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The Children ofthe Divine Will

and

The Saints of theRedemption

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From the Writings of

The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

The Saints of theRedemption

and

The Children of the DivineWill

Luisa and the Saints

From the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta

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Many of the greatest Saints of boththe old and new Testaments are referredto in Luisa’s life and writings. Each ofthese Saints is known in particular forone or more heroic virtues that identifyand make them unique from other Saints.Luisa possessed all their virtues to anexceeding degree being surpassed onlyby the Blessed Virgin Mary, and ourLord Jesus. Luisa does share with themthe greatest of all gifts—the living in theDivine Will. Luisa did not have the giftof the Immaculate Conception, onlyAdam and Eve prior to their fall sharedthis with Our Blessed Mother. Howeverthey both fell, while Our Blessed Motherremains always and forever Immaculate.The following is a brief list of Saints

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related to Luisa’s life and writings

Luisa’s first vision of Jesus – Volume 1

Sometimes, He Himself wouldmake me the narration of the painssuffered by Him, and I was so touchedthat I would cry bitterly. One day, whileworking, I was considering the mostbitter pains that my good Jesussuffered; I felt my heart so oppressedby the pain, that I could not breathe.Fearing something, I wanted to distractmyself by going out to the balcony. Butas I go about looking in the middle ofthe street – what do I see? I see thestreet all filled with people, and in themiddle of it my loving Jesus with the

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Cross upon His shoulders. Some pulledHim to one side, some to another. Allpanting, with His face dripping withblood, He raised His eyes toward me inthe act of asking for help. Who can tellthe sorrow I felt, and the impressionthat a scene so pitiful made on my soul.I immediately went inside, I myself didnot know where I was; I felt my heartcrack with pain. I shouted, and crying,I said to Him: ‘My Jesus, if only Icould help You! If only I could free Youfrom those wolves so rabid! Ah! I wishat least to suffer those pains in yourplace, to give a relief to my sorrow. Oplease! my Good, give me suffering, forit is not fair that You suffer so much,while I, a sinner, remain without

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suffering.’

St. Francis of Assisi - Feast DayOctober 4th: Patron Saint of Creation(Nature and Animals) - Of all the Saintsof both the new and old testaments ourprecious Lord in just a few words gavethe highest honors to King David of theOld Testament and our beloved SaintFrancis of the New Testament. As forLuisa He gives even a higher honorcomparing her to His Mother:

Volume 17 - April 15, 1925

Furthermore, of David it was saidthat he was an image of Me, so much

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so, that all of his psalms reveal myperson; of Saint Francis of Assisi, thathe was a faithful copy of Me. It is saidin the Holy Gospel: ‘Be perfect asyour Father in Heaven is perfect’ - noless; it is also added that no one willenter the Kingdom of Heaven if he isnot similar to the image of the Son ofGod; and many other things. About allthese, no one says that they have beenexalted too much, and that these arethings not conforming to truths spokenby my very mouth. Only because to youI said that I wanted to compare you tothe Virgin - to make you Her faithfulcopy, I have exalted you too much? So,comparing those to Me was notexalting them, nor did anyone raise any

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doubt or difficulty; but then, comparingto the Virgin – that’s too muchexaltation. This means that they havenot understood well the mission of theknowledge of my Will. Indeed, I repeatto you that I not only place you nearHer as Her little daughter, on Hermaternal lap, that She may guide you,instruct you on how you must imitateHer, to become Her faithful copy byalways doing the Divine Will; so that,from Her lap, you may pass onto thelap of the Divinity. In fact, the missionof my Will is eternal, and it is preciselythe mission of Our Celestial Father,who wants, commands, expects nothingelse but that His Will be known andloved, that It be done on earth as It is

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in Heaven. So you, making this eternalmission your own and imitating theCelestial Father, must want nothingelse for yourself and for all but that myWill be known, loved and fulfilled. Andbesides, when it is the creature whoexalts herself, one should think aboutit; but when she remains at her placeand I exalt her, all is permissible to Me– making one reach wherever I want,and the way I want. Therefore, trustMe and do not be concerned.”

Volume 29 - May 19, 1931

Now, my daughter, listen to me;the most serious doubts, the gravestdifficulties that they found in your

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writings are precisely these: that I toldyou that I was calling you to live in theKingdom of my Divine Will, giving youthe special and unique mission to makeIt known, so that, as I Myself said inthe ‘Our Father’, and the Holy Churchsays still now, ‘Thy Kingdom come’ –that is, your Will be done on earth as Itis in Heaven. It does not say in the‘Our Father’ that this Kingdom is onearth, but it says: ‘Come’; and I wouldnot have composed a prayer if I werenot to obtain its effects. Therefore, inorder to reach this, was I not to electanother woman, whom the infernalserpent so much fears; and as he, bymeans of the first woman, ruined thehuman kind to Me, I, to confound him,

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make use of another woman to make upfor the ruin he caused, and make thegood which he tried to destroy, arisefor all?

Here, then, the necessity of thepreparations, of the graces, of my visitsand communications. This sounded badto those who have read; thereforedoubts and difficulties - that it cannotbe possible that among so many othergreat Saints, no one has lived in theKingdom of my Will. So, it is She alonethat is preferred to all; and when theyhave read that I was placing you nearthe Sovereign Queen, so that, Shehaving lived in the Kingdom of myDivine Fiat, you might imitate Her,

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wanting to make of you a copy thatresembles Her; and I placed you in Herhands, that She might guide you, assistyou, protect you, so that you mightimitate Her in everything - this seemedso absurd to them; and sinisterlymisinterpreting the sense, they spoke asif I had told you that you were asthough another Queen. How muchnonsense – I did not say that you arelike the Celestial Queen, but that Iwant you similar to Her, just as I havesaid to many other souls dear to Methat I wanted them similar to Me; butwith this they would not become Godlike Me. And then, since the CelestialLady is the true Queen of the Kingdomof my Will, it is Her task to help and

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teach the fortunate creatures who wantto enter, to live in It. By this, they showas if I did not have the power to electwhom I want, and when I want. But,after all, time will say everything, andjust as they cannot deny that the Virginof Nazareth is my Mama, so will theynot be able to deny that I have electedyou for the sole purpose of making myWill known, and that, through you, Iwill obtain that the ‘Thy Kingdomcome’ may have Its fulfillment. It iscertain that creatures are an instrumentin my hands, and I do not look at whothat be, but I look at whether my DivineWill has decided to operate by means ofthis instrument. And this is enough forMe to fulfill my highest designs; and of

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the doubts and difficulties of creaturesI make use, in due time, to confoundthem and humiliate them. But I do notstop, and I move forward in the workthat I want to do by means of thecreature. Therefore, you too – followMe and do not draw back. Besides, itshows from their way of thinking thatthey have calculated only your person,but have not calculated what my DivineWill can do, and what It knows how todo, and when It decides to operate inone creature in order to fulfill Itsgreatest designs in the midst of thehuman generations, It lets no onedictate to It the law – neither who itmust be, nor the time, nor the way, northe place – but It acts in an absolute

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way. Nor does it pay heed to certainshort minds, which are unable toelevate themselves in the divine andsupernatural order, or to bow theirforehead to the incomprehensible worksof their Creator; and while they want toreason with their own human reason,they lose the divine reason, and remainconfounded and incredulous.’

St. George - Luisa born on FeastDay

[Feast Day April 23rd]

On April 23, 1865, the Feast Dayof St. George and the first Sunday after

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Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday), LuisaPiccarreta was born.

St. George is a Saint in both theEastern and Latin Rites, was a soldierin the imperial army, and is Patron ofEngland, Portugal, Germany, Aragon,Geona, and Venice. St. George sufferedmartyrdom at Lydda, Palestine. He wasknown to the Crusaders as the Christianknight because of the slaying of thedragon. His coat of arms is a red crosson a white background, which becamethe basis of the uniforms of Britishsoldiers and sailors, and which alsoappears on the Union Jack.

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga - Luisanamed after him

[Feast Day June 21st]

Her baptismal name Luisa, afterSt. Aloysius (St. Luis), means “mighty inwarfare.” She was born in the provinceof Apulia, which is located on the heelof the Italian “boot”—whose heel pointsto Jerusalem. In Genesis 3:15 Godpromised to crush the serpent’s head. In1868, within 3 years after Luisa’s birth,the Church of the “Pater Noster” inJerusalem was rebuilt for the third time,

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recalling the only prayer taught by Jesus:“Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be doneon earth as it is in Heaven.”

St. Aloysius is known for hispurity and the performance of greatausterities and religious practices. St.Aloysius joined the Jesuits in Rome in1585. He has been declared Protector ofyoung students and Patron of CatholicYouth.

Volume 2 - June 20, 1899

Afterwards, Heaven opened; itseemed that a very great feast wasbeing prepared. At that very moment a

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young man of lovely appearance camedown from Heaven, all dazzling withfire and flames. Jesus told me: “Tomorrow is the feast of my dearAloysius – I must go attend.” And I: ‘And so You leave me alone – whatshall I do?’ And He: “You too willcome. Look at how beautiful Aloysiusis; but the greatest thing in him, whichdistinguished him on earth, was thelove with which he operated. Everything was love in him - loveoccupied him interiorly, lovesurrounded him externally; so, one cansay that even his breath was love. Thisis why it is said of him that he neversuffered distraction – because loveinundated him everywhere, and with

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this love he will be inundated eternally,as you see.”

And in fact it seemed that the loveof Saint Aloysius was so very great, asto be able to burn the whole world toashes. Then, Jesus added: “I strollover the highest mountains, and there Iform my delight.” Since I did notunderstand the meaning of it, Hecontinued: “The highest mountains arethe Saints who have loved Me the most,and in them I form my delight, bothwhen they are on earth, and when theypass into Heaven. So, everything is inlove.” After this, I prayed Jesus tobless me and those whom I was seeingat that moment; and He, giving His

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blessing, disappeared.

Volume 19 - June 21, 1926

This morning, having receivedHoly Communion, I received It as usualin the Most Holy Will of God, offeringIt to my dear Saint Aloysius – not onlythe Communion, but all the goodscontained in the Most Holy Will ofGod, for his accidental glory. Now,while doing this, I saw that all thegoods contained in the SupremeVolition, like many rays of light, rays ofbeauty and of multiple colors,inundated the dear Saint, giving him aninfinite glory. And my sweet Jesus,moving in my interior, told me: “My

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daughter, Aloysius is a flower and aSaint bloomed from the earth of myHumanity and made bright by thereflections of the rays of the Sun of myWill. In fact, though, holy, pure, nobleand united hypostatically to the Word,my Humanity was earth; and Aloysius,more than flower, bloomed from myHumanity - pure, holy, noble,possessing the root of pure love, insuch a way that in each leaf of hisflower one can see written, ‘love’. Butwhat renders him more beautiful andbrilliant are the rays of my Will, towhich he was always submitted - rayswhich gave such development to thisflower as to render it unique on earthand in Heaven. Now, my daughter, if

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Aloysius is so beautiful because hebloomed from my Humanity, what willbe of you and of all those who willpossess the Kingdom of my Will? Theseflowers will not bloom from myHumanity, but will have their rootswithin the Sun of my Will. In It isformed the flower of their life; theygrow and bloom in the very Sun of myVolition which, jealous of theseflowers, will keep them eclipsed withinIts own light. In each petal of theseflowers one will see, written, all thespecialties of the divine qualities; theywill be the enchantment of all Heaven,and all will recognize in them thecomplete work of their Creator.” Andwhile He was saying this, my sweet

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Jesus opened His breast and showed,inside it, an immense Sun, in which Hewas to plant all these flowers; and Hislove and jealousy toward them was sogreat, that He would not let them bloomoutside His Humanity, but insideHimself.

Volume 26 - June 27, 1929

Having received HolyCommunion, I was offering It for theglory of Saint Aloysius, and I offered,as a present for him, everything thatOur Lord had done in His Divine Willwith His mind, with His words, worksand steps, for the accidental glory ofSaint Aloysius on his feast day. Now,

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while I was doing this, my sweet Jesus,moving in my interior, told me: “Mydaughter, a more beautiful present youcould not give to dear Saint Aloysius onthe day of his feast. As you wereoffering your Communion and all myacts done in my Divine Will, so manysuns were formed for as many acts as Idid in It while being on earth; andthese suns invested Saint Aloysius, insuch a way that he received so muchaccidental glory from the earth, that hecould not receive more. Only theofferings of acts done in my Divine Willhave the virtue of forming their suns,because, containing the fullness oflight, it is no wonder that It convertsinto suns the human acts done in It.”

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Luisa was born and died in theDiocese of Trani-Nazareth, in the townof Corato, whose name in its originalLatin, cor datum, means “a heartgiven.” This recalls the words of theProphet Ezekiel:

“A new heart I will give you, anda new spirit I will put within you; and Iwill take out of your flesh the heart ofstone and give you a heart of flesh. And Iwill put my spirit within you, and causeyou to walk in my statutes and be carefulto observe my ordinances. You shalldwell in the land which I gave yourfathers; and you shall be my people, andI will be your God. (Ezekiel 36:27-28)

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St. Cathal - Patron of Corato

[Feast Day May 10th]

St. Cathal was known as theshipwrecked Saint. He is Patron ofCorato.

Around 685, following the arrivalof St. Patrick, holy men establishedsmall monasteries throughout Ireland. Inthe seventh century, a holy man namedCathal, having studied at the Universityof Lismore, made his way through thepass in the ancient Slieve Cua mountainsand arrived at Rathan, where he

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established his monastic settlement. Hewas appointed Bishop of the area, eventhough it should be remembered that inthose early years of the ChristianChurch, this did not mean that he was incharge of a diocese. After some years atShanrahan, Cathal set out on apilgrimage to the Holy Land. On hisreturn journey, he was shipwrecked offthe coast of Southern Italy. There herealized that the people of the area hadreverted to paganism, and he resolved tostay among them in an effort to reconvertthem to Christianity. Within a few years,the people of Taranto in Southern Italyhad selected Saint Cataldo (in Latin,“Cathaldus” or Cataldus”) as theirBishop. Today the popularity of Saint

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Cathaldus (St. Cathal) in Southern Italyis equal to, if not greater than, thepopularity of St. Patrick in Ireland. Overone hundred and fifty Churches arededicated to him in Italy, and theCathedral-Basilica in Taranto proudlybears his name. He is the SaintProtector of Corato (Bari), Italy. In1071, during the reconstruction of theBasilica in Taranto, the tomb ofCathaldus was discovered and opened.With his body was found a gold crossbearing his name and the word“Rathcau.”

Volume 6 - On February 12, 1904

I had neglected to say as much as

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I knew in writing, but now throughobedience I tell you—although they arenot sure things, but doubtful, becauseOur Lord was not present. “I foundmyself outside of myself, and it seemedthat I found myself inside of a Churchwhere there were many venerablePriests and souls from Purgatory andholy people talking among themselvesabout the Church of Saint Cataldo. Andthey spoke as with certainty that thepermit would be obtained. And onhearing [this], I said: “How can it be?Only the other day word spread that theChurch hierarchy (il Capitolo), had lostthe case, so that the clerk of theTribunal could not obtain the permit.City hall doesn’t want to give it, and

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you say that it can be obtained?”

And they answered: “In spite ofthose difficulties, all is not lost. Andeven when it comes to preparing it, onewill also not be able to say all is lost,because St. Cataldo will defend hisTemple well. Poor town of Corato if itcomes to this!” But while they said this,they repeated: “Already they havebrought the first things, and theIncoronata (the Crowned Virgin) hasalready been moved to Her House. Gobefore the Madonna and pray Her thathaving started the grace, She wouldfinish it.”

I left that Church to go to pray,

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but while I did this I found myself inmyself.

Luisa’s parents prayed the Rosarydaily and attended Mass as often as theycould in the Church of St. Dominic. Asa young lady, Luisa became a thirdOrder Dominican tertiary, and took thename of Sister Mary Magdala. At theage of 16, Luisa made her profession toJesus as His victim. On October 16,1888, Feast Day of St. Mary MargaretAlacoque, Luisa received the grace ofthe Mystical Marriage assisted by ourBlessed Mother and St. Catherine ofSienna. This Mystical Marriage to Jesus

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was later renewed in Heaven in front ofthe Holy Trinity on September 8, 1889,Feast of the Nativity of Mary whenLuisa was 24 and a half years old. Thisdate is important because this was themoment and the occasion in which Luisafirst received the gift of the Divine Will.Soon after Luisa received the Marriageof the Cross and from then until the endof her life she remained in a state ofalmost continuous suffering, enduringboth the physical pains of the invisiblestigmata, and the more terrible interiorpains inflicted by Divine justice

St. Mary Magdalen - Luisa took

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her name as a Dominican teritiary

[Feast Day July 22nd]

She is known for her great love ofJesus. She was the sinner who anointedChrist’s feet in Simon’s house, the sisterof Martha and Lazarus, and was at thefoot of the Cross at the Crucifixion. Shediscovered the empty tomb, heard theAngelic announcement of theResurrection of Christ, and was the firstperson to see Christ later that same day.

St. Catherine of Sienna - She isPatron of Italy and Assisted in Luisa'sMystical Marriage

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]Feast Day April 29th]

She is one of the greatest ofChristian mystics. She began to havemystical experiences at the age of six. ADominican tertiary when she was 16,she experienced visions of Christ, Mary,and the Saints interspersed withdiabolical visions and periods ofspiritual aridity. She ministered to the illand condemned prisoners, and wasacclaimed for her holiness and abilitiesas a peacemaker. St. Catherine receivedthe invisible stigmata, which was clearlyapparent at the time of her death, and hasbeen declared a Doctor of the Church.

Volume 1:

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The morning of the aforesaid day,Jesus made Himself seen again—allaffable, sweet, and majestic—togetherwith His Most Holy Mother and St.Catherine. First a hymn was sung bythe Angels; St. Catherine assisted me,my Mama took my hand, and Jesus puta ring on my finger. Then we embracedeach other and He kissed me, and soalso did my Mama.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque -The Feast of Luisa's MysticalMarriage

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[Feast Day October 16th]

At the age of 20 she experiencedvisions of Christ, and on December 27,1673 Christ informed her that she wasHis chosen instrument to spreaddevotion to His Sacred Heart. Our Lordinstructed her in the devotion that was tobecome known as the Nine Fridays andthe Holy Hour, and asked that the Feastof the Sacred Heart be established. Sheis called the “Saint of the SacredHeart.”

In 1860, 28 years before Luisa’sMystical Marriage, two French

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associations, the Apostleship of Prayerand the League of the Sacred Heart, hadmerged and launched the firstworldwide movement of prayer for thereign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Theirmotto, “ Thy Kingdom Come!”

Eleven months after Luisa’sMystical Marriage, on the Feast of theBirthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary,September 8, 1889, Jesus took Luisa outof her body to Paradise to renew theirMarriage in the presence of the MostHoly Trinity. On this occasion, Luisawas given the possession of the “Gift”of the Divine Will, her new “birth”

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into the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

Day Ten - The Queen of Heaven in theKingdom of the Divine Will.

Here I am, O holy Mama, nearyour cradle, to be spectator of yourprodigious birth. The heavens arestupefied, the Sun is fixed upon Youwith its light, the earth exults with joyand feels honored to be inhabited by itslittle newborn Queen, and the Angelscompete among themselves to bearound your cradle, to honor You andto be ready for your every wish.Everyone honors You and wants tocelebrate your birth. I too unite myselfwith all, and prostrate before your

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cradle - where I see, as thoughenraptured, your mother Anne andyour father Joachim – I want to tellYou my first word; I want to entrust toYou my first secret. I want to empty myheart into yours, and say to You: "MyMama, You who are the dawn, herald ofthe Divine Fiat upon the earth, Oplease, put to flight the gloomy night ofthe human will within my soul and inthe whole world! Ah, yes, may yourbirth be our hope which, like a newdawn of grace, regenerates us in theKingdom of the Divine Will!"

Child of my Heart, my birth wasprodigious; no other birth can be saidto be similar to mine. I enclosed in

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Myself the heaven, the Sun of theDivine Will, and also the earth of myhumanity – a blessed and holy earth,which enclosed the most beautifulflowerings. And even though I was justnewly born, I enclosed the prodigy ofthe greatest prodigies: the Divine Willreigning in Me, which enclosed withinMe a heaven more beautiful, a Sunmore refulgent than those of Creation,of which I was also Queen, as well as asea of graces without boundaries,which constantly murmured: "Love,love to my Creator…" My birth was thetrue dawn that puts to flight the nightof the human will; and as I keptgrowing, I formed the daybreak andcalled for the brightest daylight, to

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make the Sun of the Eternal Word riseover the earth.

My child, come to my cradle tolisten to your little Mama. As soon as Iwas born, I opened my eyes to see thislow world, to go in search of all mychildren so as to enclose them withinmy Heart, give them my maternal loveand, regenerating them to the new lifeof love and of grace, give them the stepwhich would let them enter into theKingdom of the Divine Fiat, which Ipossessed. I wanted to act as Queenand Mother, enclosing everyone in myHeart, to bring everyone to safety, andto give them the great gift of the DivineKingdom. In my Heart I had a place for

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everyone, because for one whopossesses the Divine Will there are noconstraints - only infinite expanses. Ilooked also at you, my child - no oneescaped Me. And since on that dayeveryone celebrated my birth, it wasalso feast for Me. But upon opening myeyes to the light, I had the sorrow ofseeing the creatures in the thick nightof the human will.

Volume 11 - March 19, 1914

It seems that blessed Jesus wantsto speak about His Most Holy Will. Iwas diffusing myself throughout all Hisinterior - in His thoughts, desires,affections, in His Will, in His Love, in

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everything, when Jesus told me withinfinite sweetness: “Oh, if you knew thecontentment that one who does my Willgives Me! Your heart would break withjoy. See, as you were diffusing yourselfin my thoughts, desires, etc., you wereforming the delight of my thoughts,while my desires, fusing in yours, wereplaying together with them. Youraffections, united to your will and toyour love, running and flying into myaffections, into my Will and into myLove, were kissing one another; andpouring like a rapid rivulet into theimmense sea of the Eternal One, theywere playing with the Divine Persons -now with the Father, now with Me, andnow with the Holy Spirit. Then, wanting

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to give no time to One Another, We playwith her - all Three together, making ofher Our own jewel. This jewel - ourdelight - is so dear to Us that We keepit with jealousy ‘ad intra’, in theintimate part of our Will; and when thecreatures embitter Us and offend Us, inorder to be cheered, We take our jewel,and We amuse Ourselves together.”

St. Dominic Guzman - Luisa became aDominican Tertiary

[Feast day August 8th]

Founder of the Order of Preachers (theDominicans) and the Saint of the HolyRosary.

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When he was preaching to theAlbigenses, St. Dominic at first obtainedbut scanty success: and that one day,complaining of this in pious prayer toour Blessed Lady, she deigned to replyto him, saying :'Wonder not that you haveobtained so little fruit by your labors,you have spent them on barren soil, notyet watered with the dew of Divinegrace. When God willed to renew theface of the earth, He began by sendingdown on it the fertilizing rain of theAngelic Salutation. Therefore preach myPsalter composed of 150 AngelicSalutations and 15 Our Fathers, and youwill obtain an abundant harvest.'

Why Luisa was a Dominican Tertiary

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and not a Franciscan? By PadreBernardino Bucci

JML + FIAT

Come Divine Will to Reign Soon!

I am asked the question why Luisais a Dominican tertiary, while she wassurrounded by Franciscans and hercontacts were always and for the mostpart with Franciscan monks. I canpersonally assert that all the monks frommy provincial Monastery have haddirect contact with the Servant of GodLuisa Piccarreta, and I personally havecollected various depositions from thesenior Fathers.

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Then why is Luisa Dominican?The matter is very simple.

During Luisa's time, just at theperiod of her birth, the last suppressionof the Religious Orders in Italyoccurred. At Corato there formerlyexisted a Monastery of Dominicanmonks who left because of thegovernmental laws. They left the ThirdDominican Order that was formed by laypeople, over whom the governmentcould not do anything; the Bishop at thetime, His Grace Dottula, delegated asassistant of the Third Dominican Orderthe Priest Father Michael De Benedittis,who was also delegated by the Bishopas confessor of Luisa Piccarreta.

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Father Michael De Benedittis putLuisa in the Third Dominican Order.How this act was done is not known, noris the procedure known. However, Ibelieve that Luisa never attended theThird Dominican Order that was locatedin the Church of St. Dominic (in Corato),a long way away from the house ofLuisa. And it is well known that Luisadid not like to leave the house,especially during the time when thephenomenons began that worried thefamily, and also the clergy.

This notwithstanding, contactswith other Religious, especially theFranciscans and Capuchins, were notbroken off. And Luisa sent vocations to

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the Order of Capuchins, and FatherSalvatore-who was a favorite of herswho died very young, and by his holyand Priestly life one can say that he wasa hymn to the Divine Will-has remainedvery famous.

Not the last, my person, of whomLuisa prophesized the Priesthood in theOrder of the Franciscan Capuchins. It isalso to be observed that when theDominican Fathers left Corato, they didnot return again, nor were they everinterested in Luisa.

When the undersigned spoke aboutPiccarreta to the Provincial of theDominicans of Naples, I had little

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welcome, nor were they anxious to knowher. It is clear to me from the depositionsof Aunt Rosaria that not one DominicanFather ever went to the house ofPiccarreta. It can even be said that theDominicans in Italy are few, they are notas numerous as the Franciscans. Alsobecause of this, contacts with Piccarretawere nullified.

In 1948 came the Archbishop ofTrani, His Grace Addazzi (aDominican), who was interested inPiccarreta even though he had notpersonally known her; it was through hisintercession that the Servant of God wasconveyed from the cemetery into theChurch of St. Mary the Greek.

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It was he who declared LuisaPiccarreta "Servant of God", andpermitted the printing of the first picturesfor devotions with a prayer he himselfcomposed. (published by theundersigned in the "Collection ofMemories" and short biographies ofLuisa)

I remember this episode: As aCapuchin student I went to pay a visit tothe Archbishop, who received me withmuch curtsey, and when he learned that Iwas the nephew of Rosaria, he saidthese words: "You have a holy Aunt, andblessed are you because you too have

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known Luisa."

FIAT

Father Bernardino Bucci

On, October 7,1928 the Feast ofthe Holy Rosary, was the day of Luisa’sentrance into Fr. Hannibal’s Orphanageof Saint Anthony in Corato, run then andstill today by the order of nuns, theDaughters of Divine Zeal, also foundedby Fr. Hannibal. Then exactly 10 yearsto the day also on the Fest of the HolyRosary on October 7, 1938, because ofdispositions of the Superiors” (herConfessor says), “because of health

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reason” (Luisa says), she had to leavethe Orphanage of St. Anthony. Fr.Hannibal was beatified (made Blessed)by Pope John Paul II in 1990 again onOctober 7th.

To stress the importance of the prayer ofthe rosary, to a prison inmate, Luisawrote:

“My brother, have confidence, foryou have a heavenly Mother who lovesyou very much and who will neverleave you. If you listen to her, she willmake a sanctuary out of your jail; andif human frailty has borne you to thatplace, the sovereign Queen will comewith the strength of the Divine Will to

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bear you up to Heaven and to makeyour days seem less sad . . . Neverneglect the Rosary of the HeavenlyMother. If you have the opportunity, bethe jailhouse missionary, making itknown that the Queen of Heaven wishesto visit all the inmates to give them thegift of the Divine Will. If you needanything else and cannot pay for it, youcan count on me. I will see that youreceive it free of charge.”

The Greek Schism occurred in1054 when the exchange ofexcommunications between the two Seestook place in the Diocese of Trani.Another schism, the Great WesternSchism, occurred when the Archbishop

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of Trani (Corato is in the Diocese ofTrani) was elected Pope under the nameof Urban VI. Two great Saints wereinvolved to settle this schism, St.Catherine of Sienna and St. VincentFerrer, both of whom were among theSaints mentioned by name by Luisa inthe Book of Heaven. God, by alwaysdrawing good out of evil, has destinedthe site of these and all schisms tobecome the birthplace of a spiritualrenewal that will bring the traditions ofEastern and Western Christianity to aglorious fruition in the Kingdom of theDivine Will.

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St. Vincent Ferrer - Vol 3, Nov11, 1899

[Feast Day April 5th]

He is a famous Dominicanmissionary and miracle worker whotraveled all over Western Europepreaching penance for sin, andpreparation for the Last Judgment. Manybelieved he had the gift of tongues. Hehelped to end the Great Western Schism.

Volume 3 - November 11, 1899

I found a Priest of holy life, and,at another place, a virgin of pure andholy life. . . . And they said to me: “Wesee the strict necessity of these sad

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times, and that man would notsurrender even if an Apostle were to beraised up, or if the Lord were to sendanother Saint Vincent Ferrer—who,with miracles and portentous signs,used to induce man to conversion.”

St. John the Evangelist - Vol 4, Dec 4,1902

[Feast Day December 27th]

He is the son of Zebede and brother ofJames the Greater, the two of whomwere referred to as “Sons of Thunder.”He was also a fisherman, the youngest ofthe Apostles, and the “BelovedDisciple.” He was, along with Peter and

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James, among the ones closest to Christ,and was present at the Transfiguration—as well as the only Apostle present at theCrucifixion. Jesus placed Mary in hiscare. He was the first Apostle at thetomb on Easter morning, and the authorof Revelation and three other Epistles.He was known as “The Divine,” and isrepresented in art as a soaring eaglebecause of the majesty of his gospel.

Volume 4 - December 4, 1902

“The exact point you will find onCalvary. I, Priest and victim, [whowas] raised on the wood of the cross,wanted a Priest who would assist Me inthat state of victim, which was St.

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John, who represented to Me thenascent Church. In him I saw everyone—Popes, Bishops, and Priests—alltogether. And he, while he assisted Me,offered Me as victim for the glory ofthe Father and for the success of thenascent Church.

“That a Priest assisted Me inthat state of victim did not happen bychance, but everything was a profoundmystery, predestined even ab eterno,“from eternity,” in the Divine Mind—meaning that [by My] selecting avictim soul for the grave needs whichexist in the Church, a Priest offers herto Me, assists her for Me, helps her,and encourages her to suffer. If they

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understand these things well, theythemselves will receive the fruit of thework which they render, like Saint John—how many benefits did he not havefor having assisted Me on MountCalvary? If they do not, they donothing other then put My work incontinuous disputes, taking away fromMe My most beautiful designs.

“Besides this, My Wisdom isinfinite, and sending some crosses tothe soul to sanctify her takes not onlyone soul, but five, ten, as many as Ilike, so that not only one but all ofthese together would be sanctified—ason Calvary it was not just Me alone.Besides having a Priest, I also had a

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Mother. I had friends, and alsoenemies, many of whom, on seeing theprodigy of My patience, believed in Mefor the God which I was, and wereconverted. If I had been alone, wouldthey have received these great benefits?Certainly not.”

But who can say everything thatHe said to me, and explain the leastmeanings? I have said it as best I can,as I have known how to say in mycoarseness. I hope that the Lord will dothe rest, illuminating them to makethem understand what I have not knownhow to manifest well.

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St. Philip Neri - Vol 10, Jan 17,1911

[Feast Day May 26th]

He entered the religious life as theresult of a mystical experience, andfounded the Confraternity of the MostHoly Trinity. He is known for spreadingthe Forty Hours Devotion, and is alsoknown as the Apostle of Rome andPatron of Rome. He had the ability oflooking into men’s minds. Heexperienced ecstasies and visions,performed miracles, and had the gift ofprophecy.

In Luisa’s writings, Jesus referred

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to St. Philip Neri is a model for allPriests and urged all Priests to followhis rule in a new organization He calledthe houses of the Reunion of Priests.

Volume 10 - January 17, 1911

Continuing in my usual state, myalways lovable Jesus came, but soafflicted and so burning with love, thatHe was restless and asked forrefreshment. And throwing His armsaround my neck, He told me: “Mydaughter, give Me love – this is the soleand only refreshment to calm myrestlessness of love.”

Then He added: “Daughter, what

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you wrote about the reunions of priestsis nothing but a process that I ammaking with them. If they listen to Me –fine. But if they don’t, since the leadersof the ecclesiastics will not listen to Mebecause they too are bound by the lacesof interest, and are slaves of humanmiseries, almost lapping them up -instead of dominating over thosemiseries, of interest, of high positionsand the like, the miseries dominatethem; therefore, since they aredeafened by what is human, I will beneither understood nor listened to – Iwill turn to the civilian leaders, whowill listen to Me more easily. Becauseof their desire to see the priesthumiliated, and also because maybe

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these are a little more stripped than theecclesiastics themselves, my voice willbe more listened to; and what they donot want to do out of love, I will makethem do by necessity and by force, andI will make the government take awaywhat is left to them.” And I: ‘Myhighest and only good, what will be thename to be given to these houses, andwhat the rules?’ And He: “The namewill be: The Houses of the Resurrectionof the Faith. As for the rules, they canuse the same rules as the Oratory ofSaint Philip Neri.” Then He added:“Tell father B. that you will be theorgan and he the sound for this work. Ifhe will be mocked and disliked by thosewho have their interests, the good and

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the few true good will comprehend thenecessity and the truth that heannounces, and will make it a duty ofconscience to get down to work.Besides, if he is mocked, he will havethe honor of becoming more similar toMe.”

St. Francis of Paola - Vol 8, Apr8, 1908

[Feast Day April 2]

Francis was born at Paola, Italyand was educated at the Franciscanfriary of San Marco there, and whenfifteen became a hermit near Paola. In

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1436, he and two companions began acommunity that is considered thefoundation of the Minim Friars. He builta monastery where he had led hiseremitical life some fifteen years laterand set a Rule for his followersemphasizing penance, charity, andhumility, and added to the three monasticvows, one of fasting and abstinence frommeat; he also wrote a rule for tertiariesand nuns. He was credited with manymiracles and had the gifts of prophesyand insight into men's hearts. Francisdied on April 2nd and was canonized in1519.

Volume 8 - April 8, 1908

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At night, while I was in thesecruel torments, finding myself in myusual state, I found myself surroundedby people who said: “Recite a ‘Pater,’an ‘Ave,’ and a ‘Gloria’ in honor ofSaint Francis of Paola. This will bringsome relief to you in your sufferings.”

Then, when I had recited thoseprayers, suddenly the Saint appeared.He brought me a small piece of bread,and gave it to me saying: “Eat it.”

I ate it, and felt myself totallystrengthened. Then I said to him:“Dear Saint, I want to tell yousomething.”

St. Nicholas - Feast Day December

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6th. He was Bishop of Myra. He wasknown for his holiness, zeal, miracles,devotion to the conversion of sinners,and giving his wealth to the poor. He isPatron of Sailors, Greece, Apulia,Sicily, Lorraine, and Russia. In the year1087, the relics of St. Nicholas of Myrawere transported to the port city of Bariin Apulia, Italy. St. Nicholas ranks nextto the Blessed Virgin as the Saint mostuniversally loved in those two greatcenters of Eastern Christianity, Russiaand Constantinople. St. Nicholasappears more often in the Christian art ofEast and West then any other Saint,except for the Madonna. St. Nicholas isthe Patron Saint of Apulia, of Greece, ofmany cities in Europe, of Russia, and,

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very importantly, of all children(including the Little Children of theDivine Will).

In Russia, upon whose conversion(according to Our Lady of Fatima) thepeace of the world depends, devotion toSt. Nicholas has endured. Up until theCommunist Revolution of 1917, crowdsof Russian pilgrims flocked to theSaint’s relics in Apulia. The RussianOrthodox Church still celebrates theLiturgical Feast of the transfer of therelics of St. Nicholas from Myra to Bari.Luisa Piccarreta’s father bore the nameVito Nicola in honor of Apulia’s Patron,the special Patron of Catholic Christianunity.

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Following the Great Schismdividing Rome and the EasternPatriarchates in 1054, the Church ofConstaninople split and became the firstOrthodox Church. The EcumenicalPatriarchate was founded in 38 AD bySt. Andrew, the brother of St. Peter, andalso the first Apostle called by Jesus.The Ecumenical Patriarchate continuestoday, as in the past, to be the spiritualcenter and beacon of the 250,000,000member Orthodox Christian Church. It islooked upon as the Mother Church by theChurches of Russia, Greece, Bulgaria,Serbia, Rumania, Georgia, and Poland.(Source: A Light from the East, byMichael O’Carroll, C.S.S.p.)

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St. Faustina Kowalska, in her diary onDivine Mercy, wrote that Our Lord saidto her: “I desire that the first Sundayafter Easter be the Feast of Mercy. Onthat day the very depths of my tendermercy are open.” (Source: Divine Mercyin My Soul, 1987, Sister M. FaustinaKowalska) Jesus emphasized to BlessedFaustina that the depths of His Mercywere already open on that day, longbefore official recognition of the Feastby His Church. With the birth of LuisaPiccarreta on the day which wouldeventually be proclaimed the Feast ofDivine Mercy, Jesus left a special signof the unique importance of Luisa’sMission, which her special confessor,Blessed Hannibal Maria Di Francia,

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described as “the triumph of the DivineWill in the entire universe.”

Volume 6 - April 16, 1904

Continuing in my usual state, Ifound myself outside of myself, and Isaw a multitude of people, and in theirmidst one could hear noises of bombsand gun shots. People were droppingdead or wounded, and those who wereleft would flee up to a palace nearby;but the enemies would go up there andkill them, more surely than those whoremained outside. So I said to myself:‘How I wish I could see whether theLord is there in the midst of thesepeople, so as to say to Him: ‘Have

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mercy - pity on these poor people!’ So Iwent round and round and I saw Him asa little Child; but little by little He keptgrowing, until He reached the perfectage. I drew near Him and I said:‘Amiable Lord, don’t You see thetragedy that is happening? You don’twant to make use of mercy any more?Do You perhaps want to keep thisattribute as useless, which has alwaysglorified your Incarnate Divinity withso much honor, forming a special crownon your august head, and bejewelingYou with a second crown, so wantedand loved by You - which is souls?’

Now, while I was saying this, Hetold me: ‘Enough, enough, do not go

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any further; you want to speak ofMercy, and what about Justice - whatare we going to do with It? I have toldyou and I repeat to you: ‘It is necessarythat Justice follow Its course’.” So Ireplied: ‘There is no remedy - why thenleave me on this earth when I can nolonger placate You and suffer in theplace of my neighbor? Since it is so, itis better if You let me die.’ At thatmoment I saw another person behindthe shoulders of blessed Jesus, and Hetold me, almost making a sign with Hiseyes: “Present yourself to my Fatherand see what He tells you.’ I presentedmyself, all trembling, and as soon asHe saw me, He told me: “Why have youcome to Me?” And I: ‘Adorable

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Goodness, infinite Mercy, knowingthat You are Mercy Itself, I have cometo ask for your Mercy - Mercy on yourvery images, Mercy on the workscreated by You; Mercy on nothing elsebut your creatures themselves.’ AndHe said to me: “So, it is Mercy thatyou want. But if you want true Mercy,after Justice has poured Itself out Itwill produce abundant fruits of Mercy

In answer to Luisa’s request forMercy, St. Mary Faustina of theBlessed Sacrament was born thefollowing year on August 2, 1905

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Poland, the birthplace of theDivine Mercy message, and also of HolyFather John Paul II (Mary’s“Masterpiece” in a message of theBlessed Mother’s to Fr. Gobbie), pointsto a more positive sign of the times—thegradual reconciliation of the Eastern andWestern Churches. The period betweenLuisa’s death and the opening of hercause for beatification coincided with agrace-filled movement towardreconciliation between the Church ofRome and the ancient Churches of theEast, especially the Orthodox Church.Luisa’s Cause was opened during thePontificate and approval of Pope John

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Paul II.

As a meeting place for the LatinRite Catholics of the West, and theOrthodox and Byzantine Catholics of theEast, Poland gave to the world thedevotion to the Divine Mercy thatcombined the Trisagion prayer of theByzantine liturgy “Holy God, HolyMighty One, Holy Immortal One, Havemercy on us and on the whole world”(Divine Liturgy of St. JohnChrysostrom), with the use of theRosary. Luisa is also connected to thissame prayer, which the Priest would saywhile at the same time making the sign ofthe Cross on her hand to command hersoul to return to her body. This

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connection between Luisa and Poland,the home of our present Holy FatherJohn Paul II, is made even more clear bythe date of Luisa’s death on March 4,1947—the Feast Day of St. Casimir ofPoland.

St. Casimir of Poland - Feast ofLuisa's Death

[Feast Day March 4th] He wasthird of the 13 children of King CasimirIV of Poland and Elizabeth of Austria,daughter of Emperor II of Germany. Hewas born at the royal palace in Cracowon October 3rd. Many miracles were

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reported at his tomb, and he wascanonized by Pope Adrian VI in 1522.He is the Patron of Poland and Lithuania.

As Cardinal Archbishop ofCracow, Wojtyla ordered a theologicalreview of St. Faustina’s diaries, whichhad been condemned by the Holy See.As a result of the inquiry, the prohibitionagainst the spread of her writings wasremoved. Six months later, Wojtyla waselected to the Chair of Peter. As PopeJohn Paul II, he published one of his firstencyclicals on the Mercy of God, andacknowledged the importance ofBlessed Faustina and her writings bybeatifying her on the Feast of DivineMercy. The beatification of Saint

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Faustina attracted new interest in theprophetic content of her diaries, whichpredicted the Second Coming of Jesus.

St. Padre Pio, the wonder-worker ofSan Giovanni Rotondo - In the bio onLuisa “The Little Daughter of the DivineWill” written by Fr. Pablo MartinSanguiao, it states “…Luisa (as referredto by some witnesses) wrote to PadrePio of Pietrelcina - the only time in herlife. Padre Pio answered only this: "ISanti si fanno, ma guai a chi fa i Santi!"["The Saints are made, but woe to thosewho make the Saints!"]

Luisa was bedridden in Coratosince her teen years and Padre Pio was

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cloistered all his adult life at Our Ladyof Grace Friary in San GiovanniRotondo , therefore they never met inperson. However, Luisa and Padre Pioexchanged greetings and prayers, andeach one referred visitors to the other.This is evidenced in the follow excerptsfrom the letters of Luisa Piccarreta toFederico Abresch a close friend of herand of Padre Bio.:

“With all my heart, I thank theLord, and additionally for the visit youmade to venerable Padre Pio.”“Thanks be to God, for that young manreturned safe and sound. He went to seePadre Pio, went to confession, andcannot thank you enough for your

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goodness and hospitality. He broughtme your dear letter. ““Thank you, mychild, for remembering me when youwent to Padre Pio. Tell him to pray forme for I have great need of it.” “Verydearest Son, why not tell the holy PadrePio to pray in a very special way thatthe Divine Will be made known?” “ Tellthe holy Padre Pio to pray to the Lordthat the Kingdom of His Will come if wewant peace; but I believe that our lordwill put His limit with a generalscourge throughout the world andperhaps with an epidemic for only inthis way will the heads of governmentssurrender.”

“Tell Padre Pio to pray for me,

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because I need it and with all respect Ikiss his right hand.” The dearest Jesussays: "The first one to sacrifice will beI because you want to do My Will." Forthis reason it will not harm the manymiracles worked by Padre Pio to addthis one also. Beg Padre Pio to pray tothe Lord and obtain this cure that canproduce much good for souls. Kiss Hishand and tell him to pray for me.”“With respect to Padre Pio, He is rightbecause, the poor thing, he has had toendure great problems and therefore itis necessary to obey the Holy Church;but we do not say what is printed in thebooks, but rather that which the HolyChurch does not know yet and what isprinted in the book is but a few drops;

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the seas of the Divine Desire are notknown yet.” “I leave you all in the seaof the Divine Desire. I kiss the hand ofPadre Pio and tell him to pray for me.”“I leave you in the Divine Desire sothat you become holy; Kiss the hand ofPadre Pio on my behalf, greet him withthe love of the Fiat; pray for me.”“Ileave you in the Divine Desire; pray forme, kiss the hand of Padre Pio for meand receive the greetings of the love ofthe Fiat.” “Kiss the hand of Padre Pioand I would like to know what he thinksof the writings.”

When Luisa was condemned bythe Holy Office and her works put on theIndex, Padre Pio sent her this message

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though Federico Abresch: "Dear Luisa,saints serve for the good of souls, buttheir suffering knows no bounds". Atthat time Padre Pio was also in verygreat difficulties.”

Blessed Padre Pio sent manypeople to Luisa Piccarreta and wouldsay to the people of Corato who went toSan Giovanni Rotondo: "What have youcome here for? You have Luisa, go toher".

According to Padre Bernardino’sAunt Rosaria Bucci: "No! During myconfession Padre Pio told me thatLuisa is not a human factor, she is awork of God and he himself will make

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her emerge. The world will beastounded at her greatness; not manyyears will pass before this happens.The new millennium will see Luisa’s

Padre Pio told Rosaria in hisBenevento dialect: "Rosa’, va nanz, vananz ca Luisa iè gran e u munn saràchin di Luisa" (Rosaria, go ahead, goahead for Luisa is great and the worldwill be full of Luisa). light".

In the book “The Story of a Soul”St. Therese of Lisieux "willed to be asobscure as 'a little grain of sand' “ Ihave always wanted to become a saint.

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Unfortunately when I have comparedmyself with the saints, I have alwaysfound that there is the same differencebetween the saints and me as there isbetween a mountain whose summit islost in the clouds and a humble grain ofsand trodden underfoot by passers-by.Instead of being discouraged, I toldmyself: God would not make me wishfor something impossible and so, inspite of my littleness, I can aim atbeing a saint. It is impossible for me togrow bigger, so I put up with myself asI am, with all my countless faults. But Iwill look for some means of going toheaven by a little way which is veryshort and very straight, a little waythat is quite new. Her one dream as the

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work she would do after her death,helping those on earth. "I will return,"she said. "My heaven will be spent onearth." She died on September 30, 1897at the age of 24 years old. She herselffelt it was a blessing God allowed her todie at exactly that age. she had alwaysfelt that she had a vocation to be a priestand felt God let her die at the age shewould have been ordained if she hadbeen a man so that she wouldn't have tosuffer.

By 1910, St. Therese’s book hadbecome very popular with religious allover Europe. There is a photo in Corato

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of Luisa praying before the Cucifixwith a picture of the Little Flowernear by. This may have connection to thefollowing conversation between Jesusand Luisa:

Volume 10 - November 29, 1910

Since a good and holy priest wascoming, I was a little bit anxious tospeak with him, especially about mycurrent state, in order to know theDivine Will. Now, after he came thefirst and the second time, I saw thatnothing would be done of what Iwanted. So, having received Holy

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Communion, all afflicted, I wasrepeating my great affliction to myaffectionate Jesus, saying to Him: ‘MyLife, my Good and my All, it shows thatYou alone are everything for me. I havenever found in any creature, as goodand holy as he might be, a word, acomfort, a solution for the slightestdoubt of mine. It shows how there is tobe no one for me, but You alone: Youalone – the All for me, and I alone,alone – always alone for You. And so Iabandon myself in You, completely andalways. As bad as I am, have thegoodness of holding me in your arms,without leaving me for one singleinstant.’

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While I was saying this, myblessed Jesus made Himself seenlooking in my interior, turningeverything upside down to see if therewas something which He did not like.And while turning and turning, He tooksomething like a grain of white sand inHis hands, and He threw it to theground. Then He said to me: “Dearestdaughter of Mine, it is absolutely rightthat for one who is all for Me, I be allfor her. I am too jealous that someoneelse might give her the slightestcomfort. I alone – I Myself alone wantto make up for all, and in everything.What is it that afflicts you? What doyou want? I do everything to make youcontent. Do you see that white grain

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that I removed from you? It wasnothing but a little bit of anxiety, foryou wanted to know my Will fromothers. I removed it from you and Ithrew it on the ground so as to leaveyou in holy indifference - the way Iwant you. And now I will tell you whatmy Will is: I want Mass and alsoCommunion;……

1910 was also very importantbecause in 1910, while visiting the TraniDiocese to establish an orphanage,Father Hannibal Di Francia met LuisaPiccarreta for the first time, most likelyat the suggestion of her confessor, Fr.

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Gennaro Di Gennaro. These greatest ofall Saints in Heaven are working toestablish the Reign of the Divine Will onEarth. Of all of these, the Saint closestand most important to Luisa and hercause is her special confessor, St.Hannibal Maria Di Francia.

Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia- Born in Messina, Italy on July 5, 1851and died 6:30 AM on June 1, 1927.Early in his life he felt a special call towork for the poor and the orphans andfounded the Anthonian Orphanages. Hischarity, however, went further.Tormented by the thought that countless

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people had not been evangelized,touched by the Spirit, he discovered theanswer in the divine command of Jesus:“Pray therefore the Lord of theHarvest to send forth laborers into HisHarvest”. (Mt. 9,38) He is the founderof the Anthonian Orphanages, theRogationists Fathers of the Heart ofJesus and the Daughters of Divine Zeal.Many graces are continually attributed tohis intercession. On October 7, 1990(Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary), PopeJohn Paul II proclaimed him “Blessed”and Saint on May 16, 2004.

In 1910 Saint Fr. Annibale Di

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Francia arrived in Corato beginning aseries of visits and a frequent andintimate spiritual relationship withLuisa, which lasted 17 years to his death(June 1, 1927). He knew that Luisa wasfor him a fundamental turning point in hislife, and the manifestation of the DivineWill was decisive for his spirituality (Inthis regard, see, "L'anima del Padre.Testimonianze", by Fr. Tusino R.C.J., pp.222-234, as well as the numerous letterswhich he wrote to Luisa in those years;an intense spiritual correspondence). Hewas very often in the house of Luisa,being her extraordinary Confessor. In thelast period (1926) the Archbishop ofTrani designated him Director of allwhich concerned the writings of Luisa,

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with the view of doing a publicationwhich the Father desired, althoughprevented by his death. He wasdesignated as ecclesiastical Censor forthe three united dioceses of Trani,Barletta and Bisceglie.

Saint Fr. Annibale Di Franciasoon began the printing of the 24 Hoursof the Passion. At his request, Luisa hadto write them down around 1913-1914.Father Annibale gave them the title of"Orologio della Passione di NostroSignore Gesu’ Cristo", and publishedfour editions (1915, 1916, 1917, 1925),with "Nihil Obstat" and "Imprimatur."

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During the reign of St. Pius X(1903-14) whose motto was "renew allthings in Christ” it was an eleven yearperiod where Luisa completed the veryimportant book “The Hours of thePassion”, which was soon followed byWWI. In the year of 1903, Luisacompleted the 1st volume of her life, upto the point on February 28, 1899, whenshe was given the obedience to write.

“Several witnesses relate that oneday Father Annibale came to the houseof Luisa more content than ever, and saidthat he had brought this book to the Holy

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Father, Saint Pious X, who hadreceived him several times in privateaudience. Father Annibale was readinghim one of the Hours (that of theCrucifixion), when the Pope interrupted,saying: "Not this way, Father, butkneeling one must read. It is JesusChrist that is speaking." Finally,Father Annibale, as Censor of thewritings, obtained the Imprimatur fromHis Excellency the Archbishop of Tranifor the volumes written by Luisa (at thattime there were already nineteen).

St. Pius X - (Hours of thePassion)

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[Feast Day August 21st]

Giuseppe Melchior Sarto, St. PiusX, was the second of ten children of acobbler and postman. He succeededPope Leo XIII, urged frequent receptionof Holy Communion, especially bychildren, and demanded an oath againstmodernism by every Priest.

From the book “Father MaryHannibal di Francia his life and works”by Rogationist Father Rev. FrancisVitale: A little friend of his pridedhimself on owing a medal of St.Alphonsus M. Liguori. After seeing it,

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Mary Hannibal could not help longingto have it. Thus he proposed anexchange: the medal of St. AlphonsusM. Liguori for many of his own. Eagerto have many medals, his friend handedthe prize over to Mary Hannibal, who inturn, gave his friend a rosary and somebooklets besides the promised medals.His friend, who did not understand thistype of trade, was amazed. The padresaid, “I was beside myself with the joyof the medal.” Throughout his life, hewore that medal…..(Years later in1900), …the padre along with hispriests Fr. Bonarrigo and Fr. Ctanese aswell as about ten youths wet to thearchbishop asking his blessing. Theshepherd blessed them tenderly, wishing

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the developing congregation greatproductivity and putting them under theprotection of St. Alphonsus M. Liguori,to whom he was very devout.

St. Alphonsus Liguori - Medalwhich Mary Hannibal desired

[Feast Day August 1st]

St. Alphonsus was born in Naples,Italy in 1696. He was a renownedDoctor of both Canon and Civil Law. St.Alphonsus was ordained a Priest in1726. He founded the Congregation ofthe Most Holy Redeemer (TheRedemptorist’s). He was chosen asBishop of Sant’ Agata dei Goti. St.

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Alphonsus is the Patron Saint ofConfessors, Moral Theology, andVocations.

His literary output, however, wasnot limited to moral theology. His penwas as apostolic as his preaching. Hisone hundred and eleven published workswere directed to every category ofChristians: Bishops, Priests, Religious,and Laity. His themes were solidlypastoral, and his topics diverse; therewas even one named “Conformity to theDivine Will.”

St. Anthony of Padua (St.Hannibal's Orphanages) also assisted

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Bl. Hannibal in his life’s mission: “Eventhough there was no center of thosedevoted to St. Anthony in those days, aidfor the orphans and the poor wereincreasing, owing to the devotion to St.Anthony’s bread, to the press, to thealms boxes, and to the devotion to thesaint in the church of the Annunciation.Hence the padre felt inspired to make St.Anthony the special patron of thisorphanages. Our founder was urged todo so by his helper Fr. Bernardo of theFriars Minor.”

St. Anthony of Pauda—FeastDay June 13th. He is a Doctor of the

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Church known for his miracles and beingone of the greatest preachers of alltimes. He is known as the “Hammer ofthe Heretics,” “Living Ark of theCovenant,” and “Wonder Worker.” He isPatron of the Poor. In art he is depictedholding the Christ Child. He is widelyinvoked for the return of lost articles.

It seems no accident that these twogreat Saints were both placed in chargeof and protection of Blessed Hannibal’sOrphanages and Religious Institutions.Luisa also lived 10 years in theOrphanage of St. Anthony in Corato.These two saints are also important toLuisa’s cause because of the necessity ofSt. Liguori’s Patronage over Confessors,

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Moral Theology, and Vocations, and St.Anthony’s help to return man’s greatestloss—that of the Holy Divine Will.

The Holy Family (Saint Joseph)

Last but not least of all is thespecial connection of Luis to Jesus,Mary and especially St. Joseph who isthe most mentioned Saint of the NewTestament in Luisa’s writings. One of themost beautiful of these writing is over100 years old as follows:

Volume 4- December 25, 1900

Finding myself in my usual state,I felt myself leave my body and afterwandering around I found myself in a

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cave, and I saw the Queen Mamma whowas giving birth to Baby Jesus. What amarvelous wonder! It seemed to me thatboth the Mother and the Son weretransformed into the purest Light, butin this Light you could clearly discernthe human nature of Jesus, whichserved as a veil to cover the Divinitythat He contained within Himself, sothat, tearing open the veil of humannature, He was God, and covered withthis veil, He was man, and this is thewonder of wonders: God and man, manand God! Who, without leaving theFather and the Holy Spirit, for trueLove never disunites, comes to live withus and takes on human flesh. Then itseemed to me that the Mother and the

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Son, in this supremely happy moment,became spirits, and without theslightest difficulty Jesus emerged fromthe Mother’s bosom, both of themoverflowing with an excess of Love.That is, these Most Holy Bodies weretransformed into Light, and without theslightest obstacle, Jesus’ Light emergedfrom within the Light of the Mother,both One and the Other remainingwhole and intact, returning then totheir natural state. But who coulddescribe the beauty of the Little Baby,who at the moment of His birth shonewith the rays of Divinity even throughto the outside? Who can tell of thebeauty of the Mother, who wascompletely absorbed by these Divine

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rays? And Saint Joseph, who seemed tome not to be present at the act of birth,but who remained in another corner ofthe cave, quite absorbed by thisprofound Mystery; even if he did notsee with his corporeal eyes, he sawperfectly well with the eyes of his soul,for he remained enraptured in sublimeecstasy. Then, at the moment the LittleBaby emerged from the Light, I wantedto rush over to take Him into my arms,but the Angels held me back, telling methat the honor of holding Him firstbelonged to the Mother. Whereupon,the Most Holy Virgin, as if shaken,turned inwards and, from the hands ofan Angel, received the Son into Herarms, and She held him so tight, in the

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enthusiasm of Her love, that it seemedShe wanted to return Him inside of Her.Then, wanting an outlet for Her ardentlove, She set him to suckling at Herbreasts. At that moment, I remainedperfectly still, waiting to be called, sothat I would not receive anotherreproach from the Angels. Whereupon,the Queen said to me:“Come, cometake your Beloved, and delight in Himalso and show Him your love,”

As She spoke I drew close to theMamma and She put Him in my arms.Who can describe my happiness, thekisses, the hugs, the tenderness Ishowed Him? After I showed my lovefor a while, I said to Him: “My

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Beloved, You have nursed the milk ofour Mother, give some to me.”

And He, quite agreeing, pouredpart of this milk from His mouth intomine, and then He said to me:

“My beloved, I was conceived insorrow, born in sorrow and died insorrow, and with the three nails thatthey crucified me, I nailed down thethree powers: intellect, memory andwill, for those souls who yearn to loveMe, allowing them to remain drawncompletely to Me, because original sinhad rendered them weak and scatteredfrom their Creator, without anyrestraint.”

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As for the Saints of the Old Testament,the most mentioned is Adam:

Volume 20 - October 26, 1926

After this, I was beginning myround in the Divine Will, and going intothe terrestrial Eden, where Adam haddone the first act of withdrawal of hiswill from the Divine, I said to my sweetJesus: 'My Love, I want to annihilatemy will in Yours, that it may never havelife, so that your Will may have life ineverything and forever, in order torepair for the first act which Adam did,and return to your Supreme Will all theglory as if Adam had never withdrawnfrom It. Oh! how I wish to give back to

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him the honor he lost because he didhis own will and rejected Yours. And Iintend to do this act for as many timesas creatures have done their own will -the cause of all evils, and have rejectedYours - the origin and fount of allgoods. Therefore I pray You that theKingdom of the Supreme Fiat may comesoon, so that everyone, from Adam upto all the creatures who have done theirown will, may receive the honor and theglory which they lost, and your Willmay receive triumph, glory and Itsfulfillment.'

Now, while I was saying this, myhighest Good, Jesus, was moved andtouched, and making my first father

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Adam present to me, let him himselftell me, with emphasis of love, allspecial: "Blessed daughter, finally myLord God, after so many centuries, hasdelivered to the light of the day the onewho was to think about giving me backthe honor and the glory which I lost,alas, by doing my will. How I feel myhappiness redoubled. Until now, no onehas ever thought of giving me back thathonor which I lost. Therefore I thankGod profoundly for having deliveredyou to the light, and I thank you, thedaughter dearest to me, for taking onthe commitment to return to God theglory, as if His Will had never beenoffended by me, and to me the greathonor that the Kingdom of the Supreme

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Fiat be established once again in themidst of the human generations. It isright that I give you the place whichhad been destined to me as the firstcreature that came out of the hands ofour Creator.

Special honor throughout thewritings is given to the Blessed VirginMary Queen and Mother of the DivineWill who below is described as OurLady of Guadalupe.

Volume 15 - December 8, 1922 -

Luisa was thinking about thegreat miracle of the Immaculate

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Conception of Our Heavenly Queenand Mother. Jesus responded by tellingLuisa that Our Blessed Mother isHonored and Queen of Heaven andearth by the Holy Trinity and theCreation and She is described as theimage of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Jesussays:

“My daughter, the ImmaculateConception of my beloved Mother wasso miraculous and marvelous thatHeaven and earth were filled withwonder and made merry…. how couldWe resist so innocent a creature,possessed by the power and holiness ofour Will? That would be to resistOurselves. We discerned in Her our

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divine qualities; the reverberations ofthe divine attributes flowed upon Herlike waves, the reverberations of ourHoliness, our Love, our Power, etc. Itwas our Will within Her that attractedall these reverberations of our divinequalities and Which was the crown andthe defense of the Divinity dwellingwithin Her. If this Immaculate Virginhad not possessed the Divine Will asthe center of her life, then all the otherprerogatives and privileges with whichWe enriched Her would have amountedto nothing. It was this that confirmedHer and preserved her many privileges.Indeed, It constantly increased them.

“This is the reason We made Her

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Queen of everyone (when We act, We doso with reason, wisdom and justice):She never gave life to her human will.… All created things, …,seeing thissublime Virgin Who, almost as thoughShe were their sister, had never wantedto know her own will but only that ofGod, they not only celebrated but felthonored in having Her for their Queen.They ran about Her, paying Herhomage by putting the moon beneathher feet as her footstool, the stars asher crown, the sun as her diadem, withangels as servants, and with menattending Her. Absolutely everyonehonored Her and paid Her homage.There is no honor or glory that cannotbe given to our Will, whether It acts in

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Us, Its own home, or whether It dwellsin creatures.

Volume 18 - August 15, 1925

I began to think of the feast of myCelestial Mama Assumed into Heaven,and my sweet Jesus, with a tender andmoving tone, added: "My daughter, thetrue name of this Feast should be Feastof the Divine Will. It was the humanwill that closed Heaven, broke thebonds with its Creator, made miseriesand suffering enter the field, and put anand to the feast that the creature was toenjoy in Heaven. Now, this Creature,Queen of all, by doing the Will of theEternal One, always and in everything

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– even more, it can be said that Her lifewas Divine Will alone – opened theHeavens, bound Herself to the EternalOne, and restored in Heaven the feastswith the creature. Every act She did inthe Supreme Will, was a feast that Shestarted in Heaven; it was Suns that Sheformed to adorn this feast; it wasmelodies that She sent to delight theCelestial Jerusalem.

Therefore, the true cause of thisfeast is the Eternal Will operating andfulfilled in my Celestial Mama. Itoperated such prodigies in Her as toastonish Heaven and earth, chain theEternal One with indissoluble bonds oflove, and enrapture the Word, even from

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Her womb. The very Angels,enraptured, repeated amongthemselves: "From where comes somuch glory, so much honor, suchgreatness and prodigies never seenbefore - in this excelling Creature? Yet,she is coming from the exile!"Astonished, they recognized the Will oftheir Creator as life operating in Her;and, trembling, they said: "Holy, Holy,Holy! Honor and glory to the Will ofOur Sovereign Lord! And glory toMary, trice Holy, She who let thisSupreme Will operate!"

So, it is my Will that was and iscelebrated more than everything on theday of Her Assumption into Heaven. It

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was my Will alone that made my MostHoly Mother ascend so high as todistinguish Her among all. Everythingelse would have been as nothing, hadShe not possessed the prodigy of myWill. It was my Will that gave HerDivine Fecundity and made of Her theMother of the Word. It was my Will thatmade Her see and embrace allcreatures together, making of Her theMother of all, and loving all with alove of Divine Maternity. ConstitutingHer Queen of all, It made Her rule anddominate. On that day, my Will receivedthe first honors, the glory and theabundant fruit of Its work in Creation;and the unending feast began, for theglorification of Its work in my beloved

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Mama. And even though Heaven wasopened by Me, and many Saints alreadypossessed the Celestial Fatherlandwhen the Celestial Queen was assumedinto Heaven - we waited for Her whohad honored It so much and containedthe true prodigy of the Most Holy Will,to make the first feast for the SupremeVolition, because She Herself was theprimary cause of it, having fulfilled theSupreme Will in everything.

Oh, how the whole of Heavenmagnified, blessed and praised theEternal Will, upon seeing this sublimeQueen, all surrounded by the EternalSun of the Supreme Will, enter theHeavens, into the midst of the Celestial

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Court! They saw Her all studded withthe power of the Supreme FIAT, andsaw that not one breath had been inHer which did not have this FIATimpressed in it. Astonished, all thecelestial spirits looked at Her and said:‘Ascend, ascend higher! It is justicethat She, Who so much honored theSupreme FIAT, and through Whom wefind ourselves in the CelestialFatherland, have the highest throne,and be our Queen!’

The greatest honor that my Motherreceived, was to see the Divine Willglorified in Her."

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More from the Book of Heaven

Volume 2 - May 6, 1899

This morning, Jesus hardly madeHimself seen; I was feeling my mind soconfused, that I almost could notunderstand the loss of Jesus, when Ifelt surrounded by many spirits –maybe they were Angels, I cannot tellwith certainty. While I was in theirmidst, every now and then I wouldinvestigate - who knows, I might feel atleast the breath of my beloved; but asmuch as I did, I found nothing thatwould reveal the presence of my lovingGood. Then, all of a sudden, I felt a

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sweet breath coming from behind myshoulders, and immediately I criedout: ‘Jesus, my Lord!’

He answered: “Luisa, what doyou want?”

‘Jesus, my beautiful One, come,do not remain behind my shoulders forI cannot see You. I have been waitingfor You and investigating for the wholemorning – who knows, I might see Youamid these angelic spirits thatsurrounded my bed. But I could not,therefore I feel very tired, because Ican find no rest without You. Come, forwe will rest together.’ So Jesus placedHimself near me, and sustained my

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head.

Those spirits said: “Lord, howquickly she recognized You. Not evenat your voice, but at your mere breath,immediately she called You.” Jesusanswered them: “She knows Me, and Iknow her. She is so very dear to Me,like the pupil of my eyes.” And whileHe was saying this, I found myself inthe eyes of Jesus. Who can say what Ifelt, being in those most pure eyes? Itis impossible to manifest it with words. The very Angels remained astonished.

Volume 11 - November 25, 1912

After this, Jesus came back and,noticing that I had cried, told me:

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“Have you cried?” And I: ‘I cried withMama; I didn’t cry with anyone else,and I did it because You were not here.’Jesus took my hands in His hands, andit seemed that He was soothing mypains; then He showed me two highstairways, from earth up to Heaven. Onone of them there were more people -very few on the other one. The one onwhich there were only few people wasof solid gold, and it seemed that thosefew who were going up were otherJesuses - each one of them was oneJesus. On the other one, which seemedto be made of wood, there were morepeople, and they could be distinguishedand identified - almost all short andnot very developed.

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Jesus told me: “My daughter,those who lived their lives in my Lifeascend on the golden stairs; I can saythat they are my feet, my hands, myHeart - the whole of Myself. Just as youcan see that they are another Me, theyare everything to Me, and I am theirlife. Their actions are all of gold and ofincalculable price, because they areDivine. Nobody will ever be able toreach their height because they are myvery Life; almost without anyoneknowing them, because they are hiddenwithin Me. Only in Heaven will they beperfectly known.

On the wooden stairs there aremore souls; these are the souls who

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walk along the way of the virtues, butnot in union with my Life and with thecontinuous connection of my Will.Their actions are of wood, (since onlythe union with Me forms goldenactions), therefore their price isminimal. These souls are short, almostscrawny, because many humanpurposes are mixed in with their goodactions, and human purposes do notproduce growth. They are known toeveryone, because they are not hiddenwithin Me, but within themselves;therefore, nobody covers them. Theywill not cause any surprise for Heaven,since they were known also on earth.

Therefore, my daughter, I want

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you completely in my Life, with nothingin yours, and I entrust to you the onesyou know and see, that they may keepthemselves strong and constant on thestairway of my Life.” He pointed to mesomeone whom I know, anddisappeared. May all be for His Glory.

Volume 10 - October 17, 1911

It seems that my most sweet Jesuscame for a little longer than usual. Itseemed He was wearing the crown ofthorns, and I, removing it from Him,drove it into my head; but after a littlewhile, in looking at Jesus, I saw Himcrowned with thorns again. And Jesus:“See my daughter, how they offend Me:

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you removed one from Me, and theyhave woven another. They never leaveMe free – they weave Me crowns ofthorns continuously.”

And I removed it again from Him,and Jesus, pleased, drew near mymouth and poured a little bit of a mostsweet liquor. And I: ‘Jesus, what areYou doing? You are full of bitternesses,and You pour sweetnesses into me? Thisis not appropriate.’

And Jesus: “Let Me do it – youtoo needed to be cheered. Even more, Iwant you to take some rest inside myHeart.”

Oh! How comfortable it was!

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Then He put me out, and I: ‘Why didYou put me out? I was so comfortable inyour Heart – how beautiful It was!’

And Jesus: “When I keep youinside of Me I alone enjoy you; when Iput you out everyone enjoys you, andyou can take the defense of yourbrothers, you can plead for them, youcan have them spared; so much so, thatthe Saints say that I content you morethan them, and that I take more tastefrom your love than from theirs. And Isay to them that I do this with love andwith justice, because with you I canshare my pains, but not with them.Since you are a pilgrim soul, you cantake the pains of others as well as Mine

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upon yourself, and by this you have thestrength to disarm Me - unless I did notwant to, like last night, when I boundyour arms very tightly so that youmight not oppose my Will. But they nolonger have these weapons in theirpower, so much so, that if I have tochastise, I hide from you who can comeup with something - but not fromthem.”

And I: ‘Certainly, certainly, OJesus, You must take more contentmentfrom my love than from theirs, becausetheirs is the love of the blessed – theysee You, they enjoy You continuously,and are absorbed within your MostHoly and Divine Will. They are

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completely dissolved in You; how greatcan their love really be, since theyreceive continuous life from You… ButI, poor one – your privations alone giveme continuous death.’

And Jesus: “Poor daughter ofMine, you are right.”

Volume 11 - November 4, 1914

I was doing the Hours of thePassion and Jesus, all pleased, toldme: “My daughter, if you knew whatgreat satisfaction I feel in seeing yourepeating these Hours of my Passion -always repeating them, over and overagain - you would be happy. It is truethat my Saints have meditated my

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Passion and have understood howmuch I suffered, melting in tears ofcompassion, so much so, as to feelconsumed for love of my pains;however, not in such a continuousmanner, and repeated many times inthis order. Therefore, I can say that youare the first one to give Me thispleasure, so great and special, as youkeep fragmenting within you - hour byhour - my Life and all that I suffered.And I feel so drawn that, hour by hour,I give you this food and I eat the samefood with you, doing what you dotogether with you. Know, however, thatI will reward you abundantly with newlight and new graces; and even afteryour death, each time souls on earth

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will do these Hours of my Passion, inHeaven I will clothe you with ever newlight and glory.”

Volume 11 - March 15, 1912

Continuing in my usual state, Ifelt a great desire to do the Most HolyWill of Blessed Jesus; and He came andtold me: “My daughter, my Will is theSanctity of Sanctities. The soul whodoes my Will according to theperfection that I am teaching you - thatis, on earth as It is in Heaven -however small, ignorant and ignored,leaves even other Saints behind in spiteof their prodigies, the most clamorousconversions and the miracles. Really,

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in comparison, the souls who do myWill in the way It is in my third “FIAT”are queens, and it is as if all the otherswere at their service.

It seems that the souls who live inmy Will do nothing, while they actuallydo everything, because being in my Willthese souls act Divinely, in a hiddenand surprising way. They are lightwhich illuminates, wind which purifies,fire which burns, miracles which causemiracles. Those who do miracles arechannels; but in these souls resides thepower. Therefore, they are the foot ofthe missionary, the tongue of thepreachers, the strength of the weak, thepatience of the sick, the regime (of the

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superiors), the obedience of thesubjects, the tolerance of the slandered,the firmness in the dangers, theheroism in the heroes, the courage inthe martyrs, the sanctity in the saints,and so on with all the rest. Being in myWill, they concur with all the good thatcan be both in Heaven and on earth.

This is why I can surely say thatthey are my true Hosts - but livingHosts, not dead ones. The accidentsthat form the host are not full of life,neither do they influence my Life; butthe soul who lives in my Divine Will isfull of life and, doing my Will, sheinfluences and concurs with all that Ido. This is why these consecrated Hosts

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of my Will are more dear to Me than thevery sacramental Hosts, and if I havereason to exist in the sacramentalHosts, it is to form the sacramentalHosts of my Will.

My daughter, I take such delightin my Will that, in simply hearing talkabout It, I feel overjoyed and I call thewhole of Heaven to make feast. Imaginewhat will become of those souls whowill do It: I find in them all the joys, soI give all the joys to them. Their life isthe life of the Blessed. They care about,desire and yearn for two things only:my Will and Love. They need to do verylittle else, while in fact they doeverything. The virtues themselves

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remain absorbed in my Will and inLove. Therefore, they have nothing todo with them, since my Will contains,possesses and absorbs all; but in aDivine manner - immense and endless.This is the life of the Blessed.”

Volume 12 - January 17, 1921

I felt my poor mind immersed inthe immense sea of the Divine Volition.I could see the mark of the FIATeverywhere. I saw it in the Sun, and itseemed to me that the echo of the FIATin the Sun brought me Divine Love,which darted through me, wounded meand flashed through me. And I, on thewings of the FIAT of the Sun, went up to

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the Eternal One bringing, in the nameof the whole human family, the Lovewhich darted, wounded, and flashedthrough the Supreme Majesty. And Isaid: ‘In Your FIAT You gave me all thisLove, and only in the FIAT can I returnit to You.’

I looked at the stars and I couldsee the FIAT in them; and in their sweetand meek glittering, this FIAT broughtme pacific Love, sweet Love, hiddenLove, compassionate Love in the verynight of sin. And I, in the FIAT of thestars, in the name of all, brought to theThrone of the Eternal One pacific Lovein order to put peace between Heavenand earth, the sweet Love of the loving

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souls, the hidden Love of many others,the Love of the creatures when, aftersin, they come back to God. But whocan say all that I understood and did inthe many FIATs which were scatteredover all Creation? I would be too long;so I stop here.

Then, my sweet Jesus took myhands in His own, and squeezing themtightly, told me: “My daughter, theFIAT is all full of Life - even more, It isLife Itself, and this is why all lives andall things come from within the FIAT.Creation came out from my ‘FIAT’;therefore in each created thing one cansee the mark of the FIAT. Redemptioncame out from the ‘FIAT MIHI’ of my

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dear Mama, pronounced in my Volitionand carrying the same Power of myCreative ‘FIAT.’ Therefore, there isnothing in Redemption which does notcontain the mark of the ‘FIAT MIHI’ ofmy Mama. Even my very Humanity, mysteps, words and works were marked byHer ‘FIAT MIHI.’ My pains, mywounds, my thorns, my Cross, myBlood, had the mark of Her ‘FIATMIHI’, because things carry the markof the origin from which they come. Myorigin in time was the ‘FIAT MIHI’ ofthe Immaculate Mama; therefore all ofmy works carry the mark of Her ‘FIATMIHI.’ So, Her ‘FIAT MIHI’ is in eachSacramental Host; if man rises againfrom sin, if the newborn is baptized, if

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Heaven opens to receive souls, it is the‘FIAT MIHI’ of my Mama that markseverything, follows everything, andfrom It everything proceeds. Oh, powerof the FIAT! It rises every instant; Itmultiplies, and It becomes life of allgoods.

Now I want to tell you why Iasked for your ‘FIAT’ - your ‘yes’ in myVolition. I want the prayer which Itaught – the ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut inCoelo et in terra’ - this prayer of somany centuries, of so many generations- to have its fulfillment and completion.This is why I wanted another ‘yes’ inmy Volition - another ‘FIAT’ containingthe Creative Power. I want the ‘FIAT’

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that rises every instant, and multipliesin everyone. I want, in one soul, myown ‘FIAT’ which ascends to my Throneand, by its Creative Power, brings uponearth the life of the ‘FIAT on earth as Itis in Heaven’.”

Surprised and annihilated inhearing this, I said: ‘Jesus, what areYou saying? Yet, You know how bad andincapable of anything I am.’ And He:“My daughter, it is my usual way tochoose the most abject, unable, poorsouls for my greatest works. Even myMama had nothing extraordinary in herexterior life; no miracles - not a signthat would distinguish Her from otherwomen. Her only distinction was

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perfect virtue, to which almost no onepaid attention. And if to other Saints Igave the distinction of miracles, and Iadorned others with my wounds, to myMama, nothing - nothing. Yet, She wasthe portent of portents, the miracle ofmiracles, the true and perfect crucified- no one else like Her.

I usually act like a master whohas two servants. One of them seems aherculean giant, good at everything;the other one is short, unable, andseems to be good at nothing - not animportant service. If the master keepshim, it is more for charity, and also forfun. Now, having to send a million - abillion, to another town, what does he

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do? He calls the little and incapableone, and entrusts the great sum to him,saying to himself: ‘If I give it to thegiant, all will fix their attention onhim; thieves may attack him and robhim; and if he tries to defend himselfwith his herculean strength, he may bewounded. I know that he is capable, butI want to spare him; I do not want toexpose him to the obvious danger. Onthe other hand, no one will payattention to this little one, knowing himto be incapable; no one would thinkthat I would entrust such an importantsum to him; and so he will come backsafe and sound.’ The poor incapableone is surprised that the master wouldtrust him, when he could have used the

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giant, and all trembling and humble, hegoes to deposit the great sum, with noone deigning to give him even a glance.So, he returns safe and sound to hismaster, more trembling and humblethan before.

So I do: the greater the work Iwant to do, the more I choose abject,poor, ignorant souls, with no outwardappearance which may expose them.The abject state of the soul will serveas safe custody for my work. Thethieves of self-esteem and love of selfwill not pay attention to her, knowingher inability. And she, humble andtrembling, will carry out the officeentrusted by Me, knowing that she has

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done nothing by herself, but that I dideverything in her.”

Volume 12 - April 15, 1919

I was fusing myself in the HolyWill of my always lovable Jesus, andtogether with my Jesus, my intelligencewas wandering in the Work of Creation,adoring and thanking the SupremeMajesty for everything and foreveryone. And my Jesus, all affability,told me: “My daughter, in creating theheavens, first I made the stars as minorspheres, and then I created the Sun asthe major sphere, endowing It with somuch light as to eclipse all the stars, asthough hiding them within Itself, and

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constituting It king of the stars and ofall nature. It is my usual way to dominor things first, as preparation forgreater ones - these, being thecrowning of the minor things. Whilebeing my relater, the Sun also concealsthe souls who will form their sanctity inmy Will; the Saints who lived in themirror of my Humanity, as if in theshadow of my Will, will be the stars;the former souls, although coming laterin time, will be the Suns.

I maintained this order also inRedemption. My birth was withoutglamour, rather, it was neglected; mychildhood was without splendor ofgreat things before men; my life in

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Nazareth was so hidden that I lived asif ignored by all; I adapted Myself todo the smallest and most commonthings of human life. During my publiclife there were a few great things, butstill - who knew my Divinity? Nobody,not even all of the Apostles. I passedthrough the crowds like any other man,so much so, that anyone couldapproach Me, talk to Me, and ifneeded, even despise Me.” And I,interrupting Jesus, said: ‘Jesus, myLove, how happy those times were, andeven happier those people who, just bywanting it, could come close to You,talk to You, and be with You!’ AndJesus: “Ah, my daughter, only my Willbrings true happiness! It alone

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encloses all goods within the soul, andmaking Itself crown around the soul,constitutes her queen of true happiness.Only these souls will be the queens ofmy Throne, because they are a birthfrom my Will. This is so true, that thosepeople were not happy. Many saw Mebut did not know Me, because my Willdid not reside within them as center oflife. Therefore, even if they saw Me,they remained unhappy. Only those whoreceived the good of receiving the seedof my Will in their hearts disposedthemselves to receive the good ofseeing Me resurrected.

Now, the portent of myRedemption was the Resurrection,

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which, more than refulgent Sun,crowned my Humanity, making even mymost tiny acts shine, with such splendorand marvel as to astonish Heaven andearth. The Resurrection will be thebeginning, the foundation and thefulfillment of all goods - crown andglory of all the Blessed. MyResurrection is the true Sun whichworthily glorifies my Humanity; It isthe Sun of the Catholic Religion; It isthe glory of every Christian. WithoutResurrection, it would have been asthough heavens without Sun, withoutheat and without life.

Now, my Resurrection is thesymbol of the souls who will form their

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Sanctity in my Will. The Saints of thepast centuries symbolize my Humanity.Although resigned, they did not havecontinuous act in my Will; therefore,they did not receive the mark of the Sunof my Resurrection, but the mark of theworks of my Humanity before myResurrection. Therefore, they will bemany; almost like stars, they will forma beautiful ornament to the Heaven ofmy Humanity. But the Saints of theliving in my Will, who will symbolizemy Resurrected Humanity, will be few.In fact, many throngs and crowds ofpeople saw my Humanity, but few sawmy Resurrected Humanity - only thebelievers, those who were mostdisposed, and, I could say, only those

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who contained the seed of my Will. Infact, if they did not have that seed, theywould have lacked the necessary sightto be able to see my Resurrected andglorious Humanity, and therefore bespectators of my ascent into Heaven.

Now, if my Resurrectionsymbolizes the Saints of the living inmy Will - and this with reason, sinceeach act, word, step, etc. done in myWill is a Divine resurrection that thesoul receives; it is a mark of glory thatshe receives; it is to go out of herself inorder to enter the Divinity, and to love,work and think, hiding herself in therefulgent Sun of my Volition - what isthe wonder, if the soul remains fully

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risen and identified with the very Sunof my Glory, and symbolizes myResurrected Humanity? But few arethose who dispose themselves to this,because even in sanctity, souls wantsomething for their own good; whilethe Sanctity of living in my Will hasnothing of its own - everything is ofGod. It takes too much for souls todispose themselves to this - to stripthemselves of their own goods.Therefore, they will not be many.

You are not in the number of themany, but of the few. Therefore, bealways attentive to the call, and to yourcontinuous flight.”

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Volume 12 - February 13, 1919

Continuing in my usual state, Iwas searching, and with anxiousness,for my always lovable Jesus; and, allgoodness, He came and told me:“Beloved daughter of my Will, do youwant to come into my Will andsubstitute in a divine manner for themany acts which have not been done byour brothers, for many others donehumanly, and for other acts, holy, yes,but human and not done in the divineorder? I did everything in the divineorder, but I am not yet content; I wantthe creature to enter my Will and tocome to kiss my acts in a divinemanner, substituting for all, just as I

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did. Therefore, come - come; I long forit, I desire it so much that I put Myselfin feast when I see that the creatureenters into this divine environment, andmultiplying herself with Me, shemultiplies in everyone, and loves,repairs, substitutes for all and for eachone in a divine manner. I no longerrecognize human things in her, but allmy things. My Love rises and multipliesItself; reparations multiply to infinity;substitutions are divine. What joy!What feast! The Saints themselves unitewith Me and make feast, ardentlywaiting for a sister of theirs tosubstitute for their own acts, holy inthe human order, but not in the divineorder. They pray Me to soon let this

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creature enter this divine environment,and that all of their acts be substitutedonly with the Divine Will, and with themark of the Eternal One. I did this forall; now I want you to do it for all.”

Volume 12 - January 29, 1919

“My beloved daughter, I want tolet you know the order of myProvidence. Every two thousand years Ihave renewed the world. In the first twothousand years I renewed it with theDeluge; in the second two thousand Irenewed it with my coming upon earthwhen I manifested my Humanity, fromwhich, as if from many fissures, myDivinity shone forth. The good ones

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and the very Saints of the following twothousand years have lived from thefruits of my Humanity and, in drops,they have enjoyed my Divinity. Now weare around the third two thousandyears, and there will be a third renewal.This is the reason for the generalconfusion: it is nothing other than thepreparation of the third renewal. If inthe second renewal I manifested whatmy Humanity did and suffered, and verylittle of what my Divinity wasoperating, now, in this third renewal,after the earth will be purged and agreat part of the current generationdestroyed, I will be even more generouswith creatures, and I will accomplishthe renewal by manifesting what my

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Divinity did within my Humanity; howmy Divine Will acted with my humanwill; how everything remained linkedwithin Me; how I did and redideverything, and how even each thoughtof each creature was redone by Me, andsealed with my Divine Volition.

My Love wants to pour Itself out;It wants to make known the excesseswhich my Divinity operated in myHumanity for the creatures - excesseswhich greatly surpass the excesses thatmy Humanity operated externally. Thisis also why I often speak to you aboutliving in my Will, which I have notmanifested to anyone until now. At themost, they have known the shadow of

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my Will, the grace and the sweetness ofdoing It. But to penetrate inside of It,to embrace immensity, to be multipliedwith Me and - even while being onearth - penetrate everywhere, both intoHeaven and into the hearts, layingdown the human ways and acting inDivine ways - this is not yet known; somuch so that not to a few will thisappear strange, and those who do notkeep their minds opened to the light ofthe Truth will not understand a thing.But little by little I will make my way,manifesting now one truth, nowanother, about this living in my Will, sothat they will end up understanding.

Now, the first link which

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connected the true living in my Willwas my Humanity. My Humanity,identified with my Divinity, swam in theEternal Volition, and kept tracing allthe acts of creatures in order to makethem Its own, to give to the Father adivine glory on the part of creatures,and to bring the value, the love, thekiss of the Eternal Volition to all theacts of creatures. In this sphere of theEternal Volition, I could see all the actsof creatures - those which could bedone and were not done, and also thegood acts done badly - and I did thosewhich had not been done, and redidthose done badly. Now, these acts whichwere not done, except by Me alone, areall suspended in my Will, and I await

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the creatures to come to live in myVolition, and repeat in my Will thatwhich I did.

This is why I chose you as thesecond link of connection with myHumanity, a link which becomes onewith mine, as you live in my Volitionand repeat my own acts. Otherwise, onthis side my Love would remain withoutIts outpouring, without glory from thecreatures for all that my Divinityoperated within my Humanity, andwithout the perfect purpose ofCreation, which must be enclosed andperfected in my Will. It would be as if Ihad shed all my Blood and suffered somuch, and nobody had known it. Who

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would have loved Me? Which heartwould have been shaken? No one; andtherefore in no one would I have hadmy fruits - the glory of Redemption.”

Interrupting Jesus’ saying, I said:‘My Love, if there is so much good inthis living in the Divine Will, whydidn’t You manifest it before?’ And He:“My daughter, first I had to makeknown what my Humanity did andsuffered externally, to be able todispose souls to knowing what myDivinity did inside. The creature isincapable of understanding my work alltogether; therefore I keep manifestingMyself little by little.

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Then, from your link ofconnection with Me, the links of othersouls will be connected, and I will havea cohort of souls who, living in myVolition, will redo all the acts of thecreatures. I will receive the glory of themany suspended acts done only by Me,also from the creatures - and these,from all classes: virgins, priests, laypeople, according to their office. Theywill no longer operate humanly; butrather, as they penetrate into my Will,their acts will multiply for all in a waywhich is fully Divine. I will receivefrom the creatures the divine glory ofmany Sacraments administered andreceived in a human way, of otherswhich have been profaned, of others

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sullied with interest, and of many goodworks in which I remain moredishonored than honored. I yearn verymuch for this time… And you, pray andyearn for it together with Me, and donot move your link of connection withMine, but start - as the first one.”

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I continue in order to obey. Itseems that my always lovable Jesuswants to speak about the living in HisMost Holy Will. It seems that when Hespeaks about His Most Holy Will, Heforgets everything and makes oneforget about everything. The soul findsnothing other than the necessity - no

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other good than to live in His Volition.So, after I wrote about His Will onNovember 20, my sweet Jesus, beingdisappointed with me, told me: “Mydaughter, you did not say everything. Iwant you to neglect to write nothingwhen I speak to you about my Will - noteven the most tiny things, because allof them will serve for the good ofposterity. In all sanctities there havealways been Saints who first startedeach kind of sanctity. So, there was theSaint who started the sanctity of thepenitent; another who started thesanctity of obedience; another ofhumility, and so with all the othersanctities. Now I want you to be thebeginning of the Sanctity of living in

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my Will.

My daughter, all other sanctitiesare not exempt from waste of time andfrom personal interest - as for example,a soul who lives attentive to obediencein everything. There is much waste oftime; her saying and re-sayingcontinuously, distracts her from Me,and she mistakes the virtue for Me. Ifshe does not have the opportunity totake all the orders, she lives restless.Another one suffers from temptations -oh, how much waste of time! She nevertires of telling of all her trials, and shemistakes the virtue for Me. And manytimes these sanctities end up in ruin.But the Sanctity of living in my Will is

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exempt from personal interest andwaste of time; there is no danger thatthey might mistake the virtue for Me,because I Myself am the living in myWill.

This was the Sanctity of myHumanity on earth, and therefore It dideverything for everyone, without ashadow of personal interest. Self-interest takes away the mark of DivineSanctity. Therefore, it can never be aSun; at the most, as beautiful as it maybe, it can be a star. This is why I wantthe Sanctity of living in my Will - inthese times, so sad, this generationneeds these Suns, which may warm it,illuminate it and fecundate it. The

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disinterest of these terrestrial angels,all for the good of others, without ashadow of their own self, will open inhearts the way to receive my grace.

And then, churches are few andmany will be destroyed. Many times Ido not find Priests to consecrate Me;other times they allow unworthy soulsto receive Me, and worthy souls not toreceive Me; other souls are unable toreceive Me, therefore my Love findsItself hindered. This is why I want tomake the Sanctity of living in my Will.In It, I will no longer need Priests to beconsecrated, nor churches, tabernaclesor hosts. These souls will be everythingaltogether: Priests, churches,

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tabernacles and hosts. My Love will bemore free. Anytime I want to consecrateMyself, I will be able to do it - in everymoment, during the day, at night, in anyplace where they might be. Oh, how myLove will have Its complete outpouring!

Ah! my daughter, the presentgeneration deserved to be destroyedcompletely; and if I will allow a littlesomething to be left of it, it is to formthese Suns of the Sanctity of living inmy Will, who, through my example, willrepay Me for all that other creatures,past, present and future, owed Me.Then will the earth give Me true glory,and my “FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, onearth as it is in Heaven” will have its

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completion and fulfillment.”

Volume 12 - November 20, 1917

“Courage, don’t lose heart. I willgo on. And you - come into my Will;live in It, so that the earth may nolonger be your home, but I Myself maybecome your home. In this way you willbe completely safe. My Will has thepower of rendering the soultransparent, and when the soul istransparent, whatever I do is reflectedin her. If I think, my thought is reflectedin her mind and becomes light, whileher thought, as light, is reflected inMine. If I look, if I speak, if I love, etc.,these are reflected in her like many

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lights, and she in Me. Therefore, we arein continuous reflections, in perennialcommunication, in reciprocal love. Andsince I am everywhere, the reflectionsof these souls reach Me in Heaven, onearth, in the Sacramental Host, in thehearts of creatures. Everywhere andalways, I give light, and light they sendto Me; I give love, and love they give toMe. They are my terrestrial homes, inwhich I find refuge from the disgust ofthe other creatures.

Oh, the beautiful living in myWill! I like it so much that I will makedisappear all other sanctities underany aspect of virtue in the futuregenerations, and I will make the

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sanctity of living in my Will reappear,which are and will be not humansanctities, but Divine. Their sanctitywill be so high that, like suns, they willeclipse the most beautiful stars of thesaints of the past generations. This iswhy I want to purge the earth: it isunworthy of these portents of Sanctity.

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I was feeling all immersed in theDivine Volition, and my lovable Jesus,on coming, told me: “Daughter of myWill, look into your interior - howpeacefully flows the immense sea of myWill. But do not think that this sea hasbeen flowing in you for a short time

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because you hear Me speak often aboutmy Will – but for a long, long time, asmy usual way is to act first, and then tospeak. It is true that your beginningwas the sea of my Passion, becausethere is no sanctity which does not passthrough the harbor of my Humanity. Infact, there are Saints who remain in theharbor of my Humanity, while othersmove beyond. But then I quicklygrafted the sea of my Will; and when Isaw you disposed, and you surrenderedyour will to Me, Mine took life in you,and the sea kept flowing and growingalways. Each additional act of yours inmy Will was a greater growth. I spoketo you little about this; our wills werelinked together and understood each

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other without speaking; and then, byjust seeing each other, we understoodeach other. I delighted in you, feelingthe delights of Heaven, in nothingdissimilar to those which the Saintsgive Me, which are such that, while Idelight them, they delight Me. Beingimmersed in my Volition, they cannothelp but give Me joys and delights. Butmy happiness was not complete - Iwanted other children of mine to sharein such a great good. Therefore Ibegan to speak to you about my Will ina surprising way; and as many truths,as many effects and values as I spoke toyou, so many channels did I open fromthe sea for the good of others, so thatthese channels might give abundant

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water to all the earth.

My operating is communicativeand always in act, without everstopping. But many times thesechannels are covered with mud bycreatures; others throw stones intothem, and the water does not flow – itflows with difficulty. It is not the seathat does not want to give water, nor isit the water that cannot penetrateeverywhere because it is not clear; butit is the side of creatures that opposessuch a great good. Therefore, if theyread these truths, if they are notdisposed they will not understand athing - they will remain confused anddazzled by the light of my truths. For

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those who are disposed, it will be lightthat lights them up, and water thatquenches their thirst, in such a waythat they will never want to detachthemselves from these channelsbecause of the great good they feel, andthe new life that flows in them. Therefore, you too should be happy toopen these channels for the good ofyour brothers, neglecting nothing aboutmy truths – be it even the littlest,because as little as it might be, it canserve one of your brothers to drawwater. So, be attentive to open thesechannels, and to content your Jesus,who has done so much for you.”

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Continuing in my usual state, Ifound myself outside of myself in themidst of a most extensive sea; and Isaw a machine, and as the enginemoved, water would spurt out from allsides of the machine, in such a waythat, rising up to Heaven, these wavesof water spouted upon all Saints andAngels, and reaching up to the throneof the Eternal One, they pouredmightily at His feet, and thendescended again into the depths of thesame sea. I remained amazed in seeingthis, and I said to myself: ‘What canthis machine be?’ And a light thatcame from the same sea told me: “Thesea is my Will, the machine is the soulwho lives in my Volition, the engine is

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the human will that operates in theDivine Will. Every time the soul makesher own special intentions in my Will,the engine sets the machine in motion;and since my Will is life of the Blessed,just as It is also life of the machine, itis no wonder that my Will that spurtsout of this machine enters into Heavenand glows with light, with glory,spouting upon all, up to my throne, andthen descends again into the sea of myWill on earth, for the good of pilgrimsouls. My Will is everywhere, and theacts done in my Will run everywhere -both in Heaven and on earth. They runto the past, because my Will existed; tothe present, because It has lost nothingof Its activity; to the future, because It

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will exist eternally. How beautiful arethe acts in my Will! And since my Willcontains ever new contentments, theseacts are the new contentments of thevery Blessed; they are the substitutesfor the acts of the Saints, which havenot been done in my Will; they are thenew graces of all creatures.”

Then, afterwards, I remained allafflicted because I had not seen mysweet Jesus; and He, moving in myinterior, clasped me in His arms, sayingto me: “My daughter, why are you soafflicted? Am I not the sea Myself?”

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As I was in my usual state, my

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always lovable Jesus made Himselfseen holding many little lambs in Hisarms - some leaning on His breast,some on His shoulders, some clingingto His neck, some on the right, some onthe left in His arms, and some peekingout with their little heads from withinHis Heart. However, the feet of allthese little lambs were all in the Heartof Our Lord, and His breath was thenourishment He gave to them. Theywere all turned with their mouthstoward the mouth of my sweet Jesus, toreceive the nourishment of His breath. It was really beautiful to see how Jesustook highest delight, all intent onnourishing them and delighting withthem; they really seemed as many

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births delivered by His Most HolyHeart. Then, turning to Me, He said: “My daughter, these little lambs thatyou see in my arms are the children ofmy Will, legitimate births from mySupreme Volition. They will come outfrom within my Heart, but will keeptheir feet in the center of my Heart, sothat they may take nothing from theearth, and may be concerned withnothing but Me alone. Look at them,how beautiful they are; how clean andnourished they grow, fed by my breathalone. They will be the glory, thecrown of my Creation.” Then Headded: “My Will crystallizes the soul;and just as when any object is placedclose to a crystal, another object is

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formed within it fully similar to the onewhich is placed in front of it, in thesame way, my Will reflects all It does inthese souls, crystallized by my power;and they repeat and do all that mySupreme Will does. And since my Willis everywhere, in Heaven, on earth andin every place, by containing my Willwithin them as life, wherever my Willacts, these souls absorb It like crystalwithin them, and they repeat my act. So, as I act, I take great delight inplacing Myself in front of them to seemy own action being repeated in them. They are my mirrors, and my Willmultiplies them everywhere, for everyact It does; therefore, there is not onecreated thing in which they are not

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present: in the creatures, in the sea, inthe sun, in the stars, and even inHeaven; and my Will receives therequital for my act from the creature ina divine manner. This is also the reasonwhy I love so much that the living in myWill be known: to multiply more ofthese mirrors, rendered as crystals bymy Will, to have my works repeated inthem. Then I will not be alone anymore, but I will have the creature in mycompany; I will have her with Me,intimately with Me, in the depth of myWill, almost inseparable from Me, as ifshe had just come out of my womb whenI created her, having followed no otherways contrary to my Will. How happy Iwill be!” On hearing this, I said to

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Him: ‘My Love and my Life, I stillcannot convince myself. How is itpossible that no Saint has done yourMost Holy Will always, and has lived inthe way You are now saying - in yourWill?’ And Jesus: “Ah, my daughter,you still do not want to convinceyourself that one can take as muchlight, grace, variety and value, for asmuch as one knows? Surely there havebeen Saints who have always done myWill, but they took of my Will as muchas they knew. They knew that doing myWill was the greatest act, that whichhonored Me the most and whichbrought sanctification, and with thisintention they did It, and this is whatthey took, because there is no sanctity

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without my Will, and no good norsanctity, little or big, can come withoutIt. You must know that what my Willwas, It is and will be: It has changedin nothing. But as It manifests Itself, Itmakes known the variety of the colors,effects and values It contains; and Itdoes not just make Itself known, but Itgives to the soul the variety of Itscolors, effects and values; otherwise,why make them known? My Will actedlike a great lord who showed his mostextensive and sumptuous palace. Tothe first ones he pointed out the way toreach his palace; to the second thedoor; to the third the stairs; to thefourth the first rooms; and to the lastones he opened all the rooms, making

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them the owners and giving them allthe goods which are in it. Now, the firstones have taken the goods which are onthe way; the second, the goods whichare at the door, superior to those whichare on the way; the third, those of thestairs; the fourth, those of the firstrooms, where there are more goods andthey are kept more safely; the last ones,the goods of the whole palace. So myWill has done. It had to make knownthe way, the door, the stairs, the firstrooms, to be able to move on into thewhole immensity of my Will, and toshow them the great goods which are inIt, and how the creature operating inthese goods contained in my Willacquires the variety of Its colors, of Its

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immensity, sanctity and power, and ofall my works. In making somethingknown, I give and impress within thesoul that divine quality which I makeknown. If you knew under what mightywaves of graces you are, when I moveon to make you know other effects ofmy Will, and how, as a skillful painter, Ipaint in your soul, with the most vividcolors the different effects and valueswhich I make you know - you wouldremain crushed under my waves! Buthaving compassion for your weakness,I sustain you; and while I sustain you Iimpress more within you what I tellyou, because if I speak, I act. Therefore, be attentive and faithful.”

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Volume 14 - October 6, 1922

I was praying when my alwayslovable Jesus came, and throwing Hisarms around my neck, told me: “Mydaughter, let us pray together, let usenter into the immense sea of my Willso that nothing may come from youwhich is not plunged in It. Thethought, the word, the heartbeat, thework, the step - everything must takeplace in my Will; and for each thingyou do in It, you will take one morepossession and acquire a greaterright. All human acts, according to thepurpose of Creation, were to have life

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in my Volition and form in It theirplane of all human acts changed intodivine acts, with the mark of supremenobility, sanctity and wisdom. It wasnot Our Will that man withdraw fromUs, but that he live with Us, growing inOur likeness and operating with Ourown manners. This is why I wantedthat all his acts be done in my Will - togive him the place in which to form hisown little river within the immense seaof my Will. I acted like a father whopossessed great lands and said to Hisson: ‘I give you possession of thecenter of my possessions, so that youmay not go out of my boundaries andmay grow in my riches, with my ownnobility and with the greatness of my

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works, and so that all may recognizethat you are my son.’ What would onesay of him if he did not accept the greatgift of his father and went to foreignlands to live of miseries, disennoblinghimself under the slavery of cruelenemies? Such was man. Now, thisplane, this little river in my Volition - Iwant it from you. Let each one of yourthoughts flow in It, so that, in thereflections of Our intelligence, which isthought of everyone, it may rise overeach intelligence and give Us thehomage of each thought in a divinemanner. Let your words and works flowas well, so that, in the reflection of Ourword ‘Fiat’, which made all things andis word of everyone, and in the

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reflections of the sanctity of Our works,which is life and motion of everything,they may rise and hover overeverything, giving Us the glory of eachword and of each work, with Our ownword ‘Fiat’ and with the very sanctityof Our works. My daughter, if all thatis human – be it even one thought - isnot done in my Will, the human planetakes no possession, the little river isnot formed, and my Will cannotdescend upon the earth to make Itselfknown and to reign.” On hearing this, Isaid to Him: ‘My Love, Jesus, how is itpossible that after so many centuries oflife of the Church, which put out somany Saints - and many of them haveastonished Heaven and earth with their

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virtues and with the wonders theyperformed - they did not operate fullyin the Divine Will so as to form thisplane You are talking about? Were Youwaiting just for me, the most unable,the most cattivella [bad little one] andignorant one, in order to do this? Itseems just incredible.’ And Jesus: “Listen, my daughter, my wisdom hasmeans and ways which man ignores,such that he is obliged to lower hisforehead and adore it in mute silence;and it is not up to him to dictate to Methe laws, whom I should choose and theappropriate time, which my goodnessdisposes. Besides, first I had to formthe Saints, who were to resemble Meand copy my Humanity in a more

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perfect way, as much as is possible forthem; and this I have already done. Now my goodness wants to go beyond,and wants to give in to greater excessesof love; and therefore I want them toenter into my Humanity and copy whatthe soul of my Humanity did in theDivine Will. If the first cooperatedwith my redemption in order to savesouls, to teach the law, to banish sin,being limited within the centuries inwhich they lived, the second will gobeyond, copying what the soul of myHumanity did in the Divine Will. Theywill embrace all centuries, allcreatures, and rising above all, will putin force the rights of Creation whichare due to Me, and which concern all

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creatures, bringing all things to thefirst origin of Creation and to thepurpose for which Creation wasdelivered. Everything is ordered inMe: if I issued Creation, It must returnto Me ordered, just as It came out of myhands. The first plane of the humanacts changed into divine in my Will,was done Me; I left it as thoughsuspended, and the creature, except formy dear and inseparable Mama, knewnothing. This was necessary. If mandid not know the way, the door, therooms of my Humanity, how could heenter inside of Me and copy what Idid? Now the time has come for thecreature to enter into this plane andalso do something of her own within

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mine. What is the wonder if I havecalled you as the first one? Besides, itis so true that I have called you as thefirst, since to no other soul, thoughdear to Me, have I manifested the wayto live in my Will, the effects of It, andthe wonders and goods which thecreature operating in the SupremeVolition receives. Check as many livesof Saints as you want, or books ofdoctrines: in none of them will youfind the prodigies of my Volitionoperating in the creature and of thecreature operating in It. At the most,you will find resignation, union ofwills; but in not one of them will youfind the Divine Will operating in her,and she in It. This means that the time

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had not come in which my goodnesswas to call the creature to live in thissublime state. Even the very way Imake you pray cannot be found inanyone else. Therefore, be attentive.

Volume 15 - April 14, 1923

Now, my daughter, let’s come tomy Will. Do you think it is a Sanctitylike the other sanctities? A good, agrace, almost like the others which Ihave given for many centuries to theother Saints and to the whole Church? No, no! This is about a new era - abouta good which must serve allgenerations; but it is necessary that I

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first centralize all this good in onecreature alone, just as I did inRedemption by centralizing everythingin my Mama. Take a look at how thingsproceed in a parallel way: in order tomake Redemption come and to disposesouls for It, I made the promise of thefuture Messiah, so that, by hoping forHim to come, they would not onlydispose themselves, but find, they too,their own salvation in the futureRedeemer. Now, in order to disposesouls to live in my Will, to let thempartake in the goods It contains, and tomake man return to the path of hisorigin, just as he was created by Me, IMyself wanted to pray as the first,making my voice resound from one end

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of the earth to another, and even uphigh in Heaven, saying: ‘Our Father,who art in Heaven’. I did not say ‘MyFather’, but I called Him Father of thewhole human family, so as to engageHim in that which I was going to add: ‘May all hallow your Name, so thatyour Kingdom may come, and your Willbe done on earth as It is in Heaven’. This was the purpose of Creation, and Iasked the Father that it be fulfilled. AsI prayed, the Father surrendered to mysupplications, and I formed the seed ofa good so great; and so that this seedmight be known, I taught my prayer tothe Apostles, and they transmitted it tothe whole Church, so that, just as thepeople of the future Redeemer found

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salvation in Him and disposed itself toreceive the promised Messiah, in thesame way, with this seed formed by Me,the Church might pray and repeat myvery prayer many times, and mightdispose Herself to receive the good ofrecognizing and loving my CelestialFather as their Father, in such a way asto deserve to be loved as children andreceive the great good that my Will bedone on earth as It is in Heaven.

In this seed and in this hope thatmy Will be done on earth as It is inHeaven, the very Saints have formedtheir sanctity, and the martyrs haveshed their blood. There is no goodwhich does not derive from this seed.

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So, the whole Church prays; and just asthe tears, the penances, the prayers toobtain the Messiah were directedtoward that excelling Virgin whom Iwas to dispose in order to centralizesuch a great good in Her, so that theymight receive their Savior, even thoughthey did not know whom She would be –in the same way, now, when the Churchrecites the ‘Our Father’, it is preciselyfor you that She prays, so that I maycentralize in you all the good that myWill contains, the ‘way’ - the ‘how’ theDivine Will may have life on earth as Itdoes in Heaven. And even though youare not known, by echoing my prayer,‘Thy Will be done on earth as It is inHeaven’, the Church prays Me, presses

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Me to centralize all this good in asecond virgin, so that, like a secondsavior, she may save unsafe humanity;and making use of my inseparable loveand mercy, I may answer my ownprayer, united to that of the wholeChurch, making man come back to hisorigin, to the purpose for which Icreated him – that my Will be done onearth as It is in Heaven. This isprecisely the living in my Will; andeverything I keep manifesting to youpushes you to this, confirms you inthis. This is the great foundation I keepforming in your soul; and in order todo this, I keep centralizing in you allthe graces, past, present and future,which I have given to all generations.

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Even more, I double them, I multiplythem, because since my Will is thegreatest, the holiest, the noblest thing,which has no beginning and no end, inorder to place It in one creature, it isright and decorous that I centralize inher all possible goods, innumerablegraces, divine purity and nobility, sothat this Will of Mine may have thesame cortege It has in Heaven. It is thesame Will that operated in Redemption,and wanted to make use of a Virgin. What portents and prodigies of gracesdid It not work in Her? My Will isgreat, It contains all goods, and inoperating, It acts with magnanimity;and if it is about doing works anddoing good for all humanity, then It

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puts all of Its goods at stake.

Now It wants to make use ofanother virgin in order to centralize ItsWill in her, and to begin to make knownthat Its Will must be done on earth as Itis in Heaven. And if in Redemption Itwanted to come to save lost man, tosatisfy for his sins - which man had nopower to do - and to give him refugeand many other goods whichRedemption contains, now, wanting todisplay even more love than inRedemption Itself by making my Will bedone on earth as It is in Heaven, myWill comes to give man his state oforigin, his nobility, the purpose forwhich he was created. It comes to open

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the current between Itself and thehuman will, in such a way that,absorbed by this Divine Will, beingdominated by It, the human will willgive It life within itself, and my Willwill reign on earth as It does inHeaven.”

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I understood that He wanted meto enter into the immense sea of HisWill, to be cheered from the sea of thesins of creatures; and I, clinging toHim more tightly, told Him: ‘Mybeloved Good, together with you I wantto follow all the acts which yourHumanity did in the Divine Will.

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Wherever You reached, I too want toreach, so that in all of your acts Youmay find mine as well. So, just as yourintelligence, in the Supreme Will, wentthrough all the intelligences ofcreatures in order to give the CelestialFather glory, honor and reparation foreach thought of creature in a divinemanner, and seal each one of theirthoughts with the light and the grace ofyour Will, I too want to go througheach thought, from the first to the lastwhich will have life in human minds, torepeat what was done by You. Evenmore, I want to unite myself with theacts of our Celestial Mama, who neverremained behind, but always rantogether with You, and with those which

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your Saints have done.’

At this last word, Jesus looked atme and, all tenderness, told me: “Mydaughter, in my Eternal Will you willfind all my acts, as well as those of myMama, which enveloped all the acts ofcreatures, from the first to the lastwhich will exist, as though within amantle. This mantle is as though madeas two, and one of them rose up toHeaven, in order to give to my Father,with a Divine Will, all that creaturesowed Him - love, glory, reparation andsatisfaction; while the other remainedas defense and help of creatures. Noone else has entered into my DivineWill to do all that my Humanity did.

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My Saints have done my Will, but havenot entered into It, to do all that myWill does, taking all acts, as though ina twinkling of an eye, from the first tothe last man, and becoming actors,spectators and divinizers. By doing myWill one does not arrive at doing allthat my Eternal Volition contains;rather, It descends into the creature aslimited, as much as the creature cancontain of It. Only one who enters intoIt expands and diffuses himself likesolar light in the eternal flights of myVolition, and finding my acts and thoseof my Mama, he places his own. Lookinside my Will: are there perhaps otheracts of creature multiplied within mine,reaching up to the last act which is to

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be performed on this earth? Look well- you will find none. This means thatno one has entered. It had beenreserved that the doors of my EternalVolition would only be opened to mylittle daughter, so as to unify her actswith mine and with those of my Mama,and render all our acts triple, beforethe Supreme Majesty and for the goodof creatures. Now, since I have openedthe doors, others may enter, providedthat they dispose themselves for such agreat good.”

Volume 16 - December 26, 1923

“Beloved daughter of my Will,look inside of Me, how my Supreme

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Will conceded not even a breath of lifeto the will of my Humanity; as holy asIt was, not even that was conceded toMe. I was to remain under the pressureof a Divine, infinite, endless Will, morethan a press, which constituted Itselflife of each one of my heartbeats, wordsand acts; and my little human will diedin each heartbeat, breath, act, word,etc. But it died in reality – it actuallyfelt death, because it never had life. Ihad my human will only to make it diecontinuously, and even though this wasa great honor for my Humanity, and thegreatest of portents - each death of myhuman will was substituted by a Life ofDivine Will - however, this continuousdying was the greatest, the hardest, the

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most bitter and painful martyrdom ofmy Humanity. Oh! how the pains of myPassion become little before thiscontinuous dying of mine. And in thisalone I completed the perfect glory ofmy Celestial Father, and I loved Himwith a love that surpasses any otherlove for all creatures. To die, to suffer,to do something great a few times, atintervals, is not so great. The Saints,the good and other creatures also haveworked, have suffered, have died; butsince it was not a continuous suffering,doing and dying, it constitutes neithera perfect glory to the Father, nor aredemption which can be extended toall. Therefore, my newborn daughter inmy Eternal Volition, see now where

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your Jesus calls you and wants you: under the press of my Divine Will, sothat your will may receive continuousdeath, just as my human will did. Otherwise, I could not make the newera arise, in which my Will may cometo reign upon earth. It takes thecontinuous act, pains, deaths, in orderto be able to snatch the Fiat VoluntasTua from Heaven. Beware, mydaughter - do not look at others, eitherat my other Saints, or at the way Iconducted Myself with them, whichcauses you be surprised at the way Ibehave with you. With them I wanted todo one thing; with you it is somethingcompletely different.” And as He wassaying this, He took the form of the

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Crucified and He leaned His foreheadon mine, laying Himself over my wholeperson; and I remained under Hispressure, and all prey to His Will.

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I was thinking to myself: ‘Mygood Jesus says many admirable thingsabout His Will, and how there isnothing greater, higher, holier than thesoul whom He calls to live in HisVolition. If it were so, who knows howmany admirable things I should bedoing - how many sensational things,also externally. Yet, there is nothingcharming or striking; on the contrary, I

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feel I am the most abject andinsignificant one, who does nothinggood; while the Saints – how muchgood did they not do? Sensationalthings, miracles…. And yet, He saysthat the living in His Will leaves all theSaints behind.’ Now, while these andother thoughts were passing throughmy mind, my Jesus moved in myinterior, and with His usual light, Hetold me: “My daughter, when asanctity is individual, for a time and aplace, it has more of external prodigiesin order to attract those individuals,places and times, to receive the graceand the good which that sanctitycontains. On the other hand, thesanctity of living in my Will is not an

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individual sanctity, assigned to doinggood to certain places, to certainpeople and to certain times; rather, it isa sanctity which must do good to all, inall times and in all places. It is asanctity which remains eclipsed in theEternal Sun of my Will, which, invadingall, is light without speech, fire withoutwood, without clamor, without smoke. But in spite of this, it does not cease tobe the most majestic, the mostbeautiful, the most fecund; Its light ismore pure, Its heat more intense. Thetrue image of it is the sun whichilluminates our horizon: it illuminatesall, but without clamor; it is light, buthas no speech, it says nothing toanyone - the good it does, the seeds it

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fecundates, the life it gives to allplants, and how it purifies the pollutedair with its heat, and destroys what canbe harmful to all humanity. And yet, itis so silent, that even though they haveit with them, they pay no attention toit. But in spite of this, it does not ceaseto be majestic and beautiful, and tocontinue the good it does to all. And ifthe sun were missing, everyone wouldmourn for it, because the greatestmiracle of fecundity and preservationof all nature would be missing.

The sanctity of living in my Willis more than sun. A soul who is uprightand fully ordered in my Will is morethan an army in battle. Her

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intelligence is ordered and bound to theEternal Intelligence; her heartbeats,affections, desires, are ordered witheternal bonds. Therefore, her thoughts,her will and the whole of her interior,are armies of messengers which comefrom her and fill Heaven and earth;they are speaking voices; they areweapons which defend all and, first ofall, their God. They bring good to all;they are the true celestial and divinemilitia which the Supreme Majestykeeps all ordered within Itself, everready at all Its commands.

And then, there is the example ofmy Mama - true sanctity of the living inmy Will, Her interior all eclipsed in the

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Eternal Sun of the Supreme Volition. Having to be the Queen of the Sanctityof the Saints, Mother and Bearer of myLife to all, and therefore of all goods,She remained as though hidden withinall, bringing good without makingHerself recognized. More than silentsun, She would bring light withoutspeech, fire without clamor, goodwithout exposing Herself. There wasno good which would not come fromHer; there was no miracle which wouldnot spring from Her. By living in myWill, She lived hidden within all, andShe was, and is, the origin of the goodsof all. She was so enraptured in God,so fixed and ordered in the Divine Will,that Her whole interior swam in the sea

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of the Eternal Volition. She was awareof the whole interior of all creatures,and She would place Her own in orderto reorder them before God. It wasprecisely the interior of man, more thanthe outside, that was in greater need ofbeing redone and reordered; and so,having to do the greater, it seemed thatShe would leave out the lesser, whileShe was the origin of both the externaland the internal good. Yet, on theoutside it seemed that She would not dogreat and sensational works. Morethan sun, She would pass unobservedand hidden in the cloud of light of theDivine Will; so much so, that the verySaints have given of themselves, doingapparently more sensational things

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than my very Mama did. Yet, what arethe greatest Saints before my CelestialMama? They are just little starscompared to the great sun; and if theyare illuminated, it is because of thesun. But even though She did not dosensational things, She did not cease tobe, also visibly, majestic and beautiful,just barely hovering over the earth, allintent on that Eternal Will which, withgreat love and violence, She charmedand enraptured in order to transport Itfrom Heaven to earth, and which thehuman family had so brutally exiledeven unto the Empyreum. And She, withall of Her interior ordered in theDivine Will, would give no time to time;whether She would think, palpitate,

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breathe, and anything She would do –these were all charming bonds in orderto draw the Eternal Word upon earth. And in fact She won, and performed thegreatest miracle, which no one else cando.

Volume 17 - May 4, 1925

After writing what is writtenabove, I began to do the adoration tomy Crucified Jesus, fusing all of myselfin His Most Holy Will; and my belovedJesus came out from within my interior,and placing His most holy face close tomine, all tenderness, told me: “Mydaughter, did you write everything on

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the mission of my Will?” And I: ‘Yes,yes, I wrote everything.’ And He,again: “And what if I told you that youhave not written everything? Rather,you have left out the most essentialthing. So, continue writing, and add: ‘The mission of my Will will veil theMost Holy Trinity upon earth. Just asin Heaven there are the Father, the Sonand the Holy Spirit, inseparable fromOne Another but distinct amongThemselves, forming the wholebeatitude of Heaven; in the same way,on earth there will be three personswho, because of their missions, will bedistinct and inseparable amongthemselves: the Virgin, with HerMaternity which veils the Paternity of

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the Celestial Father and encloses Hispower in order to fulfill Her mission ofMother of the Eternal Word and Co-Redemptrix of mankind; my Humanity,for the mission of Redeemer, whichenclosed the Divinity, and the Word,without ever separating from theFather and from the Holy Spirit,manifested my celestial wisdom -adding the bond of rendering Myselfinseparable from my Mama; and you,for the mission of my Will, as the HolySpirit will make display of His love,manifesting to you the secrets, theprodigies of my Will, the goods Itcontains, to make happy those who willgive themselves to knowing how muchgood this Supreme Will contains, to

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love It and to let It reign in their midst,offering their souls to let It dwellwithin their hearts, that It may be ableto form Its Life in them – adding thebond of inseparability between you, theMother and the Eternal Word. Thesethree missions are distinct andinseparable. The first two haveprepared the graces, the light, thework, and with unheard-of pains, forthe third mission of my Will, to thenfuse themselves all in It without leavingtheir office, so as to find rest, becausemy Will alone is celestial rest. Thesemissions will not be repeated, becausethe exuberance of grace, of light, ofknowledge is such and so great that allhuman generations can be filled with

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them; even more, they will not be ableto contain all the good which theycontain. These missions aresymbolized by the sun; in fact, increating it, I filled it with so much lightand heat, that all human generationshave superabundant light. Nor did Iconsider that, since at the beginning ofcreation there were only Adam and Evewho would enjoy it, I could place thenecessary light for them only, to thenincrease new light as the generationswould grow. No, no – I made it full oflight, just as it is now, and will be. Forthe decorum and the honor of Ourpower, wisdom and love, Our works arealways done with the fullness of all thegood which they contain; nor are they

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subject to increasing or decreasing. SoI did with the sun: I centralized in itall the light which was to serve up tothe last man. But how many goods doesthe sun not do for the earth? Whatglory, in its mute light, does it not giveto its Creator? I can say that becauseof the immense goods it does to theearth, in its mute language the sunglorifies Me and makes Me known morethan all other things together; and this,because it is full in its light, and stablein its course. When I looked at the sunwhich, with so much light, only Adamand Eve were enjoying, I also looked atall the living; and in seeing that thatlight was to serve all, my paternalgoodness exulted with joy, and I

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remained glorified in my works. So Idid with my Mama: I filled Her with somuch grace, that She can give graces toall without ever exhausting even one ofthem. So I did with my Humanity: there is no good which It does notpossess; It enclosed everything, and thevery Divinity, to give It to whomeverwants of It. So I did with you: Ienclosed in you my Will, and, with It, Ienclosed Myself. I enclosed in you Itsknowledges, Its secrets, Its light. Ifilled your soul up to the brim; so muchso, that what you write is nothing otherthan the outpouring of what youcontain of my Will. And even though itnow serves you alone, and a fewglimmers of light serve a few others, I

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am content because, being light, morethan second sun, it will make its way byitself, in order to illuminate the humangenerations and to bring about thefulfillment of Our works: that Our Willbe known and loved, and that It reignas life in the creatures. This was thepurpose of Creation – this, itsbeginning, and this will be the meansand the end. Therefore, be attentive,because this is about placing in safetythat Eternal Will which, with so muchlove, wants to dwell in the creatures. But It wants to be known, It does notwant to be like a stranger, but wants togive Its goods and become Life of eachone. However, It wants Its rights, Itsplace of honor; It wants the human will

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to be put aside – the only enemy forItself and for man. The mission of myWill was the purpose of the creation ofman. My Divinity did not depart fromHeaven - from Its throne, while my Willnot only departed, but descended intoall created things and formed Its Life inthem. But while all things recognizedMe, and I dwell in them with majestyand decorum, man alone drove Meaway. But I want to conquer him andwin him, and therefore my mission isnot ended. So I called you, entrustingto you my own mission, that you mayplace the one who drove Me away onthe lap of my Will, and everything mayreturn to Me in my Will. Therefore, donot be surprised at the many great and

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marvelous things I may tell you for thesake of this mission, or at the manygraces I may give you; because this isnot about making a Saint, or saving thegenerations. This is about placing aDivine Will in safety, that all mayreturn to the beginning, to the originfrom which all came, and that thepurpose of my Will may have itsfulfillment.’”

Volume 17 - February 15, 1925

“Daughter of my Will, each act inmy Will is a new heaven which extendsabove the head of the soul – one morebeautiful than the other. The air ofthese heavens is divine, and brings with

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itself sanctity, love, light, fortitude, andcontains all tastes together. This iswhy one feels a balsamic and sweetair. My Will in Heaven is confirming,beatifying, bearer of happiness and all-pervasive, transformer and divinizer ofeverything within Itself. On the otherhand, in the soul who possesses thesenew heavens of my Will on earth, myWill is operating, and as It operates, Itdelights in extending new heavens. Therefore, my Will works and operatesmore in the pilgrim soul than in theCelestial Jerusalem. Up there, theworks of the Saints are accomplished -there is nothing left to do; while here,my Will has always something to do inthe soul in whom It reigns. This is why

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It wants everything for Itself, nor doesIt want to leave even one act to herhuman will – because It wants to domuch, and for every act It were tosurrender to the human will, It wouldfail to extend one more heaven, and itwould be one work less for It. Ah! youdo not know what happens in the soulwhen she gives my Will all the freedomto operate within her, and the souloperates in my Will!

Imagine the sea when the wavesrise up as so powerful and high, thatthe power of the waves transports notonly the waters, but also the fish - uphigh, in such a way that in those wavesone can see, carried by the power of

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the storm, how the fish also have comeout from the bottom of the sea, fromtheir everyday dwelling, to rise up hightogether with the waves. The waveshave overwhelmed them, and they havenot been able to resist their power;while, without the power of the waves,they are unable to go out of theirharbor. Oh! if the sea had a powerwithout limit, it would make all thewater overflow from the bed of the sea,forming gigantic waves, with all thefish overwhelmed within them. Butwhat the sea cannot do, because it islimited in its power, my Will does. As Itmakes the acts of the soul Its own byoperating in her, It forms Its eternalwaves in her; and within these waves It

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overwhelms everything. In thesewaves, one can see what my Humanitydid, the works of my Celestial Mama,those of all Saints, and everything thatthe very Divinity did. Everything isplaced in motion. My Will is more thansea; Our works and those of the Saintscan be symbolized by the fish whichlive in the sea. When my Will operatesin the soul, and also outside of the soul,everything which is present in It, movesand rises; all works place themselvesin order, to repeat for Us glory, love,adoration. They pass before Us, asthough in a parade, saying to Us: ‘Weare your works. Great and powerfulYou are, because You made us sobeautiful.’ My Will encloses

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everything that is beautiful and good,and when It operates, It leaves nothingbehind, so that nothing of what is Oursmay be missing in that act, and so thatOur glory may be complete. And thereis nothing to be surprised about,because it is the eternal operating thatis carried out in the soul. Therefore,the operating of my Will can be calledeternal wave, which overwhelmsHeaven and earth as though in onesingle point, and then diffuses over all,as bearer of a divine act. Oh! howHeaven delights when It sees theEternal Will operate in the soul! Infact, since their works are confirmed inthe Divine Will in Heaven, they seetheir works flow within that divine act,

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and feel their glory, happiness andjoys, being redoubled. Therefore, sinceyou are the little daughter of mySupreme Volition, I recommend to you: leave each act of yours prey to theeternal waves of my Will, so that, asthese waves reach the foot of OurThrone in Heaven, We may confirm youmore and more as Our true daughter ofOur Will, and We may grant youcharters of grace for your brothers andOur children.”

Volume 17 - January 4, 1925

Having completed my whole day,I was thinking to myself: ‘What else isleft for me to do?’ And in my interior I

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heard, being said to me: “You have todo the most important thing – your lastact of fusing yourself in the DivineWill.” So, according to my usual way, Ibegan to fuse all my poor being in theSupreme Will; and while I was doingthis, it seemed to me that the Heavenswere opening, and I was going to meetthe whole Celestial Court, and all ofHeaven was coming toward me. Andmy sweet Jesus told me: “My daughter,fusing yourself in my Will is the mostsolemn, the greatest, the mostimportant act of your whole life. Tofuse yourself in my Will is to enter thesphere of eternity, to embrace It, to kissIt, and to receive the deposit of thegoods which the Eternal Will contains.

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Even more, as the soul fuses herself inthe Supreme Volition, all go to meether, in order to deposit in hereverything they have. The Angels, theSaints, the very Divinity - they alldeposit, knowing that they aredepositing in that same Will in whicheverything is safe. Even more, inreceiving these goods, with her acts inthe Divine Will the soul multiplies themand gives back double glory and honorto the whole of Heaven. So, by fusingyourself in my Will you put Heaven andearth in motion; it is a new feast for thewhole Empyreum. And since to fuseoneself in my Will is to love and to givefor all and for each one, withoutexcluding anyone, in my goodness, so

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as not to let Myself be surpassed inlove by the creature, I place in her thegoods of all, and all possible goodswhich I contain within Me. Nor canthere be lack of space in which to placeall goods, because my Will is immense,and lends Itself to receiving everything. If you knew what you do and whathappens when you fuse yourself in myWill, you would burn with the desire tofuse yourself continuously.”

Then afterwards, I was thinkingabout whether I had to write what iswritten above, or not. I did not see itas necessary, or as an important thing;more so, since obedience had not givenme any command to do it. And my

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sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, toldme: “My daughter, how can it not beimportant to make known that fusingoneself in my Will is to live in It? Thesoul who fuses herself in my Willreceives, as though in deposit, all mydivine and eternal goods. The verySaints compete among themselves inorder to deposit their merits in the soulfused in my Will, because they feel inher the glory, the power of my Will, andthey feel glorified in a divine mannerby the littleness of the creature. Listen,my daughter, to live in my Willsurpasses even martyrdom in merit. Martyrdom kills the body, but living inmy Will is like a divine hand that killsone’s will, and gives one the nobility of

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a divine martyrdom. And every time thesoul decides to live in my Will, myVolition prepares the blow in order tokill the human will, and forms the noblemartyrdom of the soul. In fact, humanwill and Divine Will do not bondtogether – one has to give the place tothe Other, and the human will mustcontent itself with remainingextinguished under the power of theDivine Will. So, every time you disposeyourself to live in my Volition, youdispose yourself to undergo themartyrdom of your will. See, then,what it means to fuse oneself in myWill: it is to be the continuous martyrof my Supreme Will. And you think it istrivial, or something unimportant?”

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I was worried about what hasbeen written on the living in the DivineVolition, and I was praying Jesus togive me more light in order to explainmyself better, so that I might be able toclarify more this blessed living in theDivine Will to those to whom I amobliged to do so. And my sweet Jesustold me: “My daughter, they do notwant to understand. To live in my Willis to reign; to do my Will is to besubmitted to my orders. The first stateis to possess; the second is to receivemy orders and execute them. To live inmy Will is to make my Will one’s own,as one’s own thing, it is to dispose of It;

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to do my Will is to hold It as Will ofGod, not as one’s own thing, nor canone dispose of It as one wants. To livein my Will is to live with one single Will– that of God; and since It is a Will allholy, all pure, all peace, and it is onesingle Will that reigns, there are nocontrasts - everything is peace. Humanpassions tremble before this SupremeWill, and would want to shun It; nor dothey dare to even move, or oppose It,seeing that Heaven and earth tremblebefore this Holy Will. So, the first stepof living in the Divine Will – what doesit do? It lays the divine order in thedepth of the soul, emptying her of whatis human – of tendencies, of passions,of inclinations and the like. On the

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other hand, to do my Will is to live withtwo wills, and when I give orders to doMine, one feels the weight of one’s ownwill, which causes contrasts. And evenif one follows the orders of my Willwith faithfulness, one feels the weightof one’s rebellious nature, of one’spassions and inclinations. How manySaints, though they may have reachedthe highest perfection, feel their ownwill waging war against them, keepingthem oppressed; and many are forced tocry out: ‘Who will free me from thisbody of death?’– that is, from this willof mine, which wants to give death tothe good I want to do?

To live in my Will is to live as a

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son; to do my Will is to live as aservant. In the first state, what belongsto the father belongs to the son, andmany times servants make moresacrifices than sons do; they have toexpose themselves to more toilsome andmore humble services, to cold, to heat,to traveling on foot. In fact, how muchhave my Saints not done in order toexecute the orders of my Will? On theother hand, a son remains with hisfather, takes care of him, cheers himwith his kisses and with his caresses;he commands the servants as if hisfather were commanding; if he goesout, he does not go on foot, but travelsin a carriage. And while the sonpossesses everything that belongs to

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his father, servants are given only theretribution for the work they have done,remaining free to serve or not to servetheir master; and if they do not serve,they have no more right to receive anyfurther compensation. On the otherhand, between father and son, no onecan remove these rights: that the sonpossess the goods of the father; no law,either celestial or terrestrial, canremove these rights, nor unbind thesonship between father and son. Mydaughter, the living in my Will is theliving that is closest to the blessed ofHeaven; and it is so distant from onewho does my Will and is faithfullysubmitted to my orders, just as Heavenis distant from the earth, just as the

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distance between a son and a servant,and between a king and a subject. Andbesides, this is a gift which I want togive in these times, so sad - that theymay not only do my Will, but possessIt. Am I perhaps not free to givewhatever I want, whenever I want, andto whomever I want? Is a master notfree to say to his servant: ‘Live in myhouse, eat, take, command like anotherme’? And so that no one may preventhim from possessing his goods, helegitimizes this servant as his own son,and gives him the right to possess. If arich man can do so, much more can I doit.

This living in my Will is the

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greatest gift I want to give tocreatures. My goodness wants to makeever greater display of love towardcreatures; and since I have given themeverything, and have nothing else togive to make Myself loved, I want togive them the gift of my Will, so that, bypossessing It, they may love the greatgood they possess.

And do not be surprised if you seethat they do not understand. In orderto understand, they would have todispose themselves to the greatest ofsacrifices: that of not giving life, evenin holy things, to their own will. Thenwould they feel the possession of Mine,and would touch with their own hands

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what it means to live in my Will. You,however, be attentive, and do not bebothered by the difficulties they raise;and I, little by little, will make my wayto make them understand the living inmy Will.”

Volume 17 - September 11, 1924

I was feeling very disturbed, andI prayed Jesus to have compassion onme, and to take, Himself, all the care ofmy poor soul; and I said to Him: ‘Oplease! take even everyone away fromme, as long as You alone remain withme - You alone are enough for me. After so long, You should have made mecontent; more so, since I ask for

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nothing but You alone.’ Now, while Iwas saying this and other things, myJesus took my arm, as if He Himselfwanted to free me and therefore do forme the office of my confessor. Oh! howhappy I felt in seeing Jesus do this; andI thought to myself: ‘Finally, thehardest of my sacrifices is over!’ But,vain and fleeting happiness! As Jesustook my arm, at that very moment Heescaped, and I was left in my usualstate, without being able to comeround. Oh! how I cried; and I prayedthat He would have compassion on me. Then, after a few hours, my lovableJesus came back, and seeing me cryingand all embittered, He said to me: “Mydaughter, do not cry; don’t you want to

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trust your Jesus? Let Me do, let Me do,and do not take things lightly. Rather –oh! how many sad things are about tohappen! My justice can no longer holdback the lightnings to strike thecreatures. They are all about to breakout, one against the other; and whenyou hear of the evils of your brothers,you will feel remorse about youroppositions to your usual sacrifice, asif you too had put your hand in pushingjustice to strike the creatures.”

On hearing this, I said: ‘MyJesus, may this never be – nor do Iwant to withdraw from your Will; onthe contrary, I pray You to free me fromthe most awful of misfortunes – that of

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not doing your Most Holy Will. Nor doI ask You to free me from suffering;rather, increase it if You please. Only, Ipray You, and as a grace I want fromYou only if You want it, that You free mefrom the bother I give to the confessor. This is too hard for me, and I feel I donot have the strength to bear it. So,only if You please; otherwise, give memore strength, but do not permit thatyour Most Holy Will be not fulfilledupon me.’ And Jesus, resuming Hisspeaking, added: “My daughter,remember that I asked of you a ‘yes’ inmy Will[2], and you pronounced it withall love. That ‘yes’ still exists andholds its first place in my unendingWill. Everything you do, think and say,

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is bound to that ‘yes’, from whichnothing can escape, and my Will enjoysand makes feast in seeing a will ofcreature live in my Will; and I keepfilling it with new graces, and Iconstitute all your acts as divine acts. This is the greatest portent that existsbetween Heaven and earth; it is theobject dearest to Me, and if – may thisnever be – it were torn away from Me, Iwould feel Myself being torn and wouldcry bitterly. See, as you were makingthat little opposition, your ‘yes’trembled with fright. At that trembling,the foundations of the heavens wereshaken – trembling. All Saints andAngels, and the whole sphere ofeternity, looked with horror and sorrow,

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as they felt an act of Divine Will beingtorn away from them; because, sincemy Will envelops everyone andeverything, they felt the acts you havedone as one thing with themselves, andtherefore all felt the painful tearing. Icould say that all took the attitude ofprofound sorrow."

Frightened at this speaking ofJesus, I said: ‘My Love, what are Yousaying? Is this possible – all this evil? Your speaking makes me die of pains. O please! forgive me; have mercy onme, who am so bad, and confirm my‘yes’ with stronger bonds in your Will. Even more, make me die, rather thanletting me go out of your Will.’ And

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Jesus, again: “My daughter, calmyourself. As soon as you have placedyourself in my Will again, all thingshave calmed themselves and have takenthe attitude of new feast. Your ‘yes’continues its rapid rounds within theimmensity of my Will. Ah! daughter,neither you nor those who direct youhave known what it means to live in myWill; this is why you do not appreciateit, and it is held as something of noimportance – and this is a sorrow forMe, while it is the thing which interestsMe the most, and which, more than allthings, should interest all! But, alas!they pay attention to other things, tothings which are less pleasing or evenindifferent to Me, rather than to that

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which glorifies Me the most, and whichgives them, also on this earth, immenseand eternal goods, and renders themthe owners of the goods which my Willpossesses. See, my Will is one, and Itembraces all eternity. Now, by living inmy Will and by making It her own, thesoul comes to take part in all the joysand goods that my Will contains, andshe becomes as though the owner ofthem. And even though while being onearth she does not feel all those joysand goods, by keeping them in depositwithin her will by virtue of my Willdone on earth, when she dies and findsherself up there in Heaven, she will feelall those joys and goods which my Willissued in Heaven while she was living

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on earth. Nothing will be taken awayfrom her; on the contrary, it will bemultiplied. In fact, if the Saints haveenjoyed of my Will in Heaven becausethey live in It, however, it is alwaysenjoying that they live; while the soulwho lives in my Will on earth, livessuffering. So, is it not right that shetake those joys and those goods whichothers have taken in Heaven while shewas living on earth in that same Will inwhich they lived? So, how manyimmense riches one who lives in myWill on earth does not take! I can saythat the whole of eternity moves aroundher to enrich her, to make her happy. My Will deprives her of nothing of whatIt contains; she is Its daughter, and It

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loves her so much that It does not wantto deprive her of anything. Therefore,be attentive, my daughter, and do notwant to oppose my designs, which Ihave made upon you.”

Volume 19 - September 13, 1926

After doing my usual round in theSupreme Volition, I was praying togood Jesus in the name of His Creationand Redemption, in the name of all,from the first to the last man, in thename of the Sovereign Queen and ofeverything She did and suffered, thatthe Supreme Fiat may be known, so thatIts Kingdom may be established withIts full triumph and dominion. But

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while doing this, I thought to myself: ‘If Jesus Himself wants and loves somuch that His Kingdom be establishedin the midst of creatures, why does Hewant one to pray for It with suchinsistence? If He wants It, He can giveIt without so many continuous acts.’ And my sweet Jesus, moving in myinterior, told me: “My daughter, mySupreme Being possesses the perfectbalance, and also in giving my gracesand my gifts to creatures; much moreso, then, for this Kingdom of theSupreme Fiat, which is the greatest gift,that I had already given at thebeginning of Creation, and which manrejected with so much ingratitude. Does it seem trivial to you to place a

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Divine Will at his disposal, with all thegoods It contains? And not for onehour, or one day, but for his wholelife? The Creator placing His adorableWill in the creature to be able to putHis likeness, His beauty, His infiniteseas of riches, of joys, of endlesshappiness, in common? Only bypossessing Our Will could the creatureacquire the rights of communion, oflikeness and of all the goods of hisCreator. Without It there can be nocommunion with Us; and if he takesanything at all, it is just Our floweringsand the crumbs of Our endless goods.

Now, with a gift so great, ahappiness so immense, a right of divine

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likeness with the acquisition of thenobility of Our offspring which hadbeen rejected, do you think it issomething easy that the DivineSovereignty, without being prayed, withno one giving a thought to receivingthis Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat,would give It to creatures? It would belike repeating the story that took placein the terrestrial Eden, and maybe evenworse. And besides, Our Justice wouldbe justly opposed to this. Therefore,everything I have you do, thecontinuous rounds in the SupremeVolition, your incessant prayers for myWill to come to reign, your sacrificedlife of so many years, knowing neitherheaven nor earth, directed to the sole

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purpose of the coming of my Kingdom –are many props that I place before myJustice, that It may surrender Its rights,and balancing Itself with all Ourattributes, It may find it just for theKingdom of the Supreme Fiat to begiven back to the human generations. The same happened in Redemption; ifOur Justice had not found the prayers,the sighs, the tears, the penances of thepatriarchs, of the prophets and of allthe good of the Old Testament, and thena Virgin Queen who possessed Our Willas whole, and who took everything toheart with so many insistent prayers,taking upon Herself the whole task ofthe satisfaction for all mankind, OurJustice would never have conceded the

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descent of the longed for Redeemer intothe midst of creatures. It would havebeen inexorable and would haveuttered a curt ‘no’ to my coming uponearth. And when it is about preservingthe balance of Our Supreme Being,nothing can be done.

Now, who until now has everprayed with interest, with insistence,laying down the sacrifice of his ownlife so that the Kingdom of the SupremeFiat may come upon earth, and maytriumph and dominate? No one. It istrue that the Church has been recitingthe ‘Our Father’ from the time I cameupon earth, in which one asks, ‘ThyKingdom come’, so that my Will be

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done on earth as It is in Heaven, butwho thinks about the request theymake? It can be said that the wholeimportance of such a request remainedin my Will and that creatures recite itjust to recite it, without understandingand without any interest in obtainingwhat they ask for. Therefore, mydaughter, everything is hidden in secretwhile one lives on earth, and thereforeeverything seems a mystery; and ifanything is known it is so limited, thatman has always something to say aboutall that I operate in my works throughthe veils of creatures. They reach thepoint of saying: ‘And why have thisgood and these knowledges not beengiven before, while there have been so

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many great Saints?’ But in eternitythere will be no secrets, I will revealeverything, and will show all thingsand my works with Justice, and howJustice could never have given, hadthere not been sufficient acts in thecreature to be able to give what theSupreme Majesty wants to give. It istrue that everything that the creaturedoes is my grace, but my grace itselfwants to find the prop of thedispositions and good will of thecreature. Therefore, in order to restorethe Kingdom of my Will upon earth ittakes sufficient acts of the creature, sothat my Kingdom may not remain in theair, but may descend, to be formed uponthe very acts of the creature formed by

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her to obtain a good so great.

This is why I push you so much togo around in all Our works – Creationand Redemption – so that you mayplace the share of your acts, your ‘Ilove You’, your adoration, yourgratitude, your ‘thank You’ upon allOur works. Many times I have donethis together with you; and then, as thefulfillment, after your round in OurWill comes your refrain, so pleasing toUs: ‘Supreme Majesty, your littledaughter comes before You, on yourpaternal knees, to ask You for yourFiat, your Kingdom, that It be knownby all. I ask You for the triumph ofyour Will, that It may dominate and

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reign over all. I am not the only onewho asks this of You, but with me areyour works and your very Will. Therefore, in the name of all, I ask – Iplead for your Fiat.’ If you knew whata breach in Our Supreme Being is thisrefrain of yours! We feel We are beingprayed by all Our works, beseeched byOur very Will; Heaven and earth prayon their knees to ask Us for theKingdom of the Eternal Will. Therefore, if you want It, continue youracts, so that, by reaching theestablished number, you may obtainwhat you long for with so muchinsistence.”

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I was doing my usual rounds inthe Kingdom of the Supreme Volition,and as I arrived at the point of what theDivine Will had done in the Humanityof Our Lord, I looked at His tears, Hissighs, His moans and everything Hedid, invested with the light of His Will. Its rays were beaded with the tears ofJesus, filled with His sighs, investedwith His sorrowful and loving moans;and since the Creation is filled andinvested with the Divine Will, as Itsrays of light invested everything, theybeaded all created things with Histears. All things were invested with Hissighs, with His love, and all moanedtogether with Jesus. Now, sweet Jesuscame out from within my interior, and

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leaning His head on my forehead, toldme: “My daughter, by sinning, the firstman lost a Divine Will, and thereforemy Humanity was needed, united withthe Eternal Word, which was tosacrifice the human will of myHumanity entirely and completely inorder to reacquire this Divine Will, soas to give It back to the creature. So,my Humanity gave not even a breath oflife to Its human will, but kept it only tosacrifice it, and to pay for the freedomthat man had taken, of rejecting thisSupreme Will with so much ingratitude;and as he lost It, all of Its goods, Itshappiness, Its dominion, Its sanctity,failed him – everything failed him. Ifman had lost something human given to

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him by God, a Saint could haverendered it back to him, but since helost a Divine Will, another Man andGod was needed, who would be able togive It back to him.

Now, had I come upon earth toredeem him, one drop of my Blood, onelittle pain of mine would have beenenough to put him in safety; but since Icame not only to save him, but to givehim back my Will, which he had lost,this Divine Will wanted to descend intoall my pains, into my tears, into mysighs and moans – into everything I didand suffered, in order to reacquire thedominion in all and over all humanacts, and therefore be able to form,

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once again, Its Kingdom in the midst ofcreatures. So, as a little child, when Icried, wailed, moaned, my Divine Will,more than solar ray, invested allCreation with my tears, with my moansand sighs. The stars, the sun, thestarry sky, the sea, the little flower –all cried, moaned, wailed and sighed,because the Divine Will present in Mewas the same as That which reigned inall Creation, and therefore, as thoughnaturally, the stars cried, the skymoaned, the sun wailed, the seasighed. The light of my Will broughtmy echo into all created things, andrepeating my acts, they kept companywith their Creator.

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Oh, if you knew the assault thatthe Divine Majesty received in hearingmy crying, my moans and sighs in allCreation! All created things, animatedby my Will, prostrate at the foot of thedivine throne, deafened It with theirmoans, drew It with their tears, movedIt to pity with their sighs and prayers;and my pains, reverberating in them,bound It to surrender the keys ofHeaven, and implored that the Kingdomof the Divine Will come upon earthonce again. My Celestial Father,moved to compassion and tendernessby His own Will that cried, moaned,prayed and suffered in all His works,surrendered the keys and gave HisKingdom once again. But in order to

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be sure, He placed It in my Humanity,so that at the appropriate time Hemight give It back again to the humanfamily. Here is the necessity for Me todo the human actions and to descendinto the order of the human actions –because my Divine Will was to take Itsdominion and substitute the order of ItsDivine Will in all the acts of creatures. See, then, how much this Kingdom costMe, with how many pains I ransomedIt. This is why I love It so much, and Iwant to establish It in the midst ofcreatures at any cost.”

And I: ‘But, tell me, my love, ifeverything You did was invested withthe unity of the light of the Supreme

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Volition, since this Will is one andcannot be detached nor separated fromIts acts, the Creation is no longeralone, but has the company of youracts, of your love, of your moans. Therefore, there isn’t that sepulchralsilence You told me about the othertime.’ And Jesus, all goodness, added: “My daughter, you must know that aslong as my Humanity remained onearth, and as long as the SovereignQueen also was there, there was nosolitude nor sepulchral silence in theCreation, because by virtue of the lightof the Divine Will, wherever this Willwas It spread as light, and diffusing ineverything, It multiplied in all createdthings, and everywhere my act was

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repeated – because one was the Will. This is so true, that the Creation gavesensible signs both at my birth, andeven more so at my death, to the pointthat the sun became dark, the stonessplit, the earth trembled, as if all werecrying for their Creator, for their King. They cried for the One who had keptthem in feast, who had broken theirsolitude and sepulchral silence; and,all feeling the bitterness of such a hardprivation, they gave signs of sorrowand crying, and returned once again tothe mourning of their solitude andsilence. In fact, as I departed from theearth, the One who, in the light of myWill, emitted the voice which, formingthe echo, rendered the Creation

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speaking and operating, was no longerthere. It happened as to those metalinstruments which, with artfulness,enclose the voice of one who speaks orsings: the instrument speaks, sings,cries, laughs, but this happens byvirtue of the echo of the voice that hasspoken; however, if the intelligencethat produces that singing is takenaway, the instrument remains mute. More so, since I did not come uponearth for the Creation, but I came forman, and therefore everything I did –pains, prayers, moans, sighs… – I leftfor the good of souls as more than anew Creation. In fact, since everythingI did was done by virtue of my creativepower, everything is in the act of saving

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man.

In addition to this, Creation wasmade for man – in It he was to be theking of all created things. But bywithdrawing from my Divine Will, manlost the regime, the dominion, norcould he form laws in the Kingdom ofCreation as is usual with a king whenhe possesses a kingdom. In fact,having lost the unity of the light of myWill, he was no longer able to rule, hehad no more strength of dominion, hislaws had no value; Creation was forhim like a people that rebels againstthe king and makes of him its laughing-stock. And this is why my Humanitywas immediately recognized by the

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whole Creation as Its King – because Itfelt in Me the strength of the union ofone single Will. But as I departed, Itremained without King again, enclosedin Its silence, waiting again forsomeone who, in the Kingdom of myWill, would emit his voice to let Itresound in it. But do you know who sheis who will put all Creation in feastonce again – the one who will form Itsecho and will render It speakingagain? It is you, my daughter, who willtake back the dominion, the regime, inthe Kingdom of my Will. Therefore, beattentive, and let your flight in myVolition be continuous….”

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My poor mind was thinking aboutwhat is written above, and my sweetJesus continued on the same topic,telling me: “My daughter, see then, thenecessity for Me not to give theKingdom of my Will and not to make Itknown when I came upon earth. Iwanted to test the creature once again;I wanted to give her things inferior tothose which I gave her in Creation –remedies and goods to heal her. Infact, when I created man he was not ill,but healthy and holy, therefore he couldvery well live in the Kingdom of myWill. But as he withdrew from theSupreme Volition, he fell ill, and I cameupon earth as the Celestial Doctor tosee whether he would accept the

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remedies, the medicines for his illness;and after this test, then would I givehim the surprise of manifesting theKingdom of my Will, which I kept in myHumanity, prepared for him. Thosewho think that Our highest goodnessand infinite wisdom would have leftman with only the goods ofRedemption, without raising him againto the original state in which he wascreated by Us, deceive themselves. Inthat case Our Creation would haveremained without Its purpose, andtherefore without Its full effect, whichcannot be in the works of a God. At themost, We might let centuries pass andturn, giving now one surprise, nowanother; entrusting now one little good

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to the creature, now a greater one. Wewill act like a father who wants to givehis property to his children, but thesechildren have wasted much of the goodsof their father. In spite of this, he isdetermined to give his property to hischildren, so he thinks of anotherdevice: he no longer gives largeamounts to his children, but a little bitat a time, lira by lira; and as he seesthat his children preserve that little, hekeeps increasing the small amounts. Through this, they come to recognizethe love of the father and to appreciatethe goods he entrusts to them, whichthey would not do before, when theyhad large amounts. This serves tostrengthen them and to teach them how

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to preserve the goods received. So,once he has trained them, the fatherconfirms his decision and gives hisproperty to his children.

Now, this is how the paternalgoodness is acting. In Creation Iplaced man in the opulence of goods,with no restriction at all; but onlybecause I wanted to test him insomething that did not cost him much,with an act of his will contrary to minehe wasted all these goods. But my lovedid not stop; more than a father, Ibegan to give him a little at a time -and before that, to heal him. Manytimes one uses more attention with thelittle than when he possesses great

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things. In fact, if one possesses greatproperties and they are wasted, there isalways something from which to take;but if the little is wasted, he remains onan empty stomach. However, thedecision of giving the Kingdom of myWill to man I have not changed; manchanges, God does not change. Nowthings are easier, because the goods ofRedemption have made their way, theyhave made known many surprises of mylove for man – how I have loved him,not by the Fiat alone, but by giving himmy very Life, though my Fiat costs Memore than my very Humanity, becausethe Fiat is divine, immense, eternal,while my Humanity is human, limitedand has its beginning in time.

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However, not knowing in depth whatthe Fiat means - Its value, Its powerand what It can do - the human mindslet themselves be conquered more by allthat I did and suffered in coming toredeem them, not knowing that undermy pains and my death there was myFiat, hidden, which gave life to mypains.

Now, had I wanted to manifest theKingdom of my Will, either when Icame upon earth or before the goods ofRedemption would be recognized and,for the most part, possessed bycreatures, my greatest Saints wouldhave been frightened; all would havethought and said: ‘Adam, innocent

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and holy, was unable to live nor topersevere in this Kingdom of endlesslight and of divine sanctity – how canwe do it?’ And you yourself – howmany times have you not becomefrightened? And trembling before theimmense goods and the sanctity, fullydivine, of the Kingdom of the SupremeFiat, you wanted to draw back, sayingto Me: ‘Jesus, think of some othercreature – I am incapable of this.’ Youwere not so much frightened by thesuffering; rather, many times youprayed Me - you incited Me to let yousuffer. Therefore my more thanpaternal goodness acted with you aswith a second Mother of mine: fromHer I hid my conception in Her womb;

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first I prepared Her, I formed Her, so asnot to frighten Her; and when theappropriate time came, in the very actin which I was to be conceived, then Imade it known to Her through theAngel; and even though at first Shetrembled and was troubled,immediately She became serene again,because She was used to living withHer God, in the midst of His light andbefore His sanctity. So I have donewith you: for many years and years Ihid from you that I wanted to form thisSupreme Kingdom in you; I preparedyou, I formed you, I enclosed Myself inyou, in the depth of your soul in orderto form It; and when everything wasdone, I manifested the secret to you, I

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spoke to you about your specialmission, I asked you in a formal waywhether you wanted to accept living inmy Will; and even though you trembledand feared, I reassured you, saying toyou: ‘Why do you trouble yourself? Have you perhaps not lived with Meuntil now in the Kingdom of my Will?’ And you, serene again, would makemore of a practice of the living in It,and I would delight in expanding evermore the boundaries of my Kingdom;because it is established up to whatpoint the creature must take possessionof this Kingdom, since Its boundariesare endless, and the creature isincapable of embracing them all,because she is limited.”

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And I: ‘My love, yet, my fearshave not completely ceased, and manytimes I am so frightened that I fear Imight act like a second Adam.’ AndJesus: “My daughter, do not fear, youhave more help than Adam did - youhave the help of a God Humanate, andall His works and pains as yourdefense, as your support, as yourcortege, which he did not have. Why,then, do you want to fear? Rather, beattentive to the sanctity that befits theliving in this Celestial Kingdom, andon your happiness and fortune, becauseby living in It, one gaze of mine isenough for you – it is enough for you tohear one of my words alone tocomprehend Its goods; while for those

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who are outside, one can say that theyunderstand only that the Kingdom ofmy Will exists, but as for what is insideof It, what it takes to comprehend It,they can just barely understand thealphabet of my Will.”

Volume 19 - July 1, 1926

I was doing my usual acts in theSupreme Volition, and I thought tomyself: ‘How is it possible that amongthe many Saints of the Old Testamentwho have so distinguished themselveswith the power of miracles, like aMoses, an Elijah and the manyprophets; and among so many Saintsafter the coming of Our Lord, who have

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rendered themselves so marvelousbecause of their virtues and miracles –none of these has possessed theKingdom of the Divine Will and haslived in the unity of Its light? It seemsincredible.’ Now, while I was thinkingof this, my sweet Jesus came out fromwithin my interior, and clasping me toHimself, told me: “My daughter, yet itis really true that until now no one haspossessed the Kingdom of my Will orenjoyed all the fullness of the unity ofthe light It contains. Had it been so,since it is the thing that interests Methe most, that glorifies Me the most andthat, no less, will place all the divinerights in safety and will complete thework of Creation and Redemption - and

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not only this, but will bring to thecreature the greatest good that canexist in Heaven and on earth - I wouldhave acted in such a way as to make itknown. Just as I have made known themany virtues and wonders of my Saints,I would have made known the one whohad possessed the Kingdom of my Will,which I hold so dear, so as to transmitIt to others, by imitating the one whohad possessed It.

Now, the Saints of the OldTestament found themselves in the samecondition as Adam: a Divine Repairerwas missing who, while rejoining thehuman will and the Divine, was to paythe debt of guilty man in a divine way.

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However, both the ancient Saints andthe modern ones have taken of my Willas much as they have known. The verymiracles they performed were particlesof the power of my Will communicatedto them. So, all my Saints have lived,some in the shadow of my Will, some inthe reflections of Its light, somesubmitted to Its power, some to theorder of Its commands, because there isno sanctity without my Will. But theyhave possessed of It the little they haveknown - no more, because only when agood is known, does one then long forit and arrives at possessing it. No onecan possess a good, a property, withoutknowing it; and suppose one didpossess it without knowing it – that

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good is as though dead for him,because the life of knowledge ismissing.

Now, since my Will is the greatestthing, which encompasses everything,and all things from the greatest to thesmallest remain dissolved before It, somany things should be known about myWill as to surpass what is known aboutCreation, about Redemption, about allvirtues and all sciences. My Will wasto be a book for each step, for each act,a book for each created thing; thewhole earth was to be filled withvolumes of knowledges regarding theKingdom of my Will, such as to surpassthe number of created things. Now,

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where are these books? There is nobook – only a few sayings are knownabout It, while It should be at theorigin of each knowledge - ofanything. Being the life of each thing,It should be on everything, like theimage of the king impressed on thecurrency that circulates in a kingdom;like the light of the sun that shines overeach plant to give it life; like waterthat quenches the thirst of burning lips;like food that satiates the hungry manafter a long fast. Everything should befilled with the knowledges regardingmy Will; and if it is not so, it is a signthat the Kingdom of my Will is notknown, and therefore not possessed.

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Would you perhaps be able to tellme which Saint said that he possessedthis Kingdom and the unity of the lightof the Supreme Volition? Certainlynot. I Myself spoke little about it. HadI wanted to speak extensively about theKingdom of my Will and about wantingto form It in man just as innocentAdam possessed It, since this is thehighest point, the most proximal to Godand the closest to the divine likeness,and since the fall of Adam was stillfresh, they would all have becomediscouraged, and turning their backs toMe, would have said: ‘If innocentAdam could not manage, nor had theconstancy to live in the sanctity of thisKingdom, so much so as to cause his

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own fall and that of all generationsinto miseries, into passions andirreparable evils, how can we, guiltyones, live in a Kingdom so holy? Beautiful, yes, but we can say that It isnot for us.’ Not only this, but since myWill is the highest point, the ways, themeans of transportation, the stairs, thedecent clothes, the appropriate foodswere needed in order to be able todwell in this Kingdom. So, my comingupon earth served to form all this; eachone of my sayings, works, pains,prayers, examples, institutedSacraments, were ways that I formed,means of transportation to let themarrive more quickly, stairs to let themascend. It can be said that I gave them

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the clothes of my Humanity reddenedwith my Blood to let them be clotheddecently in this Kingdom of my Will, soholy, which, in Creation, the UncreatedWisdom established to give to man asinheritance. So, even though I spokelittle about this – because when Ispeak, I speak at time andcircumstance, as the necessity and theutility of the good which my wordcontains must be enclosed in it –instead of speaking I did the deeds,intending to speak to you about theKingdom of my Will.

Now, how could they possess It ifthey did not have full knowledge of It? On the other hand, you must know that

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all the manifestations I have made toyou about It – Its prodigies, Its goods,what the soul must do to be able tosettle in this Kingdom, my veryexpressed Will for man to return intomy Kingdom, and how I have doneeverything – Creation, Redemption - sothat he might come to possess myKingdom which he had lost – are bondsof transmission, are doors to let himenter, are donations that I make, arelaws, instructions on how to live in It,intelligence to make them comprehendand appreciate the good they possess. If all this was missing, how could theypossess this Kingdom of my Will? Itwould be as if someone wanted to go tolive in another kingdom without a

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passport, without knowing either itslaws or its customs or its dialect. Poorone, his entrance would be impossible;and if he did enter as an intruder, hewould be so ill-at-ease, that he himselfwould rather go out of a kingdom heknows nothing about.

Now, my daughter, does it notseem easier to you, more encouraging,more within the reach of the humannature, that after they have known theKingdom of Redemption in which theblind, the lame and the sick can behealed - because the blind cannot enterthe Kingdom of my Will, for in It all arestraight and glowing with health -finding all possible means in the

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Kingdom of Redemption and the verypassport of my Passion and death inorder to pass into the Kingdom of myWill, animated at the sight of such agreat good, they will decide to takepossession of It? Therefore, beattentive, and do not want to constrainor reduce the goods which are in theKingdom of my Will – and you do thiswhen you do not manifest everything ofwhat I make known to you – becauseknowledge is the bearer of the gift; andif now I abound in the knowledgesabout It, it is gifts that I make, and inthese gifts I establish the more or theless to be placed in the Kingdom of myWill for the good of those who are topossess It.”

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Volume 19 - May 15, 1926

I was thinking: ‘If the creaturehad not withdrawn from the SupremeWill, one would be the sanctity, one thebeauty, one the science, one the light,and there would be the same knowledgeof our Creator for all.’ Now, while Iwas thinking of this, my beloved Jesus– and it seems to me that He Himselfmakes these thoughts, some doubts anddifficulties, arise within my mind, inorder to have the opportunity to speakto me and act as my Teacher – told me: “My daughter, you are wrong. Mywisdom would not adapt itself toforming only one sanctity, only onebeauty, or to communicating only one

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science and the same knowledge of Meto everyone. More so since, throughhighest accord between my Will andthose of creatures, the Kingdom of myWill would have had free field ofaction. Therefore, all would have beensaints, but one distinct from the other –all beautiful, but varied, one morebeautiful than the other. And accordingto the sanctity of each one, I was tocommunicate a distinct science; andwith this science, some would know oneattribute of their Creator more, someanother. You must know that as muchas We can give to the creature, she onlytakes the little drops of her Creator, sogreat is the distance between Creatorand creatures; and We have always new

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and different things to give.

And besides, since Creation wascreated by Us so that We might delightin It, where would Our delight be, hadWe formed in the creature only onesanctity, or given only one beauty andonly one knowledge of Ourincomprehensible, immense and infiniteBeing? Our wisdom would have grownbored with doing only one thing. Whatwould be said of Our wisdom, love andpower, if in creating this terrestrialglobe, We had made it all sky, or allearth, or all sea? What would Ourglory have been? Instead, themultiplicity of so many things createdby Us, while singing the praises of

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wisdom, love and power, speaks also ofthe variety of sanctity and beauty inwhich creatures were to arise, for loveof whom they were created. See, thesky studded with stars is beautiful, butthe sun also is beautiful, though theyare distinct from each other, and thesky does one office, the sun, another. The sea is beautiful, but the floweryearth, the height of the mountains, theexpanse of the plains also arebeautiful, though the beauties and theoffices are distinct among them. Agarden is beautiful, but how manyvarieties of plants and beauties are init? There is the tiny little flower,beautiful in its littleness; there is theviolet, the rose, the lily – all beautiful,

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but distinct in color, in fragrance, insize. There is the little plant and thehighest tree… What enchantment is agarden guided by an experiencedgardener!

Now, my daughter, in the order ofhuman nature also there will be somewho will surpass the sky in sanctity andin beauty; some the sun, some the sea,some the flowery earth, some the heightof the mountains, some the tiny littleflower, some the little plant, and somethe highest tree. And even if manshould withdraw from my Will, I willmultiply the centuries so as to have, inthe human nature, all the order and themultiplicity of created things and of

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their beauty - and to have it evensurpassed in a more admirable andenchanting way.”

Volume 23 - October 2, 1927.

I was doing my round in theCreation, to follow all the acts of theDivine Will which are in It, and as Iarrived at Eden, in which God createdthe first man, Adam, in order to unitemyself, with him, to that unity of willswhich he possessed with God, in whichhe did his first acts in his first periodof creation, I thought to myself: ‘Whoknows what sanctity my first fatherAdam possessed; what value his firstacts done in the Kingdom of the Divine

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Fiat contained. And how can Iimpetrate a Kingdom so holy uponearth again, as I am the only oneoccupied with obtaining a good sogreat?’ But while I was thinking of this,my always lovable Jesus came out fromwithin my interior, sending rays oflight; and that light converted intowords, and He told me: “My daughter,firstborn daughter of my Will, I want toreveal to you, as daughter of my Will,the sanctity of he who possessed theKingdom of my Divine Fiat. At thebeginning of Creation, this Kingdomhad Its life, Its perfect dominion and Itscomplete triumph. So, It is notcompletely foreign to the humanfamily; and because It is not foreign,

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there is all the sure hope for It to returnagain into their midst to reign anddominate.

Now, you must know that Adampossessed such sanctity when he wascreated by God, and his acts, even theslightest, had such value, that no Saint,either before or after my coming uponearth, can be compared to his sanctity;and all of their acts together do notreach the value of one single act ofAdam, because, in my Divine Will, hepossessed the fullness of sanctity, thetotality of all the divine goods. And doyou know what fullness means? Itmeans to be filled to the brim, to thepoint of overflowing with light,

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sanctity, love – with all the divinequalities, in such a way as to be able tofill Heaven and earth, over which hehad dominion, and through which hisKingdom extended. Therefore, each oneof his acts done in this fullness ofdivine goods had such value, that noone else - as much as he might sacrificehimself, suffer and do good, but doesnot possess the Kingdom of my Will andIts total dominion - can be compared toone alone of these acts in the Kingdomof my Will. Therefore, the glory, thelove that Adam gave Me as long as helived in the Kingdom of my DivineVolition, no one – no one has given Me,because in his acts he gave Me fullnessand totality of all goods, and only in

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my Will can these acts be found –outside of It they do not exist.Therefore, Adam had his riches, hisacts of infinite value, which my eternalWill communicated to him before theDivinity; because, in creating him, Godhad left nothing empty within him, buteverything was divine fullness, as muchas a creature could contain. And whenhe fell into sin, these acts, these richesof his, this glory and perfect love whichhe had given to his Creator, were notdestroyed; on the contrary, it is byvirtue of them and of his operatingdone in my Divine Fiat that he earnedthe Redemption. No, one who hadpossessed the Kingdom of my Will, evenfor a short time, could not remain

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without Redemption. One whopossesses this Kingdom enters intosuch bonds and rights with God, thatGod Himself feels with him the strengthof His own chains that bind Him, andHe cannot get rid of him. Our adorableMajesty with Adam was in the samecondition as a father who has a sonwho has been for him the cause of manyconquests, of great riches, ofincalculable glory; there is nothing thefather possesses in which he does notfind the acts of his son – he feels theglory and the love of his son resoundeverywhere. Now, to his misfortune, thisson falls into poverty. Can the fatherever not have compassion for his son,as he feels, everywhere and in every

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place, the love, the glory, the richeswith which his son has surroundedhim?

Volume 23 - November 13, 1927

I was following my round in theDivine Volition, and as I arrived at theacts It did in the Humanity of Our Lord,my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior,told me: “My daughter, the DivineWord in my Humanity was present ascenter of life within It; We wereinseparable – the Word and myHumanity. But since my Humanity hadIts limits while the Word was withoutlimits, immense and infinite, I could notrestrict the whole endless light of the

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Word within It. This light overflowedoutside, in such a way that, overflowingfrom the center of my Humanity, itsrays came out from my hands, from myfeet, from my mouth, from my Heart,from my eyes – from every part of myHumanity, in such a way that all myoperating flowed within this light and,more than solar rays, it investedeverything and traced all the acts ofcreatures in order to give its acts, sothat their acts, invested by its light,might take the form of its acts and,fused together, might acquire the value,the beauty of its acts. But what was notthe sorrow of my Humanity in seeing Itsacts being rejected by creatures withinthe very light of the Eternal Word,

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preventing the transformation Hewanted to make in creatures? Each ofHis rejected acts was a sorrow, andeach act of the creatures converted intobitterness and offense for my Humanity.How hard it is wanting to do good,doing it, and finding no one whoreceives this good. This sorrow stilllasts, because everything that myHumanity did in the light of the EternalWord exists and will always exist, andis always in the act of doing what wasdone once; and it lies as though inambush, waiting for the creature toreceive the transmission of its acts, sothat one may be the act, one the value,one the Will, one the love on both sides.And only by the reigning of my Fiat can

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the operating I did in Redemption haveits total fulfillment, because with thelight of my Fiat, creatures will removethe blindfold and will let all the goodthat the Eternal Word came to do withinmy Humanity for love of creatures flowwithin themselves.” And while He wassaying this, I saw my sweet Jesus withso much light coming out from withinHim as to invest everything andeveryone.

Then, I continued my round in theDivine Fiat, and while accompanyingwith my ‘I love You’ all the prodigies Ithad done in the Saints, Patriarchs andProphets of the Old Testament, as wellas those after His coming upon earth,

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to ask for His Divine Kingdom in themidst of creatures by virtue of all these,Its acts, I thought to myself: ‘If thisHoly Volition has done so manyprodigies in all these Saints, is this not,then, Its reigning, at least in theseSaints so prodigious?’ But while I wasthinking of this, my beloved Jesus,moving in my interior, told me: “Mydaughter, there is no good which hasnot come out of my Divine Will, butthere is a great difference between Itsreigning in the creatures and thereleasing of an act from within Itself,communicating it to creatures. As forexample, with Abraham, It released anact of heroism, and I had the manheroic in the sacrifice; with Moses an

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act of power, and he was the prodigiousman; with Samson an act of strength,and he was the strong man; to theProphets It revealed what regarded thefuture Redeemer, and they were menprophets; and so with all the otherswho distinguished themselves asprodigious and of uncommon virtue.According to the act that my DivineWill released, and if they gave theiradhesion and correspondence, so didthey receive the good of Its act.However, this is not reigning, mydaughter; nor does this form theKingdom of my Will. In order to form It,it takes not just one act, but thecontinuous act which It possesses. Thisis what It wants to give to creatures in

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order to form Its Kingdom: Itscontinuous act of power, of happiness,of light, of sanctity, of unreachablebeauty. What my Fiat is by nature, Itwants to render creatures by virtue ofIts continuous act, which contains allpossible imaginable goods. Would yousay that a king reigns only because hehas made a law, or has given a good tohis people? Certainly not. Truereigning is to form the life of thepeoples with all the laws, giving adecorous regime, befitting, upright andjust for their lives, giving them all thenecessary means so that nothing maybe lacking for their good. In order toreign, the king should have his life inthe midst of the peoples, and make his

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will and his goods one with them, insuch a way that the king should formthe life of the people, and the peoplethe life of the king; otherwise, it is nottrue reigning. This is the reigning of myWill – to render Itself inseparable fromthe children of Its Kingdom, to givethem everything It possesses to thepoint of overflowing, so as to havechildren happy and holy of Its veryhappiness and holiness.

Now, from this it can be seen howin spite of the so many prodigies whichSaints, Prophets and Patriarchs havedone, they have not formed myKingdom in the midst of creatures, norhave they made known Its value, or the

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great good which my Will possesses, orwhat It can do and wants to give, andthe purpose of Its Kingdom – becauseIts continuous act, Its permanent life,was missing in them. And therefore, notknowing It in depth, they occupiedthemselves with other thingsconcerning my glory and their good,and they put my Will aside, waiting fora more favorable time, when thepaternal goodness would please to firstmake known, and then to give, a goodso great and a Kingdom so holy, whichthey would not even dream of.Therefore, be attentive, and continueyour flight in the Divine Fiat.”

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I was praying, and I felt I didn’tknow how to pray, to love and to thankJesus. So I said to myself: ‘How Iwould like to have in my power the loveand the prayers of the Sovereign Ladyand of all the Saints, to be able to loveand pray to Jesus with Her love andwith Her prayers, and with those of thewhole of Heaven.’ And my blessedJesus, moving in my interior, told me:“My daughter, when the soul lives inmy Divine Will, she has everything inher power, because my Will is thedepository and the preserver of all thatmy Mama and all the Saints did. It isenough for her to want it, and to wantto take what they did, that love runs toher, the prayers invest her, the virtues

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place themselves in order, waiting forthe ones who have the honor of beingcalled to give them the life of theiracts, and to form their beautiful andrefulgent crown. So, the Queen ofHeaven feels Her love and Her prayersbeing repeated, the Saints their virtues,by the creature on earth, and - oh, howthey enjoy seeing their acts beingrepeated once again! There is nogreater glory that can be given to thecelestial inhabitants than to repeattheir love, their prayers, their virtues;and I feel once again as if my Mamawere there loving Me and praying Me.Their echo resounds in you, and as yourepeat it, you make your echo resoundin Heaven, and all recognize their acts

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in your acts. Would you not feelhonored if someone else repeated youracts and modeled his works on themodel of yours? With what love wouldyou not look at him?

If you knew how much I enjoy itwhen I hear you say: ‘I want to unitemyself with the thoughts of Jesus, withHis words, with His works and steps, soas to position myself together with Histhoughts, words, etc., over eachthought, word, work and steps ofcreatures, in order to repeat along withHim, for all and for each one, thatwhich Jesus did with His thoughts,words… and everything else He did.There is nothing You did which I do not

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want to do as well, so as to repeat thelove and all the good that Jesus did.’ Ifeel Myself upon earth; I feel my actsbeing repeated by you, and I keepwaiting for the repetition of my actswith so much love, that I Myselfbecome actor and spectator in you, toenjoy them and take the glory of myown life. Therefore, the creature wholives and operates in my Will isrecognized by the whole of Heaven asbearer of divine joys for all of Heaven;and keeping Heaven opened, she makesthe celestial dew of graces, of light, oflove descend upon earth over allcreatures.”

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My abandonment in the SupremeFiat is continuous; and while I wastrying to follow the acts of the DivineVolition as much as I could, embracingeverything and everyone, my sweetJesus came out from within my interiorand told me: “My daughter, the wholeCreation, all the Saints, are nothingother than the effects of my Divine Will.If my Will speaks, It creates and formsthe most beautiful works. Each littlemotion of It is fragrances of prodigiesthat It effuses over creatures; Its littlestbreath casts varieties of beauties overthe one who receives it. A true image ofthis is the sun, which, by merelyinvesting the earth, with its touch oflight gives the so many varieties of

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colors, of sweetness, to all plants. Noone can deny that, by just lettinghimself be touched by its light, he hasreceived the good it contains. MyDivine Will is more than sun. Even ifone only lets oneself be touched by It,Its miraculous touch must produce agood which, perfuming him andwarming him with Its light, will makehim feel Its beneficial effects ofsanctity, of light and of love.

Now, the effects of my Fiat aregiven to those who do my Divine Will,who adore Its dispositions, who bearwith patience what It wants. By doingso, the creature recognizes that there isthis Supreme Will, and by seeing Itself

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recognized, It does not deny to her Itadmirable effects. On the other hand,one who must live in my Divine Volitionmust possess within herself the wholelife and not only the effects - but thelife with all the effects of my DivineFiat. And since there is no sanctity,past, present and future, of which myDivine Will has not been the primarycause, in forming all the species ofsanctity which exist, It therefore holdswithin Itself all the goods and effects ofsanctity which It has issued; and so,the soul who will live in my Will, bypossessing Its life with all Its effects,will see within herself, all together, allthe sanctities which have been issued.She will be able to say: ‘The others

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have done one part of sanctity, while Ihave done everything, I have enclosedeverything within myself of all thateach Saint has done.’ Therefore, thesanctity of the ancients, that of theprophets, that of the martyrs will beseen in her; the sanctity of thepenitents, the great sanctities as wellas the small ones will be seen. Not onlythis, but the whole Creation will beseen portrayed in her. In fact, myDivine Will loses nothing by issuing Itsworks; on the contrary, while It putsthem out, It holds them within Itself asprimary fount. Therefore, for one wholives in It, there is nothing that myDivine Volition has done or will do, ofwhich she will not have possession.

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What enchantment andamazement would it not be if a creaturecould enclose within herself the wholesphere of the sun with all of its light?Who would not say that she contains allthe effects, the colors, the sweetness,the light, which the sun has given andwill give to all the earth and to allplants, big and small? If this could be,Heaven and earth would be astonished,and all would recognize that each oftheir effects which they possess areenclosed in that creature who possessesthe sphere of the sun, which is her lifewith all of its effects. But humanlyspeaking this could not happen,because the creature would not be ableto contain either the power of all the

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light of the sun, or that of its heat; shewould be burned, nor would the sunhave the virtue of not burning her. Onthe other hand, my Will has the virtueof enclosing Itself, of making Itselfsmaller, of expanding Itself – howeverIt wants to make Itself, so It does. Andwhile It transforms the creature intoItself, It preserves her alive, and givingher all of Its shades of beauty, Itrenders her the dominator andpossessor of Its divine dominions.Therefore, be attentive, my daughter –recognize the great good of the Life ofmy Fiat in you, which, while Itpossesses you, wants to render you thepossessor of everything that belongs toIt.”

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After this, He added: “Mydaughter, one who lives in my DivineVolition never moves from the ways ofher Creator and from being Ourrepeater - that while Our essence isone, one the Will, one the Life, one theLove, one the Power, We are yet threedistinct Persons. In the same way, forthe soul who lives in It, one is herheartbeat, and in each heartbeat sheforms three acts: one embraces God,the second embraces all creatures, thethird herself. And so, if she speaks, ifshe operates, in everything she does,she forms these three acts which,echoing the Power, Wisdom and Love ofthe One who created her, embraceeverything and everyone.”

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My poor mind keeps goingaround and within the Supreme Fiat,and – oh! how many surprises, howmany wonders of this Will so Holy. Mylittle intelligence gets lost within Itsimmensely vast sea, and many things Ifeel incapable of narrating, nor do Ihave the terms to do it, and therefore Ifeel like someone who ate a food or sawsomething beautiful, and does not knowwhat they are called. If the DivineVolition did not make a prodigy inmaking me say what It manifests, howmany more things would I leave insideIts very sea, unable to say anything. So,while I felt dissolved in the Divine Fiat,

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my always lovable Jesus, makingHimself felt in my interior, told me:“My daughter, what difference betweenthose who operate the virtues in asaintly way, but in the human order,and one who operates the virtues in thedivine order of my Divine Will. As thefirst ones practice the virtues, theseremain separated among themselves, insuch a way that the diversity of theiracts appears – one virtue appears aspatience, another as obedience, a thirdone as charity; each of them has itsdistinction, unable to fuse together soas to be able form one single act, whichgives of the divine and embraceseternity and infinity. On the other hand,for one who operates in my Divine Will,

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Its light has the communicative andunifying virtue, such that, fusingtogether, because they are all donewithin the source of Its light, they formone single act with innumerable effects,such as to embrace the very Creatorwith the infinity of its light. Symbol ofthis is the sun: because it is one,because it possesses the source of lightthat is never extinguished, it embracesthe earth, and with its innumerableeffects it gives all colors andcommunicates the life of its light toeveryone and to everything. Theunifying strength possesses thecommunicative virtue, in such a waythat, if they want to, all can take a goodthat is placed at everyone’s disposal.

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On the other hand, one who operates inthe human order is symbolized by thelights of the low world: even thoughthere are many of them, they do nothave the virtue of dispelling thedarkness of the night and of formingfull daylight, or of embracing the wholeearth with such great multiplicity oflight. Therefore, they can be calledpersonal, local light, and at time andcircumstance. Oh! if all knew the greatsecret of operating in my DivineVolition, they would compete so as notto let anything escape them whichwould not pass from within Its mostpure light.”

I continued to follow the Divine

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Will, and my sweet Jesus added: “Mydaughter, the creature without my Willis like a child who has no strength to beable to sustain a weight, or to do worksso useful as to allow him to support,himself, his little existence. And if onewanted to force him to lift a heavyobject or to sustain a work, the child,seeing himself impotent and withoutstrength, maybe would try, but in seeingthat he cannot even move that object,nor sustain that work, the poor littleone would burst into tears and woulddo nothing about it; and in order to puthim in feast it would be enough to givehim a candy. On the other hand, onewho possesses my Divine Will has thestrength of an adult man – or rather,

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the divine strength; and if he were toldto lift the heavy object, withoutbecoming troubled, he takes it as if itwere nothing; while the poor little onewould remain crushed under it. If onewants him to sustain a work, he will puthimself in feast because of the gain andthe profit he will be given; and if onewanted to give him a candy, he woulddespise it and would say: ‘Give me thejust profit for my work, for I must livefrom it.’ See then, one who has myDivine Will has sufficient strength foranything; so, everything is easy forher; even suffering, as she feels strong,she looks at it as a new gain. Why aremany unable to bear anything, and itseems that a child’s weakness follows

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them? It is the strength of my DivineWill that is missing – this is the causeof all evils. Therefore, be attentive, mydaughter, never to go out of my DivineWill.”

Then, I continued to do my acts inthe Divine Fiat, and as I arrived at thepoint when It called to life, to daylight,the Sovereign Queen of Heaven, Ithought to myself: ‘In creating theMost Holy Virgin, God not onlyenriched Her beautiful soul with manyprivileges, but Her nature also He musthave transformed in order to render itas pure and holy as it is.’ And mybeloved Jesus, moving in my interior,told me: “My daughter, there was

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nothing to add to Her nature, becauseit was not the human nature thatsinned, but the human will. In fact, thehuman nature was at its place, just as itcame out of Our creative hands,therefore We used that same nature ofother creatures in creating the Virgin.What contaminated itself in man washis will; and since this human naturewas animated by this rebellious will,which dwelled in the human nature, itparticipated and remainedcontaminated. So, once the Divine Willand the human are placed in harmony,giving dominion and regime to theDivine, as it is wanted by Us, thehuman nature loses the sad effects andremains as beautiful as it came out of

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Our creative hands. Now, in the Queenof Heaven, all Our work was on Herhuman will, which received with joy thedominion of Ours; and Our Will,finding no opposition on Her part,operated prodigies of graces, and byvirtue of my Divine Volition, Sheremained sanctified and did not feel thesad effects and the evils which theother creatures feel. Therefore, mydaughter, once the cause is removed,the effects end. Oh! if my Divine Willenters into creatures and reigns inthem, It will banish all evils in them,and will

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My poor mind turns around theSun of the Supreme Fiat, and I find Itsurrounded by all the works, sacrifices,pains, heroism, that all the Saints,ancient and new, have done; those ofthe Queen of Heaven, as well as thatwhich blessed Jesus has done for loveof us. The Divine Will preserveseverything; It having been the primeactor of all the good acts of creatures,It keeps them jealously, It holds them indeposit within Itself, and It uses themto glorify Itself and to glorify thosewho did them. And I, seeing thateverything belonged to the Will of God- since It is also mine, everything wasmine; and going around in each act, Ioffered them as mine to glorify more

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the Eternal Volition, and to impetratethe coming of Its Kingdom upon earth.But while I was doing this, my alwayslovable Jesus, surprising me, told me:“My daughter, listen to the admirablesecrets of my Will: if the creature wantsto find everything that, beautiful, goodand holy, has been done in the wholehistory of the world, by Me, by theCelestial Mama and by all the Saints,she must enter into the Divine Will – inIt everything is found in act. As youwere paying attention to each act,remembering it, offering it, the Saintwho had done that act, that sacrifice,felt called by the pilgrim soul, and sawhis act palpitating again on earth, andtherefore, doubled, the glory to his

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Creator and to himself; and you, whowere offering it, covered by thecelestial dew of the good of that holyact. And according to the purpose,noble and high, with which it is offered,the more intense and great is the gloryand the good it produces. How manyriches does my Will possess! There areall my acts, those of the SovereignQueen, which are all in waiting to becalled, remembered, offered by thecreature in order to duplicate the goodfor the benefit of creatures, and to giveUs double glory. They want to beremembered, called, in order topalpitate as new life in the midst ofcreatures; but because of lack ofattention, there are some that die, some

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that struggle out of weakness, somethat grow numb with cold, some thathave nothing with which to satisfy theirhunger. Our goods, acts and sacrificesdo not set out if they are not called,because by remembering them andoffering them, creatures disposethemselves to recognize them and toreceive the good which Our actscontain. Moreover, there is no greaterhonor that you can give to all ofHeaven than offering their acts whichthey did on earth, for the noble, mosthigh and sublime purpose of thecoming of the Kingdom of the DivineWill upon earth.”

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“My daughter, when the creatureremembers, honors, glorifies that whichher Creator and her Redeemer hasdone for her love in order to put her insafety, and (that) all the saints havedone, she becomes protectress of allthese acts. The sky, the sun and all thecreation feel protected by the creature.My terrestrial life down here, mysufferings, my tears feel sheltered inher and they find their protectress; thesaints not only find protection in hermemory, but the acts of them vivified,renewed in the midst of creatures, inshort they feel life re-given in theiracts.

“Oh, how many beautiful works

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and virtues remain as buried in thebase world, because there is no onewho remembers and honors them! Thememory recalls the works of the pastand makes them as present. But do youknow what happens? An exchangehappens: the creature becomesprotectress with her memory; all ourworks, the creation, the redemption andall that which the saints have done,they make themselves protector of theirprotector. They put themselves aroundHer in order to protect her, to defendher, they do as sentinel, and while theyshelter themselves in her in order to beprotected, every work of ours, all mysufferings and all the works and virtuesof my saints, make competition giving

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the exchange to make (an) honor guardfor her, so that she remains defended byeverything and by everyone. And thenthere is no greater honor that you cangive when you make use of them to askfor in every act the Kingdom of theDivine Will. They feel called and putthemselves to do as messengersbetween heaven and earth to a kingdomso holy. You should know that (the)past, present and future, all must serveto the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat. Now[with] your memory, asking for thiskingdom through means of our works,virtues and acts of everyone, all feelput to the service of Him and they taketheir office and post of honor. So thatyour turning is necessary, because it

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serves to prepare the Kingdom of theDivine Will. Therefore be attentive andcontinuous.”

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“Behold therefore we can saythat our fields are deserted, our seasare without fishes, because there lacksthe life of creatures in order to fill themfor us, in order to be able to give and toreceive life for life; but the time willcome when they will be full, and wewill have the full contentment and thegreat glory that in the midst of ournumerous joys we will have a multitudeof life, that will live inside of thesefields and they will give us life for life.

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Now you should know that these fieldsand seas of ours are at the dispositionof those that live in earth and that wantto have our Divine Will for life, not forthose that live in Heaven, becausethose are not able to add on even onecomma more to that which they havedone. These are pleasure-loving life inour divine fields, not the working life.One can say of them, that which theyhave done is done. Instead it is theworking and conquering lives of earththat we long for, and that while they arein earth they enter in these fields ofours and work and do as conquerors in) divine way. Much more so that whenman sinned, he went out from inside ofour Will, and the doors were closed to

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him with justice from these fields ofours. Now we want to open these doorsof ours after so many centuries to onewho wants to enter, not to force her, butfreely, in order to make these divinefields of ours populated, in order togive a new form, a way of life all newto the creature, and to be able toreceive not works from her, but in herevery act life formed in our same life.

“Behold therefore the reason formy speaking so much on my Will (with)the strength of my creative word. It willdispose them, it will give them thedesire, it will change the human will,and knowing that I want to open thedoors they will knock, and I will open

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them immediately, so that I myselfremain satisfied and have my fortunatepeople in which I will give myself to,for the exchange of my life that I havegiven for them, their life in exchangefor mine. I have never spoken withouthaving something or in vain. I spoke inthe Creation and my word served inorder to form the admirable things ofthe whole universe; I spoke in theRedemption and my word, my Gospelserves as guide to my Church, as light,as support. One can say that my word isthe substance and my palpating life inthe womb of the Church. Now if I havespoken and still speak on my DivineWill, it won’t be in vain, no, but I willmake the admirable effects and the life

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of my Will known, working andpalpating in the midst of creatures.Hence leave me to do, and I willdispose things in a way that my wordwon’t be (a) dead word, but alive, thatwill give life with all its admirableeffects.

“More so that these fields andcelestial seas of ours will act asMother to the fortunate souls that wantto live in them, they will educate themin (the) divine way, they will feed themwith dainty foods taken from thecelestial table and they will raise themin a noble and holy way, that in alltheir acts, steps and words one will seewritten in clear notes, they are similar

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to their Creator. God will feel themelody of his voice in the word of them,his power in their works, his sweetmotion of steps that race near everyonebecause he wants them to himself, inthe steps of them, and as enraptured hewill say: ‘Who is it that resembles me?Who knows how to imitate my sweet,harmonious and strong voice as to beable to shake Heaven and earth? Whoholds so much strength as to enraptureme in her works, in order to make mework together with her? Who is it? Whois it? Ah! It is (she) who lives in ourdivine fields. It is just that sheresembles us in all, for how much it ispossible to a creature. She is ourdaughter, and it is enough. We allow

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that she imitates us, that she resemblesus. She will be our glory, our creativework, the longed for one of hercelestial Father!’ These souls will formthe new hierarchy in their CelestialCountry post reserved for them, that tono one else is it given to occupy.”

Volume 29 - June 30, 1931

How the greatest grace that Godgave to man in Creation was for him tobe able to do his acts in the DivineWill. How this Kingdom exists, andlived humanities have possessed It.

You must know that the greatestgrace that We gave to man in hiscreation was that he could enter into

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Our Divine Will, to be able to emit hishuman acts; and since the human willwas small and the Divine great, Ittherefore had the virtue of absorbingthe small into the great, and ofchanging the human into Divine Will.So, at the beginning of his creation,Adam entered into the order of OurDivine Will, and in It he did many ofhis acts; and while by withdrawingfrom Our Divine Will he went out frominside of It, his human acts, operated inOur Will, remained as pledge and rightfor man, and as beginning andfoundation of a Divine Kingdom whichhe acquired. In the Divine Will,whatever is done in It is indelible; GodHimself cannot delete a single act done

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by the creature in the Supreme Fiat.Now, since Adam was the first man tobe created, it came as a consequencethat, he being as though the root, thetrunk of all the human generations,they would inherit, almost likebranches, what the root and the trunkof the tree of man possessed. And justas all creatures, as though by nature,inherit the seed of original sin, so dothey inherit his first acts done in OurWill, which constitute the beginningand the right of the Kingdom of OurDivine Will for creatures. To confirmthis, came the humanity of theImmaculate Virgin, to operate and tofollow the acts of Adam, in order tofulfill, whole and entire, the Kingdom

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of the Divine Will, to be the firstheiress of a Kingdom so holy, and togive to Her dear children the rights forthem to possess It. And to complete allthis, came my Humanity which, bynature, possessed the Divine Will thatAdam and the Sovereign Queenpossessed by grace, in order to confirmwith the seal of Its acts this Kingdom ofthe Divine Will. So, this Kingdom existsin reality, because living humanitieshave formed their acts in It, as thenecessary materials in order to formthis Kingdom, to give to otherhumanities the right to possess It. Andin order to further confirm It, I taughtthe ‘Our Father’, so that, with prayer,they might dispose themselves and

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acquire the rights to receive It, andGod might feel as though the duty togive It. By teaching the ‘Our Father’, IMyself placed in their hands the rightto receive It, and I committed Myself togiving a Kingdom so holy; and everytime the creature recites the ‘OurFather’, she acquires a sort of right toenter into this Kingdom – first, becauseit is the prayer taught by Me, whichcontains the value of my prayer;second, because the love of OurDivinity toward the creatures is sogreat, that We pay attention toeverything, We notice everything, eventhe littlest acts, the holy desires, thelittle prayers, to requite them withgreat graces. We can say that they are

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pretexts, occasions that We keeplooking for, to say to her: ‘You havedone this, and We give you this. Youhave done the small, and We give youthe great.’ Therefore, the Kingdomexists, and if I have spoken to you somuch about my Divine Will, those havebeen nothing other than thepreparations of many centuries of myChurch – the prayers, the sacrificesand the continuous recitation of the‘Our Father’ – that have inclined Ourgoodness to choose a creature in orderto manifest to her the many knowledgesof Our Will, Its great prodigies. In thisway I bound my Will to the creatures,giving them new pledges of ItsKingdom. And as you listened and tried

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to model yourself after my teachingsthat I gave you, so I formed new bonds,to bind the creatures in my Will.

You must know that I am the Godof all, and when I do a good, I never doit isolated – I do it for all, unlesssomeone who does not want to take,does not take. And when a creaturecorresponds to Me, I look at her, not asone alone, but as belonging to thewhole human family, and therefore thegood of one is communicated to theothers. Now, if the Kingdom exists -lived humanities have possessed It andlived life in It, my Will wants to reign inthe midst of creatures, my veryknowledges say it in clear notes – how,

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then, can you think that it is impossiblefor this Kingdom to come? To Meeverything is possible; I will make useof the very storms and of new events inorder to prepare those who must occupythemselves with making my Will known.The storms serve to purify the bad air,and also to get rid of noxious things.Therefore, I will dispose everything; Iknow how to do everything, I have thetimes at my disposal. So, let your Jesusdo it, and you will see how my Will willbe known and fulfilled.”

APPENDIX

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The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta was bornin Corato in the Province of Bari, Italy on April23, 1865 and died there in the odor of sanctityon March 4, 1947.

Luisa from her very birth was given a Mysticallife, for example, at the age of 17 she receivedthe Mystical Union that Saint John of theCross, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint Catherineof Siena received right before they died. Afterthis Mystical Union Jesus asked Luisa if shewould stay in bed and because of her “Fiat!,” Hetaught Luisa about the Life of the Divine Willforming It first in her.

For the next 64 years until her death Luisastayed in bed basically not eating, drinking orsleeping. Luisa was nourished by receiving theMost Holy Eucharist during the Holy Sacrificeof the Mass daily said in her room. This specialblessing was given by Pope Saint Pious X and

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Pope Leo XIII his predecessor. Luisa also livedon the food of the Divine Will, which Jesussaid in the Gospels, “a food that you do notknow of….”

During that time through great sufferings and asublime call to holiness Jesus taught Luisaabout the fulfillment of the Our Father, theprayer that Jesus taught His Apostles.

Jesus taught Luisa that now is the time for theKingdom of God to reign on earth as inHeaven. Jesus dictated 36 Volumes of thedoctrine of the Divine Will, which He gave thetitle "The Kingdom of the Fiat in the Midst ofCreatures. Book of Heaven -- The Recall of theCreature into the Order, to Its Place and intothe Purpose for Which He was Created by God,to teach Luisa how to “Live” in the Divine Will,this is different than the devotional life of theSaints which is “doing” the Will of God.

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These Volumes were basically dictated in threesections: In the first section, Volumes 1-10,Jesus shows Luisa how to become a DivineMirror of Jesus Himself. In the second section,Volumes 11-19, Jesus shows Luisa how to“Live” in the Divine Will through the Power ofthe Holy Spirit. In the third section, Volumes20-36, Jesus shows Luisa how to receive theDivine Inheritance of the Father.

In humble obedience Luisa under the constantdirection of the Church faithfully wrote all thatJesus Himself wanted her to put down on paper.This would be not only for herself but for thosewho would read it, so that they too could “Live”in the Divine Will as Luisa learned how to“Live” in the Divine Will by putting intopractice these “Truths” taught by Jesus andMary.

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In addition to the 36 Volumes Jesus dictatedthe book, “ The Hours of the Passion” and OurLady dictated the book, “Virgin Mary in theKingdom of the Divine Will” to Luisa. Jesustold her Confessor, Saint Annibale Maria DiFrancia, through Luisa that these 36 Volumesare to be called: “The Book of Heaven.”

Pope John Paul II canonized Saint Annibale anddeclared him to be the Saint for our time topray to for Vocations. Yet, Saint Annibalehimself stated in Messina on February 14,1927:

…Know, that I no longer occupy myself withalmost anything of the other things of myInstitutes, since I dedicated myself completelyto the great Work of the Divine Will. I talkabout it with people of (docile) spirit; I engagein conversation about this topic with whomeverI best can; I promote it as much as I can, even in

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my Institutes. On June 4, 2005 a letter was sent from theArchdiocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie–Nazareth by His Grace, Mons. Savino Giannottistating that:

“The “Divine Will” has guided the Archdiocese,in this last decade, for the completion of theworks regarding the process of the Cause ofBeatification of the Servant of God LuisaPiccarreta. The Diocesan Postulationannounces having completed this journey” (andwill be handed over to the Vatican.) Fiat!

Current events

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2005 - Archbishop Giovanni BattistaPicchierri, current Archbishop of Trani. It is hewho requested that the Cause of Beatificationof the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta becontinued.

More info on Luisa’s spirituality, cause andwritings can be found at the following sites:

www.DivineWill.org

www.BookofHeaven.org

www.piousuniversalunion.com

ARCHDIOCESE

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Trani - Barletta - Bisceglie – Nazareth

70059 TRANI - VIA BELTRANI, 9 -TEL.0883-583498

Trani, June 4, 2005

COMUNIQUE

The “Divine Will” has guided theArchdiocese, in this last decade, for thecompletion of the works regarding the processof the Cause of Beatification of the Servant ofGod Luisa Piccarreta. The DiocesanPostulation announces having completed thisjourney. It communicates that on the days ofthe 27th, 28th, and 29th of October 2005 itwill celebrate the 2nd International Congresswith the conclusion of the diocesan process.

The Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta

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Little Children of the Divine Will*, in Corato,has been charged with performing the job ofSecretary for the celebration and welcome ofguests. Later the program of the celebrationwill be published in a definitive way.

May Jesus Christ present in theEucharist guide us as He has guided His ServantLuisa.

The Vicar General

(His Grace Mons. Savino Giannotti)

* Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta LittleChildren of the Divine Will

Referent: Sister Assunta Marigliano

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70033 Corato (BA) – Via Nazario Sauro, 27 –Tel. +39.080.8982221

www.luisalasanta.com - e-mail :[email protected]

Come Holy Spirit, Come Supreme Will,

down to reign in Your Kingdom on earth

and in our hearts!

Come Holy Spirit, Come Supreme Will,

down to reign in Your Kingdom on earth

and in our hearts!

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Come Holy Spirit, Come Supreme Will,

down to reign in Your Kingdom on earth

and in our hearts!