The Rounds

WHAT ARE THE ROUNDS?

They are an exchange of life, which is amplified and nourished with the Life of the Supreme FIAT.

WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE?

To give back to God the Glory which is due to Him. To place oneself in relation with the attributes of God, which are spread throughout the Creation, and to impetrate the Kingdom of the Supreme FIAT upon earth.

WHAT ARE THEY MADE OF?

Acts of love, of reparation, of praise, of thanksgiving, of blessing, of recognition and of gratitude.

TO WHAT ARE THEY CONNECTED?

To the Single and Continuous Act of God.

WITH WHAT DO THEY PUT US IN COMMUNICATION?

With the immensity of God and with the creative and preserving power of the Divine Will, which sustains the whole Creation, including man.

WHAT DO THEY IMPLY?

Love of gratitude, of recognition, of thanksgiving, of union, and an exchange of Light, because one receives Light to then give back the fruit of Light.

An exchange of life, of peace, of serenity; an amplification and expansion of the soul in God, and of God in the soul.                                               Sister Assunta, Pious Assn. of the Divine Will, Corato, Italy

“…given all this – that in all created things God bound His love toward each creature – hers was the duty to requite God with her little love, with her gratitude, with her ‘thank You’ to the One who had done so much for her. Not requiting God in love for everything He has done for man in Creation, is the first fraud that the creature makes against God; it is to usurp His gifts without even recognizing where they come from, and the One who has loved her so much. Therefore, this is the first duty of the creature, and this duty is so indispensable and important, that She who took to heart all Our glory, Our defense, Our interest, did nothing but go around through all the spheres, from the smallest to the greatest thing created by God, in order to impress Her requital of love, of glory, of thanksgiving, for all and in the name of all human generations. Ah! yes, it was precisely my Celestial Mama who filled Heaven and earth with the requital for everything that God had done in Creation. After Her came my Humanity, which fulfilled this duty so sacrosanct, in which the creature had so very much failed, and rendered my Celestial Father benevolent toward guilty man. So, these were my prayers, and those of my inseparable Mama. Don’t you want, then, to repeat my very prayers? Even more, this is why I have called you into my Will – that you may associate yourself with Us, and follow and repeat Our acts.”    Vol. 18, Aug. 9, 1925

Do you want to know how to grow in the FIAT? 

“By calling it in everything you do, whether natural or spiritual.  In fact, everything is in the Divine Will; therefore It wants to love together with you, and if you call It, It gives you Its Love in your power in order to be loved; It gives you Its sanctity to make yourself a saint, Its light to make Itself known and to eclipse your weaknesses, miseries and passions, so that they may no longer have life in you, but only Its Will, laying and forming Its Life in your little act…”       (From the Letters of Luisa – Corato, January, 2, 1939)

Example of praying the Rounds:

The Rounds of the Soul in the Divine Will

First Hour

The soul follows the Divine Will in all of Its acts
to keep It company, and to receive Its Divine Life.
She follows It in the creation of the Heavens and of the Sun.

My Jesus, I come into the Heavens to sing the praises of the Divine firmness. I go around and I come into the Sun, to give its kiss of light and love to all.
Oh! How beautiful it is to see Your Supreme Majesty pronouncing one Fiat and extending the azure Heavens with billions of stars, dazzling with light. Then It pronounces another one and creates the Sun; It pronounces one more and creates the wind, the air, the sea, and all the elements together, with such order and harmony as to be enrapturing.
My Jesus, my Good, oh! how I yearn to receive within myself all the love that your Divine Fiat had in creating the Heavens studded with stars, so that I myself may have as much love as It had in creating them, and I may extend my Heaven of love toward the Fiat. And investing all the stars with my love, I want to give my voice to the heavens and to all the stars, so that all of them may say together with me: "I love You – may your Kingdom come soon upon earth, for the perennial glory of your Divine Will." I come into the Heavens, I fly over all the stars, to adore and sing the praises of the Divine firmness, of Its unshakable Being, so that It may render creatures firm in good, and they may dispose themselves to receive the Kingdom of your Will.
My Love, I continue my round, and I come into the Sun - into the act when the Fiat unleashed so much light from the womb of the Divinity, and formed this globe of light which was to embrace all the earth with all of its inhabitants, to give its kiss of light and of love to all, with which it was to embellish, fecundate, give color, enrich and bejewel everything with its light.
Don’t You feel, my Love, how your Will would want to tear the veils of the light, so as to descend and reign in the midst of creatures? And I, upon the wings of the light of the Sun – I pray You, I press You, that the Kingdom of your Fiat come; and from the center of this Sun, I pray You that your light may descend into the hearts of creatures and form its Sun in them. Let your love descend and burn away all that does not belong to your Will.
This Sun is your Divine relater. O please! my Love, let it be so that, as its light touches the creatures, it may reveal to all of them the Kingdom of your Fiat and Its Sanctity.

Second Hour

The soul follows the Divine Will
in the creation of the sea and of the wind.

My Jesus, the murmuring of the sea, the darting of the fish, the tumultuous waves together with the refrigerating freshness of the wind, ask You for the Kingdom of your Fiat.
Therefore, I come into this sea to acclaim and to love your incessant motion within its murmuring; your strength and justice in its huge waves, your purity which knows no stain in its crystal clear waters, all of your grace and your immensity that envelops everything, in the sea. And I pray You to render the man who lives hidden and wrapped in your Most Holy Will, upright, strong and pure, that he may run within your own motion, from which he came.
My Life, Jesus, I go around the wind, to love, praise, acclaim and bless in it the empire of your Will, its refrigerating freshness and its violence and impetuosity that knocks down, raises and kidnaps away all that it invests.
How many beautiful Divine qualities are hidden in the veils of the wind. Therefore I pray You that by the empire of your Supreme Will, your Kingdom may come into the midst of creatures, and may rule in such a way that none of them will be able to resist It.

Third Hour

The soul follows the Divine Will, flying over the whole earth;
and, admiring all creating things - the air, the grass, the mountains, etc.,
she asks for the Kingdom of the Fiat.

My Jesus, I want to bless, glorify and impress my "I love You" in the order of the entire Creation, in order to bring the order and harmony of the Kingdom of your Divine Will to all.
I want to fly over the whole earth, to impress my "I love You" on the little blade of grass, on the little plants, upon the heights of the mountains as well as in the darkest abysses, to ask You, everywhere, for the Kingdom of your Fiat.
Therefore, I keep going around, impressing my "I love You" in the little bird that sings, trills and warbles, to ask You, together with its singing, for the Fiat of your Kingdom. I seal my "I love You" in the little lamb that bleats, to ask You, in its bleating, for your Kingdom; in the turtledove that moans, to moan along with it and, loving You, ask You for your Fiat. There is no being which I do not intend to invest, in order to repeat my refrain: Fiat! Fiat!

Fourth Hour

The soul goes into Eden and unites herself to the feast of God in the creation of man.

I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat in order to follow all of Its acts; and as I arrived at Eden, I comprehended and admired the magnanimous act of God, and His exuberant and overflowing Love in the creation of man.
My Jesus, in my shiver of love, I come right into the act in which your Supreme Majesty, overflowing with love, is about to breathe upon man, and blowing on him It infuses life in him, giving him your Likeness, and the Divine Fiat as inheritance. I too want to receive your regenerative breath; I want to love You and adore You with that perfection and sanctity with which the first father Adam loved You and adored You.
I enter into the Unity of your Will – into that very Unity which your dear jewel possessed, so that my will may be one with Yours - one the Love. And in this Unity that embraces everything, may my voice resound in Heaven, invest the whole Creation, penetrate into the darkest abysses, and say and cry out loudly: "May the Kingdom of your Divine Will come. Fiat – Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as It is in Heaven."

Fifth Hour

The soul is present at the fall of Adam in Eden and at the Divine Sorrow,
and tries to repair with her love.

My Life, Jesus, I do not want to go out of the Unity of your Divine Will so as to make up for that which the first creatures lost; to remove the mark of dishonor that was impressed on their foreheads because they did their own will; to maintain with You the joys, the happiness’s, the amusements that they had in the first times of Creation. I want to place my kiss, my continuous reparation on that sorrow, which was so great as to make You cover Yourself with the mantle of Justice.
I want to place on You the mantle of peace, of light, of the Unity of your Will, and have one single cry: "May the Kingdom of your Fiat come. May the first times of Creation return. May the feasts, the joys, the amusements between You and the creatures be opened once again." I will not leave You; I will not descend from your knees, if You do not give me your word that You will let the Kingdom of your Will return once again into the midst of creatures.

Sixth Hour

The soul continues her reparation;
then she goes through all the main characters
of the Old Testament, and longs for Redemption.

My Jesus, I want to hover in your Divine Will in order to trace everything and everyone. Therefore I imprison my "I love You" in the sacrifice of Abraham and in the obedience of Isaac, to ask You, for the sake of this sacrifice and of this obedience, for the Kingdom of your Divine Will. In this Unity of your Fiat I find the sorrow of Jacob, the sorrow of Joseph and his glory, the power of the miracles of Moses, the strength of Samson, the sanctity of David, the patience of Job.
See, my Love, these are the acts of your Will that I keep tracing within all creatures to ask You, by means of Its own acts, that your Fiat be known, loved and wanted by all.
Then I continued my round in the Divine Fiat, accompanying, with my "I love You", all the prodigies It had done in the Saints, Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Testament, as well as in those after His coming upon earth, to ask for His Kingdom by virtue of all these acts.