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The greatest sorrow that I had in My Passion... 

the nail that most pierced My Heart...

was the abandonment and the dispersion of My Apostles. I had not a friendly eye in which I could reflect My gaze. The abandonment, the offenses, the indifference of friends, surpass—oh! how much—all the sorrows, and even the death that enemies can give. 

I knew that the Apostles were to give Me this nail, and would cravenly [lafhartig] run away from Me. But I paid no attention to this. Because, My daughter, one who wants to do a work must not pay attention to his own pains.

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On the contrary, he must make friends in the good times.

When everything smiles around him, and he sows triumphs and prodigies at each step. Not only this, but he communicates the miraculous power to those who become his friends and disciples. 

Then everyone boasts of being a friend of one who is surrounded with glory and honor, everyone hopes, and as many friends and disciples as one wants, so many one has, because the glory, the triumphs, the good times, are powerful magnets that draw the creatures to follow the triumpher. 

Who wants to follow and be a friend or disciple of a poor one who is slandered, humiliated and despised? No one. On the contrary, they feel fear and horror to get close, and reach the point of denying him whom they were friends with before, as Saint Peter did with Me.

Therefore, it is useless to hope for friends... 

when the poor creature finds herself under the nightmare of humiliations, scorns and calumnies. 

So, one must make friends when Heaven smiles at us, and fortune would want to put us on a throne, if we want that the good, the works that are wanted, may have life and continuation in other creatures. 

By My making friends when I was sowing miracles and triumphs—such that they reached the point of believing that I was to be their King on earth, and therefore, having been My disciples, they were to occupy the first places before Me—...

even though they abandoned Me in My Passion, when My Resurrection sounded My full triumph, the Apostles changed their mind, they reunited among themselves and, as triumphers, they followed My Doctrine, My Life, and formed the nascent Church. 

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Had I paid attention to the fact that they would run away from Me, not making them My disciples in the time of My triumphs, I would not have had anyone who would speak of Me after My death, who would make Me known. 

Therefore, the good times, the glory, are necessary. And it is also necessary to receive piercing nails and to have patience in suffering them, in order to have the materials in My greatest works, so that they may have life in the midst of creatures.

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Now, has this not been a wholeness, a resemblance...

of My Life, in your painful state of humiliation, of calumnies and scorns that you have gone through? 

I felt in you the nail of the abandonment and dispersion of My Apostles being repeated to Me, in seeing those who had been so keen to assist you disperse themselves from you, and with the will of abandoning you. 

And in seeing you abandoned, I saw you all alone in My arms, with the nail of the abandonment of those who were to sustain you. And in My sorrow I said: ‘Bad world, how well you know how to repeat the scenes of My Passion in My children.’ 

And I offered your bitterness... 

for the triumph of My Will... 

and for the help of those who should make It known.

[5.6.1931]