Luisa Piccarreta, The Book of Heaven, Volume 25
December 16, 1928
Speaking of the nine excesses of Jesus in the Incarnation.
Contentments of Jesus. His word is creation. Jesus sees the scenes of His love being repeated.
Preludes of His Kingdom.
I was doing my meditation, and since today it was the
beginning of the Novena of Baby Jesus, I was thinking about the nine excesses of His Incarnation, which
Jesus had narrated to me with so much tenderness, and which are written in the first volume. I
felt great reluctance at reminding the confessor about this, because, in reading them, he had told
me that he wanted to read them in public
in our chapel.
Now, while I was thinking of this, my little Baby Jesus made
Himself seen in my arms, so very little, caressing me with His tiny little hands, and saying to me:
“How beautiful is my little daughter! How beautiful! How I
must thank you for having listened to Me.”
And I: ‘My Love, what are You saying It is I who must thank
You for having spoken to me, and for having given me, with so much love, acting as my teacher, so
many lessons which I did not deserve.’
And Jesus: “Ah, my daughter, to how many do I want to speak,
and they do not listen to Me, reducing Me to silence and to suffocating my flames. So, we
must thank each other - you thank Me, and I thank you. And then, why do you want to oppose the
reading of the nine excesses? Ah! You do not know how much life, how much love and grace they
contain. You must know that my word is creation, and in narrating to you the nine excesses of my
love in the Incarnation, I not only renewed my love which I had in incarnating Myself, but I created new
love in order to invest the creatures and conquer them to give themselves to Me. These nine excesses
of my love, manifested with so much love of tenderness and simplicity, formed the prelude of the
many lessons I was to give you about my Divine Fiat, in order to form Its Kingdom. And now, by their
being read, my love is renewed and redoubled. Don’t you want, then, that my love, being
redoubled, overflow outside and invest more hearts, so that, as a prelude, they may dispose themselves
for the lessons of my Will, to make It known and reign?”
And I: ‘My dear Baby, I believe that many have spoken about
your Incarnation.'
And Jesus: “Yes, yes, they have spoken, but those have been
words taken from the shore of my love, therefore they are words which possess neither tendernesses, nor fulnesses of life. But those
few words which I have spoken to you, I have spoken from within
the life of the fount of my love, and they contain life, irresistible strength, and such
tendernesses, that only the dead will not feel themselves being moved to pity for Me, tiny little One, who
suffered so many pains even from the womb of the Celestial Mama.”
After this, the confessor was reading in the chapel the
first excess of the love of Jesus in the Incarnation; and my sweet Jesus, from within my interior,
pricked up His ears to listen. And drawing me to Himself, He said to me:
“My daughter, how happy I feel in listening to them. But my
happiness increases in keeping you in this house of my Will, as both of us are listeners: I, of
what I have told you, and you, of what you have heard from Me. My love swells, boils and overflows.
Listen, listen - how beautiful it is! The word contains the breath, and as it is spoken, the word
carries the breath which, like air, goes around from mouth to mouth and communicates the strength of my
creative word; and the new creation which my word contains descends into the hearts. Listen, my
daughter: in Redemption I had the cortege of my Apostles, and I was in their midst, all love,
in order to instruct them, I spared no toil in order to form the foundation of my Church. Now, in this
house, I feel the cortege of the first children of my Will, and I feel my loving scenes being
repeated, in seeing you in their midst, all love, wanting to impart the lessons about my Divine Fiat in order
to form the foundations of the Kingdom of my Divine Will. If you knew how happy I feel in seeing
you speak about my Divine Volition....I anxiously await the moment when you begin to speak, in
order to listen to you, and to feel the happiness that my Divine Will brings Me.”
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December 21, 1928
Sea of love in the excesses of Jesus. Example of the sea.
The Divine Will, solar ray which brings the Life of Heaven. The Divine Will operating. Happiness of
Jesus.
The novena of Holy Christmas continues, and continuing to
hear the nine excesses of the Incarnation, my beloved Jesus drew me to Himself, and showed me how each
excess of His love was a sea without boundaries. And, in this sea, gigantic waves rose, in which
one could see all souls flowing, devoured by these flames. Just as the fish flow in the waters of the
sea, and the waters of the sea form the life of the fish, the guide, the defense, the food, the bed, the
palace of these fish, so much so, that if they get out of the sea, they can say, “Our life is ended,
because we have gone out of our inheritance - the fatherland given to us by our Creator”; in the same way,
these gigantic waves of flames which rose from these seas of fire, by devouring the creatures, wanted
to be the life, the guide, the defense, the food, the bed, the palace, the fatherland of creatures. But
as they go out of this sea of love, all of a sudden, they find death. And little Baby Jesus cries, moans,
prays, shouts and sighs, for He wants no one to go out of these devouring flames of His, because
He does not want to see anyone die. Oh! if the sea had reason, more than tender mother it would
sadly cry over its fish which are snatched away from its sea, because it feels a life, which it
possesses and preserves with so much love, being snatched away from itself, and with its waves, it would hurl
itself at those who dared to snatch away from it so many lives which it possesses, and which form its
richness, its glory.
“And if the sea does not cry, I cry” - Jesus says - “in
seeing that, while my love has devoured all creatures, ungrateful, they do not want to live life in my
sea of love, but wriggling free from my flames, they exile themselves from my Fatherland, losing the
palace, the guide, the defense, the food, the bed, and even the life. How can I not cry? They came out
of Me - they were created by Me, and were devoured by my flames of love which I had in
incarnating Myself for love of all creatures. As I hear the nine excesses being narrated to Me, the sea of my
love swells - it boils; and forming huge waves, it roars so much, that it would want to deafen
everyone, that they might hear nothing but my moans of love, my cries of sorrow, my repeated sobs, saying:
‘Don’t make Me cry any more, let us exchange the kiss of peace; let us love each other, and we
will all be happy - the Creator and the creature’.”
Jesus kept silent, and at that moment I saw the heavens
opened and a ray of light descend from above, which, fixing itself upon me, illuminated those who were
around me. And my always lovable Jesus resumed His speaking:
“Daughter of my Will, this solar ray that fixed itself upon
you is my Divine Will, which brings you the life of Heaven into your soul. How beautiful is this solar
ray, which not only illuminates you and brings you its life, but whoever draws near you and remains
around feels the life of light, because, like sun, it expands around, and gives to those who surround you
the warm kiss of light, of its breath, of its life. And I feel happy within you in seeing that my
Divine Will diffuses and begins to beat its way."
"See, the seas of love that you saw are nothing other than my Will operating. When my Will wants to operate, the seas of my love swell, boil, form their gigantic waves which cry, moan, shout, pray, deafen. On the other hand, when my Fiat does not want to operate, the sea of my love is calm, it only murmurs quietly, its course of joy and of happiness, inseparable from it, is continuous. Therefore, you cannot comprehend the joy I experience, the happiness I feel and the interest I take in illuminating, in offering my very word, my very Heart, to one who occupies himself with making my Divine Will known. My interest is so great, that I envelop him within Myself and, I Myself overflowing outside of him, I take the floor, and I Myself speak about my Will operating in my love. Do you think that it is your confessor that speaks, in these evenings in which he is speaking in public about the nine excesses of my love? It is I who take his heart in my hands and make him speak.”
But while He was saying this, benediction was being given,
and Jesus added: “Daughter, I bless you; everything is happiness for Me when it comes to doing an act
of mine over one who possesses my Divine Will, because, if I bless you, my blessing finds the
space in which to place the goods and the effects which my blessing contains; if I love you, my love
finds in my Fiat, within you, the space in which to place itself and carry out its life of love.
Therefore, each thing I do over you, in you and with you, is a happiness that I feel, because I know that a
Divine Will has the place for everything I want to give you, and the virtue of multiplying the goods I
give you, because It is Our all-doer, and It occupies Itself with forming as many lives for as many
acts as We do with the creature in whom It reigns.”
After this, I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat and was
going again to the first times of Creation, to unite myself to the acts done by our father Adam in the
state of innocence, so as to unite myself with him and continue from where he left. And my beloved
Jesus, moving my interior, told me:
“My daughter, in creating man I gave a visible universe in
which he was to move freely and see the works of his Creator, done with so much order and harmony,
done for love of him, and, in this void, to also do his own works. And just as I gave a visible void,
so I gave an invisible void, even more beautiful, for his soul, in which man was to form his holy
works, his sun, his heavens, his stars; and echoing his Creator, he was to fill this void with all his
works. But since man descended from my Divine Will to live in his own, he lost the echo of his
Creator and the model with which to be able to copy Our works. Therefore, it can be said that in this void
there is nothing other than the first steps of man - all the rest is empty. Yet, it must be filled, and
this is why I await with so much love those who live and must live in my Will, who, feeling the power of
our echo and having Our models present to them, will hasten to fill this invisible void which I
gave with so much love in Creation. But do you know what this void is? It is Our Will. Just as I gave a
heaven, a sun, to man’s nature, so I gave the Heaven, the Sun of my Fiat to his soul. And when I see you
take your steps after the steps of Adam innocent, I say: ‘Finally, here is the void of my Divine
Will that begins to receive the first conquests and the first works of the creature.’ Therefore, be
attentive and continue always your flight in my Divine Volition.”
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