If the soul gives to God the food of patient love, God will give her the sweet bread of grace.

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12)

Volume 6-April 14, 1904

I continue in my usual state, but always with immense bitterness in my soul because of the privation of blessed Jesus; at the most, He comes when I can take no more and after I have almost persuaded myself that He will come no more.
Then, I saw Him for just a little, carrying a chalice in His hand, and He told me: “My daughter, if in addition to the food of love you give Me the bread of your patience – because patient and suffering love is a more solid, more nourishing and fortifying food, for if love is not patient, it can be said that it is empty, light love and with no substance, and therefore it can be said that the necessary materials in order to form the bread of patience are lacking – …so, if you give Me this, I will give you the sweet bread of grace.”

Prayer Meditation- Lord, how hard it can be to be patient in our suffering and yet we know that love is patient (1 Corinthians 13) and You have asked us to love You with Your Love! Lord give us the sweet bread of Your Grace every day in Your Word and in the Sacrament, make our hears like unto thine!