Walking With Jesus-Daily Divine Will Calendar From The Writings Of Servant Of God Luisa Piccarreta
October 6, 1909
The virtues of true love are: to purify everything, to triumph over everything, to reach everything– Volume 9
Luisa- After I received Communion, my always lovable Jesus came for a little while, and since I had had a
discussion with the confessor on the nature of true love, I wanted to ask Jesus whether I was right or
wrong, and He said to me:
Jesus- “My daughter, it is exactly like that, as you were saying – that true love
facilitates everything, excludes any fear, any doubt, and all of its art is in taking possession of the
beloved; and when it has made her its own, love itself provides her with the means in order to preserve the
object acquired. Now, what fear, what doubt can a soul have about something that belongs to her? What
can she not hope for? Even more, when she has come to take possession of it, love becomes daring and
reaches the point of taking excesses up to the incredible. True love can say: ‘There is no longer yours and
mine – I am yours, and you are mine; so, we can dispose of each other, delight in each other, enjoy each
other. If I have acquired you, I want to use you as I please.’
How can the soul, in this state of true love, go fishing for defects, miseries, weaknesses, if the object
acquired has condoned her everything, embellishes her with everything, and the object that she possesses
keeps purifying her continuously? These are the virtues of true love: to purify everything, to triumph over
everything, to reach everything. In fact, what love can there be for a person whom one fears, about whom
one doubts, from whom one does not hope for everything? Love would lose the best of its qualities. It is
true that even in the saints one can see this; and this shows that in the saints love can be imperfect and can
have its variety, according to the state in which they find themselves.
In you the thing is very different: since you should be in Heaven with Me, and you have sacrificed this for
love of obedience and of your neighbor, love has been confirmed in you, the will has been confirmed in
not offending Me. Therefore your life is like a life that has already passed, and this is why you do not feel
the burden of your miseries. So, be well attentive on what befits you, and on loving Me up to the infinite
Love.”
Scripture Meditation- 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:4-12).
Prayer Reflection- O Lord we love You, we adore You, and we worship You because I have to admit when I saw this calendar reading in my inbox this morning it made me cry. Because what fears and what doubts we often have in Your True Love that, as St. Therese tells us, can purify us in an instant. The Love that wants to triumph in us and reign in us! Yet how many of us, me included, do not take possession of this Love ,but continue to fish for our own defects and weaknesses dredging up the same old fears, doubts, and worries about You, our salvation, and pretty much everything else in our lives which we keep refusing to turn over to You even as we keep saying I surrender all? Really that is what surrender looks like? And yet You call us to hope in You in everything because Your Love is stronger than anything we put in Your way. In fact Your Love is stronger than death (Song of Solomon 8:6). You call us to the life of Heaven here on Earth, hidden only by the veil of our earthly bodies, so let us be attentive to You as You pour out Your Love so that we can love You to the infinite not only for ourselves but for all!
