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Welcome, this is David Russell and Your Faith Anew, Daily Reflections Guiding You to Live in the Divine Will. Today's reflection is from the Book of Heaven by the servant of God Louisa Picaretta, july sixth, nineteen twenty two, volume fourteen. Let us begin in the will and name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, thank you for revealing the limitless love of your Son, who blesses all creation and desires to remain with us always in the Holy Eucharist. Open our hearts today to receive these gifts with gratitude and to return love for love by living faithfully in your divine will. May every breath, every prayer, and every action become a blessing offered back to you. We ask this through Christ our Lord, amen. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John, chapter six, verses fifty one through fifty eight. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me, and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph one three to four. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the church, namely Christ Himself, our pask. As we continue our journey through the Book of Heaven, may our hearts become ever more attentive to the gifts Jesus desires to share with those who seek to live in his divine will. Now, let us prayerfully enter today's passage from the Book of Heaven. Louisa writes I was thinking of Jesus and accompanying him in the hour of the passion when he went to his divine mamma to ask for her holy blessing, and my most sweet Jesus in my interior told me My daughter, before my passion I wanted to bless my mamma and be blessed by her. However, I did not bless only my mamma, but all creatures, and not only those which are animate, but also the inanimate. I saw the creatures weak, covered with wounds, poor. My heart had a throb of sorrow and of tender compassion, and I said poor humanity, how decayed you are. I want to bless you so that you may rise again from your decay. May my blessing impress in you the triple seal of the power, the wisdom, and the love of the three divine persons, and may it restore your strength, heal you and enrich you, and in order to surround you with defenses, I bless all things created by me, that you may receive them all blessed by me. I bless for you the light, the air, the fire, the food, so that you may remain as though submerged and covered by my blessings. But since you did not deserve this blessing, I wanted to bless my mamma, using her as channel through which my blessing might reach you. And just as my mama requited me with her blessings, I want creatures to requite me with their blessings. But alas, instead of repaying me blessings, they repay me with offenses and maldictions. Therefore, my daughter, enter into my will, and rising upon the wings of all created things, seal all of them with the blessings that all should give me, and bring the blessings of all to my sorrowful and tender heart. Then, after I did this, as though to repay me, he said to me, My beloved daughter, I bless you in a special way. I bless your heart, your mind, your motion, your word, your breath. I bless all of you and everything in you. After this, I continued with the other hours of the Passion, and while I was following the Eucharistic supper, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, and with the point of his finger, he knocked strongly within my interior, so much so that I heard him with my ears, and I said to myself, What may Jesus want that he is knocking? And he, calling me, told me it was not enough to knock for you to hear me, but also to call you so as to be listened to. Listen, my daughter, while I instituted the Eucharistic supper, I called everyone around me. I looked at all generations, from the first to the last man, in order to give my sacramental life to all, and not once, but as many times as they need food for their bodies. I wanted to constitute myself as food for the soul, and I felt very sad at seeing my sacramental life would be surrounded by scorn, by indifference, and even by ruthless death. I felt ill. I experienced all the grips of death of my sacramental life, so harrowing and repeated. Then I looked better. I made use of the power of my will, and I called around me the souls who would live in my will. Oh how happy I felt. I felt surrounded by these souls, whom the power of my will kept as those submerged, and for whom my will was the center of their lives. I saw my immensity in them, and I found myself well defended from all, and to them I entrusted my sacramental life. I deposited it in them, so that they would not only take care of it, but repay me for each consecrated host with one life of theirs. And this happens naturally, because my sacramental life is animated by my eternal will, and the life of these souls has the life of my will as its center. Therefore, my sacramental life is formed, my volition acting in me acts also in them, and I feel their life in my sacramental life. They multiply with me in each host, and I feel I am given life for life. Oh how I rejoiced in seeing you as the first one, you, whom called in a special way to form your life in my will. I made in you the first deposit of all my sacramental lives, and I entrusted you to the power and the immensity of the supreme volition, that they might render you capable of receiving this deposit. From that time you were present to me, and I constituted you as depository of my sacramental life, and in you all the other souls who would live in my will, I gave you primacy over all, and with reason, because my will is subject to no one, even over the apostles and the priests. In fact, if they consecrate me, however they do not remain as life together with me. On the contrary, they leave me alone and forgotten, not caring about me. While these souls would be life within my own life, inseparable from me. This is why I love you so much. It is my own will that I love in you. Today's passage reveals two remarkable expressions of the heart of Jesus his desire to bless every creature, and his longing to remain loved in the Holy Eucharist. Before beginning his passion, Jesus tells Louisa that he blessed not only his blessed mother, but all humanity, and even every element of creation. He desired that everything sustaining our lives, the light, the air, the food we receive would become channels carrying his blessing. Even while foreseeing humanity's rejection, he continued to pour himself out in generosity. This is the very nature of divine love. It never stops giving. Yet Jesus also reveals that he desires something in return. Not because he needs our blessings, but because love naturally seeks a response. He invites souls living in the divine will to gather the praise, thanksgiving, and blessings that every creature ought to offer and return them to his heart. In the divine will, we do not pray alone. Our acts become united with the eternal praise of Jesus Himself, embracing all creation. The second half of the reading draws us into the mystery of the Eucharist. At the Last Supper, Jesus already saw every tabernacle, every holy communion, every act of love, and every act of indifference that would follow throughout history. He experienced sorrow over being neglected, forgotten, and even profaned. But then his heart was consoled as he foresaw souls who would choose to live in his divine will. These souls would remain spiritually united with his Eucharistic life, accompanying him with continual acts of love, adoration, thanksgiving, and reparation, their lives would become living responses to his abiding presence. This reminds us that living in the divine will is not simply another devotion. It's allowing Jesus to continue his own perfect acts within us. Every holy communion can become an opportunity to let him love the Father, adore the Father, and bless all creation once again through our own lives. Today, let us renew a simple intention. Jesus, I want every blessing you have given me to return to you multiplied in love. Then whether we are working, praying, driving, or resting, we can unite every act with his divine will and spiritually accompany him in every tabernacle throughout the world. In this way, our ordinary day becomes an extraordinary gift of love to the Eucharistic heart of Jesus. Let us pray. Lord Jesus, thank you for blessing us before we ever knew how to bless you in return. Thank you for remaining with us in the Holy Eucharist and for inviting us to live so closely united with you that our lives become instruments of your own divine love. May your divine will reign within our hearts. Transform every thought, every word, every prayer, and every action into a blessing offered to the Father. Keep us close to you in every tabernacle throughout the world, offering you our love, our gratitude, and our faithful companionship. May your blessing restore us, strengthen us, and draw all souls into the embrace of your divine will. Amen. Thank you for joining your faith anew today. May today's reflection inspire you to receive every blessing from Jesus with gratitude and to return those blessings through a life lived completely in his divine will, especially in loving companionship with him in the Holy Eucharist. Until tomorrow, stay in his will and then let Jesus do.