The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

November 27, 1899

Grace renders the soul happy.

This morning my dear Jesus was not coming.  After many hardships, I saw Him for just a little, and lamenting to Him because of His delay, I said to Him:  ‘Blessed Lord, how come, so late?  Have You perhaps forgotten that I cannot be without You, or have I perhaps lost your grace that You do not come?’  And He, interrupting my plaintive speaking, told me:  “My daughter, do you know what my grace does?  My grace renders the souls of the Blessed happy, and it renders the pilgrim souls happy - with this difference alone:  that the Blessed take bliss and delight in it, while the pilgrim souls work and make it circulate.  So, one who possesses grace holds paradise within herself, because grace is nothing other than to possess Me, and since I alone am the enchanting object that enchants the whole of paradise and forms all the contentments of the Blessed, the soul, by possessing grace, possesses her paradise wherever she is.”