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Day Twenty Three (a)[5]

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Here

sounds the First Hour of Sorrow. Heroism in submitting the Infant
Jesus to the Harsh Cut of Circumcision.

The soul to her Celestial Mother: Divine Mama, your love calls me

powerfully to You, because You want to let me share in your joys and in
your sorrows, to enclose them in my heart as pledge of your love and of

that of little Baby Jesus, that I may comprehend how much You have

loved me, and how obliged I am to imitate You, keeping the model of
your lives to make a perfect copy of them. And You, holy Mama, help

me, that I may be able to imitate You.

Lesson of the Queen of Heaven:

Dearest child, how I long for your company, to tell you our story of love
and of sorrow. Company renders joys more sweet, tender and dear,

and sorrow is mitigated and compensated by the company of the one

who loves us.

Now, you must know that only eight days had passed from the birth of
the Divine Infant. Everything was feast and happiness; the very

Creation, taking a festive attitude, celebrated the Baby Creator. But duty

interrupted our joys, because in those times there was a law that all
firstborn sons were to undergo the harsh cut of circumcision. My Heart

of Mother bled with sorrow in having to submit my dear Son, my Life,

my own Creator, to such a bitter pain. Oh! how I would have wanted to
take His place. But the Supreme Volition imposed Itself on my love, and

giving Me heroism, commanded Me to circumcise the Child God. My
child, you cannot comprehend how much it cost Me; but the Divine Fiat

won, and I obeyed, united with Saint Joseph. In mutual agreement, we

had my dear Son circumcised. At the painful cut, I felt my Heart being
torn, and I cried. Saint Joseph cried, and my dear Baby sobbed, and

His pain was such that He shivered, and looking at me, He sought help

in Me. What an hour of pain and of spasm for the three of us. It was

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