From the Catechism of the Catholic Church we read the development of this truth from scriptures as it has been practiced since the beginnings of Christianity:
1373 "Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us," is present in many ways to his Church:197 in his word, in his Church's prayer, "where two or three are gathered in my name,"198 in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned,199 in the sacraments of which he is the author, in the sacrifice of the Mass, and in the person of the minister. But "he is present . . . most especially in the Eucharistic species."
*197 Rom 8:34
*198 Mt 18:20
*199 Mt 25:31-46
1374 The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."
1329 The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.143
The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meal, when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,144 above all at the Last Supper.145 It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection,146 and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies;147 by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him.148
*143 1 Cor 11:20; Rev 19:9
*144 Mt 14:19; 15:36; Mk 8:6, 19
*145 Mt 26:26
26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. 'Take it and eat,' he said, 'this is my body.'
*145 1 Cor 11: 23-26
23 For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread,
24 and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.'
25 And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.'
26 Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes.
*146 Lk 24:13-35
*147 Acts 2:42, 46
42 These remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
46 Each day, with one heart, they regularly went to the Temple but met in their houses for the breaking of bread…
*147 Act 20.7-12
7 On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread. Paul was due to leave the next day, and he preached a sermon that went on till the middle of the night.
8 A number of lamps were lit in the upstairs room where we were assembled,
9 and as Paul went on and on, a young man called Eutychus who was sitting on the window-sill grew drowsy and was overcome by sleep and fell to the ground three floors below. He was picked up dead.
10 Paul went down and stooped to clasp the boy to him, saying, 'There is no need to worry, there is still life in him.'
11 Then he went back upstairs where he broke the bread and ate and carried on talking till he left at daybreak.
12 They took the boy away alive, and were greatly encouraged.
*148 1 Cor 10:16, 17
16 The blessing-cup, which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ; and the loaf of bread which we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
17 And as there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one loaf.
1375 It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. The Church Fathers strongly affirmed the faith of the Church in the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion. Thus St. John Chrysostom declares:
It is not man that causes the things offered to become the Body and Blood of Christ, but he who was crucified for us, Christ himself. The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God's. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered.
And St. Ambrose says about this conversion:
Be convinced that this is not what nature has formed, but what the blessing has consecrated. The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed. . . . Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature.
1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."206
*206 Mt 26:26; Mk 14:22; Lk 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24
1356 If from the beginning Christians have celebrated the Eucharist and in a form whose substance has not changed despite the great diversity of times and liturgies, it is because we know ourselves to be bound by the command the Lord gave on the eve of his Passion: "Do this in remembrance of me."183
*183 1 Cor 11:24-25
1357 We carry out this command of the Lord by celebrating the memorial of his sacrifice. In so doing, we offer to the Father what he has himself given us: the gifts of his creation, bread and wine which, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the words of Christ, have become the body and blood of Christ. Christ is thus really and mysteriously made present.
1358 We must therefore consider the Eucharist as:
- thanksgiving and praise to the Father;
- the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body;
- the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit.
1360 The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father, a blessing by which the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for all that he has accomplished through creation, redemption, and sanctification. Eucharist means first of all "thanksgiving."
1361 The Eucharist is also the sacrifice of praise by which the Church sings the glory of God in the name of all creation. This sacrifice of praise is possible only through Christ: he unites the faithful to his person, to his praise, and to his intercession, so that the sacrifice of praise to the Father is offered through Christ and with him, to be accepted in him.
*The sacrificial memorial of Christ and of his Body, the Church*
1362 The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the making present and the sacramental offering of his unique sacrifice, in the liturgy of the Church which is his Body. In all the Eucharistic Prayers we find after the words of institution a prayer called the anamnesis or memorial.
1363 In the sense of Sacred Scripture the memorial is not merely the recollection of past events but the proclamation of the mighty works wrought by God for men.184 In the liturgical celebration of these events, they become in a certain way present and real. This is how Israel understands its liberation from Egypt: every time Passover is celebrated, the Exodus events are made present to the memory of believers so that they may conform their lives to them.
*184 Cf. Ex 13:3
1364 In the New Testament, the memorial takes on new meaning. When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, she commemorates Christ's Passover, and it is made present the sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present.185 "As often as the sacrifice of the Cross by which 'Christ our Pasch has been sacrificed' is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out."186
*185 Heb 7:25-27
*186 1 Cor 5:7
1365 Because it is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the Eucharist is also a sacrifice. The sacrificial character of the Eucharist is manifested in the very words of institution: "This is my body which is given for you" and "This cup which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood."187 In the Eucharist Christ gives us the very body which he gave up for us on the cross, the very blood which he "poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."188
*187 Lk 22:19-20
*188 Mt 26:28
1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.189
*189 1 Cor 11:23; Heb 7:24, 27
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory."190
*190 Heb 9:14,27
1378 Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. "The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in procession."208
*208 Paul VI
1379 The tabernacle was first intended for the reservation of the Eucharist in a worthy place so that it could be brought to the sick and those absent outside of Mass. As faith in the real presence of Christ in his Eucharist deepened, the Church became conscious of the meaning of silent adoration of the Lord present under the Eucharistic species. It is for this reason that the tabernacle should be located in an especially worthy place in the church and should be constructed in such a way that it emphasizes and manifests the truth of the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
1380 It is highly fitting that Christ should have wanted to remain present to his Church in this unique way. Since Christ was about to take his departure from his own in his visible form, he wanted to give us his sacramental presence; since he was about to offer himself on the cross to save us, he wanted us to have the memorial of the love with which he loved us "to the end,"209 even to the giving of his life. In his Eucharistic presence he remains mysteriously in our midst as the one who loved us and gave himself up for us,210 and he remains under signs that express and communicate this love:
The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him in adoration, in contemplation full of faith, and open to making amends for the serious offenses and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never cease.211
*209 Jn 13:1
*210 Gal 2:20
*211 John Paul II
On a sobering note. God, because believers were screwing around and not taking seriously such a preeminent doctrine, made an example of some of them.
1 Corinthian 11: 20-34.
20 So, when you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat;
21 for when the eating begins, each one of you has his own supper first, and there is one going hungry while another is getting drunk.
22 Surely you have homes for doing your eating and drinking in? Or have you such disregard for God's assembly that you can put to shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Congratulate you? On this I cannot congratulate you.
23 For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread,
24 and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.'
25 And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.'
26 Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes.
27 Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.
28 Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup;
29 because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the body is eating and drinking his own condemnation.
30 That is why many of you are weak and ill and a good number have died.
31 If we were critical of ourselves we would not be condemned,
32 but when we are judged by the Lord, we are corrected by the Lord to save us from being condemned along with the world.
33 So then, my brothers, when you meet for the Meal, wait for each other;
34 anyone who is hungry should eat at home. Then your meeting will not bring your condemnation. The other matters I shall arrange when I come.
A teaching moment to say the least but God was laying the foundation for the Church at it’s infancy and the truth had to be settled in order for things to move forward in His plan to save and restore humanity back to the Kingdom of His Divine Will.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Primer
Jesus speaks to Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947
Cause for Luisa’s Beatification opened 20 November 1994
This little booklet is intended to be a simple aid to living and praying in the Divine Will as taught by Jesus to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta.
It is not a complete guide, but it is hoped that newcomers to this spirituality will find, in these simple lessons, a means of embracing and understanding Jesus’ invitation to live in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.
A Little at a time
Jesus said to Luisa:
“Promise to be faithful to Me and I shall pour into you many graces that will cause you to marvel. I have great designs on you, but only if you correspond and conform to my Will. I shall delight in making you a perfect image of Me. You shall imitate Me from My birth to My death. Do not have any doubt about succeeding, because I will teach you how it can be done a little at a time.”
Book of Heaven Volume 1
The Purpose of the
Gift of the Divine Will
The purpose of the Gift of the Divine Will is to allow God to receive perfect glory from the whole human family (i.e., from Adam to the last person to be created).
(Perfect Reparation is the primary work of the Gift.)
From the moment he was created, Adam could give God a perfect return of love and glory in everything, all of the time, because he possessed the Gift of the Divine Will. At the Fall, Adam lost this Gift and was then able to correspond to God with only his limited human capacity—not with the unlimited capacity of the Divine Will which he previously enjoyed.
Jesus told Luisa that when He created Adam He placed within Adam’s human will the Divine Will. The Divine Will ‘resided’ there only because Adam consented to this, allowing himself to be animated by God in every way: his thoughts, words, glances, steps, movements, breaths and heartbeats etc. For this reason all of Adam’s acts were of a Divine order because he was consenting to letting the Divinity do everything within him. It is because the Divinity was doing everything in him that Adam’s acts were perfect, thereby giving perfect glory and perfect correspondence of love to his Creator
This does not imply a lack of free will on the part of Adam. Instead, Adam was continuously consenting to giving the Divinity the freedom to ‘operate’ in him in this way.1 The human will is presented by Jesus as an empty glass in which the waters of the Divine Will reside. This was intended by God to be the permanent condition of man. The human will was not created to be isolated from the Divine Will. Up until the Fall, the Divine Will operated in every respect of Adam’s being. With the gift of free will Adam could empty himself, at any time, of this Divine capacity to glorify God perfectly. In fact, he did empty himself of this Gift when he took the forbidden fruit
1. This does not mean that Adam was made divine. He was always a creature, but a creature consenting to letting the Creator animate him in every respect.
The Saints and the Gift of the Divine Will
A frequently asked question is, “But didn’t the saints possess the Gift of the Divine Will?” The answer is ‘No.’
Until now, the saints have been able only to align themselves to God’s Will—i.e., as they became more aware of what God wanted them to do and how he wanted them to be in their daily lives, they corresponded as best they could to His Will.
However, the Gift of the Divine Will is not only about doing God’s Will, but possessing God’s Will, i.e., letting God carry out His own will, Himself, within you through your consent. This is what Adam was doing up until the Fall, and what Jesus did in His humanity throughout His whole life while on earth.
Jesus points out that Luisa, who received the Gift of the Divine Will on 8th September 1889, marks the beginning of the era of the Kingdom of the Divine Will on earth.
The Gift is now available to everyone
How this Gift was prophesied in the Scriptures
The first biblical prophecy can be found in Genesis 3:15.
This prophecy was spoken by God to Satan.
God prophesied the coming of a future Redeemer, the Messiah. The Jews prayed for the fulfillment of this prophecy and so Jesus came. Before leaving the earth Jesus gave another prophecy which He placed in the one prayer that He taught us—the Our Father.
The prophecy is: “Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” In other words, just as the saints in Heaven possess the Divine Will with which to perfectly glorify God and correspond perfectly to His love, so have the Christian generations (on earth) been praying for this same Will to be enjoyed on earth as It is in Heaven.
Thus, we have been praying for a return of our original capacity to perfectly correspond to our Creator. And this is why Jesus subtitled these writings:
“The recall of the creature to the Order, Place, and Purpose for which it was created by God.”
The Trinity and the Divine Will
The Three Persons of the Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—do not each possess Their own separate Wills consenting to one another’s wishes. Instead, the Three Persons of the Trinity share the same one Divine Will. This is why there can only be agreement, peace, harmony, etc., between Them. By the powers of the one Divine Will the Father is able to direct all His infinite love to His Son, and by the same powers of the same one Divine Will, the Son is able to perfectly return this same infinite love to the Father.
It was this same one Divine Will which Adam originally possessed in Eden
Jesus’ Prayer in John 17
This prayer of Jesus is a threefold prayer. He prays first for Himself, then for His disciples, and finally for all future disciples. It is in the final part of His prayer that Jesus makes this request of the Father:
“That they may be one with Me, as I, Father, and You are one.”
As we have learned (Page 8) the Trinity are not just good friends agreeing with one another but are one in the Divine Will. Thus, for each disciple to be one with Jesus, in the same way as Jesus is one with the Father, would require the disciple to also possess the same one Divine Will as Jesus and the Father. And this is what Jesus prayed for the night before he died.
How to receive the Gift of Divine Will
To receive the Gift of the Divine Will one needs the desire to receive It, and to decide to no longer give life to one’s own human will. Jesus said:
“… you do not need paths, nor doors, nor keys to enter into My Divine Will . . .
To enter creatures need but remove the pebble of their own will . . .
A soul has but to desire it and all is done, My Will assumes all the work . . .”
Volume 12 – 16th February 1921
It is important to remember that having desired the Gift after deciding to sacrifice one’s own will, that it is Jesus who does all the work. Only Jesus can do a divine act. We always remain creature.
GOLDEN RULE
We desire it
And Jesus does all the work.
A lesson for life: FORGET SELF
From the first moment a soul decides to embrace living in the Divine Will she must learn to forget herself. Jesus says that there is only one way of achieving this, and that it must be practiced for the rest of your life:
“My daughter, in order for the soul to be able to forget herself everything she does or has to do must be done as if I wanted to do it in her. If she prays, she should say: ‘It is Jesus who wants to pray, and I pray together with Him.’
If she works: ‘It is Jesus who wants to work,’ it is Jesus who wants to walk, it is Jesus who wants to eat, who wants to sleep, who wants to get up, who wants to enjoy Himself.’ And it should be like that in everything for the rest of her life, excluding errors. Only in this manner is the soul able to forget herself. For not only will she do everything because I want it, but, because I want to do it, she will need Me.
Volume 11, 14th August 1912
Everything should now be done with reference to Jesus because it is He who is doing everything within us – except error, i.e. sin.
What if I sin?
If we sin we would lose the gift of the Divine Will. This is because we obviously cannot make Jesus sin. If we make a sincere act of contrition then we can ask Jesus to return the Gift to us, and He will do so.
Jesus is yearning so much for us to always possess this Gift that He gladly returns the Gift to us. It is only through our having this Gift that Jesus can ensure a perfect return of love and glory to the Father from within the creature.
If our sin was of a serious nature—mortal sin—then we would first have to go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and then ask Jesus to return the Gift to us.
Praying in the Divine Will (1)
To pray in the Divine Will we should remember Jesus’ instruction to forget self. We can begin by saying,
“Jesus wants to pray so I pray with Him.”
Jesus gave this lesson to Luisa:
“I want to teach you the way of how you must be with Me. First you must:
enter inside me
transform yourself into Me
take that which you find in Me.”
Volume 8 – 9th February 1908
Volume 8, 9th February 1908
Remember that everything is achieved by the ‘Golden Rule’:
We desire it and Jesus does all the work.
Notice that Jesus did not say “think” but “desire”
Thought alone will not do. It is the desire of the heart which ensures living in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
Praying in the Divine Will (2)
We first desire to enter into Jesus (and He brings this about by the ‘Golden Rule’).
Then we transform ourselves into Him (also brought about by the ‘Golden Rule’). As St. Paul said: “Put on Christ,” so we do everything as another Jesus, since Jesus is doing everything within us: our thoughts, words, actions, steps, movements, breaths, heartbeats—everything, except sin.
Next, we take what we find in Jesus. Jesus explained to Luisa (Volume 11 - 14th August 1912) that while He was on earth, during His Hidden Life
(i.e., up to the age of 30 years when His Public Ministry began),
He took into Himself all the thoughts, words, actions, everything about everyone from Adam to the last person to be created, and He redid everyone’s life in His Divine Will. In this way there is a divine version of each one’s life. Why? Because only the divine version can give God perfect glory—our human attempts at glorifying God, no matter how holy we become, would always fall short of absolute perfection.
Praying in the Divine Will (3)
Jesus did not immediately offer the divine version of our lives to the Father, but suspended them within Himself, waiting for the day that you would come along—and after giving your ‘fiat,’ your ‘yes’ to the Gift of the Divine will, you would
enter into Him
transform yourself into Him
and take what you find in Him.
Now you can find in Jesus the divine version of your life suspended in Him. Take it, make it your own (by the ‘Golden Rule’) and offer it with Jesus to the Father. You can do this repeatedly, not only with your own life, but also repeatedly with everyone’s life. Jesus wants you to do this for everyone’s life.
Praying in the Divine Will (4)
In the name of everyone
Because Jesus redid the lives of everyone (from Adam to the last created soul) in His Divine Will, then we can also pray, work, speak, walk, eat, sleep, and enjoy ourselves, etc., in the name of everyone. This is what Jesus said to Luisa:
“In my glances I took all the creatures’ eyes, in my voice their words, in my movements theirs, in my hands their works, in my Heart their affections and desires, in my feet steps; and, making them like Mine, my Humanity satisfied the Father . . .”
“Now, why cannot you also do it? FOR HE WHO LOVES, ALL IS POSSIBLE UNITED TO ME! In my Will pray and bring before the Divine Majesty in your thoughts the thoughts of everyone; in your eyes the glances of everyone; in your words, movements, affections and desires of those of your brothers to make reparation for them; to obtain light, graces, and love for them. In my Will you will find yourself in Me and in everyone. You do my Life. You will pray with Me; and the Divine Father will be content with it, and all Heaven will say, “Who calls us upon the earth? Who is it that wants to embrace this Holy Will in herself enclosing all of us together? And how much good you can obtain for the earth by making Heaven descend upon the earth.”
Volume 11 – 3rd May 1916
Praying the Divine Will (4) (continued)
Therefore, finding everyone in Jesus, we can pray in the name of everyone, and Jesus promises that it will be as if everyone is praying in a divine way.
If the whole of humanity prayed together in a human way, even this volume of prayer would not compare with just one prayer in the Divine Will because a divine prayer has infinite value, or merit, since it possesses the very dispositions and qualities of Jesus Himself because it is He who is doing all the work in His Divine Will.
We can now pray the Rosary, for example, in the name of everyone; and keep Jesus company in the Blessed Sacrament in the name of everyone, etc., so that God is receiving a perfect return of love and glory from everyone simultaneously in everything we do—providing we desire it!
Remember: the size of your prayer group, if you are praying in the Divine Will in the name of all, is everyone from Adam to the last created soul!
Rounds in the Divine Will
There is much to be said about ‘Rounds’ in the Divine Will, but here is a beginning.
On one occasion, as Jesus was taking Luisa around the Universe, she could hear Jesus’ voice saying ‘I love you’ on everything—every star, planet, moon, etc. While she was enjoying this experience, Jesus turned to her and said, “Luisa, where is your ‘I love you’ to Me?” Jesus explained that if she desired it (in the Divine Will) she could place her ‘I love You’ to Jesus on everything, too, because Jesus would do it for her.
And so we are invited by Jesus to do the same: to place our ‘I love You’ to Jesus on every created being/thing (past, present and future). These are the Rounds of Creation.
We can place our ‘I love You’ on everything that Jesus said and did during His life on earth, including His resurrection and Ascension. These are the Rounds of Redemption.
We should also place our ‘I love You’ on all the acts of the Holy Spirit, e.g., the sacraments, prayer, inspirations, graces, etc. These are the Rounds of Sanctification.
Jesus told Luisa to make these Rounds incessantly
Volume 18
‘I love You with Your Will’
Luisa writes: Continuing my usual state, Blessed Jesus let Himself be seen inside of me, but so fused with me that I would see His eyes in mine, His mouth in mine, and in the same way all his body. And while I was seeing Him like this, He said to me: “My daughter, see how I fuse Myself and make Myself one sole thing with the soul who does my Will. I make Myself her own life, because my Will is inside and outside of her. You can say that It is like the air she breathes which gives life to everything in her. It is like light that makes everything be seen and understood; It is heat that warms, fecundates, and makes things grow. It is heart that beats, hands that work, feet that walk. And when the will unites with My Will, My Life is formed in the Soul.”
Afterwards, having received Communion, I was telling Jesus: “I love You,” and He told me: “My daughter, do you really want to love Me? Say: ‘Jesus, I love You with your Will.’ And since my Will fills Heaven and earth, your love will surround me everywhere and your ‘I love You’ will reverberate high in the Heavens, and in the depths of the abysses; and so, if you want to say: ‘I adore You. I bless You, I praise You, I thank You,’ you will say it united in my Will, and you will fill the Heavens and earth with adorations, blessings, praises, and thanksgiving in my Will.
These are simple things, easy and immense.
Volume 11 – 2nd October 1913
Our Lady and the Divine Will
Jesus made Mary the “Queen and Mother of the Kingdom of Divine Will
Our Lady gave Luisa thirty-one lessons2 on the Kingdom of the Divine Will. With this Gift, what one would strive for in years can be accomplished in just one day! (Lesson 133)
Three times a day Our Lady wants us to sit upon her lap (morning, noon, and evening) and say to her:
“My Mother, I love you. Love me, too, and give me a sip of the Will of God for my soul. Give me your blessing also, that I might do all my actions under your maternal gaze.”
At night Our Lady also wants us to present all our acts of the day onto her maternal lap.
2 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
3 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
Prevenient and Actual Acts
(Anticipatory and Current Acts)
Prevenient (Anticipatory) Act
This is to be done as soon as you awake,
‘at the break of dawn,’
Jesus says; it is when you tell Jesus in your own words that you want everything today to be done only in His Divine Will.
Actual (Current) Acts
These are the particular acts you do during the day, like washing, eating, working, praying, etc.
“You should say: Jesus wants to … and so I do it together with Him.”
Volume 11, 14th August 1912
As far as your memory allows, one should continue throughout the day in this way. Fortunately, Jesus does not accuse us for our poor memories. Our acts continue to be in the Divine Will because of the Prevenient Act, but, as Jesus says:
“Both acts are necessary; the prevenient act assists, creates the disposition and makes room for the actual act. The actual act preserves and enlarges the disposition for the prevenient act.”
Volume 14 – 27th May 1922
Calling down the Divine Will
Jesus wants us to call down the Divine Will into everything and everyone. Like the lesson (Page 11) about forgetting self, we can call down the Divine Will in the following way:
Come, Divine Will, come …. in me.
We put in the gap … that which is appropriate to what we are doing; for example:
Come Divine Will, come wash in me, or
Come Divine Will, come eat in me, or
Come Divine Will, come drive in me, or
Come Divine Will, come work in me, or
pray … rest … speak … etc.
There is no set formula for praying in the Divine Will. So, alternatively one might pray:
Come Divine Will, come wash in my washing,
Come Divine Will, come eat in my eating, etc.
Jesus said to Luisa that the Kingdom of the Divine Will, will not reign fully on earth until a certain number of Acts in the Divine Will have been completed.
Saint Hannibal di Francia’s
Little Chaplet of the Divine Will
(5th July 1851 – 1st June 1927)
Saint Hannibal di Francia was one of Luisa’s extraordinary Confessors. So inspired was he by the spirituality of Luisa’s writings that he founded two Religious Orders: the Rogationist Fathers and the Daughters of the Divine Zeal. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 7th October 1990, and canonized on 16th May 2004. In the later years of his life he composed the following simple chaplet to be said on rosary beads. Every day he prayed this chaplet, often more than once, especially in his last sickness.
Begin
One Our Father . . . One Hail Mary . . . One Glory Be
On the Small Beads
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.
On the Large Beads
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
In conclusion
Lord Jesus, we praise You, we love You, we bless You and we thank You together with the Father and the Holy Spirit in Your Holy and Eternal Divine Will. Amen
Prayer for Luisa’s Beatification
O Most Holy Trinity,
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that as we pray we should ask that our Father’s Name be always glorified, that His Will be done on earth and that His Kingdom should come to reign among us.
In our great desire to make known this Kingdom of love, justice and peace, we humbly ask that you glorify your Servant Luisa, the Little Daughter of the Divine Will who, with her constant prayer and suffering, deeply yearned for the salvation of souls and the coming of God’s Kingdom in the world.
Following her example we pray to You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to help us joyously embrace the crosses of this world so that we may also glorify your Name and enter into the Kingdom of Your Will
Act of Consecration to the Divine Will
Luisa Piccarreta
Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity of Your Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters of your Supreme FIAT.
Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that It clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the centre of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden
With It shall I be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God.
Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity, that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature was created.
Act of Consecration to the Divine Will (Continued)
Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden
Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they may burn me, consume me, and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine Will.
My Guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my Eden
Pray this Consecration Prayer in the name of everyone.
Seven Points to Remember
Daily Check List
1. When you wake up, make your Prevenient Act
Prevenient and Actual Acts
(Anticipatory and Current Acts)
Prevenient (Anticipatory) Act
This is to be done as soon as you awake,
‘at the break of dawn,’
Jesus says; it is when you tell Jesus in your own words that you want everything today to be done only in His Divine Will.
Actual (Current) Acts
These are the particular acts you do during the day, like washing, eating, working, praying, etc.
“You should say: Jesus wants to … and so I do it together with Him.”
Volume 11, 14th August 1912
As far as your memory allows, one should continue throughout the day in this way. Fortunately, Jesus does not accuse us for our poor memories. Our acts continue to be in the Divine Will because of the Prevenient Act, but, as Jesus says:
“Both acts are necessary; the prevenient act assists, creates the disposition and makes room for the actual act. The actual act preserves and enlarges the disposition for the prevenient act.”
Volume 14 – 27th May 1922
2. Never lose sight of the Golden Rule
GOLDEN RULE
We desire it
And Jesus does all the work.
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3. Sit upon your Heavenly Mother’s lap three times a day, and speak these words with the heart of a loving child
Our Lady and the Divine Will
Jesus made Mary the “Queen and Mother of the Kingdom of Divine Will
Our Lady gave Luisa thirty-one lessons2 on the Kingdom of the Divine Will. With this Gift, what one would strive for in years can be accomplished in just one day! (Lesson 133)
Three times a day Our Lady wants us to sit upon her lap (morning, noon, and evening) and say to her:
“My Mother, I love you. Love me, too, and give me a sip of the Will of God for my soul. Give me your blessing also, that I might do all my actions under your maternal gaze.”
At night Our Lady also wants us to present all our acts of the day onto her maternal lap.
2 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
3 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
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4. Begin doing Actual (Current) Acts, remembering to do this as often as your memory allows
Prevenient and Actual Acts
(Anticipatory and Current Acts)
Prevenient (Anticipatory) Act
This is to be done as soon as you awake,
‘at the break of dawn,’
Jesus says; it is when you tell Jesus in your own words that you want everything today to be done only in His Divine Will.
Actual (Current) Acts
These are the particular acts you do during the day, like washing, eating, working, praying, etc.
“You should say: Jesus wants to … and so I do it together with Him.”
Volume 11, 14th August 1912
As far as your memory allows, one should continue throughout the day in this way. Fortunately, Jesus does not accuse us for our poor memories. Our acts continue to be in the Divine Will because of the Prevenient Act, but, as Jesus says:
“Both acts are necessary; the prevenient act assists, creates the disposition and makes room for the actual act. The actual act preserves and enlarges the disposition for the prevenient act.”
Volume 14 – 27th May 1922
5. Make your Rounds in the Divine Will
Rounds in the Divine Will
There is much to be said about ‘Rounds’ in the Divine Will, but here is a beginning.
On one occasion, as Jesus was taking Luisa around the Universe, she could hear Jesus’ voice saying ‘I love you’ on everything—every star, planet, moon, etc. While she was enjoying this experience, Jesus turned to her and said, “Luisa, where is your ‘I love you’ to Me?” Jesus explained that if she desired it (in the Divine Will) she could place her ‘I love You’ to Jesus on everything, too, because Jesus would do it for her.
And so we are invited by Jesus to do the same: to place our ‘I love You’ to Jesus on every created being/thing (past, present and future). These are the Rounds of Creation.
We can place our ‘I love You’ on everything that Jesus said and did during His life on earth, including His resurrection and Ascension. These are the Rounds of Redemption.
We should also place our ‘I love You’ on all the acts of the Holy Spirit, e.g., the sacraments, prayer, inspirations, graces, etc. These are the Rounds of Sanctification.
Jesus told Luisa to make these Rounds incessantly
Volume 18
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6. Before retiring to bed place all your Acts of the day upon Our Lady’s lap
Our Lady and the Divine Will
Jesus made Mary the “Queen and Mother of the Kingdom of Divine Will
Our Lady gave Luisa thirty-one lessons2 on the Kingdom of the Divine Will. With this Gift, what one would strive for in years can be accomplished in just one day! (Lesson 133)
Three times a day Our Lady wants us to sit upon her lap (morning, noon, and evening) and say to her:
“My Mother, I love you. Love me, too, and give me a sip of the Will of God for my soul. Give me your blessing also, that I might do all my actions under your maternal gaze.”
At night Our Lady also wants us to present all our acts of the day onto her maternal lap.
2 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
3 Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
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7. Before closing your eyes give Jesus permission to have you make Rounds during your sleep
(Divine Will Prayer Book Page 157).
LUISA’S WRITINGS
By 1938 Luisa had written 36 volumes. The title to this work was given by Jesus Himself (in Volume 19). He called the volumes “BOOK OF HEAVEN” and Jesus also gave the subtitle: “The recall of the Creature to the Order, to the Place and to the Purpose for which he was created by God.”
In addition to the 36 volumes (only some are presently available in English), there is a selection of Luisa’s prayers in The Divine Will Prayer Book, and a series of lessons on the Divine Will dictated to Luisa by the Blessed Virgin Mary in a book called The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.
Another important work is The Hours of the Passion in which Jesus not only shares certain details concerning His Passion, but also some of His thoughts and prayers during the last 24 hours of His life.
A free catalogue detailing the prices of all these works is available from the publisher Angelus Communications at
16, Saw Mill Way
Stubley Fold
Littleborough
Telephone/Fax 01706 372674
ISBN 0 9516630 5 4 First Printing November 1997
Living in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
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