A piece of writing from
Mother Trinidad de la Santa Madre Iglesia,
from the 31st of January, 1967. Title:
TO GO INSIDE, AND TO COME OUTSIDE
To go inside…! To go inside Your life, inside the unfathomable mystery of Your Divinity.
To go inside, resting my head on Christ’s chest, where the secrets of the Father are revealed to the little ones. Secrets that are told to the soul that is brought there by Mary; secrets that gradually unveil, through Christ’s humanity, the Divinity.
But we must go inside His very Self; and in order to go inside, we must come outside ourselves.
See that I say: “go inside His very Self,” because Christ is, “His very Self,” the Divinity. And that is why, “He Himself,” who is the Word of the Father, remained with us to speak His life to us in an infinite song of love.
To go inside Him, and to come outside ourselves. To come out, because the soul that is busy with itself, has no room for anything else; it is so self-absorbed that it cannot go inside, nor occupy itself with anything else. Therefore, to the extent that we silence our own self, going out of ourselves, and we silence the world and the devil, we will enter where God is.
We must go inside, inside the depths of the Infinite One…!
God wants to communicate Himself to all souls, but there is a great obstacle that prevents us from penetrating into this communication and it is the pretext that deceives us all: this obstacle is that of having no time to go inside the Eternal Word so that He can spell out His life for us.
We must go inside the Eucharist, because we can spend many moments of prayer, and yet remain outside…. We must go inside our souls, where God is with us. And we must go inside the secret of creation, where He speaks to us in a cry of expression bursting forth in creative manifestation.
All creatures, animate as well as inanimate, are waiting for us to give God the reply that, through us, He had expected from them from all Eternity. For, from all rational creatures, created to possess the Infinite One, not only does God expect their own response in loving self-donation, but also that of the whole of creation as we discover Him in His beauty through all those little creatures.
How great is creation…! a magnificent expression of the infinite will of the Three, who want to reflect Themselves in those creatures, so that they may sing their song, each in its own measure and in its own way….
We must go inside and contemplate the Word giving its reason for being to all things.
We must go inside and contemplate the very instant-instant in which the Father, in an outburst of infinite wisdom, is expressing, in a reality accomplished through His Word, creation, in the common embrace of the Holy Spirit.
We must go inside in order to know how to interpret God’s will in every single thing and also to know how to give each little creature its reason for being.
And in order to go inside God, being Himself and creating, one must come outside oneself.
God needs us to leave our human way of thinking, because our understanding must adhere to His in order to understand in the divine way. Our will has to become one with the infinite will, in order to know God’s eternal plans; and everything in us has to change its own colouring and take on the divine colouring, so that we can interpret it.
We must go inside the great mystery of the Church and go deep into the gift that, through the Liturgy, God has made to us…. The great evil of humanity lies in the fact that we remain outside…!
We neither know Christ, nor do we enter into Mary, nor do we go deep into the mystery of the Divinity, nor do we know God, being Himself and creating…! And the worst of all is that, without knowing the interpretation of the roots of each thing, we are giving human interpretations to the eternal plans of God, we are adding our own nuance to the divine nuance, and applying our own twisted interpretation to the creative and effected manifestation of God regarding creation.
Because we do not go inside and we do not come outside, we neither know God in Himself nor in His plans, and much less do we know how to interpret them.
Confusion is taking hold of everyone and of everything, because everyone thinks according to themselves and not according to God. In the height of pride, each person thinks his own thinking is better than that of the other; and so, not only do we not understand God, but we do not understand each other either.
Therefore, in order to put everything in its place, we must get inside God, and we must come out of ourselves. But since in order to live of God one must die to oneself, and this is so difficult, one can count the souls, even the Consecrated souls, who go inside God and come out of themselves…. And for the same reason, one can also count those who know how to give a true interpretation about God in Himself and in His plans.
You must come out of yourself and go inside God; and until you decide to leap into the encounter with the Infinite One, you will neither find your reason for being nor know how to give things their true meaning.
You who thirst for beauty, you who experience in your intelligence longings to know, you who feel empty before the non-being that you find in created things, leap into He who Is Himself, sacrifice your own self to the divine Self, and say “yes” to the Infinite One…!
Whoever you may be, the thirstiest for happiness and for fullness, the hungriest to discover and to investigate, unless you go inside and you come outside, you will always remain without knowing the reason for being of the One who Is Himself and of the things that through Him are.
Christ is waiting for you…. How many times has God taught my soul to tell you that you had to go inside in order to come outside! Today, once again, as a manifestation of the divine will, I tell you that if you do not try to go inside Christ, inside Mary and inside the Church, through a life of profound and intense prayer, of self-denial, of coming outside, you will remain in the state of confusion and emptiness experienced by those who never knew nor will ever know how to give an explanation concerning God or His plans.
In the bosom of the Church, inside Her warm lap, through Her teachings, through the Liturgy, in your moments of prayer, in the intimacy of your soul, and in those thousand ways that the Lord has invented to communicate Himself to you, today I ask you to go inside, and to come outside.
In the Tabernacle the Eternal Word of the Father, as the way, awaits you in order to teach you, as truth, the truth of all things, and to fill you, as life, with His eternal reality.
If you only knew, dear soul, how good it is to know God, and to live of Him and to go deep into His mystery…!
My God, let me know how to go inside, and to come outside, so that my thirst for Eternity, my longing to possess You, my urgency to discover You, my need to interpret creation, my unquenchable and still unquenched capacities on account of not having known You well, may gradually be filled by dint of going inside You, and of coming outside myself….
O, how I need to go inside…! How I long to discover or rediscover God, Himself being His reason for being and also mine…! How I need to delve into the mystery of His wisdom! How thirsty I feel and without Water, how hungry and without my fill, in need of knowing You in You, for Your sake and without me…! But in Your contemplation, I place myself before You, and then there appears something like a cloud that darkens the luminous brightness of Your life before my spiritual gaze….
Grant me, Lord, a thousand times I ask You, to go inside You, and to come out of myself…!
Mother Trinidad de la Santa Madre Iglesia
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