Today’s Gospel is from 1 Peter 2:4-9

Letter #74 to Mrs. Caterina Valentino, from S. Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

Most esteemed one in the Lord,

Thank you for your letter.  To reward you, may dear Jesus keep you inside the waves of the Divine Volition, in such a way that you may look at nothing, and want nothing else but the life of the Supreme Fiat.  Oh, how beautiful it is to be able to say:  “I do not want or know anything but the Divine Will.”  May It be our hiding place, so that, if they look for us, they would find us only within Its divine boundaries.  Therefore, let us allow nothing to escape us – even our little trifles, the little actions of our life – without letting them enter into Its divine sea; and in everything we can do and suffer, may It be our only purpose, for the triumph of the Divine Will, to live and reign triumphantly within our souls and in the souls of all… How happy we will be; each one of our acts will be a divine conquest.  We will see His finger, which has marked our act and has enclosed in it, with its divine strength, Suns more refulgent and Heavens more beautiful than those which can be seen in Creation.

Therefore, let us be attentive; it takes nothing but a firm decision of wanting to live in the Holy Will.  It is Jesus that wants it; He will cover us with His Love, hide us within His Light, and will reach the extent of substituting us in all that we are unable to do.

I commend myself to your prayers.  Tell Padre Pio to pray very much for us, as the storm shows no sign of ceasing; we are always under lightening and thunders, which seem to want to burn us.  Fiat!  Let us remain always in the Divine Will.  With heartfelt obsequies I say,

the little daughter of the Divine Will.

Corato, April 27, 1939