*(1) I was lamenting to my always lovable Jesus about His accustomed privations, and I said to Him: “My Love, what a continuous death! Every privation of Yours is a death that I feel, but a death so cruel and pitiless that, while it makes one feel the effects of death, it does not cause one to die. I do not understand how the goodness of Your Heart can endure seeing me suffer so many continuous deaths, and then still keep me alive.” And the blessed Jesus came for a short while, and pressing me to His Heart, He said to me:*
*(2) “My daughter, press yourself to My Heart and take life. You must know that the most satisfying, most pleasing, most powerful pain, which equals Me the most and can face Me, is the pain of My privation, because it is a divine pain. You must know that souls are so united with Me that they form many links joined together in My Humanity; and as souls are lost, they break these links, and I feel a pain from it as if one limb were torn from another. Now, who can join these rings together for Me? Who can weld them anew so as to make the break disappear? Who will be able to make them enter into Me once more to give them life?
The pains of My privation, because it is divine. My pain over the loss of souls is divine; the pain of the soul who does not see Me, does not feel Me, is divine; and since both are divine pains, they can kiss each other, unite, face each other, and have such power as to take the detached souls and unite them in My Humanity. My daughter, does My privation cost you much? Then, if it costs you, do not hold as useless a pain of such great cost. Just as I make a gift of it to you, do not keep it for yourself, but make it fly into the midst of the combatants and tear souls away from the midst of bullets and enclose them in Me; and as a lock and seal place your pain, and then make your pain travel throughout the world to fish for souls and lead them all back into Me; and as you feel the pains of My privations, so you will go placing the seal of new union.”*