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October 6, 1926

New martyrdom. One who does not do the Divine Will cuts off the
Divine Life within oneself. Luisa is deprived of the writings. Jesus
consoles her, showing her how everything is written in the depth
of her soul.

I was all immersed in the intense pain of the privation of my sweet

Jesus, and I said to myself: “My Jesus, how can You not have
compassion on this little daughter of Yours who, feeling without You,
feels life being snatched away from her. It is not just a pain that I feel,
that would be more bearable, but it is life itself that I feel missing in me.

I am little, I am weak; and if for nothing else, at least because of my
excessive littleness You should have had compassion on this poor little
one, who is almost in continuous act of feeling life missing in her, and of

taking it back only to feel herself dying again. My Jesus, my Love, what
kind of new martyrdom is this, never before felt? To die times upon
times, and yet, never dying; to feel life missing in me, without the sweet
hope of taking flight toward my Celestial Fatherland.”

Now, while I was thinking of this, my always lovable Jesus moved in my
interior, and with a tender tone, told me: “Little daughter of My Will,

courage; you are right that it is life that you feel missing in you,
because, being deprived of Me, you feel the Life of your Jesus missing
ending within you. And with reason, tiny little one as you are, you feel

the hard martyrdom of life ending in you. But you must know that My
Will is life, and every time creatures do not do It, and reject It, it is a
Divine Life that they reject and destroy within themselves. And do you

think that the pain, the continuous martyrdom of My Will is something
trivial in feeling so many acts of life that It wants to make arise in
creatures with so much goodness, being cut off from Itself as though by
a deadly sword? And in place of this Divine Life that was cut off within

them, they make arise the life of passions, of sin, of darkness, of
weaknesses.

“Not doing My Will is Divine Life that creatures lose. And this is why,
since It reigns in you, by depriving you of Me, It makes you feel the pain
of the many Divine Lives that creatures cut off from It, to be repaired
and compensated in you for the many acts of Life that they make It

lose. Don’t you know that in order to form the Kingdom of the Divine

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