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June 5, 1899 – Volume 2

Luisa writes,

My state of annihilation still continues. It was such that I did not dare to
 say a word to my beloved Jesus. But this morning, having compassion for my
 miserable state, Jesus Himself wanted to cheer me; and here is how: as He made
 Himself seen, and I felt all annihilated and ashamed before Him, Jesus drew near
 me, but so close, that it seemed that He was in me and I in Him; and He told me:
 “My beloved daughter, what is it that makes you so afflicted? Tell Me everything,
 for I will content You, and will remedy everything.”

Since I continued to see myself the way I described the other day, in seeing
 myself so bad, I did not dare to tell Him anything. But Jesus repeated: “Come,
 come, tell Me what you want – do not hesitate.” Seeing myself almost forced,
 bursting into flooding tears, I said to Him: “Holy Jesus, how do You want me not to
 be afflicted – after so many graces, I shouldn’t be so bad any more. Sometimes,
 also in the good works I try to do, I mix so many defects and imperfections, that
 I myself feel horror. What must they be before You, who are so perfect and holy?
 And then, the suffering, so very scarce compared to before, your long delays in
 coming – everything tells me in clear notes that my sins, my awful ingratitudes,
 are the cause of it, and that You, indignant with Me, deny me even that daily
 bread which You usually concede to everyone, which is the cross. So, You will end
 up abandoning me completely. Can there be a greater affliction than this?’ Jesus,
 all compassion for me, pressed me to His Heart and told me: “Do not fear, this
 morning we will do things together; in this way I will make up for your things.”

So, first it seemed that Jesus contained a fount of water and another of
 blood within His breast, and in those two fountains He plunged my soul – first in
 the water, and then in the blood. Who can say how purified and embellished my
 soul became? Then, we began to pray together, reciting three Glory Be’s, and He
 told me that He was doing this to make up for my prayers and adorations to the
 Majesty of God. Oh, how beautiful and touching it was to pray together with Jesus!
 After this, Jesus told me: “Don’t let yourself be afflicted by the lack of suffering.
 Do you want to anticipate the hour established by Me? My operating is not hurried,
 but everything has its time. We will fulfill everything, but at the appropriate time.”

Then, afterwards, because of a fully providential circumstance, unexpectedly,
 since the Viaticum had come out of the church for other sick people, I too received
 Communion. Who can say, after all that had passed between Jesus and me, the
 kisses and the caresses that Jesus gave me? It is impossible to say everything.
 After Communion, I seemed to see the Sacred Host, and in the Host I could see,
 now the mouth of Jesus, now His eyes, now one hand, and then He showed all
 of Himself. He transported me outside of myself, and I found myself, now in the
 vault of the heavens, now on earth in the midst of people, but always together
 with Jesus. Every once in a while He would repeat: “Oh, how beautiful you are, my
 beloved! If you knew how much I love you… And you, how much do you love Me?”

On hearing these words being spoken to me, I experienced such confusion
 that I felt I was dying; but in spite of this, I had the courage to say to Him: ‘Jesus,
 my beautiful One, yes, I love You very much. And You, if You really love me, tell
 me also, do You forgive me for all the evil I have done? But, concede also suffering
 to me.’ And Jesus: “Yes, I forgive you, and I want to content you by pouring in
 abundance my bitternesses into you.” And so Jesus poured His bitternesses. It
 seemed to me that He had a fount of bitternesses in His Heart, received through
 the offenses of men, and most of it He poured into me. Then Jesus told me: “Tell
 Me, what else do you want?”

And I: ‘Holy Jesus, I commend to You my confessor – make him a saint,
 and grant him also health for his body. But then, is it completely your Will for this
 father to come?’ And Jesus: “Yes.” And I: ‘If it were your Will, You would let him be
 well.’ And He: “Be quiet, do not want to investigate my judgments too much.” At
 that very moment He showed me the improvement in the health of the body, and
 the sanctity of the soul of the confessor, and He added: “You want to rush things,
 but I do everything at the right time.”

Then, I commended to Him the people that belonged to me, and I prayed
 for sinners, saying to Jesus: ‘Oh, how I wish that my body would split into tiny
 little pieces, provided that sinners would convert!’ So I kissed the forehead, the
 eyes, the face, the mouth of Jesus, doing various adorations and reparations for
 the offenses that sinners gave Him. Oh, how content Jesus was, and I too. Then,
 having Jesus promise to me that He would not leave me any more, I returned to
 myself; and so it ended.

                                                                                      – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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June 4, 1916 – Volume 11

Luisa writes,

This morning, my always adorable Jesus seemed to come. I squeezed Him to
 my heart, and Jesus gave me a kiss; but as He was kissing me, I felt a most bitter
 liquid flow from His mouth into mine. I remained amazed in seeing that, without
 begging Him, sweet Jesus was pouring His bitternesses into me, while at other
 times I had begged Him so much and He didn’t concede that to me. Then, when I
 was filled with that most bitter liquid, Jesus continued to pour it. It spilled outside;
 it went on the ground, and He still kept pouring, in such a way that a lake of that
 most bitter liquid was formed around me and blessed Jesus.

Afterwards, as if He felt relieved a little, He told me: “Daughter, have you seen
 how many bitternesses the creatures give Me? So much that, unable to contain
 them any longer, I wanted to pour them into you. But you could not contain them
 either; so they went on the ground, and they will pour upon the people.”

While He was saying this, He marked the various points and towns which
 had to be stricken by the invasions of strangers - some people were running
 away, some remained naked and starved, some mixed-up, some killed. Horror
 and fright were everywhere. Jesus Himself wanted to withdraw His glance from
 such tragedy. Frightened and terrorized I wanted to prevent Jesus from doing
 this, but He seemed unshakable; and told me: “My daughter, the Divine Justice
 is pouring their own bitternesses down upon them. I wanted to pour them in you
 first, in order to spare some points to make you content; then I poured the rest
 upon them. My Justice demands Its satisfaction.”

And I: ‘My Love and my Life, I don’t know much about Justice; if I pray to
 You, it is for Mercy. I make appeal to your Love, to your wounds, to your Blood.
 After all, they are still your children, your dear images. Poor brothers of mine,
 what can they do? In what constraints will they be placed? To make me content,
 You tell me that You poured into Me, but the points that You save are too few.’ And
 He: “On the contrary, it’s too much. It is because I love you, otherwise I would
 have spared nothing. And even then, didn’t you see that you could not contain
 any more of it?”

I burst into tears, and I said: ‘Yet, You tell me that You love me. Where is
 all this love that You have for me? True love knows how to make the beloved
 one content in everything. And then, why don’t You make me larger, so that I
 can contain more bitterness and spare my brothers?’ Jesus cried with me, and
 disappeared.

                                                                                      – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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June 3, 1899 – Volume 2

Luisa writes,

This morning, I was in a sea of affliction, for Jesus had not yet come; I felt such pain that I felt my heart being ripped out. When the confessor came to call me to obedience, for he had to celebrate Holy Mass, Jesus did not let even a shadow of Himself be seen, as He usually does. In fact, when He does not come, He allows His hand, or His arm to be seen; and especially on a day in which I receive Communion, as this morning, He Himself comes, He purifies me, and prepares me to receive Him in the Sacrament.

I was saying to myself: ‘Holy Spouse, lovable Jesus, how is this? Aren’t You coming to prepare me Yourself? How can I receive You?’ But meanwhile, the time came, the confessor came, but Jesus did not come at all. What a harrowing pain, how many bitter tears!

The confessor told me: “You will see Him at Communion, and out of obedience you will ask Him why He does not come and what He wants from you.”

So, after Communion I saw my good Jesus, always benign with this miserable sinner. He transported me outside of myself, and I was holding Him in my arms; He was a child, all afflicted. Immediately I began to say: ‘My little Child, my sole and only Good, how is it that You do not come? In what have I offended You? What do You want from me that You make me cry so much?’ And in the act of saying this, my pain was so great, that even though I was holding Him in my arms, I kept crying. But even before I finished speaking the last word, drawing His mouth close to mine, Jesus poured His bitternesses, without answering a word. When He would stop pouring, I would begin speaking again, but Jesus would not pay attention to me, and would begin to pour again. After this, without answering anything of what I wanted, He told me: “Let me pour into you, otherwise, just as I have destroyed other places with the hail, I will destroy your area. Therefore, let Me pour, and do not think about anything else.” He told me nothing else, and so it ended.

                                                                                       – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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June 2, 1899 – Volume 2

Luisa writes,

This morning, my most sweet Jesus wanted to let me touch my nothingness with my own hands. In the act in which He made Himself seen, the first words with which He addressed me were: “Who am I., and who are you?” In these two words I saw two immense lights: in one I comprehended God, in the other I saw my misery, my nothingness. I saw I was nothing but a shadow, just like the shadow formed by the Sun in illuminating the earth: it is dependent on the Sun, and as the Sun moves from it to other places, the shadow ceases to exist outside of Its splendor. The same for my shadow – that is, my being: it is dependent on the mystical Sun God, who can dissolve this shadow in one simple instant. What to say, then, about how I have deformed this shadow which the Lord has given me, which is not even my own? The mere thought of it was horrifying; it was stinking, putrid, all full of worms. Yet, in such a horrifying state I was forced to stand before a God so holy. Oh, how content I would have been, had I been allowed to hide in the darkest abysses!

After this, Jesus told me: “The greatest favor I can do for a soul, is to make her know herself. The knowledge of self and the knowledge of God go together; the more you know yourself, the more you know God. When the soul has known herself, as she sees that she can do nothing good by herself, her shadow, her being, transforms her in God, and it happens that she does all of her operations in God. It happens that the soul is in God and walks beside Him, without looking, without investigating, without speaking – in a word, as if she were dead. In fact, knowing the depth of her nothingness, she dares to do nothing by herself, but she blindly follows the trajectory of the operations of God.”

It seems to me that to a soul who knows herself it happens as to those people who travel in a steamer: in moving from one point to another, without taking a step of their own, they make long journeys, but everything by virtue of the steamer that transports them. In the same way, the soul, by placing herself in God, just like the people in a steamer, makes sublime flights on the way to perfection, knowing, however, that it is not her, but rather, she does it by virtue of that blessed God who carries her within Himself. Oh, how the Lord favors her, enriches her, and concedes the greatest graces, knowing that she attributes nothing to herself, but everything to Him. Oh, soul, you who know yourself – how fortunate you are!

                                                                                     – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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Luisa writes,

Finding myself in my usual state, I was following the Hours of the Passion
 of my sweet Jesus, especially when He was presented to Pilate, who asked Him
 what His Kingdom was. And my always lovable Jesus told me: “My daughter, that
 was the first time in my terrestrial Life that I dealt with a gentile authority, who
 asked Me what my Kingdom was. And I answered him that my Kingdom is not of
 this world, for if it were of this world, thousands of legions of Angels would defend Me. But with this, I opened my Kingdom to the gentiles, and communicated my celestial doctrines to them; so much so, that Pilate asked me: ‘How is it this - You are King?!’ And immediately I answered him: ‘I am King, and I have come into the world to teach the Truth...’ With this, I wanted to make my way into his mind in order to make Myself known; so much so that, touched, he asked Me: ‘What is the Truth?’ But he did not wait for my answer; I did not have the good of making Myself understood. I would have said to him: ‘I am the Truth; everything is Truth in Me. Truth is my patience in the midst of so many insults; Truth is my sweet gaze among so many derisions, slanders, contempts. Truths are my gentle and attractive manners in the midst of so many enemies, who hate Me while I love them, and who want to give Me death, while I want to embrace them and give
them Life. Truths are my words, full of dignity and of Celestial Wisdom - everything is Truth in Me. The Truth is more than majestic Sun which, no matter how much they try to trample on it, rises more beautiful and bright, to the point of shaming
 its very enemies, and of knocking them down at its feet.

Pilate asked Me with sincerity of heart, and I was ready to answer. Herod,
 instead, asked Me with malice and curiosity, and I did not answer. Therefore, to
 those who want to know holy things with sincerity, I reveal Myself more than they
 expect; but with those who want to know them with malice and curiosity, I hide
 Myself, and while they want to make fun of Me, I confuse them and make fun of
 them.
 

However, since my Person carried the Truth with Itself, It performed Its office
 also in front of Herod. My silence at the stormy questions of Herod, my humble
 gaze, the air of my Person, all full of sweetness, of dignity and of nobility, were all
 Truths - and operating Truths.”

                                                                                       – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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May 31, 1899 - Volume 2

Luisa writes,

This morning, as I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came, and at that very moment I saw the confessor. Jesus appeared a little disappointed with him, because it seemed that the confessor wanted everyone to approve that my situation was a work from God, and almost wanted to convince other priests by showing them something of my interior. 

Jesus turned to the confessor and said to him: “This is impossible. Even I received oppositions, and from people among the most distinguished, and also from priests and other authorities. They found fault with my holy works, to the point of saying that I was possessed by the devil. But I allow these oppositions, even from religious people, so that the truth may shine more in its own time. If you want to consult with two or three priests among the most good and holy, and also learned, in order to receive enlightenment and also to do what I want in the things to be done, which is advice from the good and prayer - this, I allow. But the rest - no, no. It would be as though wanting to waste my works, making fun of them - which displeases Me very much.” 

Then He said to me: “All I want from you is an upright and simple operating. Do not bother about the pros and the cons of creatures; let them think what they want, without being the least troubled, since wanting that all be favorable is wanting to deviate from the imitation of my own Life.”

                                                                                       – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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May 30, 1904 – Volume 6

Luisa writes,

Finding myself in my usual state, I was thinking about and offering the Passion of Our Lord, especially the crown of thorns, and I was praying that He would give light to so many blinded minds, and that he would make Himself known, because ‘it is impossible to know You and not to love You.’ While I was saying this, my adorable Jesus came out from within my interior and told me: “My daughter, how much ruin pride causes in souls! It is enough to tell you that it forms a wall of division between the creature and God, and from images of Me it transforms them into demons. And then, if the fact that creatures are so blinded that they themselves do not understand nor see the abyss they are in, grieves you and saddens you so much, and you take so much to heart that I help them, my Passion serves as garment for man, which covers his greatest miseries, embellishes him and gives back to him all the good of which he had deprived himself and had lost because of sin. So I give it to you as gift, that you may use it for yourself and for whomever you want.”

On hearing this, a great fear came to me in seeing the greatness of the gift, fearing that I might not be capable of using this gift and therefore I might displease the Giver. So I said: ‘Lord, I do not feel the strength to accept such a gift - I am too unworthy of such a favor. It is better if You keep it, for You are everything and know everything, and You know to whom it is necessary and appropriate to apply this garment so precious and of immense value. But I, poor one, what can I know? And if it is necessary to apply it to someone and I do not do it, what strict account would You not ask of me?’

And Jesus: “Do not fear, for the Giver Himself will give you the grace not to keep the gift He has given you as useless. Can you believe that I would give you a gift to do you harm? Never.”

I did not know what to answer, but I remained frightened and suspended, intending to hear what lady obedience thought about it. It is understood, however, that this garment wants to signify nothing other than all that Our Lord operated, earned and suffered, in which the creature finds the garment to cover her nakedness stripped of virtues, and riches with which to enrich herself, beauties to render herself beautiful and to embellish herself, and the remedy for all her evils.

Then, as I told this to obedience, he told me that I should accept. (Here Luisa is referring to her confessor.)

                                                                                       – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

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May 29, 1900 - Volume 3 

Luisa writes,
 
Continuing in the same state, I felt all oppressed and I had all the need of a support to be able to bear the privation of my highest Good. Having compassion for me, blessed Jesus showed His Face from within my heart for a few minutes, but not with clarity; and letting me hear His most gentle voice, He told me: “Courage, my daughter, just a little longer; let Me finish chastising, for afterwards I will come as before.” While He was saying this, in my mind I said: ‘What are the chastisements that You have begun to send?’ And He added: “The continuous rain that is pouring is more than hail, and it will cause sad consequences for the people.” 

Having said this, He disappeared, and I found myself outside of myself, inside a garden. From there one could see crops withered in the vineyards, and within myself I kept saying: “Poor people, poor people, how shall they go on?’ While I was saying this, a little boy appeared in that garden, crying and screaming so loud as to deafen Heaven and earth, but no one had compassion for him; even though everyone could hear him crying so much, they would not bother with him and they would leave him abandoned and alone. A thought flashed within me: ‘Who knows whether He is Jesus!’ But I was not sure about it. So, drawing near Him, I said: ‘What is it, that You are crying, dear child? Do You want to come with me, since they all left You prey to tears and to sorrow, which oppresses You so much as to make You scream so loud?’ But – nothing! Who could calm Him down? He just barely answered with His sobs that, yes, He wanted to come. So I took Him by the hand to bring Him with me, and in the very act I was doing this I found myself inside myself.

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May 28, 1904 - Volume 6

Luisa writes,
 
Continuing in my usual state, and with highest bitterness because of the continuous privations of my adorable Jesus, He made Himself seen for just a little, telling me: “My daughter, the first bomb which must be primed in the interior of the soul is mortification. When this bomb is thrown into the soul, it knocks everything down and immolates everything to God. In fact, in the soul it is as though there are many palaces, but all of vices, such as pride, disobedience, along with many other vices; and the bomb of mortification, knocking everything down, rebuilds as many other palaces of virtues, immolating them and sacrificing them all to the glory of God.” Having said this, He disappeared. 
 
 A little later, the devil came, who just wanted to molest me; and I, without becoming fearful, said to him: ‘Why do you want to molest me? If you want to show how brave you are, take a rod and beat me up to the point of leaving me not even one drop of blood, provided, however, that each drop of blood I shed be one more proof of love, of reparation and of glory which I intend to give to my God.’ And he: “I don’t have a rod with me to be able to beat you; and if I go fetch it, you will not wait for me.” And I: ‘Go ahead – I’ll be waiting for you here.’ So he went off, and I remained with the firm intention of waiting for him. But to my surprise, I saw that, as he met with another demon, the two were saying: “It is useless for us to go back. Why should we beat her, if this must serve to harm us, and as a loss for us? It is good to make suffer one who does not want to suffer, because he would offend God; but if one wants to suffer, we would do harm to ourselves with our own hands.” So he did not come back, and I was left mortified. 
 
                                                                                      – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta
 
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May 27, 1900 - Volume 3

Luisa writes,
This morning, as I was feeling afflicted more than ever because of the privation of my highest Good, He just barely made Himself seen and told me: “Just as a mighty wind invests the people and penetrates even into their bowels, in such a way as to shake the whole person, in the same way, my love and my grace, rearing up on the wings of the winds, invest and penetrate the heart, the mind and the most intimate parts of man. But in spite of this, ungrateful, man rejects my grace and offends Me. What is not my bitter sorrow!”  However, I was all confused and annihilated within myself, and did not dare to utter a word. I just thought: ‘How is it that He does not come? And even when He comes, I do not see Him clearly; it seems that I have lost clarity. Who knows whether I will see His beautiful Face unveiled as before?’ While I was thinking of this, my benign Jesus added: “My daughter, why do you fear when your state is par excellence for the union of our wills?” And wanting to cheer me and compassionate my sorrowful state, He told me: “You are my new Job. Do not oppress yourself excessively if you do not see Me with clarity; I have told you since the other day that I am not coming according to my usual way, that I want to chastise the people, and if you saw Me with clarity, you would come to understand what I am doing; and since your heart has received the grafting of Mine, I know what you would suffer, just as my Heart is suffering because I see Myself forced to chastise my creatures. So, in order to spare you these pains, I do not let Myself be seen with clarity.”  Who can say the piercings that this left in my poor heart! Ah, Lord, give me the strength to endure the pain!  

                                                                                     – Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta  

Buddy Comfort – vocals and guitar from the album, ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’, http://www.buddycomfort.com, words and music by Donovan Leitch.

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