HAVE FAITH IN THE WORK OF LOVE
O, my consecrated ones, have faith in the work of Love that cannot help but be interested in you at every moment! Work that is mercifully care-giving in everything, that wants to keep each and every one of you at the breast!
If too many souls do not move forward, do not ascend, or at least do so too slowly, it's because they are focused on themselves and lack lively faith in this tireless, transforming action of Mine in them!
 For my Love always works in you to find a place, an ever larger place to the point of absolute sovereignty, whether by dilating your heart through consolations of merciful sweetness, or by hollowing you out through the merciful rigors of suffering!
If souls only knew, only comprehended the grace, the signal favor that I do for them when I work in them through suffering, whatever form it takes, when I burrow in and purify them! For my Love only digs out that It may fill in, that It may pour Itself headlong into the deep hole It has made so as to be able to splash back up higher, to the heights of the Father's house, in waves of praise and most pure, loving gratitude.
The more I dig out, the more I fill in.
Meditate on this well, my consecrated ones, you about whom I dream so tenderly of filling with Myself.
To let yourself be hollowed out is to let yourself be filled in, by a Love that is as deep as the dug-out hole is deep; the deep attracting the deep.
I choose my mode of action for each soul, burrowing into it as I have just been telling you, or by dilating it so that here too I can fill it with Myself. And if it pleases Me I vary the mode! But whether the phase is more austere or more gentle, on my part it is always a phase of infinite tenderness, for divine Wisdom knows infallibly the best path for each, the best treatment.
Therefore I insist once again:
Believe in the incessant work of Love: and also, Believe in the best path that Love has chosen for each one in accord with its special plan. And to this I add: Cooperate with the work of Love, for It can only fully act if you allow It to have absolute latitude in all that It wishes.
How is this done? By a spirit of unbroken oblation, of disregard for yourself to the point where you are no longer able to disregard Me! Do they not go together? Can my Love disregard any one of you?
Not being able to get along without each other is the essence of intimacy, of the Spouse's true love for his beloved; this profound love that I beg of you from the depths of my Heart that wants you so much!
For what would my Love be doing if not to make true co-redemptive souls such as my appeal so earnestly asks for. And my work of choice, what can it be if not to fashion for Myself souls that are hosts?
Oh, that each consecrated soul would believe and understand this, saying to itself in each little difficulty and most especially in each trial: This is love, the mercifully jealous love of my Savior Who is working on me to make me more His, and thus peacefully, courageously, the soul allows this work in the suppleness and gentleness of a profound attachment of love.
Oh, if only everyone would believe in this incessant work, in all that takes place, in all the things I make happen, if only everyone would surrender to it fully, what dreamed of masterwork would not be accomplished for the glory of my Father?
And those among you who by your apostolate have the most sublime mission of all (do all of you really think about this sublimity?) to be mother of souls, getting souls to know and understand this work of my Love in them, helping them by your counsel to correspond to that work and thus be my faithful and ardent collaborators, for all of this I entreat you.
