“Your heaven, My creatures, is in paradise, together with My chosen ones, because it is there that you will contemplate Me in an everlasting vision and will enjoy eternal glory. My heaven is on earth with you all, o men! Yes, it is on earth and in your souls that I look for My happiness and My joy. You can provide Me with this joy and it is also your duty towards your Creator and Father, Who desires and expects this of you” (Father’s Message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
It is difficult for us men to imagine and understand how much the Heavenly Father loves us and to what dignity He wants to elevate us. In the Gospel, the Lord tells us that the Most Holy Trinity wants to make His dwelling place in us (Jn 14:23). In the passage we have heard today from His Message, the Father gives us to understand that His heaven is our soul. We can only understand this from the perspective of love….
Let us recall the story of Creation: “Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves (…) God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good” (Gen 2:26a,31).
The Father, moved by love, created man in His own image and likeness. But this love only reaches its consummation when man lives in union with his Creator. God so longs for this union that He does everything possible to make the soul correspond to His love. In such a soul, He can pour out all that He has arranged for man. And that is His joy! We could say that, when the creature is fully united with the Creator, he can enjoy a “heaven of love” and has achieved the goal of his Creation.