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December 12, 1926

Lament of Jesus in His Passion, in seeing His garments being
divided, and lots drawn for His tunic. How Adam, before sinning,
was clothed with light, and as he sinned, he felt the need to cover
himself.

I was doing my usual acts in the Supreme Fiat, and my adored Jesus

came out from within my interior and told me: “My daughter, in My
Passion there is a lament of Mine that came out with immense sorrow
from the depth of My tormented Heart: ‘They divided My garments and
drew lots for My tunic.’ How painful it was for Me to see My garments

being divided among My very executioners, and My tunic being
gambled away. It was the only object I possessed, given to Me, with so
much love, by My sorrowful Mama; and now, they not only stripped Me

of it, but they made of it a game.

“But do you know who pierced Me the most? In those garments, Adam
became present to Me, clothed with the garment of innocence and

covered with the indivisible tunic of My Supreme Will. In creating him,
the uncreated Wisdom acted as more than a most loving mother; more
than with a tunic, It clothed him with the unending light of My Will a

garment that is not subject to being either disarranged, or divided, or
consumed; a garment that was to serve man in order to preserve the
Image of his Creator and the gifts received from Him, and that was to

render him admirable and holy in all his things. Not only this, but It
covered him with the over garment of innocence. And Adam, in Eden,
with his passions divided the garments of innocence, and he gambled

away the tunic of My Will a garment that is incomparable and of radiant
light.

“What Adam did in Eden was repeated under My eyes on Mount

Calvary. In seeing My garments being divided and My tunic gambled
away symbol of the royal garment given to man, My sorrow was so
intense that I made of it a lament. It became present to Me when

creatures, in doing their own will, make a game of Mine, and the so
many times in which they divide the garment of innocence with their
passions. All goods are enclosed in man by virtue of this royal garment
of the Divine Will; once this is gambled away, he remains uncovered, he

loses all goods, because he lacks the garment that kept them enclosed

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