The Feast of
Christ the King
On the Feast of Christ the King
in 1925, Our Lord tells Luisa:
“I
come as a King to live among His people…My Heavenly Mama will be sure to be a
Mother and Queen to you. She is traveling amongst the people of the nations
disposing and preparing them to receive the dominion of the Kingdom of My
Will. It was She who prepared the people for Me so that I could descend
from Heaven to earth. And now I am entrusting to Her, and to Her Maternal
Love, the task of disposing the souls of our people to receive a Gift so great.”
Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast
of Christ the King in 1925
Volume
6 - August 5, 1904
Continuing in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for just a
little, in the act of ruling and dominating everything, and of reigning with
the crown of King on His head and with the scepter of command in His
hand. While I was seeing Him in this position, He told me (though in
Latin, but I will say it according to what I understood): “My daughter, I
am the Ruler of kings and the Lord of lords. To Me alone is this right of
justice due, which the creature owes Me; and by not giving it to Me, she denies
Me as Creator and Master of everything.” While saying this, He seemed to
take the world in His hand and turn it upside down, so that creatures would
submit to His regime and dominion. At the same time I could also see how
the Lord ruled and dominated my soul, with such mastery that I felt all
submerged in Him. From Him came the regime of my mind, of my affections,
of my desires; many electric wires passed between me and Him, through which He
directed and dominated everything.
Volume 13 - November
19, 1921
Oh! Prodigies of my Will – who can
ever number them and calculate their value?
This is why I love so much one who lives in my
Will: I recognize my portrait in her, my noble features; I feel my own breath,
my voice; and if I did not love her I would defraud Myself. I would be like a
father without offspring, without the noble cortege of his court, and without
the crown of his children. And if I did not have the offspring, the court and
the crown, how could I call Myself a King? My Kingdom is formed by those who
live in my Will, and from this Kingdom, I choose the Mother, the Queen, the
children, the ministers, the army, the people. I am everything for them, and
they are all for Me."…
Volume 15 - December 1, 1922
…
when Pilate asked Me whether I was
King, and I answered:
‘My Kingdom is not of this world, for if It were of this world, millions of
legions of Angels would defend Me’.
And Pilate, on seeing Me so poor, humiliated,
despised, was surprised, and said with greater emphasis: ‘What? You are a
King?’ And I, with firmness, answered him and all those who are in his
position: ‘I am King, and I have come into the world to teach the truth. And
the truth is that it is not positions, nor kingdoms, nor dignities, nor the
right of command that make man reign, that ennoble him, that raise him above
all. On the contrary, these things are slaveries, miseries, which make him
serve vile passions and unjust men, making him also commit many unjust acts
which disennoble him, cast him into mud, and draw the hatred of his
subordinates upon him. So, riches are slaveries, positions are swords, by which
many are killed or wounded.
True reigning is virtue, to be stripped of everything, to sacrifice oneself for
all, to submit oneself to all. This is true reigning, which binds all, and
makes one loved by all. Therefore, my Kingdom will have no end, while yours is
near to perishing.’ And, in my Will, I made these words reach the ear of all
those who are in positions of authority, to let them know the great danger they
are in, and to put on guard those who aspire to positions, to dignities, to
command."
The
Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will
Lesson
of the Queen of Heaven:
Now, dear child, listen to
Me: in this house of Nazareth, the Kingdom of
the Divine Will was formed in your Mama and in the Humanity of my Son,
to make of It a gift for the human family, when it would dispose itself to
receive the good of this Kingdom. But even though my Son was King and I was
Queen, We were King and Queen without a people. Our Kingdom, even though It could enclose all and give life to all,
was deserted, because Redemption was
needed first, in order to prepare and
dispose man to come into this Kingdom, so holy. More so, since It was possessed by Me and by my Son, who belonged
to the human family according to the
human order, as well as to the Divine Family by virtue of the Divine Fiat and
of the Incarnate Word, and therefore
creatures received the right to enter into this Kingdom. And the Divinity conceded this right, and left the doors open to those who
wanted to enter. So, our hidden life of
so many years served to prepare the
Kingdom of the Divine Will for creatures. This is why I want to let you know what this Supreme Fiat operated in Me,
so that you may forget your will, and as you hold the hand of your Mama, I may
lead you into the goods which I have prepared for you with so much love. Tell
Me, child of my Heart, will you make Me content, and also your, and my, dear
Jesus, who await you with so much love in this Kingdom so holy, to live
together with Us, and to live only of Divine Will?
Letter
of Luisa Piccarreta to Federico Abresch
Don’t you know that Redemption is
preparation for the Kingdom of the Divine Will? And the Sacred Heart of
Jesus is nothing other than the immense Reign of His Will. It is not
the Heart that dominates; it is the Divine Will that dominates His Divine
Heart. Poor Heart, if it did not have a Will to dominate it, it would be good
at nothing. If the will is good, the heart is good; if the will is holy, the
heart is holy. If our will gives place to the Divine, letting It raise Its
throne in our will, the heart acquires the divine qualities by grace.
Therefore, both in the Divine and in the human order, it is always the will
that has the first place, the prime act, its rule. The heart and all the rest
are in the secondary order...
Therefore, to say that the Heart
reigns, if the Divine Will does not reign, is absurd. They can be called
devotions, pious practices...; if the Divine Will does not reign, the Kingdom
does not exist. It exists in Heaven, but has no place on earth. However, the
Holy Church, organ and messenger of the Supreme Fiat, through the Sacred Heart,
through the Celestial Mama, beseeches the Kingdom of the Divine Will. She does
not say it with words, but says it with facts. The Divine Volition is the King
– His Heart, His wounds, His precious Blood, the sweet Queen, form the
ministers that surround the King, and through them beseech the Kingdom of the
Divine Will in souls.
Now, how can one know It? All the necessary things, the different circumstances
in which we may find ourselves, are Will of God for us. If we are really
determined to live in It, God is so pleased that, if miracles are needed, He
will make them in order not to let us use our will. It is up to us to truly
decide, and be willing even to give our lives in order to live in It; and dear
Jesus and the Sovereign Queen will take on the commitment, will be our
sentries, and will surround us with such graces as to not let us be betrayed by
our own wills. More so, since our Lord does not teach difficult things, nor
does He impose them or want them, but He facilitates all that He wants from us
in an admirable way; even more, He puts Himself in our place to make it easy
for us, and does together with us all that He wants us to do.
CONSECRATION
TO JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE
Oh Jesus, King of kings, God of
Goodness, God of Love, God of Mercy, I adore, I love, I thank, I glorify Your
Most Holy Will emanating from Your Omnipotence, guided by Your Wisdom,
accompanied by Your Goodness and Love.
Everywhere and in every time, be it either in joy or in pain, may Your Most
Holy Will, Your Divine Love, be the star that I gaze at, the law that governs
me, the air that I breathe, the heartbeat of my heart, the substance or,
better, the Life of my life. To such an end, I unite all my prayers and actions
to Yours, all my life to Yours, as well as to that of the Virgin Mother, of
Saint Joseph and of all the Elect that have been, are now and shall ever be,
with all good, past, present and future which is real and possible in Heaven
and on earth.
I consecrate and give all myself, what I have, what I am, what pertains to me,
what is dear to me, my life, my death, my eternity, all that You have created
and will create by Your Supreme Volition, by Your Infinite Love. And I
pray You, oh Infinite Wisdom, to inscribe me with indelible characters in Your
adorable Heart as the ardent and zealous child of Your Divine Volition, of Your
pure Love. I make this donation in the Power of the Father, in the Wisdom of
the Son, in the Virtue of the Holy Spirit, in my name, and in the name of all
creatures to obtain the advent and the expansion of the Kingdom of the Divine
Will, of Your Divine Love upon the earth. For pity's sake, oh my Lord, grant
that from every lip and from every heart there may continually be raised, as
from a sacred altar, the prayer that You, Yourself, as the first, addressed to
the Father, "YOUR KINGDOM COME! YOUR
WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN."
Psalm
47
The
Lord Jesus is King over all
All peoples,
clap your hands,
cry to God
with shouts of joy!
For the
Lord, the Most High, we must fear,
Great King
over all the earth.
He subdues
peoples under us
and nations
under our feet.
Our
inheritance, our glory, is from Him,
given to
Jacob out of love.
God goes up
with shouts of joy;
the Lord
goes up with trumpet blast,
sing praise
for God, sing praise,
sing praise
to our King, sing praise.
God is King
over all the earth.
Sing praise
with all your skill.
God is King
over the nations;
God reigns on
His holy throne.
The princes
of the peoples are assembled
with the
people of Abraham’s God,
the rulers
of the earth belong to God,
to God who
reigns over all.
L. Bauer, JMJ
