She will take good care of your soul. My heart is filled with a fire of love.It is a delicate and very gentle flame which consumes without causing any pain.this is a wonderful thing for me, something I will perhaps never understand until I get to Heaven. .How many times, Jesus said to me a little while ago, would you have abandoned me, my son, if I had not crucified you.. . The thought of Gods mercy is the only thing that sustains me. .I want your heart to be like this: well compact and closed on all sides, so that if the worries and storms of the world, the evil spirit, and the flesh come upon it, it will not be penetrated. Let us take care to repress vainglory, wrath and envy. I wish you, my brothers and sisters, a long and prosperous life full of heavenly and material blessings. Never let us put aside the thought of our ultimate aim. Stay with me, Lord, because the night is coming, and the darkness, temptations, and suffering trouble me. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. My daughters, in Latin, abjection is called humility, and humility abjection. Remain calm, because your illness was a little present given to you by Jesus. .You see yourself forsaken and I assure you that Jesus is holding you tighter than ever to His divine Heart. I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. There is a mother who is embroidering. . Stay with me, Lord, because I need You beside me. How many times has He not given us proof of this? We are brought to die to sin; we are grafted onto Jesus Christ in such a manner that we live His very same life. . Make this act yourself when things are going well and also when they go against you. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Jesus, who is infinitely merciful, will not fail to give you now and then a respite from the trial He has sent you. We do not know, however, that to grow we need hard bread crosses, humiliations, trials and contradictions. You must remember that you have in Heaven, not only a Father but also a MotherIf our wretchedness saddens us, if our ingratitude for God terrorizes us, if the memory of our faults hinders us from presenting ourselves to God, our Father, let us then have recourse to Mary, our Mother. I have prayed and I want to pray. .Let us, step by step, draw away from earthly affections; let us strip ourselves of the old man and put on the new man, aspiring to the happiness that awaits us. {js=d.createElement(s); Remember, our suffering is brief but our reward is eternal. Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray. We must not waste a single moment. Love Jesus, love Him very much, but to do this, be ready to love sacrifice more. It means having real and continual contempt for ourselves and for the things of the world to the point of preferring poverty rather than wealth, humiliation rather than glory, suffering rather than pleasure. Our body is like a donkey that we must take a stick to, so as to subdue it, but not so much that it throws us to the ground and refuses to carry us. . Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs); Let us pray to God to preserve in us this gift as the most precious thing he has granted us. In his resurrection instead we have a perfect example of our resurrection in grace. It is he who gives us the means to be able to love him. Be very grateful to the Madonna because it was she who gave us Jesus. Provided that it is a happy one for you, what does it matter if these passing moments are unhappy? . I consider what writers say about the kingfishers, the little birds who build their nests on the beach near the sea. }}(document,'script','twitter-wjs');

Let us bless Him in our spiritual trials and our heartbreaks, for all is ordained by God with great wisdom. However. Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. I felt the need to put ice on in in order to extinguish the fire that was consuming me. New Speculative Fiction Crossovers That Bust Genre Boundaries. In the first place, let our prayers be directed towards disarming Divine wrath with regard to our own country. In the first place, I want you to know that Jesus needs someone to mourn with Him for human wickedness. I follow you with my prayers, with my suffering and with my tears. We see close behind Jesus our most holy Mother, who follows him perfectly, loaded with her own cross. Jesus did not measure his blood for the salvation of men, and is He likely to measure my sins to allow me to be lost? He is so good that He will never allow you to give in.

. One day when we are able to see the full midday light, we will know what value and what treasures our earthly sufferings have been that have made us gain our everlasting Homeland. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you. Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls. Meanwhile we have to believe firmly that God calls us to Himself and follows us along the path towards Him. The soul must give free access to our Lord and be completely fortified by Him with every kind of weapon. Dont you know what they cost Jesus? Be of good cheer; abandon yourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and let Him take care of everything. .We must remember that faith is the greatest gift that God has made to man on this earth, because from earthly man he becomes a citizen of Heaven. . Therefore let us garb ourselves in constancy, patience, and perseverance, and then that which Jesus said to us in the Gospel will come about: He that shall persevere unto the end, shall be saved.. .We know that nature shrinks from the cross when things are hard, but we cannot say the soul is not submissive to Gods will when we see it carrying out that will, in spite of the strong pull it feels in the opposite direction. You ought to ask our Lord for just one thing, to love Him. Unfortunately, I am in need of courage, but Jesus will not refuse anything. . Leave but one opening to your heart, that is toward heaven. . In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. So let us, too, make every effort to lead a completely interior life, hidden in God. If nature suffers and demands its rights, this is a condition of mans life as a wayfarer. As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan. On the other hand, when Jesus doesnt want to answer me, he makes me actually forget to pray for those persons for whom I had firmly decided and intended to pray. This is where it takes place every moment of our lives. How many time I have entrusted to this Mother (the Virgin Mary) the painful anxieties of my heart. Prayer is the best weapon we possess. We should, on the contrary, be charitable with ourselves first and foremost. Refresh and try again.

Give Him to us and grant that we may be increasingly worthy to welcome Him into our hearts. Therefore, let us try never to forget this ultimate aim, for everything depends on it. It would be impossible for me not to abandon myself to this sweetness, this happiness. .All I can say of this present state is that my soul has no concern for anything but God. Pray for the reestablishment of the kingdom of God, for the spread of faith, for the praise and triumph of our holy mother Church. I feel all your troubles as if they were my own. Let us get to work; in Heaven well have no other duty than the fulfillment of Gods will. Renew your faith by attending Holy Mass. The earth could exist more easily without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. . Let us try to excel in all of this, then. To show us the meaning of our redemption. He commands us to do so, and the commandment is full of love. He is our most sincere and faithful friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior. Contrary to our every merit, we are on the steps of Tabor, by having a firm determination to love and serve His divine goodness well. Endeavor to walk in the presence of God, in the ways I taught you and which you know. He will always give us more than we deserve. The more the graces and favors of Jesus increase in your soul the more you must humble yourself, always keeping in mind the humility of our celestial Mother, who the instant she became the Mother of God, declared herself servant and handmaid of God. We must believe that Jesus will invariably sustain us by His grace. Let us withdraw our gaze, moreover, from those good things which are visible to our eyes, by which I mean worldly goods, the sight of which fascinates the heart. . . .Jesus himself, despite all our unworthiness, has associated us with this beautiful company. Never fall back on yourself alone, but place all your trust in God and dont be too eager to be set free from your present state. As the years go by and eternity draws near, we must be twice as courageous and lift our spirit to God, serving Him with even greater diligence in everything that our Christian vocation and profession requires from us. When you find yourself in the middle of those trials which can torment you, put your trust in God our Father, knowing that He will protect you even more than a mother would protect her own child. You can meditate also on Jesus being dragged and led to the tribunal, flagellated and crowned with thorns, the course He climbed to Calvary laden with the cross, His crucifixion and finally His death on the cross with all the suffering of seeing His most sorrowful mother.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes. He wants you to place all your trust and all your affection in Him alone. Whenever you are seized by melancholy, let your thoughts dwell on that fateful night on which the Son of God began the work of redemption in the solitude of Gethsemane and offer your own sufferings to the Divine Father, along with the sufferings of Jesus. It would be well to remember that the graces and consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth but of Heaven. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Oh, what a beautiful sight this is. In darkness, at times of tribulation and distress of the spirit, Jesus is with you. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent. But that which is more surprising, he has also promised us the prize. The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace.

My only regret is that I have no adequate means with which to thank the Blessed Virgin Mary, through whose intercession I have undoubtedly received so much strength from the Lord, to bear with sincere resignation the many humiliations to which I am subjected day after day. All our life, all our actions and all our aspirations must be directed in reparation for the offences that our ungrateful brothers continually commit. Jesus, our dear Mother, my little angel, St. Joseph, and our father, St. Francis, are almost always with me. The other which we have from Jesus in baptism is supernatural and therefore a spiritual life heavenly and with a capacity for virtue. He is always there, close to you, encouraging you to fight the good fight; he is there to ward off the enemys blows so you wont be hurt. . I am sure that I shall never come down from it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance. Jesus continues to love me and to draw me closer to Himself. Live in such a way that your Heavenly Father may be proud of you, as he is proud of so many other chosen souls. Pray to the Lord because even God needs our prayers. But He asks us to love Him according to our strength, with all our soul, all our mind, and all our heart. Holiness means getting above ourselves; it means perfect mastery of all our passions. I urge you to unite with me and draw near to Jesus with me, to receive his embrace and a kiss that sanctifies and saves us. He is so wise and gentle and discreet that He never brings about anything but good. Strengthen me throughout the trials of life so that my faith and hope may venture to face the darkness and remove difficulties from my path. Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own sanctification, but also for that of other souls. "I have often raised my hand in the silence of the night and in my solitary cell,blessing you all and presenting you to Jesus and to our seraphic father, St. Francis of Assisi. To serve him with faith, with love, and with constancy. Be as children, who hardly ever think about their future as they have someone to think for them. He is never so close to you as he is during your spiritual battles. Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire. .How many hearts in the course of the centuries have responded generously to Thy invitation. .He offers you continual proof of this. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. .This is a wonderful thing for me, something I will perhaps never understand until I get to Heaven. It can all be summed up as follows I am consumed by love for God and love for my neighbor. He too confessed to His apostles that His soul was full of sadness; He too sought consolation; He too did not wish to die. I will stand at the gates of Heaven and I will not enter until all of my spiritual children are with me. He who attaches himself to the earth remains attached to it. Jesus is always with you, even when you dont feel his presence. This is a chain that will accompany us everywhere. .Ask an angel what the Mass is, and he will reply to you in truth,I understand what it is and why it is offered, but I do not, however, understand how much value it has. One angel, a thousand angels, all of Heaven know this and think like this. . But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. While we remain in this base world we will always be affected by its sensitive assaults and hidden operations; but Gods grace is sufficient for us not to willingly succumb. Then comes the Apostles, Martyrs, Doctors, Virgins and Confessors. .These 40 days before our ascent to Heaven will pass for us too. And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray. We must keep the eye of faith fixed on Jesus Christ who climbs the hill of Calvary loaded with his Cross, and as he toils painfully up the steep slope of Golgotha we should see him followed by an immense throng of souls carrying their own crosses and treading the same path. Let us try to serve the Lord with all our heart and will. I live for Jesus Christ, I live for His glory, I live to serve Him, I live to love Him. In Him I am with you more than you can know. Faith answers to expiate for our sins.

by Our Sunday Visitor. There will be no winter; but here winter is necessary to exercise self-denial and a thousand other little but beautiful virtues which are exercised at times of sterility. Serene in our faith and tranquil in our soul, let us pray and continue to pray, because intense and fervent prayer pierces the heavens and is backed up by a Divine guarantee. Do not fear, I will make you suffer, but I will also give you the strength to suffer, Jesus tells me continually. We have a sure sign that these people really love God when we observe their readiness to keep Gods holy law; their constant watchfulness so that they may not fall into sin; their habitual desire to see the heavenly Father glorified, while losing no chance to spread the kingdom of God as far as lies in their power; when we see them praying continually to God the Father in the same words of our divine Master, Our Father. And then we will be happy, if we have assured for ourselves the joy of a happy transit to eternity. We have lived thoughtlessly and unmindful that one day the eternal Judge shall call each of us and ask us to give an account of our deeds and how we made use of our time. The Heavenly Child suffers and cries in the crib so as to make His suffering for us loveable, meritorious and sought after. Remember that our soul is the temple of God, and as such, we must keep it pure and spotless before God and His angels. May He include us in the great number of those who have known how to make continual progress at the school of His love. In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up. Listen carefully. That is why we must live in God by persevering in our practices, and learn to serve Him at our own expense. . The good we endeavor to do to others will always result in the sanctification of our own souls. Do not wish greatly to be freed from tests; a soldier needs to have achieved a great deal in war before he desires its end. It is as eternal as he is eternal; it is as immense as he is immense; it is as lasting as he is lasting. The pain caused by this wound which He inflicts on me and the sweetness which accompanies it are so intense that I cannot even begin to describe it.