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What living in the Divine Will means Divine Will, which allows a creature to receive the
(Volume 16, February 20, 1924) Divine Order, is in the depth of the soul, where grace
“Ah, you don’t know what it means to live in My moves her to empty herself of what is human – ten-
Will! It means to make the pure joys of the purpose dencies, passions, inclinations and other things.
of Creation -— My innocent pleasures for which I cre- “On the other hand, to do My Will is to live with
ated man — return to Me. It means to remove all the two wills, in such a way that when I give orders to fol-
bitterness that the perfidious human will gave Me al- low Mine, the creatures feel the weight of their own
most at the dawn of Creation. It means a continuous will, which causes contrasts. And even though they
exchange of wills, human and Divine, as the soul, follow the orders of My Will with faithfulness, they
fearing her own, lives from Mine, while Mine keeps feel the weight of their rebellious nature, of their pas-
filling the soul with joys, love and infinite goods. sions and inclinations. How many saints, although
“Oh, how happy I feel in being able to give what- they may have reached the highest perfection, feel
ever I want to this soul, because My Will contains their own will waging war against them, keeping
such capacity as to be able to receive everything! them oppressed. And many are forced to cry out:
Therefore, there are no longer divisions between Me ‘Who will free me from this body of death?’– that is,
and her, but stable union, in working, in thinking, in ‘from this will of mine, that wants to give death to the
loving, because My Will compensates for everything, good I want to do?’
so we remain in perfect accord and in communion of “To live in My Will is to live as a son. To just do
goods. This had been the purpose of the Creation of My Will would be called, in comparison, living as a
man: to make him live as Our own child and to share servant. In the first case, what belongs to the Father
all Our goods with him, so that he might be fully belongs to the Son; and then, it is well known how
happy, and We might be amused with his happiness. servants are forced to make more sacrifices than
“Now, to live in My Will is exactly this: to have sons do. They have to expose themselves to more
the purpose, the joys, the feasts of Creation returned tiring and more humble services, to cold, to heat, to
to Us. And you say that I should have kept it hidden traveling on foot, and the like.
in My Church, without manifesting it? I would have “In fact, how much did My saints not do, though
turned Heaven and earth upside down; I would have most beloved friends of Mine, in order to execute
overwhelmed the souls with an irresistible strength, the orders of My Will? Instead, a son remains with
in order to make known that which will be the fulfill- his father, takes care of him, cheers him up with his
ment of Creation. Do you see how much I care for kisses and caresses; he gives orders to the servants
this living in My Will, which places the seal upon all as if his father were ordering them; and if he goes
My works, so that all of them may be complete? It out, he doesn’t walk, but travels in a coach
may seem to you that this is nothing, or that there “And while the son possesses all that belongs
are similar things in My Church. No, no — for Me, to his father, the servants are given only the recom-
on the contrary, it is the All of My works, and you pense for the work they have done, remaining free
must appreciate it as such, and be more attentive in to serve their master or not; and if they do not serve,
fulfilling the mission I want from you.” they no longer have a right to receive any further
Distance between living in the Divine Will compensation. On the other hand, nobody can re-
and doing the Will of God move those intimate relations between father and
(Volume 17, September 18, 1924) son, by which the son possesses the goods of the
“To live in My Will is to reign in It and with It, father; and no law, either celestial or terrestrial, can
cancel these rights, just as it cannot unbind sonship
while to do My Will is to be submitted to My orders. between father and son.
The first state is to possess; the second is to receive
dispositions, and execute commands. To live in My “My daughter, the living in My Will is the living
Will is to make My Will one’s own, as one’s own that is closest to the blessed of Heaven. It is so dis-
property, and to dispose of It. To do My Will is to take tant from one who is simply conformed to My Will
It into account as the Will of God, not as one’s own and does It, faithfully executing Its orders — as much
thing; nor can one dispose of It as he wants. as Heaven is distant from the earth, as much as the
distance between a son and a servant, and between
“To live in My Will is to live with one single Will – a king and a subject.
That of God; and since It is a Will all holy, all pure, all
peaceful, being one single Will that reigns, there are “Moreover, this is a gift which I want to give in
no contrasts: everything is peace. Human passions these times, so sad — that they may not only do My
tremble before this Supreme Will, and would rather Will, but possess It. Am I perhaps not free to give
escape It; nor do they dare to even move, or oppose whatever I want, when I want, and to whom I want?
it, in seeing that Heaven and earth tremble before Isn’t a master free to say to his servant: ‘Live in my u
this Holy Will. Therefore, the first step of living in the house, eat, take, command as another myself”? And

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