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to go into Their presence, so great was the Light, the Sanctity
of God. I am only saying this; the other things I will leave

out, because I remember them only confusedly.

After this, I remember that a few days passed and I
received Communion. I lost consciousness, and I saw, present

before me, the Most Holy Trinity whom I had seen in Heaven.
I immediately prostrated myself at Their presence, I adored

Them, I confessed my nothingness. I remember that I felt so
sunken into myself that I did not dare to utter a single word,
when a voice came out from Their midst, and said: “Do not
fear, pluck up courage, We have come to confirm you as Our

own, and to take possession of your heart.” While this voice
was saying this, I saw that the Most Holy Trinity descended
into my heart, and They took possession of it and there

They formed Their dwelling. Who can say the change that
occurred in me? I felt Divinized; it was no longer I who lived,
but They were Living in me. It seemed to me that my body
was like a residence, and that the Living God was residing in

it, because I could feel, sensibly, Their real presence in my
interior. I could hear Their voice clearly, coming out from
within my interior and resounding in the ears of my body. It

happened precisely as when there are people speaking inside
a room, and their voices can be heard, clearly and distinctly,
also outside.

From that moment on, I had no more need to go in search

of Him somewhere else in order to find Him, but I could find
Him there inside my heart. And when sometimes He would
hide and I would go in search of Jesus, wandering throughout
heaven and earth, searching for my highest and only Good,

while I would be in the heat of my tears, in the intensity of
my yearnings, amid the unutterable pains of having lost Him,
Jesus would come out from within my interior and say to me:

“I AM here with you, do not look for Me elsewhere.”
Between the surprise and the contentment at having

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