JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though he was in the form of God,^[a] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. ⁹  (Philippians 2:5-9)

Volume 23-January 29, 1928

After this, I was continuing my round in the Divine Fiat, and I accompanied the sighs, the tears, the steps of Jesus, and all the rest done and suffered by Him, saying to Him: ‘My Love, Jesus, I place the army of all your acts around You; and investing your words, your heartbeats, your steps, your pains and all your acts with my ‘I love You’, I ask You for the Kingdom of your Will. Hear, O Jesus – if You do not listen to me by means of the army of your acts, which pray You, which press You, what else could I do to move You to grant me a Kingdom so holy?’ But while I was saying this, I thought to myself: ‘Did my sweet Jesus have His desires while He was on this earth, or did He not have them at all?’ And He, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, as God, no desire existed in Me, because desire arises in one who does not possess everything; but in one who possesses everything and lacks nothing, desire has no reason to exist. However, as man, I had my desires, because my Heart associated Itself with the other creatures in everything; and making the desires of all my own, I desired for all, with all ardor, to give the Kingdom of my
Divine Fiat to all creatures. So, if I sighed, I sighed for the Kingdom of my Will; if I prayed, cried and desired, it was only for my Kingdom, which I wanted in the midst of creatures, because, since It was the holiest thing, my Humanity could not do without wanting and desiring the most holiest thing, so as to sanctify the desires of all, and give them what was holy and of greatest and most perfect good for them. Therefore, everything you do is nothing other than my echo which, resounding in you, makes you ask, in each one of my acts, for the Kingdom of my Will. This is why I make present to you each act of mine, each pain I suffer, each tear I shed, each step I take – because I love that, investing them, you repeat after each one of my acts: ‘Jesus, I love You, and because I love You, give me the Kingdom of your Divine Will.’ I want you to call Me in everything I do, to make resound for Me the sweet memory of my acts saying: ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as It is in Heaven’; in such a way that, in seeing your littleness – the little daughter of my Will echoing all my acts and placing them around Me like an army, I may hasten to grant the Kingdom of my Will.”