The Feast Day for God the Father of All Mankind is celebrated the first Sunday in August

Book of Heaven: V33 – 2.10.34 – “My blessed daughter, for one who Lives in My Will, All times are hers. And I Love to Hear Repeated to Me by her what creatures have not done for Me, because with So Much Love I have Operated for them, as well as what they have done for Me. Therefore, one who Lives in My Will finds Creation in Act, and she, in the azure sky, in the refulgent sun, in the twinkling stars, gives Me her kisses, her filial love, and O! how content I AM that in So Many Created things I find the love, the kisses, the grateful act of My daughter. And I Convert All things for her into Joy, into Defense, and into her Property. O! how Beautiful it is to be Recognized, Loved, in those Same Works, because We have done them, because We have Loved.

“She finds the little epoch of innocent Adam, and together with him she gives Me his Innocent Embraces, his Chaste Kisses, his Love of Son. And I, O! how Happy I Feel because I See My Paternity Recognized, Loved, Honored. O! how Beautiful it is to Feel Myself Father, and as such feel Myself Loved by My children. And I Exchange My Kisses, My Paternal Embraces, and I Give to her as Right of her Property the Infinite Joy of My Paternity. What will I not give to My children after I have been Loved and Recognized as Father? Everything. I will not deny them Anything, and they will give Me the Right, the Joy, of My children.

“I do not know how to deny Anything to one who Lives in My Will; if I could do this, I would deny it to Myself. Therefore I Give Everything, and she Repeats for Me the Scenes of Giving Me Everything. Therefore, in It there are Exchanges of Works, Reciprocal Love that Forms Such Moving Scenes as to Form the Paradise of God and of the soul. O! thousands and thousands of times Blessed is one who Comes to Live in the Celestial Sojourn of My Will. (…)

“In fact, in Our Will the creature is the “True Queen.” Everything is hers, and she makes Us Such Surprises with Our Works, that it Enraptures Us and Forms Our Happiness, that the creature can Give to Us in Our Most Holy Will.”

V35 – 1.10.38 – “We love You, our Father Who art in the Heavens.  We love You, our Father Who dwells in our hearts…!”’

Fiat!

From the catechetical instructions by Saint John Mary Vianney, priest

The glorious duty of man: to pray and to love

—Saint John Mary Vianney, priest
Office of Readings, August 4

My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then, ought to be directed to where our treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. When one has a heart that is pure and united with God, he is given a kind of serenity and sweetness that makes him ecstatic, a light that surrounds him with marvelous brightness. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness allowed us to speak with him. Our prayer is incense that gives him the greatest pleasure.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun. . . .

Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God. There is no division in their hearts. O, how I love these noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette used to see our Lord and talk to him just as we talk to one another.

How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to the good God like this: “I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of you.” I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would ask with living faith and with a pure heart.