A great responsibility for remaining on the path of salvation

August 27th
Oh! Beloved daughter of Jesus, if we were in our hand, we would always fall and never stand; Therefore, humble yourself before the very sweet thought of being in the divine arms of Jesus, who is the best of the fathers, like a little child in the maternal arms, and rest easy, convinced that you are taken where you will find the best benefit. What fear can there be when you are certain to be in such soft arms, and when our whole being is consecrated to God ?!
 (March 29, 1914, to Raffaelina Cerase - Ep. II, p. 60)


Our heavenly Father is, for all of us, that Father who has loved us first, and who will never stop loving us. our smallness, our destitution, our sin will never separate us from Him, but quite the opposite, all these hardships will make your sight, your gaze, your tenderness, your love and your mercy never stop contemplating us, since we are the ultimate work of his hands. It is necessary, therefore, that we repair this great and holy love that sustains us, that strengthens us and that floods us with joy and happiness. There are! What would happen to us if God left us of his hand? we would succumb instantly, we could not stand up, much less firm in the Faith. How much humility the soul must possess to recognize that its life depends solely and exclusively on that of God! and how beautiful it is to be able to recognize this magnificent gift! The result of this experience is to always hope to be in the arms of such a great good and holy Father God. The liberating experience of cradling ourselves in the arms of God is gradually filling us with sweetness, compassion and joy, but together with them, a great responsibility for remaining on the path of salvation, for the deep and objective desire of to convert more and more to the Lord, and to practice charity with others, by the way, one of the greatest charities, is to make others, our near and distant brothers, turn more and more to God. May they also experience this joy, this joy, this certainty of knowing themselves in the beloved arms of God, and therefore saved. Saved for love! Faced with this reality, there is nothing more than to correspond to such a magnificent gift, so that we can finally say of our Father God that he has always looked at us, caressed and loved as a father his little son. May this bring forth a hymn of thanksgiving and a commitment to continue manifesting to all of us this love that has loved us first.
Pue. August 27, 2019