my Will] find himself pledged and arranged and he commences the disbursement of his capital.  All the truths, the knowledges that I have made you on the Divine Will have they not been perhaps capital that I have made to your soul?  And he is so very exuberant that he can fill the whole entire world with light, with love, with sanctity, with graces, with peace.  And has it not perhaps been after a turn that you have done in his acts, that I already await you with all love in order to give you his pledges and advances that his kingdom would come upon the  earth?  You gave your pledges, and my Fiat gave his to you.  One can say that every truth and word that he said in his regard were dispositions that he took as to form this kingdom, levy that he called in order to form his army, capital that he disbursed in order to maintain it, joys and delights in order to attract them, divine fortitude in order to conquer them; because first we do the deeds, we order everything, and then we demonstrate and we make known the deeds that we have done.

Vol. 30, January 12, 1932




In order to obtain more truths one must put into practice and act on the truths that one has received.  So that Heaven opens itself only over those who work, who are willing to to make a labor of love and make their walk always toward God.

...many times I am waiting for the conclusion of your acts in order to give you the surprise to make known to you other truths.  These like so many puffs of light and of heat perform by maturing in your soul the goods and truths that your Jesus has communicated to you.  Do you see therefore the necessity of your acts in order to dispose you to receive other knowledges on my Divine Fiat, it is in order to let me find in you the continuation of your acts in order to make them mature, otherwise what could I do?  I would remain as Sun that while it crosses over the earth, it doesn’t find either a flower to color or a fruit to mature, so that all the admirable effects that the Sun contains would remain in its light, the earth would receive nothing.  Therefore Heaven opens over working souls, the miraculous strength of the light of my Divine Volition, not over idle souls, but over those that labor, that sacrifice themselves, that love, that always hold something to do for me.

Vol. 29, September 16, 1931



With his truths becomes formed and maintained perfect order, and perennial peace.  The clear, beautiful sky of Heaven finds it echo in the creature and Divine Justice takes up it's rule which does not oppress but loves and calls forth love.

And my every single truth has the virtue to occupy an office in order to maintain the perfect order, (the) perennial peace; it will be the echo of Heaven, and [creatures] will swim within a sea of graces, of happiness, under a sun that doesn’t know clouds; the sky will be always serene.  My truths upon my Divine Will will be the only laws that will dominate; (for) creatures that will enter to live in this kingdom laws not of oppression but of love, that sweetly will make themselves loved, because in them [creatures] will find the strength, the harmony, the happiness, the abundance of all goods. 

Vol. 30, March 27, 1932 




What seems complicated to us and seemingly impossible is most simple to God who is by nature simple.  The fruit of  justice and truth is simplicity which allows the creature to penetrate everywhere like God.

“The daughter of justice is truth.  Just as I am the eternal Truth, and I do not deceive, nor can I deceive, in the same way, the soul who possesses justice makes truth shine in all of her actions.  Therefore, since she knows by experience the true light of truth, if someone wants to deceive her, since that light which she feels within herself is missing, she immediately recognizes the deceit.  And so it happens that with this light of truth she deceives neither herself, nor her neighbor, nor can she be deceived.  The fruit produced by this justice and by this truth is simplicity, which is another quality of my Being – being simple; so much so, that I penetrate everywhere; there is nothing that can prevent Me from penetrating inside of it.  I penetrate into Heaven and into the abysses, into good and into evil; but my Being, which is most simple, by penetrating even into evil, does not get dirty; even more, it does not receive the slightest shadow.  In the same way, through justice and truth, gathering this beautiful fruit of simplicity within herself, the soul penetrates into Heaven, she enters into hearts to lead them to Me, she penetrates into everything that is good; and if she finds herself with sinners and sees the evil that they do, she does not get dirty because, being simple, she immediately brushes it off, without receiving any harm.  Simplicity is so beautiful, that my Heart is wounded at one gaze alone of a simple soul.  She is the admiration of angels and men.”

Vol. 2, August 10, 1899 





And so the fulfillment of Psalm 85:10-11 is seen with the creature living in the Divine Will.  The Kingdom of God becomes formed within her and His truths spring up from within her earth, that is her body, and she takes on the likeness of God in his simplicity forming the reflection of Heaven so that God's Justice reigns in the full expression of his love.