...Kingdom of the Divine Will".
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Saturday 13 June 2015
Eleventh Sunday of the Year B gospel - June 14, 2015
"Your mustard seed is what the Reign of God is about ..
...Kingdom of the Divine Will".
...Kingdom of the Divine Will".
Friday 12 June 2015
SAINT BARNABAS Apostle. Icon from original
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Thursday 11 June 2015
Luisa Piccarreta. Jesus’ Descent into Limbo
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
All English trans. from the Italian text, introductions, annotations and theological presentations:
Luisa Piccarreta.
THE ROUNDS OF THE SOUL
IN THE DIVINE WILL
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The Gift of Living in the Divine Will
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Rev. Joseph Leo Iannuzzi, STD, Ph.D.
THE ROUNDS
OF THE SOUL
IN THE DIVINE WILL
OF THE SOUL
IN THE DIVINE WILL
Luisa Piccarreta
The Little Daughter of the Divine Will
22nd Round in the Divine Will
Jesus’ Descent into Limbo
My love, I see that You have already died, and oh, how I would like to die together with You! But unfortunately this is not granted me and so, Fiat! Fiat!…
I desire to receive You in my arms to enclose your most sacred humanity within my “I love You,”47* so that in everything You will see my “I love You”, hear my “I love You” and feel my “I love You”. My “I love You” will never leave You; indeed, your Will constitutes the life of my “I love You”. And do You know what this little child desires of You? I desire that your Divine Will which You so loved and did throughout your entire life on earth, may be revealed to all souls, so that all may
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47* Luisa enclosing Jesus’ humanity within her “I love You”, conveys a two-fold theologically reality. First, she unites her “soul” with all that which Jesus’ humanity experiences; second, she assimilates and deposits within her soul said experiences. Indeed, Luisa’s “I love You” emerged from her “soul” (cf. L. Piccarreta, volume 19, August 31, 1926). Luisa emphasizes that of the soul’s three powers (intellect, memory and will), the human will is the most “like” God, as it contains his immensity and power, and is therefore capable of bilocating itself “up to heaven or to the farthest places”, of being expanded and of enclosing all things within itself (cf. Ibid., volume 13, October 9, 1921; volume 23, December 22, 1927). Every act the soul accomplishes remains sealed within its will and not one of its acts will be lost (volume 12, January 1, 1920; 24, April 6, 1931).
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come to love and do your Will on earth as in heaven. This little child desires to conquer You with love by making You grant your Divine Will to all souls. I entreat You, my good Jesus, to make this poor little child happy, as I desire nothing other than that which You yourself desire, namely, that your Will be known and reign in all the world.
My deceased Jesus, I have enclosed your most sacred humanity within my “I love You, I adore You, I bless You and I thank You”, thus forming in your humanity a sepulchre, as it were, for my “I love You” and entreating You to bury the human will so that it may no longer have a life of its own. I now accompany You together with our sorrowful mother into limbo with my “I love You,” and what a moving sight it is. In this holy place I see our first father Adam, Abraham, all the patriarchs and prophets, dear St. Joseph and all the good people of the Old Testament. Oh how they rejoice in seeing You and, prostrating themselves at your holy feet, they adore You, love You and thank You. It seems, however that their celebration is not complete, for with one accord, beginning with Adam their first father, together they all cry out: “To You we give thanks for all that You have done and suffered for us. Now that You have accomplished the first part [of your Messianic mission] by redeeming us, we entreat You to accomplish the second part by making your Divine Will reign on earth as in heaven.”
My love, do You not hear the choir of these voices that are so dear to You? The Queen of Sorrows ROUNDS IN THE DIVINE WILL herself entreats You, and so do I: “May your Will come, may it come and reign on earth as in heaven; grant that all may come to know of your adorable Will.” Today, the day of your death, is also the day of your victory – of your triumph. And would You refuse me [on this day] the triumph of your Divine Will over the human will? Before leaving limbo, let me hear your sweetest voice telling me that You will grant me my request – that your Will shall reign and exercise dominion on earth as in heaven.
Booklet 1996
Previous Translation 1996.
Pious Pilgrimage
of the Soul
in the Workings
of the Divine Will
Luisa Piccarreta
Tuesday 9 June 2015
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Anamnesis:
Published on 2 Jun 2015
On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we once again say "Amen" to being Christ for the world, confident that his real presence with us will help us act as we truly are, his ongoing real presence for the world.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamnesis_(Christianity)Anamnesis (from the Attic Greek word ἀνάμνησις meaningreminiscence and/or memorial sacrifice), in Christianity is a liturgical statement in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist and/or to the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.
Saint Columba (Colum Cille), Abbot 9 June Feast in Scotland
Tuesday 9 June 2015 (other days)
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From his boyhood Colum Cille devoted himself to the Christian combat and to the search for wisdom. By God’s grace he preserved integrity of body and purity of soul, so that he seemed like one ready for the life of heaven though still on earth; for in appearance he was like an angel, refined in his speech, holy in his works, pre-eminent in character, great in counsel.
In the forty-second year of his age he sailed away from Ireland to Britain, wishing to be a pilgrim for Christ. During his life of thirty-four years as a soldier of Christ on the island of lona, he could not let even one hour pass that was not given to prayer or reading or writing or some other good work. Night and day he so unwearyingly gave himself to fasts and vigils that the burden of each single work seemed beyond the strength of man. Yet through all he was loving to everyone, his holy face was always cheerful, and in his inmost heart he was happy with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
When the end of his years was at hand, he gave his last commands to his brothers, saying: ‘I commend to you, my children, these last words of mine, that you keep among you unfeigned love with peace.’ Then when the bell was rung for the midnight office he arose quickly and went to the church, where he went in alone before the others and knelt down in prayer before the altar. Diormuit his attendant followed, and the whole community of monks ran in with lights; when they saw that their father was dying they began to lament. Then Diormuit raised the saint’s holy right hand, to bless the monastic company. At the same time the venerable father himself moved his hand, as well as he was able, and immediately after he had so expressed his holy blessing he breathed his last.
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Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few.
Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few.
Let us pray.
Lord, warm our hearts with zeal for your kingdom
and a longing for its fulfilment.
Make our lives rich in good works,
and so bring us to share the glory of Saint Columba,
when we see you face to face and are one with you always.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Let us praise the Lord.
Our patron, Saint Adamnán of Iona (Athovnawn) (AD 624 – 704) was the ninth abbot of Iona from AD 679 to 704, hagiographer, statesman and clerical lawyer; .
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Monday 8 June 2015
Luisa Piccarreta. Most Holy Eucharist placed his Sacramental Life in the Heart of His Mother.
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Ecce Panis
Angelorum
Angel with Host (c. 1860), Sébastien-Melchior Cornu (1804–1870), Louvre
Museum, Paris
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Sunday, 7 June 2015
Luisa Piccarreta, Most Holy Eucharist placed his Sacramental Life in the Heart of His Mother
Sunday 7 2015-06-07.
The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
COMMENT: The Solemnity followed the cloister procession with the Blessed Sacrament and during the hours had adoration at the tabernacle n the Church.
The extreme uplifting thoughts and prayer came from pages from Luisa Piccarreta.
Most Holy Eucharist placed his Sacramental Life in the Heart of His Mother.
Below two versions of the entry of the Diar can be contemplated over.
... Donald
PS. Later to find art of BVM of the Most Holy Sacrament.
FIAT Vol 21 Redacted 23 Feb 1927 - 26 May 1027
VOLUME 21
J.M.J.
Fiat!!!
Version Print 1995 ‘passages. Use the title here
[Our Lord Jesus Christ, in instituting the Most Holy Eucharist, placed his Sacramental Life in the Heart of His Mother. The Most Holy Virgin of sorrows found the secret of her strength in the Divine Will, because This contains immeasurable Strength].
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April 16, 1927
I was reliving the Hour when Jesus gave us the Most Holy Eucharist when Jesus moved inside me.
He said, “My daughter, before I act, I need at least one creature to store My Act and keep It safe and secure. When I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, I looked for such a creature, and My Queen Mom offered Herself as a vessel for My Act where I could store this great gift.”
She said, ‘My Son, I offered You my womb and my whole being for Your Conception, where I kept You safe and secure. Now I’m offering You a mother’s Heart as a vessel for this great treasure. I will arrange my affections all around Your Sacramental Life, my beating heart, my love and my thoughts. I will defend You with My Life; you will be surrounded by a loving assembly that will protect You. I promise to repay You for this great gift. Trust Your Mom; I will defend Your Sacramental Life. You made Me Queen of all Creation, so I have the right to summon all the light of the sun around You, to worship and adore You. I will assemble the sea, the sky full of stars and all the inhabitants of the air around you and they will give You love and glory.’
“My Mom gave Me proof certain that She would faithfully guard My Sacramental Life within Her treasury, and then I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament. She was the only creature worthy enough to keep, protect and defend My Act. Now, when creatures receive Me and I enter them, I bring the actions of My inseparable Mom with Me. This is the only way I can perpetuate My Sacramental Life. Whenever I want to do some great work, one that I treasure, I first have to choose a creature to store My gift, someone who will thank Me adequately.”
“That’s how it is in the natural order. When a farmer sows his seed, he doesn’t throw it in the middle of the street; he has to have a small plot of land. First he works it by digging furrows, and then he sows the seed. After that, he covers it with earth, to protect it. He anxiously waits for the harvest in order to be reimbursed for his work and the cost of the seed he entrusted to the earth. Consider someone else who wants to craft a beautiful work of art. First he prepares the raw materials and arranges to display it somewhere, and then he and then he works on it. That’s what I’ve done with you. First I chose you, then I prepared you, and finally, I entrusted you with revelations concerning My Will as a great gift. I entrusted the destiny of My Sacramental Life to My beloved Mother, and now I will hand over the destiny of the Kingdom of My Will, because you I can trust.”
Then I continued thinking about everything my beloved Good had done and how much He suffered during the course of His Life until He resumed His discourse.
He said, “My daughter, My Life down here was very short, and most of it hidden. Nevertheless, even though it was brief, My Humanity was animated by Divine Will, so there was no limit to the number of good things I did. The whole Church is nourished by My Life; She drinks Her fill from the fountain of My Doctrine. Each one of My Words is a spout pouring into the mouth of every Christian. Every one of My examples is better than the sun’s illumination. They warm and nourish the greatest sanctities to maturity. Consider all the Saints, all the good they have done and all the pain they heroically suffered. In comparison, especially considering how short My Life was, they were tiny little flames next to the bright sun.”
“In contrast, consider all the pain, humiliation, confusion and all the accusations My enemies inflicted on Me during the course of My Life and Passion. Since Divine Will reigned within Me, all these insults only confounded and humiliated My tormentors. In fact, since Divine Will was within Me, I was like the sun when the clouds are low. They might offend the sun if they darken the face of the earth by briefly blocking its vivid solar light. However, the sun just laughs at these clouds, after all, their life, floating in the air, is very brief. Even a light wind is enough to dissipate them, while the blazing sun continues triumphantly dominating the entire earth in full daylight.”
“That’s how it was with Me. Everything My enemies inflicted on Me, including My death, were like clouds covering My Humanity. However, they could not touch the Sun of My Divinity. As soon as the powerful wind of My Divine Will shifted, the clouds dissipated. Brighter than the sun, I rose again, glorious and triumphant, and My enemies were more humiliated than ever.”
“My daughter, when My Will fully reigns within the soul, minutes are like centuries filled with everything good. However, where It does not reign, a soul could live for centuries and not experience more than a few minutes’ worth of goodness. If My Will reigns in the soul, whatever humiliation, contradiction or pain she suffers are the same clouds. The wind of the Divine Fiat blows them over those who are then humiliated for daring to touch the bearer of My Eternal Volition.”
Later on, I thought about my Holy Mom, Her Heart pierced with sorrow, saying farewell to Her Jesus, dead in the tomb.
I thought, “How could She possibly have enough strength to leave Him? Even though He was dead, it was still Jesus’ body. Her maternal love must have overwhelmed Her, it had to be hard to take that first step away from that lifeless body. Yet, She did; such heroic strength!”
As I thought about it, my sweet Jesus moved inside me.
He said, “My daughter, you want to know how My Mom had the strength to leave Me. The real secret of Her strength was that My Will reigned within Her. She lived within a Will that was Divine rather than human; She had immeasurable strength. Moreover, pierced as She was, when My Mama left Me in the sepulcher, My Will immersed Her within two immense seas; one of sorrow, and the other, larger, was one of joy and beatitude. The sea of sorrow gave Her martyrdom, the sea of joy, contentment.”
“Her beautiful soul followed Me into Limbo for the feast the Patriarchs, Prophets, Her mother and father, and our dear Saint Joseph made for Me. My presence transformed Limbo into Paradise. In My pain, We were inseparable, so it was right and just that She be present at this first festival of the creatures. She had the strength to depart from My body simply because Her joy was so great. She withdrew to await My Resurrection as the fulfillment of Redemption. Joy sustained Her in sorrow, and sorrow sustained Her in joy.”
“Those who possesses My Will have strength, power, and joy; she has everything she needs. You experience this yourself when you are without Me and you feel burnt out. The light of Divine Fiat forms Its sea within you, making you happy and giving you life.”
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How Our Lord made the deposit of His Sacramental Life in the Heart of the Most Holy Virgin. The great good that a life animated by the Divine Will can do. How, in Her sorrows, the Most Holy Virgin found the secret of Her strength in the Divine Will.
I was doing the Hour in which Jesus instituted the Most Holy Eucharist; and Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, when I do an act, first I look to see whether there is at least one creature in whom to place the deposit of My Act, so that she may take the good I do, and keep it safe and well defended.
“Now, when I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, I looked for this creature, and My Queen Mama offered Herself to receive this Act of Mine and the deposit of this great gift, saying to Me: ‘My Son, just as I offered You my womb and my whole being in Your Conception, to keep You safe and defended, I now offer You my maternal Heart in order to receive this great deposit, and I line up, around Your Sacramental Life, my affections, my heartbeats, my love, my thoughts—all of Myself, to keep You defended, surrounded by cortege, loved, protected. I Myself take on the commitment to repay You for the great gift You are giving. Trust Your Mama, and I will take care of the defense of Your Sacramental Life. And since You Yourself have constituted Me Queen of all Creation, I have the right to line up around You all the light of the sun as homage and adoration, the stars, the heavens, the sea, all the inhabitants of the air—I place everything around You, to give You love and glory.’
“Now, ensuring a place for Myself in which to put this great deposit of My Sacramental Life, and trusting My Mama, who had given Me all the proofs of Her faithfulness, I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament. She was the only worthy creature who could keep, defend and protect My Act. See, then, when creatures receive Me, I descend into them together with the acts of My inseparable Mama; and only because of this can I perpetuate My Sacramental Life. Therefore, whenever I want to do a great work worthy of Me, it is necessary that I first choose one creature—first, in order to have a place in which to put My gift; second, to be repaid for it.
“They do the same also in the natural order. If a farmer wants to sow a seed, he does not throw it in the middle of the street, but he goes in search of a little field. First he works it, he forms the furrow, and then he sows the seed in it; and to keep it safe, he covers it with earth, anxiously waiting for the harvest in order to be repaid for his work, and for the seed that he entrusted to the earth. Someone else wants to form a beautiful object: first he prepares the raw materials, the place in which to put it, and then he forms it. So I have done for you: I chose you, I prepared you, and then I entrusted to you the great gift of the manifestations of My Will; and just as I entrusted the destiny of My Sacramental Life to My beloved Mother, in the same way I wanted to trust you, entrusting to you the destiny of the Kingdom of My Will.”
Then, I continued to think about all that my beloved Good had done and suffered during the course of His Life; and He added: “My daughter, My Life down here was extremely short, and I spent most of it hidden. But even though it was so very short, since My Humanity was animated by a Divine Will, how many goods did I not do? The whole Church takes from My Life, drinking Her fill at the fount of My Doctrine. Each Word of Mine is a fountain placed at the mouth of each Christian; each one of My examples is more than sun that illuminates, warms, fecundates, and makes the greatest sanctities mature. If one wanted to compare all the Saints, all the good, all of their pains and their heroism, placed before My very short Life, they would always be tiny little flames before the great sun.
“And since the Divine Will reigned in Me, all the pains, the humiliations, confusions, contrasts, accusations that the enemies gave Me during the course of My Life and of My Passion—everything served to their own humiliation and to their own greater confusion. In fact, since a Divine Will was in Me, it happened with Me as with the sun, when the clouds, extending through the lower air, seem to want to give affront to the sun by obscuring the surface of the earth, covering momentarily the vividness of the solar light. But the sun laughs at the clouds, because they cannot have perennial life in the air—their life is fleeting; a small wind is enough to make them dissolve, while the sun is always triumphant in its fullness of light that dominates and fills the whole earth.
“The same happened with Me. Everything that My enemies did to Me, and even My very death, were like many clouds that covered My Humanity. But the Sun of My Divinity they could not touch; and as soon as the wind of the power of My Divine Will moved, the clouds dissolved and, more than sun, I rose again, glorious and triumphant, leaving the enemies more humiliated than before.
“My daughter, in the soul in whom My Will reigns with all Its fullness, minutes of life are centuries—and centuries of fullness of all goods; while wherever It does not reign, centuries of life are only minutes of goods that they contain. And if the soul in whom My Will reigns should suffer humiliations, contrasts and pains, these are like clouds that the wind of the Divine Fiat unloads over those who, to their own humiliation, have dared to touch the bearer of My Eternal Volition.”
After this, I was thinking about the sorrow of my Mama, when, sorrowful and pierced in Her Heart, She departed from Jesus, leaving Him dead in the sepulcher; and I thought to myself: “How can it be possible that She had so much strength as to be able to leave Him? It is true that He was dead, but it was always the body of Jesus. How could Her maternal love not consume Her, rather than letting Her take one step alone away from that extinguished body? Yet, She left Him. What heroism, what strength!”
But while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior and told me: “My daughter, do you want to know how My Mama had the strength to leave Me? All the secret of Her strength was in My Will reigning in Her. She lived of a Will that was Divine—not human, and therefore She contained the immeasurable strength. Even more, you must know that when My pierced Mama left Me in the sepulcher, My Will kept Her immersed within two immense seas—one of sorrow, and another, more extensive, of joys and beatitudes; and while that of sorrow gave Her all the martyrdoms, that of joy gave Her all the contentments.
“Her beautiful soul followed Me into Limbo, and was present at the feast that all the Patriarchs, the Prophets, Her father, Her mother and our dear Saint Joseph made for Me. With My presence, Limbo became Paradise; and I could not do without letting She who had been inseparable from Me in My pains, be present at this first feast of the creatures. And Her joy was so great, that She had the strength to depart from My body, withdrawing and waiting for the fulfillment of My Resurrection as the fulfillment of Redemption. Joy sustained Her in sorrow, and sorrow sustained Her in joy.
“To one who possesses My Will, neither strength, nor power, nor joy can be lacking; rather, she has everything at her disposal. Do you not experience this within yourself when you are without Me and you feel consumed? The light of the Divine Fiat forms Its sea, it makes you happy, and it gives you life.”
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