Sunday, February 13, 2022

Co-Redemptrix, the scandal indeed



(As a side note I love Michelangelo's final Pieta, although some say it is rough and unfinished.  It shows the figure of Jesus as melting into the figure of Mary, so identified with each other that it is hard to see where one ends and the other begins.)


Back in Dec of 2019 and then again in March of 2021 Pope Francis commented on the title of Our Lady as Co-Redemptix.


“She never wanted for herself something that was of her son,” Francis said. “She never introduced herself as co-redemptrix. No. Disciple,” he said, meaning that Mary saw herself as a disciple of Jesus.  

Mary, the pope insisted, “never stole for herself anything that was of her son,” instead “serving him. Because she is mother. She gives life.”

“When they come to us with the story of declaring her this or making that dogma, let’s not get lost in foolishness [in Spanish, tonteras],” he said.

12-2019 Pope Francis calls Mary as co-redemptrix foolishness



Jesus, Francis said speaking off-the-cuff, entrusted the entire Church and all the faithful to Mary, but “as a mother. Not as a goddess. Not as a co-redemptrix. As a mother.”

“It’s true that Christian piety always gives beautiful titles to her, like a son to the mother … how many beautiful things does a son say to the mother? But pay attention: the [beautiful] things that the Church, the saints, say to Mary, take nothing away from Christ’s uniqueness as a redeemer,” the pope added, always looking away from his prepared remarks.

“He [Christ] is the only redeemer. They [Marian titles] are expressions of love like a son to the mother, sometimes exaggerated, but we know love always makes us do exaggerated things. Lovesickness,” Francis said.

3-2021 Pope Francis refutes Mary as Co-Redemptrix



Interesting St John Paul II used the term Co-Redemptrix on several occasions.



"Pope St. John Paul II has used the term co-redemptrix on at least five occasions in the course of his papal teachings."

Pope Francis vs the Marian Title Co-Redemptrix




It's true that Mary under the title of Co-Redemptrix is not currently accepted as dogma in the church but I couldn't help feeling very sad for Pope Francis' response.   I heard the Gospel of Mark read in the daily mass recently and felt the connection of people using human measures to try to explain away the divine ways.



6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me,
    teaching human precepts as doctrines.’

8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

Mark 7: 6-8



In the Volumes Jesus states that Mary was not to be dis-similar from Him and that she was to be co-redemptrix suffering all pains voluntarily with Him.  And when Jesus speaks He does not speak in "exaggerated expressions" but in truth.  




“My daughter, there is an immense difference between one who must form a good, a kingdom, and one who must receive it in order to enjoy it.  I came upon earth to expiate, to redeem, to save man; and in order to do this I had to receive the pains of creatures, and take them upon Myself as if they were my own.  My Divine Mama, who was to be co-redemptrix, was not to be dissimilar from Me; rather, the five drops of blood which She gave Me from Her most pure Heart in order to form my little Humanity, came out of Her crucified Heart.  For Us the pains were offices which We came to fulfill, therefore they were all voluntary pains, not impositions of a fragile nature. 

Vol. 20, January 30, 1927




In some ways it is understandable that Pope Francis can not accept Mary under the title of Co-Redemptrix, but it is because he is looking at her with human eyes and not the eyes of God.  His knowledge is limited to only that what he, himself, can see.  Jesus explains how Mary's heart was indeed the deposit of all sufferings and she was pierced not just with the seven visible swords that the Church recognizes but by millions of swords, one for each sin from mankind.




“My little daughter, you yourself are saying how necessary knowledge is.  If it is necessary for you, much more so for others.  Now, you must know that in order to form the Kingdom of Redemption, those who distinguished themselves the most in suffering were my Mama and I.  And even though apparently She suffered none of the pains that the other creatures knew, except for my death which was known by all, and which was the fatal and harrowing blow for Her maternal Heart, more than any most sorrowful death, however, since She possessed the unity of the light of my Will, this light brought to Her pierced Heart, not only the seven swords told by the Church, but all swords, spears and pricks of all sins and pains of creatures, which martyred Her maternal Heart in a harrowing way.  But this is nothing.  This light brought Her all my pains, my humiliations, my torments, my thorns, my nails, the most intimate pains of my Heart.  The Heart of my Mama was the true Sun:  though one can see nothing but light, this light contains all the goods and effects that the earth receives and possesses; so, one can say that the earth is enclosed in the Sun.  The same for the Sovereign Queen:  one could only see Her person, but the light of my Supreme Will enclosed in Her all possible imaginable pains; and the more intimate and unknown these pains were, the more valuable and powerful they were over the Divine Heart, to impetrate the longed for Redeemer; and more than solar light, they descended into the hearts of creatures, to conquer them and bind them in the Kingdom of Redemption.

“So, the Church knows so very little of the pains of the Celestial Sovereign Queen, that one can say that She knows only the visible pains, and this is why She gives the number of the seven swords.  But if She knew that Her maternal Heart was the refuge, the deposit of all pains, and that the light of my Will brought everything to Her, sparing Her nothing, the Church would not speak of seven swords, but of millions of swords.  More so, since they were intimate pains, and therefore God alone knows the intensity of the sorrow.  This is why, by right, She was constituted Queen of martyrs and of all sorrows.  Creatures can give a weight, a value to exterior pains, but they do not know enough of the interior ones to be able to attribute to them the right price.  Now, in order to form in my Mama, first the Kingdom of my Will, and then that of Redemption, so many pains were not necessary because, since She had no sin, the inheritance of pains was not for Her – Her inheritance was the Kingdom of my Will.  But in order to give the Kingdom of Redemption to creatures, She had to submit Herself to so many pains.  So, the fruits of Redemption were matured in the Kingdom of my Will possessed by Me and by my Mama.  There is nothing beautiful, good or useful, which does not come from my Will. 

Vol. 19, July 11, 1926 





Jesus speaks of His office as Redeemer and Our Lady's office as Co-Redemptrix.  Mary, whose mission is to be Mother of God was enriched with grace as to surpass all creatures, terrestrial and celestial combined.  But this is just the beginning.  She reciprocated God for the love and adoration of all, repairing for each before God.  This is what drew the second person of the Trinity to incarnate Himself in Her womb.  And as Jesus was conceived in her, she received the office of Co-Redemptrix.  She then took part in, and embraced together with Jesus, all the pains, the satisfactions, the reparations, and the maternal love toward all.  So that when Jesus declared that Mary was the Mother of all, on the cross, He did so in truth, not in a beautiful exaggeration...





“My daughter, in certain missions or offices, such gifts, graces, riches and prerogatives must be enclosed within them, that if it wasn’t for the mission or the office occupied, it would not be necessary for one to possess the whole magnitude of what he possesses, which has been given to him because of the necessity to carry out that office.

My Humanity was given by my Divinity the mission of the salvation of souls and the office of Redeemer – of redeeming them. Because of this office, I was entrusted their souls, their pains, their satisfactions; so, I enclosed everything. And if my Humanity had not enclosed even just one soul, one pain, one satisfaction, the office of Redeemer would not have been complete - I would not have enclosed within Myself all the graces, the goods and the light which it was necessary to give to each soul. And even though not all souls are saved, this says nothing; I was to enclose the goods of all, so that, on my part, I might have the necessary and superabundant graces for all, in order to be able to save all. This was befitting to Me for the decorum and the just honor of my office of Redeemer. The same happens to the sun which is above your horizon: it contains so much light as to be able to give light to all; and even if not everyone wanted to enjoy its light, because of the unique office of sun which it has, it possesses even that light which creatures might refuse. If this was befitting to the sun, because it was created by God as the unique sphere which was to warm the earth and embrace it with its light – in fact, when one thing or one office is unique, in order to be able to carry out its office, it is necessary for it to contain so much of that good as to be able to give it to all, without exhausting one atom of it in giving it to others – much more befitting was it to Me, who was to be the new Sun of souls; who was to give light to all and embrace everything with my light, to be able to bring them to the Supreme Majesty, and offer to It an act which would contain all acts, and make superabundant light descend upon all in order to place them in safety.

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.

When an office is unique, it comes as a consequence that one must let nothing escape him; one must have everything under one’s eyes, so as to be able to hold out that good which one possesses; one must be like a true sun which can hold out light to all. So it was for Me and for my Celestial Mama.

Vol. 17, May 1, 1925





Now without doubt there is still a great difference between Jesus and Mary.  Mary will always be a creature before God and she lived off of His reflections.  But all this is done in such a manner that no one else can ever equal her.  God was able to operate perfectly and fully in her because She lived fully in the Divine Will from the first moment of her existence.  Furthermore, God, who is perfect and immeasurable to us in His generosity is still on the look out to find others to reflect the reverberations of His life and sorrows in.  Others who are willing to live in His Will by His Fiat. 




“My daughter, I was the first King of sorrows, and being Man and God, I had to centralize everything within Me in order to have primacy over everything, even over sorrows. Those of my Mama were nothing other than the reverberations of mine which, being reflected in Her, made Her share in all my sorrows which, piercing Her, filled Her with such bitterness and pain that She felt Herself dying at each reverberation of my sorrows. But love sustained Her and gave Her life again. Therefore, not only for honor, but also by right of justice, She was the first Queen of the immense sea of Her sorrows.” While He was saying this, I seemed to see my Mama in front of Jesus, and everything that Jesus contained, the sorrows and the piercings of that Most Holy Heart, were reflected in the Heart of the sorrowful Queen. At those reflections, many swords formed in the Heart of the pierced Mama; and these swords were marked by a Fiat of light, in which She remained circumfused, in the midst of so many Fiats of most refulgent light which gave Her so much glory that there are no words to narrate it.

Then, Jesus continued, saying: “It was not the sorrows that constituted my Mama as Queen and made Her shine with so much glory, but it was my omnipotent Fiat, which was braided to Her every act and sorrow, and constituted Itself life of each of Her sorrows. So, my Fiat was the first act that formed the sword, giving Her the intensity of pain that It wanted. My Fiat could place all the sorrows It wanted in that pierced Heart, adding piercings upon piercings, pains upon pains, without a shadow of the slightest resistance. On the contrary, She felt honored that my Fiat would constitute Itself life of even a heartbeat of Hers; and my Fiat gave Her complete glory and constituted Her true and legitimate Queen.

Now, who will be the souls in whom I can reflect the reverberations of my sorrows and of my very Life? Those who will have my Fiat as life. This Fiat will make them absorb my reflections, and I will be generous in sharing with them that which my Will operates in Me. Therefore, in my Will do I await souls, to give them the true dominion and the complete glory of each act and pain that they may suffer. The operating and suffering outside of my Will I do not recognize; I could say: ‘I have nothing to give you; what is the will that animated you in doing and suffering this? Get your reward from that one.’ Many times, doing good or suffering, if my Will is not present in them, can be miserable slaveries which degenerate into passions, while it is my Will alone that gives true dominion, true virtues, true glory, such as to transform the human into divine.”

Vol. 15, March 23, 1923





Mary is an essential part of the mission of God's manifest Will upon the earth where the Holy Trinity is veiled.  Jesus represents Himself, the Son, the man/God and Redeemer.  Mary veils the Paternity of God the Father and as God the Father is inseparable from His Son so is Mary inseparable from Jesus and she is in truth the Co-Redemptrix of mankind.  It is Luisa who will veil the role of the Holy Spirit, being inseparable from the one and the other.





‘The mission of my Will will veil the Most Holy Trinity upon earth. Just as in Heaven there are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, inseparable from One Another but distinct among Themselves, forming the whole beatitude of Heaven; in the same way, on earth there will be three persons who, because of their missions, will be distinct and inseparable among themselves: the Virgin, with Her Maternity which veils the Paternity of the Celestial Father and encloses His power in order to fulfill Her mission of Mother of the Eternal Word and Co-Redemptrix of mankind; my Humanity, for the mission of Redeemer, which enclosed the Divinity, and the Word, without ever separating from the Father and from the Holy Spirit, manifested my celestial wisdom - adding the bond of rendering Myself inseparable from my Mama; and you, for the mission of my Will, as the Holy Spirit will make display of His love, manifesting to you the secrets, the prodigies of my Will, the goods It contains, to make happy those who will give themselves to knowing how much good this Supreme Will contains, to love It and to let It reign in their midst, offering their souls to let It dwell within their hearts, that It may be able to form Its Life in them – adding the bond of inseparability between you, the Mother and the Eternal Word.

These three missions are distinct and inseparable. The first two have prepared the graces, the light, the work, and with unheard-of pains, for the third mission of my Will, to then fuse themselves all in It without leaving their office, so as to find rest, because my Will alone is celestial rest. These missions will not be repeated, because the exuberance of grace, of light, of knowledge is such and so great that all human generations can be filled with them; even more, they will not be able to contain all the good which they contain.

Vol. 17, May 4, 1925




In response to Pope Francis' statement that Mary "... never introduced herself as co-redemptrix."  In fact she did.  In the Hours of the Passion of the Blessed Virgin's Desolation, Mary states that she binds all souls to her Son's cross so that no one may be lost by trials or crosses.  She claims this right as Co-Redemptix and mother. 




Now I see you are obliged to return to Jerusalem by that same path on which you came.  After just a few steps the cross already appears, on which Jesus suffered so much and then died.  You run to it and kiss it.  Seeing it stained with blood, the pains he suffered on it are renewed in your heart one by one.  Unable to contain your sorrow, sobbing, you exclaim:

 

"O cross!  How is it that you were so cruel to my Son?  Now, you didn't spare him in anything!  What wrong did he do to you?  You didn't permit me, his sorrowful mother, to give him even a sip of water when he asked for it; and to his parched mouth you gave him gall and vinegar.  I felt my transfixed heart liquefied, and would have liked to offer my melted heart to those lips to quench his thirst, but I received the sorrow of being rejected.  Yes, O cross, you are cruel, but holy, because you were divinized and sanctified by your contact with my Son.  Change that cruelty you used with him into compassion for miserable mortals.  And for the pains he suffered on you, plead grace and strength for suffering souls, so that no one may be lost because of trial and crosses.  Souls cost me too much.  They cost me the life of a Son-God.  And as Co-redemptrix and mother, I bind them to you, O cross."

The Hours of the Passion, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., The Blessed Virgin Mary's Desolation





Luisa, Mary and Jesus are so important in the mission of the Kingdom of the Divine Will that Luisa forms the second link to Jesus' humanity, where He forms the first link to the true living in the Divine Will.  Luisa feeling crushed and confused by this asks then about Mary and He says that she is so identified with Him that she forms one link with Him and does not enter into the secondary part of His love.




“Now, the first link which connected the true living in my Will was my Humanity.  My Humanity, identified with my Divinity, swam in the Eternal Volition, and kept tracing all the acts of creatures in order to make them Its own, and give to the Father a divine glory on the part of creatures, and bring to all the acts of creatures the value, the love, the kiss of the Eternal Volition.  In this sphere of the Eternal Volition, I could see all the acts of creatures that could possibly be done and were not done, and the very good acts done badly; and I did those which were not done, and redid those done badly.  Now, these acts, not done, and done only by Me, are all suspended in my Will, and I await the creatures to come to live in my Volition, and repeat in my Will that which I did.  This is why I chose you as the second link of connection with my Humanity, forming one single link with mine, living in my Volition, repeating my very acts.  Otherwise, on this side my love would remain without outpouring, without glory on the part of creatures for what my Divinity operated in my Humanity, and without the perfect purpose of Creation, which must be enclosed and perfected in my Will.  It would be as if I had shed all my Blood, suffered so much, and no one had known it.  Who would have loved Me?  Which heart would be shaken?  No one; and therefore in no one would I have had my fruits, the glory of Redemption.”

Vol. 12, January 29, 1919


(Here Luisa is questioning what she received in the previous entry.)  I was saying to my sweet Jesus:  ‘How is it possible that I am the second link of connection with your Humanity?  There are souls so very dear to You, under whose feet I do not deserve to be; and then, there is your inseparable Mama, who occupies the first place in everything and over everything.  It seems to me, my sweet Love, that You really want to play with me; yet, to the crudest torment of my soul, I am forced by obedience to put this on paper.  My Jesus, have pity on my hard martyrdom.’

While I was saying this, my always lovable Jesus, caressing me, told me:

 

“My daughter, why do you trouble yourself?  Is it perhaps not my usual way to elect from the dust and form great portents - portents of grace?  All the honor is mine, and the weaker and lower is the subject, the more I am glorified.  And then, my Mama does not enter the secondary part of my love, of my Will, but forms one single link with Me.

Vol. 12, February 9, 1919

 




I find it ironically amusing, although very sad as well, that so many buck at Mary being given the title of Co-Redemptrix.  If Pope Francis has a hard time accepting this of She who was born immaculate and was given the mission of Mother of God and Mother of mankind how can he even begin to accept the great plan of God as He reveals in the Volumes.  Here Jesus tells Luisa how her mission is of such enormity that she will not be able to finish it on earth but it will continue long after she has gone to Heaven.  It is none other than establishing the Kingdom on earth through revealing all the knowledges about the Divine Will.  And just as the Holy Trinity is one in three so the earthy representatives of this manifestation are also united and Jesus says to Luisa  "...then We will give the name of Co-Redemptrix of Our Will, declaring you mother of all the children of Our Fiat."  So Luisa shares in the title of Co-Redemptrix and Mother of all." 





(Luisa was questioning)...how will it be for Father [Di Francia]?  It will be a mission without fruit, and it will be the same for me, if I should have the good fortune to flee to my (Heavenly) home.

What will be the fruit of my mission?  To have sacrificed myself so much, to have spent entire nights writing; the many interests of Jesus will also be without fruit, because a good which He Himself has given brings forth its fruit when it is known.  So if they aren’t made known, they will rest without fruit, without anyone receiving the goods which they contain.

Now as I was thinking that, my sweet Jesus moved within my interior, and He said to me:

 “My daughter, whoever has been given a mission and has barely had an opportunity to begin, or has not been able to complete the entirety of his missions because at the best moment I call him to Heaven, will continue from up there his mission, so that it may bring into the depths of the soul its deposit of good relating to the knowledges which he has acquired in life.  In Heaven he will understand with greater clarity and understanding the great good of the knowledge of the Supreme Fiat.  He will pray the Fiat, indeed he will ask all of Heaven to pray, that (the knowledges) be known throughout the earth; he will beseech that clearer light be given to whoever must work in making It known.

“This is especially true because every knowledge concerning My Will will bring them one more glory, [and] a greater happiness, and as they are known throughout the earth, their glory and happiness will be doubled, because this will be the fulfillment of his mission which he had in his will to do.  It is just that as his mission is unfolding upon the earth, that [the earth] receive the fruit of his mission; for this reason I told him to make haste, I strongly urged him not to waste time, because I wanted him to not only begin this work, but that he make great progress in the publication of the knowledges of the Eternal Fiat, so that he not have to do it all from Heaven.  He, instead, who has completed his mission on earth can say that his mission is finished; but whoever has not completed [theirs], must do so from Heaven.

“As for you, your mission is very long, and you will not be able to complete it on earth.  Until all the knowledges [about the Divine Will] are known on earth, and the Kingdom of the Divine Will is known, your mission cannot be said to be completed.  In Heaven you will have much to do; My Will, which held you so occupied on earth on behalf of Its Kingdom, will not leave you - you will still work with It in Heaven.  It will always keep you in Its company so that you will do nothing other than descend and ascend from Heaven to earth to help establish My Kingdom with decorum, honor, and glory.

“This will be your great contentment, happiness, and highest glory - in seeing your smallness which, united to My Volition, has transported Heaven to the earth, and the earth to Heaven.  You could not have any greater gratification than this - seeing the glory of your Creator completed by His creatures, the (natural) order re-established, all of creation with its full splendor, and seeing man, Our dear jewel, in his place of honor.  How great will be Our, and your, utmost satisfaction, glory, and unending happiness to see the purpose of creation realized!  To you then We will give the name of Co-Redemptrix of Our Will, declaring you mother of all the children of Our Fiat.  Will you not then be happy?

Vol. 21, March 19, 1927




Jesus again asserts that Luisa's mission is intimately bound with His own and Mary's, that is making the Divine Will known.  So that Mary brought forth the Humanity of Jesus to present to the world, Luisa is bringing forth the Spiritual Life of the Divine Will to make Him known to the world and to all.




Now, your mission of making the eternal Will known is braided with mine and with that of my dear Mother. And since it is to serve for the good of all, it was necessary to centralize this eternal Sun of my Volition in one creature, so that, as unique mission, this Sun might let Its rays blaze from one alone, so that all might take the good of Its light. Therefore, for the decorum and honor of my Will, I was to pour into you such graces, light, love and knowledge of It, as the herald and preparation which befitted the dwelling of the Sun of my Volition. Even more, you must know that, just as my Humanity, because of Its office of Redeemer, conceived all souls, in the same way, because of your office of making my Will known and reigning, as you keep doing your acts in my Will for all, all creatures remain conceived in your will; and as you keep repeating your acts in my Will, you form so many sips of life of Divine Will as to be able to nourish all the creatures which, by virtue of my Will, are as though conceived in yours. Do you not feel how, in my Will, you embrace everyone, from the first to the last creature which is to exist upon earth; and, for all, you would want to satisfy, love, please this Supreme Will, binding It to all, removing all obstacles that prevent Its dominion within creatures, making It known to all; and you expose yourself, even with pains, to satisfy this Supreme Will for all, which so much loves to make Itself known and to reign in the midst of creatures? To you, firstborn daughter of my Divine Volition, it is given to make known the qualities, the value, the good It contains, and Its eternal sorrow of living unknown, hidden, in the midst of the human generations; even more, despised and offended by the evil, and placed by the good at the level of the other virtues, as if It were a little lamp, like the other virtues, and not a Sun, which my Will is.

The mission of my Will is the greatest that can exist; there is no good which does not descend from It; there is no glory which does not come from It. Heaven and earth - everything is centered in It. Therefore, be attentive, and do not want to waste time; everything I have told you for this mission of my Will was necessary - not for you, but for the honor, the glory, the knowledge and the sanctity of my Will. And since my Will is one, one was to be she to whom I was to entrust It, and through whom I was to make Its rays blaze, to do good to all.”

Vol. 17, May 1, 1925




Now there is still more.  Something that can be only worthy of our all powerful, merciful and benevolent God.  And here is the pinacol of the scandal indeed that would really have Pope Francis squirming in his seat.  Jesus tells Luisa that all who do the Hours of the Passion in the Divine Will also receive a share in the title of co-redemptrix.  So all of us, although certainly to a lesser degree, can receive this same title of co-redemptrix that is rightly given to Mary and that Luisa as well shares in due to her intimate mission linked to Mary and Jesus.



 

As I continued the usual Hours of the Passion, my lovable Jesus told me:

 

“My daughter, the world is in continuous act of renewing my Passion; and since my immensity envelopes everything, inside and outside the creatures, from their contact I am forced to receive nails, thorns, scourges, scorns, spit and all the rest which I suffered in the Passion - and still more.  Now, at the contact with souls who do these Hours of my Passion I feel the nails being removed, the thorns shattered, the wounds soothed, the spit taken away.  I feel I am repaid in good for the evil that others do to Me, and in feeling that their contact does no harm to Me, but good, I lean more and more on them.”

In addition to this, returning to speak about these Hours of the Passion, blessed Jesus said:

 “My daughter, know that by doing these Hours the soul takes my thoughts and makes them her own; she takes my reparations, prayers, desires, affections, and even my most intimate fibers, and makes them her own.  And rising up between Heaven and earth, she does my same office, and as co-redemptrix, she says with Me:  ‘Ecce ego, mitte me  [Here I am, send me] - I want to repair for all, answer for all, and impetrate good for all’.”

and your, utmost satisfaction, glory, and unending happiness to see the purpose of creation realized!  To you then We will give the name of Co-Redemptrix of Our Will, declaring you mother of all the children of Our Fiat.  Will you not then be happy?

Vol. 11, November 6, 1914



Now to those who have the faith of a child this is not strange at all.  Doesn't God Himself, reveal just this to us, through Paul when he states that  he, Paul, is completing what is lacking in Christ's sufferings with his own.  If Paul can see how we are all called to identify, unite, and even complete the mission of Redemption how then would such an all good, all gracious, all benevolent God then not also share the glory of the title with His own who are so united to Him. 



24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 25 I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

Colossians 1:24-25

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Power of the Name




In January we celebrate the Holy Name of Jesus.  Honestly I don't think I'd ever really given it much thought in the past.  Of course His name is holy.  He's God after all.  We pray in the name of Jesus.  We make the sign of the cross in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  We pray the Our Father where we state "Hallowed be thy name."    The second commandment states "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain."   The Bible has multiple places that speak of the holiness of the name of the Lord.


Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name;
    worship the Lord in holy splendor.
Ps 29:2

Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
    tell of his salvation from day to day.
Ps 96:2


Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
1Chronicles 16:10


Praise the Lord!
Praise, O servants of the Lord;
    praise the name of the Lord.

2 Blessed be the name of the Lord
    from this time on and forevermore.

Ps 113:1-2



So of course the name of the Lord is holy.  But it seemed to me that there is more to this than just what appears so obvious so I decided to look a bit deeper.  When Adam named all the creatures he did so in truth.  Because he saw all in the light of the Divine Will he could see clearly the reflected attributes of God in each thing so he would be able to name each accordingly.  




You must know that for one who is called to be the head of a mission, the more he encloses of the good pertaining to that mission, the more good he will be able to communicate to others. Those goods will be like many seeds which he will lend to others, so that whoever has the fortune of wanting to acquire those seeds, may become the possessor of the harvest of those seeds. This happened in Adam who, being the first man, was constituted the head of all generations; and, he being the head, it was necessary for him to possess the seeds in order to give to others what is necessary for the development of human life. Regardless of the fact that these seeds have been expanded, dilucidated, known more, according to the goodwill of the following generations, to the capacity and the application they have used over these very seeds; nevertheless, Adam had them all within himself, and it can be said that everything comes from him. So, it can be said that, in being created by God, he was endowed with all sciences. What others learn with so many efforts, he possessed as gift in a surprising way. So, he possessed the knowledge of all the things of this earth; he had the science of all plants, of all herbs and of the virtue which each of them contained; he had the science of all species of animals and of how he should use them; he had the science of music, of singing, of writing, of medicine – in sum, of everything. And if the generations possessed each one its special science, Adam possessed them all. See, then, how it is necessary for one who must be the head to enclose within himself all the good which he must share with others.

Vol. 18, November 12, 1925 




Now in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as well in the Bible it clearly states that everyone's name is sacred and Jesus knows us fully and completely knowing our names.


The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Jn 10:3


2158 God calls each one by name. Everyone's name is sacred. the name is the icon of the person. It demands respect as a sign of the dignity of the one who bears it.

Catechism of the Catholic Church




Saying that the name is the icon of the person is to say that the name is the "representative symbol (of a person or thing) worthy of veneration." Definitions from Oxford Languages But the name of someone is more than just a representation of the named.  Jesus creates and blesses though pronouncing His Fiat, that is His name.  He is the word (Fiat), and He is the life and with His breath (Fiato) He breathed life into man.  With His creative word He blessed His Mother at the start of His Passion and through her, all creatures.  He did not only bless creatures but every act, word and all the thoughts of each one and all created things as well all that which would serve creatures.  And this creative word continues to bless without ceasing and without diminishing its source.  With each blessing He renews His attributes within Creation and He renews His image and likeness in each creature, in other words His sanctity.  But as He blesses each creature and all their acts and everything which serves them so He also wants to be blessed by the creature in all, though all, and with all.  He wants to see the creature there with His own blessing everywhere to reciprocate Him and keep Him company.





O Celestial Mama, the hour of the separation is approaching, and I come to You. O Mother, give me Your Love and Your reparations; give me Your sorrow, because together with You I want to follow, step by step, adored Jesus.

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O my sweet Mama, do You know why adorable Jesus has come to You? Ah, He has come to say the last good-bye, to tell You the last word, to receive the last embrace!

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O Jesus, in such a harrowing hour for Your most tender Heart, what a lesson of filial and Loving obedience to Your Mama You give us! What a sweet harmony passes between You and Mary! What a sweet enchantment of Love rises up to the Throne of the Eternal One and extends for the salvation of all creatures of the earth!

O my Celestial Mama, do You know what adored Jesus wants from You? Nothing but Your last blessing. It is true that from every particle of Your being nothing but blessings and praises come out for Your Creator; but Jesus, in taking leave of You, wants to hear the sweet word: “I bless You, O Son.” And that “I bless You” removes all the blasphemies from His hearing, and descends, sweet and gentle, into His Heart. And Jesus wants Your “I bless You,” almost to place it as a shelter from all the offenses of the creatures.

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I see that You are about to leave to go there, where the Will of the Father calls You. The Love between Son and Mother is so great as to render You inseparable, so You leave Yourself in the Heart of Your Mama, and the Queen and Sweet Mama places Herself into Yours; otherwise it would have been impossible for You to separate. But then, Blessing each other, You give Her the last kiss to strengthen Her in the bitter pains She is about to suffer; and giving Her Your last good-bye, You leave.

The Hours of the Passion, excerpts from the First and Second Hour




In order to create the universe, I pronounced one Fiat, and by the Fiat alone I reordered and embellished heaven and earth.  In creating man, my omnipotent breath infused life in him.  In giving start to my Passion, with my omnipotent and creative word I wanted to bless my Mama.  But it was not Her alone that I blessed; in my Mama I saw all creatures.  She was the one who had primacy over everything, and in Her I blessed all, and each one.  Even more, I blessed each thought, word, act, etc.; I blessed each thing that was to serve the creature.  Just as when my omnipotent Fiat created the sun, and this sun, without decreasing in light or in heat, keeps following its course for all, and for each of the mortals; in the same way, my creative word, in blessing, remained in the act of blessing always – always, without ever ceasing to bless, just as the sun will never cease to give its light to all creatures. 

“But this is not all yet.  With my blessing I wanted to renew the qualities of Creation.  I wanted to call my Celestial Father to bless, in order to communicate power to the creature; I wanted to bless her in My name, and of the Holy Spirit, in order to communicate to her wisdom and love, and therefore renew the memory, the intellect and the will of the creature, restoring her as sovereign of everything.

“Know, however, that in giving, I want.  And my dear Mama understood, and She immediately blessed Me, not only for Herself, but in the name of all.  Oh! if all could see this blessing of mine, they would feel it in the water they drink, in the fire that warms them, in the food they take, in the sorrow that afflicts them, in the moans of prayer, in the remorses of guilt, in the abandonment of creatures.  In everything they would hear my creative word saying to them – but unfortunately it is not heard:  ‘I bless you in the name of the Father, of Myself, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  I bless you to help you, I bless you to defend you, to forgive you, to console you - I bless you to make you a saint.’  And the creature would echo my blessings, by blessing Me too, in everything.  These are the effects of my blessing; and my Church, instructed by Me, echoes Me, and in almost all circumstances, in the administration of the Sacraments and others, She gives Her blessing.”

Vol. 12, November 28, 1920




Here again, in the Volumes, Jesus explains that in all and each part of Creation, as well as in Redemption God calls the creature in order to give Himself to her.  All is gift to her, and if she does not respond He continues to call unceasingly.  God has written her name in written in all things as if to prove her rightful inheritance.  But again as God gives so He wants to receive.  He knows that the creature is little and can give little but He takes no notice of it.  As long as she gives herself totally to Him He says:   ‘She gives me everything, and I give her everything.’



“Daughter of my Volition, you must know that only your Jesus knows all the secrets of my Fiat, because I being the Word of the Father, I glorify myself by making myself (the) narrator of that which he has done for the creature.

“Therefore his love is exuberant; in each thing that he did he called you, as much in the works of the creation, as in the works of my redemption; and if you listened to his call by saying to him:  ‘I am here, what do you want?,’ he made for you the gift of his works, if you didn’t respond, he remained to always call you, even though you might not have listened to him.

“Now, if he created the sky, he called you in that azure vault by saying to you:  ‘My daughter, come to see how very beautiful the sky is that I have created for you.  I have created it in order to make of it a gift; come to receive this great gift.  If you don’t listen to me, I cannot give it to you, and you make me remain with the gift suspended in my hands and to always call you; nor will I cease calling you, even to such that I do not see you possessor of my gift.’  The sky contains a most great extension, such that the earth can be called a little hole compared to it.  Therefore everyone holds their place and a sky for each one; and I call them all by name, in order to make the gift of it.  But what is not his sorrow, to call and recall (and) not to be listened to, and they look (at) the sky as if it were not a gift that has been given to them?

“This, my Volition, loves so much, that as he created the sun, thus he called you with his voices of light, and went in search of you and of everyone in order to make a gift of it.  So that your name is written in the sun, in characters of light, nor can I forget it; and as his light descends from his sphere and even arrives to you , thus he goes always calling you.  So that he is not content to call you from the heights of his sphere, but loving you always more, he wants to descend even to the base, and by way of light and heat says to you:  ‘Receive my gift; this sun, for you, I have created it’; and if he is listened to, how he goes into festival!  Because he sees that the creature possesses the sun as her property and gift that her Creator has made for her.

“Anywhere and everywhere he calls you.  He calls you in the wind, now with rule, now with groans, now as if he might want to cry in order to move you to listen to him, so that you may receive the gift of this element.  He calls you in the sea, by way of murmurs, in order to say to you:  ‘This sea is yours; take it as a gift that I make you.’  Even in the air that you breathe, in the little bird that sings he calls you in order to say to you:  ‘Of everything I make you (a) gift.’

“Now, if the soul responds to the call, the gift becomes confirmed; if she does not respond, the gifts remain as suspended between the heaven and the earth.  Because if my Will calls, it is because he wants to be called, in order to maintain the commerce between himself and creatures, in order to make himself known and in order to make arise the incessant love between himself and one who lives in his Fiat; because only one who lives in his Divine Volition more easily senses his so many calls, because while he calls her in his works, he makes himself felt in the depths of her soul, and hence she is called from both parts.

“And then, who (can) tell you how many times I called you and call in all the acts of my humanity?  [I was] conceived and I called you, in order to make you the gift of my conception; I was born and I called you more strongly, and I arrived to cry, to groan (and) to wail, in order to move you to compassion, so that you might immediately respond to me, in order to make you the gift of my birth, tears, groans and whimpers.  If my Celestial Mama wrapped me, I called you in order to wrap you together with me.  In short, I called you in every word that I said, in every step that I made, in every suffering that I suffered, in every drop of my blood; even in my ultimate breath that I gave upon the cross I called you, in order to make you (the) gift of everything; and in order to put you in security I put you together with me into the hands of my Celestial Father.

“Where have I not called you, in order to make you (the) gift of that which I did, in order to vent my love, in order to make you feel how much I loved you and make descend into your heart the sweetness of my enrapturing voice, that enraptures, creates and conquers, and also in order to hear your voice that might say to me:  ‘Here I am for you; tell me, Jesus, what you want?’, how I reciprocate with my love and how it protests that you accept my gifts, and thus I might be able to say:  ‘I have been listened to; my daughter has recognized me and she loves me.?’

“It is true that these are excesses of our love but to love and not to be recognized and loved, cannot be endured, nor can one continue to live.  Therefore we will continue our follies of love, our stratagems, in order to give the course to our life of love.”

Then he added, with a still more intense emphasis of love:

“My daughter, so many are our sighs, our anxieties, because we want that the creature be always with us, because we want to always give her of ours.  But do you know what we want to give her?  Our Will.  Giving her this, there is no good that we don’t give her.  Then, having as drowned her with our love, with our beauty, sanctity and so forth, we say:  ‘We have given you much, and you give us nothing?’  And the creature, as confused, because she has nothing that she can give us, and if she has something it is ours, looks then at her will and she gives it to us as the most beautiful homage to her Creator.

“And we, do you know what we do?  If she might give her will to us in every instant, so many times would we give her the merit, as if she might hold so many wills for how many times she has given it to us; and so many times we give her ours, for how many times she has given hers to us, doubling so many times in her our sanctity, our love, etc.”

 I in hearing this, said:  “My dear Jesus, I earn much, in receiving so many times the merit for how many times I give you my will, and having yours for exchange is the greatest profit for me; and your profit, what is it?”

 And he, assuming a smile:  “To you the merit, and to me the profit of receiving all the glory of my Divine Will; and how many times I give him to you, so many times he doubles,  he multiplies, he centuples my divine glory, that I receive through means of the creature.  So that I can say:  ‘She gives me everything, and I give her everything.’”

Vol. 35, January 16, 1938





In the sign of the cross that we make, often without even thinking, there is so much more than just the common prayer, blessing and sacramental in that gesture.  In fact in making the sign of the cross, by calling on the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, it is the act of impetrating His Divine likeness.  So that the name is more than just a label or tag of someone or something, indeed it encompasses the whole of the being named.  God's blessing renews, repairs, sanctifies and expands His own image and likeness within the blessed.



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

Vol. 24, July 29, 1928



The Catechism confirms this in Baptism where we call on the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit to impart the holiness of God on the person being baptized.



2156 The sacrament of Baptism is conferred "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." In Baptism, the Lord's name sanctifies man, and the Christian receives his name in the Church.

Catechism of the Catholic Church




Now blessing in the name of the Lord impetrates His own image on the blessed.  So in knowing the true name of an individual there is more than just knowing the label of someone.  In the Bible it speaks of knowing the name of someone as being equivalent to an understanding of their very essence.  




But now thus says the Lord,
    he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
    I have called you by name, you are mine.

Isa 43:1





In the same way that Adam could see clearly to know all the animals in order to name them exorcists ask for the demon's name in the rite in order to gain knowledge over them in order to control them.  




Why do you ask for the demon’s name?

The Ritual requires it, for a specific purpose. Naming something, or knowing its name, means having power over that thing. In fact, God gives Adam the power to name things. At the instant that the demon reveals his name, it shows that he has been weakened; if he doesn’t say it, he is still strong.



Of course not only will an Exorcist use the name of a devil to gain control over him but by calling on the name of Jesus we are given command as well.  




In the Exorcist Diary he related how a woman who was being harassed by demonic obsession was able to overcome them in the power of the name of Jesus:
"They are just trying to scare you. They have no such power over you to give you cancer or drag you to hell. The next time they attack you, remind yourself that you are a daughter of God, Creator of Heaven and Earth. Then, with full trust, say out loud three times: 'In the name of Jesus, I declare that you have no power over me! I am a daughter of God. In the Name of Jesus I command you to be gone-- now!'





And Pope Benedict reflects on Jacob's attempt to gain power over his assailant by asking him his name, in the end he ends up giving his own name and gaining a new identify.



His rival, who seems to be held back and therefore defeated by Jacob, rather than giving in to the Patriarch’s request, asks him his name: “What is your name?”. And the Patriarch replies: “Jacob” (v. 28). Here the struggle takes an important turn. In fact, knowing someone’s name implies a kind of power over that person because in the biblical mentality the name contains the most profound reality of the individual, it reveals the person’s secret and destiny. Knowing one’s name therefore means knowing the truth about the other person and this allows one to dominate him. When, therefore, in answer to the unknown person’s request Jacob discloses his own name, he is placing himself in the hands of his opponent; it is a form of surrender, a total handing over of self to the other.
However, in this act of surrender paradoxically Jacob too emerges victorious because he receives a new name with the recognition of his victory by his adversary, who says to him: “You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed” (v. 29). “Jacob” was a name that recalled the Patriarch’s problematic beginnings; in Hebrew, in fact, it recalls the term “heel” and takes the reader back to the time of Jacob’s birth when, as he left his mother’s womb, he held onto the heel of his twin brother (cf. Gen 25:26), almost prefiguring the unfair advantage he would take over his brother in adulthood; however the name Jacob also recalls the verb “to deceive, to supplant”. Well, now, in the struggle in this act of surrender and submission, the Patriarch reveals his true identity as a deceiver, the one who supplants; however the other, who is God, transforms this negative reality into something positive: Jacob the deceiver becomes Israel, he is given a new name as a sign of a new identity. Here, too, the account maintains its deliberate duplicity because the more probable meaning of the name Israel is “God is strong, God is victorious”.
Therefore Jacob has prevailed, he won – his adversary himself says so – but his new identity, which he has received from the adversary himself, affirms and bears witness to God’s victory. And when Jacob in turn asks his opponent his name, the latter refuses to say it, but reveals himself in an unequivocal gesture, giving him the blessing.

the story of Jacob wrestling with God by Pope Benedict XVI





In the book Tenderly-loved she reveals that each person will receive a new name in Heaven that completely, perfectly and truly reflects the individual's personality and the happiness each will receive in Heaven.   It reveals their heavenly and earthy mission.  It above all else reveals the unique relationship of love that they share with God.  In short it is the exact definition of that one unique individual.





My name on earth no longer has importance. My new name in heaven is confidential because at the time of glorification, our God secretly reveals to each Blessed a new name which exactly expresses the precise and individual mode of his or her existence. The new name explains clearly the singular personality and the particular fulfillment of happiness that each person will enjoy in heaven. The name is the exact definition of each glorified person. It is the luminous revelation of their earthly and heavenly mission (vocation). You can not imagine the jubilation and gratitude with which the Blessed receive their new name They then know the essence of their personality and how that personality perfectly conforms to its eternal call (vocation) to joy and pleasure.
 
The new name', she added, is a secret because it refers, above all, to the essential glory which the Blessed directly enjoy with our God. It concerns the subtle characteristics and unique tones of love with which the new Blessed and the Most High eternally love each other. This includes the primary joy that the Blessed one will receive from the entire universe and which he, in turn, will give to the entire universe. Also, it is a secret in this life because Of sin which obscures everything,
 

Don't you want to reveal your new name to me?
 

Impossible! You would die from the joy. Any strictly celestial understanding (notion) produces a joy incompatible with earthly life. However, you can call me Tenderlyloved. I believe that is the earthly word that is closest to my new name since I possess only the most remote participation in the Divine Tenderness.

Tenderly-Loved, copyright 1994, pg. 26




This new Heavenly name that she speaks of is also referred to in scriptures and defined in the Catechism.




2159 The name one receives is a name for eternity. In the kingdom, the mysterious and unique character of each person marked with God's name will shine forth in splendor. "To him who conquers . . . I will give a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it." "Then I looked, and Lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads."

Catechism of the Catholic Church


 Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Rev 2:17


Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! And with him were one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Rev 14:1




How is it this new name acquired?  In Tenderly Loved she states that we receive this name at the time of our glorification.  In the Volumes Jesus tells Luisa that when one totally empties themselves and becomes consumed completely into the beloved, acquiring all of the features and the nobility of the Divine Being is when one acquires a name.  This total giving of oneself for love is what it takes to reach glorification and receive one's new name.  



What is sacrifice? It is to empty oneself out in the love and in the being of the beloved; and the more one sacrifices himself, the more he is consumed in the being of the beloved, losing his own, and acquiring all the features and the nobility of the Divine Being. See, it is so also in the natural world, though very imperfect: who acquires a name, nobility, heroism? – a soldier who sacrifices himself, who exposes himself in battle, who lays down his life for love of the king, or another who stands arms akimbo? Certainly the first one. The same for a servant: who can hope to sit at the table of his master? – the faithful servant who sacrifices himself, who lays down his life, who has greater care for the interests of his master than for his own, out of love for his master; or the servant who, though he fulfills his duty, when he can shun the sacrifice, shuns it? Certainly the first one. The same for a son with his father, for a friend with his friend, and so with all the rest. Therefore, love ennobles and unites, and forms one single thing; sacrifice is the wood to make the fire of love grow; obedience, then, orders everything.”
Vol. 8, October 29, 1907






God knows our limitations and He knows what He must give in order for the creature to live in His Will.  He will provide everything that is needed provide that the creature give her name, that is all of herself with firm commitment to Him.




“Behold therefore so much is my love that I want that one live in my Will that at whatever cost, although there might be needed continuous miracles I will do them.  But have you noticed my tenderness, my strong love? that having missed her course I don’t reproach her, I don’t say anything to her and if I see that she notices that she has missed it I encourage her, I commiserate her in order to not put mistrust in her and all goodness I say to her:  Don’t fear, I have supplied for you and you will be more attentive, isn’t (this) true?  And she seeing my goodness loves me more.  I know what I must give of mine, in order to have that the creature might live in my Will, and therefore I will do as a king, that greatly loves that his kingdom be populated.  He makes it (known) to the whole world, that whoever wants to (can) come into his kingdom and he wants it known, in order to send them money for the trip, that he will make them find a residence at their disposition, attire and abundant foods, the king promises to give to them such riches, as to make them rich and happy; so much will be the goodness of this king, that he will have life together with the people, that he loves so much that with his riches he has ransomed them from the miseries and unhappiness of life.

“Such am I, I will make known to the entire world, that I want the people of my Divine Volition, and provided that they give me their name and they will make me know that they want to come into my kingdom, I will give them all the goods, unhappinesses won’t have a place in her, each one will possess her kingdom, she will be king of herself, and they will have life together with their Creator.  I will show off so much in giving, that everyone will remain enraptured by it.  My daughter, oh! how I long for it, this living of the creature in my Will, and pray and yearn together with me for it and it (will) be sweet for you to put forth (your) life for a kingdom so holy.”

Vol. 34, June 6, 1937






When the creature has the firm resolve to live in God's Will their name becomes written in Heaven in characters of light, she is enrolled in the Celestial militia and becomes heir and daughter in the Kingdom.   She becomes confirmed in the goods of her Creator and if she remains on the earth she will not be seen as an exile but as an officiator of the Celestial militia.




“Now, you should know, that as the soul repeatedly and firmly decides to not live anymore of her will, but of ours, her name becomes written in Heaven, with indelible characters of Light and she becomes enrolled in the Celestial militia, as heir and daughter of the kingdom of the Divine Will; but this is not enough for our love, we confirm her in good, in a way that she will feel such horror for every slight sin, that she won’t be capable anymore of falling, not only, but she will remain confirmed in the goods, in the love, in the sanctity, et cetera, of her Creator, she will be as invested by the prerogative of the District, she will not be looked at anymore as exiled, and if she will remain on earth, she will be as officiating of the Celestial militia, not as exiled, she will hold all goods at her disposition, she can say:  being that his Will is all mine, that which is of God is mine.  Rather she will feel herself possessor of her Creator and since she won’t work anymore with her will but with mine, all the barriers are broken that impeded her from feeling her Creator, the distances have disappeared, the dissimilarities between her and God don’t exist anymore, she will feel so loved by He who has created her, as to feel (her) heart burst with love, in order to love He who loves her, and feeling herself loved by God is the joy, the honor, the greatest glory for the creature.  My daughter, do not wonder, they are our goals, the purpose for which the creature was created, to find in her our life, our reigning Will, our love, in order to be loved and in order to love her, if this was not so, all the Creation would be an unworthy work of us.”

Vol. 34, June 28, 1937





Jesus had told Luisa earlier in this post that the creature's name is written throughout all Creation to call her to receive the gifts within it.  Here Jesus further explains how when one lives in the Divine Will their filial relations between Heaven and Earth are formed and the creatures name and relations are recorded everywhere and on everything.  





This morning, after much struggling, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen in my interior - tired, as if He wanted to rest; and since there was some kind of a prop within me, He extended His arms to cling to that prop, and placing His head upon it, He rested. And not only did He rest, but He invited me to rest with Him. How enjoyable it was, to be leaning on that prop together with Jesus, to take a little rest after so many bitternesses!

Then, afterwards, He said to me: “My daughter, do you want to know what this prop is, which relieves us so much and gives us rest? It is all your acts done in my Will that formed this prop for Me and for you, which is so strong as to be able sustain the weight of Heaven and earth, which I contain within Me, and to give Me rest. My Will alone contains this strength and this virtue so great. The acts done in my Will bind Heaven and earth, and enclose within themselves the divine power, such as to be able to sustain a God.” On hearing this, I said to Him: ‘My Love, yet, with all this prop You are talking about, I fear You may leave me. What shall I do without You? And You know how miserable and good at nothing I am. So, I fear that, as You leave me, your Will too may depart from me.’ And He: “My daughter, why do you fear? This fear is your human will which would want to enter the field to take a few steps. My Will excludes every fear, because It has nothing to fear; on the contrary, It is confident of Itself and unshakable. Even more, you must know that as the soul decides to let herself be possessed by my Will and to live in It, since my Will is linked with all created things and there is nothing over which It does not have Its dominion, in the same way, the soul remains linked with all created things, and as she does her acts, her daughtership with my Will, her dwelling, her possession, remain inscribed on all created things with indelible characters. Take a look at the whole universe: your name, your daughtership with my Will, is written with indelible characters in the heavens, in the stars, in the sun – in everything. So, how can it ever be possible that this Eternal and Divine Mother may leave Her dear daughter, born of Her and raised with so much love? Therefore, remove every fear if you do not want to embitter Me.” And while He was saying this, I looked into the heavens, into the sun and in all the rest, and I could see my name written, with the title of daughter of His Will. May everything be for the glory of God and to the confusion of my poor soul.

Vol. 17, July 29, 1924






When one lives in the Divine Will their name and relations are not only written in all of Creation, Redemption and Sanctification but she becomes daughter of all and each of Jesus' attributes as well.



Then, after I suffered a little, He repeated:  “Now I want to show you how I love you.”  So He showed His Heart opened, and immense seas of power, of wisdom, of goodness, of love, of beauty, of sanctity, came out from within It.  In the center of each one of these seas it was written:  “Luisa, daughter of my immensity, daughter of my power, daughter of my wisdom, daughter of my goodness, daughter of my love, daughter of my beauty, daughter of my sanctity.”  The more I looked, the more I remained confused.  And Jesus:  “Have you seen how much I love you?  And how, not only in my Heart, but in all of my attributes I carry your name written, and your name written in Me makes ever new currents of grace, of light, of love, etc., open for you?  Yet, you tell Me that I do not love you?  How can you even suspect this?”  Only Jesus knows how crushed I was left, thinking that I had offended my Jesus, and even in His presence.  Oh God, what pain!  How awful guilt is!

Vol. 14, May 15, 1922






When God is allowed to act in us He does complete works.  He encloses the whole value of Creation and Redemption in the soul who lives in His Will and crowns all with the value of Heaven and all of His eternal beatitudes.  When His work is complete He gives the creature a new name, 'My Fiat'.  He gives his own name and all the value that his name carries with it to the beloved creature who lives in the fullness of His Will.  A name that is most the beautiful of all and is the smile of Heaven and the terror of Hell.




“My blessed daughter, continue to listen to me, let me vent my love, I can not contain it anymore, I want to tell you where my love arrives and where it can arrive and can do to one who lives in my Fiat.  Do you believe that my Volition has been content, has said enough because he has enclosed the value, the love and (the) different offices of all the Creation in the creature that lives as (in) harmony in Him, with one Will alone?  no, no; you should know that I came upon the earth, and in the heat of my love displayed my life, my sufferings and my death itself, in order to repurchase my Divine Will for (the) benefit of creatures, that with so much ingratitude they had rejected and hence lost.  So that my life served as disbursement of the price that was needed in order to reacquire it and to give it in possession of my children, therefore there was needed a God, in order to be able to hold sufficient worth to be able to buy a Divine Will, you see therefore how it is certain that the kingdom of my Volition will come, because the purchase was made by me.

“Now my Will, after having formed the order of the Creation, with all sumptuousness and sublimity of his creative work, as the creature goes repeating her acts, in one act he pronounces his Fiat and forms there my life and encloses its value, in another act he pronounces his Fiat and encloses in her sufferings the value of my sufferings, he pronounces his Fiat over her tears and puts there the value of mine, his Fiat follows in her works, in her footsteps, in her heartbeat and he encloses there the value of my works, of my footsteps and of my love, there is no prayer and even natural acts that he does not enclose the value of my acts.

“So that (in) one who lives in my Will, I feel myself repeat my life, and it doubles the worth in order to buy my Divine Will to the benefit of the human generations; one can say, that there is a competition between me and her, to whom wants to give more, in order to make that my Will might be possessed again by the human family.

“But it is not yet everything, if he doesn’t do complete works he is not content, to the value of the Creation and Redemption that he has enclosed there in the soul, there he adds on with an incredible love, there he encloses the Celestial Country and makes resound his glory, his joys, the eternal beatitudes, as seal and confirmation, of the creative and redeeming work that he has formed in her.  After this, being more sure, he creates there his heartbeat, his breath, he makes circulate more than blood his life, his light, and as triumphant he gives her a new name, calling her ‘my Fiat’, this name is the most beautiful name, that will make all (of) Heaven smile and all (of) hell tremble, that name I can not give if not to one who lives in my Volition and has let me do in her that which I want.

“My daughter, what can’t my omnipotent Fiat do and give? he arrives to so much that he gives his rights over his own power, over his love, over his justice, he incorporates with himself the will of the creature and says to her:  be attentive, I don’t want other from you than (that) you do that which I do, therefore it is necessary that you be always together with me, and I with you.

Vol. 34, January 24, 1937





It is the same as when Jesus speaks in the gospel about how swearing on either the sanctuary or the gold of the sanctuary it is all the same.  Each carries the value of the other.  So when we call on the name of Jesus we call His entire value as God and all He is, does, contains and touches.  






16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound by the oath.’ 19 How blind you are! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it; 21 and whoever swears by the sanctuary, swears by it and by the one who dwells in it; 22 and whoever swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by the one who is seated upon it.
Matthew 23: 16-22




I think the Catechism of the Catholic Church summarizes the power of His name beautifully.




2666 But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. the divine name may not be spoken by human lips, but by assuming our humanity the Word of God hands it over to us and we can invoke it: "Jesus," "YHWH saves."16 The name "Jesus" contains all: God and man and the whole economy of creation and salvation. To pray "Jesus" is to invoke him and to call him within us. His name is the only one that contains the presence it signifies. Jesus is the Risen One, and whoever invokes the name of Jesus is welcoming the Son of God who loved him and who gave himself up for him.17



So when we call upon the name of Jesus in prayer, in blessing, in praise and in thanksgiving we are not just calling upon a label or tag which represents Him and that He responds to.  We are inviting His entire presence, all that He is, all that He touches, all that He does.  We call upon the Creative force of God, His Redemptive action and His Sanctifying grace.  Each time we call upon the name of Jesus we invite God into our lives and our concerns and problems, into our joys and sorrows.  We invite Jesus to act as the God that He is who saves, creates and sanctifies, who continually brings forth images of Himself, who conserves those images, redeems them, sanctifies them and renews them.  When we call upon the holy name of Jesus we call all that He is, was and will ever be.  His name is holy because He is holy and He is indivisible from His name.  And what a comfort to know that as God touches and creates and redeems and sanctifies all within His purview and all He touches and holds is also holy so He holds all of our names engraved in His Heart, in His Creation, in His Redemptive work and in His Kingdom.  When we call upon the name of the Lord while living in the Divine Will we accompany Him in all His acts, bless in all His blessings and thereby form the union which so identifies with Him that He gives us His own name.  So by our relations with Him, closer or further away, so we too are holy by such degree as we are united to Him.