The Storm

Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent storm,

it shall rest upon the head of the wicked. Jeremiah 30:23

“You are called to be my peace in this storm.   And so walk in serenity, walk in tranquility, walk in trust.  Thus the more obscurity descends, the more you will be my light; and if the storm increases day by day, you will be ever more and more my peace.  You will give to each one, at every moment, the sign of my motherly presence among you.”  To the Priests, Fr. Gobbi, #105uv

“Here you will be safe from every danger, and at the moment of the storm, you will find your peace.  Here you will be formed by me according to the plan which the Heart of my Son Jesus has entrusted to me.  Thus each one of you will be helped by me to carry out in a perfect manner the Divine Will alone.”  To the Priests, Fr. Gobbi, #177bc

“At the most violent hour of the storm, you will see my great light grow brighter and more apparent:  the Woman Clothed with the Sun, with the moon at her feet and about her head a crown of twelve stars!  This is the sign of my victory and yours!”  To the Priests, Fr. Gobbi, #191m

“During these hours, share in my great concern, and unite yourselves, each and all, to my prayer of intercession and reparation.  Multiply everywhere the cenacles of prayer which I have asked of you, as safe places, as refuges in which you take shelter in the tremendous storm which awaits you.”  To the Priests, Fr. Gobbi, #509g

 “My Flame of Love is beginning to light.  The chosen souls have to fight the Prince of Darkness.  It will be a terrible storm, like a hurricane, devastating everything.  And what is more, he wants to destroy the faith and trust of the chosen ones.  I will be with you everywhere in the approaching storm.  I am your Mother.  I can and will help you.  You will feel and experience everywhere the flashing light of my Flame of Love, which will illuminate slumbering and darkened souls.”  (The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Elizabeth Kindelmann, pg. 85)

“Before the hard times befall you, prepare yourself for the vocation to which I have called each of you.  Do not live in indifference and idleness.  The approaching storm will carry away the idle, indifferent souls.  Only the souls who are able to make sacrifices will be saved.  The storm will start when I lift up My hand.  Give My warning to everyone, especially to Priests.  Let My warning shake you up from your indifference in advance.”  (The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Elizabeth Kindelmann, pgs. 104-105)

 “My daughter, do not want to trouble yourself. You must know that when there is a strong storm in the sea, where the waters are deep the storm is only superficial. The depths of the sea are in the most perfect calm, the waters remain tranquil, and the fish, when they detect the storm, go to nest where the water is deeper so as to be safer. So, the whole storm unloads itself where the sea contains very little water, because since there is little water, the storm has the strength to agitate it from top to bottom, and even to transport it elsewhere, to other points of the sea.

So it happens to souls when they are completely filled with God - up to the brim, up to overflowing outside: storms have no strength to upset them even slightly, because there is no strength that can defy God; at the most, they may feel it superficially. Even more, as the soul detects the storm, she puts the virtues in order, and goes to nest in the inmost depths of God. So, while externally there seems to be a storm, it is completely false – it is then that the soul enjoys more peace, and rests, tranquil, in the bosom of God, just like the fish in the bosom of the sea.”    Book of Heaven, Vol. 8, Mar. 15, 1908

And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little ship with his disciples, and he said to them: Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. And when they were sailing, he slept; and there came down a storm of wind upon the lake, and they were filled, and were in danger. And they came and awaked him, saying: Master, we perish. But he arising, rebuked the wind and the rage of the water; and it ceased, and there was a calm. And he said to them: Where is your faith?  Luke 8:22-25

And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. Psalm 106:29

Prophetic Vision of Saint John Bosco

“Try to picture yourselves with me on the seashore, or, better still, on an outlying cliff with no other land in sight. The vast expanse of water is covered with a formidable array of ships in battle formation, prows fitted with sharp spear-like beaks capable of breaking through any defense. All are heavily armed with cannons, incendiary bombs, and firearms of all sorts – even books – and are heading toward one stately ship, mightier than them all. As they try to close in, they try to ram it, set it afire, and cripple it as much as possible.

“This stately vessel is shielded by a flotilla escort. Winds and waves are with the enemy. In this midst of this endless sea, two solid columns, a short distance apart, soar high into the sky: one is surmounted by a statue of the Immaculate Virgin at whose feet a large inscription reads: Help of Christians; the other, far loftier and sturdier, supports a [Communion] Host of proportionate size and bears beneath it the inscription Salvation of believers.

“The flagship commander – the Roman Pontiff [the Pope]- seeing the enemy’s fury and his auxiliary ships very grave predicament, summons his captains to a conference. However, as they discuss their strategy, a furious storm breaks out and they must return to their ships. When the storm abates, the Pope again summons his captains as the flagship keeps on its course. But the storm rages again. Standing at the helm, the Pope strains every muscle to steer his ship between the two columns from whose summits hang many anchors and strong hooks linked to chains.

“The entire enemy fleet closes in to intercept and sink the flagship at all costs. They bombard it with everything they have: books and pamphlets, incendiary bombs, firearms, cannons. The battle rages ever more furious. Beaked prows ram the flagship again and again, but to no avail, as, unscathed and undaunted, it keeps on its course. At times a formidable ram splinters a gaping hole into its hull, but, immediately, a breeze from the two columns instantly seals the gash.

“Meanwhile, enemy cannons blow up, firearms and beaks fall to pieces, ships crack up and sink to the bottom. In blind fury the enemy takes to hand-to-hand combat, cursing and blaspheming. Suddenly the Pope falls, seriously wounded. He is instantly helped up but, struck down a second time, dies. A shout of victory rises from the enemy and wild rejoicing sweeps their ships. But no sooner is the Pope dead than another takes his place. The captains of the auxiliary ships elected him so quickly that the news of the Pope’s death coincides with that of his successor’s election. The enemy’s self-assurance wanes.

“Breaking through all resistance, the new Pope steers his ship safely between the two columns and moors it to the two columns; first to the one surmounted by the Host, and then to the other, topped by the statue of the Virgin. At this point something unexpected happens. The enemy ships panic and disperse, colliding with and scuttling each other. Some auxiliary ships which had gallantly fought alongside their flagship are the first to tie up at the two columns.

“Many others, which had fearfully kept far away from the fight, stand still, cautiously waiting until the wrecked enemy ships vanish under the waves. Then, they too head for the two columns, tie up at the swinging hooks, and ride safe and tranquil beside their flagship. A great calm now covers the sea.”

“Very grave trials await the Church. What we have suffered so far is almost nothing compared to what is going to happen. The enemies of the Church are symbolized by the ships which strive their utmost to sink the flagship. Only two things can save us in such a grave hour: devotion to Mary and frequent Communion. Let us do our very best to use these two means and have others use them everywhere.”

“Remain, all of you, in the refuge of my Immaculate Heart, and you will find your peace and interior serenity.  My beloved sons, the storm which I foretold at Fatima has now unleashed its fury for the purification of the Church and all the world.  This is the hour of the Father’s mercy which, through the love of the Son’s divine Heart, is made manifest at the moment when everyone’s suffering is at its greatest.”  To  the  Priests,  Fr. Gobbi, #171ab

Fatima Apparition July 13, 1917

“…God wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. This war will end, but if men do not refrain from offending God, another and more terrible war will begin during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night that is lit by a strange and unknown light [this occurred on January 28, 1938], you will know it is the sign God gives you that He is about to punish the world with war and with hunger, and by the persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. 

To prevent this, I shall come to the world to ask that Russia be consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, and I shall ask that on the First Saturday of every month Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins-of the world. If my wishes are fulfilled, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, then Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, bringing new wars and persecution of the Church; the good will be martyred and the Holy Father will have much to suffer; certain nations will be annihilated. But in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and the world will enjoy a period of peace. In Portugal the faith will always be preserved...”

Lynne Bauer

Divine Will and Divine Mercy

DIVINE WILL (BOOK OF HEAVEN)

AND DIVINE MERCY (DIARY OF ST. FAUSTINA)

Divine Will – Luisa Piccarreta was born on April 23, 1865, (the Sunday after Easter Divine Mercy Sunday).    A few hours after Luisa’s birth, her father wrapped her in a blanket and took her to the main church for Baptism.

Divine Mercy  - Jesus to St. Faustina, “I desire that the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy.  (Diary #299)  (On Luisa’s birthday of April 23, Pope John Paul II solemnly instituted the Universal Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday)

Divine Will – Luisa, having accepted the role of victim soul, 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.  Her arms, head and legs were strongly stiffened and 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.  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 would dispel the corpse like rigidity and Luisa could then be moved into a sitting position. 

Divine Mercy – Jesus to St. Faustina, “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.’” (Diary  #476)

God’s Mercy

Divine Will  - 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 anymore? 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.” (Vol. 6, April 16, 1904)

Divine Mercy – In answer to Luisa’s request for Mercy, St. Mary Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament was born the following year on August 25, 1905.

Food of the Divine Will

Divine Will – The Archbishop, Giuseppe Bianchi Dottula (Dec. 22, 1848 – Sept. 22, 1892) came to know of what was happening in Corato.  He delegated to Luisa a special confessor, Fr. Michele De Benedictis.  Fr. De Benedictis ordered Luisa 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. 

Divine Mercy – St. Faustina “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.  Whatever Your Fatherly hand gives me, I will accept with submission, peace and joy.”  (Diary #1264)

Trust

Divine Will – 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 trust they have, the more they give space for the attribute of my Mercy to pour into them any grace they want. On the other hand, the soul who does not have true trust herself, closes the graces within Me remaining always poor and unequipped, while my love remains constrained within Me, and I suffer very much. And in order not to suffer so much, and to be able to pour out my love more freely, I deal more with those souls who trust than with the others. With these I can pour out my love, I can play, I can cause loving contrasts, since there is no worry that they might take offense or become fearful; on the contrary, 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 ones who receive more graces, and the richest.”    (Volume 11, April 10, 1912)

Divine Mercy – “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 and Water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.”  ( Diary, #186-187)

“My Heart rejoices in this title of Mercy.”  (Diary, #300)  Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God.  All the works of My Hands are crowned with mercy.”  (Diary, #301)

FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING – KING OF MERCY

Divine Will – I was thinking about today’s Feast – that is, the Feast of Christ the King; and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, the Church does nothing but intuitively grasp what She must know on my Divine Will and how Its Kingdom must come.  Therefore, this Feast is the prelude of the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat. Indeed, the Church is doing nothing other than honoring my Humanity with those titles which, by right, are due to It; and when She has given Me all the honors that befit Me, She will move on to honor and to institute the Feast to the Kingdom of my Divine Will, by which my Humanity was animated. The Church proceeds step by step, and now She institutes the Feast to my Heart, now She consecrates the century, in all solemnity, to Christ the Redeemer, and now She moves on, with greater solemnity, to institute the Feast to Christ the King. Christ the King means that He must have His Kingdom, He must have peoples worthy of such a King. And who will ever be able to form for Me this Kingdom if not my Will? Then, yes, will I be able to say: ‘I have my people – my Fiat has formed it for Me.’ Oh! if the leaders of the Church knew what I have manifested to you about my Divine Will, what I want to do, Its great prodigies, my yearnings, my sorrowful heartbeats, my anguishing sighs, for I want my Will to reign, to make everyone happy, to restore the human family - they would feel that in this Feast of Christ the King is nothing other than the secret echo of my Heart which, echoing in them, without their knowing it, has them institute for Me the Feast of Christ the King in order to call their attention and reflection. ‘Christ the King…. And His true people – where are they?’ And they would say: ‘Let us hasten to make His Divine Will known; let us let It reign, that we may give a people to Christ the King, whom we have called so. Otherwise, we have honored Him with words, but not with facts’.”  (Vol. 25, 10/28/1928)

Divine Will – 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 beautification cause of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta.

Divine Mercy – “Write this:  before I come as the just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy.”

(Diary, #83, told to St. Faustina in 1934)

REFLECTION OF GOD

Divine Will – 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, when the fount is pure; but it is of no use for the fount to be pure if the waters are cloudy.” (Vol. 10, Feb. 3, 1912)

Divine Mercy – “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.”

(Diary, #163)

EFFECTS OF MEDITATING CONTINUOUSLY ON THE PASSION

Divine Will – 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.”  (Vol. 7, Nov. 9, 1906)

Divine Mercy – “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.”  (Diary, #267)

“My daughter, meditate frequently on the sufferings which I have undergone for your sake, and then nothing of what you suffer for Me will seem great to you.  You please Me most when you meditate on My Sorrowful Passion.  Join your little suffering to My Sorrowful Passion so that they may have INFINITE value before My Majesty.”  (Diary, #1512)

(Saint Hannibal Maria Di Francia – Messina, Oct. 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.”  )

LIVING HOSTS

DIVINE WILL - “It seems that the souls who do my Will do nothing, while they do everything, because, being in my Will, they act in a divine manner, in a hidden and surprising way. So, they are light that illuminates, they are winds that purify, they are fire that burns, they are miracles that make others do miracles. Those who do miracles are channels; but in these souls resides the power. Therefore, they are the foot of the missionary, the tongue of the preachers, the strength of the weak, the patience of the sick, the regime of the superiors, the obedience of the subjects, the tolerance of the slandered, the firmness in dangers, the heroism of the heroes, the courage of the martyrs, the sanctity in the saints, and so with all the rest. Being in my Will, they concur with all the good that can exist both in Heaven and on earth. This is why I can surely say that they are my true hosts - but living hosts, not dead ones. In fact, the accidents that form the host are not full of life, nor do they influence my life; but the soul is full of life, and by doing my Will, she influences and concurs with all that I do. This is why these hosts consecrated by my Will are more dear to Me than the very sacramental hosts, and if I have reason to exist in the sacramental hosts, it is to form the sacramental hosts of my Will. “   (Vol.  11, Mar. 15, 1912)

Divine Will - Continuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me: “My daughter, as the soul emits her acts in my Will, she multiplies my Life. So, if she does ten acts in my Will, she multiplies Me ten times; if she does twenty, a hundred, a thousand and yet more, so many times am I multiplied. It happens as in the sacramental consecration: as many hosts as they place, so many times am I multiplied. The difference which exists is that in the sacramental consecration I need the hosts in order to multiply Myself, and the priest who would consecrate Me; while in my Will, in order to be multiplied, I need the acts of the creature in which, more than in a living host - not a dead one, like those hosts before my consecration - my Will consecrates Me, and It encloses Me in the act of the creature, and I remain multiplied at each one of their acts done in my Will. Therefore, my love has its complete outpouring with the souls who do my Will and live in my Volition. They are the ones who always substitute, not only for all the acts that creatures owe Me, but for my very Sacramental Life.” 

(Vol. 14, March 24, 1922)

DIVINE MERCY – 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…?”   “O 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.”   (Diary, #1826)

NOTES:  Taken from “The Gift of Living in the Divine Will in the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta, Rev. Joseph Iannuzzi, pg. 511

Jesus reveals to the Canadian mystic who was beautified, Dina Belanger, “The grace of incarnating Me, of living and growing in your soul, never to leave it, of possessing you and of being possessed by you as in one and the same substance…is the grace of graces.”  “I want to deify you in the same way as I united My humanity with My divinity…”

Similarly, Jesus reveals to the Mexican mystic, who was declared Venerable, Conchita deArmida, “While saying at the last Supper: ‘The is My Body, this is My Blood’, I had in mind the extension of this Body and this Blood in My priests transformed in Me, fully formed also, in this sense, Living Eucharists, and with the same end of living immolated on behalf of all the world.  Then I beheld in My soul that they would disappear, and in a certain sense, like the substance of bread and wine, remain transformed into Me for the salvation of souls.”

Jesus reveals to Faustina Kowalska:  “You are a living host, pleasing to the Heavenly Father.”

O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us,

I trust in You

L. Bauer

Mary, the Wonderful Echo of God

MARY, OUR MOTHER AND QUEEN

In the month of May, we honor Mary Our Mother and Queen of the Divine Will.  St. Louis de Montfort said, “Mary is the wonderful echo of God. The more a person joins himself to Her, the more effectively she unites him to God.” “It is Mary who leads every soul straight to God and to union with Him.”  He says, “She is the sure means, the direct and immaculate way to Jesus and the perfect guide to Him.” He who finds Mary finds life.”  “…She is the dawn which precedes and discloses the Sun of Justice.”

In the Book of Heaven, Jesus speaks many times about this echo, “the echo of love”. He tells us to be His echo, the echo of His Life, the echo of His Celestial Mama, because She alone lived perfectly and fully in the Supreme Volition and therefore, She will be our teacher and guide.  As we pray and offer reparation to God, we form one single echo of reparations between us and Him, and His justice is calmed, not only in the present time, but also in the future.  In His Divine Appeal to His children on earth, Jesus tells us that it is our Mother and Queen who is traveling among the people of the nations disposing and preparing them to live in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, forming Divine Life in them.

There is so much we can say about Mary Our Mother, but most importantly, we must remember what Jesus tells us in the Book of Heaven that it is Mary who sees who in anyway is disposed and wants to live of the Divine Will.  He reminds us that in difficulties to always remember that She is around us, sustains us, strengthens us, and takes the “wretched rags” of our human will into Her maternal hands to make it receive the Life of the Supreme Fiat. She is the teacher of the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat.  Let us always be attentive and obedient to Her.

And so, as we read the words of Jesus in the Book of Heaven, we also become His echo, so that, like Mary, all Jesus did and suffered may resound like a deep echo in the depths of our souls.  It is Her maternal echo that resounds in us giving us the Grace of making the eternal Fiat reign in us.

Let us become the echo of His Love united to the Immaculate Heart of Mary that through Her Heart we may offer perfect Love to God and return to Him the Love with which He loves us.

Book of Heaven, Vol. 24:  “The Kingdom of Our Fiat is exactly this: the return of Our divine echo, not the far away echo which has often resounded to the hearing of man from the time he withdrew from Our Will; but the continuous echo which will resound in the depth of souls and transforming them, it will form Divine Life in them giving back to them the order of man as he was created.”

Lynne B.  5/2/16

The Great Difference Between Living in the Divine Will and Doing the Divine Will

The Great Difference Between Living in the Divine Will  and Doing the Divine Will (all excerpts are taken from The Book of Heaven)

Volume 3 - July 10, 1900 - While I was in the same confusion, He made Himself seen like a flash and made me understand that I had not written everything He had told me the day before – that is, that the soul must not only live for God, but in God.  So, blessed Jesus repeated to me the difference that exists between living for God and living in God, saying to me:  “In living for God, the soul can be subject to disturbances, to bitternesses, to being inconstant, to feeling the weight of passions, to meddle in earthly things.  But the living in God – no, it is completely different, because the most important thing so that one person may enter to dwell inside another person is to lay down all that belongs to him – that is, to strip himself of everything, to leave his own passions; in a word, to leave everything in order to find everything in God.   Now, when the soul has not only stripped herself, but has slimmed down well, then will she be able to enter through the narrow door of my Heart to live in Me, according to my way and from my own Life.  In fact, even though my Heart is immense, so much so, that there is no end to Its boundaries, Its door, however, is extremely narrow, and only one who is stripped of everything can enter into It.  This, with reason, because since I am Most Holy, I would never admit anything to live in Me which is extraneous to my sanctity.  Therefore, my daughter, try to live in Me and you will possess Paradise in advance.” Who can say how much I understood of this living in God?  But then He disappeared and I was left in my same state.  
 

Volume 12 - August 14, 1917 - As I was in my usual state, my sweet Jesus just barely came, passing by, and told me:  “My daughter, I did nothing other than give Myself prey to the Will of the Father.  Therefore, if I thought, I thought in the mind of the Father; if I spoke, I spoke in the mouth and with the tongue of the Father; if I worked, I worked in the hands of the Father.  I even breathed my breathing in Him, and everything I did was ordered the way He wanted.  Therefore, I could say that I carried out my Life in the Father, and that I was the bearer of the Father, because I enclosed everything in His Will and I did nothing by Myself.  My main point was the Will of the Father, because I did not care about Myself, nor did I interrupt my course because of the offenses I received; rather, I kept flying more and more toward my center.  Only then did my natural Life end, when I fulfilled the Will of the Father in everything.  The same for you, my daughter.  If you give yourself prey to my Will, you will no longer have concerns for anything.  The very privation of Me, which torments you and consumes you so much, flowing in my Will, will find support, my hidden kisses, my Life in you, clothed with you.  In your very heartbeat you will feel Mine - burning and sorrowful; and if you don’t see Me, you feel Me; my arms hold you tightly.  How many times you feel my motion, my refreshing breath, which refreshes your ardors!  You do feel all this; and when you try to see who squeezed you, who breathes on you, and you do not see Me, I smile at you, I kiss you with the kisses of my Will, and I hide more within you, in order to surprise you again, and let you jump once more into my Will.  Therefore, do not sadden Me by afflicting yourself - but let Me do. 

 

May the flight of my Volition never cease in you; otherwise you would hinder my Life within you.  On the other hand, as you live in my Will, I do not find any hindrance, and I make my Life grow, and I carry out my Life as I want.” Luisa: Now, out of obedience, I want to say a few words on the difference between living resigned to the Divine Will, and living in the Divine Will. First:  living resigned.  According to my poor opinion, this means to be resigned to the Divine Will in everything, both in prosperous and in adverse circumstances, seeing in everything the Divine Will, the order of the divine dispositions which the Divine Will has over all creatures, such that not even one hair can fall from our head if the Lord does not want it so.   It seems to me like a good son, who goes wherever his Father wants, and suffers whatever his Father wants.  Poor or rich, it is indifferent to him; he is happy just being what his Father wants.  If he receives or asks for an order to go somewhere to carry out some business, he goes only because his Father wanted it so.  But in the meantime, he has to take some refreshment, stop to rest, have some food, deal with people; therefore he has to put much from his own will, even though he goes because his Father wanted it.  However, in many things he finds himself in the circumstance of doing them by himself; so it may happen that he is far away from his Father for days, for months, without receiving specification of the Will of his Father in all things.   Therefore, for one who lives resigned to the Divine Will, it is almost impossible not to mix his own will with It.  He will be a good son; however, he will not have the thoughts, the words and the life of his Father fully portrayed within himself, in everything.  In fact, since he has to go, return, follow and deal with people, love is already broken - because only a continuous union makes love grow, and it never breaks - and the current of the Will of the Father is not in continuous communication with the current of the will of the son.  During those intervals the son may get used to doing his own will.  However, I believe that this is the first step toward sanctity. Second:  living in the Divine Will.  I would like the hand of my Jesus to write this.  Ah, He alone could say all the beauty, the goodness and the sanctity of living in the Divine Will!  I am not capable; I have many concepts in my mind, but I lack the words.  My Jesus, pour Yourself into my word, and I will say what I can. Living in the Divine Will means being inseparable, doing nothing by oneself, because in the face of the Divine Will one feels incapable of anything.  He does not ask for orders, nor does he receive them, because he feels incapable of going by himself.  So he says:  ‘If You want me to do this, let us do it together, and if You want me to go, let us go together.’  Therefore, he does all that his Father does.  If the Father thinks, he makes the thoughts of the Father his own, and does not add one thought to those of his Father.  If the Father looks, if He speaks, if He works, if He walks, if He suffers, if He loves, he too looks at what the Father is looking at; he repeats the words of the Father; he works with the hands of the Father; he walks with the feet of the Father; he suffers the same pains of the Father, and he loves with the love of the Father.  He lives inside his Father, not outside of Him; therefore, he is the reflection and the perfect portrait of his Father - which is not, for the one who lives only resigned.  It is impossible to find this son without his Father, nor the Father without him; and not only externally, but all his interior is as though interwoven with the interior of the Father - transformed, dissolved completely, completely, in God. Oh, the rapid and sublime flights of this child in the Divine Will!  This Divine Will is immense; in every instant It circulates within everyone; It gives life and order to everything.  

And the soul, wandering within this immensity, flies to all, helps all, loves all, but as Jesus Himself helps and loves - which cannot be done by one who lives only resigned.   Therefore, one who lives in the Divine Will finds it impossible to do things by himself; even more, he feels nausea for his human works, though holy, because in the Divine Will all things, even the smallest ones, take on a different look.  They acquire nobility, splendor, Divine sanctity, Divine power and beauty; they multiply to infinity, and in one instant one does everything.  And after he has done everything, he says:  ‘I have done nothing - Jesus did.  And this is all my contentment:  that, miserable as I am, Jesus gave me the honor to keep me in the Divine Will, to let me do what He Himself has done.’  Therefore, the enemy cannot bother this child - whether he has done well or badly, little or much - because Jesus Himself did everything, and he together with Jesus.  He is the most peaceful one; he is not subject to anxiety; he loves no one and loves everyone - but divinely.  One can say that he is the repeater of the Life of Jesus, the organ of His voice, the heartbeat of His Heart, the sea of His graces.   True Sanctity, I believe, consists only in this.  All other things are shadows, larvae, specters of sanctity.   In the Divine Will, virtues take their place in the Divine order; while, outside of It, in the human order, they are subject to self-esteem, to vainglory, to passions.  Oh! how many good works, how many attended Sacraments are to be cried over before God, and to be repaired, because they are empty of  Divine Will, and therefore without fruits.  Heaven willing that all would understand true sanctity.  Oh! how all other things would disappear.  So, many find themselves on the false way of sanctity.  Many place it in the pious practices of piety - and woe to those who move them!  Oh, how they deceive themselves!  If their wills are not united with Jesus and transformed in Him - which is the continuous prayer - with all of their pious practices their sanctity is false.  And it shows how these souls pass very easily from pious practices to defects, to amusements, to the sowing of discord, and other things.  Oh, how dishonoring this kind of sanctity is!  Others place it in going to church, in attending all the services, but their will is far from Jesus.  And it shows how these souls have little care for their own duties; and if they are hindered, they get angry, they cry that their sanctity goes up in the air.  They complain, they disobey, they are the wounds of families.  Oh! what a fake sanctity.  Others place it in frequent confessions, in scrupulous spiritual directions, in having scruples for everything; but they do not have any scruple if their will does not run together with the Will of Jesus - and woe to those who contradict them!  These souls are like inflated balloons:  a little hole is enough for the air to come out, and their sanctity goes up in smoke, and falls to the ground.  These poor balloons always have something to say; they are mostly inclined to sadness.  They live always in doubt, and therefore would like to have a director for themselves, who would advise them, give them peace and console them in every little thing.  But they are soon more agitated than before.  Poor sanctity, how forged it is. I would like the tears of my Jesus in order to cry together with Him over these false sanctities, and make everyone know how true sanctity is in doing the Divine Will and in living in the Divine Volition. This sanctity puts its roots so deeply that there is no danger that it may oscillate, because it fills Heaven and earth, and finds its support everywhere.  This soul is firm, not subject to inconstancies or voluntary defects.  She is attentive to her duties; she is the most sacrificed and detached from everyone and everything, even from spiritual directions themselves; and since her roots are deep, she rises up so high that the flowers and fruits bloom in Heaven.  She is so hidden in God that the earth sees little or nothing of this soul.  The Divine Will keeps her absorbed within Itself; only Jesus is the author, the life, the form of the sanctity of this enviable creature.  She has nothing of her own, but everything is in common with Jesus.  Her passion is the Divine Will; her characteristic is the Will of her Jesus, and ‘FIAT’ is her continuous motto. On the other hand, the poor and false sanctity of the balloons is subject to continuous inconstancies, and while it appears that the balloons of their sanctity swell up so much as to seem to be flying in the air at a certain height, to the point that many, and even their directors, are amazed - soon they are disillusioned.  One humiliation, one favor of the directors toward someone else, is enough to deflate these balloons, because they see this as a theft against them, considering themselves the neediest.  So, while having scruples for silly things, they then reach the point of disobeying.  Jealousy is the woodworm of these balloons, which, consuming the good they do, keeps sucking air from them, and the poor balloon deflates and falls to the ground, reaching the point of dirtying itself with earth.  Then the sanctity that was in the balloon appears.  And what can one find in it?  Love of self, resentment, passions, hidden under the aspect of good, almost to have occasion to say:  they have become the amusement of the devil; so, of all their sanctity, nothing was found but a mass of defects, apparently disguised as virtues.  But then, who can say everything?  Only Jesus knows the worst evils of this fake sanctity, of this devout life without foundation, because it leans on false piety.  These fake sanctities are spiritual vines without fruit - sterile, and cause of who knows how much crying for my lovable Jesus.  They are the ill feeling of society, the worry of very directors, and of families.  One can say that they bring with themselves a noxious air that harms everyone. Oh! how so very different is the sanctity of the soul who lives in the Divine Will!  These souls are the smile of Jesus.  They are far away from everyone, even from the very directors.  Only Jesus is everything for them; therefore, nobody worries for them.  The beneficial air which they possess embalms everyone; they are the order and the harmony of everyone.  Jesus, jealous of these souls, becomes actor and spectator of whatever they do – there is not one heartbeat, breath, or thought which He does not regulate and dominate.  Jesus keeps this soul so absorbed in the Divine Will that she can hardly remember that she is living in exile.


Lynne Bauer   Fiat!