The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

April 9, 1904

One act of perfect resignation is enough for the soul to be purged of any involuntary imperfection.

This morning, since I would be receiving Communion, I was thinking to myself:  ‘What will blessed Jesus say when He comes into my soul?  He will say:  “How ugly, cattiva [bad], cold, abominable this soul is.’  How quickly He will make the species consumed so as not to be in contact with someone so ugly.  But, what can I do?  Even though I am so cattiva, yet, You must have patience in coming, because You are necessary to Me anyway, and I cannot do without You.’  At that moment, He came out from within my interior, and told me:  “My daughter, do not want to afflict yourself for this.  It takes nothing to remedy it; one act of perfect resignation to my Will is enough for you to be purged of all these uglinesses that you talk about.  And I will say to you the opposite of what you think; I will say to you:  ‘How beautiful you are, I feel the fire of my love in you, and the perfume of my fragrances.  With you I want to make my perpetual dwelling’.”  And He disappeared.       

Then, when the confessor came, I told him everything, and he said to me that it was not right - that it is sorrow that purges the soul and that resignation has nothing to do with this.  So, after I received Communion, I said:  ‘Lord, father told me that what You told me was not right.  Explain Yourself better and let me know the truth.’  And He, benignly, added:  “My daughter, when it is about voluntary sin, then it takes sorrow; but when it is about imperfections, weaknesses, coldnesses and the like, and the soul has added nothing of her own, then a perfect act of resignation is enough; and if needed, she is also purged of this state, because in doing this act, the soul first encounters my Divine Will, which purges her human will and embellishes it with Its qualities, and then she identifies herself with Me.”