In the second hour of meditation Luisa would enter Mary's maternal womb; there she was astonished in considering that God so great in Heaven was now so annihilated, made tiny and restricted to the point of not being able to move and hardly breathe. At that moment, the internal voice of Jesus asked Luisa to give Him a bit of room in her heart and to remove everything that did not belong to Him in order to make it easier for Him to move and breathe.
Subsequently, at different times, Jesus enriched Luisa with other knowledge related to this excess. In a passage of December 25, 1908, Jesus tells her that the best way to make Him be born in one's heart is to empty oneself of everything, because in finding the void Jesus can place all His goods inside. Only then can He be reborn forever, if there is room to be able to place in it all that belongs to Him. In fact, a person who goes to live in another's home is said to be happy when he finds it empty so that he can put all his things inside, otherwise he would be unhappy.
Luisa often contemplated this second excess of love and was moved when considering the painful state that the lovable Child found Himself in. His little Humanity was immobilized; His hands and feet remained still, without the slightest motion. There was no space either to open His eyes or to freely breathe. His stillness was such that He seemed dead, although He was alive. In respect of these considerations (vol. XVII, December 24, 1924), Jesus confides to Luisa that the pains He suffered in the virginal womb of His Celestial Mother are incalculable to the human mind. The first pain that Jesus suffered in the first act of His Conception was death. The Divinity of Jesus came down from Heaven in the fullness of joy and untouched by pain or death. When Jesus saw His little Humanity, subject to pains and death for the love of creatures, He felt the pain of death so alive that out of pure pain He would have truly died if the power of His Divinity had not supported Him with a prodigy, making Him feel the pain of death and at the same time the continuation of life. What a torment it was for Jesus to be subject to the pain of death - He Who contained life and was the absolute Master of life itself! That is why His little Humanity was immobile and dying in the womb of His Mother.
Another time, Jesus draws Luisa’s attention to the singular prodigy of the Conception of His Most Holy Humanity (vol. XVI, July 18, 1923). It is true that the Word was conceived, but the Heavenly Father and Holy Spirit were inseparable from Him; Jesus was the agent and They had cooperated. All things however great, sublime, noble and prodigious, including the conception of the Virgin Queen, are of lesser importance. There is nothing that can compare to the Conception of Jesus. It is not a matter of forming a life, but of enclosing the life that gives life to everyone; not of enlarging, but of restricting the One Who created everything, to enclose Himself in a created and tiny Humanity. These works are only those of a God and of a God who loves, who at any cost wants the creature, through love, in order to be loved. Jesus amazes us when He affirms that His Love, Power and Wisdom shone more brightly when as soon as the Divine Power formed His tiny Humanity the immensity of the Divine Will - enclosing all creatures past, present and future - conceived in Itself the lives of all creatures.
Hence, in the Incarnation of the Word all creatures were conceived and enclosed, including His Mother; all the excesses and prodigies of His Divine Love and all Eternity are contained in the Incarnation. The whole universe was shaken to see closed in, shrunk and made small Him Who gives life to and encloses everything in order to assume the life of all and make everyone be reborn.
Jesus emphasizes how much this excess of love cost him and adds (vol. XXVII, December 22, 1929) that in coming down from Heaven His love led him to a very narrow and dark prison, the womb of his Mother; but He (His Love) was not content. In this same prison He formed another, which was His Humanity that imprisoned His Divinity. The first prison lasted nine months, while the second prison of His Humanity lasted for thirty-three years. But His Love did not stop here. During the time that the prison of His Humanity was ending, He formed the prison of the Eucharist. Therefore, Jesus can be called the Divine or Celestial Prisoner. In the first two prisons, in the intensity of His love, He formed the Kingdom of Redemption; in the third prison of the Eucharist He is forming the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat.
Jesus, Love without bounds,
may Your love inundate and burn all that is not Yours,
and bring us to love You more and more
to break the loneliness of Your long imprisonment.
Deo gratias!