The Passion of unrequited Love

After this, with my thought, I placed myself near my Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and I prayed Him to let me penetrate into that Love with which He so much loved me. And my Jesus, moving again in the depth of my interior, told me: "My daughter, enter into my Love, and never leave It; run after It, or stop in my own Love in order to comprehend well how much I loved the creature. Everything in Me is Love toward her. In creating this creature, the Divinity intended to love her always; so, in everything, inside and outside of her, It was to run toward her with a continuous and incessant new act of Love. Therefore, I can say that in every thought, gaze, word, breath, heartbeat, and in all the rest of the creature, runs an Act of Eternal Love. But if the Divinity intended to love this creature, always and in everything, it was because It wanted to receive, in everything, the return of the new and incessant love of the creature; It wanted to give love in order to receive love; It wanted to love to be loved in return. But it was not so. Not only did the creature not want to maintain this alternation of love or to respond to the echo of the love of her Creator, but she rejected this Love, she denied It, and offended It. At this affront, the Divinity did not stop, but continued Its new and incessant love toward the creature; and since the creature would not receive it, It filled Heaven and earth with it, waiting for one who would take this Love, so as to receive Love in return. In fact, when God decides and proposes, all adverse events do not change Him; rather, He remains immutable in His Immutability. And so this is why, moving on to another excess of my love, I, Word of the Father, came upon earth; and taking on a Humanity, I gathered within Myself all this Love which filled Heaven and earth, in order to return the Divinity with as much Love – for as much as It had given and was to give to the creatures; and I constituted Myself love of each thought, of each gaze, of each word, heartbeat, movement and step of each creature. Therefore my Humanity was worked by the hands of the Eternal Love of my Celestial Father, down to Its most little fiber, in order to give Me the capacity to enclose all the love that the Divinity wanted to give to the creatures, to give to my Humanity the love of all, and to constitute Me love of each act of creature. So, each one of your thoughts is crowned by incessant acts of love; there is nothing, inside and outside of you, which is not surrounded by my repeated acts of love.  This is why in this Garden my Humanity moans, pants, agonizes, feels crushed under the weight of so much love – because I love and I am not loved in return. The pains of love are the most bitter ones, the most cruel; they are pains without pity, more painful than my very Passion! Oh, if they loved Me, the weight of so much love would become light! When It is returned, Love remains quenched and satisfied in the very love of the one who loves; but when It is not returned, It becomes crazy, delirious, and It feels the Love It unleashed as being returned with an act of death. See then, how much more bitter and painful was the Passion of my Love; because if in the Passion they gave only one death, in the Passion of Love the ungrateful creatures made Me suffer as many deaths for as many acts of love as came from Me, for which I received no return. Therefore, come, my daughter, to give Me the return of so much Love in my Will, and you will find all this Love as though in Act. Make It your own, and together with Me, constitute yourself love of each act of creature, to give Me the return of the love of all." 

Vol 17. Oct 30th 1924 

 

Reflection:

Most of us have experience of unrequited love, but not on the scale of what the Trinity suffers for love of us. 

May we, fused in Divine Will and in the name of all souls, past, present and future, make it our intention to fill the void in the heart of God , and especially in the name of those who do not know the love of God or refuse to love Him.  

A way I find helpful is to bilocate to the garden of Gethsemane, and be present to Jesus as He endures His inner passion. One does not have to say long prayers; it's our company and love He desires. May we be present to Him, perhaps just to hold his hand, and then quietly respond using our imaginations and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. 

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