Oh Heart of Jesus

Jesus says to Josefa " I want you to burn with love of Me. I have already made it clear to you that you will find happiness nowhere but in My Heart. I want you to love me...I hunger for love...but I also want you to burn with desire to see Me loved, and this must be the one food of your soul"
Josefa told Jesus many endearing thing and He continued; Every day after Communion repeat with all the fervor of which you are capable:
"Heart of Jesus, may the whole world be set on fire with Thy Love"

Jesus explained to Josefa how to love enhances the smallest acts:
"When a soul does a costly act out of self-interest or to please herself, but not out of love, she gains little merit.
On the other hand, a very little thing offered with great love consoles My Heart so much that it inclines towards her, and forgets all her
worthlessness. Yes, My one desire is to be loved. If souls but knew the excess of My love they would not disregard it...that is why I go seeking them out and spare nothing to get them to come back to Me"
Josefa says Jesus said all of this in a very moving way; it was a veritable cry of Love.

"Much Blood poured from the wound in His Heart"

July 29th at 1PM
Jesus returned with His Cross. "I have come to make you share in the bitterness of My Heart, which is oppressed with sorrow"

Jesus gave Josefa His Cross, which at once plunged her whole being into the pain she already experienced these last 2 days.

"Much blood poured from the wound in His Heart" Jesus told her to repeat after Him
"Eternal Father,look upon souls reddened with the blood of Thy Son Jesus Christ, the Victim which is unceasingly offered Thee. Will this blood which purifies, burns and consumes, be powerful enough to touch these souls?

Jesus remained in silence for a few minutes. Josefa repeated the words several times; then He spoke with energy; "yes, I want them to return to Me. I want them to burn with love, while I am consumed for them with sorrowful "
Jesus added sadly "Ah, if souls only understood how ardently I desire to communicate Myself to them! But how few do understand...and how deeply this wounds My Heart"

Josefa writes "From 1-4pm I spent in offering His blood and all His merits to the Father, and in repeating the prayer He had taught me"

Feast of the Sacred Heart

Chapter 4 page 110
Concerning the souls of Three Priests and a sinner, and two Chosen Souls.

This was given to Josefa during the time of the Feast of the Sacred Heart June 1st-July 1921.
The Lord explains to Josefa the importance of the souls of His Priests and he gave her a prayer to say everyday.....

"You will repeat these words everyday"

"O Jesus, by Thy Love and glory all the priests of the world, all missionaries and those whose office it is to preach Thy Word, that on fire with holy zeal, they may snatch souls from the devil and lead them into the shelter of Thy Heart, where forever they may glorify Thee.
Amen"

Josefa never forgot that Feast of the Sacred Heart. She had witnessed the infinite joy of the Sacred Heart when His priests give Him all the love they owe Him.

The prayer He had taught her became her daily petition and priestly souls the first and biggest intention of her consecrated life.
A little secret note found only after her death proves that at this time Our Lord kept the thought of the missions constantly before her eyes.

page 107
Jesus says "My Heart takes comfort in forgiving, I have no greater desire, no greater joy, than when I can pardon a soul. When a soul returns to me after a fall, the comfort she gives Me is a gain for her, for I regard her with a very great love. Have no fear what so ever. As you are nothing but wretchedness, I wish to make use of you, I will supply for all your deficiencies....Let Me act in you"

A lesson from Our Lady

Our Lady gave Josefa a lesson
page 100

"My daughter, I will give you a lesson of very great importance; the devil is like a mad dog, but he is chained, that is to say, his liberty is curtailed. He can, therefore, only seize and devour his prey if you venture too near him, and that is why his actual tactics are to make himself appear as a lamb.
The soul does not realize this, and draws nearer and nearer, only to discover his malice when in his clutches. When he seems far away, do not relax your vigilance, child; his footsteps are padded and silent, that he may take you unawares"

Prayers given to Sister Josefa

You will be able to find the prayers given to Sister Josefa in the "Way of Divine Love"

Page 52
O Father, merciful and good, look upon thy child and her so entirely thine own, that she may lose herself in Thy Heart.
May her one desire, O Father be to accomplish Thy Holy Will.

Page 72
I will never again go back, O my God; I will suffer whatever Thou wilt, provide Thou dost never cast me out of Thy Heart.

Page 73
Jesus said "You console Me by saying that He answered with enthusiasm. I want nothing else from you.
You may be poor, but I am rich;feeble, but I am strong, but I ask you to never to refuse Me anything...
"Listen to My Heart beating....each beat is for a soul I am calling....I wait and wait in expectation of them.
If they heed me not, I will call again...I will wait for them with you. We shall suffer, but they will come, soon they will come.

Page 73
"I want you to offer yourself as a victim today and that your whole person may agonize for those souls; humble yourself and ask pardon.
I am with you"

Page 98
"I begged Him" she wrote on Thursday April 7th..."To teach me to humble myself and how to surrender myself in a way that pleases Him. I think He likes this prayer, for suddenly He came"
"You can humble yourself in various ways" He told me "First, by adoring the Divine Will,which in spite of your worthlessness, uses you to make known God's mercy.
Secondly, by thanking Me for having placed you in the Society of My Sacred Heart,though you have done nothing to merit it. Never complain of this"
"He impressed these words so deeply on my soul that I begged of Him no longer to remember my ingratitude, and I again told Him how much I wished to make amends for the pain I had given His Adorable Heart"
"You will comfort Me, Josefa, if you often repeat this prayer"
"O Divine Heart-Heart of my Beloved-the most tender and sensitive of all hearts, I give Thee thanks that in spite of my unworthiness Thou has deigned to choose me to spread the knowledge of Thy Mercy on souls"
Jesus said " Every time you say those words I place them in My Heart that they may become for you and for souls a new source of grace and mercy"

Sister Josefa journal notes in the beginning

I have read the Way of Divine Love once before and I am still in awe of how much Our Lord loves each of us and how we can please Him even in the most simple tasks as Sister Josefa did. I want to be able to impart at least some part of the lessons Our Lord and Our Lady taught Sister Josefa in the book. Sister Josefa detailed as much as she could in her journal which she was instructed by Our Lord to do. Sister Josefa was given many incredible gifts, spiritually and visually, that I will never truly comprehend. She also received many prayers to offer for the salvation of souls, comfort for Our Lord.

Josefa wrote in her journal "Jesus, I have but one desire-that the whole world may know Thee, but especially the souls of religious whom Thou hast chosen for Thy adorable Heart. If they know thee, they will love Thee, for Thou art the One and Only Good. Inflame me with Thy Love and that is enough for me....Inflame all hearts and this, too, will suffice, for where there is love, we run to Thee by the shortest way. As for myself, I ask only to love Thee daily more and more, only Thee! Everything else will be but a path to lead me to Thee. Would that I could bring the whole world to the Divine furnace of Thy Heart, even if it cost me my life. Jesus has given me such a thirst to make all men love Him that I am ready to offer all, to undertake all that costs me most, to please Him and obtain that others may know and love Him.
"I promised Him to do except what Holy Obedience prescribes, and I understand that it will please Him very much if I am simple and very open with Superiors, so as to allow to be guided as a little child" {pg31}