The Crown of Sanctity Quotes

“Though my 3-year-old understanding could not grasp it at the time, imprinted upon my soul nevertheless was the potency of a clear impression: the ugliness of life apart from the Will of God, and the beauty of a return to the same, no matter what had transpired in the ugly time.”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“It is a participation in the divine life in the sense that, for the eternal and supreme Being, nothing comes to an end: for him everything is present, since he himself does not come to an end and will never come to an end…”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“The Trinity of love is seeking souls on whom it can bestow its divine treasures. Infinite Goodness needs to give, to give itself. Few are those souls who abandon themselves totally to the sovereign will. If God is to pour a profusion of graces on a human soul, he must find Jesus living there. A soul is too finite to contain the ocean of infinite favors; but Jesus, the Illimitable, taking the place of what is limited, can satisfy in some way the immense desire of the heavenly Father. If a soul is to become an abyss, fit to be taken possession of by the Infinite, complete annihilation, in the spiritual sense, of what is human is essential; then, the substitution of Jesus for this human being and perfect continuing self-abandonment to the divine Agent. The adorable Trinity desires to pour out its treasures of mercy and love on Jesus substituted for my being. My gentle Master, taking my place, says to his Father, (still in silence, I find no other way to express it): Father, here I am to do your will. Father, the hour has come, let what you will be done in me.”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“God’s eternal mode of activity in the soul of the human creature is the same interior state enjoyed by the blessed in heaven”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“after Communion, I was concentrating on remaining closely united with him… I was taken by surprise… He said: “I want to deify you in the same way as I united My humanity with My divinity… The degree of holiness that I want for you, is the infinite plentitude of my own holiness, it is the holiness of my Father brought about in you through me.…”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“Events take place, succeed one another, around my physical being, but my soul is no longer involved with them. Jesus is in control of these events: he sees to everything, he takes care of everything. It is as if my soul no longer had any connection with my body. This grace which the Trinity of my God grants me with so much love is a foretaste of my participation in the divine life; I say a foretaste, because it is the state of the elect in heaven, yet I, in bodily form, am still on earth.”[391”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“The theologian Fr. Edward O’Connor writes: … Jesus told Blessed Dina Belanger of a gift of “Divine Substitution,” that He would bring about. He explained it thus: ... the greatest joy a soul can give Me is to let Me raise it to the Divinity. Yes, my little spouse, I feel an immense pleasure in transforming a soul into Myself, in deifying it, in absorbing it entirely in the Divinity ... I wish to absorb you, my little spouse, to such a degree that I shall exist in your place with all the Attributes and Perfection of my Divinity ... I wish to deify you in the same manner that I united my Humanity to my Divinity in the Incarnation ... The degree of holiness that I desire for you is my own Holiness, in its infinite plenitude, the Holiness of My Father realized in you by Me. (ST, vol. & no.1, p. 36)[390]”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta