Seat of Power and Authority

 

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February 22 is the feast of the Chair of St Peter.  We often reflex on this day how Jesus named Peter the rock, the foundation of His Church giving him authority of the keys of heaven as his representative.  This occurred before the huge rock in Caesarea Philippi where there is the source of the Jordon river flowing up from a spring from under the rock.  This site, also worshipped by pagans as the gates of hades with impressive temples built in front of it, would have been full of meaning for the Apostles.  Jesus was saying by coming to this site that where there is false worship now my true Church will stand.  It will not be overthrown by the devil but will bar the gates of Hades and from it will flow as protected, true and pure, the source of all good.  There are some nice shots of the area of Caesarea Philippi on this link.     

 

¹⁷ And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. ¹⁸ And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 16:17-19

 

 

It is this authority, this seat of power and command which has been passed down through each successive Pope in the Church, this promise of continuity and security by Jesus which we celebrate that we place our trust in our Mother the Church and in her authority.  Trusting that her doctrines and sacraments will guide us unfailingly to God our Father.  But there are also several points in the Volumes where Jesus talks about the seat of power, the cathedra or throne of the Divine Will.  It's true that God assigned this position to the Head of his Church in the Popes beginning with Peter.  But God is looking towards a different seat of Power for his Divine Will to reign the seat which he had before the fall and has always worked to reclaim.

 

 

 

 

“Behold therefore the great diversity that our Supreme Being held in creating the sky, the sun, the earth and so on, from that of creating man.  In created things he put forth an enough, in a way that they can neither grow nor decrease, although he put there all our sumptuousness, beauty and magnificence of the works gone forth from our creative hands.  Instead in creating man, having to hold our seat in him and hence our dominant and working Will, he didn’t put forth an enough; no, but he gave (man) the virtue to do a multiplicity of works, of steps, of words, one different from the other.  Our Will in man would remain impeded if it might not give him the virtue to always do new works, [making him] not subject to do one work alone, to say the same word, to move his steps over a single way.  He was created by us as king of the creation, because his Creator having to live in him, the King of the kings, it was just that he who formed the residence to our Divine Being should be the little king who should dominate the same things created by us; and he himself for our love should hold the power to do not one work alone but many works, new sciences, in order to be able to begin new things, also in order to do honor to He who lives inside him, and who holding himself back with him in familiar conversation, taught him so many beautiful things to do and to say.  Therefore our love in creating man was insuperable, but so much so that it should overwhelm all the centuries in order to give love and to ask love and to form in him the Kingdom of our Divine Will.  We don’t have other goal over creatures nor other sacrifice, if not that they do our Will and this in order to give him the right of king over himself and created things, and in order to be able to live in him, with the decorum and honor of ours, that belongs to our citadel and palace.”

Vol. 30, December 14, 1931

 

 

 

Each creature is designed to be God's citadel, his palace and more so each is a Kingdom unto themselves where the Divine Will is meant to reign as King.  Jesus was using Caesarea Philippi and the source of the Jordon as a visual representation of how his Will would overflow from man with the source of all goods.  His Kingdom is not of this world, it is a world of spirit and truth.


³⁶ Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”
John 18:36
 

 

 

“My daughter, life, sanctity consists in two acts:  God gives his Will and the creature receives him, and afterwards the life has been formed in herself with that act of Divine Will that she has received, to re-give it as act of her will, in order to receive it again, and to give and to receive, and to receive and to give, in this is everything.  God could not give more of his continuous act of his Will to the creature; the creature could not give more to God, for as much as it is possible for (the) creature, his Divine Will received in her as formation of divine life.  In this way, to give and to receive, to receive and to give, my Divine Fiat takes dominion and forms his kingdom there, and all the interior of the creature forms as the people of the kingdom of the Divine Will, the intelligence, faithful people that glories with being directed by the Sovereign Commander of the Divine Fiat, and the crowd of thoughts that press around and aspire to know always more and to love the great King, who takes a seat as enthroned in the center of the intelligence of the creature.  The desires, the affections, the heartbeats that issue forth from the heart, augment the number of the people of my kingdom, and oh! how they crowd around his throne, they are all at attention in order to receive the divine orders and even to put forth (their) life in order to execute them; what an obedient, ordered people, are the people of the kingdom of my Fiat, there are no contentions, no dissensions, but this entire crowd of people of the interior of this fortunate creature want one thing alone, and as a trained army they put themselves in the fortress of the kingdom of my Divine Volition.  Whence when the interior of the creature becomes all my people, he emerges outside from the interior and augments the people of words, the people of works, of steps, it can be said that every act that this Celestial people forms contains the word, the written order in gold characters:  ‘Will of God.’  And when this crowd of people move in order to exercise each their office, they put forth the flag with the motto ‘Fiat’, followed by the words written with living light:  ‘We belong to the Great King of the Supreme Fiat.’  You see therefore, every creature that lets herself be dominated by my Volition forms a people for the kingdom of God.”

Vol. 29, October 26, 1931

 

 

It's worth noting that not only is each creature an entire kingdom and people before God but that first he orders and secures the interior of the creature before allowing any visible sign or act to flow outside.  And just as he is jealous and safeguards every act of the interior of a creature living in the Divine Will so he wants us to be jealous of and hold dear all of his truths, securing and safeguarding them within ourselves and appreciating them by meditating on them.

“Are not perhaps the so many knowledges on my Will remedies?  Every manifestation and word that I say is a fortitude that I put around the weakness of the human will, it is a food that I prepare, it is a bait, a taste, a light in order to make her reacquire the lost sight.  Therefore be attentive and do not lose anything of that which my Will manifests to you, because in his time all will be served, nothing will be lost.  Do you believe that He doesn’t hold account even of one single word of that which he says?  All numbered and nothing lost; and if in your soul he has formed his chair/seat in order to deposit his truths, however the primary chair\seat holds it reserved in itself as the greatest treasure that belongs to him, in a way that if you disperse some word or manifestation that belongs to him, already the original is conserved in oneself, because that which regards my Divine Will is of infinite value and the infinite can not be nor is it subject to disperse; rather jealous he conserves his truths in the divine archives.  Therefore you also learn to be jealous and vigilant and to appreciate his holy lessons.”

Vol. 30, January 12, 1932

 

It is only when everything in the creature is noble and holy, overflowing with light, and love, fully sanctified with his own image, "forming of God and of the creature one single life" that he can take up his seat of power and authority resting in his work and enjoy his creation as on the seventh day of Creation (but that's for another days discussion.)


 

“My blessed daughter, when the creature does and lives in the Divine Will, our Supreme Being darts her continually with his light, he darts her mind and casts there in her the nobility of the divine thoughts, in a way that she feels in her intelligence, memory and will, the sanctity, the remembrance of her Creator, the love, the will of He who doing as Actor forms in her the order, the divine wisdom darting her he casts there with his kisses of light the divine substance in her mind, in a way that everything is noble, everything is holy, everything is sacred in her.  This Actor of my Volition, forming his seat in the created intelligence, with his power and mastery forms there his image, darts her heart and forms there the nobility of the love, of the desires, of the affections, of the heartbeats, darts the mouth and forms the nobility of the words, darts the works and the steps and forms the holy works, the nobility of the steps, and not only darting the soul, but also the body and with his light he invests the blood and ennobles it, in a way that the creature feels flow in her blood, in her limbs the fullness, the sanctity, the substance of the Divine nobility.  This actor of my Divine Will takes the office of insuperable Craftsman, to transform God in the creature, and the creature in God.  When my Will has arrived to this, that is the greatest act that he can do, that is forming of God and of the creature one single life, rendering them inseparable the one from the other, he rests in his work, and feels such happiness, because he has conquered the creature, he has formed his work in her, and has completed his Will.  Then it seems that he says in the emphasis of his love:  I have done everything, (there) remains none other to me, than to possess her and love her.”

Vol. 34, December 2,1935

 

And how will this Kingdom be formed on the earth?  After it has filled all the interior of the creature, fully reigning and dominating and then overflowing into her exterior acts which will be to the benefit of all.  The Holy Spirit in the form of the Volition of God forms a compete act, that is another Jesus in the soul of the creature.  And this will be his reign upon the earth, to have a Jesus in each creature that wants to live all and only of Divine Will.  And each will have as center, reigning and supreme on his throne all Divine and not earthly, the Divine Will.

 

 

“My daughter, when my Divine Will wants to do a completed act in the creature, and do you know what it means a complete act of my Will? it means complete act, of God, in which he encloses sanctity, beauty, love, power and light to make Heavens and earth astonished, God himself must feel enraptured, but so much so as to form his seat, his throne of glory in this complete act of his, which will serve to himself and will descend as beneficent dew to the benefit of all creatures.  Hence in order to do this complete act, I must dispose over you a new cross, not given to any other in order to mature you and to make rise in you the dispositions that are needed there, you in order to receive and I in order to do this complete act of his Will, without anything, one does not do anything, therefore you in order to receive and we in order to give new things, we had to dispose new crosses, that united to the continuous work of our Volition should prepare all for an act so great.

“You must know that my Fiat has never left you, therefore you feel his sweet impression and ruling over every fiber, motion, desire of your volition, jealous of you and of his own complete act that he wanted to do, he held and maintained his royal dominion, but do you know why, a sweet and dear secret, listen to me:  as my Volition dominated your mind, your look, your word, thus he formed your Jesus in your mind, his look in yours, his word in yours, as he dominated the fibers, the motion, the heart, thus he formed his fibers, the motion, your Jesus’s heart in you, and as he dominated you the works, the steps, all your being, thus he formed his works, his steps, all Jesus in you.  Now if my Will might have given you the liberty to do your acts, even in the most little and innocent things, he would not have been able to form your Jesus in you, and I of human will am not able to, nor do I want to live, nor would my Volition have taken the appointment of forming myself in the soul, if he might not be secure that I might find my same Will, with which my Humanity was animated; it will be really this his reign upon the earth, to form so many Jesuses, for how many creatures want to live of Divine Will, with Jesus in souls, his kingdom will have its sumptuousness, sublimity, its luxury, of unheard of things, and it will be secure.  And then in the kingdom of my Divine Fiat I will have so many living Jesuses that love me, glorify me, and will give me complete glory.  Therefore I so very long for this kingdom, and you also long for it, nor occupy yourself with other, leave me to do, trust me, and I will think to everything.”

Vol. 34, July 4, 1936

 

 

 

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 Twelve Days of Christmas

 

 

 

 

In the Church bulletin the other day there was a little section which talked about the hidden meaning behind the song of the Twelve Days of Christmas.  Now I don't think I ever knew about this so thought I'd pass it on.  There is a nice site on the internet which talks about this:  The History of the Twelve Days of Christmas.   This song goes back to Catholics trying to survive in a Protestant England and was a way to teach some of the fundamentals of the Catholic faith in code.

 

 

 

The partridge in the pear tree represents Jesus because that bird is willing to sacrifice its life if necessary to protect its young by feigning injury to draw away predators.

The two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments
The three French hens stood for faith, hope, and love.
The four calling birds were the four gospels.
The five golden rings represented the first five books of the Old Testament.
The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit-----Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit-----Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience [Forbearance], Goodness [Kindness], Mildness, Fidelity, Modesty, Continency [Chastity].
The ten lords a-leaping were the Ten Commandments.
The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful Apostles.
The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
Original Source: Fr. Calvin Goodwin, FSSP, Nebraska
Printed with permission from Catholic Tradition.



So I hope everyone has a Blessed Christmas season and is drawn closer and closer to a deeper relationship with God.

 

 



Our Lady and Mother

On this feast of the Immaculate Conception and the beginning of this Jubilee of Mercy I wanted to take a moment to see what it is that Jesus Himself says about Our Lady as only He can do justice to Her.  In the Poem of the Man God there is a scene where Jesus reveals to some of his Apostles and disciples the mystery of Mary.

"I listened to you apostles, disciples and relatives speak, and I heard your impressions, your recollections and your statements concerning My Mother.  I will transfigure all that, which is admirable although still very human, into a supernatural knowledge.  Because My Mother is to be transfigured, before Me, in the eyes of the most deserving, to show Her as She is.  You see a woman.  A woman different from other women, because of Her holiness, but in actual fact you see Her as a soul wrapped in a body, just like all women Her sisters.  But now I wish to reveal to you the soul of My Mother.  Her true and eternal beauty.

 

Come here, Mother.  Do not blush.  Do not withdraw shyly, sweet dove of God.  Your Son is the Word of God and He can speak f You and of Your mystery, of Your mysteries, O sublime Mystery of God.  Let us sit down here, in the pleasant shade of the trees in blossom near the house, near Your holy room.  Thus!  Let us lift this fluttering curtain, so that waves of holiness and Paradise may come out of this virginal room, to saturate us all with Your virtues...  Yes.  Me as well.  That I may smell of You, O perfect Virgin, so that I may be able to bear the stench of the world, in order that I may see purity after saturating My eyes with Your Purity...  Marjiam, John, Stephen come here, and you women disciples, stand directly in front of the open door of the chaste abode of the most Chaste amongst women.  And you, My friends, stand behind.  And You, My beloved Mother, here, beside Me.

 

A little while ago I said to you:  "the eternal beauty of the soul of My Mother."  I am the Word, and thus I can make use of words without erring.  I said:  eternal, not immortal.  And I deliberately said to.  He is immortal who, after being born, does not die.  Thus the souls of the just are immortal in Heaven, the souls of sinners are immortal in Hell, because a soul, once it has been created, does not die but to grace.  But a soul has life, it exists from that moment that God thinks it.  It is in the Thought of God that creates it.  The soul of My Mother was thought by God from everlasting.  It is therefore eternal in its beauty, in which God poured every perfection to receive delight and comfort from it.

 

It is written in the Book of our ancestor Solomon, who foresaw You, and can thus be called Your prophet:  "God possessed me from the beginning of His works, from the very beginning, before Creation.  From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning before the Earth came into being.  The deep was not yet, and I was conceived.  There were no springs to gush with water, the mountains were not yet settled on their hug mass, and I already was.  Before the hills I came to birth.  He ha not yet made the Earth, the rivers, or the poles of the world, and I already existed.  When He prepared the sky and Heaven I was present.  When with inviolable law He closed the abyss under the vault, when He fixed firm the celestial vault and He suspended there the sources of water, when he assigned the sea  its boundaries and He ordered the water not to pass its limit, when He laid down the foundations of the earth, I was by His side arranging everything.  I was always joyfully at play in His presence.  I played in the universe."

 

Yes, Mother, with Whom God, Immense, Sublime, Virgin, Uncreated, was pregnant and carried You like a most sweet burden, rejoicing at feeling You stir within Him, when with Your smiles he created the Universe!  He laboriously gave birth to You to give you to the world, most gentle soul, born of the Deity to be the "Virgin," the Perfection of Creation, the Light of Paradise, the Advice of God, Who looking at You forgave Sin, because You alone, by Yourself can love as all Mankind put together cannot love.  In You is the Forgiveness of God!  You are the Treatment of God, You are the caress of the Eternal Father on the wound that man inflicted on God!  In You is the Salvation of the world, Mother of the Love Incarnate and of the granted Redeemer!  The soul of My Mother!  Merged in Love with My Father, I looked at You within Me, O soul of My Mother!...   And Your splendor, Your prayer, the idea of being carried by You comforted Me forever and ever for My destiny of sorrow and inhuman experience of what the corrupted world is for the most Perfect God.  Thank You, Mother!  When I came I was already full of Your consolation, I descended perceiving You alone, Your perfume, Your song, Your love...Joy, My joy!

 

Now that you know that one only is the Woman in Whom there is no stain, that one only Human Being costs the Redeemer no injury, listen to the second transfiguration of Mary, the Elect Daughter of God.

 

It was a clear afternoon in the month of Adar and the trees were in bloom in the silent kitchen garden, and Mary, Joseph's bride, had picked a flowery branch to replace the one that was in Her room.  Mary, taken from the Temple to adorn a house of saints, had recently come to Nazareth.  And with Her soul divided among Temple, house and Heaven, She was looking at the flowery branch, considering that by means of a similar branch, which had bloomed in an unusual manner, a branch cut off in this garden in the depth of winter and had bloomed as if it were springtime before the Ark of the Lord - perhaps the Sun-God beaming in His Glory had warmed it - God had revealed His will to Her...  And She was thinking also that on the day of their wedding Joseph had brought Her other flowers, but never like the first one on the thin petals of which It was written:  "I want You united to Joseph"...  She was thinking of many thing...  And while thinking She ascended to God.  Her hands ere busy with distaff and spindle and were spinning a yarn that was thinner than the hair of Her young Head...

 

Her soul was weaving a carpet of love, moving quickly, like a shuttle on a loom, from the earth to Heaven.  From the needs of the house, of Joseph, to those of the soul, of God.  And She sang and prayed.  And the carpet was forming on the mystical loom, it rolled off from the earth to Heaven, it ascended to get lost up there...  Formed with what?  With the thin, perfect strong threads of Her virtues, with the flying thread of the shuttle, which She thought was "Hers," whereas it was God's:  the shuttle of the Will of God, on which was rolled the will of the little, great Virgin of Israel, Unknown to the World, Known to God, rolled and made one with the Will of the Lord.  And the carpet was adorned with the flowers of love, of purity, with palms of peace and palms of glory, with sweet-smelling violets, with jasmines...  Every virtue flowered on the carpet of love, which the Virgin of God unrolled invitingly from the earth to Heaven.  And as the carpet was not sufficient She thrust Her heart singing:  "let My Beloved come into His garden and eat the fruit of His trees...  Let My Beloved come down to His garden, to the bed of spices, to pasture in the gardens and gather lilies.  I am My Beloved's and My Beloved is Mine.  He pastures among the lilies!"  And from infinite distance, among torrents of Light, a Voice came that human ear cannot hear and human throat cannot utter.  And it said:  "How beautiful You are, My love!  How beautiful You are!... Your lips distil wild honey...  You are a garden enclosed, a sealed fountain, My sister, My promised bride..."  and the two voices joined together to sing the eternal truth:  "Love is stronger than death.  Nothing can quench or drown 'our" love."  And the Virgin was thus transfigured when Gabriel descended and called Her back t the Earth, with his ardor, and joined Her soul to Her body again, so that She might hear and understand the request of Him, Who had called Her "Sister" but wanted Her to be His "Bride."

 

And the Mystery took place there...  And a modest woman, the most modest of all women, Who was not even aware of the instinctive incentive of the flesh, fainted before the Angel of God, because even an angel upsets the humbleness and modesty of the Virgin, and only when She heard him speak She calmed down, and She believed, and She said the word, whereby "their" love became Flesh and will defeat Death and no flood will be able to quench it or wickedness to submerge it..."

 

Jesus bends gently over Mary Who has slid to His feet, almost ecstatically, in the recollection of the remote hour; shining with a special light, which seems to issue from Her soul, and He asks Her in a low voice:  "Which was our reply, Most Pure Mother, to him who assured You that by becoming Mother of God, You would not Lose Your perfect Virginity?"

 

And Mary, almost in a dream, slowly, smiling, Her eyes shining with joyful tears:  "I am the handmaid of the Lord!  Let It be done to Me according to your Word" and She reclines Her head on the knew of Her Son, adoring Him.

 

Jesus covers Her with His mantle, concealing Her from everybody's eyes and He says:  "And it was done.  All will be done until the end.  Until Her net transfiguration and the one after that.  She will always be the "Handmaid of God." She will always act according to what "the Word" says.  My Mother!  That is My Mother.  And you ought to begin to become fully acquainted with Her holy Figure...  Mother!  Mother!  Raise Your face, My Beloved...  Call Your devout admirers back to the Earth, where we are for the time being..."  He says uncovering Mary after a little which, during which no nose was heard except the humming of bees and the gurgling of the little fountain.

 

Mary raised Her face wet with tears and whispers:  "Why did You do that to Me, Son?  The secrets of the King are sacred..."

 

"But the King can reveal them whenever He wishes.  Mother, I did it, so that the words of the Prophet may be understood:  "A Woman will enclose the Man in Herself," and the words of the other Prophet:  "The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son/"  And also that My disciples, who are struck with horror at too many things that they consider degrading for the Word of God, may have, as counterbalance, many other things confirming them in the joy of being "Mine."  Thus they will no longer be scandalized and will conquer Heaven..."

 

In the Volumes Jesus repeats this refrain of how Mary called God down to the Earth.

In addition to Myself, there is my Celestial Mama, who was given the unique mission of Mother of a Son-God, and the office of Co-Redemptrix of mankind. For Her mission of Divine Maternity, She was enriched with so much grace, that all that belongs to the other creatures, both celestial and terrestrial, united all together, will never be able to equal Her. But this was not enough to draw the Word into Her maternal womb; She embraced all creatures, She loved, repaired, adored the Supreme Majesty for all, in such a way as to accomplish, Herself alone, all that the human generations owed God. So, in Her virginal Heart She had an inexhaustible vein toward God and toward all creatures. When the Divinity found in this Virgin the requital of the love of all, It felt enraptured, and formed in Her Its Conception. And as She conceived Me, She took on the office of Co-Redemptrix, and She took part in, and embraced together with Me, all the pains, the satisfactions, the reparations, the maternal love toward all. So, in the Heart of my Mother there was a fiber of maternal love toward each creature. This is why, when I was on the Cross, in truth and with justice I declared Her the Mother of all. She ran together with Me in the love, in the pains - in everything; She never left Me alone. If the Eternal One had not placed so much grace in Her as to be able to receive the love of all from Her alone, He would never have moved from Heaven to come upon earth to redeem mankind. Here is the necessity, the befittingness, that, having the mission of Mother of the Word, She embrace and surpass everything.

Vol. 17, May 1, 1925

 

And again in the Volumes he expounds on the supremacy of our Queen and Lady and Mother.

 

 

 

“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




Our Heavenly Mother is the Queen of all and possess the fullness of all grace, beauty and virtue but she is not just the Mother of all of us she is even the Mother of all and each of our acts.  Jesus says that this is one of the greatest graces ever given to man but so many refuse her Maternity and making all that she would want to give futile.

“Now, you must know that as my inseparable Mama extended her maternity inside and outside of my humanity, thus I constituted her and confirmed her Mother of every single thought of the creature, of every breath, of every heartbeat, of every word, and I made her maternity extend in the works, in the steps, in all their sufferings.  Her maternity races everywhere; in the perils of falling into sin, she races, covers them with her maternity, so that they don’t fall, and if they have fallen, she leaves her maternity as help and defense in order to have them rise again; her maternity races and extends itself over the souls that want to be good and holy as if she might find her Jesus in them, she does as Mother to their intelligence, she guides their words, covers and hides them in her maternal love in order to raise so many other Jesus’s.  Her maternity makes (a) display over the beds of the dying, and making use of the rights of authority of Mother from me she gives (to) them, she says to me with (an) accent so tender that I can not deny her:  ‘My Son, I am Mother, and they are my children, I must put them into safety, if you don’t concede this to me my maternity goes (swept) under/(is undermined) by it’; and while she says this, she covers them with her love, hides them in her maternity in order to put them into safety.

            “My love was so much that I said to her:  ‘My mother, I want that you be the Mother of everyone, and that which you have done for me you will do to all creatures; let your maternity be extended in all their acts, in a way that all I will see is covered and hidden in your maternal love.’  My Mama accepted and remained confirmed that not only should she be Mother of everyone, but to invest every act of theirs with her maternal love.  This was one of greatest graces that I did to all the human generations, but how many sorrows doesn’t my Mama receive?  They arrive to not want to receive her maternity, to refuse to acknowledge her...
Vol. 36, December 28, 1938