My beloved child,
Let us bless our good God in all situations, in adversity as well as in prosperity for we can greatly profit from them both. Adelante! (Onward!) God will provide! Don’t be preoccupying yourself so much with your financial difficulties or worrying that your projects must be done promptly. Leave to our good Lord His part and He will make everything come out to your greatest advantage. Let us be submissive to Him with true joy and fulfill His most holy will. Either in abundance or in poverty, He will take care that we don’t die hungry and He will give us those things that are necessary because He loves us and is most powerful!
As for ourselves, we are in no financial condition to be building anything, as I have mentioned to you before, but Our Lord moves the hearts of people and without even asking, things begin to happen. Blessed be God! They’ve already urgently asked us to vacate the house and I’m afraid we won’t be able to rent another one. Pray for us, but don’t worry about us because God will provide. The sisters are in need of clothing and it is painful to read their letters expressing their lack of funds. God our Lord, in His infinite mercy, is permitting us to taste what poverty is. May He be blessed! He is permitting us the grace of experiencing real poverty, which has never before happened to us. No doubt He wants to see if I can even accept this joyfully to watch my daughters suffering horribly. The little ones (novices and postulants) tell me, “How good it is, Mother, that we are so poor, and we eat with ‘gusto’ (much enjoyment) whatever God gives us.” I just wrote one of the sisters, “I understand how poor you are and I share in your sorrow because you have nothing to eat.”
Yes, let us bless Our Lord because He has allowed us to become so very poor. No doubt this lack of even the necessary means of support will help us all to grow spiritually. All we have to do is gladly accept the privations and rigors that poverty brings us. I know that God will only allow what is more beneficial for us to happen.
I invite you to enter into the Heart of Our Lord. May He be your refuge and may we all find strength, life and happiness in Him. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be your dwelling. And may God our Lord help you in all your difficulties. For this is what I am asking of Him. May the most adorable and holy will of God be fulfilled in everything because whatever He permits is for the best. Let us love Him with all of our souls and ask Him for fidelity no matter how many tribulations He deigns to send us.
Pray that everything will happen according to God’s will. Let us place everything in His hands and He will remove all of the difficulties. Let it all be for God! In my opinion, we need prayer, clinging to Our Lord very strongly and trusting everything to Him.
So, what are we going to do? Pray that what happens will be for the best and let us go forward. We are in the hands of God and there is no better place we can be. Good-bye, my child, and receive a loving embrace from your mother who wishes to see you.
– Mother Luisita
