Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2013

The Third Rewnal

In the previous post it talked about how the heroes of the Old Testament mirrored specific virtues of God and how the Saints of the new Testament had to copy his Humanity, but now Jesus has said he wants to go further and create the Saints of the living in his Will.  The workings of God, in these people, will surpass the Saints that have gone before and they will be the symbol of his Resurrection.  Living in his Will will bring true peace and joy that which was not even enjoyed by those who were with Jesus while he was on earth.  
 





Major things are done after minor ones, and are the fulfillment and crowning of those.  The resurrected Humanity of Jesus, symbol of  those who will live in the Divine Will.
 

I was fusing myself in the Holy Will of my always lovable Jesus, and together with my Jesus, my intelligence was wandering in the work of Creation, adoring and thanking the Supreme Majesty for everything and for everyone.  And my Jesus, all affability, told me: 

“My daughter, in creating the heavens, first I created the stars as minor spheres, and then I created the sun, major sphere, endowing it with such light as to eclipse all the stars, as though hiding them within itself, constituting it king of the stars and of all nature.  It is my usual way to do minor things first, as preparation for major ones, and these, as crowning of the minor things.  The sun, while being my relater, also veils the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will; the Saints who lived in the mirror of my Humanity and as though in the shadow of my Will, will be the stars; the former souls, though later in time, will be the suns. 
“I maintained this order also in Redemption.  My birth was without clamor; on the contrary, it was neglected; my childhood was without splendor of great things before men; my life in Nazareth was so hidden that I lived as if ignored by all; I adapted Myself to do the littlest and most common things of the human life.  During my public life there were a few things that were great; but, still, who knew my Divinity?  No one, not even all the Apostles.  I passed through the crowds like any other man; so much so, that anyone could come close to Me, talk to Me, and if needed, even despise Me.” 

And I, interrupting the speaking of Jesus, said:  ‘Jesus, my Love, how happy those times were, and happier those people who, by just wanting it, could come close to You, talk to You, and be with You.’ 

And Jesus:  “Ah! my daughter, only my Will brings true happiness.  It alone encloses all goods in the soul, and making Itself crown around the soul, It constitutes her queen of true happiness.  Only these souls will be the queens of my throne, because they are a birth from my Will.  This is so true, that those people were not happy; many saw Me, but did not know Me, because my Will did not reside within them as center of life.  Therefore, even if they saw Me, they remained unhappy; and only those who received the good of receiving the seed of my Will in their hearts disposed themselves to receive the good of seeing Me resurrected.
“Now, the portent of my Redemption was the Resurrection, which, more than refulgent sun, crowned my Humanity, making even my littlest acts shine, with such splendor and marvel as to make Heaven and earth to be astonished; It will be the beginning, the foundation and the fulfillment of all goods - crown and glory of all the Blessed.  My Resurrection is the true Sun, which worthily glorifies my Humanity; It is the Sun of the Catholic Religion; It is the glory of every Christian.  Without the Resurrection, it would have been as though heavens without sun, without heat and without life.
“Now, my Resurrection is symbol of the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will.  The Saints of these past centuries are symbols of my Humanity; although resigned, they did not have continuous attitude in my Will, therefore they did not receive the mark of the Sun of my Resurrection, but the mark of the works of my Humanity before my Resurrection.  Therefore, they will be many; almost like stars, they will form for Me a beautiful ornament to the Heaven of my Humanity.  But the Saints of the living in my Will, who will symbolize my resurrected Humanity, will be few.  In fact, many throngs and crowds of people saw my Humanity before Its death, but few saw my resurrected Humanity - only the believers, those who were most disposed and, I could say, only those who contained the seed of my Will.  In fact, if they did not have it, they would have lacked the necessary sight to be able to see my resurrected and glorious Humanity, and therefore be spectators of my ascent into Heaven.
“Now, if my Resurrection symbolizes the Saints of the living in my Will - and this, with reason, because each act, word, step, etc. done in my Will is a divine resurrection that the soul receives; it is a mark of glory that she undergoes; it is to go out of herself in order to enter the Divinity, and to hide within the refulgent Sun of my Volition; and in It she loves, works, thinks - what is the wonder if the soul remains fully risen and identified with the very Sun of my glory, and symbolizes my resurrected Humanity?  But few are those who dispose themselves to this, because souls, even in sanctity, want something of their own good; while the Sanctity of living in my Will has nothing – nothing of its own, but everything is of God; and in order for souls to dispose themselves to this, to stripping themselves of their own goods, it takes too much.  Therefore, they will not be many.  You are not in the number of the many, but of the few; therefore be always attentive to the call, and to your continuous flight.”
Vol. 12, April 15, 1919
 



This Sanctity will be immune from self interest as it will originate from God's Will and man's will bow before it.  They will be necessary in the dark times to come so that there will be a way for Jesus to pour out his love and grace to creatures without being limited or frustrated by man's will frustrating Jesus' work.

 
“This was the sanctity of my Humanity on earth, and therefore It did everything, and for everyone, without a shadow of interest.  Self-interest takes away the mark of divine sanctity, therefore it can never be sun; at the most, as beautiful as it is, it can be a star.  This is why I want the sanctity of living in my Will in these times so sad - this generation needs these suns, which may warm it, illuminate it, fecundate it.  The disinterest of these terrestrial angels, all for the good of others, without a shadow of their own self, will open the way in their hearts to receive my grace.
“And then, churches are few and many will be destroyed; many times I find no priests who may consecrate Me; other times they allow unworthy souls to receive Me, and worthy souls not to receive Me; others are unable to receive Me; so, my love finds itself hindered.  This is why I want to make the sanctity of living in my Will; in them, I will have no need of priests for Me to be consecrated, nor churches, tabernacles or hosts; but they will be everything together:  priests, churches, tabernacles and hosts.  My love will be more free; anytime I want to consecrate Myself, I will be able to do it - in every moment, day and night, in whatever place they might be.  Oh! how my love will have its complete outpouring.  Ah! my daughter, the present generation deserved to be destroyed completely; and if I will allow a little something to be left of it, it is to form these suns of the sanctity of living in my Will, who, on my example, will repay 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 on earth as it is in Heaven’ will have its completion and fulfillment.”
Vol. 12, Nov. 27, 1917

 
 
Jesus states that this will be a renewal of the world and that this has occurred before.  Every two thousand years there has been a renewal of the world and this will make the third.  Before each renewal there has been a general confusion which is a preparation before the coming gift.  Now he is preparing the world for the gift of his Will.
 
 
 
 
“My beloved daughter, I want to make known to you the order of my Providence.  Every course of two thousand years I have renewed the world.  In the first two thousand years I renewed it with the Flood; in the second two thousand I renewed it with my coming upon earth, in which I manifested my Humanity, from which, as though from many fissures, my Divinity shone forth.  And the good and the very Saints of the following two thousand years have lived of the fruits of my Humanity, and, in drops, they have enjoyed my Divinity.  Now we are at the turn of the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal.  This is the reason for the general confusion - it is nothing other than the preparation for the third renewal; and if in the second renewal I manifested what my Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what the Divinity was operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth has been purged and the current generation destroyed for the most part, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what my Divinity did within my Humanity; how my Divine Will acted with my human will; how everything remained linked within Me; how I did and redid everything, and even one thought of each creature was redone by Me and sealed with my Divine Volition.  My love wants its outpouring, and wants to make known the excesses which my Divinity operated in my Humanity for the good of creatures, which surpass by far the excesses that my Humanity operated externally.  This is also why I often speak to you about the living in my Will, which I have not manifested to anyone until now.  At the most, they have known the shadow of my Will, the grace, the sweetness that doing It contains; but to penetrate inside of It, to embrace immensity, to multiply oneself with Me and penetrate everywhere, even while being on earth, both into Heaven and into the hearts, to lay down the human ways and act with the divine ways - this is not yet known; so much so, that not to a few will it appear strange, and those who do not keep their minds open to the light of truth will not understand a thing.  But I, little by little, will make my way, manifesting now one truth, now another, of this living in my Will, so that they will end up comprehending It. 
Vol. 12, Jan. 29, 1919



 

Friday, October 25, 2013

Heros of the Old Testament and Saints of the New; Foreshadowing

Each heroic figure in the Old Testament not only foreshadowed the coming Savior but each was a symbol of a gift that the Children of the Divine Will would possess altogether.



           “My daughter, while the greatest figures of the Old Testament were figures who foreshadowed the future Messiah, these figures together expressed the gifts and symbolized all the gifts which the children of the Supreme Fiat would possess.  At his creation Adam was the true and perfect image of the children of my Kingdom.  Abraham was a symbol of the privileges of heroism of the children of my Volition, and as I called Abraham to a promised land flowing with milk and honey, making him lord of that land which was so rich that all the other nations were envious and wanted it, it was all a symbol of that which I would have done for the children of my Will.  Jacob was another symbol of the children of My Will; it was from him that the twelve tribes of Israel would come forth, from which would be born for them the future Redeemer who would establish again the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat for My children.
            “Joseph was a symbol of the dominion that the children of My Will would have, and as he did not allow such a great number of people to perish from famine - including his ungrateful brothers - so the children of the Divine Fiat will have dominion and not allow the people who will ask for the bread of My Will to perish.  Moses was a figure of the power, Samson was a symbol of the strength, of the Children of My Will.  David symbolized their reign.  All the prophets symbolized the graces, communications, the intimate closeness with God which the children of the Divine Fiat would enjoy in greater abundance than the prophets.  Do you not see how these were nothing none other than symbols and images (of the children of My Will)?  How will it be when these symbols come to life?
             “After all these came the Celestial Lady, the Sovereign Empress, the Immaculate One, the Stainless One, My Mother.  That Mother of Mine was not a symbol nor an image, but the reality, the true life, the first privileged daughter of my Will.  I saw in the Queen of Heaven the generations of the children of My Kingdom.  She was the first incomparable creature to integrally possess the Life of the Supreme Volition; for this reason She merited to conceive the Eternal Word and mature in her Maternal Heart the generations of the children of the Eternal Fiat.  Then came My own Life in which the Kingdom that these fortunate children were to possess was established.  From all this you can understand how God, in all that He did from the beginning of the world - of all that He does and will do - His first principle has been and is to form the Kingdom of His Will among creatures.  This receives all Our attention, this is Our Will, and to these children all Our goods - Our prerogatives and Our likeness - will be given.  And if I call you to follow all the acts which My Will has done, as much in the creation of the universe - as in the generations of creatures - excluding neither that which My Celestial Mother did, nor that which I did in My own Life - it is to center within you all It’s acts, to make them a gift to you, so that, all together, the gifts which a Divine Will can posses may come forth from you.  In this way I will be able to form with decorum, honor, and glory the Kingdom of the Eternal Fiat.  So be attentive in following my Will.”
Vol. 21, April 8, 1927



They each submitted to the workings of the Divine Will and so some expressed strength, others heroism, wisdom, and so on.  But the Divine Will did not reign in any of them.  Everything since the fall of Adam has been in order to rebuild and dispose man to receive the knowledge of the Divine Will so that he might truly reign again in the midst of man.



“My daughter, there is no good which has not come out of my Divine Will, but there is a great difference between Its reigning in the creatures and the releasing of an act from within Itself, communicating it to creatures. As for example, with Abraham, It released an act of heroism, and I had the man heroic in the sacrifice; with Moses an act of power, and he was the prodigious man; with Samson an act of strength, and he was the strong man; to the Prophets It revealed what regarded the future Redeemer, and they were men prophets; and so with all the others who distinguished themselves as prodigious and of uncommon virtue. According to the act that my Divine Will released, and if they gave their adhesion and correspondence, so did they receive the good of Its act. However, this is not reigning, my daughter; nor does this form the Kingdom of my Will. In order to form It, it takes not just one act, but the continuous act which It possesses. This is what It wants to give to creatures in order to form Its Kingdom: Its continuous act of power, of happiness, of light, of sanctity, of unreachable beauty. What my Fiat is by nature, It wants to render creatures by virtue of Its continuous act, which contains all possible imaginable goods. Would you say that a king reigns only because he has made a law, or has given a good to his people? Certainly not. True reigning is to form the life of the peoples with all the laws, giving a decorous regime, befitting, upright and just for their lives, giving them all the necessary means so that nothing may be lacking for their good. In order to reign, the king should have his life in the midst of the peoples, and make his will and his goods one with them, in such a way that the king should form the life of the people, and the people the life of the king; otherwise, it is not true reigning. This is the reigning of my Will – to render Itself inseparable from the children of Its Kingdom, to give them everything It possesses to the point of overflowing, so as to have children happy and holy of Its very happiness and holiness.
Now, from this it can be seen how in spite of the so many prodigies which Saints, Prophets and Patriarchs have done, they have not formed my Kingdom in the midst of creatures, nor have they made known Its value, or the great good which my Will possesses, or what It can do and wants to give, and the purpose of Its Kingdom – because Its continuous act, Its permanent life, was missing in them. And therefore, not knowing It in depth, they occupied themselves with other things concerning my glory and their good, and they put my Will aside, waiting for a more favorable time, when the paternal goodness would please to first make known, and then to give, a good so great and a Kingdom so holy, which they would not even dream of. Therefore, be attentive, and continue your flight in the Divine Fiat.”
Vol. 23, Nov. 13, 1927



Jesus' way of working is to do the minor things first and the greatest last.  So he has done with all of the Saints of old.  For as great as they appear to us Jesus states that they will be a stars before suns.




“My daughter, in creating the heavens, first I created the stars as minor spheres, and then I created the sun, major sphere, endowing it with such light as to eclipse all the stars, as though hiding them within itself, constituting it king of the stars and of all nature.  It is my usual way to do minor things first, as preparation for major ones, and these, as crowning of the minor things.  The sun, while being my relater, also veils the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will; the Saints who lived in the mirror of my Humanity and as though in the shadow of my Will, will be the stars; the former souls, though later in time, will be the suns. 
Vol, 12, April 15, 1919




But even Luisa doubted that with all the miracles and power that was worked through the Patriarchs and later on in the Saints surely the Divine Will had life in these people.  Yet this was only a foreshadowing of what he has planned and Jesus calls it only the effects of his Will but not the fullness.
 
 



“My daughter, yet it is really true that until now no one has possessed the Kingdom of my Will or enjoyed all the fullness of the unity of the light It contains.  Had it been so, since it is the thing that interests Me the most, that glorifies Me the most and that, no less, will place all the divine rights in safety and will complete the work of Creation and Redemption - and not only this, but will bring to the creature the greatest good that can exist in Heaven and on earth - I would have acted in such a way as to make it known.  Just as I have made known the many virtues and wonders of my Saints, I would have made known the one who had possessed the Kingdom of my Will, which I hold so dear, so as to transmit It to others, by imitating the one who had possessed It.
“Now, the Saints of the Old Testament found themselves in the same condition as Adam:  a Divine Repairer was missing who, while rejoining the human will and the Divine, was to pay the debt of guilty man in a divine way.  However, both the ancient Saints and the modern ones have taken of my Will as much as they have known.  The very miracles they performed were particles of the power of my Will communicated to them.  So, all my Saints have lived, some in the shadow of my Will, some in the reflections of Its light, some submitted to Its power, some to the order of Its commands, because there is no sanctity without my Will.  But they have possessed of It the little they have known - no more, because only when a good is known, does one then long for it and arrives at possessing it.  No one can possess a good, a property, without knowing it; and suppose one did possess it without knowing it – that good is as though dead for him, because the life of knowledge is missing.
Vol. 19, July 1, 1926


Each saint has taken a part of Jesus Humanity.  That which we could see of his life here on earth had to have it's full expression in the saints but now he wants to go further.  He has had the full expression of the heroism and sacrifice of the Patriarchs whose hope brought forth the coming Redeemer and now he states that he has copied his Humanity and all his virtues in the Saints of the Redemption but now his love is overflowing again and he wants to go beyond this.




‘My Love, Jesus, how is it possible that after so many centuries of life of the Church, which put out so many Saints - and many of them have astonished Heaven and earth with their virtues and with the wonders they performed - they did not operate fully in the Divine Will so as to form this plane You are talking about?  Were You waiting just for me, the most unable, the most cattivella [bad little one] and ignorant one, in order to do this?  It seems just incredible.’  And Jesus:  “Listen, my daughter, my wisdom has means and ways which man ignores, such that he is obliged to lower his forehead and adore it in mute silence; and it is not up to him to dictate to Me the laws, whom I should choose and the appropriate time, which my goodness disposes.  Besides, first I had to form the Saints, who were to resemble Me and copy my Humanity in a more perfect way, as much as is possible for them; and this I have already done.  Now my goodness wants to go beyond, and wants to give in to greater excesses of love;
Vol. 14, Oct. 6, 1922


In all the sanctities of the past, one based on obedience, one on humility there has not been the fullness of the Divine Will and therefore there is waste of time and personal interest but this will not be the case with those who will live in the Divine Will.




"...In all sanctities there have always been Saints who, as the first, have started each kind of sanctity.  So, there was the Saint who started the sanctity of the penitent; another who started the sanctity of obedience; another of humility, and so with all other sanctities.  Now I want you to be the beginning of the sanctity of living in my Will.
“My daughter, all other sanctities are not exempt from waste of time and from personal interest.  As for example, a soul who lives attentive to obedience in everything:  there is much waste of time; her saying and re-saying continuously, distracts her from Me, and she mistakes the virtue for Me; and if she does not have the opportunity to take all the orders, she lives restless.  Another one suffers temptations – oh! how much waste of time.  She never tires of telling all her trials, and she mistakes the virtue of suffering for Me; and many times these sanctities end up in ruin.  But the sanctity of living in my Will is exempt from personal interest, from waste of time; there is no danger that they might mistake the virtue for Me, because I Myself am the living in my Will. 
Vol. 12, Nov. 27, 1917



Jesus states that the Sanctity of living in his Will is the Sanctity of sanctities, and that even the smallest one will "leave the other Saints behind."  But they will be hidden even though within them resides the power that allows others to work miracles.  He goes on to say that one who lives in the Divine Will contains the source from which the Saints of old have obtained their heroism, their strength, and patience and so on.




“My daughter, my Will is the Sanctity of sanctities.  The soul who does my Will, however small, ignorant, unknown, leaves the other Saints behind in spite of their prodigies, sensational conversions and miracles.  Rather, in comparison, the souls who do my Will are queens, and it is as if all the others were at their service.
“It seems that the souls who do my Will do nothing, while they do everything, because, being in my Will, they act in a divine manner, in a hidden and surprising way.  So, they are light that illuminates, they are winds that purify, they are fire that burns, they are miracles that make others do miracles.  Those who do miracles are channels; but in these souls resides the power.  Therefore, they are the foot of the missionary, the tongue of the preachers, the strength of the weak, the patience of the sick, the regime of the superiors, the obedience of the subjects, the tolerance of the slandered, the firmness in dangers, the heroism of the heroes, the courage of the martyrs, the sanctity in the saints, and so with all the rest.  Being in my Will, they concur with all the good that can exist both in Heaven and on earth.
Vol. 11, March 15, 1912



But the children of the Divine Will will not all be identical.  Each will be a unique expression of his Will.  Even as great as Jesus states the living in the Divine Will is, compared to the Saints of his Humanity, he still states that the creature can only take drops from God so each will be a unique expression of an attribute of God, some more of one some more of another.


 

I was thinking:  ‘If the creature had not withdrawn from the Supreme Will, one would be the sanctity, one the beauty, one the science, one the light, and there would be the same knowledge of our Creator for all.’  Now, while I was thinking of this, my beloved Jesus – and it seems to me that He Himself makes these thoughts, some doubts and difficulties, arise within my mind, in order to have the opportunity to speak to me and act as my Teacher – told me: 
 
“My daughter, you are wrong.  My wisdom would not adapt itself to forming only one sanctity, only one beauty, or to communicating only one science and the same knowledge of Me to everyone.  More so since, through highest accord between my Will and those of creatures, the Kingdom of my Will would have had free field of action.  Therefore, all would have been saints, but one distinct from the other – all beautiful, but varied, one more beautiful than the other.  And according to the sanctity of each one, I was to communicate a distinct science; and with this science, some would know one attribute of their Creator more, some another.  You must know that as much as We can give to the creature, she only takes the little drops of her Creator, so great is the distance between Creator and creatures; and We have always new and different things to give.
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“Now, my daughter, in the order of human nature also there will be some who will surpass the sky in sanctity and in beauty; some the sun, some the sea, some the flowery earth, some the height of the mountains, some the tiny little flower, some the little plant, and some the highest tree.  And even if man should withdraw from my Will, I will multiply the centuries so as to have, in the human nature, all the order and the multiplicity of created things and of their beauty - and to have it even surpassed in a more admirable and enchanting way.”
Vol. 19, May 15, 1926




But these children of the Divine Will will be the smallest and the most overlooked and beside Mary, Luisa was the smallest of them all.



“My daughter, it is my usual way to choose the most abject, unable, poor souls for my greatest works.  Even my Mama had nothing extraordinary in her exterior life; no miracles - not a sign that would distinguish Her from other women.  Her only distinction was perfect virtue, to which almost no one paid attention.  And if to other Saints I gave the distinction of miracles, and I adorned others with my wounds, to my Mama, nothing - nothing.  Yet, She was the portent of portents, the miracle of miracles, the true and perfect crucified - no one else like Her.
“I usually act like a master who has two servants.  One of them seems a herculean giant, good at everything; the other one is short, unable, and seems to be good at nothing - not an important service.  If the master keeps him, it is more for charity, and also for fun.  Now, having to send a million - a billion, to another town, what does he do?  He calls the little and incapable one, and entrusts the great sum to him, saying to himself:  ‘If I give it to the giant, all will fix their attention on him; thieves may attack him and rob him; and if he tries to defend himself with his herculean strength, he may be wounded.  I know that he is capable, but I want to spare him; I do not want to expose him to the obvious danger.  On the other hand, no one will pay attention to this little one, knowing him to be incapable; no one would think that I would entrust such an important sum to him; and so he will come back safe and sound.’  The poor incapable one is surprised that the master would trust him, when he could have used the giant, and all trembling and humble, he goes to deposit the great sum, with no one deigning to give him even a glance.  So, he returns safe and sound to his master, more trembling and humble than before.
           “So I do:  the greater the work I want to do, the more I choose abject, poor, ignorant souls, with no outward appearance which may expose them.  The abject state of the soul will serve as safe custody for my work.  The thieves of self-esteem and love of self will not pay attention to her, knowing her inability.  And she, humble and trembling, will carry out the office entrusted by Me, knowing that she has done nothing by herself, but that I did everything in her.”
Vol. 12, Jan. 17, 1921