Them bones, Them bones, Them dry bones, now hear the word of the Lord

The imagery of the Valley of dry bones in the book of Ezekiel is both dramatic and haunting.  Like most things from God there are many different levels of meaning.  There is the most direct one which speaks of the house of Israel and how even though they seemingly were dead and unable to rise God would restore them to life and to their land making of them a mighty nation.  It is also interpreted by many as the promise of the resurrection and of eternal life for the saints.  But there is another interpretation relevant to our days and the Kingdom of the Divine Will which deals with the Mystical Body of Christ.

There is a passage in the Volumes, Vol. 13, Jan. 11, 1922 where Luisa asks the Lord, "All the children of the Church are members of the Mystical Body, of which Jesus is the Head.  What place will the souls who do the Will of God occupy in this Mystical Body?"  We'll get to that in a bit but first I'd like to examine this valley of bones and their rebirth in view of the Mystical Body of Christ, his Church and Bride.

Now following the fall of Adam and Eve in God's eyes, man was dead, dead to the life of the Divine Will and thereby the Divine Life that they were originally gifted with.  Each act that was before animated by a Divine Will and therefore became a Divine Life was dead.  That's a lot of dry bones.  This is the state of man, a valley full of dead, dried out bones, impossible to revive by any natural means.  Even though man might be appear alive and walking and moving, before God he was as dead.  But God will not be frustrated in his plans and through the prophet Ezekiel he outlined his plan to deal with his creature slain by original sin.

 

 

 

The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ² He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. ³ He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” ⁴ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵ Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ⁶ I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

⁷ So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” ¹⁰ I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.

¹¹ Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ ¹² Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. ¹³ And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. ¹⁴ I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.”

Ezekiel 37: 1-23

 

 All the members of the people of God are members of the Mystical Body of God.  Each of us have gifts to contribute but there is also an evolution which God has been unveiling over the ages in his people, revealing, preparing, building on in order to obtain his final goal; a whole, complete, healthy, beautiful, sanctified Bride.  One can see this progression in the prophecy of Ezekiel.  First the bones come together and form the frame, they are connected and held firm by the tendons and ligaments, they take on the ability to move with the muscles and become covered with skin beautifying them and completing their physical appearance.  This can be also be seen in the progression of the people of God.  Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses, the Patriarchs, formed the bones, the structure of the Church. Those that followed, Joshua, the prophets, the Judges, David and all who lived their lives by the law of God and the examples of their forefathers held this structure together forming the sinews which hold the bones together.  And then there are the muscles of the Church, the Apostles, all the Saints reaching out extending the motion and function of the Church of the Mystical Body.   The last step in rebuilding this physical body is the skin to cover and complete.  And here is how Jesus answered Luisa's question.

 

Finding myself in my usual state, I was thinking about the Holy Divine Will, and I said to myself:  ‘All the children of the Church are members of the Mystical Body, of which Jesus is the Head.  What place will the souls who do the Will of God occupy in this Mystical Body?’  And Jesus, always benign, on coming, told me:

“My daughter, the Church is my Mystical Body, of which I glory in being the Head.  But in order to enter this Mystical Body, the members must grow to a proper stature, otherwise they would deform my Body.  But alas! how many not only do not have the due proportion, but are rotten, wounded - so much as to be disgusting to my Head and to the other healthy members.  Now, the souls who live, or will live in my Will, will be for the Body of my Church like skin to the body.  The body has internal skin and external skin, and because in the skin there is the blood circulation which gives life to the whole body, it is by virtue of this circulation that the members reach the proper stature.  If it wasn’t for the skin and for the blood circulation, the human body would be horrid to the sight, and its members would not grow to due proportion.

“Now, see how these souls who live in my Will are necessary to Me.  Since I have destined them to be like skin to the body of my Church, and like circulation of life for all the members, they will be the ones who will give the proper growth to the members which have not grown; who will heal the wounded members, and who will restore the freshness, the beauty, the splendor of the whole Mystical Body by their continuous living in my Will, rendering it fully similar to my Head, which will sit in full majesty upon all these members.  This is why the end of days cannot come if I do not have these souls who live as though dissolved in my Will - they interest Me more than anything.  What impression would this Mystical Body make in the Celestial Jerusalem without them?  And if this is what interests Me more than anything, it must interest you also more than anything, if you love Me.  From now on, I will give to your acts done in my Will the virtue of circulation of life for the whole Mystical Body of the Church.  Just like the blood circulation in the human body, your acts, extended within the immensity of my Will, will extend over all and will cover these members like skin, giving them proper growth.  Therefore, be attentive and faithful.”

Vol. 13, January 11, 1922


So the children of the Divine Will will act as skin to the body of the Church.  And what functions does the skin serve to a body?  Skin is the largest organ of the body and protects the body from outside invaders acting a the defense.  It helps regulate water balance and warms the internal organs as well protecting from temperature changes.  And the skin beautifies as well the creature to the eyes and touch.  Internally the skin makes up the blood vessels to transport the life giving blood throughout the body, over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in each one of us.  And although the skin is not the blood, without it the blood could not circulate, could not carry it's oxygen throughout, could not dispose of the waste products, could not circulate it's immune cells throughout acting as healing, protecting and fighting off invaders.  So too the children of the Divine Will are not the Divine Life but they transport the Divine Life throughout the Mystical Body through their acts done in the Divine Will.  This is the last epoch in the ages to complete the physical appearance of the Mystical Body.  Which will bring about the needed healing, restoration, function and proper growth to all the members of the Bride of Christ, the Mystical Body.  But in Ezekiel this is not the end still there is needed the breath of God to once again bring his creature back to life, Divine Life as he originally intended.
  

I still would like to go over the Breath of God and the three prophetic words which were spoken in Ezekiel's vision needed to fully restore man but that will have to wait for another blog.  I'd like to leave this with a clearer picture of just how the creature appears before God and the tremendous folly of the love of God to which he will go in order to save, redeem and sanctify his creature in order to bring him back to himself in full health and Divine Life.

“My beloved daughter, look well at Me, that you may know my pains in depth.  My Body is the true portrait of the man who commits sin.  Sin strips him of the garments of my grace; and I let Myself be stripped of my garments so as to give grace back to him once again.  Sin deforms him, and while he is the most beautiful creature that came out of my hands, he becomes the ugliest one - disgusting and repugnant.  I was the most beautiful of men, and I can say that, in order to give beauty back to man, my Humanity took on the ugliest form.  Look at Me - how horrid I am.  I let my skin be torn off by dint of lashes, to the point that I could no longer recognize Myself.  Not only does sin take beauty away, but it forms deep wounds, rotten and gangrenous, which corrode the most intimate parts; they consume his vital humors, so everything he does are dead - skeletal works.  They snatch from him the nobility of his origin, the light of his reason - and he becomes blind.  And I, in order to fill the depth of his wounds, let my Flesh be torn to shreds; I reduced all of Myself to a wound, and by shedding my Blood in rivers, I made the vital humors flow in his soul, so as to give life back to him once again.  Ah! Had I not had the fount of the life of my Divinity within Me, which, since my Humanity died at each pain they gave Me, substituted for my life - I would have died from the very beginning of my Passion.

“Now, my pains, my Blood, my Flesh which fell off in shreds, are always in the act of giving life to man; but man rejects my Blood so as not to receive life; he tramples upon my Flesh so as to remain wounded.  Oh, how I feel the weight of ingratitude!”  And throwing Himself into my arms, Jesus burst into tears.  I clasped Him to my heart, but He was crying strongly.  What torment, to see Jesus crying!  I would have wanted to suffer any pain so that He would not cry.  So I compassionated Him, I kissed His wounds, I dried His tears; and He, as though cheered, added:  “Do you know how I act?  I act like a father who loves his son very much.  This son is blind, deformed, crippled; and his father who loves him to folly - what does he do?  He plucks out his own eyes; he tears off his own legs, tears his own skin off, and gives everything to his son, saying:  ‘I am happier to remain blind, crippled, deformed myself, as long as I see that you, my son, can see, can walk, and are beautiful.’  Oh! how happy is that father, in seeing his son look with his eyes, walk with his legs, and covered with his beauty.  But what would the sorrow of the father be, if he saw his son, ungrateful, throwing away his eyes, legs and skin, contenting himself with remaining ugly as he is?  So I am:  I took care of everything, but men, ungrateful, form my most bitter sorrow.”

Vol. 14, February 9, 1922

The greatness of Mary

With the new year and the solemnity of Mary the mother of God I wanted to spend some time looking at some of the readings in the volumes which expound on Mary and her unique role.

On the great sacrifice made by Mary to live continuously in the Divine Will

“But the one who surpasses all is my Celestial Mama.  She is the new heaven, the most refulgent sun, the brightest moon, the most flowery earth; She encloses everything – everything within Herself.  If each created thing encloses the fullness of its own good received by God, my Mama encloses all goods together, because, since She is endowed with reason and my Will lived wholly in Her, the fullness of grace, of light, of sanctity, grew in every instant.  Every act She did was suns and stars that my Will formed in Her.  So, She surpassed the whole Creation; and my Will, whole and permanent in Her, did the greatest thing and impetrated the longed for Redeemer.  This is why my Mama is Queen in the midst of Creation - because She surpassed everything, and my Will found in Her the nourishment of Her reason, which made It live as whole and permanent in Her.  There was highest accord, they held each other’s hand, there was not one fiber of Her Heart, or word or thought, over which my Will did not possess Its Life.  And what can a Divine Will not do?  It can do everything.  There is no power It lacks, or thing It cannot do.  Therefore it can be said that my Mama did everything; and everything that all others together could not do, nor will be able to do, She did by Herself.

“Therefore, do not be surprised if I point out to you the Creation and the Sovereign Queen, because I must point out to you the most perfect examples in which my Will has perennial life, and has never found an obstacle to Its field of divine action, in order to be able to operate things worthy of Itself.  My daughter, if you want my Supreme Fiat to reign as It does in Heaven – which is the greatest thing that is left for Us to do for the human generations – let my Will have the place of sovereign in you, and live as whole and permanent.  Do not be concerned about anything else, be it your incapacity, or the circumstances, or the new things which may arise around you, because as my Will reigns in you, they will serve as raw material and nourishment so that my Fiat may have Its fulfillment.”

 

Afterwards, I was thinking to myself:  ‘It is true that my Queen Mama made the greatest of sacrifices, which no one else has made - that is, not even wanting to know Her own will, but only that of God; and through this She embraced all sorrows, all pains, up to the heroism of sacrifice, sacrificing Her own Son in order to do the Supreme Will - but once She made this sacrifice, everything She suffered afterwards was the effect of Her first act.  Nor did She have to struggle as we do, in different circumstances, in unforeseen encounters, in unexpected losses… It is a constant struggle, to the point of making our hearts bleed for fear that we might surrender to our own belligerent human wills.  How much attention one must have, so that the Supreme Will may always keep Its place of honor and Its supremacy over everything; and many times this struggle is harsher than the pain itself.’

But while I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus moved in my interior, telling me:

 

     “My daughter, you are wrong.  The maximum sacrifice of my Mama was not only one, but they were so great and so many - for as many as were the sorrows, the pains, the circumstances and the encounters to which Her existence and Mine were exposed.  Pains were always doubled in Her, because my pains were Hers - more than Her own pains.  Besides, my wisdom did not change direction with my Mama; in each pain She was to receive, I always asked Her whether She wanted to accept it, in order to hear that ‘Fiat’ being repeated to Me in each pain, in each circumstance, and even in each heartbeat of Hers.  That ‘Fiat’ resounded so sweet, gentle and harmonious to Me, that I wanted to hear It being repeated in every instant of Her life.  This is why I would always ask Her:  ‘Mama, do you want to do this?  Do you want to suffer this pain?’  And my Fiat would bring Her the seas of the goods It contains, and would make Her understand the intensity of the pain She was accepting.  This understanding, through divine light, of that which, step by step, She was to suffer, gave Her such martyrdom as to infinitely surpass the struggle which creatures suffer.  In fact, since the seed of sin was missing in Her, the seed of the struggle was missing, and so my Will had to find another device, that She might not be inferior to the other creatures in suffering, because, having to acquire by justice the right of Queen of Sorrows, She was to surpass in suffering all creatures together.

“How many times have you yourself not experienced this – that while you felt no struggle within you, as my Will would make you understand the pains It inflicted upon you, you would remain petrified by the intensity of the pain; and while you were undone in that pain, you were the tiny little lamb in my arms, ready to accept yet more pains to which my Will would want you to be submitted.  Ah, did you not suffer more than in the struggle itself?  The struggle is a sign of vehement passions, while my Will, if It brings suffering, gives intrepidness; and with the knowledge of the intensity of the pain, It gives one such merit that only a Divine Will can give.  Therefore, just as I act with you – that in everything I want from you, first I ask you whether you want it, whether you accept it – so I did with my Mama.  This, so that the sacrifice may be always new, and may give Me the opportunity to converse with the creature, to be with her, and my Volition may have Its field of divine action in the human will.”

Vol 19, April 28, 1926

The greatest works of God are often surrounded and veiled by simplicity and commonness.  This next reading also tells of why the devil has so often persecuted women in general throughout time and it goes into how although Luisa has been given a unique mission which places her beside Mary it does not make her equal to Mary.

“My daughter, my love didn’t extinguish itself because of the fall of man, but caught fire more, and although justly my justice punished him and condemned him, my love kissing my Justice, without time interfering in the midst, promised the future Redeemer and said to the deceiving serpent, with the empire of my power:  ‘You made use of a woman in order snatch away man from my Divine Will, and I through means of another woman, who will hold in her power the power of my Fiat, will demolish your pride, and with her immaculate foot she will crush your head.’  These words burned the infernal serpent more than hell itself, and enclosed so much anger in his heart, that he could not be stopped more; he did none other than to turn and to return the earth, in order to discover She who should crush his head, not in order to make her crushed, but in order to be able with his infernal arts, with his diabolic astuteness, to make fall, She who should defeat him, weaken him and tie him in the dark abysses.  Hence for four thousand years he went always turning, and when he saw women more virtuous and good he armed his battle, he tried them in all ways, and then he left them, when he assured himself through means of some weakness or defect that it was not through Her means by which he should be defeated, and he followed his turn.  Whence the Celestial Creature in fact came, who crushed his head, and the enemy felt such power in Her, that it knocked him down and he didn’t have the strength to draw near; this gnawed him with anger, and he put forth all his infernal weapons in order to combat her, but what!  He went in order to draw near, he felt himself weaken, the legs break and he was constrained to turn back, and from afar he spied her admirable virtues, her power and sanctity; and I in order to confound him and to put him in doubt made him see the Celestial Sovereign Lady, her human things, as she was taking food, crying, sleeping, and other, and he persuaded himself that it was not She, because being such a powerful and holy person she should not be subject to the natural needs of life, but then he returned to doubt and he wanted to return to the assault, but in vain.  My Will is power that weakens all the evils and all the infernal powers, he is light that makes himself known by everyone, and where He reigns he makes his power felt, that even to the demons themselves does it become (impossible) to refuse to acknowledge.  Hence the Queen of Heaven was and is the terror of all hell.  Now the infernal serpent feels over his head my rapid word told to him in Eden, my irrevocable condemnation that a woman will crush his head; hence he knows that with his head being crushed his kingdom on earth will be overthrown, he will lose his prestige, and all the evil that he did in Eden through means of one woman, will be redone by another woman, and although the Queen of Heaven weakened him, crushed his head, and I myself tied him to the cross, hence he is free no more to do that which he wants, but some unfortunately he approaches making fools of them.  More so that he sees that the human will is not subjugated by the Divine and His reign is not yet formed, he fears that another woman has to finish burning the temples, in order to make that the divine condemnation he has on his head crushed by the foot of the Immaculate Queen (has) its completion, because he knows that when I speak, my word has the communicative virtue to the other creatures.  Hence as he was made certain that She whom he feared was the Most Holy Virgin, and not being able to combat her more, he resumed his round, he is all eyes and as on the look-out in order to see if another woman might have the assignment from God to make the Divine Will known in order to make him reign, and having seen you write so much on my Fiat, only the doubt that this might be (and) he has aroused all of hell against you, behold the reason for all that which you have suffered, making use of wicked men, making them invent calumnies and things that don’t exist.  Whence in seeing you cry so much, [the demons] are persuaded that you are not that one who they fear so much who is able bring to ruin their diabolic kingdom.  This is that which regards the Queen of Heaven on the part of the infernal serpent, now I want to tell you that  which regards the part of creatures to the advantage of him.

“My daughter, the Celestial creature was poor, her natural dowries apparently were common, nothing of the extraordinary appeared in the exterior She takes for bridegroom a poor artisan who earns his daily bread with his modest work.  Suppose that it might be known, beforehand that she was Mother of the Word, that it was She, from the great ones of the world, from the doctors and Priests, that she was the Mother of the future Messiah, they would have made a tireless war, no one would have believed her, they would have said:  ‘Possible that there have not been and there are women in Israel, that it should be this poor one the Mother of the Eternal Word?  There has been a Judith, an Ester and so many others.’  Hence no one would have believed, and they would have put forth doubts and difficulties without number, if they put forth doubts on my Divine Person, to not believe me that I was the longed for Messiah, and many arrive to still not believe me that I descended upon the earth in spite that I did many miracles as to induce the most incredulous to believe me, ah! when (there) enters in hearts the hardness, the obstinacy, it renders them incapable to receive any good; the truths, the miracles themselves are for them as dead and without life.  Hence much more so the Celestial Mama, that nothing of miraculous was seen in her exterior.

“Now, my daughter, listen to me, the serious doubts, the gravest difficulties that they have found in your writings are really these, that I have said to you: that I called you to live in the Kingdom of my Divine Will, giving you the special and unique mission to make him known, so that as I myself said in the Pater Noster and the Holy Church still says it:  ‘Your kingdom come, that is that your Will be done as in Heaven so in earth’, it doesn’t say in the Pater that this kingdom is upon the earth, but it says come, and I would not have composed a prayer if it should not have the effects of it.  Hence in order to arrive to this, shouldn’t I elect another woman, that the infernal serpent fears so much, and that through means of the first woman ruined for me the human generation, and I in order to confound him I make use of the woman in order to re-do for me his ruin and to make good arise to everyone that he sought to destroy?  Behold therefore the necessity of the preparations, of the graces, of my visits and communications.

“This has sounded badly to one who has read, hence doubts and difficulties, that it can not be possible that [of] so many other great Saints not one has lived in the Kingdom of my Will, so that it is she alone that he prefers to everyone; and when they have read that I put you next to the Sovereign Queen, because she having lived in the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat you could imitate her, wanting to make of you a copy that resembles her, and I put you in her hands so that she might guide you, assist you, protect you, so that you might be able to imitate her in everything, it seemed to them so much absurdity, and sinisterly misunderstanding the sense they have said as if you might have said (that) you might be another Queen; how many blunders!  I have not said that you are like the Celestial Queen, but that I want you similar to Her, as I have said to so many other souls dear to me that I wanted them similar to me, but with this they didn’t become God like me, and then being the Celestial Lady the true Queen of the Kingdom of my Will, it is her completion to help and to teach the fortunate creatures who want to enter to live in Him.  [With] this they make seen as if I might not have the power to elect whom I want and when I want; but of the rest time will say everything, and as they can not refuse to acknowledge that the Virgin of Nazareth is my Mama, thus they can not refuse to acknowledge that I have elected you for the unique purpose to make my Will known and that through your means I will use it so that the ‘Your kingdom come’ has its completion.  It is certain that creatures are instruments in my hands and I don’t look at who it is, but I look at if my Divine Will has decided to work through means of this instrument, and this is enough for me in order to complete my highest designs, and of the doubts and difficulties of creatures I make use of it in his time in order to confound them and to humiliate them, but I don’t stop and I go ahead in the work that I want to do through means of the creature.  Therefore you also follow me and do not step backwards.  Of the rest one sees from the way of their thinking that they have calculated only your person, but they have not calculated that which my Divine Will can do and that which he knows how to do, and when he decides to work in a creature in order to complete his greatest designs in the midst of the human generations, laws are not dictated by anyone, nor who one should be, nor the time, nor the way, nor the place, but in an absolute way he acts; nor does he take account of certain small minds that don’t know how to elevate themselves into the divine and supernatural order nor bow before the incomprehensible works of their Creator, and while they want to reason with their human reason, they lose the divine reason, and they remain confused and incredulous.”

Vol. 29, May 19, 1931

Happy New Year.

mountains and valleys

In today's Sunday readings in the mass I seemed to be drawn to those passages on preparing the way of the Lord.  It seemed to me to be focusing on preparation of the soul to receive the crowning glory of the sanctifying act of God of living in the Divine Will.

Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height and look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.  ⁶ For they went forth from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne.  ⁷ For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.  ⁸ The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command.  ⁹ For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.

Baruch 5:5-9

⁴As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ⁵Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
Lk 3:4-5

Leveling the earth preparing for the building of the new creation, the new Jerusalem.

¹¹ I am coming soon; hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. ¹² He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.¹³ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Revelation 3:11-13

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
Revelation 21:1-3

So much preparation to prepare man for the return to the purpose of his creation, that of living in the Divine Will.  The Redemption and the Sacraments, remedies, medicines to heal and to dispose the creature to the point of resignation to his Will.  The first stepping stone to the doorway of living in his Will.

"But even though the first purpose was to balance all the accounts of my Divine Will, as Celestial Doctor I complied with giving medicines, remedies, I spoke about forgiveness, about detachment, I instituted Sacraments, I suffered atrocious pains, even unto death. It can be said that this was the new creation I prepared so that creatures might receive my Divine Will as King in the midst of His people, in order to let It reign. So I have done with you; first I prepared you, I spoke to you about crosses, about virtues, about love, to dispose you to listen to the lessons of my Fiat, so that, by knowing It, you would love It, and feeling within yourself the great good of Its Life, you would want to give Its Life to all, making It known, loved, and letting It reign.”
Vol. 27, Nov 20, 1929

 

"When I came upon earth, man was so engulfed in evil and so full of human will, that the living in my Will could find no place. So, in my Redemption, first I impetrated for him the grace of resignation to my Will, because in the state he was in, he was incapable of receiving the greatest gift – the living in my Will. And then I impetrated for him the greatest grace, as crown and fulfillment of all graces – the living in my Will,..."

Vol. 16, Feb 22, 1924

Each point in our history has been a stepping stone a preparation to the repossession of his Kingdom, of securing it so that it will never be breached again, both our home and His.
 

"...establishing my Kingdom in the soul also on earth - I acted like a king who has to take possession of a kingdom.  He does not go there first; rather, first he has his royal palace prepared; then he sends his soldiers to prepare the kingdom and to dispose the peoples to his subjection; then follow the guards of honor and the ministers – and the last one is the king.  This is decorous for a king.  So I did:  I had my Royal Palace prepared, which is the Church; the soldiers have been the Saints, in order to make Me known to the peoples; then came the Saints who sowed miracles, as my most intimate ministers; and now I Myself come to reign as the King."

Vol. 13, Dec. 3, 1921