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me, it encouraged me in a word, the Lord acted with me
like a good father, whose child tries to deviate from the right

path, and he uses all the attentions and cares to hold him
back, so as to make of him his honour, his glory, his crown.
But, O! Lord, too ungrateful have I been with You.

So, from the beginning, the Divine Master began to strip
my heart of all creatures, and through an interior voice, He

would tell me: “I AM all that is Beautiful and that deserves
to be Loved. See, if you do not remove this little world that
surrounds you that is, thoughts of creatures, imagination I
cannot enter freely into your heart. This murmuring in

your mind is a hindrance to letting you hear My Voice more
clearly, to pouring My Graces, to truly enamouring you of Me.
Promise Me that you will be all Mine, and I Myself will put

My Hand in the work. You are right that you can do nothing.
Do not fear, I will do everything; give Me your will this is
enough for Me.”

This would happen mostly during Communion. So
I would promise Him to be all His own; I would ask His
forgiveness, for up to that point, I had not been so; I would

say to Him that I truly wanted to love Him, and I prayed
Him never to leave me alone again without Him. And the
voice would continue: “No, no I will be together with you,
observing all of your actions, your movements, your desires.”

So, I would feel Him upon me for the whole day; He
reprimanded me in everything. For example, if I let myself

be carried away in conversing a little too much with my
family, even of indifferent things which were not necessary,
the interior voice would tell me: “These discourses fill your
mind with things that do not belong to Me; they surround

your heart with dust, such as to make you feel My Grace as
weak, no longer alive. O please! Imitate Me when I was in
the house of Nazareth My Mind was occupied with nothing

but the Glory of the Father and the salvation of souls; My
Mouth uttered nothing but Holy Discourses. With My Words
I tried to repair for the offenses against the Father, to dart

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