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June 6, 1900 – Volume 3
Luisa writes,
Since my adorable Jesus continued not to let Himself be seen with clarity,
this morning, after I received Communion, the confessor placed the intention of
the crucifixion. While I was amid those sufferings, almost drawn by my pains,
blessed Jesus showed Himself with clarity. Oh God! Who can say the pains that
Jesus was suffering and the violent state He was in - that while He was forced
to send chastisements, He did such violence to Himself, for He did not want to
send them! It aroused such compassion to see Him in this state, that if men
could see Him, even if their hearts were hard as diamonds, they would break with
tenderness like fragile glass. So I began to pray Him to placate Himself and to be
content with making me suffer, sparing the people. Then I added: ‘Lord, if You
do not want to listen to my prayers, I know I deserve that. If You do not want to
have compassion for the peoples, You are right, because great are our iniquities.
But I ask You, for pity’s sake, to have compassion for Yourself – have pity on the
violence You do to Yourself in punishing your images. Ah, yes! I ask You, for love
of Yourself, not to send chastisements to the point of taking bread away from your
children and letting them perish. Ah, no! It is not in the nature of your Heart to
operate in this way; and this is the reason for the violence You feel, which would
give You death if it had the power to.’
And He, all afflicted, told me: “My daughter, it is Justice that makes violence
on Me, and the love I have for men uses even greater violence on Me, such
as to put my Heart into anguishes of death in punishing the creatures.” And
I: ‘Therefore, Lord, unload Justice upon me, and your love will no longer feel
violence from Justice, and will not be in this contrast of chastising the people,
who, truly…- how will they go on if You act as You let me understand, withering all
that serves as nourishment of man? O please! I beg You, let me suffer and spare
them, if not completely, at least in part.’
And Jesus, as though seeing Himself forced by my prayers, drew near my
mouth and poured a little bit of bitterness from His – dense and disgusting, such
that, as soon as I swallowed it, it caused me such and so many kinds of pains that
I felt I was dying. Then blessed Jesus, sustaining me in those pains otherwise I
would have been dead (yet, He had poured nothing but a little bit; what must it be
for His adorable Heart that contained so much of it?), heaved a sigh as if He had
relieved Himself of a weight, and told me: “My daughter, my Justice had decided
to destroy everything, but now, unloading Itself a little bit over you, for love of
you, concedes one third of what serves as nourishment of man.” And I: ‘Ah, Lord,
it is too little – at least half!’ And He: “No my daughter, content yourself.” And I:
‘No Lord, if You do not want to content me for everyone, at least content me for
Corato and for those who belong to me.’ And Jesus: “Today there is hail ready,
which must cause great damage. You – remain with the pains of the cross; go
out of yourself and in the form of the crucified go through the air and put to flight
the demons from above Corato, since they will not be able to resist the crucified
image, and will go somewhere else.”
So I went out of myself, crucified, and I saw hail and lightnings which were
about to break out over Corato. Who can say the fright of the demons; how they
took to their heels at the sight of my crucified form; how they bit their fingers
out of rage, and reached the point of getting angry with the confessor, who this
morning had given me the obedience of suffering the crucifixion. In fact, they
could not get angry with me; on the contrary, they were forced to flee from me
because of the sign of redemption which they saw. Then, after putting them to
flight, I went back into myself, finding myself with a good dose of sufferings. May
everything be for the glory of God.
– Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta
Buddy Comfort – vocals and guitar from the album, “Brother Sun, Sister Moon”, http://www.buddycomfort.com, words and music by Donovan Leitch.
