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Jesus-Eucharist, Immortal God,<br />

Who dwell <strong>in</strong> <strong>my</strong> heart without cease,<br />

When I possess You, death itself can do me no harm,<br />

Love tells me that I will see You at life‟s end.<br />

Permeated by Your <strong>div<strong>in</strong>e</strong> life,<br />

I gaze with assurance at the heavens thrown open for me,<br />

And death will shame-facedly go away, empty-handed,<br />

For Your <strong>div<strong>in</strong>e</strong> life is conta<strong>in</strong>ed with<strong>in</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>soul</strong>.<br />

And although by Your holy will, O Lord,<br />

Death is to touch <strong>my</strong> body,<br />

I want this dissolution to come as quickly as possible,<br />

For through it I am enter<strong>in</strong>g eternal life.<br />

Jesus-Eucharist, life of <strong>my</strong> <strong>soul</strong>,<br />

You have raised me up to the eternal spheres,<br />

And this, by Your agony and death midst terrible tortures.<br />

(34) 26 [November 1937].<br />

1394 Monthly one-day retreat.<br />

In the course of this retreat, the Lord has given me the light to know His will more<br />

profoundly and to abandon <strong>my</strong>self completely to the holy will of God. This light has<br />

confirmed me <strong>in</strong> profound peace, mak<strong>in</strong>g me understand that I should fear noth<strong>in</strong>g<br />

except s<strong>in</strong>. Whatever God sends me, I accept with complete submission to His holy<br />

will. Wherever He puts me, I will try faithfully to do His holy will, as well as His wishes,<br />

to the extent of <strong>my</strong> power to do so, even if the will of God were to be as hard and<br />

difficult for me as was the will of the Heavenly Father to His Son, as He prayed <strong>in</strong> the<br />

Garden of Olives. I have come to see that if the will of the Heavenly Father was fulfilled<br />

<strong>in</strong> this way <strong>in</strong> His well-beloved Son, it will be fulfilled <strong>in</strong> us <strong>in</strong> exactly the same way: by<br />

suffer<strong>in</strong>g, persecution, abuse, disgrace. It is through all this that <strong>my</strong> <strong>soul</strong> becomes like<br />

unto Jesus. And the greater the suffer<strong>in</strong>gs, the more I see that I am becom<strong>in</strong>g like<br />

Jesus. This is the surest way. If some other way were better, Jesus would have shown<br />

it to me. Suffer<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> no way (35) take away <strong>my</strong> peace. On the other hand, although I<br />

enjoy profound peace, that peace does not lessen <strong>my</strong> experience of suffer<strong>in</strong>g. Although<br />

<strong>my</strong> face is often bowed to the ground and <strong>my</strong> tears flow profusely, at the same time <strong>my</strong><br />

<strong>soul</strong> is filled with profound peace and happ<strong>in</strong>ess…..<br />

1395 I want to hide <strong>my</strong>self <strong>in</strong> Your Most Merciful Heart as a dewdrop does <strong>in</strong> a flower<br />

blossom. Enclose me <strong>in</strong> this blossom aga<strong>in</strong>st the frost of the world. No one can<br />

conceive the happ<strong>in</strong>ess which <strong>my</strong> heart enjoys <strong>in</strong> its solitude, alone with God.<br />

1396 Today I heard a voice <strong>in</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>soul</strong>: Oh, if s<strong>in</strong>ners knew My <strong>mercy</strong>, they would not<br />

perish <strong>in</strong> such great numbers. Tell s<strong>in</strong>ful <strong>soul</strong>s not to be afraid to approach Me;<br />

speak to them of My great <strong>mercy</strong>.<br />

1397 The Lord said to me, The loss of each <strong>soul</strong> plunges Me <strong>in</strong>to mortal sadness. You<br />

always console Me when you (36) pray for s<strong>in</strong>ners. The prayer most pleas<strong>in</strong>g to<br />

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