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After this, I was thinking to myself: “Though the true children of the
Supreme Fiat will be happy and will abound with everything, yet, my

Queen Mama and Jesus Himself, who was the very Divine Will, were
poor on this low earth; they suffered the pains and the hardships of
poverty.”

And my sweet Jesus added: “My daughter, true poverty is when a
creature is in need one wants to take, but has nothing to take, and is

forced to ask others for a bare means of living. This poverty is of
necessity, and almost forced; instead, both in Me and in the Celestial
Mama, in whom there was all the fullness of the Eternal Fiat, it was not
poverty of necessity, and even less forced, but it was voluntary poverty,

spontaneous poverty, squeezed by the press of Divine Love. Everything
was Our own; at one wish of Ours, sumptuous palaces would have
been raised, and banquets prepared with foods never before seen and

tasted.

“And in fact, when it was needed, at a little wish of Ours, even the birds
served Us, bringing Us fruits, fish and other things in their beaks,

making feast because they were serving their Creator and their Queen.
With their trilling, singing and warbling, they played for Us the most
beautiful melodies; so much so, that in order not to attract the attention

of creatures with Our uniqueness, We had to command them to depart,
to continue their flight under the vault of the heavens where Our Will
was waiting for them; and, obedient, they would withdraw.

“Therefore, Our poverty was of love it was poverty of example, to teach
creatures detachment from the low things of the earth. It was not

poverty of necessity, nor could it be so, in an absolute way, because
wherever the fullness, the life of My Will reigns, all evils end as though
under one single blow, and they lose life.”

Then, since most Reverend Father Di Francia had heard that I was with
a fever, he let me know that, if I were in need, I could take whatever I
needed from the money he had left with me for one of his works.

And my lovable Jesus, on coming, almost smiling, said to me: “My
daughter, let Father know, in My name, that I thank him and I will
reward the goodness of his heart for the care he has for you. However,
let him know that the daughter of My Will has no need of anything, for

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