"My Adorable Jesus, as I have shared in Your sufferings together with You, and in those of Your afflicted Mama, I see that You are about to leave to go there, where the Will of the Father calls You. The Love between Son and Mother is so great as to render You inseparable, so You leave Yourself in the Heart of Your Mama, and the Queen and Sweet Mama places Herself into Yours; otherwise it would have been impossible for You to separate. But then, Blessing each other, You give Her the last kiss to strengthen Her in the bitter pains She is about to suffer; and giving Her Your last good-bye, You leave." 

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Reflection:

The main thing about this excerpt for me is that Jesus was obedient to the Father, no matter what the cost to him or his mother.

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We see that Luisa has shared in both the sufferings of Jesus and Mary. They are about to separate and He will go where the Will of the Father calls him. We know where that will lead to, his crucifixion on Calvary.

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This must have been extremely difficult for him to do in his humanity. Mary was his world, his heaven! They were inseparable.

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He tells us however in Vol 11. that their separation was only apparent. Being in the Divine Will they were fused together and bilocated into each other’s souls. He remained with her and she went with him.

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In our own lives we can ask are we willing to go where the Will of the Father calls us? This calling may be in the little things of our days, in all the situations the Lord allows which may challenge us and we are tempted to run away. We rarely run towards suffering but in suffering God is found. “…where there is suffering there is God, as God and suffering cannot be apart.”  Vol 6. Dec 22, 1903  

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For instance, I am nervous of the dental profession, mostly due to a negative childhood experience.

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The Lord is now calling me to visit the dentist for my own sake. I would prefer not to go but it is necessary. It’s little things like these that may form our way of the cross with Jesus, and of course we may have much larger crosses too.

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This may remind us of the Gospel of John 21: 18-19 in which St. Peter was told by Jesus he would be taken to place he would rather not go, to his death to give glory to God. We also, while perhaps not being called to give our lives, are never the less called to die to our human wills and to glorify God.

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Whenever situations occur which may entail some sufferings for us, may we pray for the grace to embrace rather than shun them and then united with Jesus’ sufferings, use them for the glory of the Father and the good of all souls past, present and future.

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"But the paleness of Your Face, Your trembling lips, Your suffocated voice, as though wanting to burst into tears in saying good-bye—ah, everything tells me how much You Love Her and how much You suffer in leaving Her!

But to fulfil the Will of the Father, with Your Hearts fused into each other, You submit Yourselves to everything, wanting to repair for those who, unwilling to overcome the tenderness of relatives and friends, and bonds and attachments, do not care about fulfilling the Holy Will of God and corresponding to the state of sanctity to which God calls them. What sorrow do these souls not give You, in rejecting from their hearts the Love You want to give them, contenting themselves with the love of creatures!

 Blessing each other, You give Her the last kiss to strengthen Her in the bitter pains She is about to suffer; and giving Her Your last good-bye, You leave."

 

Reflection: 

Luisa describes the physical features of Jesus and how everything in his face portrays a sense of sadness and grief. She emphasises his love for his mother and how it breaks his heart in leaving her.

 

Nevertheless, in obedience to the Will of the Father Jesus follows the course of his Passion step by step and with his heart fused in that of his Mother and she in his, they surrender to all the Divine Will may demand of them.

 

We join him in making reparation for ourselves and for all who do not want to put God first in their lives. How many times do we put off being obedient to an inspiration to pray or to do some good to another person, perhaps because it would inconvenience us in some way? Do we see an opportunity to do good to someone as God wanting to fill our hearts with his love or do we see it as something we can do ourselves, for ourselves, but with hearts closed to his love? 

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Jesus gives his Mother his last kiss to strengthen her in the bitter pains she is to undergo and giving her his last good-bye, he leaves.

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We, in receiving communion can bilocate into that scene and ask to receive his kiss to strengthen us for whatever way He wishes us to glorify him today or maybe another day. In our communions He is present to us in his body, blood, soul and divinity for approx. 15 mins, and then he leaves (as our bodies consume the Host). May we pray for the grace to follow him.

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