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Zechariah 6:12-15 (Just After Drowsiness, 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.)
Jesus says:
“When the sun rises in the morning in the peaceful sky, it ascends from the eastern side. It is from the east that the light comes to you and advances more and more and grows until filling the sky with rays and the earth with warmth and happiness.
“What is more beautiful or greater than the rising of the sun with each new morning? It speaks to you of the Supreme Organizer of all things, whose infinite power regulates the course of the stars, as He thinks lovingly of you, his children, He whom the stars, these immense giants of the Universe, obey, whereas you, imperceptible dust sprinkled upon a planet, not one of the largest, turning along boundless paths of the firmament, do not judge it to be right and proper to obey out of love and gratitude towards the one who loves you and is a God.
“A page that you can reread every morning, if only you wish to, with the eyes of the soul, the returning light would suffice to make you meditate throughout the hours of the new day on the Presence, the Power, and the Goodness of God, and recall Me to your minds: the Light of the world, the Eternal Sun, the Holy Orient.
“The title of ‘Orient’ given Me by the ancient people of Israel is not mistaken. As beautiful as the appearance of the morning star is my appearance in the world, and for that world, like a Sun, I have brought the Light by beginning God’s day, obscured in its formation by the first sin, a day which shall have its shining sunset at the final moment to rise again afterwards eternally with all his chosen ones in the Kingdom of God.
“I am the Orient of God, the one announcing Him to the peoples: begotten by Him, I come under Him, nor, like the sun, do I experience a dusk. I remain fixed, eternal in my Divinity, around which the peoples revolve like stars drawing life and light from Me, and not I, but you experience the obscurity of the darkness, for in you, not in Me, the light fades, for you drift away from the Light by placing between It and yourselves the barriers and distances of a will not in keeping with God or of sins committed against God’s law.
“Having come to announce the Father, the Eternal Lord, and to bear witness to his Most Holy Existence, I have built the new temple for the Lord.
“But not the material temple of stones and mortar which the centuries and men can ruin in their assaults of time or wars. But, rather, the Temple whose Stone I am: my Church, which shall not die even at the death of the Earth and, like a cloud of incense and the fragrance of a flower, shall rise into the place of God, now free, like a woman liberated from all forms of servitude to join her Founder in an eternal marriage whose witnesses shall be her saints. Not the collective, but, rather, the individual temple - and in being individual it is no less holy and eternal than the Temple of my Church - of your spirit, which I rebuilt after Satan had undermined it with sin, regenerating you to Grace, flooding you with my Blood, and instructing you with my Word.
“This is my glory. To have restored to God the living temples of your reconsecrated souls, and the Holy Father robes Me in this glory, giving Me power as Judge over all the creatures whom, at the price of measureless sacrifice, I have made my own.
“I am your second Creator, for I have recovered those created by the Father, rendered corpses by sin, and infused life into them, not by a puff of God’s breath, as in Adam - modeled clay which only the breath infused by God made into flesh and soul - but by my dying. I stripped Myself of life to give you Life. I stripped Myself of God’s clothing to put on man’s clothing, and I lost even this for your sakes after having known all the horror of life: pains, hunger, betrayals, tortures, fatigue, agonies, and death.
“O redemption of man, reparation and homage rendered to my Most Holy Father, how much you cost Me!
“The consecrator, constructor, and victim, I have the right to be the Supreme Priest. Nor does the Father deny Me this right, but, rather, proclaims it for the sake of his Justice and Charity, for I am in the agreement of infinite peace with my Father, because He is my Father and I am his Son and because I am his Obedient and Loving One whom Love transports to obey to give joy and glory to the Holy Father.
“From the time I came - as the world’s ‘Orient’ - to bring Light into the Darkness, I have called you with the power of Charity and the Word. And from the most distant countries you have come to Me, for I am not a false, cruel god, but the true, merciful God who works miracles of love to lead the sheep gone astray outside his sheepfold under his sign.
“And because I love you with a love so perfect that it is incomprehensible for you, not only do I save you, introducing you into my ranks, but I make you my collaborators in building the Temple which shall not undergo destruction and in which the Triune Glory shall rest, and all of you shall know it as It is, when you are raised up to perfect Life and made capable of knowing God.
“I, the Truth of the Father, swear this to you. For those who listen to Me - the Voice of the Lord - there shall be reserved the destiny of infinite joy of knowing God.”