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through hearts and draw them to My Love and primarily
My Mother and St. Joseph. In a word, everything called upon

God, everything was done for God, and everything referred
to Him. Why could you not do the same?”

I remained mute all confused. I tried to be alone as

much as I could; I confessed to Him my weakness, and I
asked for His Help and Grace to be able to do what He wanted,

because, by myself, I could do nothing but evil. If during
the day my mind was occupied with thinking about people I
loved, immediately He would reprimand me, telling me: “Is
this the love you have for Me? Who has ever loved you like

Me? Look, if you do not stop it, I will leave you.” At times
I felt myself being given such and so many bitter reproaches,
that I would do nothing but cry.

One morning in particular, after Communion, He gave
me a light so clear about the great Love He had for me, and
about the fickleness and inconstancy of creatures, that my

heart was so convinced as to be incapable, from that time on,
of loving anyone. He taught me the way how to love people
without detaching myself from Him that is, by looking at

creatures as images of God, in such a way that, if I received
good from creatures, I was to think that God alone was the
Prime Author of that good and that He had used the creature
in order to send it to me; so my heart would be bound more to

God. If then I received mortifications, I was to look at them
also as instruments in the hands of God for my sanctification;

so my heart would not remain huffy with my neighbour. In
this way, it happened that I would look at all creatures in God.
Whatever fault I might see in them, I would never lose esteem
for them. If they mocked me, I felt obliged, thinking that they

were allowing me to make more gains for my soul; if they
praised me, I received these praises with contempt, saying:
“Today this, tomorrow they may hate me,” considering their

inconstancy. In sum, my heart acquired such freedom, that I
myself cannot explain it.

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