My Aim: To Transform You into Jesus

Mary

My beloved child, to whom I gave birth when giving birth to Jesus, in whom I see Jesus, and whom I love with the same love I have for Him, my First-born Son has taught you to be a son to me as He Himself was. I am going to be a mother to you as I was to Him.

2. Like Him, you have given yourself entirely to me. But I do not wish to keep you for myself alone: it is for Jesus and for you—for Jesus in you and in others—that I have called you to be my child of predilection. You cannot as yet understand all that I am telling you, but you will understand little by little.

3. First of all, I wish to take care of your education as I did for my Son Jesus. You are my child because you are one with Him, and so I shall still be rearing Him when I rear you.

4. Rearing you means teaching you to live fully the life of Jesus; it means making you think, love, will, speak, and act as He did; in a word, it means changing you into Him. It means bringing about in you a transformation similar to the transubstantiation which the priest operates in the Sacred Host: to the physical eye the host always appears as bread, but to the eye of faith it is Jesus! You also, exteriorly, will remain yourself, but interiorly, in a certain way you will be Jesus Himself.

5. Perhaps you think this ideal too sublime for you. Do not be dismayed: I have a thorough knowledge of the Model, and I know how to form souls to His likeness. All the saints have become saints through me. What I have done for others, can I not do for you? Only let me carry out my plans; on your part be docile to my word.

6. I am going to point out certain practices to aid you in this transformation. Apply yourself successively to them, and do not pass to the next until you have made a habit of the preceding one. Yet once you have adopted a practice, never give it up.

The Faithful Soul:
O my Mother—I—become a saint! I, wretched sinner, so blameworthy in the past, so lukewarm at present, so inconstant, I fear, in the future. . . .
But I surrender myself to you. You can work any miracle, you can even make me a saint. Obtain for me the grace of never resisting your wishes.