I wish to teach you about poverty, the spirit of poverty. There is physical poverty, but the spirit of poverty is much more beneficial for your soul. It saddens Me greatly when My sons (priests) and religious live physical poverty but remain only there and do not allow the Holy Spirit to bring them to live the spirit of poverty… The spirit of poverty is lived when you allow the Holy Spirit, My Blessed Mother, and Myself to strip you of everything interiorly: your desires, expectations, plans, attachments, securities, consolations in friendships, even consolations from Me so that you are left completely empty. It is a soul that has been stripped of everything that is empty and can be filled with My life…

—My Lord and my God, what can I do to participate in this work? What can I do?

—Jesus answered, “Allow yourself to be perfected through suffering. Suffer with greater trust in Me… Suffer with greater abandonment and love.”