Week 2 - Night Prayer - Day of the Passion

G. Oh God, come to reign in us.

E. Lord, let your Will come quickly.

Glory be to the Father…..

HYMN Vol. XII, April 8, 1918

Oh, how the living in your Divine Will
is to enter into the realm of eternity;
it is to penetrate
into the all-powerfulness of God,
into the uncreated mind – and disappear!

It is to take part in each divine act
and to enjoy all of the divine qualities,
as much as a creature can!

It is to take everything
and to give everything to everyone;
it is that extending oneself
into everything and everyone,
without ever becoming exhausted!

It is the holiness that is still unknown,
that will put the final ornament on man-
the brightest and the most beautiful-,
and which will be the fulfillment
and the crown of all!

It is to take the divine love of the Father,
and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, as one’s own,
and give it to them and to everyone! Amen.

Ant. It is the little acts put together that form holiness.

Psalm Vol. XI, January 10, 1917

My child, holiness is formed of little things;
so, whoever disregards little things
cannot he holy.

It would be like someone who neglects
the little grains of wheat which, taken together,
form the pile of wheat.

By failing to gather them
he would lack the necessary and daily
nourishment of human life.

Similarly, whoever does not apply himself
to gathering together so many little acts,
would lack the nourishment of holiness.

And just as one cannot live without nourishment,
so too, without the nourishment of the little acts,
he would lack the true form of holiness,
and the sufficient mass to form holiness.

Glory be to the Father….

Ant. It is the little acts put together that form holiness.

SHORT READING Vol. XI, February 28, 1912

“My child, those who love me are united to me as the branches of a tree are united to the trunk. Could there ever be any separation, any forgetting each other, or different nourishment for the branches and the trunk? Their life is one, their purpose is one, their fruits are the very same. What is more, the trunk is the life of the branches and the branches are the glory of the trunk; they are both one and the same. This is how the souls that love me are with me.”

RESPONSORIAL Vol. XI, February 24, 1912

G. The soul that lives in my Will *loses its own temperament and acquires
mine.

E. The soul that lives in my Will *loses its own temperament and acquires
mine.

G. One notices in it a pleasant, attractive, penetrating, noble temperament
and a child-like simplicity.

E. *loses its own temperament and acquires mine.

G. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

E. The soul that lives in my Will *loses its own temperament and acquires
mine.

Ant. Blessed is the soul that lives in the Divine Will; all generations will call it blessed!

Canticle (Spiritual testament of Luisa)

Ant. Blessed is the soul that lives in the Divine Will; all generations will call it blessed!

PRAYER
Merciful Father, by the most precious blood of Jesus, his wounds, his passion and all that he did and suffered for us, we beseech you for the salvation of all souls and for the extension of the Kingdom of your Divine Will on earth.
Amen.

May the Lord put an end to the night of the human will, and let us rest in the divine. Amen.