Divine Mercy and the Divine Will
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Luisa Piccarreta was born on April 23, 1865 the Sunday
after Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday),
in Corato, Bari,
to Nicola Vito and Rosa Tarantino, who had five daughters: Maria, Rachele,
Filomena, Luisa and Angela. A few hours after Luisa’s birth, her father wrapped
her in a blanket and took her to the main church for baptism. Her mother had
not suffered the pangs of labor: her birth was painless.
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Mercy
St. Faustina’s Diary - 299. I desire that the first
Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy.
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Luisa, having accepted the role of victim, came to
experience a most peculiar condition: every morning she found herself rigid,
immobile, huddled up in bed, and no one could move her because of her weight,
as if she were a large piece of lead, nor could they stretch any of her
members, to raise her arms or move her head or legs as they were strongly
stiffened no one was able to stretch her out,. Her body assumed a rock-like
hardness. Her tiny frame grew so heavy
that no one could lift it. In this
death-like state, Luisa was totally paralyzed, although she retained
consciousness and suffered excruciating pains.
As we know, it required the presence of a priest who, by blessing
her with the sign of the Cross with his thumb on the back of her hands Reciting
at the same time the Trisagion prayer of the Byzantine liturgy “Holy God,
Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have Mercy on us.” This dispelled that corpse-like rigidity -
then the body of Luisa came round and started to move, and her sister could
lift her easily and with no strain, placing her in her usual and only position,
sitting on her little bed.
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St. Faustina’s Diary:
476. This prayer will serve to appease My wrath. You will recite it for nine days, on the
beads of the rosary, in the following manner:
First of all, you will say one Our Father and Hail Mary and the I
Believe in God. Then on the Our Father
beads, you will say the following words: “Eternal Father, I offer You the Body
and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ,
in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.” On the Hail Mary beads you will say the
following words: “For the sake of His
sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.” In conclusion, three times you will recite
these words” Holy God, Holy Mighty
One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
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Volume 6 - April 16, 1904
Jesus and God the Father speak about Mercy. -
Continuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, and I saw a
multitude of people, and in their midst one could hear noises of bombs and gun
shots. People were dropping dead or
wounded, and those who were left would flee up to a palace nearby; but the
enemies would go up there and kill them, more surely than those who remained
outside. So I said to myself: ‘How I wish I could see whether the Lord is
there in the midst of these people, so as to say to Him: ‘Have mercy - pity on these poor
people!’ So I went round and round and I
saw Him as a little Child; but little by little He kept growing, until He
reached the perfect age. I drew near Him
and I said: ‘Amiable Lord, don’t
You see the tragedy that is happening?
You don’t want to make use of mercy any more? Do You perhaps want to keep this attribute as
useless, which has always glorified your Incarnate Divinity with so much honor,
forming a special crown on your august head, and bejeweling You with a second
crown, so wanted and loved by You - which is souls?’
Now, while I was saying this, He told me: ‘Enough, enough, do not go any further; you
want to speak of Mercy, and what about Justice - what are we going to do with
It? I have told you and I repeat to
you: ‘It is necessary that Justice
follow Its course’.” So I replied: ‘There is no remedy - why then leave me on
this earth when I can no longer placate You and suffer in the place of my
neighbor? Since it is so, it is better
if You let me die.’ At that moment I saw
another person behind the shoulders of blessed Jesus, and He told me, almost
making a sign with His eyes: “Present
yourself to my Father and see what He tells you.’ I presented myself, all trembling, and as
soon as He saw me, He told me: “Why have
you come to Me?” And I: ‘Adorable Goodness, infinite Mercy, knowing
that You are Mercy Itself, I have come to ask for your Mercy - Mercy on your
very images, Mercy on the works created by You; Mercy on nothing else but your
creatures themselves.’ And He said to
me: “So, it is Mercy that you want. But if you want true Mercy, after Justice has
poured Itself out It will produce abundant fruits of Mercy
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Mercy
In answer to Luisa’s request for Mercy, St. Mary
Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament was born the following year on August 2, 1905
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The archbishop at that time, Giuseppe Bianchi Dottula
(December 22, 1848-September 22,1892), came to know of what was
happening in Corato; thought it right to delegate to Luisa a special
confessor, Fr. Michele De Benedictis. Fr. Michele, ordered her to eat at least
once a day, even if she immediately threw up everything she had
swallowed. Luisa was to live on the Divine Will alone. It was under this priest
that she received permission to stay in bed all the time as a victim of
expiation. This was in 1888. Luisa remained nailed to her bed of pain, from New
Year 1889 she was to remain there permanently.
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St. Faustina’s Diary - 1264…Act of total abandonment to the will of God,
which is for me, love and mercy itself.
Jesus-Host, whom I have this very moment received into my heart, through
this union with You I offer myself to the heavenly Father as a sacrificial
host, abandoning myself totally and completely to the most merciful and holy
will of my God. From today onward, Your
will, Lord is my food. Take my whole
being dispose of me as You please.
Whatever Your fatherly hand give me, I will accept with submission,
peace and joy.
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Volume 11 - April 10, 1912
The souls who have more trust will shine more in the
crown of the divine mercy. Continuing in my usual state, as soon as
blessed Jesus came, He told me: "My daughter, the souls who will
shine the most, like bright gems in the crown of my divine mercy, are the souls
who have more trust, because the more trusting they are, the more they give
space for the attribute of my Mercy to pour into them all the Graces that they
want. On the other hand, the soul who does not have real trust closes
the graces within Me, remaining poor and unequipped, while my Love remains
contained within Me and suffers greatly.
In order not to suffer so much, and to be able to freely pour out my
Love, I deal more with those souls who trust than with the others.
With these souls I can pour out my Love, I can play, I can cause loving
contrasts, since there is no worry that they may feel ashamed or afraid;
rather, they become more brave and take everything in order to love Me more. Therefore,
trusting souls are the outpouring and the amusement of my Love - the most
graceful and the richest ones."
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Saint Faustina’s Diary
-102. When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and
with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of
conversion. This is the prayer:“O
Blood & Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of
Mercy for us, I trust in You.”
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In 1994, on the day of the Feast of Christ the
King, in the main church, Archbishop Carmelo Cassati, in the presence
of a large crowd including foreign representatives, officially opened the
beatification cause of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.
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St. Faustina’s Diary - 83. Write this: before
I come as the just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy. Before the day of justice arrives, there will
be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort:
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Volume 10 - February 3,
1912
If
in the soul there is no purity, upright working and love, she cannot be the
mirror of Jesus. Continuing in my
usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, and placing His holy hand under my
chin, He told me: “My daughter,
you are the reflection of my glory.”
Then He added:
“In the world I need mirrors to which to go and look at Myself. Only then can a fount serve as mirror in
which people can reflect themselves…
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St. Faustina’s Diary -163 O
Most Holy Trinity! As many times as I
breathe, as many times as my heart beats, as many times as my blood pulsates
through my body, so many thousand times do I want to glorify Your mercy.I want
to be completely transformed into Your mercy and to be Your living
reflection, O Lord.
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November
9, 1906
Effects of meditating continuously on the Passion.
Finding myself in my usual state, I was thinking about
the Passion of Our Lord; and while I was doing this, He came and told me: "My
daughter, one who meditates continuously on my Passion and feels sorrow for it
and compassion for Me, pleases Me so much that I feel as though comforted for
all that I suffered in the course of my Passion; and by always
meditating on it, the soul arrives at preparing a continuous food.
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St. Faustina’s Diary - 267 Jesus told me that I
please Him best by meditating on His sorrowful Passion, and by such
meditation much light falls upon my soul.
He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of
Jesus.
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Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia - Messina, October 29, 1926 : We begin, with this first printing, the publication of more than 20 handwritten volumes of sublime revelations which, always excepting the judgments of the Holy Church, we believe to have been given by Our Lord Jesus Christ to a soul, a dearest daughter and disciple of His, who is the pious author of the Hours of the Passion. Even now we make known that these revelations, which are continuing and will continue, we don’t know for how much longer, have as their goal the establishment of the complete Triumph of the Kingdom of the Divine Will upon earth.
Divine Mercy
St. Faustina’s Diary - 304. O my Jesus, my only hope, thank You for the book which You have opened
before my soul’s eyes. That book is
Your Passion which You
underwent for love of me. It is from
this book that I have learned how to love God and souls. In this book there are found for us
inexhaustible treasures. O Jesus, how few souls understand You in Your
martyrdom of love!
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St. Faustina’s Diary - 1826…When I had received Jesus
in Holy Communion, my heart cried out with all its might, “Jesus, transform me into another host! I want to be a living host
for You. You are a great and
all-powerful Lord; You can grant me this favor.” And the Lord answered me, You are a living host, pleasing to the
Heavenly Father. But reflect: What is a host? A sacrifice.
And so…? Oh my Jesus, I understand the meaning of
“host”, the meaning of sacrifice. I
desire to be before Your Majesty a living host;
that is, a living sacrifice that daily burns in Your honor.
When my strength begins to fail, it is Holy Communion
that will sustain me and give me strength.
Indeed, I fear the day on which I would not receive Holy Communion. My soul draws astonishing strength form Holy
Communion. O living Host, light of my soul!
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Volume 14 - March 24, 1922
Every Act Done in the Divine Will
Multiplies the Sacramental Life of Jesus. As I continued in my usual state, my
ever-lovable Jesus came and said to me:
“My daughter,
when the soul does its acts in my Will it multiplies my Life. If it does ten
acts in my Will, it multiplies Me ten times; and if it does twenty, one
hundred, one thousand, or even more acts in my Will, so many times does it
multiply Me. It is similar to the sacramental consecration. I am multiplied
into as many hosts as are consecrated. But in the case of the consecration I
need the hosts to be able to multiply Myself, and I need a priest to consecrate
them. Whereas in my Will I need the acts of creatures which are living
hosts, not dead like the hosts before their consecration, so that my Will may
consecrate and enclose Me in these acts. Thus am I multiplied in each act of a
soul when it is done in my Will. Because of this my Love finds its complete
release and satisfaction in souls that do my Will and live within my Volition.
It is they who constantly provide the basis not just for the acts that all
creatures owe Me, but also for my Sacramental Life itself. How many times
does my Sacramental Life remain enclosed and shackled within a few consecrated
hosts. Few are those who receive communion and often there are no priests to
consecrate Me. My Sacramental Life not only fails to be multiplied as it
desires, but often ceases to exist. Oh, how my Love suffers! I would like to
multiply my Life every day into as many hosts as there are creatures, so that I
could give Myself to them. Yet I wait in vain; my Will remains impotent. But
what I have decided, shall be. That is why I am taking a different path and
multiply Myself, alive, in each act done by creatures in my Will. I want these
acts to bring about the multiplication of my Sacramental Life. Oh yes, only
those souls who live in my Will provide all the communions creatures fail to
receive, and make up for all the consecrations priests have failed to make! In
them I will find everything, even the multiplication of my Sacramental Life.
I repeat, your mission is very great. I could not have picked you for a higher,
more noble, more sublime, more divine mission. There is nothing that I will not
concentrate in you, even to the multiplication of my Life. I will perform new
prodigies of Grace never performed before. Therefore, be attentive and faithful
to Me. Make sure that my Will always finds life in you. Then in my own Will
living in you, I will find the work of Creation whole and complete, with all
the rights that are due me and with everything I desire.”
Lynne Bauer
