Daily Calendar from the Writings of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
Vol. 13 – November 22, 1921
The acts done in the Divine Will are light. The pain that most pierced Jesus in His Passion was pretense.
Continuing in my usual state, and keeping vigil almost all night, my thought flew very often to my prisoner Jesus; and He made Himself seen in thick darkness, such that I could feel His labored breath, the touch of His Person, but I could not see Him. So I tried to fuse myself in His Most Holy Will, doing my usual acts of compassion and reparation, and a ray of light, brighter than the sun, came out from within my interior and was reflected on the Face of Jesus. At that ray, His most Holy Face was lightened, and as daylight arose, darkness was dispelled, and I was able to embrace His knees. And He told me: “My daughter, the acts done in my Will are daylight for Me; and if man, with his sins, surrounds Me with darkness, these acts, more than solar rays, defend Me from darkness, surround Me with light, and take Me by the hand to make Me known to creatures for Who I am. This is why I love so much one who lives in my Will – because in my Will she can give Me everything, she defends Me from all, and I feel like giving her everything and enclosing in her all the goods which I should give to all others. Suppose that the sun had reason, and that plants were rational, and of their own will they refused the light and the heat of the sun, and did not love to fecundate and produce fruits; and that only one plant receives the light of the sun with love, and would want to give to the sun all the fruits that the other plants do not want to produce. Would it not be fair that the sun, withdrawing its light from all the other plants, would pour all of its light and its heat upon that plant? I believe so. Now, what does not happen to the sun, because it does not have reason, can happen between the soul and Myself.” Having said this, He disappeared.
Then, afterwards, He came back and added: “My daughter, the pain that most pierced Me in my Passion was the affectation of the Pharisees. They feigned justice, and they were the most unjust. They feigned sanctity, regularity, order, and they were the most perverted, outside of any rule, and in full disorder. And while they pretended to honor God, they were honoring themselves, their self-interest, their own comfort. Therefore, light could not enter into them, because their affected manners were closing the doors to it, and pretense was the key which, with double locks, closing them to death, obstinately blocked even a few glimmers of light. So much so, that Pilate, idolatrous, found more light than the very Pharisees, because everything he did and said started not from pretense, but, at most, from fear; and I feel more drawn toward the most perverted sinner, not false, than to those who are good but false. Oh! how disgusted I am by one who in appearance does good, pretends to be good, prays, but inside nurses evil, self-interest; and while the lips are praying, his heart is far away from Me; and in the very act of doing good he is thinking of how to satisfy his brutal passions. Moreover, a man who is false in the good which he apparently does and says, is incapable of giving light to others, since he has shut the doors to it. So they act like incarnate devils, who many times attract men under the appearance of good; and these, in seeing this good, let themselves be drawn in; but right in the middle of the way, they make them fall into graver sins. Oh! how much safer are the temptations under appearance of sin, than those under appearance of good. In the same way, it is safer to deal with perverted people than with good people, but false. How much poison do they not hide? How many souls do they not poison? If it wasn’t for pretenses, and if all let themselves be known for what they are, the root of evil would be removed from the face of the earth, and all would remain free of illusion.”
Scripture Meditation- Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is vain. (James 1:6)
JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL 