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long before Your creation;
the day when,
favouring your beloved,
You would call Your creation,
from the lowest to the highest,
to a day of espousals
with Your Divinity,
where in those days of festivity
You would share with them
a more intimate union,
embedded like a royal gem in You,
and where You would converse
with them in the interior
of their heart;
“in the tenderness of Your Heart
You had foreseen
that this divine union
would be only sweetness,
because You would be spending
Your time with them,
sharing their lives while still on earth
as You share Your splendour
with Your angels;
“may praise and thanks be given
to the adorable Trinity
for irrigating His flower beds,1
and for sending His light far and wide;
we give thanks to You, God,
as we recount Your marvels;
“in order to reach
the abyss of human frailty,
You left Your Throne
and laid aside Your royal Crown,2
to ornament Your creation
with an overflow of Your divine Love;
then, inebriated
with Your Love for them,
You gave Your Holy Spirit
who would draw them
into Your nuptial chamber3
and on Your matrimonial bed,4
1 It means: our souls.
2 Expression which means: God came down to reach
the level of His weak people.
3 Intimacy.
spontaneously
uniting themselves to You;
“O Holy Trinity,
Treasure of the saints
and of the angels;
once Your creation would be exalted
with Divine Love,
they would cry out to You:
‘Kyrie eleisson, Kyrie eleisson ...’
while You would be
whispering in their ear:
‘because you embraced impassability,
you found a spiritual vivification
in My embrace;’
“Giver of Life
and Dispenser of inestimable gifts,
You have, in Your tenderness,
summoned the poor
as well as the rich
to gather around Your Kingly table,
offering an imperial Banquet;
“glory be to the Most High,
Source of ineffable delights,
Fountain that makes the gardens fertile, 5
Well of Living Water,
Streams of faithful Love
flowing from Your Heart,
Lover of mankind,
Bridegroom of Your creation,
we adore You
and praise Your Holy Name
Thrice Holy;
amen;”
yes, Vassula, all heaven rejoices since in
Our gracious condescension We took
pity on this generation; Christ had said:
“if anyone loves Me, he will keep My
Word, and My Father will love him; and
We will come to him and make Our
abode with him;” 6 and so We will ....
4 Divine union in the Love of God.
5 Gardens fertile means: “souls who progress
spiritually”.
6 Jn. 14:23.
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