The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

February 24, 1900

Luisa resists obedience.

This morning I was all fear; I believed that everything was fantasy – that is, the devil wanting to deceive me.  So, whatever I would see, I would despise and I would be displeased.  I saw the confessor placing the intention that Jesus would renew in me the pains of the crucifixion, and I tried to resist.  At first blessed Jesus tolerated me, but since the confessor kept repeating the intention, Jesus told me:  “My daughter, this time we are really going to fail the obedience.  Don’t you know that obedience must seal the soul, and that obedience must render the soul like soft wax, in such a way that the confessor may give to it the shape he wants?”  So, heedless of my resistances, He shared with me the pains of the crucifixion; and I, no longer able to resist all this, which I did not want for fear that it might not be Jesus, was forced to succumb under the weight of the pains.  May He be always blessed, and may everything be for His glory, in everything and always.