Faith - Luisa Piccarreta Volume Excerpts

Now, while seeing the confessor, I remembered that he had told me that I was to write about faith in the way in which the Lord had spoken to me about this virtue.

While I was thinking of this, in one instant, the Lord drew me so close to himself that I felt I was outside of myself.

That is in an out of the body experience in the vault of the heavens together with Jesus.

And he told me these exact words.

Faith is God.

That is very, very interesting.

You're going to hear him saying, I am faith.

I am hope.

I am love.

I am grace.

we are asking God for faith, we're asking him to give us his eyes to see the things of heaven.

Faith is God, he said.

And these two words contained an immense light such that it is impossible to explain them, but I'll do what I can.

In the word faith, I understood that faith is God himself.

Just as material food gives life to the body so that it may not die, faith gives life to the soul.

Without faith, the soul is dead.

Faith vivifies, faith sanctifies, faith spiritualizes man.

And faith makes him keep his eyes fixed on the supreme being in such a way that he learns nothing of the things of earth.

That's called down here.

And if he learns them, he learns them in God.

Oh, the happiness of the soul who lives of faith and by faith.

Now, the scripture says that the just man lives by faith.

Her flight is always towards heaven.

In everything that happens to her, she always looks at herself in God.

And so just as in tribulation, faith raises her to God and she does not afflict herself, not even with a lament, knowing that she's not to form her contentment down here on earth, but in heaven.