Then my Jesus came.
I felt his entry in my heart. He sat down and leaned towards me and told me:
- My daughter,
crazy with love for souls, crazy with love for Me: you're crazy for souls just
as I am. That is why I have made your Calvary like mine.
Your life is the
life of Christ: Christ lives transformed in you.
You climb the Calvary,
because I cannot climb it now. You take the cross, because I cannot take it
either. You're the lamb sacrificed and immolated, you give your life in the
greatest agonies, because now I cannot suffer in such a way. It is in my stead
that you suffer, it is with Me that you bear the cross, it is with Me that you
will die on it.
For a long time,
I saw Jesus with the cross on his shoulders. I didn’t feel Him, I saw Him. But
I was Jesus and I was the cross. What a great cross! And Jesus so bent beneath it;
His holy face almost reaching the ground.
- My daughter, the
sins of the world require this of me, my love for souls requires this of me. It
is the crimes, it is love that causes me to walk with my face on almost on the
ground.
Suffer, my dear
love, suffer as I suffer, you are a victim chosen by Me.
My daughter, font
of salvation, font for all mankind, you are spring that doesn’t dry, the water
that quenches the world: everybody can drink from you, everybody can be purified
in this water.
My daughter, tongue
of praise. Through your holy tongue the whole earth will praise Me until the
end of the world just as now, in heaven, the angels and saints praise Me seeing
your suffering and the glory that you give Me.
My daughter,
heart of love’s fire, fire which will be spread and burn up thousands and
thousands of hearts!
My daughter, body
of purity, angelic purity, ever assaulted and ever stored in the middle of the
most acute and penetrating thorns: your chaste body, adorned with all the most
rich and precious virtues, extends its lily petals with all its purity and
perfume. The lilies grow tender and lush, they open their petals and, with the
breeze that passes, spread their perfume all about to thrive in a sweet meadow.
Provide shade for the world I have entrusted to you. Blessed are all those who
are in its shadow, who are placed in your shelter.
Are you
astonished at your life, astonished at the wonders I work in you. There is no one
equal because there is no one whose sufferings are equal to yours.
You want to come
to Heaven. Courage, it will be soon! So many will see you leaving with love and
longing, and many will be remorseful at having been the cause of your
martyrdom, at having served as a hindrance to my divine plan, for trying to
hide from the world my wonders in you!
They creep along
the ground, they do not look to the heights; they do not understand or try to
understand my divine life, though I place a guide to light their ways. They close
their eyes, leave the guides, and follow wrong paths. What pain for my Divine Heart
and what an evil for souls!
I give all the graces
they need, I give all the medicine to save them, yet everything is despised, they
do not look at my pain nor at my divine will.
- My Jesus, do
not be sad, give me Your sadness, give me all the pain of your Divine Heart! I
cannot consent to your suffering. I know the folly of your love for souls; here
you have me ready to suffer for them, to give my life for them.
Does this
console you, my Jesus? Let men hurt my heart so that I will be able to save
more souls. But you must not let them injure you.
- No, no, my daughter,
no, no, my dear, I cannot let this blindness be prolonged. The light will
shine, my divine cause will triumph, resounding and brilliant. It is necessary,
it is urgent, that souls know my wonders and learn from you to love my Divine Heart,
to love all that is mine, to love pain and the crosses that I give them.
Daughter,
daughter, pain and love without equal, rest in my heart as I rest in yours. The
King rests on his throne, which is in the palace of his Alexandrina; the queen
rests on the throne of her King, which is in the palace of her Jesus.
Jesus opened His
Divine Heart to me, I went in and rested in it. My Jesus covered me with kisses
and caresses and squeezed me so hard and with so much love I seemed to lose
myself in that love, to die in that love.
Alas, how great
my fortune to die with love and within the heart of my beloved Jesus! How will
it be, the death that gives me eternal life?
O my Jesus,
grant that it be of love, only of love!
Sentiments of the Soul, 1945, February 16
