"O Celestial Mama, the hour of the separation is approaching, and I come to You. O Mother, give me Your Love and Your reparations; give me Your sorrow, because together with You I want to follow, step by step, adored Jesus. 

 

And now Jesus comes to You, and You, with Heart overflowing with Love, run toward Him and in seeing Him so pale and sad, Your Heart aches with pain, Your strengths leave You and You are about to fall at His feet."

 

Reflection:

One thing I love about Luisa is that in the Hours of The Passion she always asks for Our Lady to accompany her as she follows Jesus. She fuses in Divine Will and bilocates to our Lady's side. She asks for the help of the only other person living in Divine Will. Her prayer is at a high level, and so too is ours when we fuse and ask for Our Lady's help. 

 

Luisa asks for Our Lady's love, her reparations and her sorrow so as to make them her own. She asks for her heart, and with her she wants to follow Jesus step by step, which is saying she doesn't want to miss anything of their sufferings but wants to share in them. We too need to slow down and in praying these hours allow the Holy Spirit to speak to our hearts and lead us to a deeper understanding of Jesus' sufferings, step by step. Mastication takes time.

 

Jesus then comes, and she with her heart overflowing with love runs toward him. Her mind and intentions were always on Jesus, not for any self gain. Jesus also even though He had divine sorrow for mankind he was also sorrowful in his mother's sorrow. They were both resigned to Divine Will even though it was to be very costly. We can identify in our own ways with their sorrows perhaps in the experience of watching a loved one suffer and maybe die and there may be nothing we can do. We may just have to surrender and accept the situation and say let your will be done O Lord.

 

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Jesus continues His life in the world, not only in the Most Holy Sacrament, but also in the souls who are in His Grace. 

"I was thinking about the Hour of the Passion in which Jesus took leave of His Mother to go to His death (5pm), and they blessed each other, and I was offering this Hour to repair for those who do not bless the Lord in everything, but rather, they offend Him, in order to impetrate all the blessings which are necessary for us to preserve ourselves in the grace of God, and to fill the void of the glory of God, as if all creatures were blessing Him. While doing this, I felt Him move in my interior, saying: "My daughter, in the act of blessing my Mother I also intended to bless each creature individually, and all in general, in such a way that everything is blessed by Me: thoughts, words, heartbeats, steps and movements made for Me. Everything – everything has been given value by my blessing. Even more, I tell you that everything good that creatures do, was all done by my Humanity, so that all the works of creatures might first be divinized by Me.

Furthermore, my life, real and true, still continues in the world, not only in the Most Holy Sacrament, but in the souls who are in my Grace; and since the capacity of the creature is very limited, and one of them alone is unable to grab everything I did, I act in such a way as to continue my reparation in one soul, praise in another, thanksgiving in another; in some others my zeal for the salvation of souls, in another my sufferings, and so with all the rest. According to how they correspond to Me, I carry out my life within them.

Therefore, think of what constraints and pains they put Me into – while I want to operate in them, they do not pay attention to Me." Having said this, He disappeared, and I found myself inside myself." Vol 5. Oct 3, 1903

 

Reflection:​

In reading this passage we see the need to always remain in the grace of God because Jesus wishes to continue His life in the world in and through us. In blessing His Mother, He intended to bless us all and all of our acts, thoughts, words which are made for Him. We need to be attentive that all the acts we do are done for Him, because more often we do them for ourselves or for others.

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Every act has been given value by His blessing, and we in turn can transform the ordinary mundane acts of our everyday lives into acts of immense value by intentionally fusing in Divine Will and giving them to the Lord out of pure love for Him, and also by uniting them to His acts of love in His life and gaining His merits, so that even the smallest act like stirring one's coffee becomes a divine act which we can offer for the good of all souls, past, present and future.

 

The last few lines in the above piece show how Jesus wishes to carry out His life in each of us. We all have a special calling from the Lord in Divine Will, and depending on our response, our calling may vary from time to time, in that He may invite us to use the different circumstances of our lives to make reparation, do rounds, to suffer.... It is important is that we remain in a state of grace so as to be able to hear the various requests He makes. 

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In reading this you may be thinking of some event in the near future in which you can make reparations, do rounds ... but is the Lord perhaps inviting you to respond in Divine Will at this present moment in whatever circumstances He has allowed in your life?

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