The Apostle speaks:
"John to little John. After the Master and the Mother, I too shall speak and give you a spiritual lesson.
To be among the spiritually loved, you have to do what I did through the Inspiriation of the Holy Spirit. Absolute fidelity which accepts everything without hesitation and without discussion. Purity of spirit, of mind, of body. Heroic Charity.
Sometimes God subjects us to trials that are simply testing the quality of the gold of our souls. We are destined to live in this Home which I now possess near my God. But if one has even the slightest amalgam of impurity in his soul, he cannot enter here. Trials help to strip us of whatever is impure in us, and to change our spirit into Quartz without slag.
Fidelity enables us to endure these trials without damage to our faith and to our love.
I always believed in the Master, always accepted everything from Him. I wanted promptly whatever He wanted from me. I cancelled my own will and my human reason, which I burned as victims on an Altar, in order to become a host worthy of Christ. I did not want anything of that which was mine. I asked all from my Master: a new heart, a new mind, a new character. That all would be His, and all in His service.
I made my natural purity cleaner than an Angelic lily, by soaking it in love for my Master. It is not difficult to be an Angel, when our wings rest on Christ's Heart. And to become Seraphims for whose love there are no more secrets, it is the natural consequence for those who become engaged with Love Incarnate. One has to contract this spiritual Marriage, and avoid at all costs to know the horror of mystical adultry.
Charity is our Salvation because It makes holy and takes us into Its sublime Vortex; and it pardons those things that our flesh, against our will, commits; because the flesh is a rebellious weight, which always longs for earthly things, while the spirit, already attracted by Heavenly Things, longs for and rises up in adorations of God.
My word to you, disciple, is the same as the one I said to the disciples of long ago:
Love! From love comes Light, comes Life, comes Hope, comes Faith, comes constancy, strength, justice. Everything comes from Love. He who possesses Love possesses the Spirit of God. And he who possesses the Spirit, has in himself the Seven Fountains that cancel the seven sins that block the Life in God."
In the Darkness which now dominates, carry, the Light of the world, which is burning inside you. Through that Light you will obtain the Possession of Heaven."
(Notebooks, pp. 699-700, December 27th, 1943)
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] At any rate..yes I received real flowers from my husband and some cards from the kids..