Creator vs. creature, game on

God created the universe and everything in it each as a means to delight man and as a way to interact with him, amusing each other and thereby making each other happy.  This is the game of God, but it can only occur if the creature lives in the Divine Will.

This was the reason why Our Love, Our Light, Our joys, Our Power and Beauty gushed out all together, and overflowing outside of Our Divine Being, they spread the table before the one whom, with so much love, We had formed with Our creative hands, and generated with Our very breath. We wanted to enjoy Our work, see him happy of Our own happiness, embellished with Our beauty, rich with Our richness; more so, since it was Our Will for Us to remain close to the creature, to operate together and to amuse Ourselves together with her; and games cannot be played from a distance, but in closeness.
This is why, by necessity of creation and in order to maintain intact Our work and the purpose for which We had created it, the only means was to endow man with Divine Will, which would preserve him just as he came out of Our creative hands; he would enjoy all Our goods, and We were to enjoy because he was happy. Therefore, so that man may return to his place of honor and enter once again to operate together with his Creator, and they may amuse themselves together, there are no means other than his reentering into Our Fiat, that It may bring him to Us triumphantly, into Our arms which are waiting for him to clasp him tightly within Our divine womb, and say to him: ‘Finally, after six thousand years you have come back. You have gone wandering, you have experienced all evils, because there is no good without Our Fiat. You have experienced enough, and have touched with your own hand what it means to go out of It; so, never go out of It again, and come to rest and enjoy what is yours, because in Our Volition everything was given to you.’ Therefore, my daughter, be attentive; We will give you everything if you live always in Our Fiat. Our breath will take delight in breathing over you always, to make Our joys, Our Light, Our Sanctity overflow upon you, and communicate to you the attitude of Our works, that We may keep the little daughter, regenerated by Our Divine Will, always together with Us.”
Vol. 26, April 28, 1929

This is so true that God states that he gains nothing in return from the Creation.  That was to serve man, but it only from man that God receives something in return.  In this God wanted to have a "contest" with man, in giving and receiving and God's joy comes from seeing the creature happy.

I was continuing my round in the Divine Fiat; and as I arrived at the point in which God created man, I thought to myself: ‘Why did He rejoice so much in creating him, which He did not do with all the other things He created?’ And my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, in creating the whole Creation with such order and harmony, We gave of Our own and were to receive nothing from It. But, in creating man, while giving of Our own, We gave him the capacity to give Us Our very gifts as goods belonging to himself, in such a way that We were to give always; so much so, that a contest was to arise between him and Us – We, in giving, and he, in receiving; he, in giving to Us, and We, in lavishing Our gifts yet more abundantly upon him. This giving and receiving, receiving and giving, opened the feasts, the games, the joys, the conversation between Creator and creature. So, in seeing the littleness of the creature celebrate with Our supreme height, amusing itself, rejoicing, conversing with Us, We felt such joy, such emphasis of love in creating man, that all other created things seemed nothing to Us compared to the creation of man. And if all of them seemed beautiful to Us and worthy of Our works, and Our love ran in all created things, it was because they were to serve Us to abound in gifts toward man, and from him We awaited the requital of love of all created things.
Vol. 23, Jan. 6, 1928

God's victory in this game comes from the creature giving her will to him.

 

If every turn she gives me her will and takes mine, I amuse myself and I form my game and victory song of having conquered the human volition, I feel myself the little victorious King.

Vol. 36, Dec. 25, 1938

 
The creature wins by going from weak to strong, ignorant to wise and so on.  The creature becomes able to love with God's love God himself.  All of these attributes are as hidden in the Creation and all the acts of Jesus and it is only possible for one who lives in the Divine Will to tear the veils and acquire the prize.
 

 

“Behold therefore, one who does and lives in my Divine Volition breaks the veils of our Power and finds her Creator who loves her powerfully and draws his creature with his Power to make himself powerfully loved, tearing the veil.  She found the sanctuary of the divine power and does not fear anymore, because if [the Creator] is powerful, he is powerful in order to love her and to make himself loved.  And loving with powerful love, [the creature] plays a game and breaks the veil of the divine wisdom, of goodness, of mercy, of love and of justice, and finds as so many divine sanctuaries that wisely love her, and with a goodness most tender and excessive united to mercy unheard of.  They love her, [and she] finds the love regurgitating that immensely loves her, and being (that) the Divine Being orders that he loves with justice, and the creature passing from one sanctuary to the other, not outside but inside of these veils, she feels the reflections of her Creator and she loves him wisely, with goodness and tenderness, united to mercy, that her God not having need of, he turns it to the good of all the generations, and she feels the love that regurgitates in her bosom, oh, how she would like to melt into love in order to love him!  But justice conserving her gives her, for how much it is possible for a creature, the just love and the confirmation in life.

“My daughter, how many things these veils hide of our divine qualities, but it is given to no one to break these veils if not to one who does and lives in our Volition.  She alone is the fortunate creature who doesn’t see her God veiled but as he is in himself.
Vol. 30, Dec. 6, 1931




It is only with living in the Divine Will that this game of God can have it's fullness and Jesus has stated that his first victory was with the Virgin Mary.  In looking at what this game looks like Mary describes what transpired between her and God in the second day of her narration.

So, listen to Me, my beloved child.  As soon as the Divine Fiat poured Itself over my human seed in order to prevent the sad effects of sin, the Divinity smiled, It put Itself in feast in seeing, in my seed, that human seed, pure and holy, just as it came out of Their creative hands in the creation of man.  So, the Divine Fiat took the second step in Me, by carrying this human seed of mine, purified and sanctified by It, before the Divinity, that It might pour out in torrents upon my littleness in the act of being conceived.  And the Divinity, recognizing in Me Their creative work, beautiful and pure, smiled with satisfaction, and wanting to celebrate Me, the Celestial Father poured upon Me seas of power; the Son, seas of wisdom; the Holy Spirit, seas of love.  So I was conceived in the interminable light of the Divine Will; and in the midst of these divine seas, as my littleness could not contain them, I formed gigantic waves, to send them back as homage of love and glory to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. 

And the Trinity was all eyes upon Me; and so as not to be surpassed by Me in love, smiling at Me and caressing Me, sent Me more seas, which embellished Me so much, that as soon as my little humanity was formed, I acquired the enrapturing virtue of enrapturing my Creator.  And He truly let Himself be enraptured; so much so, that between Me and God it was always feast.  We denied nothing to each other - I never denied anything to Them, nor did They.  But do you know who animated Me with this enrapturing power?  The Divine Will, which reigned in Me as life.  The power of the Supreme Being was mine, and therefore We had equal power to enrapture each other. 

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 2

Here we see that God initiates the game by pouring out seas of graces over the creature and the creature attempts to respond by sending back to Him that which she has received.  But God will never be out done and sends out even more.  And so is the game played between God and man.  A game where both sides can claim victory and both sides conquer over the other.



With one who lives completely in my Divine Volition, Its love is so great as to transform the actions of the creature, and an exchange of life takes place between God and her; an exchange of actions, of steps, of heartbeats. God remains clasped to the creature, and the creature to God; they become inseparable beings, and in this exchange of action and of life, the game is formed between Creator and creature – one makes oneself prey to the other. And in this becoming prey to each other, they play in a divine manner, they make each other happy, they make feast, and God and the creature sing glory, they feel victorious because no one has lost, but one has conquered the other. In fact, in my Divine Will no one loses – losses do not exist in It. Only of one who lives in my Will can I say that she is my amusement in Creation, and I feel victorious in lowering Myself to let Myself be conquered by the creature, because I know for sure that she will not be opposed to letting herself be conquered by Me. Therefore, the flight in my Will be always continuous.”
Vol. 27, Oct. 2, 1929

The Divine Game

Have you ever felt that life is one big game?  Well from the beginning of the Volumes Luisa often accused Jesus of joking and playing games with her.

Sometimes, Jesus also wanted to play jokes, and this is how:  while I would be amid these yearnings, He would come, all hurriedly, and would say to me:  “Do you want to come?”  And I would say to Him:  ‘Where?’  And He:  “To Heaven.”  And I:  ‘You really mean that?’  And He:  “But hurry, come, do not delay.”  And I:  ‘Well then, let’s go – but I fear You want to make fun of me.’  And Jesus:  “No, no, I really want to take you with me.”  And while He would say this, I would feel my soul go out of the body, and together with Jesus, I would set off for Heaven.  Oh! how happy I would be then, thinking of getting to leave the earth – life seemed to be a sleep to me, and suffering seemed very little.  As we would reach a high point of Heaven, I would hear the singing of the Blessed.  I would solicit Jesus to introduce me quickly into that blessed dwelling, but Jesus would begin to slow down.  In my interior I would start to suspect that it wasn’t true – ‘who knows’, I would say, ‘if this is not a joke that He has played on me?’  Every now and then, I would say to Him:  ‘My Jesus, dear, hurry up.’  And He would say to me:  “Wait a little longer – let us go down on earth again.  See, out there there is a sinner who is about to be lost.  Let us go - who knows whether he might convert.  Let us pray together to the Eternal Father, that He may use mercy on him.  Don’t you want him to be saved?  Are you not ready to suffer any pain for the salvation of one soul alone?”  And I:  ‘Yes, anything You want me to suffer, I am ready, as long as You save him.’  So we would go to that sinner; we would try to convince him, we would place the most powerful reasons before his mind to make him surrender - but in vain.  Then, all afflicted, Jesus would say to me:  “My spouse, return into your body once again, take upon yourself the pains destined to him; in this way, being appeased, the Divine Justice will use mercy on him.  You have seen it - words have not shaken him, and not even reasons; there is nothing left but pains, which are the most powerful means in order to satisfy justice and to make the sinner surrender.”  So He would bring me once again into my body.  Who can tell the sufferings I would receive?  Only the Lord knows, who has been the witness of it.  After a few days, then, He would make me see that soul, converted and saved.  Oh, how happy was Jesus - and I as well.

Who can tell how many times Jesus played these jokes?  When we would reach the point of entering, and sometimes even after entering, He would say that He had not let me have the obedience from the confessor, and therefore I should go back to earth.  And I would say to Him:  ‘As long as I was with the confessor, I was obliged to obey him, but now that I am with You, I am supposed to obey You, because You are the first among all.’  And Jesus would say to me:  “No, no; I want you to obey the confessor.”  Then, not to make it too long, now with one pretext, now with another, He would make me go back on earth.

Vol. 1,  Heroism of Luisa, leaving heaven many times to return to her body on earth.

This morning, my sweet Jesus wanted to continue to play His little games with me, and to joke.  He would come, He would place His hands on my face in the act of wanting to caress me, but as He was about to do it, He would disappear.  Then He would come again, He would stretch out His arms around my neck in the act of wanting to hug me, but as I stretched out my arms to hug Him, He would escape me like a flash, and I could not find Him.  Who can say the pains of my heart?  While my heart was swimming in this sea of immense grief, to the point of feeling life abandoning me, Queen Mama came, carrying a child in Her arms.  We hugged, the three of us together, Mama, the Son, and I - so I could have the time to say to Him:  ‘My Lord Jesus, it seems to me that You have withdrawn your grace from me.’  And He:  “Silly – silly little one that you are!  How can you say that I have withdrawn my grace when I am within you?  What is my grace if not Myself?”  I remained more confused than before, seeing that I was unable to speak, and that in those two words I had uttered, I had spoken nothing but nonsense.  Afterwards, the Queen Mother disappeared, and Jesus seemed to enclose Himself in my interior, and there He remained.

Vol. 2, June 22, 1899




This would at times concern her so much that she would complain to Jesus and worry over how she would soon be tossed aside like an old and broken toy.

‘I thought I was something in the hands of the Lord; yet, I am nothing but a toy!  What a most wretched object I am!  Toys can be made of clay, of earth, of paper, of a flabby elastic band, such that it is sufficient that they fall to the ground - or just the slightest inconvenience, for them to break; and no longer being useful for the game, they are thrown away.  Oh, my Good, how oppressed I feel at the thought that one day or another You may throw me away!’  And good Jesus made Himself heard and told me:

“My daughter, do not oppress yourself.  When toys are made of wretched matter and they break, one throws them away; but if they were made of gold or of diamonds, or of any other precious material, one has them fixed, and they always serve to form the amusement of the one who has the good of possessing them.  So you are for Me:  a toy made of diamonds and of purest gold, because you have my Image in you, and because I paid the price of my Blood to purchase you, and you are adorned with the likeness of my sufferings.  Therefore, you are not a wretched object that I could throw away; rather, it costs Me very much.  You can be tranquil – there is no danger I may throw you away.”

Vol. 9, Aug. 2, 1909



Jesus doesn't deny playing games with her.  Rather he admits that he likes to joke with her.   But as with all things with Jesus these jokes are a loving game.

And He:  “I wanted to joke a little bit with you.  Do spouses not joke with each other sometimes?  And could I not do likewise?”

Vol. 7, March 4, 1906



These games he plays are a means to spur the creature on to greater acts and to receive greater graces.

“My little daughter of my Volition, it is certain that all that which passes between the Creator and the creature, the acts that she does and that which she receives from God, serves to maintain the correspondence to know each other more in order to love each other more and to maintain the game between the one and the other in order to obtain the intent of that which God wants from the creature, and of that which she wants from God.  So that every act is a game that is prepared in order to make the most beautiful conquests and to predate each other.  The act serves as material in order to play (for) and as pledge in order to have something to give to one who conquers.  God with giving puts forth his pledge, the creature with doing her act puts forth hers, and they establish the game, and our goodness is so much that we make ourselves weak in order to let the creature conquer.  Other times we make ourselves strong and we conquer, and we do this in order put her in point/[competition], so that doing more acts she puts forth more pledges, and thus is able to conquer in order to redo some defeat.  After all how could one maintain the union, if we had nothing to give and the creature had nothing to give us?  You see therefore, [your] every act is a pledging to us in order to give greater graces, it is a correspondence that you open between heaven and earth, it is a game where you call your Creator to stop over with you.

Vol. 30, Nov. 16, 1931

But often Jesus' games finish without obtaining his intent.

“My daughter, have you seen how souls render my tendernesses of love vain? I keep binding hearts to unite them closely with Me, to make them lose all that is human; but instead of letting Me do it, on seeing their human being broken, they lose air, they struggle, they wriggle about, and they also want to look a little bit themselves at how cold, dry or warm they are. By this looking at themselves, struggling, wriggling about, the knot I had made becomes loose, and they want to be with Me at a distance, but not clasped in such a way as no longer to feel themselves. This afflicts Me very much, and they prevent my games of love. And do not think that these are only souls who are far away from you – rather, these are also those who are around you. You will make them comprehend well the sorrow that they give Me, and that if they do not let themselves be clasped by Me to the point of losing the feeling of themselves, I will never be able to expand my graces and my charisms with them. Have you understood?”

And I: ‘Yes, O Jesus, I understood! Poor ones, if they understood the secret contained in your clasping, they would not do this – they would let You do it; even more, they themselves would make themselves smaller so as to let You tighten the knot more.’ At that moment, I made myself very small; Jesus clasped me, and instead of wriggling about, I let Him squeeze me more tightly; and as He squeezed me, I felt the life of Jesus - losing my own. Oh! how happy I felt with the life of Jesus! I was able to love more, and I could reach everything that Jesus wanted.

Vol. 10, Jan. 19 1912




Creatures who do not live in the Will of God will always possess something of themselves and resist Jesus' game to expand his grace and charisms in souls.  But if people do not play the divine game they will play a game of their own whether for pleasure or other.

“The human life is a game; some play pleasure, some play money, some, their own lives, and many other games they play.  I too delight in playing with souls; but what are the jokes I make?  They are the crosses which I send.  If they receive them with resignation and thank Me for them, I amuse Myself and I play with them, delighting immensely, receiving great honor and glory, and letting them make the greatest gains.”

As He was saying this, He began to touch me with the lance; all the precious stones that the bow and the quiver contained came out, and turned into many crosses and arrows which wounded the creatures.  Some of them, but extremely few, rejoiced, kissed them, and thanked Him, engaging in a game with Jesus; others then, would take them and throw them in His face.  Oh, how afflicted Jesus would be left, and what a loss for those souls!  Then Jesus added:  “This is the thirst which I cried out on the cross, which, unable to quench entirely at that time, I delight in continuing to quench in the souls of my dear ones who suffer.  So, when you suffer, you come to give a refreshment to my thirst.

Vol. 2, July 28, 1899




Jesus tells Luisa that in creating man he was playing a risky game and that even though it initially failed it is a Divine game and he can continue it and make up for the initial loss.  His first victory came from Mary.

“In creating man, Our love wanted to play a risky game by placing Our things within the little circle of the human will, as though in a bank:  Our beauty, wisdom, sanctity, love, etc.  And Our Will was to become the guide and the actor of his operating, not only to make him grow in Our likeness, but to give him the shape of a little god.  Therefore, Our sorrow was great in seeing these great goods being rejected by the creature; and for the time being Our risky game failed.  But, even though it failed, it was always a divine game, which could and had to make up for its failure.  Therefore, after many years, my love wanted to gamble again, and It did so with my Immaculate Mama.  In Her Our game did not fail; it obtained its full effect, and therefore We gave Her everything and We entrusted everything to Her.  Even more, we competed – We in giving, She in receiving.

“Now, you must know that Our love wants to play this risky game with you also, so that you, united with the Celestial Mama, may let Us win the game by allowing Us to make up for the failure which the first man, Adam, caused Us; and so that Our Will, restored in Its victories, may place Its goods in the field once again, which, with so much love, It wants to give to creatures.  And just as through the Holy Virgin - because I had made up in my game - I made the Sun of Redemption rise in order to save the lost humanity; in the same way, through you, I will make the Sun of my Will rise again, that It may follow Its course in the midst of creatures.  This is the reason for so many graces of mine which I pour into you, and for the many knowledges about my Will:  it is nothing else but my risky game which I am forming in you.  Therefore be attentive, that you may not cause Me the greatest sorrow I could receive in the whole history of the world:  the failure of my second game.  Ah, no, you will not do this to Me - my love will be victorious, and my Will will find Its fulfillment.”
 

            Jesus disappeared, and I remained concerned about what He had told me, though all abandoned in the Supreme Volition.  Jesus alone knows the torment of my soul about everything I am writing, and my great repugnance in putting these things on paper, which I would rather have buried.  I felt like fighting against obedience itself, but the Fiat of Jesus won, and so I continue to write what I did not want to.

Then, my sweet Jesus came back, and seeing me concerned, told me:

“My daughter, why do you fear?  Do you not want Me to play with you?  You will put in nothing of your own but the little flame of your will, which I Myself gave you in creating you; so, all the risk of my goods will be my own.  Do you not want to be the copy of my Mama?  Therefore, come with Me before the divine throne, and there you will find the little flame of the will of the Queen of Heaven at the feet of the Supreme Majesty, which She placed into the divine game.  In fact, in order to play, one must always put something of one’s own, otherwise the one who wins has nothing to take, and the one who loses has nothing to leave.  And since I won in the game with my Mama, She lost the little flame of Her will.  But, happy loss! - by having lost Her little flame, leaving it as continuous homage at the feet of Her Creator, She formed Her life in the great divine fire, growing within the sea of the divine goods; and therefore She could obtain the longed for Redeemer.

“Now it is your turn to place the little flame of your little will near that of my inseparable Mama, so that you too may be formed in the divine fire, and may grow with the reflections of your Creator, in order to find grace before the Supreme Majesty to be able to obtain the longed for Fiat.  These two little flames will be seen at the foot of the supreme throne for all eternity, having had no life of their own; and one of them obtained Redemption, the other the fulfillment of my Will - the only purpose of Creation, of Redemption, and of my ‘return match’ in the risky game of creating man.” 

Vol. 19, March 9, 1926



So it is only by living in the Divine Will, that is to ante one's own will against the greater gain of the Divine, that the game of Jesus finds it's victory and safety.  But this is not the end of the game but only the beginning.  I'll continue this theme in the next post to keep this from getting too cumbersome.

The Cross of Wood and The Cross of Light

There is a passage in the Volumes that speaks on the meaning of the sign of the cross which so many of us do automatically and without further thought.  We use the sign of the cross to bless ourselves and others.  We use it to begin and end our prayers.  Sometimes we use it to ward off evil.  Here Jesus speaks about the meaning of this blessing and it's true depth and breadth.

 

          I sought help from all, so that they would make Jesus come back to me. But He would not come; and I would continue my round in His adorable Will, and following all the acts He did when He was on this earth, I stopped when Jesus was blessing the children, blessing His Celestial Mama, blessing the crowds and other things, and I prayed Jesus to bless this little daughter of His, who so much needed it. And He, moving in my interior and raising His arm in the act of blessing me, told me: “My daughter, I bless you from the Heart in your soul and body - may my blessing be the confirmation of Our likeness in you. My blessing confirms in you what the Divinity did in the creation of man – that is, Our likeness. You must know that during the course of my mortal life, in everything I did, I always blessed. It was the first act of Creation that I called back over the creatures, and in order to confirm it, in blessing I invoked the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit. The very Sacraments are animated by these blessings and invocations. So, while calling the likeness to the Creator within souls, my blessing calls also the life of my Divine Will, that It may return as in the beginning of Creation to reign in souls, because my Will alone has the virtue of painting in them, vividly, the likeness of the One who created them, of making it known and of preserving it with its divine live colors.

        See then, what blessing means: confirmation of Our creative work, because the work We do once is so filled with wisdom, with sublimity and with beauty, that We love to repeat it always. And if Our blessing is nothing other than the sigh of Our Heart to see Our image restored in the creatures, as well as the repetition of Our confirmation of what We want to do, the sign of the Cross that the Church teaches to the faithful is nothing other than impetrating Our likeness on the part of creatures; and so, echoing Our blessing, they repeat: ‘In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’ Therefore, without knowing it, the Church and all the faithful harmonize with the eternal Creator, and all want the same thing: God, by blessing and pronouncing the words, ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’, wants to give His likeness; the creatures impetrate it by making the sign of the Cross, pronouncing the same words.”
Vol. 24, July 29, 1928

So each time we make the sign of the cross we are echoing the same blessing that God gave in the beginning of Creation.  If we do this in the Divine Will we unite ourselves to this very act and each blessing that has occurred subsequently though out the ages.  We unite ourselves with the moment in which God created us in His image and likeness and we unite our will to His in confirming this union.  

The following is a lesson, given by Fr. Gary, on the cross.

The Story of the Cross.

The two crosses.

 

There is the glorious cross of Christ that saves us from our sins and the other is the one of the Risen Jesus.  They are two different crosses.  The first is of wood, it shares in the work of Redemption and is given to all of the redeemed as medicine, as cure, and as a cure for each sin.  It acts in a powerful way upon men, it resurrects the dead, heals the sick, consoles the dying, and it safely accompanies souls all the way to the door of paradise.  It strikes fear on the devils and drives them out.

 

The second, instead is a cross of light that illuminates, it is fire that burns and consumes all human residue, all the way to the redemption of our bodies (Rom 8:23), and immediately makes it rise to the divine.  This is Jesus Risen, that not only resurrects the dead but transforms them and makes them rise, rendering them “blessed and holy, priests of God and of Christ” (Apoc 20:6), in order to introduce them to His eternal and divine reign.  This is the resplendent cross of the Divine Will. 

 

The Chair of Peter.  The Primacy of Peter, the keys, and his Crucifixion

 

            Jesus chose Saint Peter as the visible head and a sign of unity for the whole Church: Ubi Petro ibi Ecclesia (Where Peter is there is the Church).  The Church is the body of Christ (Col 1:18), for now the mystical body, but must become His real body through a particular gift of love from Jesus.  In reference to this difference, that is to a mystical body or the real body of Jesus, Luisa asks Jesus:  "My love, Jesus, what you are telling me is nothing new; that whoever lives in your Will, your real life is lived in him?  Rather, isn't it that mystical life in the hearts that possess your grace?" and Jesus answers:  "No, no; it is not a mystical life, like in those that possess my grace.  They do not live with their acts united in my Will and they do not have sufficient substance to form the accidents to imprison me.  It would be the same as if the priest did not have the host and wants to pronounce the words of consecration.  He could say them but he would say them unto nothing; my sacramental life would certainly not be there.  It is the same in hearts that while they possess my grace, do not live their everything in my Will; I am in them by grace, but not really". (Volume 16, November 5, 1923).

 

            How can this come about for the whole Church?  In a simple way but incisively:  Through the crucifixion of the mystical body so that it rises into the real body of Christ.  Jesus, Lord and only Head of his body, generated the Church upon the bed of pain, upon the cross.  From Peter and the other apostles he asked for their crucifixion similar to his.  On one part this crucifixion was perpetrated and brought about by the heads of the people of God, through the hands of the pagans, but at the same time and first and foremost it was wanted by God, the Father:  “This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.  I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again.  This command I have received from my Father.” (John 10:17-18).  This is what Jesus told Peter to indicate the death with which he would glorify God.  And having said this, he added:  “Follow me”. (John 21:19).  Therefore, Peter will follow Jesus on the sorrowful way of the crucifixion, while John will remain until the return of Jesus. (John 21:22).

 

            Now that Jesus wants to render the Church as his beloved spouse, “the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27) and wants to render it as such in a real way, it is necessary for it to follow the sorrowful way all the way to Calvary, because its members have gone away from their only Lord and Head, following every crooked way and with a life of vice.  It has abandoned its first love, going about selling its favors to every passer by.  In a major way, it has lost faith, preferring the idol of human reasoning; its hope is no longer upon its Head but on its merchants; it has become cold in the true charity, loving those from whom they expect a recompense (John 6: 33-34) and not “as I have loved you” (John 13:34).  The heads are often not united, to the Head and neither to the visible representative on earth; and that which is worse is that having gone away from the source of light, these unhappy heads have confined themselves to darkness and they spread nothing other than dense darkness.  They have ousted their Head just like the tenants in the parable (Matt 21:33-45), for which if they don’t mend their way, they will have the same fate:  “Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.  The one who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” (Matt 21:43-44).  They are bound with those that are only intent on undermining the Church and to destroy it from within.  In a word: corruption, interests, power, ambition, aspired dignity, impurity, hypocrisy, masonry, etc.

 

The Regal Priesthood

 

            So, then tell me, is there another remedy for so many evils if not the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is the crucifixion of these heads that are sick?  And isn’t this the taking away of the Kingdom of God from them, to take it from the heads, that is the ministerial priesthood, and give the keys of the Kingdom to the real priesthood?  Isn’t it this John that awaits the return of Jesus, when he will receive the keys from Peter, and Jesus waiting to have his regal priesthood in his loved Johns?  “What if I want him to remain until I come?  What concern is it of yours?  You follow me.” (John 21:22).  If in John, Jesus has recognized and deposited all of the human family in order to give to his Most Holy Mother (John 19: 25-27), why isn’t this apostle that Jesus loves the depository of the Church of the eternal and only regal priesthood of Jesus?  So, the regal priesthood remains, in John, which will remain until the return of Jesus, since this priesthood is the base and the foundation of the ministerial priesthood and as such it is necessary for it.  During the time of the Redemption then, the regal priesthood is not practiced in the church, but it yields its place to the practice of the ministerial priesthood, but is hidden in it in order to nourish it.

 

            Doesn’t it seem right that the ministerial priesthood give its place to the one that has wanted to nourish it, causing it to be resplendent as life in the Church and as life in all creatures?

 

            In the Old Testament, God gave off a semblance of the regal priesthood (Rom 8:5) and therefore through Moses, he said to the people:  “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests” (Ex 19:6); that is a consecrated people from among all people, and from this people he chose one of the twelve tribes of Israel, the Tribe of Levi, to make of it a priesthood that would attend to the rituals of the Temple and to teach the laws and the rules to the people.

 

            Arriving to the New Testament, from a few, God made a new people that with grace and the truth of the Gospel, is not only a semblance of the regal priesthood but also a reflection of it:  “and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:5)  Then from the people he chose twelve, as apostles, consecrating them as ministerial priests, so that they would continue, they and their successors, to give the goods of the Redemption to the Church until its end is mandated.

 

            Finally, to the priesthood of the first two, the ritual and the ministerial one, the fulfillment will be given by means of the third, that is the regal priesthood, during the time of the diffusion of the New Testament of Love, that is the “new Gospel of the Kingdom” (Vol. 24, August 23, 1928); this is the time of the “first resurrection” of those that on whom “the second death has no power over these; they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.” (Apoc 20:6).

 

            Of this triple priesthood Jesus speaks of it in the Volumes:  “…and as I had the first priesthood upon my coming in order to prepare the people, then the priesthood of my church in order to confirm my coming and everything that I said and did, likewise, I will have the priesthood of the Kingdom of My Will” (volume 23, January 18, 1928).  The third priesthood has been hidden in the second to nourish it for many centuries; now the second is called to give the first place to the third, the priesthood of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, that is the regal priesthood.  Peter is invited to consign the keys to John that has been waiting for them for 2000 years with the return of our Lord. (John 21:22)..

 

The Keys

 

            What are the keys good for?  To enter.  Without keys, you remain outside.  And see that it isn’t just any key, no; every door has its key.  In the Redemption Jesus opened the doors of heaven and has prepared everything until one day, our human will, crucified with that of Jesus’ can rise in the Will of God, allowing us to pass from the cross of wood to the cross of light, in order to enter into the Kingdom of God upon the Earth.  This, he has done with a key that the Father has placed upon his shoulders, the cross:  “I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder;” (Is 22:22).  Jesus has carried this cross for the duration of his earthly life, by keeping his human will sacrificed in the Will of the Father and from the Will of the Father.

 

            So then, if the door of heaven was opened by Jesus, the New Adam, with the key of his cross, by whom was it closed?  By Adam.  How?  With the key of his human will, by having refused to keep it sacrificed at the time of the test of keeping it sacrificed in love offering as homage to God.  That same key of the human will acting outside the divine, while it closes the key of heaven, it opens the door of the abyss, while enslaving man to sin gives to the tyrant of hell freedom and dominion over man.

 

The Keys of Peter

 

            “I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.  Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matt 16:19)  The Gospel recounts how sometimes Peter has momentarily lost these keys.  For example, when he counseled Jesus about going to Jerusalem to die:  “God forbid, Lord!  No such thing shall ever happen to you.”  He turned and said to Peter:   “Get behind me, Satan!  You are an obstacle to me.  You are thinking not as God does, but as human being do.”  Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” (Matt 16:22-24).

 

            Before the scandal of the cross, Peter is still very weak in faith and allows the keys to fall from his hands, denying Jesus:  “I do not know him” (Luke 22:57).  But Jesus beseeches the Father for all the graces necessary to strengthen and sustain Peter’s faith in view of his election as the head of the Church:  “Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith many not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” (Luke 22:31-33)  After mending his ways, Peter confirms his brothers in the faith, and with word and example, and above all with his life he will confirm them with his crucifixion and death.  In this way, with the key of the crucifixion, turned with his death on the cross, for his union with Jesus, Peter opens the door of the kingdom of heaven to every member of the Church so that each one will not lose his own key, the meaning of living and dying united to Jesus crucified.  Peter, then with his death on the cross, he obtains the passage of the keys of the kingdom to all his successors, throughout the centuries, until the return of Jesus when the last Peter will consign the keys to John, who will receive them in order for the regal priesthood of Jesus from his hidden life so that it can be manifested as life of the Church and of all souls.

 

            The power of the keys that is the power to govern the Universal Church of Christ is linked directly to the operating faith of Peter crucified.  If his union with Christ was less than what he lived in charity through faith, the power of the keys would be annulled, while it is on the cross where it confirmed.  It is certainly Jesus’ effective prayer that strengthens and sustains the faith of Peter as the indefectable head of the Church, nevertheless it doesn’t exempt him from freely corresponding to the grace of the office entrusted to him.  Then it will be up to Peter to confirm his brothers in the faith of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.

 

The Divine Will: Keys and Cross of Light

 

            To conclude, I state two brief extracts of Volume 11, wanting to communicate the way, the truth, and the love that is contained in it.  The first regards Jesus and Luisa:  Jesus gives to Luisa the cross of the light of his Will, in order to suffer together with it for the good of all creatures.  The second is a light of love that invites each creature to call the Divine Will for the total crucifixion with as many nails for as many acts of the Divine Will that God disposes.

 

1.      “You and I in these sad times will pass a time that is painful; things will get worse.  But you must know that if I remove the cross of wood, I give you the cross of My Will that does not have height or width, but it is interminable.  A more noble cross I cannot give to you; it is not one of wood but of light, and in this light, which scorches more than any fire, we will suffer together in each creature and in their agony and torture, and we will try and be the life of everyone.” (Volume 11, June 17, 1915).

 

2.      The cross sanctifies, crucifies part of the person, but my Will does not spare anything.  It sanctifies everything, and it crucifies the thoughts, desires, will, affections, heart, everything.  And, my Will being light, makes the soul see the necessity of this sanctification and complete crucifixion, in such a way that the soul itself incites me to want to accomplish the work of my Will upon it.  Therefore, the cross and the other virtues, because they have something, they content themselves and, if they are able to crucify the creature with three nails, they boast of triumph.  Instead, my Will, not knowing how to do incomplete works, does not content Itself with three nails, but with as many nails as my Will disposes upon creatures." (Volume 11, November 18, 1913).

 

The human will acting outside the Divine Will opens the door to hell; the human will crucified in and by the Will of God closes and seals the door of hell. (Apoc 20:1).  Therefore, nails of light that crucify the human will in every part are as many keys that will seal the doors to hell.  The human will crucified in everything rises in the Glorious Cross, which is the key that opens the door of the Kingdom of the Divine Will on earth.  The Church, when it is crucified in its members will be become one only thing with the cross, and therefore it will itself become the key.

 

            In conclusion, a last observation: the image of the Church, always, but more than ever in this actual moment, a solemn and grave moment is this: the cross suspended between heaven and earth.  It is a difficult passage, a difficult wait, but for the faith of the true faithful, consecrated in the operating faith of Mary, the Sorrowful Mother of the Church, soon will be seen the awaited Resurrection of it: Holy Church, no longer wounded, weak, and thrusted, but as a Spouse of Christ, one, pure, holy, and immaculate!  My Church, My Spouse, come with me upon the Glorious Cross of My Will!

Fr. Gary, SDW