The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

December 2, 1928

The Eucharistic Tabernacle and the Tabernacle of the Divine Will.

The privations of Jesus become longer, and as I see myself without Him, I do nothing but long for Heaven.  Oh! Heaven, when will You open your doors to me?  When will You have pity on me?  When will you retrieve the little exiled one into her Fatherland?  Ah! yes! only there I will no longer miss my Jesus!  Here, if He makes Himself seen, while one thinks one possesses Him, He escapes like lightning, and one has to go a long way without Him; and without Jesus all things convert into sorrow – even the very holy things, the prayers, the Sacraments, are martyrdoms without Him.  So I thought to myself:  ‘What is the use of Jesus’ permitting my coming near His tabernacle of love, for us to remain in mute silence?  Rather, it seems to me that He has hidden more, that He no longer gives me His lessons on the Divine Fiat.  It seemed to me that He had His pulpit in the depth of my interior, and had always something to say.  And now, I hear nothing but a profound silence; only, I hear within me the continuous murmuring of the sea of light of the Eternal Volition which always murmurs love, adoration, glory, and embraces everything and everyone.’

But while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus made Himself seen in my interior for just a little, and told me:  “My daughter, courage, it is I in the depth of your soul who move the waves of the sea of light of my Divine Will, and I always – always murmur, to snatch from my Celestial Father the Kingdom of my Will upon earth; and you do nothing other than follow Me; and if you did not follow Me, I would do it on my own.  But you will not do this – leaving me alone, because my Fiat Itself keeps you sunken within It.

Ah! don’t you know that you are the tabernacle of my Divine Will?  How many works have I not done in you; how many graces have I not poured into you in order to form this tabernacle for Myself?  A tabernacle - I could call it - unique in the world.  In fact, as for eucharistic tabernacles, I have a good number of them, but in this tabernacle of my Divine Fiat I do not feel like a prisoner, I possess the endless expanses of my Will, I do not feel alone, I have one who keeps Me perennial company; and now I act as a teacher and I give you my celestial lessons; now I do my outpourings of love and of sorrow; now I celebrate, to the point of amusing Myself with you.  So, if I pray, if I suffer, if I cry and if I celebrate, I am never alone, I have the little daughter of my Divine Will together with Me.  And then, I have the great honor and the most beautiful conquest, which I like the most, which is a human will all sacrificed for Me, and as the footstool of my Divine Will.  I could call it my favorite tabernacle, in which I so much delight, that I would not exchange it for the eucharistic tabernacles; because in them I am alone, nor does the host give Me a Divine Will as I find It in you, such that, as It bilocates Itself, while I have It within Me, I also find It in you.  On the other hand, the host is not capable of possessing It, nor does it accompany Me in my acts; I am always alone, everything is cold around Me; the tabernacle, the pyx, the host, are without life, and therefore without company.  This is why I felt such delight in keeping, near my eucharistic tabernacle, that of my Divine Will, formed in you, that by merely looking at you I feel my loneliness broken, and I experience the pure joys that the creature who lets my Divine Will reign within herself can give Me.

And so, this is why all my aims, my cares and my interests are in making my Divine Will known, and in making It reign in the midst of creatures; then will each creature be a living tabernacle of mine – not mute, but speaking; and I will no longer be alone, but I will have my perennial company.  And with my Divine Will bilocated in them, I will have my divine company in the creature.  So, I will have my Heaven in each one of them, because the tabernacle of my Divine Will possesses my Heaven on earth.”