"Your Faith Anew!"

November 19, 1899 – Volume 3

Luisa writes:
 
 “My adorable Jesus continues to come, and since before He came, my mind was thinking about certain things which Jesus had told me in the past years, and which I do not remember so well, almost to remind me He told me: ‘My daughter, pride corrodes grace. In the hearts of the proud there is nothing but a void all full of smoke, which produces blindness. Pride does nothing but render oneself an idol, and so the proud soul does not have her God with her. By sin, she has tried to destroy Him in her heart, and raising an altar within her heart, she places herself on it, and she adores herself.’
 
 “Oh, God, what an abominable monster this vice is! It seems to me that if the soul is attentive not to let it enter into herself, she is free of all other vices; but if, to her misfortune, she lets herself be dominated by it, since it is a monstrous and wicked mother, it will deliver all of its naughty children for her, which are the other sins. Ah, Lord, keep it away from me!”
 
                                                                                  – 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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November 18, 1900 – Volume 4 

Luisa writes:
 
“He continues to keep my heart inside His Heart, and every now and then He deigns to let me see it, making feast as if He had made a great gain. In these days, when I find myself outside of myself, at the place that corresponds to the heart, instead of the heart I see the light that blessed Jesus sent me in those three breaths.
 
 Then, this morning, on coming, showing me His Heart, He told me: ‘My beloved, which one would you like: my Heart or yours? If you want Mine, you will have to suffer more. Know, however, that I have done this to make you pass on to another state, because when one reaches union, one passes to another state, which is that of consummation, and in order to pass to this state of perfect consummation, the soul needs either my Heart in order to live, or her own completely transformed into Mine. Otherwise, she cannot pass on to this state of consummation.’ 
 
 And I, all fearful, answered: ‘My sweet love, my will is no longer mine, but Yours – do whatever You want, and I will be more than happy.’
 
 After this, I remembered about some difficulties of the confessor, and Jesus, seeing my thought, showed me as if I were inside a crystal, and this prevented others from seeing what the Lord was operating in me. Then He added: ‘Only in the reflections of light can one know the crystal and what it contains. The same with you: one who carries the light of faith will touch what I operate in you with his own hand; if then he does not, he will see things in a natural way.’”
 
                                                                                      – 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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November 17, 1899 - Volume: 3

Luisa writes:
 
 My lovable Jesus continues to make Himself seen afflicted. This morning, our Queen Mama came together with Him, and it seemed to me that She was bringing Him to me so that I would placate Him and pray to Him together with Her that He would make me suffer to spare the people.
 
 She told me that if in these past days I had not placed myself in between, and if the confessor had not made use of his priestly authority in concurring with his intentions of making me suffer, many catastrophes would have occurred.
 
 In the meantime, I saw the confessor and immediately I prayed for him to Jesus and to the Queen Mother; and Jesus, all benignity, said:
 
 “According to the measure in which he will take care of My interests, by praying Me and also by committing himself to renewing his intention of making you suffer in order to spare the people, so will I take care of him and will spare him. I would be ready to make this pact with him.”
 
 After this, I went about looking at my sweet and only Good, and I saw that He was holding two lightnings in His hands: in one hand, as though equipped, He had a strong earthquake and a war; in the other, many kinds of sudden deaths and contagious diseases.
 
 I began to pray Him to pour those lightnings upon me, and I almost wanted to remove them from His hands, but to prevent me from doing this, He began to move away from me.
 
 I tried to follow Him, and so I found myself outside of myself, but Jesus disappeared from me and I remained alone.
 
 Now, finding myself alone, I went round a little, and I found myself in a place where, in this season, they harvest. It seemed that uproars of war were happening there, and I wanted to go to help those poor people, but the demons prevented me from going there where such things were about to happen, and they beat me so that I would not be able to help or to prevent their artifices. They used so much strength as to make me draw back.
 
                                                                                      – 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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November 16, 1900 – Volume: 4

Luisa writes:
 
 This morning, after I received Communion, my adorable Jesus made me see my interior all strewn with flowers, in the shape of a hut, and He was inside of it, amusing and delighting Himself completely.
 
 Seeing Him in that attitude, I said: “My most sweet Jesus, when will it be that You take this heart of mine to conform it completely to Yours, in such a way that I may live from the life of Your Heart?”
 
 While I was saying this, my highest and only Good took a lance and opened me at the place corresponding to my heart; then He pulled it out with His hands, and He looked at it thoroughly to see whether it was stripped and possessed those qualities to be able to be inside His Most Holy Heart.
 
 I too looked at it, and to my surprise I saw, impressed on one side of it, the cross, the sponge and the crown of thorns. But as I wanted to see the other side and the inside, for it seemed swollen as if it could be opened, my beloved Jesus prevented me, saying to me:
 
 “I want to mortify you by not letting you see all that I have poured into this heart. Ah, yes! Here inside this heart there are all the treasures of My graces that human nature can arrive at containing.”
 
 At that moment He enclosed it inside His Most Holy Heart, adding:
 
 “Your heart has taken possession within My Heart, and I will give you My love as heart, which will give you life.”
 
 And drawing near that part, He sent three breaths containing light which took the place of my heart. Then He closed the wound, telling me:
 
 “Now more than ever is it appropriate for you to fix yourself in the center of My Will, having My love alone as heart. You must not go out of It even for one instant, for My love will find its true nourishment in you only if it finds My Will in you, entirely and completely. In It will My love find its contentment and true and faithful correspondence.”
 
 Then, drawing near my mouth, He sent me three more breaths, and He also poured a most sweet liqueur which inebriated me completely.
 
 Then, as though taken by enthusiasm, He said:
 
 “See, your heart is in Mine, therefore it is no longer yours.”
 
 And He kissed me over and over again, and made many finesses of love to me.
 
 Who can say what I felt when I found myself inside myself? I can only say that I felt as if I were no longer myself: with no passion, with no inclination, with no desire — completely immersed in God.
 
 At the place of my heart I could feel a sensible icy cold compared to the other parts.
 
                                                                                       – 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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November 15, 1916 – Volume 11

Luisa writes: 

“I was lamenting to my sweet Jesus that He no longer loved me as before, and He, all goodness, told me: ‘My daughter, not loving one who loves Me is impossible for Me. Rather, I feel so drawn toward her, that at the littlest act of love she does for Me, I respond with triple love and I place a divine vein in her heart, which administers to her divine science, divine sanctity and virtue; and the more the soul loves Me, the more this divine vein rises, and watering all the powers of the soul, it diffuses for the good of the other creatures. I have placed this vein in you, and when you lack my presence and do not hear my voice, this vein will make up for everything, and will be voice for you and for the other creatures.’

 Another day, I was fusing all of myself, as usual, in the Will of blessed Jesus, and He said to me: ‘My daughter, the more you fuse yourself in Me, the more I fuse Myself in you. So, it is on earth that the soul forms her paradise; according to how much she fills herself with holy thoughts, with holy affections, desires, words, works and steps, so does she keep forming her paradise. To one more holy thought or word, one more contentment will correspond, and many varieties of beauty, of contentments, of glory, for as much more good as she has done. What will the surprise of this soul be when, once the prison of her body is broken, immediately she will find herself in the sea of as many pleasures and happinesses, as much light and beauty, for as much more good as she has done - be it even a thought!’”

                                                                                      – 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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November 14, 1900 – Volume 4 

Luisa writes:
 
 This morning, on coming, my adorable Jesus transported me outside of myself and asked me for a refreshment for His pains. Having nothing, I said: “My most sweet love, if the Queen Mama was here, She could refresh You with Her milk, but as for myself I have nothing but miseries.”
 
 At that moment the Most Holy Queen came, and immediately I said to Her: “Jesus feels the necessity of a refreshment; give Him Your most sweet milk, for He will be refreshed.”
 
 So our dearest Mama gave Him Her milk, and my beloved Jesus was all refreshed. Then, turning to me, He said: “I feel cheered. You too, draw close to My lips and drink part of that milk which I received from My Mother, so that we both may be refreshed.” So I did.
 
 But who can tell the virtue of that milk that came out, boiling hot, from Jesus? And He contained so much of it that it seemed an immense fount, such that even if all men should drink of it, it would not decrease a bit.
 
 After this, we went round the earth a little, and at some place there seemed to be people sitting at a little table, saying: “There will be a war in Europe, and what is more sorrowful, it will be caused by relatives.” Jesus was listening, but He did not say anything on that regard.
 
 Then He transported me inside a garden in which rose an immense building, like a monastery, populated by so many people that it was difficult to count them.
 
 At the sight of those people, my adorable Jesus turned His back to them; He clung against me with all of Himself, leaning His head on my shoulder, close to my neck, and He said to me: “My beloved, do not let Me see them, otherwise I would suffer greatly.”
 
 I too clasped Him, and drawing near one of those souls, I said: “Tell me at least, who are you?” And she answered: “We are all purging souls, and our liberation is bound to the satisfaction of those pious legacies which we have left to our successors; and since they are not satisfied, we are forced to stay here, away from our God. What pain this is for us, because God becomes for us a necessary Being, whom we cannot do without. We experience a continuous death which martyrs us in the most ruthless way; and if we do not die it is because our soul is not subject to this.”
 
 After this, the Lord carried me somewhere else, and I, feeling compassion for those souls, said: “How come, O my good Jesus, You turned Your face away from those blessed souls who so much longed for You, while it would have been enough that You just let Yourself be seen for those souls to be freed of the pains and beatified?”
 
 And He: “Oh! my daughter, had I shown Myself to them, since they are not completely purged, they could not have stood in My presence, and instead of flinging themselves into My arms, confused, they would have drawn back, and I would have done nothing but increase their martyrdom and Mine. This is why I did so.”
 
 Having said this, He disappeared.

                                                                                       - 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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November 13, 1899 – Volume 3 

Luisa writes:
 
 This morning my adorable Jesus seemed to be restless; He would do nothing but come and go. Now He would spend time with me, and now, almost drawn by His most ardent love for creatures, He would go to see what they were doing, and with His whole self He would suffer with them, from that which they were suffering, as if He Himself, and not they, were taken by those sufferings.
 
 Several times I saw the confessor forcing Jesus by means of his priestly authority to make me suffer His pains so as to be able to placate Him; and while it seemed that He did not want to be placated, He would then show Himself grateful, thanking wholeheartedly the one who was occupying himself with holding back His indignant arm, and so He would share with me now one suffering, now another. Oh, how tender and moving it was to see Him in this state! He would make one’s heart split with compassion.
 
 Quite a few times He told me: “Conform to my Justice, for I can take no more. Ah, man is too ungrateful, and he almost forces Me from all sides to chastise him. He himself snatches the chastisements from My hands. If you knew how much I suffer in making use of my Justice… but it is man himself that uses violence on Me. Ah, had I not done anything other than purchase his freedom at the price of my blood, he would still have to be grateful to Me; but out of greater spite, he keeps inventing new ways to render My payment useless.”
 
 While saying this, He was crying bitterly, and to console Him, I said to Him: “My sweet Good, do not afflict Yourself; I see that Your affliction is mostly because You feel forced to chastise the people. Ah, no, this will never be! If You are all for me, I want to be all for You; therefore, You will send the chastisements upon me – here is the victim, always ready and at Your disposal; You can make me suffer whatever You want, and so Your Justice will be somehow placated, and You will be relieved from the affliction You feel in seeing creatures suffer. My intention has always been this – not to conform to Justice, because if man suffers, You would suffer more than he does.”
 
 While I was saying this, our Queen Mama came, and I remembered that as I had asked the confessor for the obedience to conform to Justice, he had told me to ask the Most Holy Virgin whether She wanted me to conform. So I asked Her, and She said to me: “No, no, but pray, my daughter, and in these days try as much as you can to keep Him with you and to placate Him, because many chastisements have been prepared.”

                                                                                      - 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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November 12, 1899 – Volume 3 

Luisa writes:
 
 This morning my lovable Jesus came and transported me outside of myself, and I saw as if something was supposed to move from the heavens and touch the earth. I was so frightened that I screamed, and I said to Him: “O please, O please, Lord, what are You doing? How much ruin will come if this happens! You tell me that You love me, and then You want me to be frightened. You have seen it, haven’t You? Don’t do it, no, no! You cannot do it, for I do not want it.”
 
 And Jesus, all compassion for me, told me: “My daughter, do not fear. And then, when have you ever wanted Me to do anything? I should not let you see anything when I chastise the people, otherwise you bind Me everywhere. Well then, I will fortify your heart with fortitude, and I will make as though a trunk arise from it, so as to hold, whatever you see still; and then I will pour so many graces in you as to be able to nourish Myself and My children.”
 
 At that moment, something like a trunk came out of my heart, with two branches at the top in the shape of a fork which, rising up in the air, would catch in between them anything that was about to move so that it would keep still in one single point; and far away it seemed to touch the earth.
 
 Afterwards, I found myself inside myself, and I prayed Him to placate Himself; and it seemed that He would quite surrender, so much so, that He shared with me the pains of the cross. Then He disappeared.

                                                                                       - 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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November 11, 1899 – Volume 3 

As I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, and it seemed I was going around the earth. Oh, how inundated it was with all sorts of iniquities! It is horrifying to think about it!
 
 Now, while going around, I arrived some place and I found a priest of holy life, and in another place a virgin of blameless and holy life. We gathered, the three of us together, and we began to converse about the many chastisements that the Lord is sending, and about the many others that He keeps prepared.
 
 I said to them: “And you, what do you do? Have you perhaps conformed to divine Justice?”
 
 And they: “Seeing the strict necessity of these times, and that man would not surrender even if an apostle came out, or if the Lord sent another St. Vincent Ferrer who might induce him to conversion with miracles and prodigious signs; on the contrary, seeing that man has reached such obstinacy and a sort of insanity that the very power of miracles would render him more incredulous – invested by this most strict necessity, for the good of men, in order to arrest this rotten sea that inundates the face of the earth, and for the glory of our God, so offended, we have conformed to Justice. But we are praying and offering ourselves as victims, so that these chastisements may turn out for the conversion of the peoples. And you, what do you do? Have you not conformed with us?”
 
 And I: “Ah, no! I cannot, because obedience does not want it, even though Jesus wants me to conform; but since obedience does not want it, it must prevail over everything, and I am forced to be always in contrast with blessed Jesus, which afflicts me very much.”
 
 And they: “When it is obedience, surely one must not adhere.”
 
 After this, finding myself inside myself, I saw dearest Jesus for just a little, and I wanted to know where that priest and that virgin were from, and He told me that they were from Peru.

                                                                                     - 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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November 10, 1899 – Volume 3 

Luisa writes,

After going through quite a few days of differences with Jesus – I, wanting to be released, and He, not wanting it; now He would make Himself seen sleeping, now He would impose silence on me – finally, this morning, as I saw Him, I also saw the confessor who commanded me absolutely to have Jesus release me; and this, more than once, but Jesus would not listen.
 
 However, forced by obedience, I said to Him: “My lovable Jesus, when have You ever opposed obedience? I am not the one who wants to be released – it is the confessor that wants You to make me suffer the crucifixion. Therefore, surrender to this virtue, so favored by You, which bejewels Your whole life, and which formed the last link by connecting everything into one – the sacrifice of the Cross.”
 
 And Jesus: “You really want to use violence on Me, touching that link which connected Divinity and humanity, and formed one single link, which is obedience.”
 
 And while saying this, He assumed the appearance of the Crucified, and almost forced by the priestly authority, He shared with me the pains of the crucifixion.
 
 May the Lord be always blessed, and may everything be for His glory! So it seems I was released.

                                                                                       - 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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