The final words of the Decree issued in 1966 by Major Archbishop Cardinal Joseph of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops on the occasion of the relaxation of all fasts in the whole Catholic Church that came about after the Second Vatican Council:

… “Let all faithful Christians remember that the Christian spirit scarcely dwells, if at all, in the family where prayer has become silent, the practice of fasting has disappeared, and even the memory of it is forgotten.  Therefore, let the relaxed fast increase our zeal in prayer, meditation, and participation in divine services, almsgiving, labor, frequent Confessions and Holy Communions.”  (Blahovisnyk, Year II, Bk. 2-4)

From the Nine Excesses of Love in Volume One:

EIGHTH EXCESS OF LOVE
Supplicating Love

“My daughter (Luisa), do not leave Me (Jesus) alone; place your head upon the womb of my dear Mama, for even from the outside you will hear my moans, my supplications.  In seeing that neither my moans nor my supplications move the creature to compassion for my love, I assume the attitude of the poorest of beggars; and stretching out my tiny little hand, I ask – for pity’s sake, at least as alms – for their souls, their affections and their hearts.  My love wanted to win the heart of man at any cost; and in seeing that after seven excesses of my love, he was reluctant, he played deaf, he did not care about Me, nor did he want to give himself to Me, my love wanted to push itself further.  It should have stopped; but – no, it wanted to overflow even more from within its boundaries, and even from the womb of my Mama it made my voice reach every heart – and with the most insinuating manners, with the most fervent pleas, with the most penetrating words.  And do you know what I said to him?  ‘My child, give Me (Jesus) your heart; I will give you everything you want, provided that you give Me your heart in exchange.  I have descended from Heaven to make a prey of it.  O please! do not deny it to Me!  Do not delude my hopes!’  And in seeing him reluctant – even more, many turned their backs to Me – I passed on to moans; I joined my tiny little hands and, crying, with voice suffocated by sobs, I added:  ‘Ahh! Ahh! I (Jesus) am the little beggar; not even as alms do you want to give Me your heart?  Is this not a greater excess of my love – that the Creator, in order to approach the creature, takes the form of a little baby so as not to strike fear in him, and that He asks for the heart of the creature, at least as alms, and in seeing that he does not want to give it, He supplicates, moans and cries?”

Then I heard Him say to me:  “And you, don’t you want to give Me (Jesus) your heart?  Perhaps you too want Me to moan, beg and cry for you to give Me your heart?  Do you want to deny Me (Jesus) the alms that I ask of you?”  And as He was saying this I heard Him as though sobbing, and I:  ‘My Jesus, do not cry, I give You my heart and all of myself.’  Then, the interior voice continued:  “Move further, and pass on to the ninth excess of my love.”