Powerful devotion: the act of love for Jesus

The act of Love makes you appreciate every moment of this earthly life to the maximum, making you observe the First and Maximum Commandments: LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR MIND, WITH ALL YOURS STRENGTH. "(Words of Jesus to Sister Consolata Betrone).

Maria Consolata Betrone was born in Saluzzo (Cn) on April 6, 1903.

After the militancy in the Catholic Action, in 1929 he entered the Capuchin Poor Clares of Turin with the name of Maria Consolata. She was a cook, concierge, slipper and also secretary. Transferred in 1939 to the new monastery of Moriondo di Moncalieri (To) and favored by visions and locutions from Jesus, it was consumed for the conversion of sinners and the recovery of consecrated persons on July 18, 1946. The process began on February 8, 1995 for his beatification.

This nun made a sentence that felt the mission of her life in her heart:

"Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls"

From the diary of Sister Consolata, these talks that she had with Jesus and that best help understand this invocation were taken:

"I do not ask you this: an act of continuous love, Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls". (1930)

“Tell me, Consolata, what most beautiful prayer can you give me? "Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls". (1935)

“I thirst for your act of love! Consolata, love me so much, love me alone, always love me! I thirst for love, but for total love, for hearts not divided. Love me for everyone and for every human heart that exists ... I am so thirsty for love .... You quench my thirst .... You can .... You want it! Courage and go on! " (1935)

“Do you know why I don't allow you so many vocal prayers? Because the act of love is more fruitful. A "Jesus I love you" repairs a thousand blasphemies. Remember that a perfect act of love decides the eternal salvation of a soul. So have remorse in losing only one "Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls". (1935)

Jesus expressed his joy at the invocation "Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls". It is the consoling promise repeated many times in the writings of Sister Consolata invited by Jesus to intensify and offer his act of love: “Do not waste time because every act of love represents a soul. Of all the gifts, the greatest gift you can offer me is a day full of love. "

And another time, on October 15, 1934: “I have rights over you Consolata! And for this I desire an unceasing "Jesus, Mary, I love you, save souls" from when you get up in the morning to when you lie down in the evening ".

Even more explicit Jesus explains to his Consolata that the invocation in favor of souls, contained in the formula of the incessant act of love, extends to all souls: "Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls" includes everything: souls of Purgatory as those of the militant Church; the innocent and guilty soul; the dying, the atheists, etc. "

For many years Sister Consolata had prayed for the conversion of one of her brothers, Nicola. In June 1936 Jesus confides in her: "Every act of love attracts fidelity in you, because it attracts Me who am faithfulness ... Remember it, Consolata, that I have given you Nicola and I will give you your" Brothers "only for the unceasing act of love ... because it is the love that I want from My creatures ... ". The act of love that Jesus wants is a true song of love, it is an inner act of the mind that thinks of loving and of the heart it loves. The formula "Jesus, Mary I love you, save souls!" it simply wants to be a help.

"And, if a creature of good will, will want to love me, and will make of his life a single act of love, from when he gets up to when he falls asleep, (with the heart of course) I will do madness for this soul ... I thirst for love, I thirst to be loved by My creatures. Souls to reach Me believe that an austere, penitent life is necessary. See how they transfigure me! They make me fearful, while I am only Good! As they forget the precept that I have given you "You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul etc ..." Today, like yesterday, like tomorrow, I will ask My creatures only and always for love ".