The value of an "I love you"

Time to return to the posts based on the "I love you" as there are still a couple more that are sitting in my draft pile that I need to process.  Here are a collection of passages that center on the true value of the "I love you."  It seems such a small thing but it's value is immense.  Luisa also questioned whether this was of any value or whether she would do better to in doing something else.

And as I seemed to reach the bosom of the Eternal One, making Their ‘I love you’ my own, I kept repeating, everywhere and upon each thing, a singsong of ‘I love you’s’ for my Supreme Lord. Now, while I was doing this, my thought interrupted my ‘I love you’, telling me: “What are you doing? You could be doing something else. And besides, what is this ‘I love you’? How special at all is it?’ And my sweet Jesus, as though moving hurriedly in my interior, told me: “What? How special at all is the ‘I love you’ for Me? My daughter, the ‘I love you’ is everything! The ‘I love you’ is love, is veneration, is esteem, it is heroism, it is sacrifice, it is trust toward the one to whom it is directed. The ‘I love you’ is to possess the One who encloses the ‘I love you’. The ‘I love you’ is a small word, but it weighs as much as the whole eternity! The ‘I love you’ encloses everything, envelops everyone; it diffuses, it restricts itself, it rises up high, it descends down below, it impresses itself everywhere, but it never stops. How can you say this, my daughter - how special at all is the ‘I love you’? Its origin is eternal; in the ‘I love you’ the Celestial Father generated Me, and in the ‘I love you’ the Holy Spirit proceeded. In the ‘I love you’ the Eternal Fiat issued the whole Creation, and in the ‘I love you’ It forgave guilty man and redeemed him. So, in the ‘I love you’ the soul finds everything in God, and God finds everything in the soul. Therefore, the value of the ‘I love you’ is infinite, it is full of life and of energy, it never tires, it surpasses everything and triumphs of everything. And so, this ‘I love you’ for Me I want to see on your lips, in your heart, in the flight of your thoughts, in the drops of your blood, in the pains and in the joys, in the food you take – in everything. The life of my ‘I love you’ must be very, very long in you, and my Fiat reigning in you will place on it the seal of the Divine ‘I love you’.”

After this, a sun made itself present before my mind, at an extremely high point. Its light was inaccessible. From the center of it came out continuous little flames, each one containing an ‘I love you’; and as they were coming out, they placed themselves as though in order, around this inaccessible light. However, these little flames remained as though bound with a thread of light to that inaccessible light, which nourished the life of the little flames. These little flames were so many as to fill Heaven and earth. I seemed to see our God as the beginning and origin of everything; and the little flames - the whole of Creation - as a divine birth, and of pure love. I too was a little flame, and my sweet Jesus pushed me to take flight through each little flame, in order to place on them the double ‘I love you’. I don’t know how, I found myself outside of myself, to go around in the midst of those little flames and impress my ‘I love you upon each one of them. But they were so many that I would get lost; however, a supreme force would make resume the order and the round of my ‘I love you’.

Vol. 17, Aug. 2, 1925

Jesus wants the "I love you" from the creature and it seems as if it is his whole objective and not one "I love you" suffices but a continuous chain of "I love you"s to fill all of eternity.  We are called to be all love, as God is all love, and each little "I love you" matures and grows this life of love.

I thought to myself: ‘It shows that I am really a little child, who can say nothing but the little story she has learned. And then, what good comes to me by repeating ‘I love You, I love You…’ over and over again?’ But while I was thinking of this, my adorable Jesus came out from within my interior, showing my ‘I love You’ impressed everywhere in all of His Divine Person: on His lips, on His face, on His forehead, in His eyes, in the middle of His breast, on the back and in the center of the palms of His hands, on the tips of His fingers – in sum, everywhere. And with a tender tone, He told me: “My daughter, aren’t you happy that none of the ‘I love You’s’ that come out of you go lost, but all remain impressed in Me? And then, do you know what good comes to you by repeating them? You must know that when the soul decides to do some good, to exercise a virtue, she forms the seed of that virtue. By repeating those acts, she forms the water with which to water that seed in the earth of her heart; and the more often she repeats them, the more she waters that seed, and the plant grows beautiful and green, in such a way that it quickly produces the fruits of that seed. On the other hand, if she is slow in repeating, many times the seed remains suffocated; and if it comes out at all, it grows thin and never gives fruit. Poor seed, without enough water in order to grow. My Sun does not rise over that seed, to give it fecundity, maturity and a beautiful color to its fruits, because it is not fecund. On the other hand, by always repeating those same acts, the soul contains much water with which to water that seed; my Sun rises over that seed every time It sees it being watered; and It delights so much, knowing that it has much strength in order to grow, that It makes its branches reach up to Me; and in seeing its many fruits, I pick them with pleasure, and I rest under its shadow.

So, repeating your ‘I love You’ for Me procures for you the water with which to water and form the tree of love. Repeating patience waters and forms the tree of patience; repeating your acts in my Will forms the water with which to water and form the divine and eternal tree of my Will. Nothing can be formed with one single act, but with many upon many repeated acts. Only your Jesus contains the virtue of forming all things, and the greatest things, with one single act, because I contain the creative power. But the creature, by dint of repeating the same act, forms the good she wants to do, bit by bit. Through habit, that good or that virtue becomes her nature, and the creature becomes the possessor of it, and it forms all of her fortune. This happens also in the natural order. No one becomes a teacher by having read the vowels and the consonants once or a few times, but by repeating them constantly, to the point of filling his mind, his will and his heart with all that science that is needed in order to be able to be a teacher to others. No one feels satiated if he does not eat, bite after bite, the food that is needed in order be satiated. No one harvests the seeds if he does not repeat, who knows how many times, his work in his little field; and so with many other things. To repeat the same act is a sign that one loves, appreciates and wants to possess that very act which he does. Therefore, repeat, and repeat incessantly, without ever tiring.”

Vol. 18, Oct. 4, 1925




When the "I love you" is formed in the center of the Divine Will it contains a divine secret.  It is a divine birth and in God receiving this "I love you" it is as receiving himself.  Although little within this "I love you" it is infinite.  And God does not concern himself with whether what the creature does is little or great as we as creatures would judge but whether everything she does, even the smallest act, is originates from his Will and is filled with his love.

I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat, and according to my usual way, I was investing all of Creation with my refrain: ‘I love You, I adore You, I bless You…’. And while doing this, I thought to myself: ‘What am I giving to my God with this long story of “I love You’s”? And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, a pure, holy and upright love is a divine birth. It comes from God and has the virtue of rising and entering into God so as to multiply these births from Him, and to bring God Himself to each creature who yearns to love Him. Therefore, when the soul is invested by this love and receives this birth, she can form other births for as many times as she says her ‘I love You’; in such a way that her ‘I love You’ flies before God; and the Supreme Being, looking inside the ‘I love You’ sent by the creature finds all of Itself in that little ‘I love You’, and feels It is being given all of Itself by her.

That little ‘I love You’ contains a prodigious secret; in its littleness it contains the infinite, the immense, the power, so much so, that it can say: ‘I give God to God’. In that little ‘I love You’ of the creature, the infinite Being feels all of Its divine qualities being sweetly touched, because since it is a birth from It, It finds all of Itself within it. This is what you give Me with your many ‘I love You’s’: you give Me Myself as many times. There is nothing more beautiful, greater and more pleasing you could give Me than to give Me all of Myself. My Fiat, which forms the life of your ‘I love You’ for Me in you, delights in forming many births from Us; so It keeps the rhythm of the ‘I love You’ in you, yearning always to mint the divine coin of your ‘I love You’ for each created thing. Then It looks to see whether all the things created by Us are beaded with the prodigious secret of your ‘I love You’. My daughter, We do not look at whether what the creature does is great or small; rather, We look at whether there is the prodigy of Our secret - whether her tiniest acts, thoughts and sighs are invested with the power of Our Will. This is all, and it is all for Us.
Vol. 24, April 26, 1928

If you knew the beauty, the value that the human will acquires when it enters and has continuous dwelling in the Divine Fiat, you would not lose one instant of living in It. You must know that as the human will enters into the Divine, Our light invests it and embellishes it of a rare beauty. The soul remains so identified, that she does not feel a stranger with her Creator; on the contrary, she feels that she is all of the Supreme Being, and the Divine Being is all hers; and with the freedom of a daughter, without fear and with enrapturing trust, she rises into the unity of the Will of her Creator, and, in this unity, the atom of the human will emits her ‘I love You’. And while she forms her act of love, all the Divine Love runs, surrounds, embraces, transmutes Itself into the ‘I love You’ of the creature, and makes it so great, for as great as is Our Love. And We feel in the little ‘I love You’ of the creature the fibers, the life of Our Love; and We give it the value of Our Love, and feel in the little ‘I love You’ the happiness of Our Love. This little ‘I love You’ no longer goes out from within the unity of Our Volition; and while it remains, it spreads so much within the orbit of the Fiat, that it does nothing but follow the Divine Will everywhere; and so with all the other acts which she intends to do in Our Will. You must think that a creative Will enters into the act of the creature, and therefore It must do worthy acts, as those which a Divine Will knows how to do, and which are befitting to It.
Vol. 28, July 9, 1930

I find it interesting that even with all these affirmations Luisa would continue to question the value of this practice as if Jesus himself is pushing her to this point just so he can reaffirm the value and importance of doing this and that even though she may not be able to see the effects God can as well as all of Heaven and it is the beginning of harmonizing Heaven and earth to bridge the divide.

I was continuing my round in the Divine Will, and repeating the refrain of the ‘I love You’, I was saying: ‘Jesus, my Love, I want to leave all of my being in your Fiat, so that I may find myself in all created things, to bead them with my ‘I love You’. Even more, I want to place my heart in the center of the earth, and as it beats, I want to embrace all of its inhabitants; and following all of their heartbeats with my ‘I love You’, I want to give You the love of each one of them. And as my heartbeat is repeated from within the center of the earth, I want to place my ‘I love You’ in all the seeds which the earth encloses in its womb; and as the seeds sprout and plants, herbs and flowers are formed, I want to place in them my ‘I love You’, that I may see them enclosed in my ‘I love You’ for Jesus…’ But as I was saying this, my thought interrupted the refrain of my ‘I love You’, telling me: ‘How much nonsense you are speaking. Jesus Himself must be tired of hearing your long singsong, ‘I love You, I love You…’

And Jesus, moving so very hurriedly in my interior, and looking at all Creation to see whether in all things, small and big, there was the life of my ‘I love You’, told me: “My daughter, what wonder, what enchantment, to see all things beaded with your ‘I love You’. If all creatures could see all the plants, the atoms of the earth, the stones, the drops of water, beaded with your ‘I love You’, and the light of the sun, the air that they breathe, the sky that they see, filled with your ‘I love You’, and the stars, shining with your ‘I love You’ – what amazement would not arise within them; what sweet enchantment would not draw the pupils of their eyes to look at your refrain and the long singsong of your ‘I love You’? They would say: ‘How is it possible that she let nothing escape her? We ourselves feel beaded with her ‘I love You’!’ And they would wander around checking and investigating everything, to see whether, in fact, nothing had escaped you, so as to enjoy the enchantment of your ‘I love You’. Now, if this marvelous enchantment remains unobserved by the terrestrial creatures, it is not unobserved in Heaven, and the inhabitants up there enjoy the enchantment and the marvels of seeing the whole Creation filled and beaded with your ‘I love You’. They feel their ‘I love You’ harmonize with yours; they do not feel separated from the earth because love unites them together, forming the same notes and the same harmonies. Moreover, you must know that when all things, small and big, were created, I never tired of beading them with my repeated and incessant ‘I love you’s’ for you; and just as I did not tire of placing them, so I do not tire of hearing them being repeated by you. On the contrary, I enjoy that my ‘I love you’ does not remain isolated, but has the company of yours; and as yours echoes in Mine, they fuse together and live a common life. Besides, love is never tired; rather, it is bearer of joy and happiness for Me.”
Vol. 24, April 29, 1928

This practice of saying "I love you" to God repeatedly forms a life within which always calls the creature to renew this act of the "I love you."  But it is more than this.  Jesus tells Luisa that these little acts, these little "I love you"s are in fact and truth each a new child.  And she becomes a mother of a long line of children.  These children are the joy and fascination of God himself and these children have the essence of their Father's eternal spirit, that is the Divine Will, formed within the mystery of the Trinity.  He states each "I love you" of the creature "forms the heat, and my Divine Will forms the light which, invading the 'I love You', forms the Sun..."   So that each act of "I love you" is in fact and truth a Divine birth and life.

 

 

“My daughter, you have forgotten that an ‘I love You’ in my Divine Will has the virtue that, after it is said once, it never stops saying ‘I love You, I love You…’. The ‘I love You’ in my Divine Will is life, and, as life, it cannot cease to live – it must have its continuous act. My Fiat does not know how to do finite acts, and everything that is done in It by the creature acquires continuous life; and just as the breath, the heartbeat, the continuous motion are necessary in order to live, so do the acts done in my Divine Will, having their origin in It, change into life, and, as life, they acquire the continuation of the act itself, without ever ceasing. Therefore, your ‘I love You’ is nothing other than the continuation of your first ‘I love You’. As life, it wants the nourishment in order to grow; the breath, the heartbeat, the motion, in order to live; and by your repeating your ‘I love You’, it feels the heartbeat, the breath, the motion, and it grows in the fullness of love, and it serves to multiply as many lives of love for as many ‘I love You’s’ as you say. If you knew how beautiful it is to see all Creation strewn with as many lives of love for as many ‘I love You’s’ as you say! So, one ‘I love You’ calls and demands with insistence another ‘I love You’. And this is why you feel a need, a necessity of love, to follow the race of your ‘I love You’. True good never remains isolated; more so in my Divine Will, since, It being life that has no beginning and no end, everything that is done in It is not subject either to ending or to being interrupted. Therefore, one ‘I love You’ serves to maintain and call to life another ‘I love You’; these are steps of life of love that the creature takes in my own Volition. Therefore, do not stop, and continue the race of your ‘I love You’ to the One who so much loves you.”
Vol. 28, May 2, 1930 

 

 

I was doing my usual acts in the Divine Fiat, and for each created thing I repeated my long singsong of my ‘I love You’; but while doing this, I thought to myself: ‘I have become so used to it, that it seems I cannot do without saying, “I love You, I love You…”.’ Now, at that moment, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, telling me: “My daughter, this continuous ‘I love You’ of yours is nothing other than the continuity of the first ‘I love You’ said in my Divine Will which, pronounced one time, has the virtue of repeating, with facts, that which was said once. The ‘I love You’ forms the heat, and my Divine Will forms the light which, invading the ‘I love You’, forms the Sun, one more radiant than the other. How beautiful is the life of the soul in my Divine Will! She acquires a long progeny - almost interminable. In fact, if she thinks, she delivers her thoughts within the divine mind, forming the long generation of her children in the mind of her Celestial Father; if she speaks, she delivers her words within the word of God, forming the long generation of the children of her word; if she operates, if she walks, if she palpitates, she delivers her works within the hands of her Creator, her steps within the divine feet, her heartbeats within the paternal Heart, forming the long generation of the children of her works, of her steps and of her heartbeats. What an endless generation one who lives in my Will forms for her Creator! She is the populator and the fecund mother that keeps the One who created Her always in feast, because each child is a feast that God feels being delivered within His womb by one who lives in His Will.”
And, all moved, He repeated: “How beautiful she is! How beautiful is the newborn of my Will! In her littleness she would want to engage in a competition with her Creator; she would want to give Him the occasion always to smile, and with childlike surprises capture His gaze, always fixed upon her, to show Him the long generation of her children.”
Vol. 24, June 29, 1928

 

 

 Again it is only in repeating these acts that the gift is given to the creature.  It forms the habit to care for the gift and truly appreciate it and only then is it given but not just as an object is given does God give.  Instead it becomes a new life, which can grow and always bestow new gifts to the creature.  In repeating these "I love you"s in the Divine Will, the life of the Love of God and the life of the Divine Will becomes formed in the creature so that it is truly hers.  And Luisa's asking has opened up the way for us to do the same. 

 

 

Then, I continued to follow the acts in the Divine Fiat, and I thought to myself: ‘I am always back to the start, repeating – always repeating the long story of my acts in the Divine Volition, the long singsong of my ‘I love You’. But what are the effects of it? Oh! if I could obtain that the Divine Will be known and reign upon earth, at least it would be for me so much the better.’ But while I was thinking of this, my beloved Jesus clasped me to His Divine Heart, and told me: “My daughter, firmness in asking forms the life of the good that is asked for; it disposes the soul to receive the good that she wants, and moves God to give the gift that is asked for. More so, since with the many repeated acts and prayers that she has done, she has formed within herself the life, the exercise, the habit of the good that she asks for. God, won by the firmness of her asking, will give her the gift; and finding in the creature, by virtue of her repeated act, as though a life of the gift that He is giving her, He will convert the good asked for into her nature, in such a way that the creature will feel herself as the possessor, and victorious in feeling transformed into the gift she has received. Therefore, your asking incessantly for the Kingdom of my Divine Will forms in you Its Life; and your continuous ‘I love You’ forms in you the Life of my Love. And since I have given you the gift of both one and the other, you feel within yourself as if your nature felt nothing other than the vivifying virtue of my Will and of my Love. Firmness in asking is the assurance that the gift is yours. And asking for the Kingdom of my Divine Will for all, is the prelude that others can receive the great gift of my Supreme Fiat. Therefore, continue to repeat, and do not tire.”
Vol. 28, March 24, 1930

Jesus never tires of hearing the "I love you" of the creature.  Instead in it he finds the reflection of his own love which he states he is a "complex of love."  And it is only in repeating these acts that the Life of his Love can reach it's maturity.

 

“My daughter, true love, accompanied also by the words ‘I love You’, never brings Me tiredness, because, I being a complex of love and a continuous act of love, as I never cease to love, when I find my Love in the creature, I find Myself; and the sign that her love is a birth from my Love is when it is continuous. An interrupted love is not the sign of Divine Love; at the most, it can be a love of circumstances, an interested love, such that, as these cease, love ceases. And also the words ‘I love You, I love You’, are nothing other than the air that my Love produces in the creature, which, condensed within her, produces as though many flashes of little flames toward the One whom she loves. And I, when I hear you say ‘I love You, I love You’ - do you know what I say? ‘My daughter is flashing in the air of her love toward Me, and one flash does not wait for another.’ And besides, all continuous acts are those which have the virtue of preserving, nourishing and growing the life of creatures. See, also the sun rises every morning and has its continuous act of light; nor can it be said that by rising every day it tires men and the earth; rather, the complete opposite – all long for the rising of the sun, and only because it rises every day does it form the nourishment of the earth. Day after day, it keeps nourishing, little by little, the sweetness in the fruits, until it makes them reach perfect maturation; it nourishes the varied tints of colors for the flowers, the development for all the plants; and so with all the rest. A continuous act can be called perennial miracle, though creatures do not pay attention to it; but your Jesus cannot do without paying attention, because I know the prodigious virtue of an act never interrupted. Therefore, your ‘I love You’ serves to preserve, nourish and grow the Life of my Love in you; if you do not nourish It, It cannot grow, nor receive the multiplicity of the sweetnesses and the variety of the divine colors which my Love contains.”
Vol. 28, Oct. 18, 1930

St Francis

Today is the feast of St Francis.  There are not many Saints which make an appearance in the Volumes but St Francis is one of them.  There is one passage where he speaks with Luisa and teaches how we can know if our state is the Will of God.


(Oops, wrong St Francis.  In this passage it is St Francis of Paola.  He lived as a hermit in the mid 1400's, followed St. Francis of Assisi and founded the Minim Friars or the "Least Friars."  St Francis of Assisi is mentioned only once briefly in Vol. 17, April 15, 1925.  There Jesus tells Luisa that people said that he was a "faithful copy" of Him and that people shouldn't take offence when he says he wants to make her a faithful copy of the Virgin.)

While in the midst of these cruel torments, last night, as I was in my usual state, I found myself surrounded by some people who were saying: “Recite a ‘Pater, Ave, Gloria’ in honor of Saint Francis of Paola, who will bring you some refreshment for your sufferings.” So I recited it; and as I did so, the Saint appeared, bringing me a little loaf of bread. He gave it to me, saying: “Eat it.”

I ate it, and felt all strengthened. Then I said to him: ‘Dear Saint, I would like to tell you something.’ And he, all affability: “Tell me, what would you like to say?”

And I: ‘I fear very much that my state may not be Will of God. Listen: in the first years of this illness, which occurred at intervals, I would feel Our Lord calling me to become a victim; at the same time I would be caught by internal sufferings and wounds, such that externally it appeared that I was having a fit. Now, I fear that it was my fantasy that produced these evils.’

And the Saint: “The sure sign to know whether a state is Will of God is that the soul is ready to do otherwise, if she knew that the Will of God was no longer that state.”

Not persuaded, I added: ‘Dear Saint, I have not told you everything. Listen: the first ones were at intervals; then, from the time when Our Lord called me to continuous immolation, it is twenty-one years since I have been always in bed – and who can tell my tribulations? Sometimes it seems that He leaves me, He takes suffering away from me, the only and faithful friend of my state; and I remain crushed without God, and even without the support of suffering… and so, doubts and fears that my state may not be the Will of God.’

And he, all sweetness: “I repeat to you what I have said to you before: if you are ready to do the Will of God, if you knew It, then your state is His Will.’

Vol. 8, April 8, 1908



Francis exemplified the virtue of poverty and Luisa as well, early on in the Volumes was called to this.  Here Jesus explains how she should adopt this.

Jesus calls the soul to a perfect conformity to his Will.  He wants from her absolute detachment from everything and perfect poverty.

He continued to tell me:  “From you I want perfect conformity to my Will, in such a way that your will may be undone within Mine; and absolute detachment from everything - so much so, that I want all that is earth to be considered by you as dung and rot, which one is horrified by just looking at.  And this because, even though one were not attached to earthly things, just by having them around and looking at them they cast shadow on the celestial things and prevent the fulfillment of that mystical marriage which I promised you.  Even more, I want that, just as I was poor, you also imitate Me in poverty.  You must consider yourself in this bed as a little poor one; the poor are content with anything they have, and they first thank Me, and then their benefactors.  The same for you:  go along with everything that is given to you without asking for this or that, which might be a hindrance in your mind; but with holy indifference, without thinking of whether it may do good or bad, comply with the will of others.”

Vol. 1



Francis was a forerunner of the Divine Will and in his Canticle of the Sun it can be seen the bonds he felt with all of Creation and his love of God which he saw visible in all his works.  It is as the foreshadowing to teach us how to do our rounds in the Divine Will in all Creation.  And in the last stanza that he added it shows how he valued Gods Will, recognizing that death does no harm to those found in God's Will.

The Canticle of Brother Sun

Most High, all powerful, good Lord,
Yours are the praises, the glory, the honor,
and all blessing.

 

To You alone, Most High, do they belong,
and no man is worthy to mention Your name.

 

Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures,
especially through my lord Brother Sun,
who brings the day; and you give light through him.
And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor!
Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.

          

Praise be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon
and the stars, in heaven you formed them
clear and precious and beautiful.

 

Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Wind,
and through the air, cloudy and serene,
and every kind of weather through which
You give sustenance to Your creatures.

 

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water,
which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste.

 

Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire,
through whom you light the night and he is beautiful
and playful and robust and strong.

 

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth,
who sustains us and governs us and who produces
varied fruits with colored flowers and herbs.

 

Praised be You, my Lord,
through those who give pardon for Your love,
and bear infirmity and tribulation.

 

Blessed are those who endure in peace
for by You, Most High, they shall be crowned.

 

Praised be You, my Lord,
through our Sister Bodily Death,
from whom no living man can escape.

 

Woe to those who die in mortal sin.
Blessed are those whom death will
find in Your most holy willl,
for the second death shall do them no harm.

 

Praise and bless my Lord,
and give Him thanks
and serve Him with great humility.

AMEN

When the Kingdom comes, but clouds until then.

Sometimes I just need a moment to look beyond the present to what will be.

“My daughter, when my Will has Its Kingdom upon earth and souls live in It, Faith will have no more shadows, no more enigmas, but everything will be clarity and certainty. The light of my Will will bring in the very created things the clear vision of their Creator; creatures will touch Him with their own hands in everything He has done for love of them. The human will is now a shadow to Faith; passions are clouds that obscure the clear light of It, and it happens as to the Sun, when thick clouds form in the lower air: even though the Sun is there, the clouds advance against the light, and it seems it is dark as if it were nighttime; and if one had never seen the Sun, he would find it hard to believe that the Sun is there. But if an impetuous wind dispelled the clouds, who would dare to say that the Sun does not exist, as they would touch Its radiant light with their own hands? Such is the condition in which Faith finds Itself because my Will does not reign. They are almost like blind people that must rely on others to believe that a God exists. But when my Divine Fiat reigns, Its light will make them touch the existence of their Creator with their own hands; therefore, it will no longer be necessary for others to say it – the shadows and the clouds will exist no more.”
And while He was saying this, Jesus made a wave of joy and of light come out of His Heart, which will give more life to creatures; and with an emphasis of love, He added: “How I long for the Kingdom of my Will! It will put an end to the troubles of creatures and to Our sorrows. Heaven and earth will smile together; Our feasts and theirs will reacquire the order of the beginning of Creation; We will place a veil over everything, so that the feasts may never again be interrupted.”
Vol. 24, June 29, 1928

 

But until that point we often feel trapped by the darkness of the clouds that all have to undergo.   But they are temporary and will ultimately not only be dispersed but will serve to the humiliation of those who inflict them.

 

 

 

And because the Divine Will reigned in Me, all the pains, humiliations, contrasting confusions, and accusations which My enemies directed to Me in the course of My Life and of My Passion, all served for their contempt and greater confusion.  Because their was a Divine Will in Me, it happened as it does with the sun:  it seems that the clouds, as they reach down low in the air - and in spite of the sun - want to obscure the surface of the earth by momentarily taking away the brightness of the solar light.  But the sun laughs at the clouds, because they cannot have perennial life in the air, and their life is, fleeting; it only takes a small wind to make them dissipate.  The sun is always triumphant in its totality of light which dominates and fills all the earth.

           “So it was with Me:  all that which My enemies did to Me, and even My very death, were as so many clouds which covered My Humanity.  But the sun of My Divinity they were not allowed to touch, and at the slightest movement of the wind of the power of My Divine Will, the clouds dispersed, and before [this] glorious and triumphantly resurrected sun, My enemies remained more disdained than before.

           “My daughter, in the soul where My Will reigns with all its fullness, the minutes of life are centuries and centuries of fullness of all goods; and where It doesn’t reign, the soul contains barely minutes of good.  And if the soul where My Volition reigns ever suffers humiliations, contrasts, and pains, these are like clouds which the wind of the Divine Fiat has discharged over those people with their humiliation that they have dared to touch the carrier of my Eternal Volition.

Vol. 21, April 16, 1927

 

 

 

 

Still, all these dark clouds can also be transformed into light by the power of the Divine Will and be given power and value.

 

 

 

 

           “My daughter, look at them, see how beautiful those clouds are, how they cover the skies and form such a beautiful adornment in the blue vaults.  Who is it that has changed the dimness and driven away the darkness and black shadows from within those clouds, and transformed them into white and radiant clouds?  The sun, investing them with its light, made them lose their dimness and has transformed them into clouds of light.  Yes, they are clouds, but, not clouds that give darkness and obscure the earth, but clouds that give light.  Before the - sun invested them it seemed that they made fun of the skies with their obscurity by taking away the beauty from the blue, but now they are their honor and form a beautiful adornment.

             “Now, my daughter, the pains, the mortifications, my privations, the sorrowful inconstancies, are like clouds that to the soul give darkness.  But if the soul lets all flow in My Will, more than sun It invests and converts them into clouds of resplendent light, in such a way as to form the most beautiful ornament for the heaven of the soul.  In My Will everything loses the obscure part which oppresses and which seems to make fun of the poor creature; everything serves to give light and adorn her with beautiful brightness.  I then go about repeating to all of Heaven:  ‘Look at her and see how beautiful is the daughter of My Will, adorned with these white and shining clouds.  She is nourished by light, and My Volition - investing her with My light - converts her into the most resplendent light.”

Vol. 21, April 12, 1927

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry, I've hit a rough patch in life, I'll try to get back soon.

The Bank of Heaven. The "I love you", the interest.

In continuing my search through the Volumes on references on the "I love you" I found a common thread that speaks about the Bank of Heaven.  Jesus uses the idea of a bank to describe how God made the deposit of his Will in the creature so that the creature might always grow in the attributes of God in what ever way the creature wanted, something which he did not do in all the rest of Creation.

...in creating man.  Our love for him was so great as to surpass all the love We had in Creation.  Therefore We endowed him with reason, memory and will; and placing Our Will within his, as though in a bank, We wanted him to multiply It, to increase It a hundredfold - not for Us, who did not need it, but for his own good, that he might not remain like the other created things, mute and fixed in that point at which We issued them, but he might grow ever more in glory, in riches, in love and in the likeness of his Creator.  And so that he might find all possible imaginable aids, We gave him Our Will at his disposal, that he might achieve, with Our very power, the good, the growth and the likeness of his Creator that he wanted to acquire.

Vol. 19, March 9, 1926



In the whole Creation although God "saw that it was good" (Genesis) he did not find anything new.  Creation is an outpouring of love of God the externalization of that which is within him.  Only in man, with his free will acting in the Divine Will, did God find something new.  It was only when man first returned an "I love you" to God that he found immense pleasure and joy.  He gave man all the capital that his Will contained, all in the hope of receiving man's little "I love you" in return.

“My daughter, for whoever lives in My Will there are no acts of Our’s that cannot be present.  There are no acts of Our’s which we have put forth that cannot be received; so now (I give) to you My Breath, and Our outpouring of love.  How great was Our pleasure in this first act of man’s creation.  We had created Heaven and earth, but We felt nothing new in Ourselves.  Yet in creating man, it was much different.  One was the will which was created - this free will and in it we enclosed Our own (Will), placing It as in a bank to earn interest in the love, glory, and adoration that was due to us.  Oh how love overflowed in us, how we trembled with joy in putting, forth this free will so that we could hear it said to us:  ‘I love you.’  And when man, full of that which was Ours, let burst forth from his breast his first word ‘I love you,’ Our pleasure was immense, because it was as if he returned to Us the interest of all the goods that we had placed in him.  This free will which We created was where We deposited the capital of a Divine Will, and We were satisfied if We could - receive a small interest, without ever again claiming the capital.  So the fall of man was a great sorrow for Us, because he refused Our capital so [that] he would not have to pay the small interest.  His bank was left empty, and since his enemy had made a deal with him, he filled man with passions and miseries - and the poor thing was left a failure.

           “Now, My daughter, the act of man’s creation was a solemn act and gave Us the greatest satisfaction, and so We call and want you in this act to repeat the solemnity of [this] act, putting in your will the great capital which is Ours, and as We do this Our love overflows and trembles with joy to Our greatest pleasure, because We see Our intention realized.  You certainly will not deny giving the small interest, you will not reject Our capital - tell Us you won’t.  Every day We will take reckoning:  I will call you to be present in that prime act when We created this free will so that you can give Me the interest, and I will see if I can add something else to My capital.”

Vol. 21, April 22, 1927



All of the acts done by a creature living in the Divine Will remain there and take on the aspect of the immensity of the Divine Will as well.  So all of Adam's acts done in the Divine Will are still there as pledges for the return of this Kingdom.  Although Luisa feels that her "I love you's" are small Jesus tells her that he takes her small "I love you" and extends it throughout all the heavens so that it becomes even more extensive than the heavens themselves and so on with each act of love be it in the sun or in the wind or the earth.

           I was continuing my round in the Supreme Fiat, and my little mind, arriving at Eden, was saying: ‘Adorable Majesty, I come before You to bring You my small interest of my ‘I love You’, ‘I adore You’, ‘I glorify You’, ‘I thank You’, ‘I bless You’, to give You my small interest because You have given me a heaven, a sun, an air, a sea, a flowery earth, and everything that You have created for me. You once told me that each day you want to do the accounts with me and receive this small interest of mine, so that we may always be in agreement; and keep the whole Creation, given to me by You as little daughter of your Will, safe inside the little bank of my soul.’ But while I was doing this, a thought told me: ‘But, how can you satisfy an interest so great? And besides, how great at all is your ‘I love You’, ‘I adore You’, ‘I thank You’?
           But while I was thinking this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior and told me: “My daughter, this was an agreement between Me and you – that I would put the whole Creation in the bank of your soul, and you would have to give Me the interest, filling It with your ‘I love You’, ‘I adore You’, ‘I thank You’. And since I saw you hampered because of a capital so great, and fearing that you might want to reject this great gift from Me, in order to encourage you to receive it, I said to you: ‘I am content with a small interest, and we will do the accounts every day here in Eden. In this way we will remain in agreement and always in peace, and you will not be worried that your Jesus has placed in your bank a capital so great.’ And then, don’t you know the value of an ‘I love You’ in my Divine Will? My Will fills the heavens, the sun, the sea, the wind – Its Life extends everywhere; therefore, as you say your ‘I love You’, ‘I adore You’ and everything else you might say, my Fiat extends your ‘I love You’ in the heavens, and your ‘I love You’ becomes more extensive than the heavens; your ‘I adore You’ extends in the sun, and it becomes larger and longer than its light. Your ‘I glorify You’ extends in the wind, and it wanders through the air, throughout the whole earth, and its moans, the blows of the wind, now caressing, now mighty, say: ‘I glorify You’. Your ‘I thank You’ extends within the sea, and the drops of water and the darting of the fish say: ‘I thank You’. And I see the heavens, the stars, the sun, the sea, the wind, filled with your ‘I love You’, with your adorations, and the like; and I say: ‘How content I am that I placed everything in the bank of the little daughter of my Will – because she pays Me the interest wanted by Me. And since she lives in It, she gives Me a divine and equivalent interest, because my Fiat extends her little acts and renders them more extensive than the whole Creation.’ And when I see you coming into Eden to give Me your small interest, I look at you and I see in you my Divine Will doubled – one in you, and the other in Me, while It is one; and I see Myself being paid the interest by my Will Itself – and I remain satisfied, and, oh! how content I am in seeing that my Fiat has given to the creature the virtue of making Itself be doubled, so as to let her satisfy her Creator.
            My daughter, how many unforgettable things there are in this Eden. Here Our Fiat created man, and made such display of love, that It poured Itself in torrents upon him; so much so, that We still feel the sweet murmuring with which We poured Ourselves over him. Here began the Life of Our Fiat in the creature, and the sweet and dear memory of the acts of the first man done in It. These acts exist still now in Our Volition, and are as though pledges for him to be reborn in order to have the Kingdom of Our Fiat again. In this Eden there is the sorrowful memory of the fall of man, the exit he made from Our Kingdom. We still hear his steps when he went out of Our Divine Fiat; and since this Eden had been given to him so that he would live in It, We were forced to put him out, and We had the sorrow of seeing the work dearest to Us without his Kingdom, wandering and sorrowful. Our only relief were the pledges of his acts, which had remained in Our Will; these called for the rights of humanity to enter again the place from which it had gone out. This is why I await you in Eden to receive your small interest, to renew what We did in the Creation, and to receive the return for a love so great, not understood by creatures, and to find a loving pretext to give the Kingdom of Our Divine Will. Therefore, I want this Eden to be dear to you as well, that you may pray Us and press Us that the beginning of Creation, the Life of Our Fiat, may return into the midst of the human family.”
Vol. 26, June 14, 1929

 

           Then, I was following the acts of the Divine Will, accompanying them with my ‘I love You’; and I could comprehend the great difference in greatness and magnitude of the works of the Divine Fiat and of my little ‘I love You’. Oh! how small I felt, and truly just newly born before that Fiat which can do everything and embraces everything. And my lovable Jesus, clasping me in His arms, told me: “My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Will is my rich bank upon earth; and as you say your ‘I love You’, I invest it with my own, and from small it becomes great, it diffuses in the infinite, in such a way that the riches of my love become immeasurable, and I deposit them in the bank of your soul. And as you continue your acts, I invest them with mine, and I deposit them in your bank so as to have my divine bank upon earth. Therefore, your little acts done in my Divine Volition serve Me in order to give Me something to do, to make Our divine qualities, which are infinite, flow in your little acts, which are finite, mix them together and make of them as many acts of Ours, depositing them in the bank of your soul, so that Our bank may find in you Its Heaven. Don’t you know that one who must live in Our Divine Fiat must be a nimbus of Heaven? Such that, as it lowers itself upon earth - but so much as to eliminate any distance - at that point of the earth where there is the fortunate creature, one must see Heaven, not earth. Nor would my Divine Will be without Its Heaven; It Itself would form It for Itself, and the drapes of Heaven would lower themselves to pay homage to that Fiat from which they recognize their existence. Therefore, all the Blessed remain stupefied in seeing a nimbus of Heaven upon earth; but their stupefaction ceases immediately, when they see that that Divine Will which forms their Heaven and all their happiness is present as reigning in that creature, precisely at that point where they see that the drapes of Heaven, lowering themselves, surround that creature to sing the praises of my Supreme Fiat.
           Therefore, be attentive, my daughter, and if I tell you this, it is to let you know the great gift of making my Will known to you, and how It wants to form Its Kingdom in you, so that you may thank Me and be grateful.”
Vol. 27, Jan. 7, 1930

This transaction puts into commerce anything that the creature wants of God attributes.  These acts go out to the benefit of all and the more she takes the more there remains to take.  The creature feels the continuous act of the Divine and goes repeating it, bilocating it, multiplying it.  This is something that even the Angels and Saints can not do, only a creature living on earth in the Divine Will has this capacity.  So the small interest of the creature becomes a conquering act when done in the Divine Will.  And in conquering God, God conquers the creature.

...you should know that as the creature does her acts in my Divine Will she enters into the divine banks, and there makes her traffics/(transactions) of infinite value, since she comes in our Volition, although she is little, but she comes as mistress and makes herself mistress of that which our divine banks possess, and she takes how much more she can take, and since she can not enclose within herself that which she takes, she leaves them in deposit, together with our own treasures, and we let her do it, we enjoy her traffics/(transactions), and such is our goodness that we give her the interest of the acquisitions that she has made.  So that every time that she does her acts in our Volition, she opens the commerce between Heaven and earth, and puts in traffic our sanctity, power, goodness, love, and we in order not to remain behind our beloved creature, she climbs and we descend into the depths of the human volition, and opening our commerce we make the acquisition of the human volition, traffic so very wanted and pleasant to us, and thus we make competition and we conquer each other.

Vol. 32, Sept. 2, 1933

          “My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Volition feels within herself the continuous and constant act of the divine operating of my Divine Fiat. This continuous act, generated by Its Power in the creature, has such strength, such empire over all, that it captivates all with its sweet enchantment, in such a way that all turn around her – the Angels, the Saints, the Sacrosanct Trinity, the spheres and all Creation. All want to be spectators, to enjoy a scene so sweet, enchanting and beautiful of the continuous act of the creature in the Divine Fiat. She enters into the bank of the Supreme Being, and unifying herself in the continuous act of her Creator, she does nothing but put out, with her continuous act, the innumerable beauties, the sweetest sounds, the insuperable rarities of the qualities of her Creator. And what enraptures the most is to see her littleness that, all daring and courageous, without fearing anything, as if she wanted to lord over her very Creator, to give Him pleasure, to captivate Him to herself, to ask Him for the Kingdom of His Will upon earth, takes and puts out, from within the divine bank, all Our joys and happinesses, as if she wanted to exhaust them. And seeing that she does not exhaust them, she does not tire, she repeats her continuous act, in such a way that all wait for her to finish; and seeing that she does not finish, they press themselves around her, so much so, that she becomes place of center, and all turn around, so as not to lose a scene so consoling and never before seen – that is, the continuous act of the human littleness in the unity of the Supreme Fiat. More so, since the continuous operating is only of God, and as one sees it being repeated by the creature, it causes the greatest surprises and makes Heaven and earth astonished.
           My little daughter, if you knew what a continuous act in my Will means…. This act is incomprehensible to created mind. The creature is the bilocator of Our continuous act, she enters into Our act and makes arise and puts out Our rare Beauty, Our invincible Love, Our Power that can do anything, Our Immensity that embraces everything; and showing them to all, she would like to say to all: ‘Look Who is our Creator.’ And We let her do it, and We enjoy in seeing that the littleness of the creature wants to give Us Our paradise and Our Divine Being, as Ours and as her own. What can one who lives in Our Fiat not do and not give to Us? Anything! More so since, because this happy creature is on earth, by virtue of her free will, she possesses the conquering virtue which not even the Saints in Heaven possess; and with it she can conquer and multiply whatever good she wants. And Our Will, which keeps her within Itself, renders her the conqueror of Our Divine Being.”
Vol. 26, May 4, 1929

Jesus longs for the creature to come into his Will and to do her acts in him.  Without them he can not continue his works, his steps, his speaking.  And even as Jesus feels isolated when the creature does not put forth her transactions so does all the creation, the Angels and Saints and all creatures lack a happiness, an honor,  a new love when the creature does not act in the Divine Will because everyone and everything become enclosed within each act.

“Now, so much is my love for one who lives in my Divine Volition that that which I do, I have to do to her; I give the right to her over my acts as if they might be hers, and I remain with anxiety waiting that she takes my steps in order to have her walk, my hands in order to have her work, my voice in order to have her speak; so much so that if sometimes she omits making use of me, my love reproaches her sweetly and with inexpressible tenderness I say to her: 

            ‘Today you have not had me walk, my steps remained waiting for you in order to walk in you and you have made them stop for me; my works today are suspended because you have not given me the space to work in your hands; I have always been in silence because you have not had me speak in your voice.  You see, also my tears I hold them on my face, because you have not removed them from me in order to make use of them for you, in order to wash yourself, in order to refresh yourself in my love, and even to make of them a bath for who offends me, and still I feel (a) wet face from weeping.  My sufferings are days without the kisses, the sweetenings of one who loves me, and I feel more embittered by them.  Therefore take all of me do not leave anything of me, let me lean/rest my being with all my acts upon you and upon all your acts, and thus I will call you my knoll, my shelter; I will put in you, in the bank of my Will that reigns in you, all that which I did and suffered being on earth, I will multiply it, I will centuplicate it, I will make it continually re-arise to new life, so that you take for yourself that which you want and you will give me to everyone so that everyone knows me and loves me.’

 

             “Indeed you should know that as the creature enters into my Will in order to do her acts she calls the appeal to all created things, to the saints and angels, so that everyone becomes enclosed in that act.  And oh, how beautiful it is to feel in that act that everyone loves me, everyone recognizes me and adores me, everyone does the same thing!  My Will calls everyone, imposes himself over everyone, and everyone remains felicitated, honored to be enclosed in that act done in the Divine Volition, in order to love with new love and with the love of everyone he who loves them so much.” 

Vol. 36, July 24, 1938  

Each time the creature repeats her acts in the Divine Will they are new.  With each act new knowledge is gained and the field of the act repeated grows ever larger making it a new act.  And each act forms a new bond and a new right to receive ever more from God.

“My daughter, every time that you turn you form one of your acts in the act of my Divine Will, so many bonds more you form in Him, remaining confirmed so many times for how many acts you do in the Divine Fiat, and He remains confirmed so many more times in you; and every bond and confirmation that you make, my Will enlarges his seas around you, and for confirmation as seal he puts there one truth of his, one knowledge of his, and he manifests to you one more degree of value that my Will contains, but do you know what they do in your soul these bonds, confirmations, truths, knowledges, greater values that you come to know?  They make the life of my Will grow in you.  Not only, but repeating your acts, will make so many more degrees of values for how many more you have known; your acts become put in the balance of the Divine Value, and they are worth so much for how much you have known and for how much value has been communicated by us in your act, so that your act yesterday, repeating it today, it doesn’t have the same value of yesterday, but [it has] acquired the new value that we have made known.  Hence the repetition of the acts, accompanied by new truths and knowledges, they acquire day-by-day new degrees of infinite value always growing.  We not only put the acts of the creature done in our Will, in our eternal balance in order to re-give them the weight of an infinite value, but we conserve them in our divine bank in order to (re-)give them a hundred fold; therefore every time that you repeat your acts, so many times you come to put your little coins in our divine bank, and hence you acquire so many rights to receive more from us.

“You see therefore where the excess of our love arrives, that we want to make ourselves debtor of the creature receiving the little coins of her acts in our immense bank, that we possess so much of.  And yet we so very love to receive the little coins, in order to give her the right to give her of ours.  Our love at whatever cost wants to have to do with the creature, it wants to be in continuous relationship with her and this by force (of needing) to give, and perhaps also to lose.  How many times while we want to give to her, we want to make her know so many of our beautiful things, we want to make her feel how very sweet and powerful our word is, and she shows herself cold, indifferent, if she doesn’t even turn her back to us.  And our love remains as defeated by human ingratitude; but the little daughter won’t ever do that, isn’t (this) true?  Your littleness makes you feel the extreme need of your Jesus, of his love and of his Will.”

Vol. 30, Feb. 6, 1932