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object:1.32 - Expounds these words of the Paternoster Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra. Describes how much is accomplished by those who repeat these words with full resolution and how well
the Lord rewards them for it.
book class:The Way of Perfection
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Now that our good Master has asked on our behalf, and has taught us ourselves to ask, for a
thing so precious that it includes all we can desire on earth, and has granted us the great favour of
making us His brethren, let us see what He desires us to give to His Father, and what He offers
Him on our behalf, and what He asks of us, for it is right that we should render Him some service
in return for such great favours. O good Jesus! Since Thou givest so little (little, that is to say, on
our behalf) how canst Thou ask [so much] for us? What we give is in itself nothing at all by
comparison with all that has been given us and with the greatness of Our Lord. But in truth, my
Lord, Thou dost not leave us with nothing to give and we give all that we can-I mean if we give
in the spirit of these words: "Thy will be done; as in Heaven, so on earth."
Thou didst well, O our good Master, to make this last petition, so that we may be able to
accomplish what Thou dost promise in our name. For truly, Lord, hadst Thou not done this, I do
not think it would have been possible for us to accomplish it. But, since Thy Father does what Thou
askest Him in granting us His Kingdom on earth, I know that we can truly fulfil Thy word by giving
what Thou dost promise in our name. For since my earth has now become Heaven, it will be possible

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"Thy will be done: as in Heaven, so on earth."

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for Thy will to be done in me. Otherwise, on an earth so wretched as mine, and so barren of fruit,
I know not, Lord, how it could be possible. It is a great thing that Thou dost offer.
When I think of this, it amuses me that there should be people who dare not ask the Lord for
trials, thinking that His sending them to them depends upon their asking for them! I am not referring
to those who omit to ask for them out of humility because they think themselves to be incapable
of bearing them, though for my own part I believe that He who gives them love enough to ask for
such a stern method of proving it will give them love enough to endure it. I should like to ask those
who are afraid to pray for trials lest they should at once be given them what they mean when they
beg the Lord to fulfil His will in them. Do they say this because everyone else says it and not
because they want it to be done? That would not be right, sisters. Remember that the good Jesus is
our Ambassador here, and that His desire has been to mediate between us and His Father at no
small cost to Himself: it would not be right for us to refuse to give what He promises and offers
on our behalf or to say nothing about it. Let me put it in another way. Consider, daughters, that,
whether we wish it or no, God's will must be done, and must be done both in Heaven and on earth.
Believe me, then, do as I suggest and make a virtue of necessity.
O my Lord, what a great comfort it is to me that Thou didst not entrust the fulfilment of Thy
will to one so wretched as I! Blessed be Thou for ever and let all things praise Thee. May Thy name
be for ever glorified. I should indeed have had to be good, Lord, if the fulfilment or non-fulfilment
of Thy will [in Heaven and on earth] were in my hands. But as it is, though my will is not yet free
from self-interest, I give it to Thee freely. For I have proved, by long experience, how much I gain
by leaving it freely in Thy hands. O friends, what a great gain is this-and how much we lose
through not fulfilling our promises to the Lord in the Paternoster, and giving Him what we offer
Him!
Before I tell you in what this gain consists, I will explain to you how much you are offering,
lest later you should exclaim that you had been deceived and had not understood what you were
saying. Do not behave like some religious among us, who do nothing but promise, and then excuse
ourselves for not fulfilling our promises by saying that we had not understood what we were
promising. That may well be true, for it is easy to say things and hard to put them into practice,
and anyone who thought that there was no more in the one than in the other certainly did not
understand. It seems very easy to say that we will surrender our will to someone, until we try it
and realize that it is the hardest thing we can do if we carry it out as we should. Our superiors do
not always treat us strictly when they see we are weak; and sometimes they treat both weak and
strong in the same way. That is not so with the Lord; He knows what each of us can bear, and,
when He sees that one of us is strong, He does not hesitate to fulfil His will in him.
So I want you to realize with Whom (as they say) you are dealing and what the good Jesus
offers on your behalf to the Father, and what you are giving Him when you pray that His will may
be done in you: it is nothing else than this that you are praying for. Do not fear that He will give
you riches or pleasures or great honours or any such earthly things; His love for you is not so poor
as that. And He sets a very high value on what you give Him and desires to recompense you for it

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since He gives you His Kingdom while you are still alive. Would you like to see how He treats
those who make this prayer from their hearts? Ask His glorious Son, Who made it thus in the
Garden. Think with what resolution and fullness of desire He prayed; and consider if the will of
God was not perfectly fulfilled in Him through the trials, sufferings, insults and persecutions which
He gave Him, until at last His life ended with death on a Cross.
So you see, daughters, what God gave to His best Beloved, and from that you can understand
what His will is. These, then, are His gifts in this world. He gives them in proportion to the love
which He bears us. He gives more to those whom He loves most, and less to those He loves least;
and He gives in accordance with the courage which He sees that each of us has and the love we
bear to His Majesty. When He sees a soul who loves Him greatly, He knows that soul can suffer
much for Him, whereas one who loves Him little will suffer little. For my own part, I believe that
love is the measure of our ability to bear crosses, whether great or small. So if you have this love,
sisters, try not to let the prayers you make to so great a Lord be words of mere politeness but brace
yourselves to suffer what His Majesty desires. For if you give Him your will in any other way, you
are just showing Him a jewel, making as if to give it to Him and begging Him to take it, and then,
when He puts out His hand to do so, taking it back and holding on to it tightly.
Such mockery is no fit treatment for One who endured so much for us. If for no other reason
than this, it would not be right to mock Him so often-and it is by no means seldom that we say
these words to Him in the Paternoster. Let us give Him once and for all the jewel which we have
so often undertaken to give Him. For the truth is that He gives it to us first so that we may give it
back to Him. Ah, my God! How well Jesus knows us and how much He thinks of our good! He did
not say we must surrender our wills to the Lord until we had been well paid for this small service.
It will be realized from this how much the Lord intends us to gain by rendering it to Him: even in
this life He begins to reward us for this, as I shall presently explain. Worldly people will do a great
deal if they sincerely resolve to fulfil the will of God. But you, daughters, must both say and act,
and give Him both words and deeds, as I really think we religious do. Yet sometimes not only do
we undertake to give God the jewel but we even put it into His hand and then take it back again.
We are so generous all of a sudden, and then we become so mean, that it would have been better
if we had stopped to think before giving.
The aim of all my advice to you in this book is that we should surrender ourselves wholly to
the Creator, place our will in His hands and detach ourselves from the creatures. As you will already
have understood how important this is, I will say no more about it, but I will tell you why our good
Master puts these words here. He knows how much we shall gain by rendering this service to His
Eternal Father. We are preparing ourselves for the time, which will come very soon, when we shall
find ourselves at the end of our journey and shall be drinking of living water from the fountain I
have described. Unless we make a total surrender of our will to the Lord, and put ourselves in His
hands so that He may do in all things what is best for us in accordance with His will, He will never
allow us to drink of it. This is the perfect contemplation of which you asked me to write to you.

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In this matter, as I have already said, we can do nothing of ourselves, either by working hard
or by making plans, nor is it needful that we should. For everything else hinders and prevents us
from saying [with real resolution], "Fiat voluntas tua": that is, may the Lord fulfil His will in me,
in every way and manner which Thou, my Lord, desirest. If Thou wilt do this by means of trials,
give me strength and let them come. If by means of persecutions and sickness and dishonour and
need, here I am, my Father, I will not turn my face away from Thee nor have I the right to turn my
back upon them. For Thy Son gave Thee this will of mine in the name of us all and it is not right
that I for my part should fail. Do Thou grant me the grace of bestowing on me Thy Kingdom so
that I may do Thy will, since He has asked this of me. Dispose of me as of that which is Thine own,
in accordance with Thy will.
Oh, my sisters, what power this gift has! If it be made with due resolution, it cannot fail to draw
the Almighty to become one with our lowliness and to transform us into Himself and to effect a
union between the Creator and the creature. Ask yourselves if that will not be a rich reward for
you, and if you have not a good Master. For, knowing how the good will of His Father is to be
gained, He teaches us how and by what means we must serve Him.
The more resolute we are in soul and the more we show Him by our actions that the words we
use to Him are not words of mere politeness, the more and more does Our Lord draw us to Himself
and raise us above all petty earthly things, and above ourselves, in order to prepare us to receive
great favours from Him, for His rewards for our service will not end with this life. So much does
He value this service of ours that we do not know for what more we can ask, while His Majesty
never wearies of giving. Not content with having made this soul one with Himself, through uniting
it to Himself, He begins to cherish it, to reveal secrets to it, to rejoice in its understanding of what
it has gained and in the knowledge which it has of all He has yet to give it. He causes it gradually
to lose its exterior senses so that nothing may occupy it. This we call rapture. He begins to make
such a friend of the soul that not only does He restore its will to it but He gives it His own also.
For, now that He is making a friend of it, He is glad to allow it to rule with Him, as we say, turn
and turn about. So He does what the soul asks of Him, just as the soul does what He commands,
only in a much better way, since He is all-powerful and can do whatever He desires, and His desire
never comes to an end.
But the poor soul, despite its desires, is often unable to do all it would like, nor can it do anything
at all unless it is given the power. 115And so it grows richer and richer; and the more it serves, the
greater becomes its debt; and often, growing weary of finding itself subjected to all the
inconveniences and impediments and bonds which it has to endure while it is in the prison of this
body, it would gladly pay something of what it owes, for it is quite worn out. But even if we do all
that is in us, how can we repay God, since, as I say, we have nothing to give save what we have
first received? We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can-namely, surrender our
will and fulfil God's will in us. Anything else must be a hindrance to the soul which the Lord has

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brought to this state. It causes it, not profit, but harm, for nothing but humility is of any use here,
and this is not acquired by the understanding but by a clear perception of the truth, which
comprehends in one moment what could not be attained over a long period by the labour of the
imagination -namely, that we are nothing and that God is infinitely great.
I will give you one piece of advice: do not suppose that you can reach this state by your own
effort or diligence; that would be too much to expect. On the contrary, you would turn what devotion
you had quite cold. You must practise simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which
achieve everything. You must say: "Fiat voluntas tua."



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