✞ The human race is all one family; when someone does some good work and offers it to God, the whole human family participates in that offering and is present to God as if all were offering it.
Since He was not coming, I kept thinking: ‘Who knows whether Jesus will not come any more, leaving me in abandonment.’ And I would say nothing but, ‘Come my beloved, come…’. All of a sudden He came and told me: "I will not leave you, I will never abandon you. You too – come, come to Me." Immediately I ran to place myself in His arms, and while I was like this, Jesus continued: "Not only will I not leave you, but for love of you I will not leave Corato."
Then, almost without my realizing it, in one instant He disappeared. I remained with a yearning for Him, more than before, and I kept saying: ‘What have You done to me? How is it… so quickly have You gone away from me, without even saying good-bye?’ While I was pouring out my pain, the image of baby Jesus which I have near me, seemed to become alive, and every now and then He would put out His head from within the glass bell to see what I was doing; and when He would see that I noticed, immediately He would go back inside. I said to Him: ‘It shows that You are too impertinent, and that You want to behave like a child. I feel I’m going mad with pain because You are not coming, and You are there playing. Well then, play and joke as You please, for I will have patience.’