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Day Thirteen

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will departs for

the Temple and gives example of total Triumph in the Sacrifice.

The soul to the Triumphant Queen: Celestial Mama, today I come to
prostrate myself before You, to ask for your invincible strength in all my

pains; and You know how my heart is filled with them, to the point of
feeling drowned with pains. O please! if You love so much to act as my

Mother, take my heart in your hands and pour into it the love, the grace

and the strength to triumph in my pains, and to convert them all into
Divine Will.

Lesson of the Triumphant Queen:

My child, courage, do not fear; your Mama is all for you, and today I

was waiting for you so that my heroism and my triumph in the sacrifice
may infuse in you strength and courage, that I may see my child

triumphant in her pains, with the heroism of bearing them with love and

in order to do the Divine Will.

Now, my child, listen to Me: I had just turned three years old when my
parents made known to Me that they wanted to consecrate Me to the

Lord in the Temple. My heart rejoiced in hearing this that is,

consecrating Myself and spending my years in the house of God. But
beneath my joy there was a sorrow a privation of the dearest persons

one can have on earth, which were my dear parents. I was little, I

needed their maternal cares; I was depriving Myself of the presence of
two great saints. Moreover, I saw that as the day approached on which

they were to deprive themselves of Me, who rendered their lives full of
joy and of happiness, they felt such bitterness as to feel themselves

dying. But, though suffering, they were disposed to make the heroic act

of taking Me to the Lord.

My parents loved Me in the order of God, and considered Me a great
gift, given to them by the Lord; and this gave them the strength to make

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