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daughter to make my little visits to my Divine Family which, more than

Father, belonged to Me. But what was not my surprise when in one of
these visits of mine They made known to Me that it was Their Will for

Me to leave the Temple; first, to unite Myself in bond of marriage,

according to the custom of those times, to a holy man called Joseph;
and to withdraw together with him to live in the house of Nazareth.

My child, in this step of my life, in appearance it seemed that God

wanted to put Me in a trial. I had never loved anyone in the world, and

since the Divine Will extended through my whole being, my human will
never had one act of life; therefore, the seed of human love was

missing in Me. How could I love a man in the human order, as great a
saint as he might be? It is true that I loved everyone, and that my love

toward all was so great, that my love of Mother had inscribed them in

my maternal Heart, one by one, with indelible characters of fire. But this
was all in the order of divine love; and human love, compared to the

divine, can be called shadows, shadings atoms of love. Yet, my child,

that which in appearance seemed to be a trial and as though strange for
the sanctity of my life, God used in an admirable way in order to fulfil

His designs, and to grant Me the grace which I so much longed for that

is, the descent of the Word upon earth. God gave Me the safeguard, the
defence, the help, so that no one could talk about Me about my

honesty. Saint Joseph was to be the co-operator, the tutor, who was to
take care of that bit of the human which We needed; as well as the

shadow of the Celestial Paternity, in which our little Celestial Family on

earth was to be formed.

So, in spite of my surprise, immediately I said: “Fiat”, knowing that the
Divine Will would not harm Me, or prejudice my sanctity. Oh! had I

wanted to put in one act of my human will, even in the aspect of wanting

to know no man, I would have sent to ruin the plans of the coming of the
Word upon earth. Therefore, it is not the diversity of states that

prejudices sanctity, but the lack of Divine Will, and of the fulfilment of

one’s duties to which God calls the creature. All states are holy,

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