Month: January 2014

I have seen the new world

I have seen the new world. (Fr. Adam Skwarczynski)

 

Fr. Adam Skwarczynski

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From the Book of Heaven

By Luisa Piccarreta

1/17/32 – Vol. 30  Dominating, speaking and felicitating Ways of the Divine Will.  How Heaven remains behind.  Victory of God and victory of the creature.  The Divine Will, Gatherer of Its Works.  Example of a mother who laments her crippled son.

My little soul continues to cross the interminable Sea of the Divine Fiat, and O! how I remain surprised that while it seems to me that I have gone a long way, I go to look, and I find nothing other than a few steps in comparison to those that remain for me to make.  The interminability is so much, that even if I should walk centuries, I would always find myself at the beginning, and there is so much to know about the Divine Volition, that finding myself in Its Sea, I always feel the little ignorant one, who hardly has learned the vowels of the Divine Will, and perhaps I will learn the consonants in the Celestial Fatherland, that I hope to reach soon.  O! how I would want ways to move all Heaven to pity so that my long exile might end.  But after all, Fiat!  Fiat!  Fiat!

And my always lovable Jesus, having compassion on me, clasped me in His Arms, telling me:  “Blessed daughter, courage, do not afflict yourself so much.  For now I want that your Heaven be My Divine Will.  It will be Celestial Fatherland for you on earth, and It will not lack making you happy, and giving you the pure Joys of up there, because where It reigns, It has so many multiplicity of Ways in order to give New Surprises of Joys, of Contentments, that the soul who possesses It can enjoy her Paradise on earth.

“And therefore, now It takes Dominating Ways and Its Dominion extends in the mind, in the word, in the heart, in all the being of the creature, even in the littlest motion, and O! how sweet is Its Dominion.  It is Dominion and Life; It is Dominion and Strength; It is Dominion and Light that makes its way, and Its Light dispels the darkness, it removes the bars that can impede the Good, and Its Dominion puts the enemies to flight.  In sum, the creature feels herself carried by the Dominion of the Divine Will, and while she is dominated, she remains dominator of herself, of her acts, of the same Divine Will Itself, that while It dominates and rules, so much is Its Gentleness, Strength, and Sweetness, that It identifies Itself with the creature, and wants that she dominate together, because Its Dominion is peaceful.  And for all the acts that the creature does, It gives Its Kiss of dominating Peace.  This Kiss, gentle and sweet, enraptures the human will in the Divine, and they extend the Dominion together in order to form the Divine Kingdom in the depth of the soul.

“There is nothing more beautiful, dearer, greater, holier, than feeling the Dominion of My Will flow in all the acts, and in the whole being, of the creature.  I could say that Heaven remains behind before the Dominion of My Will in the heart of the pilgrim creature, because in the Saints, It has nothing to add, nothing else remains except continually making them happy.  On the other hand, in the pilgrim soul, there are Works that It can do, New Life that It can infuse, New Conquests that It can acquire in order to greatly enlarge and extend Its Dominion.  The total Dominion of My Divine Will in the creature is Our continued Victory.  Every act of hers that she does in It with Its Dominion, are so many Victories We make, and the creature remains victor of My Divine Will in her acts.  On the other hand, in Heaven We do not have anything to win, because everything is Ours, and each Blessed completes his work in the act of expiring.  Therefore Our conquering Work is on earth in pilgrim souls, not in Heaven.  In Heaven We have nothing to lose or acquire.

“Now, when My Divine Will has assured Its total Dominion in the creature, It takes Its Speaking Way.  You must know that every word of It is a Creation.  Where It reigns It does not know how to be idle, and since It possesses the Creative Virtue, It does not know how to speak if It does not create. But what does It create?  It wants to create Itself in the creature; It wants to make a display of Its Divine Qualities, and It does it Word by Word, almost as It did in the Creation of the universe, that not one word alone was said, but as many words for however many distinct things It wanted to create.

The soul cost Us more than all the universe.  And when It is secure in Its Dominion, It does not spare Its Words.  Rather, as she receives the act of Its Creative Word, so It enlarges her capacity and prepares another one, such that It speaks and creates Light, It speaks and creates Sweetness, It speaks and creates the Divine Fortitude, It speaks and creates Its Day of Peace, It speaks and creates Its Knowledges.  Every Word of It is Bearer of the Creation of the Good that It possesses and reveals.  Its Word becomes Announcer of the Good that It wants to create in the soul.  Who can tell you the Value that one single Word about My Divine Will possesses?  And how many Heavens, seas of Riches, varieties of Beauty It places in the fortunate creature who possesses Its sweet and happy Dominion?

“Now, after the Work, the Joy, the Happiness, arises.  My Will by nature is pregnant with innumerable Joys.  It looks at the creature who has lent herself to receiving the creation of Its Words, and O! how happy It feels because It sees that every Creation received gave birth to a Joy and Happiness without end.  And It passes from the Speaking Way to the Felicitating Way.  And in order that the creature enjoys even more, It does not step aside, no, but felicitates together.  And in order to make her rejoice more, It keeps unfolding the nature and diversity of the Joys that It has created in her soul, only because It loves her and wants to see her happy.  And since the Joys, the Happiness, when alone are not full, it seems that one dies, therefore It leaves Me together with you, in order to always make you happy and prepare New Joys with the Work of My Creative Word.

“Therefore Our only Feast and Happiness that We have on earth, is the soul who lets herself be possessed by the Dominion of My Supreme Will.  In her Our Word, Our Life, Our Joys, find a place.  One can say that the Work of Our Creative Hands is in the order where it was established by Our infinite Wisdom, that is to say, in its place of honor in Our Divine Will.  On the other hand, one who lets herself be dominated by her human will, is in disorder and is Our continuous out of place item in Our Creative Work.  Therefore be attentive, My daughter, and make happy the One who wants to make you happy in time and in eternity.”

After this I continued to swim in the Sea of Light of the Divine Fiat.  I felt drowned by Light, and so many were Its Knowledges, that I did not know which of them to cling to.  Given my littleness, I did not know where to put them; therefore they were lost in Its same Light.  And I remained surprised without knowing how to say anything.

And my sweet Teacher Jesus added:  “My daughter, My Will is Gatherer of all Its Works.  It hides everything in Its Light; with Its Light It defends them, and places all Its Works in safety.  How much does this Light not do to place in safety the creature, the most beautiful Work of Our Creative Hands, and in order to make him return beautiful, striking, as We brought him forth?  It gathers him in Its Womb of Light, and casts so much Light over him, in order to make all evils disappear for him.  If he is blind, by way of Light It gives him sight.  If he is mute, by way of Light It wants to give him the Word.  The Light takes him from all sides, and gives him the hearing if he is deaf.  If he is crippled, It straightens him.  If he is ugly, by way of Its Light It makes him beautiful.

“A mother does not do as much as My Divine Will does in order to render Its creature beautiful and restored.  Its weapons are of Light, because there is no power that can hide Light, nor Good that It does not possess. What would a mother not do who, having given to the light a beautiful baby who enraptures her with his beauty—and the mother feels happy in the beauty of the son—but a misfortune strikes him and he becomes blind, mute, deaf, crippled.  Poor mother, she looks at her son and does not recognize him anymore.  His eye extinguished so that it can not look at her anymore, his silvery voice that made her start with joy in hearing herself called mama, she does not hear anymore.  His little feet that ran in order to be on her lap, with difficulty drag along.  This son is the most transfixing sorrow for a poor mother, and what would she not do if she were to know that her son could be returned again to his first features?  She would go around the whole world if she could obtain this.  And it would be sweet for her to give her own life, provided she would see her son beautiful as she gave him forth to the light.  But poor mother, it isn’t in her power to restore the first beauty of her dear son, and it will always be a sorrow for her, and the most transfixing thorn to her maternal heart.

“So has the creature become by doing his will:  blind, mute crippled.  Our Will laments with Our Love’s ardent Tears of Light.  But what the mother cannot do for her crippled son, My Divine Will does not lack the Power to do.  It, more than mother, will place at his disposition Its Capitals of Light that possess the Virtue of restoring all the goods and beauty of the creature.  It, tender, loving, and vigilant Mother of the Work of Its Hands, that more than dearest son It put forth to the light, will go around not all the world, but all the centuries, in order to prepare and give the potent remedies of Light that vivifies, transforms, straightens, and embellishes.  And then will It stop when It sees on Its Maternal Lap, beautiful as It put him forth, the work of Its Creative Hands, in order to be repaid for the so many Sorrows, and to enjoy Itself with him forever.

“Are the so many Knowledges about My Divine Will not perhaps remedies?  Every Manifestation and Word that I say, is a Fortress that I place around the weakness of the human will, and a Food that I prepare.  It is a Bait, a Taste, a Light in order to let him reacquire the lost Sight.  Therefore, be attentive, and do not lose anything of what My Will manifests to you, because in Its time It will serve everyone, and nothing will be lost.  Do you believe that It has not kept count of every single Word of what It says?  Everything is numbered, and nothing is lost.  And if It has formed Its Chair in your soul in order to deposit Its Truths, still the first Chair It has reserved in Itself, as the greatest Treasure that pertains to It, in a way that if you lose some Word or Manifestation that pertains to It, It already conserves the original in Itself.  Because what regards My Divine Will is of infinite Value, and the infinite cannot be, nor is It subject to, being lost.  On the contrary, jealous, It conserves Its Truths in the Divine Archives.  Therefore, even you learn to be jealous and vigilant, and to appreciate Its holy Lessons.”

The Earth is the center of the universe

The Principle the long interview – Earth is the center of the universe

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Vol 34

“This is the reason My Speaking still continues, because all the Queens have not come forth form Our Divinity in order to complete their Office.  And since the Speaking about My Will is the continuation of the Creation of the Fiat that Created the universe, and as then the Creation of the universe was preparation to the Creation of Man, so today My Speaking about My Fiat is nothing other than the continuation of Creation in order to prepare the sumptuousness, the decency, for My Kingdom and for those who will possess It.  Therefore be attentive and do not let anything escape you, otherwise you would suffocate an Act of My Will and constrain Me to repeat My Lessons.”

“And now a word to all of you who read these writings… I beg you, I implore you to receive with love what Jesus wants to gives us, that is, His Will.

But to give you His Will, He wants yours, otherwise His own cannot reign. If you only knew… With this love my Jesus wants to give you the greatest gift that exists in both heaven and earth: His Will!

Oh, what bitter tears He sheds, for He sees that in following your own will you wander all over the wretched earth! You are no good at keeping a good resolution, and do you know why? Because His Will does not reign in you.

Oh, how Jesus weeps and sighs over your destiny! And sobbing, He begs you to make His will reign in you. He wants to make you change your lot: from sick to healthy, from poor to rich, from weak to strong, from hesitant to steadfast, from slaves to kings. He wants no great penances, no lengthy prayers nor anything else; except that His Will reign in you and that yours live no more.

Ah, listen to Him, and I am ready to give my life for each one of you, to suffer any hardship so that you open the doors of your soul and the Will of my Jesus can reign and triumph over the human generations!

Now will you all deign to accept my invitation? Come with me to Eden, the place of your origins where the Supreme One created man, made him king and gave him a kingdom to rule over; this kingdom was the whole universe; but his scepter, his crown and his orders came from the depths of his soul in which the divine Fiat dwells as a ruling King and constitutes man’s true kingship. His robes were royal, brighter than the sun, his acts noble, his beauty entrancing. God so loved him, entertained himself with him, called him my little king and son. All was happiness, order and harmony

Preface to the Hours

The first Fiat extracted the whole Universe from nothing. The second Fiat, pronounced by the Most Holy Virgin Mary, hailed by the Angel, determined the Incarnation of the Divine Word in Her most pure Womb and the subsequent Redemption of mankind.  The third Fiat was left to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ in the great Prayer of the Our Father, with those divine words:  “Fiat Voluntas Tua Sicut in Coelo et in terra” – Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

October 13, 1916

I was making “The Hours of his Passion, and Blessed Jesus said to me:

“My daughter, in the course of my mortal Life, thousands of Angels courted my Humanity and gathered together what I did: my words, steps, even breaths, pains, drops of my Blood, in a word, everything. They were Angels deputed to my care, to render Me honor, obedient to my every gesture; they descended and ascended to Heaven, as to present what I did to the Father.

Now, these Angels have a special office: As the soul recalls my Life, my Passion, my prayers, they place themselves round her, thus gathering together her words, her prayers, the compassion she shows Me, her tears, her offenses; whereby, uniting them to Mine, they carry them off to my Majesty, as to renew for Me the glory of my own Life. And the Angels enjoy it so much that they reverently stand in attention as to hear what the soul is saying, and they pray together with her. Therefore, with attention and respect, the soul ought to make these Hours, while remembering that the Angels hang upon her every word, as to repeat after her what she says!”….

May 16, 1917

Then I found myself outside of myself.  I found myself among many souls—it seemed as though they were the souls of Purgatory and the Saints—who named a person I knew who died not long ago, and they said to me:  “He feels as happy in seeing that there is no soul who enters into Purgatory who does not carry the imprint of the Hours of the Passion.  Further, helped and escorted by these Hours, he takes his position in a secure place.  Moreover, there is not a soul that flies into Paradise who is not accompanied by these Hours of the Passion.  These Hours rain continuous dew from Heaven onto the earth, into Purgatory, and even into Heaven.”

Upon hearing this I said to myself:  “Perhaps my beloved Jesus, in order to keep His word given—that for every word of The Hours of the Passion He would save a soul—(grants that) there be no soul saved who would not have made use of these Hours.”

Afterwards, I returned into myself, and, having found my sweet Jesus, I asked Him if this were true.

And He“These Hours are the order of the universe and put Heaven and earth into harmony, as well as keep Me from destroying the world.  I feel My Blood, My Wounds, My Love, and all that I did, put into circulation; and they flow upon all to save all.  Further, as souls do these Hours of the Passion, I feel My Blood, My Wounds, and My anxieties to save souls come to life, and I feel My Life repeated to Me.

“How can creatures obtain any good, if not by means of these Hours?  Why do you doubt it?  The thing is not yours, but Mine.  You have been the constrained and weak instrument.”

The Queen

Listen, my child: as soon as the Divinity smiled and celebrated my Conception, the Supreme Fiat took the third step over my little humanity. Tiny, tiny as I was, It endowed Me with divine reason; and moving all Creation in feast, It made Me recognized by all created things as their Queen. They recognized in Me the life of the Divine Will, and the whole universe prostrated itself at my feet, even though I was tiny and not yet born.

Now, dear child, if your life and your pains have the Divine Will as their center of life, be certain that sweet Jesus will use you and your pains to give help, light and grace to the whole universe. Therefore, pluck up courage; the Divine Will can do great things where It reigns. In all circumstances, reflect yourself in Me and in your sweet Jesus, and move forward.

VOL 35

The Sun, the sky, the stars, the wind and the sea are not Lives but, being our works, how much good do they not do?  They serve as the most beautiful and primary residence for man…. What are their houses compared to the great residence We made of all the Universe?  There is a blue vault dotted with gold, which never fades; there is a Sun which is never extinguished; there is air which, being breathed, gives life; there is a wind which purifies and refreshes… and many more things.

Volume 34

December 8, 1935

“The Creation of the universe was Created by Us in an admirable way, and it is maintained by Us under the Empire of Our Creating and Conserving Act, without Us adding anything else.  On the other hand, in this Virgin, We maintain the Creating, Conserving, and Growing Act.  This is the Prodigy of prodigies, the Life of Our Volition Reborn in Her, and Its continuous Growth in every Act that She did.  And Our Fiat, in order be Born in Her, pronounced Itself in the Act of Her Conception.  And when this pronounces Itself, Our Act has such Sumptuousness, Sublimity, Height, Immensity, Power, that It takes everything in the net of Its Love, It does not set anyone aside, everyone can take the Good that Our Operating Fiat possesses, except whoever would not want it.

“See, therefore, where Our Love arrives at for one who Lives in the Divine Will—even to not wanting to do anything without her.  She is the harmony of Our Infinite Wisdom, that as the Creation of the universe always goes around Us, and as they go around fecundating the earth and maintaining the natural life of all creatures, so this New Creation of the Conception of the Immaculate Lady always goes around God, and God always goes around Her, and They maintain the fecundity of Good, They form the Sanctity of souls, and the Recall of creatures to God.”

Vol 31

I am repeating the way that I had in Creation, I pronounced the Fiat, then I was silent; and although they say days, at that time days did not exist, therefore they can even be called epochs, in which I formed the great machine of the universe.  I spoke and I worked; and so much was My Pleasure with the Work that My Word produced, that with one ‘Fiat’ of Mine it disposed Me and enraptured from Me another ‘Fiat’ of Mine, and then still another, even to such that My ‘Fiat’ only stops when I see that nothing lacks to Its Work.  On the contrary, everything was Sumptuousness, Beauty, Order and Harmony, and in order to enjoy My Works, I remained as Life and at watch over My same ‘Fiat.’

Vol 30

.  I spoke in Creation, and My Word served to form the admirable things of the whole universe; I spoke in Redemption, and My Word, My Gospel, serves as guide to My Church, as light, as support.  It can be said that My Word is the substance and the Life palpitating in the womb of My Church.  Now, if I have spoken and I still speak about My Divine Will, it will not be in vain—no, but I will have the admirable effects and the Life of My Will, known, operating and palpitating in the midst of creatures.  Therefore, let Me do, and I will dispose things in a way that My Word will not be a dead word—but Alive, that will give Life with all its admirable effects.  More so, since these Celestial Fields and Seas of Ours will act as mothers to the fortunate souls who would want to live in them; they will educate them in a Divine Manner, they will nourish them with delicious foods taken from the Celestial table, and will raise them in a noble and holy way, such that in all their acts, steps and words, it will appear, written in clear notes:  ‘They are similar to their Creator.’

Vol 29

“Now, you must know that in creating the whole universe, the variety of many manifold things, We placed a determined act, an ‘enough’ to each thing, in such a way that they cannot surpass any limit from the way in which they were created.  However, even though it was a determined act and they cannot go any further, it was yet a full act; so much so, that creatures are unable, nor do they have the capacity, to take all the good that each created thing contains.  This is so true that, who can say:  ‘I can take all the light of the sun’?  ‘The heavens are not enough for me over my head’?  ‘All the waters are not enough for me to quench my thirst’?  ‘The earth is not sufficient under my feet’?  And so with many other things.  And this, because as Our Divinity does an act, creates things, Our Love, the superabundance We possess, is so great, that We put in display, luxury, pomp.  Of none of Our Works can it be said that it is poor; they all make display—some of luxury of light, some make pomp of beauty, some of variety of colors, and more.  They seem to be saying, in their mute language:  ‘Our Creator is immensely rich, beautiful, powerful, wise, and therefore all of us, as worthy works of Him, make display of luxury in the office given to us by God.’

:  ‘My Creative Strength maintains all this machine of the universe; if It withdrew, the sun would disappear as if by magic, the heavens and all the other things would resolve into nothing, just as from nothing they came out.  So, My Creative Power keeps on creating It continuously, and can say in all reality:  ‘It is precisely for you that I am creating the sun, so that your life, your journey, may be strewn with light.  For you the azure heavens, so that your eye may wander afar and delight in their extension.  I am creating everything for you; I maintain everything in order because I love you.’  My Divine Will makes Itself life in act of all things, It sustains them and preserves them, It places them around the creature to make her feel, from all things and from all sides, Its unmovable Life, Its immutable Strength, Its invincible Love.  It can be said that It clasps her everywhere as triumph of Its Love.  And It maintains not only the external order and all things in act, as if It were creating them, but It maintains internally, with Its Creative Strength, the whole internal order of the creature.  So, It is always in act of creating the heartbeat, the breath, the motion, the circulation of the blood, the intelligence, the memory, the will.  It runs as life in the heartbeat, in the breath—in everything; It sustains and preserves, without ever withdrawing from the soul and from the body.  Yet, this Supreme Will of Mine is everything, does everything, and is not recognized, but rather, forgotten.  It could say as I said to the Apostles:  ‘I have been with you for so long, and you still do not know Me.’  Many things are made known that do not form the life of the creature; and of My Will, that forms the life and is continuous Act of Life—otherwise she could not live—nothing is made known.  Therefore, My daughter, be attentive, recognize It in you and outside of you—in everything, more than your own life, and you will feel admirable things, Its continuous Act that loves you with untiring love, and only because It loves you, It gives you Life.”

“But do you know where We can form this Life and this fulfilled Act of Ours, as much as it is possible and imaginable for a creature to receive from her Creator?  In the soul who lives in Our Divine Will and lets herself be dominated by It.  Ah! only in her can We form the Divine Life and carry out Our fulfilled Act.  Our Will disposes the creature to receive all the Divine Qualities and colors; and Our Breath, never interrupted, as most skillful brush, paints with admirable and inimitable mastery the most beautiful shades, and forms the facsimiles of Our Supreme Being.  If it were not for these facsimiles, the work of Creation would have been nothing great, nor a great work of the Power of Our Creative Hands; to create the sun, the heavens, the stars and the whole universe would have been an absolute nothing for Our Power.

Vol 28

Then, I continued my round in the Creation, and my always lovable Jesus added:  “My daughter, see what order there is in the creation of the whole universe:  there are heavens, stars, suns – all ordered.  Much more so in creating man; Our Divine Being stretched out the order of Our divine qualities like many heavens in the depth of his soul.  So, We stretched out in him the heaven of love, the heaven of Our goodness, the heaven of Our sanctity, of Our beauty, and so on.  And after We stretched out the order of the heavens of Our divine qualities, Our Fiat, in the vault of these heavens, constituted Itself Sun of the soul, which, with Its light and heat, reflecting Itself in him, was to grow and preserve Our Divine Life in the creature.  And just as Our divine qualities point out Our Supreme Being, so do these heavens, stretched out in man, point out that he is Our dwelling.  Who can tell you the way – the Love with which We delighted in creating man?  Oh! if he knew who he is, what he possesses, oh! how he would esteem himself more, and would be attentive not to stain his soul, and would love the One who created him with so much love and grace.”

“My daughter, my Love toward creatures is so great, that It does not cease to love them for one single instant.  If I ceased to love them for one instant alone, the whole machine of the universe and all creatures would resolve into nothing, because the existence of all things had the first act of life from my Love – full, whole, complete, interminable and incessant; and so that my Love might have all Its fullness, I released from Myself, as act of life of the whole universe and of each act of creature, my Divine Will.  So, my Will is life of everything, my Love is continuous nourishment of all Creation.

Vol 27

In fact, this great machine of the universe was done in order to give It to the creature – but to that creature who would let Our Divine Volition reign.

So, after the universe was created and all things were at their place of order, waiting for the one around whom, like an ordered army, they were to line up so as to serve him and obey his wishes, We created man.  All created things and his very Creator poured themselves over him to sing to him Our eternal loves, and say to Him:  ‘We all have the mark of our Creator, and we pour it over you, who are His image.’  Heaven and earth made complete feast, and Our very Divinity celebrated with so much love the creation of man, that at the mere memory of it, Our love seethes so strongly that, overflowing, it forms immense seas around Us.

Vol 25

One is the Virgin, and therefore universal Mother and Queen of all.  One is your Jesus, and therefore my Redemption extends everywhere and in a universal way; everything I did and suffered is at the disposal of all and of each one.  One is the little newborn of my Divine Will, and therefore the whole entire universe will receive, in a universal way, all the goods of the manifestations and knowledges of my Divine Fiat which, like sacred deposit, I have deposited in you, so that, more than splendid sun, it may shine its innumerable rays to illuminate the whole entire world.  Therefore, everything I tell you contains the universal virtue, which will give itself to all and will do good to all.  So, be attentive, and always follow my Divine Will.”

May everything be for the glory of God and for the fulfillment of His Fiat!!!

Vol 24

I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat, and many things about the Supreme Volition wandered through my mind; so I thought to myself:  ‘How can it be that if the knowledges about this Divine Will become known, then Its Kingdom can come?  If He did so much for the coming of the Kingdom of Redemption – the mere knowledge of it was not enough, but He worked, suffered, died, performed miracles… – will the knowledges alone be enough for the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat which is greater than Redemption?’  But while I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus moved in my interior and told me:  “My daughter, in order to form the smallest thing, creatures need works, steps and raw materials; but God, your Jesus, does not need anything to create and form the greatest works and the entire universe.

So, all that you see in the whole universe are nothing but the effects of the one single act of God; and because it is one single act, it possesses the virtue of order and harmony in all of the effects it produces.

Vol 23

:  “My little daughter, you must know that Our love gushed out in Creation, and overflowing outside of Ourselves – without anyone having merited such a great good, not even with a single word – Our highest goodness and liberality with no limits created the whole machine of the universe with such great magnificence, order and harmony, for love of the one who did not yet exist.  After this, Our love gushed out more strongly, and We created the one for whom all things had been created.  And since, in operating, We operate always with unreachable magnanimity, and while We are not depleted, We give everything, so that nothing of magnanimity, of greatness and of all goods may be lacking to Our work – in creating man, with no merit at all on his part, as dowry, foundation and substance of all goods, joys and happinesses, we gave him Our Will as his Kingdom, so that he might lack nothing, having a Divine Will at his disposal and, with It, Our Supreme Being.

Vol 22

It happens as it did in Creation:  Our Being existed ab eterno[1][1], but nothing could be seen outside of Ourselves before Creation, because all Our operating, Our portents and beatitudes were carried out within Ourselves; but when Our Divine Being wanted to operate outside of Ourselves, Our Will had the occasion to operate, and It issued the whole universe, with such sumptuousness, order and harmony, as to form the amazement of all generations and the triumph and victory of Our Supreme Being.  The same with the soul who lives in Our Will:  as she operates, she gives It the occasion to form more works worthy of It.  Therefore, she is Our continuous triumph and the carrying out of Our works; she keeps the divine attitude up.  So, while forming Our triumph and Our victory, at the same time the soul triumphs and conquers the Divine Will.  Therefore, both one and the other are seen as victorious:  God and the littleness of the creature.  Do you think it is trivial that the littleness of the creature sings victory, moves a Divine Will to operate, and conquers It?”

 


[1][1]  From eternity.

VOL 1

. It happens in two ways: the first is instantaneous, almost in a flash; and it is so sudden, that it seemed to me that the body would lift a little bit from the bed in order to follow the soul, but then it would stay there. And it seemed to me that the body would remain as dead, while the soul would follow Jesus, walking throughout the whole universe – the earth, the air, the seas, the mountains, Purgatory and Heaven, where many times He showed me the place where I will be after I die. The other way, then, for the soul to go out, is more quiet. It seems that the body dozes off insensibly and remains as though petrified at the presence of Jesus Christ; however, the soul remains with the body, and the body no longer feels anything of external things – even if all the universe turned upside down; even if they burned me up and reduced me to pieces.VOL