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the body. So, everything is for the body: pleasures, comforts,

sumptuousness, luxury and the like. The soul is starving,
deprived of everything, and in many it is dead, as if they did not
have it. Now, it is justice that their bodies be deprived, so that

they may remember that they have a soul. But - oh, how hard
man is! His hardness forces Me to strike him more - who knows

whether he might soften under the blows.”

I felt my heart being tortured, and He: “You suffer very much in
seeing the world, as if it wanted to roll - and water and fire

spilling out of their boundaries, hurling themselves at man.
Therefore, let us withdraw together into your bed, and let us

pray together for the destiny of man. In my Will I will feel your
heart beating over the entire face of the earth, giving Me a

heartbeat for all, which will speak ‘love’. And as I strike the
creatures, your heartbeat will place itself in the way, so that the

blows may be less hard, and upon touching them, may bring
them the balm of my love and of yours.”

I remained very afflicted; more so since, as we withdrew, my

sweet Jesus hid in my interior, but so deep, that He almost
would not let Himself be felt any more. What pain! What

torment! The thought of the scourges terrorized me; His
privations gave me mortal pains. Now, in this state I tried to

fuse myself in the Holy Will of God, and I said:

‘My Love, in your Will what is Yours is mine; all created
things are mine. The sun is mine, and I give it to You in

return, so that all the light and heat of the sun, each drop

of its light and heat, may tell You that I love You, I adore
You, I bless You, I pray to You for all. The stars are mine,
and in every flickering of the stars I seal my ‘I love You’,

infinite and immense, for all. The plants, the flowers, the
water, the fire, the air, are mine, and I give them to You in

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