1/4 Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first person in the United States
to be Cannonized a Saint.

 

Book of Heaven: Volume 36; May 6, 1938

(Luisa Piccarreta):  My poor mind is under a crowd of thoughts regarding the Divine Will.  They seem to me like many messengers that bring lots of news about this Will so holy.  I felt amazed, and my sweet Jesus, returning to His little daughter, all goodness told me:  “My good daughter, in order to enter into my Will the way is so very simple, because your Jesus never teaches difficult things.  My Love makes Me adapt greatly to the human capacity, so that the creature may do what I teach and want without difficulty.  Now, you must know that the first indispensable thing in order to enter into my Fiat is wanting and yearning with all firmness to live in It.  The second thing is to take the first step.  Once the first is done, my Divine Will surrounds the creature with light and with such attraction, that she loses any desire to do her own will.  In fact, as soon as she takes a step she feels dominator; the night of passions, of weaknesses, of miseries has turned into daylight, into divine strength; therefore she feels the extreme need to take the second step, which calls for the third one, the fourth, the fifth, and so on and on.

These steps are steps of light, which embellishes the creature, sanctifies her, makes her happy; it clears the way for her and lets her share in the likeness of her Creator; so much so, that she not only feels the extreme need to live in my Will, but she feels It as her own life, unable to detach from It.  See then, how easy it is, but it is necessary to want it, just as my Paternal Goodness wants it; and I endow that will with grace, with love, with goodness.  And since I too want it, I place something of my own – my very Life if necessary – to give her all the aids and means, and even my Life as her own, in order to make her live in my Will.  I hold nothing back when it comes to making the creature live in my Will.