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From the Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

July 4, 1912
In the Divine Will the soul must die to everything, like in a tomb, closed by love, in order to rise again to a
divine life. By thinking about herself, the soul escapes from the divine life.

This morning, after Communion, I was saying to my always adorable Jesus: ‘To what a state I reduced
myself! It seems that everything runs away from me: suffering, virtues – everything!’

And Jesus: ‘My daughter, what’s this? Do you want to waste time? Do you want to get out of your
nothingness? Stay in your place – in your nothingness – so that the All may keep Its place in you. But know that

you must die completely in my Will: to the suffering, to the virtues – to everything. My Will must be the tomb
of the soul. Just as nature is consumed in the tomb to the extent of disappearing completely, and by that
consummation it will rise again to a new and more beautiful Life, in the same way the soul, buried in my Will
as if inside a tomb, will die to the suffering, to her virtues, to her spiritual goods, and will rise again in
everything to Divine Life.
Ah, my daughter, it seems that you want to imitate the mundane, who tend to what is temporal, and
ends, while they don’t consider what is eternal. My beloved, why don’t you want to learn to live only in my
Volition? Why don’t you want to live the life of Heaven while still being on earth? My Will is Love, the One
that never dies; therefore my Will must be your sepulcher, and Love is the lid which has to lock you and seal
you in, giving you no more hope of getting out.
Then, every thought that regards oneself, even about virtues, is always gain for oneself and runs away
from the Divine Life; while if the soul thinks only about Me and what regards Me, she takes the Divine Life in
herself and, taking the Divine Life, she escapes the human life, taking all possible goods. Have we understood
each other?”

Scripture Meditation- ⁴ We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)

Reflection- O Lord we love You, we bless You, we adore You because You remind us not to think of ourselves. Because when we think of ourselves and not You we lose our peace. You even call us mundane. thinking of just the temporal and not the eternal. Sounds a little like hey, don’t even the pagans do that? (Matthew 5:47). Be we have have been buried with You in baptism and raised from the dead by the glory of the Father that we too might walk in newness of life. Not only redeemed but sanctified and walking in total freedom in the Divine Life You have intended for us from all Eternity, fiat!