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And He, benignly, instructing me, would say:
“You were wrong in being so disturbed. Don’t

you know that I AM Spirit of Peace, and the first thing I
recommend is that you do not perturb the Peace of the heart?
When in prayer you are not able to recollect yourself, I do not
want you to think of this or that of how it is and how it is

not because by doing so, you yourself call the distraction.

Instead, when you find yourself in that state, the first thing
is to humble yourself, confessing yourself as deserving of
those pains, placing yourself in the arms of the executioner,
like a humble little lamb that, while he kills it, licks his

hand. So you while seeing yourself beaten, disheartened,
alone, you will resign yourself to My Holy Dispositions,
you will thank Me wholeheartedly, you will kiss that hand

of Mine that strikes you, recognizing yourself unworthy of
those pains. Then, you will offer to Me those bitternesses,
anguishes, tediums, praying Me to accept them as a sacrifice
of Praise, of Satisfaction for your sins, of Reparation for the

offenses that they give Me. By doing so, your prayer will
ascend before My Throne as most fragrant incense; it will
wound My Heart, and you will draw new Graces and new

Charisms upon yourself. In seeing you humble and resigned,
all sunken into your nothingness, the devil will not have the
strength to get close. And here is how, where you thought
you were losing, you will make great gains.

“With regard to Communion, I do not want you to

afflict yourself because you are not able to stay there; know
that this is a shadow of the pains I suffered in Gethsemani.
What will happen when I make you share in the scourges,
the thorns and the nails? The thought of greater pains will

make you suffer the minor pains with more courage. So,
when during Communion you find yourself alone, agonizing,
think that I want you a little bit as company in My Agony in

the Garden. Therefore, place yourself near Me, and make a
comparison between your pains and Mine: see, you alone
and without Me; and I too alone, abandoned by My most

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