What's the deal with Purgatory?

I wanted to explore the topic of Purgatory, especially in the Volumes, and it has taken me much longer than I would have ever imagined plus my life seems to have gotten in the way as well.  This will once again take more than one post to go through all this material.  Jesus mentions in the Volumes that charity towards the souls in Purgatory is the most pleasing to Him.  He sees these souls as bound closely within Himself but they are helpless to help themselves.  They can't help but love Him but are forced to remain isolated from Him.

 

“The charity most acceptable to Me is toward those who are closest to Me, and those who are closest to Me are the purging souls, because they are confirmed in my grace and there is no opposition between my Will and theirs.  They live continuously in Me, they ardently love Me, and I am forced to see them suffer within Myself, impotent to give themselves the slightest relief on their own.  Oh, how tortured my Heart is by the position of these souls, because they are not far away, but close to Me – not only close, but inside of Me!  And how pleasing to my Heart one who interests himself with them.  Suppose you had a mother or a sister who lived with you in a state of sorrow, incapable of helping themselves on their own, and then someone else, foreign, who lived outside of your house, also in a state of sorrows, but capable of helping himself by himself.  Would you not be more pleased if someone occupied himself with relieving your mother or your sister, rather than the foreign one who can help himself on his own?” 

Vol. 4, Jan. 16, 1901

 

 

This isolation from Jesus is so true that when he had asked Luisa to go to Purgatory in order to suffer some and free certain souls she was afraid and although willing asked that Jesus might come with her.  He told her he couldn't come with her since his very presence would change any sorrows into joys.

He transported me outside of myself, close to a deep place, full of liquid fire, and dark – the mere sight of it struck horror and fright.  Jesus said to me:  “Here is Purgatory, and many souls are crammed in this fire.  You will go to this place to suffer in order to free the souls I choose, and you will do this for love of Me.”

Though trembling a little, immediately I said to Him:  ‘Everything for love of You, I am ready, but You must come with me, otherwise, if You leave me, You do not let Yourself be found any more, and then You make me cry quite a bit.’  And He:  “If I come with you, what would be your Purgatory?  With my presence, those pains would change into joys and contentments for you.”  And I:  ‘I do not want to go alone, but as we go into that fire, You will remain behind my shoulders, so I will not see You, and I will accept this suffering.’

So I went into that place filled with thick darkness, and He followed me from behind.  For fear that He might leave me, I grabbed His hands, holding them tightly upon my shoulders.  As I arrived down there… who can describe the pains that those souls suffered?  They are certainly unutterable for people clothed with human flesh.  But as I entered that fire, it would be destroyed, and the darkness would be dispelled, and many souls would come out, and others would be relieved.

Vol. 3, November 28, 1899



A place full of thick darkness and liquid fire where one is isolated from God.  We think of it as a punishment where souls go to suffer before they are allowed into Heaven but Jesus states instead that it is a mercy of God.  If a soul still had a stain within it and it came before God it would be "the greatest torment for them".  A suffering which he states would surpass the pains of hell.  So as not to torture souls more he firsts allows them to be purged of any stain and then he brings them into his presence.

In fact, if these are without Me, it is because of the sins with which they see themselves smeared, and which prevent them from seeing Me; and they themselves do not dare to come before Me, because before my infinite Sanctity there is not a tiny flaw that can stand before my presence.  And if I allowed them to be before Me, this would be the greatest torment for them, such as surpass the very pains of hell.  The greatest torture I could give to a soul would be to keep her, stained, before Me.  So, in order not to torture her more, first I let her be purged, and then I admit her to my presence.

Vol. 14, April 1, 1922



Jesus, in the Volumes, tells Luisa that the whole purpose of Purgatory is to fill in voids of love in the creature.  If everything is love in the creature and all her acts throughout her life were done with love than there is nothing that Purgatory would do and the creature passes on to Heaven.

I asked: ‘Lord, yesterday I went to confession; if I had died, since confession remits sins, would You not have brought me straight to Heaven?’

And He: “My daughter, it is true that confession remits sins, but the surest and most certain thing to be exempt from Purgatory is love. Love must be the predominant passion in the soul. Love - her thought, her word, her movements… everything, everything must be enveloped by this love. In this way, finding her all love, the Uncreated Love absorbs the created love within Itself. In fact, Purgatory does nothing but fill the voids of love that are present in the soul; and once It has filled these voids, It sends her to Heaven. But if these voids are not there, it is not something that belongs to Purgatory.”

Vol. 8, July 14, 1907


Jesus affirms this again to Luisa telling her that every act must be an encounter with the Will of God so that she might receive all his love and avoid any painful encounters after death. 

Oh! how many moans of sorrows come from the prisons of Purgatory, how many shouts of desperation can be heard from hell, because my Will was not encountered on earth. Therefore, my daughter, may your first act be to encounter my Will; may your first thought and heartbeat be to encounter the eternal heartbeat of my Will, that you may receive all my love. Try to make continuous encounters in everything, that you may be transformed in my Will and I in yours, so as to dispose yourself to make the final encounter with my Will at your last hour. In this way, you will have no painful encounter after your death.”

Vol. 16, July 23, 1923



In  An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory there are several descriptions of Purgatory to try to make people understand it's nature better.

When I spoke to you of the great and the second Purgatory, it was to try to make you understand that there are different stages in Purgatory. Thus I call that stage of Purgatory great or worst where the most guilty souls are, and where I stayed for two years without being able to give a sign of the torments I was suffering. The year when you heard me groaning, when I began to speak to you, I was still in the same place.

In the second Purgatory, which is still Purgatory but very different from the first, one suffers a great deal, but less than in the great place of expiation. Then there is a third stage, which is the Purgatory of desire, where there is no fire. The souls who did not desire Heaven ardently enough, who did not love God sufficiently are there. It is there that I am at this moment. Further, in these three parts of Purgatory, there are many degrees of variation. Little by little, as the soul becomes purified, her sufferings are changed.

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I can tell you about the different degrees of Purgatory because I have passed through them. In the great Purgatory there are several stages. In the lowest and most painful, like a temporary hell, are the sinners who have committed terrible crimes during life and whose death surprised them in that state. It was almost a miracle that they were saved, and often by the prayers of holy parents or other pious persons. Sometimes they did not even have time to confess their sins and the world thought them lost, but God, whose mercy is infinite, gave them at the moment of death the contrition necessary for their salvation on account of one or more good actions which they performed during life. For such souls, Purgatory is terrible. It is a real hell with this difference, that in hell they curse God, whereas we bless Him and thank Him for having saved us.

Next to these come the souls, who though they did not commit great crimes like the others, were indifferent to God. They did not fulfill their Easter duties and were also converted at the point of death. Perhaps they were unable to receive Holy Communion. They are in Purgatory for the long years of indifference. They suffer unheard of pains and are abandoned either without prayers or if they are said for them, they are not allowed to profit by them. There are in this stage of Purgatory religious of both sexes, who were tepid, neglectful of their duties, indifferent towards Jesus, also priests who did not exercise their sacred ministry with the reverence due to the Sovereign Majesty and who did not instill the love of God sufficiently into the souls confided to their care. I was in this stage of Purgatory. In the second Purgatory are the souls of those who died with venial sins not fully expiated before death, or with mortal sins that have been forgiven but for which they have not made entire satisfaction to the Divine Justice. In this part of Purgatory, there are also different degrees according to the merits of each soul. Thus the Purgatory of the consecrated souls or of those who have received more abundant graces, is longer and far more painful than that of ordinary people of the world. Lastly, there is the Purgatory of desire which is called the Threshold. Very few escape this. To avoid it altogether, one must ardently desire Heaven and the vision of God. That is rare, rarer than people think, because even pious people are afraid of God and have not, therefore, a sufficiently strong desire of going to Heaven. This Purgatory has its very painful martyrdom like the others. The deprivation of the sight of our loving Jesus adds to the intense suffering.

An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory



So there are three levels of Purgatory and several degrees within each.  The first is the closest to Hell and only differs in that souls there can still thank and bless the Lord for saving them.  In the second stage are those who still have unfinished expiation of their sins.  Both in the first and second level of Purgatory the souls are subjected to fire.  She refers to the third level of Purgatory as the Purgatory of desire and states that almost everyone must experience this level at least.  Only souls who have no fear of God and who have desired Him above all in life can hope to pass by this stage.  Here the soul experiences the deprivation of God.  But there are some that serve their Purgatory at near the altar and receive relief from the hidden presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.




I have told you there are some souls who do their Purgatory at the foot of the altar. They are not there for faults they have committed in church, because those faults which attack Jesus directly, Jesus present in the Tabernacle, are punished with terrible severity in Purgatory. The souls that are there in adoration are there as a reward for their reverent behavior in the Sacred Presence. They suffer less than if they were in Purgatory itself, and Jesus, whom they contemplate with the eyes of their soul and of faith, softens their pains by His invisible Presence.
An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory


Luisa's parents, through graces received through her sufferings as allowed by Jesus, entered into this third Purgatory.  It was revealed to Luisa that her mother was allowed to enter into the acts of Jesus' humanity.  She was not yet in Heaven proper as Jesus said the Divinity was denied her but that she would also enjoy that soon as well and that everyone must pass through his Humanity before being given access to the Divinity.


⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6

Now, since I do not remember everything distinctly, I will tell of the past, all together and confusedly, starting from where I left when I was praying that He would take my mother to Paradise without her touching Purgatory.  Then, on March 19, the day dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the morning, while I was in my usual state, my mother passed from this life into the sphere of eternity; and blessed Jesus, allowing me to see her as He was taking her, told me:  “My daughter, the Creator takes his creature.”

At that moment, I felt I was being invested, inside and out, with a fire so alive that I felt my bowels, my stomach and all the rest burning; and if I would have something, it would convert into fire, and I would be forced to bring it up immediately after I had swallowed it.  This fire consumed me and kept me alive.  Oh, how I understood the devouring fire of Purgatory which, while consuming the soul, gives her life!  The fire does the office of food, of water, of death and of life; but I was happy in that state.  However, since I had only seen that Jesus had taken her, but He had not showed me where He had taken her, my happiness was not full, and from my very sufferings I would draw concern, since those would be the sufferings of my mother if she was in Purgatory.  And seeing blessed Jesus, who in these days has almost never left me, I would cry and say to Him:  ‘My sweet love, tell me – where did You take her?  I am content that You have taken her away from us, because You keep her with Yourself; but if You do not have her with Yourself, this I do not tolerate, and I will cry so much until You content me.’  And He seemed to enjoy my crying; He would embrace me, He would sustain me, He would dry my tears, and would say to me:  “My daughter, do not fear, calm yourself; and once you have calmed yourself I will let you see her, and you will be very pleased.  Besides, you can have the certainty that I have contented you from the fire that you feel.”

But I would continue to cry, especially when I would see Him, since I felt in my interior that something was still lacking to the beatitude of my mother; so much so, that the people who surrounded me, who had come because of the death of my mother, in seeing me cry so much, thinking that I was crying because of the death of my mother, were almost scandalized, thinking that I had moved away from the Divine Will, when, more than ever, I was swimming in this sphere of the Divine Will.  But I do not appeal to any human tribunal, because it is false – only to the divine, which is full of truth.  And good Jesus was not condemning me; on the contrary, He would compassionate me, and in order to sustain me, He would come more often, almost giving me a reason to cry more, because if He would not come, with whom was I to cry to impetrate what I wanted?  The people were right because they judged from the outside; and then, after all, since I am so very bad, it is no wonder that the others would be scandalized by me.

Then, after quite a few days, as good Jesus came, He told me:  “My daughter, be consoled, for I want to tell you and show you where your mother is.  Since before and after she passed away, you have suffered continuously that which I earned, did and endured for her good in the course of my life, she partakes in what I did and enjoys my Humanity.  Only the Divinity is concealed from her, but It will shortly be unveiled to her as well, and the fire you feel, and your prayers, have served to exempt her from any other pain of senses, which all must have, because my justice, receiving satisfaction from you, could not take it from both.”  At that moment, I seemed to see my mother within an immensity which had no boundaries, and in it there were many delights and joys - for as many words, thoughts, sighs, works, sufferings, heartbeats…; in sum, for everything that the Most Holy Humanity of Jesus Christ contained.  I understood that It is a second Paradise for the Blessed, and in order to enter the Paradise of the Divinity, all must pass through this Paradise of the Humanity of Christ.  Therefore, the fact of having touched no other purgatory had been a most singular privilege for my mother, reserved for very few.  However, I understood that even though she was not amid torments, but rather, amid delights, her happiness was not perfect, but almost halved.
Vol. 7, May 9, 1907



With Luisa's father she was not allowed to suffer as she had for her mother but after some time and graces bestowed and some suffering to mitigate his Purgatory he was allowed into a church so that he could benefit from the presence of Jesus in he sacrament and the masses said.



I continue by saying that only about ten days had passed from the death of my mother, when my father fell gravely ill, and the Lord made me understood that he too would die. I gave him to Him as a gift in advance, and I repeated the same pleas which I made for my mother – that He should not let him touch Purgatory. But the Lord showed Himself more reluctant, and would not listen to me. I feared greatly, not for his salvation, because good Jesus had made me a solemn promise almost fifteen years before that, of my family and of those who belong to me, no one would be lost; but I feared very much about Purgatory. I kept praying, but good Jesus would hardly come. Only on the day my father died, that is, after about fifteen days of illness, did blessed Jesus make Himself seen, all benign, clothed in white, as if He were in feast, and He told me: "Today I am waiting for your father, and for love of you I will let Myself be found, not as a judge, but as a benign father. I will welcome him in my arms." I insisted about Purgatory, but He did not listen to me, and He disappeared. After my father died, I did not have any new suffering as had happened with my mother, and from this I understood that he had gone to Purgatory. I prayed and prayed again, but Jesus would make Himself seen flashing by, without giving me time; and what’s more, I could not even cry because I had no one with whom to cry, and the One who, alone, could listen to my crying, would run away from me. Adorable judgments of God, in His ways.

Then, after two days of interior pains, while I was seeing blessed Jesus and asking Him about my father, I felt he was behind the shoulders of Jesus Christ, as though bursting into tears and asking for help; and then they disappeared. I was left lacerated in my soul, and I kept praying. Finally, after six days, as I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, inside a church, and there were many purging souls. I was praying to Our Lord that He would at least let my father come inside a church to make his purgatory, because I could see that the souls in the churches receive continuous reliefs from the prayers and Masses that are said, and much more, from the real presence of Jesus in the Sacrament; it seems that that is a continuous refreshment for them. At that moment, I saw my father, venerable in his appearance, and Our Lord let me place him near the Tabernacle. So it seems I was left less lacerated in my interior.
Vol. 7, May 9, 1907

An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory

I've been doing some research through the Volumes and on the Internet concerning Purgatory as it came up prominently in the last post.  Although I haven't finished this yet and don't have anything ready I did come across something that I think shouldn't wait.

There was a French Sister who received visits from another Sister who had died in her community and had gone to Purgatory.  She appeared to Sr. M. de L. C. by the grace of God so that by instructing her and guiding her to become a Saint she herself would be released from Purgatory.  The manuscript is far too long to post but I wanted to make it available to people to read.  It is filled with great insights and lessons both on Purgatory and more so on lessons on how to live one's life.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I am.

 Manuscript of Sr. M. de L. C.

Divine Air and the Divine Fire of Love

The last post ended on the desire of God to renew the relations with the creature as Father and child so that he/she might receive all the inheritance God wants to endow him/her with.  This can only occur with the soul living in the Divine Will and breathing the Divine air continuously.  It is a continuous communion which is maintained and safeguarded by the breath of God.

“Daughter of my Will, my omnipotent breath gives you the life of my Will.  In fact, for one who does my Will, my Will administers to her Its breath as life; and as It breathes upon her, It moves away from her all that does not belong to Me, and she breathes nothing but the air of my Will.  And just as the air is inhaled and exhaled, the same for the soul:  it is a continuous receiving of Myself and giving of herself to Me at each breath. 

Vol. 14, March 21, 1922



This is a mutual communion where the one feeds and nourishes the other.  In this way God brings about the communication of all his goods with the creature so that he can regenerate in her all that which was lost from the fall.

And since the creature is one of our works, we want to find in her our Will as life, so that not only she but all her works serve us (for) food and we for exchange give her our food.  This feeding each other with the same foods forms the agreement between God and the creature.  This agreement produces peace, communication of goods, inseparability; it seems that the divine breath/[fiato] breathes in the creature and that of hers in God, that they unite so much as to feel as if the breath/[fiato] of the one (is) as if it might be one alone with the other.  Hence agreement of Will, agreement of love, of works happen.  We feel that breath/[fiato] that we put forth in the Creation of man, that he broke with doing his will, is reborn anew in the creature; our Will holds the virtue and office to regenerate in her that which she has lost with sin and to reorder her as she went forth from our creative hands.”

Vol. 30, February 10, 1932



This living in the Divine Will and breathing the Divine air of God does not just pass on spiritual goods but allows the soul to acquire the true visage of a true child of God.  So that the creature becomes in appearance, manners, in the way they speak, pray and love a true and legitimate child of God once more. 

“My daughter, since you are born in my Will, it is necessary, it is right and decorous that you live, grow and be nourished in It, and that you acquire the prerogatives of a true daughter of my Volition.  No extraneous feature, nor anything which does not belong to my Will must appear in you.  Therefore, from your physiognomy, from your manners, from your speaking, and even from the way you love and pray, it must be recognized that you are the daughter of my Will.  Do you see, then, how I love you, and with what jealousy I keep you and nourish you?  With my very breath, because only my breath can preserve, whole and permanent, the Life of my Will in one who must live in my Volition.  And so, that breath which, with so much love, I released from my bosom in the creation of man, to infuse in him my likeness, I continue to infuse in the soul who lives in my Will, in order to form my true images and the great portents which I had established to form in Creation, and for which all things were made. 

Vol. 19, May 1, 1926




But people pay no mind to this Divine life, this spiritual air and reject it.  The Divine air for the soul however is of the same if not more importance as the natural air for the body, without it there can be no health or life.

“My daughter, in creating man, in order to preserve his life, I formed around him the air of the body and the air of the soul: the natural air for the body, the air of my Will for the soul. Do you believe that the natural air, only because it is air, has the virtue of giving respiration to man, and strength, nourishment, freshness and vegetation to all nature? So, even though it cannot be seen, the air has everything in its power and constitutes itself life of each created being. Therefore, all feel the necessity of the air, and the air follows its course everywhere, at night and at daytime; it penetrates into the beating of the heart, into the circulation of the blood – everywhere. But do you know why it contains so much virtue? Because in the air there is the whole substance of the goods it produces; the nourishing, the respiratory and the vegetative strength were placed by God in the air, and it contains as though many seeds of all the good it encloses.

Now, if air was needed for the preservation of all nature, air was also needed for the preservation of the soul; and my goodness did not want to entrust or form another air for the soul, but my very Will wanted to constitute Itself air for the soul, so that all the substance of the goods It contains, like air, though invisible, might penetrate into the depth of the soul and bring her the divine nourishment, the vegetation and all goods, the respiratory virtue of all that is Heaven, the invincible strength, the fecundity of all virtues. There should be a contest - the body, in breathing the natural air, and the soul, in breathing the air of my Will. Yet, there is enough to cry! If creatures feel the natural air lacking, they procure it for themselves by going up to high mountains, and they express with sorrow the lack of air; but they have not one thought or sorrow for the air of my Will. Even though creatures are forced to be as though soaked with the air of my Will, because they do not love this balsamic and sanctifying air, It cannot place in the soul the goods It contains, and It is forced to remain there sacrificed, without being able to carry out the life It contains. Therefore, my daughter, I recommend to you – if you want my Will to fulfill Its designs within you, always breathe the air of my Will, so that, as you breathe it, the Divine Life may vegetate in you, and It may lead you to the true purpose for which you were created.”

Vol. 17, November 23, 1924

Only by breathing this Divine air can the creature receive the balm to all evils that are produced by the human will which would otherwise make her sick and weak.  Instead she receives peace, sanctity, happiness, purity and a Divine love which burns everything.

 

My Will possesses an enrapturing beauty which, if it makes itself seen with clarity even just once, enraptures, embellishes, casting its waves of beauties over the soul, in such a way that they will not easily be able to forget a beauty so rare, and will remain as though in the maze of Its beauty, unable to get out. It possesses an enchanting power, and the soul remains fixed within Its sweet enchantment. It possesses a balsamic air, such that, as it is breathed, they will feel, enter into themselves, the air of peace, of sanctity, of divine harmony, of happiness, of the light that purifies everything, of the love that burns everything, of the power that conquers everything, in such a way that this air will bring the celestial balm to all the evils produced by the bad, morbid and deadly air of the human will. See, also in the human life, air acts in a surprising way. If the air is pure, good, healthy, fragrant, the respiration is free, the blood circulation is regular, and creatures grow strong, nourished, rosy and healthy. But if the air is bad, stinking and infected, the respiration is hampered, the blood circulation is irregular; and not receiving the life of the pure air, creatures are weak, pale, gaunt and sickly. The air is the life of creatures - they cannot live without it; but there is a great difference between good and bad air. So it is with the air of the soul. The air of my Will maintains life pure, healthy, holy, beautiful and strong, as it came out from the womb of its Creator. The deadly air of the human will deforms the poor creature, it makes her descend from her origin, and she grows as sick, weak, such as to arouse pity.”

Vol. 23, October 30, 1927

 

 

In the previous post it mentioned how we are each created an image of God, a little flame of love.  This fire of love is meant to be directed toward God alone.  When we use this for selfish love we extinguish this Divine fire of love with our own little breaths.  However "upright" acts, those done for the love of God, keep this Divine fire lit with one continuous breath, the breath of God.

 

“Upright operating keeps Divine Love always lit within the soul, while the operating which is not upright keeps putting it out, and if it tries to light it, now comes the breath of love of self and puts it out, now human respect, now self esteem, now the breath of the desire to please others… In sum, many breaths always keep putting it out; while with the upright operating, it is not many breaths that light this divine fire in the soul, but one continuous breath which keeps it always lit – and it is only the omnipotent breath of a God.”

Vol. 7, October 4, 1906 

²⁵ He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Luke 20:25


We've all read this but it's meaning is much more expansive than what I once believed.  Everything we do, think, say, love is meant to be done for God alone.  All of our love is to be centered on God alone so that love of creatures and love of self exists but only on the behalf of love of God.

‘Daughter, I ask from you nothing other than what I gave you.  It is for your own good; do not steal from Me what is mine.  The breath is mine - breathe only for Me; the heartbeat and the movement are mine - palpitate and move only for Me’; and so with all the rest.  But, to my greatest sorrow, I am forced to see the heartbeat taking one way, the breath another; and I, poor beggar, remain on an empty stomach, while the love of self, of creatures, and even of passions remain full.  Can there be a greater wrong than this? 

Vol. 11, February 26, 1912

This fire of Divine love in the creature, in life, burns away all that which is not of God and God uses privation of him, those dry spells we all dread so much, to fan the flames of this fire more so creating a continuous spiritual communion.  Jesus calls this the purgatory of the soul. 

“My daughter, poor daughter, courage, the privation of Me excites the desire more, and in this excited desire the soul breathes God; and God, feeling more ignited by this excitement of the soul, breathes the soul.  In this breathing each other - God and the soul - thirst for love ignites more, and since love is fire, it forms the purgatory of the soul, and this purgatory serves her, not as just one Communion a day, as the Church allows, but as a continuous communion, just as the breathing is continuous.  But these are all communions of most pure love – only of spirit, not of body; and since the spirit is more perfect, as a consequence, love is more intense.  This is how I repay, not one who does not want to receive Me, but one who cannot receive Me, depriving himself of Me to content Me.

Vol. 6, December 5, 1903




So that an act done by a soul living in the Divine Will is a property of Heaven, but an act done by the human will waits in Purgatory for the creature to join it there so that they might be purified with fire.  Even then they will never take a position of honor in the Celestial Country as when acts are done in the Divine Will.

“My daughter, you should know that every act of the creature holds its post around God; as every star holds its post under the vault of heaven.  Thus the acts of them, each one holds its post.  But which are those that depart for the regal way, as property of the Celestial Country, and take the most honored post and give divine glory to their Creator?  The acts done in my Will.

“When one of these acts depart from the earth, the Heavens lower themselves, all the blessed go to meet it and they accompany that act to the post of honor around the supreme Throne.  They all feel glorified in that act, because the eternal Will has triumphed in the act of the creature and has put there his divine act.  Instead the acts not done in my Will, and perhaps even good, they don’t depart by the regal way, they depart by the tortuous ways and they cover a long stop over by going through purgatory and there wait for the creature in order to purify themselves together with ways of fire; and when they finish purifying themselves, then they depart for heaven in order to take their post, but not in the high-class posts, but in the secondary posts.  Do you see the great difference?  [For] the first acts, no sooner than [the act is] formed, it doesn’t even remain together with the creature, because being stuff of Heaven it can not remain upon the earth, and therefore immediately takes its flight into its Country; not only, but all the Angels and Saints demand in heaven that which has been done by the Divine Will as their stuff, because all that which becomes done by him, as much in earth as in Heaven, are all proprieties of the Celestial Country.  Therefore his every little act is demanded by all of heaven, because they are all fonts of joys and eternal beatitudes, that belong to them.  All to the contrary (for) one who doesn’t work in my Will.”

Vol. 30, Feb. 16, 1932



So acts done for love of God, in the Divine Will, are acts which all of creation shares in.  They are joined inseparably in the breath of God which reaches everyone and everything and are purified by the Divine fire of love here on earth.  Any act not done in the Divine Will even though good, and the creature that did it, must be purified by the fires of Purgatory before it can enter Heaven.


 

“How beautiful is living in my Volition, not only is it a way, but as the soul is (about) to do her act, the divine breath descends into her act, and breathing forth fills all the creation with his omnipotent breath and everyone feels the refreshment, the love, the power of the creative breath that holds (the) power of enclosing everyone and everything, embalming with his divine and celestial air.
Vol. 36, July 11, 1938

 

 And finally not only by doing an act in the Divine Will does all of Creation share in that act but it is as breathing the All of God and giving the All of God back to God.  And here is the fulfillment of the purpose of God, to have a creature that can love him with Divine eternal love, not limited and finite, but giving him all that which he is.  It is a true loving relationship with each giving to the other.

 “My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Will breathes the All; and just as the breath is taken and is given, and one receives it to then give it back with no time in between, one who breathes the All, which is God, in emitting her breath, gives the All which she has breathed.  So, she takes All, and she gives All.  She gives the All to God, giving God to God, and she gives the All to creatures, to then breathe God again and everything that God does.  It is natural that one who takes All, can give All.  Only in the Divine Will is the Life of the Supreme Being bilocated continuously on the part of creatures.”

And I:  ‘My Jesus, I feel I am doing nothing, and You tell me that in your Fiat I take All and I give All?’

 And Jesus added:  “My daughter, when the All operates, the nothing remains in its place – it only makes itself available to receive the All.  And besides, do you not feel within yourself the strength of this All which, making you embrace and invade everything – heavens, stars, sun, seas and earth - and embrace all the acts which my Fiat exercises in the whole Creation, makes you bring them to your Creator, as though in one breath, to give everyone and everything back to Him?  Has there been anyone until now who has given and has been able to say:  ‘I give everything to God, even God Himself, because since I live in His Will, God is mine, the heavens are mine, the sun and everything that this Supreme Fiat has done is mine.  So, since everything is mine, I can give everything and I can take everything’?  Now, it happens as a consequence that one who lives in my Will has the possession of the All, and this forms and draws the Kingdom of the Divine Will upon earth; because in order to form a kingdom, it takes the strength of the Power of the All.”

Vol. 20, January 25, 1927




 Happy Easter everyone may his Kingdom come.