Jan 21

Prayer for the end of Abortion

January 21, 2017

**January 22, will mark the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,**

the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the U.S.

Pray the Command Prayer to End Abortion:

Abba Father, in the Name of Jesus

In the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit

Under the Mantle of Mary,

with all the Angels and Saints,

through the intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

take my humble prayer and make it Your Command

to end abortion throughout the world

that all may be accomplished and completed in Your Most Holy Divine Will.

Fiat!

Amen.

Since that tragic decision,

more than 59 million

children’s lives have been lost to abortion,

and many others suffer from that loss

— often in silence.

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Jan 21

Love Jesus for Everyone

January 21, 2017

“Love Me for everyone, satiate Me with love”

Love: fruit of the Spirit

Love is the greatest of the fruits of the Spirit and, from a certain point of view, it contains them all. It is the most desirable fruit because “God is love” and God, in creating man, made of him “a complex of love”. It is Jesus Himself that tells this to Luisa when He affirms that the nerves, the bones, the flesh of the creature are fabrics of love. And God, after having woven them with love, let blood flow in all the particles, as if covering them with a garment in order to give them life of love. So the creature is none other than “a complex of love” and she moves for no other reason than for love. At most there can be a diversity of loves, but always for love she moves. There can be divine love, love of self, love for creatures, evil love, but it is always love. Nor can she do otherwise because her life is love, created by the Eternal Love, and thus raised by an irresistible force of love.

Love is therefore the center of human existence. It’s not only a feeling, nor only an act of will, but fundamentally it is an act that involves feeling, will, patience, memory. Love is centered in relationship. Its parameter is that which is good for the other. Love starts from a relationship with God. It is above every law, it surpasses every law, it is not subject to any law. Jesus even tells Luisa that love is not subject to death. There is no power, there are no rights over love. Love is eternal and one who loves is eternal with God. Love fears nothing, it doubts nothing, and it converts the same evils into love.

In the Old Testament, the word love is understood as the love that pushes one to make a gift of self for the beloved. There is no love if there is no “you”. Love is an inexplicable spiritual force ingrained in the person. In the people of Israel, the idea of love expresses relationship with the God of the Covenant and it is clear that the love of God precedes the love of man and of His people. We read in the book of Deuteronomy: “You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength”. The “all” repeated three times with emphasis helps us to understand that the author is exhorting us to commit the totality of our energy to making arise, from the feeling of love, a conviction that governs our whole way of living. He basically tells us that in order to fully live our relationship with God, we must engage our whole personality (heart and soul).

In the New Testament, we read in the first letter of John: “We love because God has loved us first”. The love of God is unmistakable, unconditional, immeasurable, infinite. He loves each one of us in the same way. How can we love with such a love? We certainly couldn’t do it without divine intervention. God provided, He compensated for our inability and He made us capable of loving as He loves, obeying His Will. “I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in love…may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:17,19). God, therefore, loves us madly and ardently desires to be loved as He loves us: but how? By living in His Will. In fact, Jesus always reiterates to Luisa how pleasing it is for God to see the creature living in the Divine Will, because she lives of God’s reflections and, while living of His reflections, she absorbs in herself the likeness of her Creator who loves her with an eternal love. Jesus then emphasizes that whoever truly loves God does not get bothered by anything and tries to convert everything into love. According to the dose of love that an action contains, even if it be an indifferent one, thus increases its weight, because God doesn’t look at the work, but rather the intensity of the love that the work contains. He reiterates still that love encompasses everything, binds everything, gives life to everything, triumphs over everything, embellishes everything and enriches everything. Love is jealous of everything, even a thought and breath, though it may be honest. It wants everything for itself and thereby gives the soul, not natural purity, but divine purity.

One can therefore say that love is wisdom, it is obedience, it is sweetness, it is fortitude, it is peace, it is everything. And if all of the virtues don’t have life from love, at most they can be called natural virtues. Love, however, changes them into divine virtues. So in everything, love must be enough. When the soul decides to exercise a virtue, she forms the seed of that virtue. By repeating those acts, she forms the water in order to water that seed in the ground of her own heart. And the more she waters that seed, the more the plant grows beautiful and green, ensuring that it immediately produces fruits from that seed. Therefore, the repeating of our “I love You” to Jesus procures the water in order to water and form the tree of love.

All of the saints are the lovers of God. Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus in a cry of joy exclaimed: “My vocation is Love because Love embraces everything and it is eternal”. Luisa Piccarreta wrote a true hymn to Love:

“In every moment, at every hour, I want to always love You with all of my heart.

In every breath of my life, breathing I will love You,

in every beat of my heart, I will repeat love.

In every movement of my body, I will embrace love.

Only of love I want to speak, only love I want to look at,

only love I want to listen to, always about love I want to think.

Only with love I want to burn.

Only love I want to consume.

Only love I want to taste, only love I want to satisfy,

only of love I want to live and in love I want to die.

In every instant, at every hour, I want to call everyone to love,

only and always with Jesus and in Jesus I will live forever, I will plunge into His heart

and together with Jesus and with His heart, love, love, I will love.”

Again Jesus, through Luisa, indicates to us the signs of knowing if one loves only the Lord: if the creature is filled to the rim with God, to the point of overflowing outside; when she thinks about, searches for, speaks of, and loves God alone, and all the rest does not seem to exist for her. Rather, the rest bores her, bothers her and, at most, she gives the dregs and the last place to that which is not God. Those who love Him are united to Jesus as branches are united to the trunk of a tree: Can there ever be separation, forgetfulness, different nourishment between the branches and the trunk? One is the life, one the purpose, unanimous the fruits. In fact, the trunk is the life of the branches, the branches the glory of the trunk: the one and the other are the same thing. And so it is with Jesus and the souls that love Him. It is so much so with the love with which Jesus loves the creature that as soon as she decides to give herself to God, He surrounds her with much grace, he caresses her, moves her, receives her, endows her with sensible graces, with fervors, inspirations, squeezes of the heart. And the soul, seeing herself so graceful, begins to love Him. She makes as though a backdrop of prayers, of pious practices in her heart. She decides to exercise herself in virtue. All of this forms a flowery meadow in the soul, but the love of God is not content only with flowers. It wants fruits, and therefore begins to make the flowers fall, which is the stripping of the sensible love, of the fervor, and of all the rest in order to give birth to the fruits. That’s why Jesus often repeats to Luisa: “Love Me for everyone, satiate Me with love”. It is only from this relationship of love with God that the relationship of love with our fellow man is born: “You will love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev 19:18), a commandment that is given in order to imitate God, in order to be Holy as God is Holy (Lev 19:2). And again the book of Leviticus teaches us: “love, gift of God, is diffusive and is imitation of God”. Only in this way can we also love others as God loves us, can we retrace that path that Paul calls: the best way, the way of love (1Cor 13), and can we also speak of love as “fruit of the Spirit”. He who tastes and savors this fruit experiences in himself a wave of divine joy that leads him to open up, in tune with God, with others, feeling capable of communicating the good that fills him to his neighbor.

Tonia Abbattista

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Jan 21

Gospel Reading for January 21, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Jesus ‘Crazy’ with Love

January 21, 2017

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Jan 20

Gospel Reading for Jan. 20, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Jesus Called the Apostles – Jesus Called Luisa

January 20, 2017

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Jan 19

100 Days: Masses, Prayers and Fasting for Our New President…

January 19, 2017

100 Days:

Masses, Prayers and Fasting for Our New President,
Our Leaders and Our World in the Most Holy Divine Will

January 20 (Inauguration Day) – April 29, 2017
(Feast of St. Catherine of Siena)

     In the Divine Will in the name of everyone and everything past, present and future in all the Masses, prayers and fasting for our future President, our Leaders and our Families so that the Kingdom of God may be established on earth as it is in Heaven.
     We will attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as often as we can and pray the Holy Rosary, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Litany’s and other devotional prayers like the Precious Blood or Mary Un-doer of Knots always in the Most Holy Divine Will especially with the Command Prayer. (see below)
     The Children of America will then become what as Our Lady of America prophesized to Sr Mildred that they will bring Purity to the world. Our new President and those chosen to work alongside him need our continued support of prayers, fasting and Masses in the Most Holy Divine Will.
     We will continue to pray in the Most Holy Divine Will to seek guidance from the Holy Spirit to bring changes that shall prepare our nation and the world for the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.

During these 100 Days continue to pray for our country in the Divine Will to:

defend the life of the unborn
select pro-life Supreme Court justices
promote religious liberty
defend the sanctity of marriage and family life

and for the Kingdom of God to come on earth as it is in Heaven

Command Prayer:

Abba Father, in the Name of Jesus,

In the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit

Under the Mantle of Mary,

With all the Angels and Saints,

Through the Intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

Take my humble prayer and make it Your Command

That all may be accomplished and completed in Your Most Holy Divine Will.

Fiat!

Amen!

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Jan 19

Gospel Reading for Jan. 19, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Jesus has Everything Ready to Heal Souls

January 19, 2017

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Jan 18

Gospel Reading for Jan. 18, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Jesus’ Tenderness

January 18, 2017

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Jan 17

Gospel Reading for Jan. 17, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Divine Will Alone is Rest

January 17, 2017

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Jan 16

Gospel Reading for Jan. 16, 2017 with Divine Will Truths – Giving Start to the New

January 16, 2017

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Jan 15

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 15, 2017

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Living in the Divine Will shortens all distances

Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!

Once again, the Gospel presents us Jesus who goes to meet John. We have seen many times during this Christmas season that Jesus presents Himself essentially as God who meets mankind. Christmas itself is the feast that reminds us when God came to meet men, born in our mists. Christianity is the faith in a God who is close to man, so that He takes the initiative to reach out to him, because He can’t stand our distance from Him and among men.

This truth affects all men. God makes Himself close to us in many ways, but mainly through His Word that somehow makes His presence alive among us, even after so many centuries.

Often we reverse the perspective and believe that it’s we who “grant” our presence at the Mass, despite all that we have to do. But John does not think so. He immediately notices that Jesus goes to meet him and says to those around him: “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Yes, Jesus goes towards man to take away the sin, that consists essentially in keeping our distance from God.

In fact, sin doesn’t identify so much with evil deeds. We are not sinners because we have done something. Sin is the choice of the one who keeps God away from him, though God tries to stay close to him, it’s the choice of those who flee Him and avoid Him. Sin is this fundamental choice; it, in turn, can generate evil deeds, but also a life spent only for ourselves, without doing anything wrong, but without even doing good. Then sin is manifested in the insignificance that we give to the Lord, to His words, to His teachings, to His way of being that He wants to infuse us, and that John identifies with the meekness and harmlessness of the Lamb. Yes, Jesus takes away the sin of those who welcome Him and accept to live like Him: “learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart” In fact, Jesus said to the crowds who were listening to Him (Mt 11:29).

One day Jesus said to Luisa that the Divine Will searches the act of the creature in order to form its life in her, and every act of the creature done in God’s Will is a step that she makes in order to draw near to God and God in his turn makes a step in order draw near to her. One can say that the Creator and the creature are always walking, they never stop, the one towards the other, and the Divine Will descends in the act of the creature in order to form its step of divine life, and she climbs in the Fiat, in the divine regions in order to make herself conqueror of light, of love, of sanctity and celestial knowledges. So that every act, word, breath, heartbeat in the Divine Will are so many steps of divine life that the creature makes, and It, the one that longs for these acts in order to have its field of action, in order to be able to form so many divine lives in the creature.

This was the purpose of the Creation: to form the divine life in the creature, to have the field of the divine action in her, and therefore God loves so much that she does the Divine Will, in order to put God’s life in safety. This was the great portent that God wanted and He wants to do in virtue of His Will: to form the divine life in the life of the creature. Therefore if He doesn’t do this, the creation would remain without its first purpose, an impediment to God’s love, a continuous bitterness to look at her and to see a work so great work, and of such magnificence, and not realized and His purpose failed. And if there was not in God the certainty that His Will might have to reign in the creature in order to form His life in her, His love would burn all the creation and would reduce it into nothing. And if he supports and tolerates so much, it is because He sees His realized purpose beyond the times.

Now as the creature does her will, thus she steps backwards, and makes a step back from her Creator, and God steps backwards and it forms an infinite distance between the one and the other. We see therefore the necessity to persevere in a continuous way, to work in the Divine Will, in order to diminish the great distance between God and the creature produced by the human will. The distance that the human volition forms is a distance of sanctity, of beauty, of goodness, of power, of love, they are infinite distances that only His working Volition in the creature can reunite and conjoin together and make inseparable the one from the other.

This happened in the Redemption, every manifestation that was made by the Most Holy Trinity on the descent of the Word upon the earth, it was a step that the Holy Trinity made toward mankind, and as they longed and prayed for it, thus they made so many steps toward the Supreme Being. So that they remained walking toward God, and God toward them, and as the time of having to descend from Heaven in earth drew near, thus He augmented the Prophets in order to be able to make more revelations, in order to be able to expedite the walk on both parts.

This slowness of walk cast coldness on the part of creatures, and almost held her from all in a way to say, God’s descent upon the earth was an absurd thing, not a reality, like one thinks today on the Kingdom of the Divine Will: a way of saying and almost a thing that can’t be.

Hence the Prophets came after Moses, almost in the last times, near to God’s descent upon the earth, which behind His manifestations the walk on both was expedited, and then the Sovereign Lady of Heaven came, whom not only walked, but raced in order to expedite the meeting with her Creator, in order to make Him descend and make Him complete the Redemption.

The manifestations on the Divine Will are certain proofs that It walks in order to come to reign upon the earth, and that the creature to which they have been made with an iron constancy walks and races in order to receive the first meeting, in order to give her soul in order to make It reign, and thus give It the step to make It reign in the midst of creatures.

Let us speed up the pace! Let us live our acts in the Divine Will as continuous acts, because only continuous acts are those that expedite the walk, overcome every obstacle, and alone are the conquerors that conquer God and the creature.

Let us to be approached by Jesus who comes to meet us, let us not flee, frightened, from the novelty of what He says and does. Let us not close the door believing that we already know and have already understood. Let us not turn on the other side to pursue the dreams and successful models that promise us happiness and wealth, but then they do not maintain. Let us turn our eyes and our ears to Him, let us get ready to Sunday and live it as an important meeting, with the docility of one who makes himself a disciple of the Lamb that by His meekness and Humility came to remove from our life the sin of our separation from God.

don Marco

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