Kindness and truth shall meet;

justice and peace shall kiss.

Truth shall spring out of the earth,

and justice shall look down from heaven.

Psalm 85:10-11

This Psalm always strikes me deeply when I come across it.  It's the promise of the fulfillment of the Kingdom.  It's the promise of true justice and true peace.  It's the promise of the reconciliation between heaven and earth and their union.  It's full promise has yet to be revealed and fulfilled.

It seems truth, on earth, is more often hard and cold.  Justice is often severe and oppressive or it is not just at all.  The earth seems to breed lies and deception and we all wait for the next "shoe to drop" from Heaven on us.  Jesus tells us that we ourselves close the door on Heaven.  That pride blinds us making us unable to see the truth.

In these sad times their pride is so great that they have poisoned all the air; and the stench that spreads everywhere is such that it has reached even before my throne in Heaven.  They act in such a way as to close Heaven by themselves.  The miserable ones do not have eyes to know the truth, because they are obfuscated by the sin of pride, followed by the other vices which they bring with themselves. 

Vol. 1, The victim begins to perform her office, taking part in the pains of Jesus crowned with thorns, to make reparation for sins, especially pride.  Fasting begins for Luisa.


In opposition to pride which blinds us, only simplicity and humility draws Jesus to communicate his truths to the soul.  Learned, even holy people that lack this lack the foundation to touch the supernatural for all of their science, doctrine and holiness.

Then He showed me many religious people and, among them, priests - even of holy life.  But as good as they were, they lacked that spirit of simplicity in believing in the many graces and the many ways the Lord uses with souls.  Jesus said to me:  “I communicate Myself both to the humble and to the simple, because they immediately believe in my graces and take them into great consideration, though they may be ignorant and poor.  But with these others you see, I am very reluctant, because the first step which draws the soul near Me is belief; and it happens that these, with all of their science and doctrine, and even holiness, never come to experience a ray of celestial light – that is, they walk along the natural way, and they never arrive at touching, even slightly, that which is supernatural.  This is also the reason for which in the course of my mortal life there was not one learned, one priest, one man of power, among my followers, but all ignorant and of low condition – because these were more humble and simple, and also more disposed to make great sacrifices for Me.” 

Vol. 2, May 19, 1899 

Divine truth, by it's own nature, is infinite light, which is love.  It attracts love and causes an increase in love.  One truth is enough light to fill all of Heaven and earth.

Whence I did how much more I could to abandon all of myself in the Divine Will, and I thought of the so many truths that Blessed Jesus had manifested to me concerning his Holy Volition.  Every truth embraced the infinite and contained so much light as to fill Heaven and earth; and I felt the strength of the light and the weight of the infinite, that invading all of me with an indescribable love they invited me to love them and to make them mine with putting them into practice.

Vol. 29, February 13, 1931



Each truth revealed by God to the soul is a bond with God.  It is a divine property, which forms the Divine residence for God himself.  This can occur only in a soul where the Divine Will reigns.

Each truth revealed by God to man is a gift of priceless value, another bond that God makes with man.  It is a divine property endowed to the creature.  Only in one who lives in his Will can a creature contain the the full potential of these properties.  Each one carries with it a unique gift of God's distinct attributes which bind the creature more and more to God and God to her.

...do you want to know what are our most beautiful gifts that we make the creature?  To manifest to her a knowledge of our Supreme Being, a truth that pertains to us, one secret of ours is the most beautiful gift that we make her; each of these gifts is one more bond that we put between Her and us, our every truth is a property that we put in her soul.  Behold therefore that in the soul where our Will reigns we find our Divine foods, our property for how much it is possible for a creature, our residence, hence we find ourselves in our house, in our center, in the midst of our properties.  Do you see therefore what it means to make our Will reign and the great good to make you know our truths?  Our every knowledge carries, each one, its distinct gift, some carry his light, some fortitude, some goodness, some wisdom, some love and so on, each one of them binds the creature in a special way to God and God to her.  

Vol. 29,  August 3, 1931





God wants to make a permanent residence with each of his creatures but He can only do this in a creature where his Will reigns, where the creature allows herself to be touched by his light.  So that the light of his truths fecundates, forms, purifies, and beautifies the creature.

“My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Will always has something to do with the light, never with the darkness; and since the light is fertile, it gives birth in the soul to the truths that It possesses.  The virtue of the light is marvelous and miraculous, and while with looking one doesn’t see other than light, inside it possesses the fullness of goods, but it doesn’t communicate these goods to one who only looks, but to one who lets herself be touched, molded, embraced, kissed with its ardent kisses, as it touches it purifies, as it molds it transforms, as it embraces thus it encloses its light in the soul and with its fecundity that doesn’t know how to ever be idle, its work is incessant, it communicates the beautiful rainbow of the colors and divine beauties, and with its kisses it infuses the most beautiful truths and the ineffable secrets of its Creator.  Living in the light of my Divine Will and not to be able to be light of the divine things, of our secrets, to not feel the fecundating virtue of this light, would be as if God might want to make life separate from his creature; instead it was this the unique purpose that we want that our Will be also that of the creature, because we want to make life together and permanent with her.  Hence it would be absurd to live in my Volition and to not feel the fecundity of his goods that this light possesses, that is that of making life of God (the) same (with) the creature.”
Vol. 29, July 23, 1931

Only Jesus is capable of guarding these truths which he does from within the creature.  These truths are the guarantee that God's Kingdom will come upon the earth and that it has already begun it's reign.

“My daughter, every word that I have said to you on my Divine Will has been none other than so many little visits that I have made you, leaving in you the substance of the good that every word of mine contains.  And not entrusting myself to you, because you were incapable of guarding one single word of mine, I left myself to guard the infinite value of my truths that I deposed in your soul.  Hence your fears are not just.  I am at watch over everything.  They are celestial truths, stuff of heaven, outlets of repressed love of my Will, and for so many centuries.  And before deciding to speak to you, already I have decided to remain in you in order to guard that which I deposed in you.  You enter into the secondary order, I am the first custodian.

“Now these little visits of mine being bearers of celestial stuff, you will bring them with you into the Celestial Country as triumph of my Will, and as guarantee that his kingdom will not only come upon the earth, but that he has established his beginning of his reign.  Those that will remain upon the paper will leave in perennial memory that my Will wants to reign in the midst of the human generations, and they will be spurs, incitements, divine supplications, irresistible force, celestial messengers, commanders of the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat; and also powerful reproach to one whom should occupy themselves to make such a good known; and that for laziness and for vain fears they won’t leave themselves to turn through all the world, so that they bring the cheerful news of the happy era of the Kingdom of my Will.  Therefore abandon yourself in me and leave me to do it.”

Vol. 30, January 24, 1932

All of the truths that God manifests to the creature are pledges that God makes in establishing his Kingdom.  The more the creature embraces these truths and turns in them the more pledges God makes to the creature.

“My Will is everything and in order to give himself to the creature he wants to be recognized, he wants to have (something) to do, wants to bargain over it with her; and how much more [the creature] visits him in his acts, so much more does [my Will] find himself pledged and arranged and he commences the disbursement of his capital.  All the truths, the knowledges that I have made you on the Divine Will have they not been perhaps capital that I have made to your soul?  And he is so very exuberant that he can fill the whole entire world with light, with love, with sanctity, with graces, with peace.  And has it not perhaps been after a turn that you have done in his acts, that I already await you with all love in order to give you his pledges and advances that his kingdom would come upon the  earth?  You gave your pledges, and my Fiat gave his to you.  One can say that every truth and word that he said in his regard were dispositions that he took as to form this kingdom, levy that he called in order to form his army, capital that he disbursed in order to maintain it, joys and delights in order to attract them, divine fortitude in order to conquer them; because first we do the deeds, we order everything, and then we demonstrate and we make known the deeds that we have done.

Vol. 30, January 12, 1932




In order to obtain more truths one must put into practice and act on the truths that one has received.  So that Heaven opens itself only over those who work, who are willing to to make a labor of love and make their walk always toward God.

...many times I am waiting for the conclusion of your acts in order to give you the surprise to make known to you other truths.  These like so many puffs of light and of heat perform by maturing in your soul the goods and truths that your Jesus has communicated to you.  Do you see therefore the necessity of your acts in order to dispose you to receive other knowledges on my Divine Fiat, it is in order to let me find in you the continuation of your acts in order to make them mature, otherwise what could I do?  I would remain as Sun that while it crosses over the earth, it doesn’t find either a flower to color or a fruit to mature, so that all the admirable effects that the Sun contains would remain in its light, the earth would receive nothing.  Therefore Heaven opens over working souls, the miraculous strength of the light of my Divine Volition, not over idle souls, but over those that labor, that sacrifice themselves, that love, that always hold something to do for me.

Vol. 29, September 16, 1931



With his truths becomes formed and maintained perfect order, and perennial peace.  The clear, beautiful sky of Heaven finds it echo in the creature and Divine Justice takes up it's rule which does not oppress but loves and calls forth love.

And my every single truth has the virtue to occupy an office in order to maintain the perfect order, (the) perennial peace; it will be the echo of Heaven, and [creatures] will swim within a sea of graces, of happiness, under a sun that doesn’t know clouds; the sky will be always serene.  My truths upon my Divine Will will be the only laws that will dominate; (for) creatures that will enter to live in this kingdom laws not of oppression but of love, that sweetly will make themselves loved, because in them [creatures] will find the strength, the harmony, the happiness, the abundance of all goods. 

Vol. 30, March 27, 1932 




What seems complicated to us and seemingly impossible is most simple to God who is by nature simple.  The fruit of  justice and truth is simplicity which allows the creature to penetrate everywhere like God.

“The daughter of justice is truth.  Just as I am the eternal Truth, and I do not deceive, nor can I deceive, in the same way, the soul who possesses justice makes truth shine in all of her actions.  Therefore, since she knows by experience the true light of truth, if someone wants to deceive her, since that light which she feels within herself is missing, she immediately recognizes the deceit.  And so it happens that with this light of truth she deceives neither herself, nor her neighbor, nor can she be deceived.  The fruit produced by this justice and by this truth is simplicity, which is another quality of my Being – being simple; so much so, that I penetrate everywhere; there is nothing that can prevent Me from penetrating inside of it.  I penetrate into Heaven and into the abysses, into good and into evil; but my Being, which is most simple, by penetrating even into evil, does not get dirty; even more, it does not receive the slightest shadow.  In the same way, through justice and truth, gathering this beautiful fruit of simplicity within herself, the soul penetrates into Heaven, she enters into hearts to lead them to Me, she penetrates into everything that is good; and if she finds herself with sinners and sees the evil that they do, she does not get dirty because, being simple, she immediately brushes it off, without receiving any harm.  Simplicity is so beautiful, that my Heart is wounded at one gaze alone of a simple soul.  She is the admiration of angels and men.”

Vol. 2, August 10, 1899 





And so the fulfillment of Psalm 85:10-11 is seen with the creature living in the Divine Will.  The Kingdom of God becomes formed within her and His truths spring up from within her earth, that is her body, and she takes on the likeness of God in his simplicity forming the reflection of Heaven so that God's Justice reigns in the full expression of his love.

The Meaning behind The Miracle of the Sun

miracle sun fatima

While reading in the Volumes I came across one which pointedly reminded me of the Great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima and the nearly daily miracles of the Sun which continue in Medjugorje.  It occurred to me that in all this time, in all these recounts of these events no one has asked the question what was the point of the miracle, what was the message.  Was it merely to scare people to convert? God doesn't do things without purpose.  He doesn't just do things to scare people or put on a great light show.  Everything he does is with highest reason, power, beauty and utility.

So first let's review the Miracle of the Sun which occurred October 13, 1917....

The Great Miracle of the Sun

The greatest miracle to occur since the Resurrection is also the only miracle ever precisely predicted as to date, time of day and location. Although it is popularly known as “The Miracle of the Sun” and October 13, 1917 has come to be known as “The Day the Sun Danced,” a great deal more took place. The solar phenomena included the dancing of the sun, its fluctuations in color, its swirling and its descending toward the earth. There was also the stillness in the leaves of the trees in spite of howling winds, the complete drying of the rain-soaked ground and the restoration of clothes all wet and covered with mud so that, as eye-witness Dominic Reis, put it, “They looked as tho they had just come back from the cleaners.” Physical cures of the blind and the lame were reported. The countless unreserved public confessions of sin and commitments to conversion of life attest to the authenticity of what they saw.

The miracle is reported to have been seen from as far as 15-25 miles away, thus ruling out the possibility of any type of collective hallucination or mass hypnotism. Doubters and skeptics had become believers. Even O Seculo’s chief editor, Avelino de Almeida, now reported affirmatively and stood by his story later on in spite of harsh criticism.

Fatima's Miracle of the Sun

Many feared it was the end of the world resulting in many converting and people going to confession.  Also in Medjugorje, although perhaps not as dramatic as Fatima, there has been nearly a daily observance of the dancing Sun.

For many of the youth, growing up in Medjugorje, the spinning of the sun has become almost a natural occurrence, as this has been happening daily since they were born. ...

“On August 2, 1981, the Feast of Our Lady Queen of the Angels, in the late afternoon, before the sun had set, the sun was seen to spin in its orbit, then descend toward the watching people of approximately 150, then retreat – a ‘dance of the sun’ that reminded the people of the miraculous phenomenon at Fatima.

Sun Miracles at Medjugorje


The sun has always been a great symbol of the unity of the Trinity in it's fire, light and heat.  See The Trinity  for further discussion on this topic.  The sun is a lesson given to us by God, a lesson of love and purity from which all goods can trace their origin just as the sun is the source of all the good effects which it brings to the earth.

But you must know that all of creation, and each created thing, gives a lesson to man.  They all narrate Our Divine qualities, and each thing gives a lesson about the quality that it contains: the sun gives a lesson in light, and teaches that to be light it is necessary to be pure, stripped of every material thing.  Light always contains heat united to it - you cannot detach the light from the heat - so if you want to be light you must love only your Creator, and this will bring to you, like the sun, the fecundity of good. 

Vol. 21, April 22, 1927

Just as the sun is a lesson on how we should be it is also a lesson on the very nature of God and his trans-formative power.  There is no darkness, pain, vice or sorrow which the Divine Will can not transform into beauty.

“My daughter, as the sun, when it rises, makes the darkness flee, so it brings with it the dawning of the light which replaces the dampness of the night which has so invested the plants that they have become oppressed, numbed, and dejected.  As the sun rises, that dampness changes into pearls making everything glisten:  plants, flowers, and all of nature.  It’s silvery brilliance restores joy and beauty as it removes the stupor of the night; and with its enchantment of light it seems as if it gives a hand to all of nature to vitalize her, make her beautiful, and give her life.  The sea, the streams, and the springs become all armed and enlarge the diversity and vivacity of the colors.

“Similarly, as My Volition rises, all human acts rest enveloped with light, they take their place of honor in My Will, [and] each receives its special tint of beauty and the tone of the Divine colors - in such a way that the soul remains transfigured and covered with an indescribable beauty.  As the Sun of My Volition rises It places in flight all the evils of the soul and takes away the numbness produced by the passions.  Rather, before the Light of the Divine Fiat the same passions taste that light and seek to convert themselves into virtues so they may give homage to My Eternal Volition.  As It rises all becomes joy, [even] the very sufferings [which], like the seas of the night, create fear in the poor creature.  Where My Volition rises It puts to flight the night of the human will, and removing every fear It thoroughly forms Its gold in those pains, and with Its Light It invests the bitter waters of suffering and crystallizes them into seas of sweetness so as to form an enchanting and admirable horizon.  What can My Volition not do?  It can do all, and wants to give all; [and] where It rises, It does things worthy of Our creative hands.”

Vol. 21, March 22, 1927

But if the sun were to leave it's orbit and come too close to the earth, as was witness in the Great Miracle of the Sun, the earth would burn up being transformed into the very fires of the sun losing it's own form and essence.  This is also a symbol of the difference between creatures living off of the effects of grace or the effects of the light of the sun and those who are called to live in the Divine Will or in the very unity of it.

I was thinking about the unity of the Divine Fiat, and was saying to myself: ‘How could all those who have done good, so many great works, do them, if they did not possess Its unity?’ And Jesus, always benign, added: “My daughter, all the good done until now by creatures has been done by virtue of the effects of my Divine Will, because there is no good without It; but as for living totally and fully in Its unity – none until now, only my Queen Mama; and this is why She drew the great prodigy of the Incarnation of the Word. Had there been someone, the earth would have returned to the state of Eden; and then, the one who would possess the unity of my Will could neither have contained It, nor endured without speaking about It. It would have been as if the sun wanted to enclose itself inside a vase of crystal, without spreading its rays. Would it not, instead, crack the glass with its heat so as to be free to spread its rays? To possess the unity of my Fiat and not to speak about It, and not to spread Its rays, the beauty of Its knowledges, would have been impossible for her; her heart would crack if she did not give it vent to manifest, in part, the fullness of Its light and of Its goods. So, good has been done by virtue of the effects of It.

The same happens with the sun which, by virtue of the effects which its light contains, makes the plants germinate, and makes the earth produce so much good. It seems that the earth and the effects of the sun work together to produce plants, fruits and flowers for the creatures. But the earth does not rise into the sphere of the sun; if it did so, the sun would have so much strength as to remove the dark side of the earth, and all of its atoms of dust it would convert into light - and the earth would become sun. But since the earth does not rise, nor does the sphere of the sun descend down below, the earth remains earth, and the sun does not transform it into itself. It seems that they look at each other from afar, they help each other, and they work together by means of the effects of the light, which the sun spreads over the earth from the height of its sphere. But even though the earth receives many admirable effects, produces the most beautiful flowerings, there passes a great distance between the earth and the sun, they do not resemble each other, nor does the life of one become the life of the other. And so the earth is unable to speak about the sun, nor tell all the effects it contains, or how much heat and light it possesses. In such condition is the creature who does not possess the unity of my Will. She does not rise into Its extremely high sphere to become sun, nor does my divine Sun descend to form her life; but, in wanting to do good, she moves around Its light, and my Will communicates the effects to make the good that she wants to germinate, because my Fiat does not deny Itself to anyone; on the contrary, with Its light, It wakens the human nature, to make it turn green again and make it produce fruits of good works.”

Vol. 23, February 2, 1928

So the Divine Will when it can not fuse itself with it's beloved creature does not turn away from her but still, even from a distance, communicates his effects in order produce fruits and good effects in her.  But it becomes limited and constrained by the will of the creature and what she will accept.  Still the object of love is unity, fusion, and a relationship from a distance can never wholly satisfy and when there is distance there will always be inconstancy and doubts.

Whence feeling oppressed and all full with intense bitterness, my sweet Jesus making himself seen and sustaining me between his arms said to me:

“My daughter, courage, think that a Divine Volition reigns in you, that he is the source of happiness and of perennial joy; whence your bitterness and oppressions form the clouds around the Sun of my Will, which impede his rays from shining in all your being, because wanting to make you happy he feels the happiness that he wants to give you rejected by your bitterness.  And in spite that you possess a divine Sun at your disposition, in virtue of your bitterness you feel the rain that oppresses you, that fills you even to the brim of your soul.  Because you should know that one who lives in my Will lives in the center of the sphere of the divine Sun, and can say:  ‘The Sun is all mine.’  Instead one who doesn’t live in Him lives in the circumference of the light that the divine Sun spreads everywhere, because my Volition neither can with his immensity deny himself to anyone, nor does he want to deny himself, he finds himself as the Sun that is constrained to give light to everyone, although not everyone might want it, and why is this?  Only because he is light and the nature of the light is to give itself to everyone, to whom doesn’t want him and to whom wants him.  But what great difference there is between one who lives in the center of my Divine Sun and between one who lives in his circumference?  The first one possesses the properties of the light and all his goods that are infinite; the light holds her defended from all evils, so that sin can not have life in this light, and if bitternesses arise, they are as clouds that can not have perennial life, a little breeze of my Will is enough in order to put in flight the densest clouds, and the soul finds herself sunk in the center of the Sun that she possesses.  More so that bitternesses of one who lives in my Volition are always for my cause, and I can say that I am embittered together with you, and if I see you cry, I cry together, because my same Will makes me inseparable from one who lives in Him and I feel her sufferings more than if they might be mine.  Indeed my same Will that resides in the soul calls my Humanity in one who suffers, in order to make him repeat his living life upon the earth; and oh, (the) divine prodigies that happen, the new currents that are opened between Heaven and earth, for the new life of sufferings that Jesus holds in his creature.  And my Heart while it is human, it is divine, it possesses the sweetest tenderness, they are such and so many the attractions and the powerful tendernesses of my Heart, that as I see one who loves me suffer, my most tender love liquefies my Heart and repours all of itself out over the sufferings and over the heart of my beloved creature.  Therefore I am with you in the suffering and do two offices:  as Actor of sufferings and (as) Spectator, in order to enjoy the fruits of my sufferings that I want to go developing in her.  Therefore for one who lives in my Will I am Sun and center of her life, hence we are inseparable, I feel her palpating life in me and she feels my palpating life in the intimacy of her soul.  Instead for one who lives in the circumference of the light because the sun of my Divine Will spreads everywhere, she is not proprietor of the light, because true mastery is said when a good resides in oneself, and no one can take away the good of within, neither in life nor after death, instead the good of outside is subject to peril nor does it hold power to hold us in security, and the soul suffers weakness, inconstancy, passions that torment her, and she arrives to feel as distant from her Creator.  Therefore I want you always in my Will, in order to let me continue my life upon the earth.”
Vol. 29, February 13, 1931

Now Jesus said in the beginning of this "...but as for living totally and fully in Its unity – none until now, only my Queen Mama;"  Only Mary up until Luisa has lived in the total unity of the Divine Will.  Only she is "the full of grace."   And as she is fully united with the Will of God just as God will have his Kingdom and victory in the end so will the Queen Mama.

July 13, 1917

In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.”

Fatima's Miracle of the Sun

There is a great deal which can be said about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Her every act done in the Divine Will was in fact a triumph but her complete triumph will not occur until God Kingdom reigns supreme, that is it reigns within the creature just as it reigned within her.  I've explored this topic more in depth in:  The Queenship of Mary.  Instead I'd like to close this topic with looking at the difference between Jesus and Mary.  For no matter how lofty Mary is above all creatures she is still a creature before the face of God.  She may be the perfect reflection of His light being constantly bathed with the fullness of His light to the point where she is the mediatrix of all grace but Jesus contains within Himself the source of all.

“My daughter, between Myself and the Celestial Queen, one was the Will that animated Us, one the life; however, between She and I passed this difference: between a house which is such that the sun enters into it from all sides - in a way that the light invests it, dominates it, and there is not one part of this house in which the light does not act as queen, and therefore it is prey to the light, receives always light, and grows under the influence of the light - and another house which possesses the sphere of the sun within itself, therefore it does not receive the source of the light from outside, but possesses it inside. Is there not difference between one and the other? Now, this is the difference that passes between Me and my Mama. She is the house invested by the light, She gave Herself prey to it, and the Sun of my Will kept giving to Her, always; It nourished Her with light, and She grew within the endless rays of the eternal Sun of my Fiat. On the other hand, my Humanity possessed within Itself the sphere of the Divine Sun, Its source which always arises without ever decreasing; and the Sovereign Queen drew from Me the light which gave Her life and the glory of Queen of light, because one who possesses a good can be called queen of that good.”

Vol. 23, March 11, 1928

So in conclusion the Great Miracle of the Sun was a foreshadowing of the Triumph of the the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Her Triumph being having children living in the unity of the Sun of the Divine Will, not just by it's effects.  Her triumph is the coming of the Kingdom of God, the return of the creature "... to the order, to her post and to the purpose for which she was created by God."  This is the very title of the Volumes given by Jesus himself written by Luisa.  

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The Kingdom of God isn’t a “show” or a “carnival,” it doesn’t like publicity and prefers to grow “hidden,” said Pope Francis during the Mass he celebrated at Santa Marta in the Vatican on November 16, 2017
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Commenting on the Gospel of the day (Luke 17:20-25), the Holy Father noted the “doubt” and the “curiosity” that drives men regarding the “Kingdom of God.” This Kingdom, he explained in his homily reported by Vatican Radio, grows “hidden”, “in humility.”

“Who makes this seed grow, who makes it germinate?” he asked. God, the Holy Spirit, who is within us. And the Holy Spirit is spirit of sweetness, spirit of humility; He is spirit of obedience, spirit of simplicity. It’s He who makes the Kingdom of God grow from within, not from pastoral plans, great things…No, it’s the Spirit, secretly…then the moment arrives and the fruit appears.

The Kingdom of God is always a “surprise,” because “it’s a gift given by the Lord,” continued the Pontiff. “The Kingdom of God doesn’t come in a way to attract attention…It’s not a show or…a carnival…The Kingdom of God doesn’t show itself with sufficiency, pride, it doesn’t like publicity: it’s humble, hidden, and grows thus.”

“We are all called to take this path of the Kingdom of God,” he stressed. “It’s a vocation, it’s a grace, it’s a gift, it’s free, it’s not purchased, it’s a grace that God gives us. And all of us, baptized, have the Holy Spirit within us.”

Pope Francis concluded by inviting to an examination of conscience: “How is my relationship with the Holy Spirit?…Do I believe in Him; do I really believe that the Kingdom of God is in our midst, that it’s hidden, or do I prefer a show?”

The Pontiff wished for Christians the grace to have germinate “in us and in the Church, forcefully, the seed of the Kingdom of God so that it becomes big, so that it gives shelter to numerous persons and bears fruits of holiness.”

Pope Francis on the Kingdom of God



This simplicity and it's importance is repeatedly emphasized in the Volumes and without simplicity there is no sure place for his truths to find a home.

Then He showed me many religious people and, among them, priests - even of holy life.  But as good as they were, they lacked that spirit of simplicity in believing in the many graces and the many ways the Lord uses with souls.  Jesus said to me:  “I communicate Myself both to the humble and to the simple, because they immediately believe in my graces and take them into great consideration, though they may be ignorant and poor.  But with these others you see, I am very reluctant, because the first step which draws the soul near Me is belief; and it happens that these, with all of their science and doctrine, and even holiness, never come to experience a ray of celestial light – that is, they walk along the natural way, and they never arrive at touching, even slightly, that which is supernatural.  This is also the reason for which in the course of my mortal life there was not one learned, one priest, one man of power, among my followers, but all ignorant and of low condition – because these were more humble and simple, and also more disposed to make great sacrifices for Me.” 

Vol. 2, May 19, 1899 

But one knows, that my truths find post more in the simple hearts than in the learned hearts.  This happened in my Redemption, with my sorrow not one learned one followed Me; but all the poor, ignorant and simple ones.  You should know that my truths are seeds that I the Celestial Farmer continue to sow in souls, and if I make my seeding(,) with certainty I must gather the fruit.  Many times it happens to Me as to the poor sower that casts his seed in the earth, which for lack of moisture the earth doesn’t hold the strength to eat the seed in order to digest it and to convert it in earth and give the substance that it has absorbed from the seed and give the ten, the twenty, the one hundred of the seed that it has eaten.  Other times while he casts the seed, for lack of rain the earth is made hard over the seed and the substance of the seed that it encloses doesn’t find the way in order to make life go forth, and the poor farmer must have patience to receive the harvest of his seeds.  However with having sowed the seed he has already done a thing and can have hope of who knows that a rain might give moisture to the earth, which possessing the substance of his seeds, it will put forth that which he has sowed, or else taking away the hardness and shifting it forms the ways in order to let his seed reproduce.  So that the sower in spite that the earth doesn’t produce immediately, the multiplicity of the seed that it received, the time, the circumstances, the rain, can produce a most abundant harvest that he didn’t expect.  Now if the farmer in spite of all the difficulties of the earth, can hope to receive an abundant harvest, more so I, Celestial Farmer, having put forth from my Divine bosom, so many seeds of Celestial truths, in order to sow them in the depth of your soul, and from the harvest I will fill the whole world. 

Vol. 31, February 24, 1933




Just as we must be simple to allow the light of God's truth, his seed to enter us we must also be simple working with a purity of intention and detached from all that is not God in order to enter the narrow door to Jesus.

Assuming a more afflicted air, He added:  “My daughter, what will happen to so many works, even good, done without purity of intention, out of habit and self-interest?  What shame will not fall upon them on the Day of Judgment, in seeing so many works, good in themselves, but made rotten by their intention, such that, their very actions, instead of rendering honor to them, as they would to many others, will give them shame?  In fact, I do not look at the greatness of the works, but at the intention with which they are done.  Here is all my attention."

Jesus kept silent for a little while, and I kept thinking about the words He had spoken to me while I was meditating within my mind, especially on the purity of intention, and on the fact that, when creatures do good, they must disappear, making the creature one with the Lord Himself, as if creatures did not exist.

Then Jesus continued, saying to me:  "Yet, it is so.  See, my Heart is so very large, but the door is very narrow.  No one can fill the void of this Heart but souls who are detached, naked and simple.  In fact, as you see, since the door is small, any hindrance, even the slightest – that is, a shadow of attachment, an intention which is not upright, a work done without the purpose of pleasing Me – prevents them from entering to delight in my Heart.  Much love of neighbor enters my Heart, but it must be so united to mine as to form one single love, in such a way that one cannot be distinguished from the other.  But as for the other love of neighbor which is not transformed into my love – I do not look at it as something that belongs to Me."

Vol. 2,  May 7, 1899


Early in the Volumes Luisa received four rules by which to live by so as to become detached from all that is of this earth, from others and even from herself.  In effect He taught her how to become simple and in knowing herself more for what she lacks she would learn to trust Jesus more and more.  This is what leads to the purity of intention.  In knowing one's own nothingness one depends and trusts only God's Will with the desire to only act together and in union with Him.

Jesus gives four rules of life to the soul.
Jesus gave me new rules of life, to make me live more intimately united to him, following him more perfectly than I have in the past.  ...  

1          So, I say that first of all Jesus directed me to totally detach myself from all creation, and even from my own self, almost as though I was to live in perfect forgetfulness of all things.  With this, my interior would become disposed to have his sweet memory ever present to me, and a living and beating affection of love toward him, so that, being pleased with all my acts, he might form his permanent dwelling in my heart.  Outside of him, he said, I was no longer to know anyone:  not friends, not even my own self.  Only in him was the memory of everything and of everyone to be reawakened, since the creature necessarily can be found in him.  To achieve this, he added that I was always to act with holy indifference, mindless of what may be happening around me.  In other words, I was always to act uprightly and with the greatest simplicity, not keeping account of the pros and the cons of creatures.

“In practice then, if at times I didn’t do all this, my dear Jesus, scolding me severely, said, “If you do not achieve not only effective detachment, but affective as well, you cannot become entirely clothed in my light.  If, on the contrary, you strip yourself of every earthly affection, you will become like a most clear crystal that lets all the light go through it.  Then my divinity, which is light, will enter you in its entirety.”

2          “In the second place, he said I was to no longer live in myself, but only and entirely in him, that is to say, I was to live detached from myself.  I was always to take care to clothe myself in the true spirit of faith, by which I was always to strive to know myself better – in order to distrust my own ability, being incapable of doing anything by myself, and to always come to know my Jesus more, to be able to trust in him more and more.”

“After you have come to the knowledge of yourself and of who I am,” he said to me, “as a consequence, very often you will go outside of yourself to cast yourself into the immense sea of my providence.  Then, as a little bride of whom the bridegroom is so jealous that he does not want to let her take the least pleasure with others, you will always keep close to me.  And just as she is always facing her spouse so that he cannot have any doubts about her, so too, you will give me absolute dominion over yourself – whether I want to caress you, enrich you with charisms, kisses and love; or strike you, oppress you and put any suffering on you.  You will have to subject yourself to everything for my love, always in the full freedom of your will, because we will share both pains and joys.  Indeed we will compete to see which of us can take more pains upon ourselves, for the sole purpose of pleasing and contenting the other.”

3          “In the third place, not your will but mine alone must be in you.  It must be there and rule as a king in his royal palace.  Otherwise, the disagreements of an unsatisfactory love will make themselves heard at once, from which dark shadows will appear, giving rise in you to those discords and that dissimilarity of actions unacceptable to the mutual nobility which absolutely must reign between you, my spouse, and me.  This nobility will reign in you if, from time to time, you try to enter your nothingness, that is, if you come to the perfect knowledge of yourself – but not to remain there.  Once you have known your nothingness, without delay you must do everything in your power to enter into the infinite power of my Will.  From there you will draw all the graces you need in order to raise yourself up into me and do everything with me, with no regard to yourself; for I want you to completely disappear in me.”

4          “In the fourth place, from now on between you and me, I don’t want that ‘you’ and ‘I’ to exist.  Therefore, it will no longer be said ‘you will do,’ ‘I will do,’ but ‘we will do.’  Also, that ‘yours’ and ‘mine’ must disappear.  Instead, we will say ‘ours,’ of al things, since you, as my faithful spouse will share with me and will guide the destiny of the world.  All the redeemed by my blood have become my children and brothers; and just as they are mine, so too will they be children and brothers of yours.  As children, you shall love them as true mother.  It is true that these brothers and children will cost us numerous pains because for the most part they have become very unrestrained, extremely self-willed, and many even perverted.  Even so, after my example, you will take upon yourself the pains they deserve, and at the cost of the most painful sacrifices you will try to save them.  Then you will bring them to my heart covered by the merits of the pains you have suffered and all sprinkled with your blood and mine.  In view of this, not only will my heavenly Father have mercy on them and forgive them; but furthermore, if they are perfectly contrite, many of them, like the good thief, will very quickly take eternal possession of paradise.

             “Finally, in the measure that you have detached yourself from everything that is not purely mine, you will find yourself ever more immersed in my absolute Will; and in it, thanks to the knowledge of my essence, which will become more lively in you day by day, you will acquire the fullness of my love.  Then (just as one sees images in a mirror at the rebounding reflection of the light), so too, more than ever, you will find all creatures having a spirit of intelligence and of love, really ordered in me in such a way that at a single glance you will see them all and will know the state of conscience of each.  Then, for this reason, more than as loving mother, in the true spirit of mercy – which is my spirit and that of my mother – you will make the maximum sacrifice, offering yourself in sacrifice for them  This sacrifice will be like a mantle that will completely cover you, as my true imitator and faithful spouse.”

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It is only in the emptying of ourselves from ourselves and our disordered attachments that we can turn to God who can fill us completely with himself.  It is often through dryness that He begins this process in us and then we through humility and obedience continue it.

And He:  “I am not making fun of you; you yourself cannot comprehend that when not everything is dry in the soul, complacency is a humor, satisfaction is a humor, one’s own taste is a humor, self-esteem is a humor.  On the other hand, when everything is dry and the soul operates, these humors have no place from which to arise, and the Divine Fire, finding only the soul naked, as dry as she was created by It, with no other extraneous humors, since it is something that belongs to It, it is extremely easy for It to convert her into Its very Divine Fire.  And after this, I infuse in her a garment of peace, and this peace is preserved by interior obedience, and kept by external obedience.  This peace gives birth to the whole of God within the soul – that is, to all the works, the virtues and the ways of the Humanate Word – in such a way that one can see in her His simplicity, His humility, the dependency of His infantile life, the perfection of His adult virtues, the mortification and the crucifixion of His dying.  But it always begins from this:  one who wants the whole of Christ must give everything to Christ.”

Vol. 4, April 29, 1902




 It is through simplicity that we can come to most closely resemble God who is most pure and simple Spirit and bypass doors and obstacles and not become stained by the earth's ugliness.  She becomes like light which can communicate itself to all.  With this virtue she can come to participate in the other divine qualities as there are no obstacles for the work of Divine Grace in her. 

“My daughter, simplicity is to virtues as condiment to foods.  For a simple soul there are neither keys nor doors to enter into Me, nor are there for Me to enter into her, because from all sides she can enter into Me, and I into her.  Even more, to better say it, she finds herself in Me without entering because, by her simplicity, she comes to resemble Me, who am most simple Spirit, and only because I am most simple I am present everywhere and nothing can escape my hand.  A simple soul is like the light of the sun – in spite of any fog, or of the fact that its rays pass through whatever rubbish, it remains always light, it gives light to all, and it never changes.  In the same way, a simple soul, no matter what mortification or displeasure she may receive, does not cease to be light for herself and for those who have mortified her.  And if she sees evil things, she does not become stained, but remains always light; nor does she change, because simplicity is that virtue which most resembles the Divine Being.  Only through this virtue can one participate in the other divine qualities, and only in the soul who is simple are there no impediments or obstacles for Divine Grace to enter and to operate.  In fact, since both one and the other are light, one light easily unites and transforms into the other.”

Vol. 7, July 31, 1906



Simplicity is the mark of the Trinity.  Simplicity is the fruit of  Justice and Truth.  Truth is the child of Justice and when this mark is present in the soul the soul sees clearly and can not be deceived.  She recognizes  the absence of peace and recognizes deceit turning away from it.  With processing the mark of simplicity she can penetrate into all that is good and this mark is so beautiful before God that it wounds His Heart and makes her the admiration of both angels and men.

“The daughter of justice is truth.  Just as I am the eternal Truth, and I do not deceive, nor can I deceive, in the same way, the soul who possesses justice makes truth shine in all of her actions.  Therefore, since she knows by experience the true light of truth, if someone wants to deceive her, since that light which she feels within herself is missing, she immediately recognizes the deceit.  And so it happens that with this light of truth she deceives neither herself, nor her neighbor, nor can she be deceived.  The fruit produced by this justice and by this truth is simplicity, which is another quality of my Being – being simple; so much so, that I penetrate everywhere; there is nothing that can prevent Me from penetrating inside of it.  I penetrate into Heaven and into the abysses, into good and into evil; but my Being, which is most simple, by penetrating even into evil, does not get dirty; even more, it does not receive the slightest shadow.  In the same way, through justice and truth, gathering this beautiful fruit of simplicity within herself, the soul penetrates into Heaven, she enters into hearts to lead them to Me, she penetrates into everything that is good; and if she finds herself with sinners and sees the evil that they do, she does not get dirty because, being simple, she immediately brushes it off, without receiving any harm.  Simplicity is so beautiful, that my Heart is wounded at one gaze alone of a simple soul.  She is the admiration of angels and men.”

Vol. 2, August 10, 1899 



We with our human natures tend to complicate matters and we think that things of God are complex but the opposite is true.  The sign that God is working in the soul is the mark of simplicity and the sign of the reign of God's Kingdom will be also simplicity.  That which complicates, that which is overly intellectualized should be met warily and is more likely coming from man rather than God.

“My daughter, my Divine Will simplifies the creature, It empties her so much of everything that does not belong to It, that nothing else is left of the human being but a complex of simplicity. Simple the gaze, the word, the manners, the steps; the mark of the divine simplicity can be seen in her as though in a mirror. Therefore, when my Divine Will reigns on earth, pretense, lie, which can be called origin of every evil, will not longer exist; while simplicity, as origin of every true good, will be the true characteristic that will point out that here reigns the Divine Will.

Vol. 27, November 6, 1929 


Truly the Shakers glimpsed this truth when they wrote their hymn Simple Gifts.