#17.                                          Fiat

My good daughter in the Divine Volition,

Thank you, thank you for all your attentions.   Know that every additional book you promote is an additional right which the King of Sorrows and the Queen of Heaven give you, to be faithful daughter of the Divine Will. Listen, my daughter, it is a mother that speaks to you. Listen to me; maybe these are my last words. Listen to the Celestial Mama and to sweet Jesus.   They want you to not think of the past-to place a sepulchral stone on it, so that you may forget everything and say: “My life will start today; I am born again together with my Queen Mama, with Jesus, and with  the Divine Will.”..And your pains, your crosses, even though heavy, will serve the Divine Beggar, Who looks for our sufferings in order to form and continue His life within us. Oh, how happy will you feel, if in every pain you say, “This pain serves Jesus!”   Then you will feel His invincible patience, filial trust, and courage of heroes.  Patience, trust, courage, is the bread of the strong, the heroism of martyrs. Therefore, courage! Those who think of the past lose the present. The  Lord  has   disposed   everything: crosses,   illness,   state   of marriage;  in a  word-everything.  The Lord had to prepare  the material  in  order to make of you a  saint;  and He  has prepared enough of it.  So, all you have to say and do is this: “The Heart of Jesus  wants   me a  saint:   I  must become   a  saint!”    Have we understood each other?

Now I assure you of my prayers for your children; then the Lord will console  you even more.   I  leave you in the Divine Volition to become a saint. Never get disturbed in anything; rather, give all to Jesus, so that He may change it into flames of love. Pray for me. With a thousand regards, I say,

Most affectionately yours,

the little daughter of the Divine Will

Corato, January 5, 1935

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