As usual I was thinking of the conception of the Most Holy Virgin, when Jesus stopped my reflections and said to me: "My child, the Holy Virgin constituted the greatest prodigy of creation, because the Divine Will, subordinating, even from the first instant of her conception, her human will, and the will of the Holy Creature, on her part subordinated to the Divine Will, overcame the other—and both of them remained victors. So did the Virgin: she impressed on them her innocence, her sanctity, the Divine Will which she possessed as whole; she presented them all together to the Divinity, and she obtained the longed for Redeemer. The words I would like to share with you in this short article want to be an introduction to the book "The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will" written by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. This was a gift that the Supreme Being entrusted to Me; and when He was certain that I had grace, love, power and the very Divine Will to keep Him safe, defended and loved, then He delivered the gift to Me – the Eternal Word incarnating Himself in my womb – telling Me: 'Our daughter, We are giving You the great gift of the Life of the Son of God, that You may be the owner, and may give Him to whomever You want. Have pity on a Mother who loves and [who] wants to dote on her children to make them happy. Now, while these and other thoughts were passing through my mind, my Jesus moved in my interior, and with His usual Light told me: "My daughter, when a Sanctity is individual, in time and space, it has more external prodigies in order to attract those individuals, places and times, to receive the grace and the good which that sanctity contains. But when it is accomplished, what remains is the possession and the enjoyment of the work done, and its complete value comes to complete the glory of the One who has formed it.
It kept flowing and flowing with such power and rapidity as to bewilder Heaven and earth, and make everyone exclaim: 'Is it possible that a God could so love his creatures? ' Such was the life of my Divine Mama. Flowing in my Will like ray of light, these acts bring new joys, feasts and happinesses wherever my Will is. 2017-May-Meditations (shorter version) of the Holy Rosary. Therefore, in seeing Myself deprived of it, I feel as if I had no glory of Queen and no love of Mother from my children. As many great works and sacrifices as one may do, if my Will is not in them, I refuse them, I do not recognize them – it is not food for Me.
My pains, my wounds, my thorns, my Cross, my Blood, had the mark of Her 'FIAT MIHI', because things carry the mark of the origin from which they come. I felt my poor mind immersed in the immense sea of the Divine Volition. Benedictine Oblates of the Divine Will. Someone else, who wants to form a beautiful object, first prepares the raw material, the place in which to put it, and then he forms it.
2018 July – Adoration in Divine Will. It could be that, in time, it may fail, but this will not cause him grave damage, because his capital has already been paid off by the great interest received. Here, then, is the reason for which We constituted Her Queen of all, because when We operate, We do it with reason, wisdom and justice: She never gave life to her human will, but our Will was always intact in Her. While I was thinking about this, my lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: "My daughter, no one can be acceptable to Me without the test. More so, since each one of those rays had its imprint: some delineated the sanctity of God, some the purity, some the power, some the wisdom, and all the other virtues and attributes of God. And I, on the wings of the FIAT of the Sun, went up to the Eternal One bringing, in the name of the whole human family, the Love which darted, wounded, and flashed through the Supreme Majesty. It never says 'enough, ' and the more opportunity it has for giving, so much more does it rejoice. Now it hides itself, now it reveals itself, now it faces the loved object directly, at times indirectly—always trying to be acknowledged by the loved one. Astonished, they recognized the Will of their Creator as life operating in Her; and, trembling, they said: "Holy, Holy, Holy! Having the Divine Fiat in her power which is a word—an operating word—She kept Us occupied, besieged, ravished, surrounded on all sides, and compelled Us to concede what She asked. "Do you understand how it is certain that the Kingdom of the Divine Will should come on earth, since She who inherited It exists?
My own Heart asks Me to satisfy Her! In the meantime, I remained completely annihilated, waiting to be called, so as not to be scolded again by the Angels. My sweet Jesus was giving to his Mother the privilege of saving whomever She pleased, and everyone marked by Her remained immune. It is a love that always yearns, a love that will sacrifice even [her] life for her own creature. Insight: Elementary: Test Bank MultiROM (CD-ROM). If the Eternal One had not placed so much grace in Her as to be able to receive, alone, the love of all – He would never have moved from Heaven to come down upon earth and redeem mankind. Or of what she did with the Eternal One in order to obtain the great portent of the descent of the Word into the midst of creatures?
So you, too, come into my Divine Will. Investing them from within and without they murmured unceasingly: "Love! "If a good mother earns from her own children veneration and love, how much more [veneration and love] does this Celestial Mother deserve who did not hesitate to risk her own life so that her own children could be saved. The Lord has disposed everything: crosses, illness, state of marriage; in a word – everything.
Examination of Conscience based on Luisa's Reflections and Practices. Therefore my sighs are ardent, my prayers incessant; I do nothing but assail the Sacrosanct Trinity with my Love, with the rights of Mother and Queen that It gave Me, so that what It gave Me may come to light, may form Its Life, and my Kingdom may triumph over the face of the earth. And if the sun were missing, everyone would cry over it, since the greatest miracle of fecundity and preservation of all nature would be missing. If you want them, ask for them, and they will both bring you light, joy and guidance. The Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena Daily Prayers. I paid the necessary price to recompense our Divine Will, and to give It to creatures as heritage that belonged to them. Now, when I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, I looked for the creature, and my Queen Mama offered Herself to receive my act and the deposit of this great gift, telling Me: 'My Son, just as I offered You my womb and all of my being in your conception, to keep You safe and sheltered, now I offered You my maternal Heart, to receive this great deposit. Today, as though wanting to leave His sadness – because when He speaks about His Will it seems He puts Himself in feast – coming out from within my interior, He told me: "My daughter, I want to cheer Myself up – let Me speak of the Kingdom of my Supreme Will. " 2018 July – The Necessity of the Writings. If I were to leave my poor Son alone, and if He did not have his Mother with Him, some bad souls would hurt Him! And what can a Divine Will not do?
And just as on earth they call Me 'Star of the Sea', because I guide them to the port with certainty, in Heaven they call Me 'Star of Light' for all the Blessed, because they are delighted by this light that my sorrows produced. Where can you find a more beautiful example, a more perfect image of the living in my Will, other than in Creation? Making use of her amorous strategies, She added: 'My Son, Child of my maternal Heart, You have made Me Mother and Queen, but where are my subjects?
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