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Oh, holy Hope, how admirable you are!
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I imagine seeing the soul who is possessed by this beautiful Hope,

like a noble wayfarer, who walks in order to go

and take possession of a land that will make his whole fortune.

But since he is unknown and he journeys through lands which are not his,

some deride him, some insult him, some strip him of his clothes,

and some reach the point of beating him and even of threatening to kill him.

And the noble wayfarer – what does he do in all these trials?

Will he be disturbed?

Ah, no – never! On the contrary, he will deride those who do all this to him,

and knowing with certainty that the more he suffers,

the more he will be honored and glorified when he comes to take possession of his land,

he himself teases the people into tormenting him more.

But he is always tranquil, he enjoys the most perfect peace;

and what is more, while in the midst of these insults,

Who administers so much peace

and so much firmness to this wayfarer in continuing the journey he has undertaken?

Certainly Hope in the eternal goods that will be his;

and since they are his, he will overcome everything in order to take possession of them.

Now, by thinking that they are his own, he comes to love them

and here is how Hope gives rise to Charity.

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7/23/2018

In one of those poor houses lives a young woman named Maria. Nazareth is a small village and many know of its existence. She is a discreet, quiet, and caring girl with everyone and always ready with a smile. Her life and story unfolds in seemingly anonymous simplicity and ordinariness. Her day begins early. When the sun is far from peeping on the horizon and the house is still shrouded in the quiet of the night, Mary gets up and begins to pray. Her relationship with the Lord, in silence and listening, constitutes the essential pivot, the supporting and irreplaceable axis of her days and her life.

For us as well prayer must represent the central and essential moment, the source of pure water with which to satisfy our thirst for meaning and the infinite. As we look at Mary we must learn to abandon the sphere of our little “I”, of our desires and needs. Our prayer must be abandonment in the hands of the Father and the desire for Him, because regenerated and clothed in His grace we can seek only His glory and Kingdom here and now, in the present hour, in the reality and immediacy of the moment we are living. This does not mean that we should not hand Him over our poverty, littleness, our personal limits, dreams and hopes. Nevertheless, these cannot and must not define and limit our prayers. The Father knows everything about us, He knows what we need beforehand, even without asking. To the great gifts of His love He will add all the rest in their entirety, fullness and abundance.

Mary lived completely immersed in history and in the customs of her people; she is the daughter of the little town of Nazareth. Ever since she was a child she experienced exclusion and derision on the part of the Jews as well as the pure and educated who had always looked upon Galileans with suspicion and scorn. Her people however were proud, tenacious, faithful and joyful. Above all, they dreamed of a different society that would be welcoming and supportive. They had always fought against every form of injustice and oppression, placing all hope only in their faithful God. Sooner or later the prophecies of the fathers would come true and for this reason they awaited, with complete trust, the redemption of Israel and the advent of the Messiah who would restore law and justice, peace and solidarity.

It was within this context that Mary grew and was formed. She was an ordinary woman, like many that one could meet every day; she was far from receiving accolades from the society in which she lived and not particularly meritorious, from a purely human perspective, of the attentions and considerations of her contemporaries. She did not live in luxury and comforts, but rather grew in love and obedience to God. Her daily life knew home-made bread, household chores, the handling of the humble and burdensome offices of housewives, work, and disinterested service and attention to those who suffered. She was often seen at the well holding her pitcher while she entertained herself with her peers, waiting her turn to draw water, and every Sabbath in the synagogue.

Even Mary’s ordinary life lived in the Divine Will allowed her to transform that little house of Nazareth into a paradise. Being the Eternal Word, Jesus possessed by His own virtue the Divine Will within Himself and in that little Humanity resided immense seas of light, sanctity, joys and infinite beauties. Mary possessed the Divine Will by Grace, and although she could not embrace immensity like Jesus, because He was God and Man and she was always His finite creature, the “Divine Fiat” nevertheless filled her so much that It formed seas of light, holiness, love, beauty and happiness.

In this house of Nazareth the Kingdom of the Divine Will was in full force. Every one of Mary’s small acts, such as work, lighting the fire and preparing food, were all animated by the Supreme Will and formed on the foundation of holiness and pure love. Therefore, from the smallest to the greatest act immense joys, bliss and beatitudes were released, and Mary remained inundated by the pouring rain of indescribable new joys and happiness.

The Divine Will possesses by nature the source of all joys and when it reigns in the creature it delights in giving in each act an incessant new act of Its joys and happiness. In the house of Nazareth all was peace, utmost union, and one felt honored to obey the other; even Jesus would compete, because He wanted to be commanded in small jobs by His Mother and Joseph.

In this house of Nazareth, the Kingdom of the Divine Will was formed in Mary and in the Humanity of Jesus to make It a gift to the human family, if willing to receive the good of this Kingdom. Although Jesus was King and Mary Queen, they were King and Queen without a people; their Kingdom could encompass all and give life to all, but it was deserted because, firstly, Redemption was required in order to prepare and predispose man to enter this Kingdom so holy. Therefore, the hidden life of Jesus and His Mother for many years served to prepare the Kingdom of the Divine Will for creatures.

In this house of Nazareth, Jesus made his Mother the custodian of His entire life. When God accomplishes a work He does not leave it suspended, nor in a void, but always looks for a creature who can enclose all His work and bear it up; otherwise He would risk making His work become useless. So Jesus placed in Mary all His works, words and sufferings, everything; He even deposited His breath in His Mother: He would tell her all the Gospels that He had to preach in public and the Sacraments He had to institute. He entrusted all to her, placing everything in her and making her the everlasting channel and source, because from her were to issue forth His life and all His goods to benefit all creatures. The Virgin Mother felt rich and happy in being the depository of all that her Son Jesus did!

The Divine Will that reigned in Mary gave her the room to receive everything, and in His Mother Jesus felt the exchange of love and glory from the great work of Redemption. Never having done her will but exclusively the Will of God, the Virgin Mother always had at her disposal the life of her Son; and while He was always in her He could make her bilocate to give her to whomever would ask for her with love.

If we also will never do our will but always the Divine Will and live in It, our Heavenly Mother will deposit all the goods of her Son in our soul. We will have at our disposal a divine Life that will give us everything, and Mary as a true Mother will stand guard so that this life may grow in us and form the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

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“My Will in Creation and in My Celestial Mother alone has always remained intact and kept free its field of action”

Who is Mary?

It might seem like a question with an obvious and in many ways trivial answer. So much has been written and said about the humble young girl of Nazareth, called by God to be the Mother of the Savior of mankind, which leads us to think we have told every story possible about her, and that it is impossible to further investigate who she is and discover aspects and peculiarities which have remained unexplored till now.

Nothing could be more wrong!

The little woman of Nazareth, a creature of admirable silence and extraordinary in her simplicity, is surprisingly rich. Her existence is a masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, an open book that tells of the great works done in her by the Almighty. She is a continuous revelation of God’s newness and tirelessly proclaims the mystery of His love. For this reason Mary is much more and far beyond all that we are capable of conceiving, of expressing and of manifesting. Words, our words, never seem to be enough; they are limited and inadequate.

It is therefore necessary to approach the Mother of our Lord by refraining from enclosing her within our schemes and visions and put aside all useless rhetoric. We must free ourselves, as much as possible, from any devotional construct that only obscures the essential aspects of her incomparability as woman of bold faith, the loving and true mother capable of giving without reserve and abandoning herself totally to the will of her Lord.

This is what we want to do in this new series of reflections, through what Luisa has learned about Mary and that we find in her diary. By listening to the Gospel story of the Annunciation, we will attempt to trace Mary’s image as Luisa saw it in her innumerable and edifying references in her writings. In this way, we too can contemplate that Sun of the “Divine Fiat” that has always been present in Mary and that she also wants to give us together with her Son, Jesus.

Creation and the Heavenly Mother, Jesus said to Luisa, are the most perfect models for living in the Divine Will. When Jesus speaks to Luisa of His Will He often unites the Sovereign Queen of Heaven with Creation. It seems that He takes so much delight in speaking about the one and the other that He goes about finding occasions and pretexts to manifest what His Will does both in the Celestial Mother and in Creation.

Only in Creation and in Mary has the Divine Will always remained intact and kept free Its field of action. Therefore, if Jesus wanted to teach Luisa to live in the Divine Will as one of them, He had to propose them as examples and images to imitate. Hence, in order to do great things so that everyone can perceive that good, unless they did not wish to, it is first necessary for the Divine Will to act wholly within the soul.

If we look at Creation, the Divine Will is whole in it, and while it (creation) is whole it stays in its place and contains the fullness of that good with which it was created. Therefore, it always remains new, noble, pure, fresh, and can participate in all the good it possesses. But the beauty lies in the fact that while it gives itself to everyone, it loses nothing and always stays the same as God created it. What has the sun lost by giving so much light and warmth to the earth? Nothing. What has the blue sky lost by extending itself in the atmosphere, or the earth by producing so many different plants? Nothing, and so it is for all created things.

Creation admirably celebrates the saying referred to God as “ever ancient and ever new”. Therefore, the Divine Will in Creation is the center of life, is fullness of good, order and harmony; It keeps all things It wishes in place. Where we can find a more beautiful example, a more perfect image of living in the Divine Will if not in Creation?

We are called to live in the midst of created things as their sister until we learn to live in the Supreme Will. Then we too may be in our place as desired by God and enclose in us the fullness of the good that the Divine Will wants to place in us so that whoever wishes can take of that good.

But the one that surpasses all is the Celestial Mother. She is the new sky, the most dazzling sun, the brightest moon and most flowery earth. She encloses everything within herself, and if each created thing contains the fullness of its own good received from God, My Mother encloses all the goods together, because endowed with reason and living My Will entirely within herself the fullness of Grace, of light and of sanctity increased at every moment. Every act she did was suns and stars that My Will formed in her so that she surpassed the whole of Creation, and My Will which is integral and permanent in Her did the greatest thing and impetrated the longed for Redeemer. Therefore, My Mother is Queen in the midst of Creation because she surpassed everything, and My Will found in her the nourishment for Its reason, which whole and permanent made her live in Itself. There was highest accord between them, they shook hands with each other; there was no fiber of her heart, word, or thought in which My Will did not possess her life. What can a Divine Will not do? Everything; It lacks no power and there is nothing It cannot do. Therefore, one can say that It did everything, and everything that others could not do, nor will they be able to do all together, she did it alone.

If we want the “Supreme Fiat” to reign as It does in Heaven, which is the greatest thing that is left for creatures to do, we must make sure that the Divine Will reigns sovereign in us – wholly and permanently. Of all the rest we must not give a thought, neither of our incapacity, our circumstances, nor of the things that can happen around us, because as the Divine Will reigns in us these will serve as matter and food for the “Fiat” to be fulfilled.

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Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!

Today’s first reading is taken from the book of the prophet Jeremiah (23: 1-6). He speaks in the name of the God of Israel and threatens lots of trouble for the bad “shepherds” of his people. He also announces the arrival of the “good shepherd” many centuries before; a shepherd according  to God’s heart; this shepherd, then, in turn would have sent others like Him.

It is easy to understand that the prophecy has come true with Jesus. The passage of the Gospel (Mk 6,30-34) even if it is short, allows us to grasp twice the attitude of the authentic Shepherd, His sensitivity, the delicacy of His feelings, the attention to the difficult situation of the one he faces.

Firstly the apostles are involved. On return from the mission of which the Gospel spoke last Sunday, the apostles report all they did and taught. Jesus understanding their fatigue tells them: “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while “. What a man full of Kindness! Jesus does not consider His collaborators as employees to be exploited, if they get tired, worse for them! We are reminded of the many pages of history that speak of the enslavement of an incalculable number of unfortunate people: slaves, for example. Slavery has not disappeared, even in a country like ours that is considered civilized. When people allow themselves to be dominated by the demon of money or power, they don’t stop even before the sufferings of their fellowmen, they lose the feeling of “compassion”, a noun that comes from Latin and means to love together with.

“Come aside, rest a while”: Jesus and the apostles are by the lake; They go off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place, but when they reach there, they find so many people who, seeing  them leaving, arrived at the place before them. ” When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things. ” This second example of Jesus’s sensitivity does not concern the labor of those who work well, but the confusion of those who do not know how to operate, “the lost flock” that is formed by many men looking for a guide, a person who knows how to give a meaning to their lives. It is the confusion of those who wonder why they are in the world, or wonder about their daily sufferings, without finding an answer. So, by not finding any answer they drag their days apathetically and engulf themselves in disappointing or even self-injurious experiences. In this way they bask in perpetual lamentations, or they close themselves into a melancholy that sometimes goes into despair. Perhaps they are precisely those who think to give a meaning to their lives by dominating others.

Yet, we have the guide to overcome our  difficulties,  Jesus is our guide. He “began to teach them”. Those who accept His teachings can show how wise and essential they are for the life of men; The teachings of Jesus, in fact, are able to value the best of our human nature, to direct us towards a full and fulfilling life, far from illusory sequins and depressing shadows and darkness. So, there is the guide; it’s the Shepherd, the “good” Shepherd, but it is up to us to choose Him as a guide. Jesus is a Shepherd so attentive that He arranges other shepherds for all generations, to continue His work. These shepherds are the successors of the first ones that He sent and then invited to rest. To rest “a little”, to resume immediately afterwards, with new vigor and renewed fidelity, the mission that they received.

In the passage of February 22, 1924, Jesus speaks of His teaching on the Divine Will.

Saint Hannibal Mary of France chose that passage as an introduction to the edition of Luisa’s writings.

When Jesus came upon earth, man was so engulfed in evil and so full of human will, that the living in the Divine Will could find no place. So, in the Redemption, first Jesus impetrated for him the grace of resignation to the Divine Will, because in the state he was in, he was incapable of receiving the greatest gift – the living in the Divine Will. And then Jesus impetrated for him the greatest grace, as crown and fulfillment of all graces – the living in the Divine Will, so that God’s pure joys of Creation and His innocent amusements would resume their course once again on the face of the earth. Many twenty centuries passed since the true and pure joys of Creation were interrupted, because God did not find sufficient capacity, total stripping of the human will, to be able to entrust the property of the Divine Will. Now, in order to do this, the Holy Trinity had to choose a creature who would be more proximate and associated with the human generations.

Had Jesus placed His Mama as the example, they would have felt very distant from Her, and would have said: ‘How could She not live in the Divine Will, since She was exempt from any stain, even of origin?’ Therefore, they would have shrugged their shoulders, and would not have given it a thought. And if Jesus had placed His Humanity as the example, they would have been frightened even more, and would have said: ‘He was God and Man, and since the Divine Will was His own Life, it is no wonder that He lived in the Supreme Volition.’ Therefore, so that this living in the Divine Will might have life in the Church, He was to go down the ladder, descend lower, and choose a creature from their midst. Providing her with sufficient graces, and making His way into her soul, He was to empty her of everything, making her understand the great evil of the human will, so that she would abhor it so much as to choose death rather than doing her own will.

Then, giving her the gift of the Divine Will, assuming the attitude of teacher, Jesus made her understand all the beauty, the power, the effects, the value, and the way in which she was to live in the Eternal Will. So that she might live in It, Jesus established in her the law of the Divine Will. He acted as in a second Redemption, in which He established the Gospel, the Sacraments, the teachings, as primary life in order to be able to continue the Redemption. Had Jesus left nothing as the foundation, what would creatures cling to? What to do? So Jesus did for the living in the Divine Will. How many teachings has He not given us? How many times has He not led Luisa by the hand in the eternal flights in the Divine Volition; and she, hovering over the whole Creation, has brought the pure joys of Creation to the feet of the Divinity, and God amused Himself with her?

Now, because God chose Luisa, a creature who apparently had no great disparity from them, they will take courage; and finding the teachings, the way, and knowing the great good contained in the living in the Divine Will, they will make it their own, and so the pure joys of Creation and God’s innocent amusements will no longer be broken on the face of the earth. And even if there should be but one for each generation to live in the Divine Will, it will always be feast for God, and in the feasts there is always a greater display, and one is more generous in giving.

Therefore, we should be attentive to Jesus’ teachings, because this is about letting Him found a law -not terrestrial, but celestial; not a law of mere sanctity, but a divine law – a law which will no longer let one distinguish the terrestrial citizens from the celestial ones; a law of love which, destroying everything that can prevent, even in the slightest, the union of the creature with her Creator, will place all His goods in common, removing from her all the weaknesses and miseries of original sin. The law of the Divine Will will place so much strength in the soul, as to serve her as sweet enchantment, in such a way as to put to sleep the evils of her nature and substitute them with the sweet enchantment of the divine goods. How many times Luisa saw Jesus write in the depth of her soul – it was the new law of the living in the Will; and first Jesus delighted in writing it, in order to expand Luisa’s capacity, and then He took the attitude of teacher in order to explain it to her.

Therefore, we should rest, secure, always in the Divine Will.

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“Only love is what transforms the soul into God and makes her one with Him…love alone is what triumphs over all human imperfections, consumes what prevents the soul from taking divine Life in God.”

Love is the coefficient that multiplies everything. It is the only reality that grows by sharing. Love is an undeserved gift that generates a spiral of growing life. It asks for everything in order to give everything. It is the beginning and the end. Love, Jesus affirms in the Diaries of Luisa (vol. IX – May 20, 1909), is superior to everything else. There is nothing that can surpass Love – neither doctrine nor dignity, and much less nobility.

The fifteen characteristics of love mentioned in the Ode to charity of St. Paul are the portrait of God. The gift of the Holy Spirit puts us on the path to live and love as God does. In fact, the purpose of our life is to reach, aspire to, and walk on this road in order to arrive at, each one of us in our own measure, this truth of ours as children of God. But to be children, the creature must die to herself in order to live only in Jesus; everything must be done for His love. Charity is a virtue that gives life and splendor to all of the others, so Jesus asks the creature: “Be careful, then, and let your works, even the least ones, be invested by charity – that is, in Me, with Me and for Me” (vol. I). Divine love is in search of all creatures in order to love them. Jesus says to Luisa (vol. XXXI – September 18, 1932) that the life of each creature in time had its beginning, but in His Supreme Being it had no beginning. And she was loved by God with a love without beginning and without end. Now living in His Will is exactly this: to feel flowing in all of your being the light, the divine strength, and the life of His Will. God feels the irresistible need of love to go in search of everyone and everything, because His divine nature is love and must love. His love has the virtue to love everyone, to extend itself to everyone and everywhere. God, therefore, desires so much that the creature be the repeater of His love.  What’s more, in all that God did for the creature, the first motive, the first act was love; but what gave life and gives life to everything is the Divine Will. This is why Jesus says (vol. XXVIII – August 12, 1930) that one who wants to find true life must come into His Will, in which one will find the fullness of His Love. The soul will acquire the prerogatives of His Love which are: fecund love, love that rises, love that embraces everything, love that moves everything in love, unsurpassable and endless love, love that loves and conquers all.

Charity, therefore, leads us to do everything for everyone. So to understand the true value of love, we must learn to live and conform ourselves ever more to Christ, the true model of charity. We must make sure that our life is permeated by love, but a love that goes in the direction of God – hence, living in the Divine Will. Jesus confirms all this when (vol. IV – June 15, 1902) He declares that love has this of its own: it forms one object out of two, one will out of two. So the soul who loves Him forms one single thing with Him, one single will. Then again He clarifies (vol. VI – June 23, 1905) that one who is united with His Humanity already finds herself at the door of His Divinity, because His Humanity is a mirror for the soul from which the Divinity is reflected in her. If one is in the reflection of this mirror, it is natural that all of her being be transmuted into love; because everything that comes out of the creature, even the movements of her eyes, lips, thoughts, and all the rest – everything should be love and done out of love. Since His Being is all love, wherever He finds love He absorbs everything within Himself, and the soul dwells safely in Him like someone in their own palace. Therefore, only by living in the Divine Will can true love be found. Jesus, therefore, warns and tells us (vol. VII – January 20, 1907) that until the soul is buried in His Will to the point of dying completely by dissolving all of her will within His, she cannot rise again to new Divine Life through the rising of all the virtues of Christ which contain true Sanctity. Therefore, let His Will be the seal which seals your interior and exterior; and once His Will has risen completely within you, you will find true love.

To Luisa, who asked Him to be “all love”, Jesus explains (vol. VII – November 6, 1906) that by living in His Will, the soul acquires the most heroic love and reaches the point of loving Him with His own love. She becomes all love and becoming all love, she is in continuous contact with Him. So, she is with, in, and for Him; she does everything He wants, nor does she move or desire anything but His Will in which all the love of the Eternal One is enclosed. By living in this way, the soul almost comes to the point of dissolving faith and hope because as she comes to live in the Divine Will, the soul no longer feels in contact with faith and hope. Since she lives in the Will of God, what does she have to believe if she has already found It? And what does she have to hope for if she already possesses It? God is a complex of love and a continuous act of love which never ceases to love, and when He finds His love in the creature, He finds Himself.

What can love, animated by an Omnipotent Fiat, not do (vol. XXXIV – January 1, 1937)? It acts as a magnet and draws God in an irresistible way. It removes every dissimilarity. With its heat, it transforms and embellishes in such an incredible way that Heaven and earth feel themselves enraptured to love. Not loving a creature who loves the three Divine Persons is impossible for God. All of His divine power and strength are rendered impotent and weak before the conquering strength of one who loves God. Love, animated and nourished by the Divine Will, transforms the soul into God. Even this important concept is clarified by Jesus in the Diaries (vol. XI – August 28, 1912). The other virtues, as high and sublime as they may be, always cause the creature to be distinguished from her Creator. Only love is what transforms the soul into God and makes her one with Him. So Love alone is what triumphs over all human imperfections, consumes whatever impedes it in order to let the soul take divine life in God. However, there cannot be true love if it does not receive life and nourishment from the Divine Will. So it is His Will that, united with love, forms the true transformation in Jesus. The soul remains in continuous contact with His power, Sanctity, and all that He is; therefore, she can say that she is another Jesus.

In light of this knowledge, the last statements of St. Paul (1 Co. 13:8-10) acquire the right significance: “Love does not come to an end…For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear.” This means that love is perfection, the fulfillment of everything. So everything else will end, but not love. “When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man and all childish ways are put behind me” (1 Co. 13:11). Indeed, we become spiritually adults when we learn to love as God loves. “Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. The knowledge that I have now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known” (1 Co. 13:12); it means that I love God as God loves me, so I am equal to Him by Grace.

Again Jesus enlightens us regarding this when He affirms (vol. VI – October 16, 1905) that the closer the soul comes to the end in order to draw near the fount of every good, which is the true and perfect love of God in which everything will remain submerged and love alone will float to be the engine of everything, the more the soul will lose all the virtues she practiced along the journey, to enclose everything in love and rest from everything – through love alone. The more she advances, the less she feels the varied crafting of the virtues because, investing them all, love converts them all into itself, keeping them at rest within itself like many noble princesses, working, itself alone, and giving life to all of them. And while the soul does not perceive them, in love she finds them all, but more beautiful, pure, perfect, and ennobled. Therefore, Jesus encourages us along the journey because the more we move forward, the sooner we will enjoy, in advance even down here, the eternal beatitude of sole and true love.

Again St. Paul exhorts us (1Cor 15:28): “May God be everything in everyone” (ut sit Deus omnia in omnibus), therefore: “Without charity I am nothing (nihil), with charity I am all (omnia) like God”.

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Ah, yes, Humility draws grace,

humility breaks the strongest chains, which are sin.

Humility surmounts any wall of division between the soul and God, and brings her back to Him. Humility is a little plant, but always green and flowery, not subject to being gnawed by worms; nor will winds, hail or heat be able to do harm to it, or make it wither, even slightly.

Though being the littlest plant, humility produces very high branches, which penetrate even into Heaven, braiding around the Heart of Our Lord; and only the branches which come from this plant have free access into that adorable Heart.

Humility is the anchor of peace during the storms of the sea waves of this life.

Humility is the salt which spices all virtues and preserves the soul from the corruption of sin.

Humility is the little grass which sprouts along the way treaded by wayfarers; while being treaded, it disappears, but soon one can see it sprout again, more beautiful than before.

Humility is like a gentle graft, which renders the wild plant gentle.

Humility is the sunset of guilt.

Humility is the newborn of grace.

Humility is like the moon, which guides us in the darkness of the night of this life.

Humility is like that shrewd merchant who knows well how to trade his riches, and wastes not even one cent of the grace that is given to him.