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December 25, 1926

How the little Baby made Himself seen, newly born, by His Mama.
The light that the Little Baby sent forth, that gave to everyone the
greeting of His coming upon earth. Difference between the grotto
and the prison of the Passion.

I was anxiously waiting for little Baby Jesus, and after many sighs,

finally He came; and throwing Himself as a little baby into my arms, He
said to me: “My daughter, do you want to see how My inseparable
Mama saw Me when I came out of Her maternal womb? Look at Me,
and see.”

I looked at Him, and I saw Him as a tiny little baby, of a rare and
enrapturing beauty. From the whole of His little Humanity, from His

eyes, from His mouth, from His hands and feet, came out most
refulgent rays of light, that not only enveloped Him, but extended so
much as to be able to wound each heart of creature, almost to give
them the first greeting of His coming upon earth he first knock, to knock

at the hearts, to have them open and ask for a shelter in them. That
knock was sweet but penetrating; however, being a knock of light, it
made no clamour, and yet it made itself heard strongly, more than any

sound.

So, on that night, all felt something unusual in their hearts, but very few

were those who opened their hearts to give Him a little accommodation.
And the tender Infant, in feeling Himself unrequited in His greeting, and
that no one was opening at His repeated knocking, began His crying

with His lips livid and shivering with cold; He sobbed, wailed and
sighed. But while the light that came out of Him was doing all this with
creatures, receiving the first rejections, with His Celestial Mama, as
soon as He came out of Her womb, He threw Himself into Her maternal

arms to give Her the first embrace, the first kiss.

And since His little arms could not reach to embrace Her completely,

the light that came out of His little hands surrounded all of Her, in such
a way that Mother and Son remained invested with the same light. Oh!
how the Queen Mama requited Her Son with Her embrace and kiss; in
such a way that They remained so clasped to each other as to seem

fused, one within the other. With Her love, She compensated for the

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