✞ Signs to know whether the soul is in Grace.
I am always in my dear inheritance of the Fiat. I feel Its sweet empire that keeps me absorbed and so invested as to leave me no time to grieve over the privations of my beloved Jesus, alas, too painful for me. The multiplicity and infinity of Its continuous acts impose themselves on me, to keep me present and to share with me the good which they contain, and to tell me how much It loves me. “And you? How much do you love us[1]?”
So, my mind wandered and remained enraptured in seeing that It wanted to constantly give me from Its own, and therefore It wanted me present at Its acts. What goodness! What love!
Then, my Sovereign Jesus, surprising me, told me: “My little daughter of my Will, your Jesus has the task of manifesting the secrets of my Divine Will, and Its love, which reaches the point of being incapable of and unable to endure, if It does not give of Its own to the creature, in a continuous manner. You must know that when my Divine Will does an act, It calls all creatures into Its act – It wants them all with Itself, to give to each one the good which that act possesses. So, all are enclosed within Its act, and receive the good of the divine inheritance; with this difference: that one who is there in Our Will voluntarily and out of love becomes the possessor of it, while for one who is not, that good is not lost, but waits for its heiress – who knows, she may decide to live life in Our Will, so as to give her the possession of it; nevertheless, out of Our generosity, fully divine, We give her the interest of the good assigned to her – that is, the effects – so that she may not die of hunger for the goods of her Creator. In fact, Our Will, by Its own nature, possesses the universal virtue, and therefore in each of Its acts It calls all, It embraces all, It involves all, and It offers Its divine goods to all.
Symbol and image of this is the sun, which, having been created by my Fiat with Its universal virtue, offers its light to all – it denies it to no one; and if anyone did not want to take the good of its light, the sun does not destroy the light that belongs to that person, nor can it destroy it, but it waits; and when that person decides to take the good of the light, it does not deny itself – it immediately gives itself; and until that one makes up his mind to take the good of the light directly, it gives him the interest by means of the other created things. In fact, in all created things the sun holds its prime act: to some it gives fecundity and maturation; to some development and sweetness – there is not one created thing to which the sun does not give something of its own. Therefore, the creature, in taking food, making use of the plants, takes the effects and the interests given to her by the light which belongs to her and which she, out of her will, does not take. My Will is more than sun; in all the acts It does, it calls all creatures, It keeps them all present, and offers Its divine goods to all of them.
Now, one who lives in Our Will, since she possesses, as her own property, the good that my Volition has given to her in each act, feels within herself the nature of good, because good is in her power. Goodness, patience, love, light, heroism of sacrifice, are at her disposal; and if she has the occasion to exercise them, she exercises them without effort; and if she does not have the occasion to exercise them, she still possesses them, like many noble princesses, which form the honor, the glory, of the properties that my Will has given to her. It happens as to the eye, which possesses the eyesight: if it is necessary for it to look, to help itself through the sight, it does so; if it is not necessary, it does not lose the vision, but keeps its eye as the glory and honor that its ‘seeing eye’ possesses. To possess my Will and not to possess the virtues as one’s own nature is almost impossible. It would be like a sun without heat, like a food without substance, like a life without heartbeat. Therefore, one who possesses my Will possesses everything, as gifts and properties which my Divine Volition brings with Itself.”
Fiat!!!
[1] the acts of the Divine Will