28 September
How it saddens my heart to see you shake every day for new and raging storms, but is much greater joy in my spirit to know with certainty that the fury of the waves you can, with special providence, the heavenly Father, to make like his beloved Son, chased and beaten to death, even death on a cross!
To the extent that your sufferings are great, it is the love that God offers. Those, my dear, will serve as the comparison of the love God has for you. The love of God will know them by this sign: the afflictions sent you. This signal is in your hands and is within reach of your intelligence; rejoice, for when the storm is raging, glad, I say, with the children of God, because this is the divine Bridegroom singular love towards you. Humble yourself before the divine majesty also, considering how many other souls in the world, more dignified and richest intellectual gifts and virtues, and they are certainly not treated with that singular love with which you are treated by God.
(September 19, 1914, to Raffaelina Cerase - Ep. II, p. 174)
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