[Jesus:] “Grace is the life of the soul. Just as the soul gives life to the body, so does grace give life to the soul. However, in order to have life it is not enough for the body to have the soul; it also needs food with which to nourish itself and grow to the proper stature. In the same way, it is not enough for the soul to have grace in order to have life, but food is needed to nourish her and raise her to the proper stature. And what is this food? It is her correspondence. So grace, and correspondence to it, form the links of the chain which lead her to Heaven, and according to the measure in which the soul corresponds to grace, she keeps forming the links of this chain.” Then He added: “What is the passport to enter into the kingdom of grace? It is humility. Through humility, by always looking at her nothingness and seeing that she is nothing but dust or wind, the soul will place all her trust in grace, so much so, as to make of it her master. And grace, taking dominion over all of the soul, leads her along the path of all virtues, and makes her reach the summit of perfection.” January 31, 1900
"As we decide to always do His Will and to live in It, sweet Jesus covers all our past miseries in order to let us begin the new life, all holy, and all of Heaven."
[Jesus:] "The most sublime humility is that of losing every reason and of not discoursing on ‘why’ and ‘how’, but of undoing oneself in one’s own nothingness. And while the soul does this, without realizing it, she finds herself dissolved in God, and this produces in the soul the union most intimate, the love most perfect toward her highest Good. This, however, to the greatest advantage of the soul, because in losing her own reason, she acquires divine reason, and in losing every discoursing about herself – whether she is cold or warm, whether the things that happen to her are favorable or adverse – she will be interested in and will acquire a language fully celestial and divine. In addition to this, humility produces a garment of safety in the soul, in such a way that, wrapped in this garment of safety, the soul remains in the most profound calm, embellishing all of herself in order to be pleasing to her dearest and beloved Jesus.” June 29, 1900
"In the secret of our heart, Jesus says to us: 'My daughter, if you do what I want, I will take on the commitment of all your things. I can do them better than you - do not worry about anything. Let Me do and you will see.'"
"He [Jesus] told me: “My daughter, it is these sad times that force Me to this [send chastisements], because men have grown so bold and proud, that everyone thinks he is the god of himself; and if I do not lay hand to scourges, I would do harm to their souls, because the cross alone is the nourishment of humility. So, if I did not do it, I Myself would cause them to lack the means to be humiliated and to surrender from their strange madness, even though the majority of them offends Me more. But I do this like a father who breaks the bread for all to be nourished - a bread which some of his children do not want to take; even more, they use it to throw it in their father’s face. What has the poor father done wrong? So I am. Therefore, compassionate Me in my afflictions.” June 24, 1900
This is a longer quote but is a divine lesson on HUMILITY. Maybe it can serve as a meditation on this First Friday of February to know and love Jesus more, and to appreciate better His Work of Redemption: "My adorable Jesus came in a pitiful state. He had His hands bound tightly, His face covered with spit, and many people were slapping Him horribly. And He remained quiet, placid, without making one movement or emitting one lament; not even a batting of eyelashes, in order to show that He Himself wanted to suffer these outrages; and this, not only externally, but also internally. What a moving scene, such as to break the hardest hearts! How many things that Face said, with that spit hanging, dirtied with mud! I felt horrified, I trembled, I saw myself all pride before Jesus. While He was in that appearance, He said to me: “My daughter, only the little ones let themselves be handled as one wants; not those who are little of human reason, but those who are little yet filled with divine reason. I alone can say that I am humble, because in man, that which is said to be humility should rather be called knowledge of self; and one who does not know himself already walks in falsehood.” Jesus remained silent for a few minutes, and I stayed there, contemplating Him. While I was doing this, I saw a hand carrying a light, which, searching in my interior, in the most intimate hiding places, wanted to see whether the knowledge of myself and love of humiliations, confusions and opprobriums, were present in me. That light found a void in my interior – and I too saw it – which had to be filled with humiliations and confusions, in the example of blessed Jesus. Oh, how many things that light and that holy Face which was before me, made me understand! I said to myself: ‘A God, humiliated and confused for love of me, and I, a sinner, without these insignia! A God, stable, firm in bearing so many insults, to the point that He does not move, not one bit, to shake that disgusting spit off of Himself. Ah, His interior before God, and His exterior before men are made manifest to me; and yet, if He wanted to free Himself, He could, because it is not the chains that bind Him, but His firm Will, which wants to save mankind at any cost. And I? And I? Where are my humiliations? Where, the firmness, the constancy in doing good for love of my Jesus and for love of my neighbor? Ah, how different we are as victims – myself and Jesus! Ah, we are not similar at all! While my little brain was wandering in this, my adorable Jesus told me: “Only my Humanity was filled with opprobriums and humiliations, to the point that they overflowed outside. This is why Heaven and earth tremble before my virtues, and the souls who love Me use my Humanity as a staircase in order to ascend and lap up a few little drops of my virtues. Tell me now: before my humility, where is yours? I alone can glory in possessing true humility. My Divinity, united to my Humanity, could operate prodigies at each step, word and work; yet, I voluntarily constrained Myself within the circle of my Humanity, I showed Myself as the poorest, and I reached the point of mingling with sinners themselves. I could have done the Work of Redemption in very little time, and even with one single word; yet, during the course of many years, with many hardships and sufferings, I wanted to make the miseries of man my own; I wanted to exercise Myself in many different actions, so that man might be completely renewed and divinized, even in the lowest works. In fact, once they had been exercised by Me, who was God and Man, they received new splendor, and remained with the mark of divine works. My Divinity, hidden within my Humanity, wanted to lower Itself to such baseness, subjecting Itself to the course of human actions - while with one single act of my Will I could have created infinite worlds - feeling the miseries and the weaknesses of others as if they were Its own, seeing Itself covered with all the sins of men before Divine Justice, having to pay their penalty at the price of unheard-of pains and with the shedding of all Its Blood…. Thus It exercised continuous acts of profound and heroic humility. Oh daughter, here is the immense difference between my humility and the humility of creatures, even that of all of my Saints, which is only a shadow in the face of mine; because the creature is always a creature and does not know, as I know, how great is the weight of sin. Even though heroic souls, following my example, have offered themselves to suffer the pains of others, their pains are not different from those of the other creatures; they are not new things for them, because they are made of the same clay. Moreover, the mere thought that those pains are the cause of new gains, and that they glorify God, is a great honor for them. Furthermore, the creature is restricted within the circle in which God placed her, and she cannot go out of those limits within which she has been circumscribed by God. Oh, if it were in their power to do or undo things, how many other things they would do - everyone would reach the stars! But my divinized Humanity had no limits, yet It voluntarily constrained Itself within Itself; and this was the braiding of all my works with heroic humility. This had been the cause of all evils which inundate the earth – lack of humility; and by exercising this virtue, I was to draw all goods from Divine Justice. Ah, yes, no concessions of graces come from my throne, if not by means of humility, nor can any ticket be received by Me, if it does not carry the signature of humility. No prayer is listened to by my ears, and moves my Heart to compassion, if it is not perfumed by the fragrance of humility. If the creature does not arrive at destroying that seed of honor, of esteem – and this can be destroyed by arriving at loving to be despised, humiliated, confused – she will feel a braiding of thorns around her heart; she will feel a void in her heart which will always bother her, and will render her very dissimilar from my Most Holy Humanity. If she does not arrive at loving humiliations, at the most she will be able to know herself a little bit, but will not shine before Me, clothed with the garment of humility, beautiful and worthy of sympathy.” January 12, 1900
[Jesus:] “My beloved daughter, if you knew what pleasure, what delight I feel in speaking to you about my Will! Each additional thing I manifest to you on my Will is one happiness that I release from Myself and communicate to the creature; and I feel I am made happier in her by virtue of my own happiness. In fact, the distinctive specialty of my Will is precisely this: to render God and man happy. Don’t you remember, my daughter, how much we delighted together - I in speaking to you, and you in listening to Me; and how we made each other happy? And since my Will alone contains the seed of happiness, we – I by manifesting It, and the soul by knowing It – form the plant and the fruits of everlasting and eternal true happiness, which never ceases. And not only us, but those who listen to or read the admirable and surprising things of my Will also feel the sweet enchantment of my happiness." June 20, 1924
"The Celestial Mama comes to visit you and to be your Mother, teacher and consoler; and also to give you Her sweet company in order to teach you how to live from the Divine Will." Please help the Blessed Mother to spread the First Saturday devotion to Her Immaculate Heart.
[Jesus:] “Courage, my daughter, the soul who is truly mine must live not only for God, but in God. You, try to live in Me, for in Me you will find the receptacle of all virtues, and strolling in their midst, you will nourish yourself with their fragrance, so much so, as to become replete. And you yourself will do nothing but give off light and celestial fragrance, because to live in Me is true virtue, and it has the virtue of giving to the soul the same shape as the Divine Person in whom she dwells, and of transforming her into the very divine virtues with which she nourishes herself.” July 9, 1900
Difference between living for God and living in God, July 10, 1900: [Jesus:] “In living for God, the soul can be subject to disturbances, to bitternesses, to being inconstant, to feeling the weight of passions, to meddle in earthly things. But the living in God – no, it is completely different, because the most important thing so that one person may enter to dwell inside another person is to lay down all that belongs to him – that is, to strip himself of everything, to leave his own passions; in a word, to leave everything in order to find everything in God. Now, when the soul has not only stripped herself, but has slimmed down well, then will she be able to enter through the narrow door of my Heart to live in Me, according to my way and from my own Life. In fact, even though my Heart is immense, so much so, that there is no end to Its boundaries, Its door, however, is extremely narrow, and only one who is stripped of everything can enter into It. This, with reason, because since I am Most Holy, I would never admit anything to live in Me which is extraneous to my sanctity. Therefore, my daughter, try to live in Me and you will possess Paradise in advance.”
Pearl of the New and Divine Holiness: February 8, 2015: If Adam had not Sinned The Original Sin was the disobedience of Adam, primogenitor of the human race. The primary effect of that Original Sin was the withdrawal of the human will from its unity with the Divine Will. The Divine Will had resided within Adam’s human will to be the vital principal of Adam’s humanity, animator of his activity, and the generator of the Eternal Life of God within Adam, with divine attributes, including divine sanctity and divine beauty. If Adam had not withdrawn from the Divine Will, death would not have entered the human race, nor would any illness of soul or body, nor suffering have touched anyone. There would have been no sin or disorder and no one would have gone to Hell, nor would Purgatory have been needed to prepare souls for Life in Heaven. But would Jesus have assumed human nature and come among us, if Adam had not sinned? While Luisa was placing on paper the mysteries of the Divine Will that Jesus made known to her, He told her that it was an unchangeable decree of the Holy Trinity that He, the Second Person of the Trinity, would become man and enter into the society of human beings on earth. Thus, He would come down to earth as man and God, whether Adam would sin or not sin. The purpose of the creation of man was that the first human parents would live faithfully in the Life of the Divine Will and pass the necessary Test to keep the Great Gift which God had given them. Having passed their Test, God would have blessed them and all their progeny with a special grace that would preserve everyone in the original state of man: living the same Life of the Divine Will as God Himself as His legitimate and healthy children and dear companions. To fulfill the decree of Holy Trinity that the Word would assume human nature and come to earth, the plan of God was that Jesus come to earth in glory and triumph, with His army of Angels. His splendor of glory would have charmed everyone, drawn to Him by His beauty. He would have been crowned as King, bearing the scepter of command, and visibly the Head of the human family. And in the mystery of time and Eternity, Mary would have been His Mother! Jesus as King of the Divine Will would have been the Teacher of Its marvelous mysteries, and when the Glory of the Father was completed on earth, everyone would have been absorbed into His glorified Body and would have risen triumphantly to Heaven to live the Life of the Divine Will in the enjoyment of the Beatific Vision for an unending Eternity. Man did sin and fail his Test, but the Divine Decree that the Word would come to earth with a human nature did not change—only the manner and appearance of His coming changed. He came to earth poor, with no display of Glory. He suffered and wept, with all the miseries and sufferings of mankind weighing upon Him. He found man unhappy, wretched, and burdened with the effects of Original Sin. Jesus had to take man’s sorrowful condition upon Himself and had to give them the remedies and medicines that they needed. And before his horrifying death on the Cross, He taught his unhappy children to pray to their Heavenly Father for His Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Divine Will, to come, so that at the appointed future time, man could regain the happiness of his original state and complete the Glory of the Father as intended in the beginning. Thomas Fahy
[Jesus:] “My daughter, when one leaves everything and operates for Me, and loves everything divinely, all things are at his disposal. And the sign that one has left everything for Me and has reached the point of operating and of loving everything divinely, is that in operating, in speaking, in praying, in everything, he no longer finds hindrances, displeasures, contrasts, oppositions; because in the face of this power of operating and of loving everything divinely, all lower their heads and dare not even breathe. In fact, I, benevolent Father, am always guarding the human heart, and in seeing it slip away from Me – that is, operating and loving humanly – I put thorns, displeasures, bitternesses, which prick and embitter that human work and love; and the soul, on seeing herself pricked, realizes that that way of hers is not divine, so she enters into herself and acts differently. In fact, the pricks are the sentinels of the human heart and they provide it with the eyes to be able to see who is the one who is moving her – whether God or the creature." February 10,1912
"This martyrdom (of the Divine Will) surpasses all other martyrdoms; even more, as many times as you do the Will of God instead of doing your own, so many times you will be able to say: 'I am martyr for You; the martyrdom I offer You is not of blood or of flesh, but with my will united to Yours, I offer You a divine martyrdom.' If only our acts enter the Divine Volition, everything is changed into divine in us, and what is human no longer has life." (from the Letters of Luisa, #105) Fiat!
"While I was thinking about the Kingdom of the Divine Will, and Its reigning upon earth seemed as though difficult to me, my beloved Jesus, coming out from within my interior, told me: “My daughter, as Adam sinned, God made him the promise of the future Redeemer. Centuries passed, but the promise did not fail, and the generations had the good of Redemption. Now, as I came from Heaven and formed the Kingdom of Redemption, before departing for Heaven, I made another promise, more solemn, of the Kingdom of my Will; and this was in the ‘Our Father’. And so as to give it more value, and to obtain It more quickly, I made this formal promise in the solemnity of my prayer, praying the Father to let His Kingdom come, which is the Divine Will on earth as It is in Heaven. I placed My very Self at the head of this prayer, knowing that such was His Will, and that, prayed by Me, He would deny Me nothing; more so, since I prayed with His very Will, and I asked for something which was wanted by my Father Himself. And after I had formed this prayer before my Celestial Father, certain that the Kingdom of my Divine Will upon earth would be granted to Me, I taught it to my Apostles, that they might teach it to the whole world, so that one might be the cry of all: ‘Your Will be done, on earth as It is in Heaven.’ A promise more sure and solemn I could not make. Centuries are like one single point for Us, but Our words are accomplished acts and facts. My very praying to the Celestial Father: ‘Let It come – let your Kingdom come; your Will be done on earth as It is in Heaven’, meant that with my coming upon earth the Kingdom of my Will was not established in the midst of creatures; otherwise I would have said: ‘My Father, let Our Kingdom, which I have already established on earth, be confirmed, and let Our Will dominate and reign.’ Instead, I said: ‘Let It come.’ This meant that It must come, and creatures must await It with that certainty with which they awaited the future Redeemer, because there is my Divine Will, bound and committed, in those words of the ‘Our Father’; and when It binds Itself, whatever It promises is more than certain. More so, since everything was prepared by Me; nothing else was needed but the manifestation of my Kingdom - and this I am doing. Do you think that my giving you so many truths about my Fiat is only to give you simple news? No, no; it is because I want everyone to know that Its Kingdom is near, and to know Its beautiful prerogatives, so that all may love – may yearn to enter, to live in a Kingdom so holy, full of happiness and of all goods. Therefore, that which seems difficult to you is easy for the power of Our Fiat, because It knows how to remove all difficulties, and to conquer everything - the way It wants, and when It wants.” February 5, 1928
Personal Reflections by Father Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci In order to live according to the Heart of God and undertake the journey of perfection which leads the soul to live the Divine Will, the following things are necessary: 1. Perfect conformity to the Will of God, because a soul will never be able to love perfectly if not with the very Will of God. In fact, by loving God with His own Will, the soul arrives at loving God and her neighbor according to His way of loving; 2. Profound humility, placing oneself before God and creatures, as the last among all; 3. Perfect purity in everything, because any slightest fault against purity, both in loving and in operating, goes from one’s heart to one’s soul, and is reflected in the body, which remains stained; 4. Obedience, which must be connected to the Will of God. In fact, while the virtue regards the superiors which God gives on earth, the Will of God is obedience which regards God directly; both of them are virtues of obedience, with the only difference that the first regards men, while the second regards God. Both of these obediences have the same value, and one cannot be without the other; and they must both be loved in the same way. The soul must love according to the Heart of God in order to obtain His satisfaction.
Lynnfiat, I think you are sharing from the writings of Louisa Picerata. Sorry if I have spelled her name incorrectly, can't seem to find it printed above to copy. Is it a rude question to ask if you could possibly share the hours of the Passion during Lent. Hope this is not too difficult to ask. I would like to try and read an hour a day if it was here; especially with all the upheaval in the world at the moment. Thank you and Woman Clothed with the Sun for sharing such beautiful writings. How does one make the Consecration to the Divine Will. God bless you all here.
