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sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God
ourselves. Indeed, as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us,

so, through Christ, does our consolation overflow. When we
are made to suffer, it is for your consolation and salvation.
When, instead, we are comforted, this should be a
consolation to you, supporting you in patiently bearing the

same sufferings as we bear. And our hope for you is
confident, since we know that, sharing our sufferings, you
will also share our consolations.

We see in this passage the pattern of rounds. Just before it, 2
Cor 1:1-2, Paul has a little “preamble” where he states how he
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has been called by God and entered into closeness with God.
So too Luisa in the Book of heaven describes how before she
did rounds in prayer saw God in the distance and “travelled” to

His lap and then began rounds. For eg. Volume 17, 10 May
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1925 this passage also speaks of doing the rounds to fill the
voids in the Divine Will. The sincere desire to surrender your
will can perhaps been seen as “a preamble” to doing rounds.

Hence this is what an apostle is- one sent in God’s will. Then
you go doing the Divine Will rounds- taking it everywhere to fill
voids. These are places God’s Word is not in action. Jesus

filled this voids of “I love you’s” for us which we can now add to
as they are still suspended.

So rounds begin with a preamble prayer. I like to say the one
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mentioned above. The next principal is God cannot act
except for love of everyone and the quote below illustrates this
awareness in St Paul’s words 2 Corinthians 2:14-17:

Thanks be to God who, wherever he goes, makes us, in
Christ, partners of his triumph, and through us is spreading

the knowledge of himself, like a sweet smell, everywhere.
We are Christ’s incense to God for those who are being
saved and for those who are not; for the last, the smell of

death that leads to death, for the first the sweet smell of life
that leads to life. And who could be qualified for work like

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