Holy Eucharist

“Holy Communion is the shortest and the safest way to Heaven.” (St. Pius X)

“If the Angels could be jealous of men, they would be for one reason: Holy Communion.” (St. Maximillian Kolbe)

“In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the Glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.” (St. Peter Julian Eymard)

“How I love the feasts!…I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!… I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.” (St. Therese the Little Flower)

“When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus Loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus Loves you now.” (Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

“From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian Life and zeal to share that life with others.” (St. John Paul II)

“This is the bread of Everlasting Life which supports the substance of your soul.” (St. Ambrose)

“The longer you stay away from Communion, the more your soul will be weak, and in the end you will become dangerously indifferent.” (St. John Bosco)

“The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole Spiritual Life.” (St. Thomas Aquinas)

FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

PRECURSOR OF THE LORD

JUNE 24

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FROM THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL

Meditation 1

After many days of travel, finally I arrived in Judea, and I hastened to the house of Elisabeth. She came toward Me in feast. At the greeting I gave her, marvelous phenomena occurred. My little Jesus exulted in My womb, and fixing little John in the womb of his mother with the Rays of His Divinity, He Sanctified him, gave him the use of Reason, and made known to him that He was the Son of God. And John leaped so vigorously with love and with joy that Elisabeth was shaken. Touched by the Light of the Divinity of My Son, she too recognized that I had become the Mother of God; and in the emphasis of her love, trembling with gratitude, she exclaimed: “Whence comes to me so much honor, that the Mother of my Lord would come to me?”

I did not deny the highest mystery; rather, I humbly confirmed it. Praising God with the song of the Magnificat – sublime canticle, through which the Church continuously honors Me – I announced that the Lord had done great things in Me, His servant, and that because of this, all peoples would call Me Blessed.

My child, I felt devoured with the desire to pour out the flames of love that consumed Me, and to reveal My Secret to Elisabeth, who also longed for the Messiah to come upon earth. A secret is a need of the heart which is revealed, irresistibly, to persons who are capable of understanding each other.

Who can ever tell you how much good My visit brought to Elisabeth, to John, and to their whole household? Everyone was Sanctified, filled with Gladness, felt unusual Joys, and comprehended things unheard-of. John, in particular, received all the Graces which were necessary for him, to prepare himself to be the Precursor of My Son.

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CORPUS DOMINI: LIVING THE EXPERIENCE OF FAITH MEANS BEING NOURISHED BY THE LORD

Vatican City, 20 June 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon, on the Solemnity of Corpus Domini, Pope Francis celebrated Holy Mass in the square of St. John Lateran, the cathedral basilica of Rome. He commented in his homily that human beings not only suffer from physical hunger, but hunger also for life, love and eternity, for the manna that God gave to the people of Israel in the desert and which the Eucharist symbolises.

Referring to Moses’ phrase: “The Lord your God … fed you with manna which you did not know”, Francis spoke about the history of the chosen people, whom God led out of Egypt and their condition of slaves to guide them to the promised land. However, once established there, the Israelites enjoyed prosperity and were in danger of forgetting their past of famine and despair. Moses urged them to return to the essentials, to the experience of total reliance on God, when their survival was entirely entrusted to His hands”.

“As well as physical hunger, man also suffers from another form of hunger that cannot be sated with ordinary food. It is a hunger for life, a hunger for love, a hunger for eternity. Manna is the sign … that prefigured the food that satisfies this profound hunger present in man. Jesus gives us this nourishment – or rather, He Himself is the living bread that gives life to the world. His Body is the true food in the form of bread; His Blood is the true sustenance in the form of wine. It is not a simple form of nourishment to sate our bodies, like manna; the Body of Christ is the bread of the last times, able to give life, eternal life, because the substance of this bread is Love”.

The Eucharist communicates “God’s love for us: a love so great that it nourishes itself; it is a gratuitous love, always available to every person who hungers or who is in need of regeneration. To live the experience of faith means allowing oneself to be nourished by the Lord and to build our existence not on material goods, but on a reality that does not perish: the gifts of God, His Word and His Body”.

“If we look around ourselves”, continued the bishop of Rome, “we realise that many forms of sustenance are offered to us, that do not come from the Lord and seemingly offer more satisfaction. Some sate themselves with money, others with success and vanity, others with power and pride. But the food that truly nourishes and sates us is only that which comes from the Lord! The food that the Lord offers us is different from the others, and it may perhaps be less appetising than other delicacies the world offers us. We dream of other meals, like the Hebrews in the desert, who missed the meat and onions they ate in Egypt, but forgot that they ate those meals at the table of their slavery. In that moment of temptation, they retained the memories of that food, but it was a diseased memory, a selective memory”.

“The Father says to us: ‘I have fed you with manna which you did not know’. Let us restore our memory and learn to recognise the false victuals that delude and corrupt, because they are the fruit of selfishness, self-sufficiency and sin: poisoned foods. Soon, in the procession, we will follow Jesus, truly present in the Eucharist. The Host is our manna, through which the Lord gives Himself to us. And we turn to Him with trust: Jesus, defend us from the temptations of the worldly food that enslaves us; purify our memory, so that we may not be imprisoned by selfish and worldly selectivity, but become instead the living memory of Your presence throughout the history of Your people, a memory that becomes a ‘memorial’ of your gesture of redeeming love”.

Following the Eucharistic celebration, the Holy Father led the procession along Via Merulana up to the basilica of St. Mary Major, where he imparted his solemn blessing with the Most Holy Sacrament.

FROM THE BOOK OF HEAVEN

My daughter, the “I love you” is everything! The “I love you” is Love, it is Veneration, it is Esteem, it is Heroism, it is Sacrifice, it is Trust toward the one to whom it is directed. The “I love you” is to Possess the One who encloses the “I love you”. The “I love you” is a little word, but it weighs as much as Eternity! The “I love you” encloses everything, involves everyone; it diffuses itself, it restricts itself, it rises up high, it descend down to the bottom, it impresses itself everywhere, and it never stops.

…Its Origin is Eternal. In the “I love you” the Celestial Father Generated Me (Jesus), and in the “I love you” the Holy Spirit Proceeded. In the “I love you” the Eternal FIAT made the whole creation, and in the “I love you” It forgave guilty man and redeemed him.

Pope Benedict: Love within the Trinity Overflows into Forgiveness for Man

…“So, in the mystery of the cross, there are three Divine Persons,” …

“The Father, who gave his only begotten Son for the salvation of the world, the Son, who carries out the Will of the Father to the very end and the Holy Spirit – poured out by Jesus at the moment of his death – who comes to render us participants in Divine Life, to transform our lives, so that our lives are animated by Divine Love.”

“The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one, because God is Love: the Father gives everything to the Son, the Son receives everything from the Father with gratitude, and the Holy Spirit is like the fruit of this mutual Love between the Father and Son,” said the Pope describing the Holy Trinity – the Christian proposition that God is three persons but one divine nature – as the “first and greatest mystery of our faith.”

To illustrate the Holy Trinity’s Mercy for man, the Pope drew upon the first Bible passage read at today’s Mass. It recounted the disobedience of the Jewish people who, after being led out of slavery in Egypt by Moses, wanted a golden idol instead of God.

“All seems lost, all friendship broken,” said the Pope.

“Yet, despite having committed the gravest of sins, God, through the intercession of Moses, decides to forgive His people and calls Moses to ascend the mountain once more to receive His law, the Ten Commandments.”

God then describes himself to Moses as “a Merciful and Gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” In these words, said the Pope, “there can be no clearer revelation” of the Trinity’s Benevolence towards man.

“We have a God who renounces the destruction of the sinner and wants to show His Love in an even more profound and surprising way right in front of the sinner in order to always offer the possibility of conversion and forgiveness.”

The culmination of this Divine Offer said the Pope, drawing upon today’s Gospel reading, is the Incarnation of God-made-man in the person of Jesus Christ.

“The evangelist John refers to this statement of Jesus: ‘God so Loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have Eternal Life’.”

So while some may presume a God who would “come to judge the world, to destroy evil, to punish those who work in darkness” instead, said the Pope, “He shows He Loves the world, He Loves man, despite his sinfulness, and sends what is His most precious possession: His only begotten Son.”

Feast of Corpus Christi

Thursday after Trinity Sunday

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FROM THE HOURS OF THE PASSION

Fourth Hour

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The Eucharistic Supper

My sweet Love, always insatiable in your love, I see that as You finish the legal supper together with your dear disciples, You stand up, and united with them, You raise the hymn of thanksgiving to the Father for having given you food, wanting to repair for all the lack of thanksgiving of the creatures, and for all the means He gives us for the preservation of corporal life. This is why, O Jesus, in anything You do, touch or see, You always have on your lips the words, “Thanks be to You, O Father”.

I too, Jesus, united with You, take the words from your very lips, and I will say, always and in everything: “Thank You for myself and for all”, in order to continue the reparations for the lack of thanksgiving.

Institution of the Eucharist

My Jesus, my joy and delight, I see that your Love runs, and runs rapidly. You stand up, sorrowful as You are, and You almost run to the altar where there is bread and wine ready for the consecration. I see You, my heart, assuming a look wholly new and never seen before: your Divine Person acquires a tender, loving, affectionate appearance; your eyes blaze with light, more than if they were suns; your rosy face is radiant; your lips are smiling and burning with love; your creative hands assume the attitude of creating. I see You, my Love, all transformed: your Divinity seems to overflow from your Humanity.

My Heart and my Life, Jesus, this appearance of yours, never before seen, draws the attention of all the apostles. They are caught by a sweet enchantment and do not dare even to breathe. Your sweet Mama runs in spirit to the foot of the altar, to admire the portents of your Love. The Angels descend from Heaven, asking themselves: “What is this? What is this? These are true follies, true excesses! A God who creates, not heaven or earth, but Himself. And where? In the most wretched matter of a little bread and a little wine.”

But while they are all around You, oh insatiable Love, I see that You take the bread in your hands; You offer it to the Father, and I hear your most sweet voice say: “Holy Father, thanks be to You, for always answering your Son. Holy Father, concur with Me. One day, You sent Me from Heaven to earth to be incarnated in the womb of my Mama, to come and save Our children. Now, allow Me to be incarnated in each Host, to continue their salvation and be life of each one of my children. Do You see, O Father? Few hours of my life are left: who would have the heart to leave my children orphaned and alone? Many are their enemies – the obscurities, the passions, the weaknesses to which they are subject. Who will help them? O please, I supplicate You to let Me stay in each Host, to be life of each one, and therefore put to flight their enemies; to be their light, strength and help in everything. Otherwise, where shall they go? Who will help them? Our works are eternal, my Love is irresistible – I cannot leave my children, nor do I want to.”

The Father is moved at the tender and affectionate voice of the Son. He descends from Heaven; He is already on the altar, and united with the Holy Spirit, concurs with the Son. And Jesus, with sonorous and moving voice, pronounces the words of the Consecration, and without leaving Himself, creates Himself in that bread and wine.

THE CHURCH IS REJUVENATED BY MOTHERHOOD

Vatican City, 17 June 2014 (VIS) – At 7 p.m. yesterday in the Paul VI Hall the Holy Father met with the representatives of the diocese of Rome, gathered to participate in the Diocesan Pastoral Congress on the theme “A people who raise children. Community and family in the major stages of Christian initiation”. During his address, Pope Francis spoke on the issue of the “society of orphans”: of parents who do not spend enough time playing with their children because of their long working hours, and because of their fatigue when they arrive home that leads the young to be deprived of time spent freely with their parents. He emphasised that nowadays we need this sense of gratuity within the family, in parishes, in society as a whole, and that the Lord is revealed to us in gratuity, or rather as Grace: “But if we do not have a sense of gratuity within the family, at school, in the parish, it will be very difficult to understand what the grace of God is: that grace that cannot be bought or sold, that is a gift from God, and is indeed God Himself”. He also commented on other social aspects that contribute to the “orphanhood” of the young: “a technological society that multiplies to infinity the opportunities for pleasure, distraction and curiosity, but is not able to lead man to true joy”, and added that only by encountering Jesus can be encounter true joy and understand that we do not lead our lives in vain, as a task has been conferred to each one of us”.

The Holy Father went on to describe the Church as a mother who knows how to raise her children. “The great challenge faced by the Church is that of being a mother”, he said, “not a well-organised NGO full of pastoral plans. … The Church needs to rediscover her maternity. She must be a mother; maternity is the grace that we must now ask of the Holy Spirit in order to go ahead in our pastoral and missionary conversion. However, the Church grows not by proselytism but by maternal attraction, through tenderness, through the testimony of her many children”. The Pope remarked that the Mother Church has aged somewhat, to the risk of becoming “Grandmother Church”, and that she must therefore be rejuvenated, “but not by taking her to a cosmetic surgeon, no! The Church becomes younger when she is able to generate more sons; the more children she has, the younger she becomes”.

The Pontiff added that this means recovering the memory of the Church. In a world in which there exists little sense of history and fear of time, a world in which the present reigns supreme, in which language is increasingly abbreviated and everything becomes rapid, making us slaves to our situation, we must recover the memory of God’s patience. “God is not hasty during our history of salvation, and has accompanied us throughout history”. The Pope therefore urged the priests and clergy present not to close the doors of their churches, but rather to welcome all with an open heart, as a family, asking the Lord to make them able to participate in their difficulties and in the problems that children and the young frequently encounter in their lives.

“People hope to find Jesus’ gaze in us, often without realising it; they seek a serene and joyful gaze that enters the heart. But the whole parish must transform into a welcoming place, not only the priests and catechists”. The Pope encouraged those present to ask themselves whether their parishes were truly welcoming, whether their celebrations were scheduled to favour the participation of the young, if they spoke the language of youth and if their communities kept their doors open.

Before concluding, the Pope acknowledged that the work carried out by priests is not easy. “It is easier to be a bishop”, he affirmed, “because we can always maintain a distance and hide ourselves behind the title of ‘Your excellency’, and defend ourselves in this way. But being a priest, when the parishioners knock on the door, when they talk to you about their problems … it is not easy”. He commented that the Church in Italy is strong because of her priests, and urged them not to forget the memory of evangelisation and always to stay close to the faithful. “We want a Church of faith, who believes that the Lord is able to make her a mother, to give her many children; our Holy Mother Church”.

TRINITY SUNDAY

ATHANASIAN CREED

Trinity Sunday falls one week after Pentecost Sunday, and it is the day that the Catholic Church has set aside to

honor the most fundamental of Christian beliefs—the Holy Trinity.

Traditionally, the Athanasian Creed was recited in Masses on Trinity Sunday

We have thus far lived out the drama of Christ’s earthly life — His Nativity at Christmas, His revealing Himself as God at

the Epiphany, His time in the desert at Lent, His Passion and Resurrection at Good Friday and Easter. We recalled His

glorious Ascension, and at last week’s Pentecost, the Holy Ghost has descended upon the Church, sent by the Father and

the Son.

God’s Triune Nature has been fully revealed, and now we celebrate the Most Holy Trinity on this day, hearing in today’s

Gospel, “All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the

Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all the things whatsoever I have

commanded you; and behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world” (this is known as the “Great

Commission”). And with this Mass, the Time After Pentecost, the season that represents the Church Age, begins.

Vestments today will be white.

Symbols for the day are the natural symbols of the Trinity — the shamrock used by St. Patrick to explain the Trinity to the

ancient Irish, the pansy — viola tricolor — called the “Trinity Flower,” a candle with 3 flames, the triangle, the trefoil, 3

interlocking circles, etc.

The Athanasian Creed

This is the Athanasian Creed, as used in the Roman Catholic Church. It’s used in the liturgy only rarely (sometimes on

Trinity Sunday), but like all of the Church’s creeds, it is still valid and respected. Although no longer officially attributed

to St. Athanasius (died in 373 A.D.), it still bears his name. This beautiful creed contains a detailed meditation on the

nature of the Trinity. The Athanasian Creed is also called the Quicumque vult, after its first words in Latin. This creed can

also be found in the Handbook of Prayers, edited by James Socias.

Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith.

For unless a person keeps this faith whole and entire, he will undoubtedly be lost forever.

This is what the Catholic faith teaches: we worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity.

Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.

For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit.

But the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have one divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty.

What the Father is, the Son is, and the Holy Spirit is.

The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated.

The Father is boundless, the Son is boundless, and the Holy Spirit is boundless.

The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal.

Nevertheless, there are not three eternal beings, but one eternal being.

So there are not three uncreated beings, nor three boundless beings, but one uncreated being and one boundless being.

Likewise, the Father is omnipotent, the Son is omnipotent, the Holy Spirit is omnipotent.

Yet there are not three omnipotent beings, but one omnipotent being.

Thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.

However, there are not three gods, but one God.

The Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord.

However, there are not three lords, but one Lord.

For as we are obliged by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person singly to be God and Lord, so too are we forbidden by

the Catholic religion to say that there are three Gods or Lords.

The Father was not made, nor created, nor generated by anyone.

The Son is not made, nor created, but begotten by the Father alone.

The Holy Spirit is not made, nor created, nor generated, but proceeds from the Father and the Son.

There is, then, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.

In this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less. The entire three Persons are coeternal and coequal

with one another.

So that in all things, as is has been said above, the Unity is to be worshipped in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity.

He, therefore, who wishes to be saved, must believe thus about the Trinity.

It is also necessary for eternal salvation that he believes steadfastly in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thus the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and man.

As God, He was begotten of the substance of the Father before time; as man, He was born in time of the substance of His

He is perfect God; and He is perfect man, with a rational soul and human flesh.

He is equal to the Father in His Divinity, but inferior to the Father in His humanity.

Although He is God and man, He is not two, but one Christ.

And He is one, not because His Divinity was changed into flesh, but because His humanity was assumed unto God.

He is one, not by a mingling of substances, but by unity of person.

As a rational soul and flesh are one man: so God and man are one Christ.

He died for our salvation, descended into hell, and rose from the dead on the third day.

He ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty. From there He shall come to judge the living and

the dead.

At His coming, all men are to arise with their own bodies; and they are to give an account of their own deeds.

Those who have done good deeds will go into eternal life; those who have done evil will go into the everlasting fire.

This is the Catholic faith. Everyone must believe it, firmly and steadfastly; otherwise He cannot be saved.

Amen.

The Athanasian Creed is one of the treasures from the early Catholic Church. (Note that the Catechism refers to

the Athanasian Creed in item #192, among other sections.) Be sure to see the Apostles Creed and the Catholic Nicene

Creed, too. They’re the most common creeds used in the daily life of the Roman Catholic Church. But the Athanasian

Creed stands alone in its detailed and beautiful description of the Holy Trinity

Book of Heaven

Volume 1 – Other times, in this hiding of Jesus and my going around in search for Him, when He would make Himself felt inside of me and then come out from within me, I would find not Jesus alone, but all Three Divine Persons – now in the form of three children, gracious and immensely beautiful, now with one single body and three distinct heads, but resembling each other, all three of them attractive. Who can tell my contentment?  Especially when I would see the three children, whom I would hold, all three of them, in my arms.  I would kiss now one, now another, and receive their kisses; now one would lean on my shoulder, another on the other shoulder, and another would remain in front of me.  And while delighting in them, I would go about looking at them and, to my amazement, from three I would find one.  Another amazement for me when I would be with these three children, was that each one would weigh as much as the three of them together.  I would feel as much love for one of these children, as for all three of them together; each one of them attracted me in the same way.

February 28 A.D. 1899 – How she sees the Divinity of Jesus –   The sun is fire, but it is also light and heat.  Here is the Most Holy Trinity veiled in the sun:  the fire is the Father, the light is the Son, the heat is the Holy Spirit.  However, the sun is one, and just as one cannot separate fire from light and heat, so one is the power of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who in reality cannot be separated from one another.  And just as fire produces light and heat at the same time, in such a way that fire cannot be conceived without light and heat; in the same way, the Father cannot be conceived before the Son and the Holy Spirit, and vice versa, but all Three of the Them have the same eternal beginning.

 THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD, LUISA PICCARRETA

FROM THE BOOK OF HEAVEN

I (Luisa) was thinking about the many things that my beloved Jesus told me on His Most Holy Divine Will, and some doubts came back to me – that, who knows, it might really not be necessary to say everything, or, that some things were not necessary.  But Jesus, wanting to lovingly resolve my doubts and make me know the Mission He (Jesus) entrusts to (Luisa) the one who is to make His Divine Will Known – having chosen for this the misery that I am, to my great stupefaction and confusion – continuing His Holy Instructions on this matter, told me: “My daughter (Luisa), every Mission is to be connected to the Office of executing it, and therefore it must be carried out omitting nothing of that which belongs to It.  In fact, every Mission which is destined for the Good of others, has its own particular Gifts, Graces, riches and Qualities, which are useful for its execution.

Now, your Mission (Luisa) of making Known the Eternal Will is braided with Mine and with that of My dear Mother (Mary). And since it has to serve for the good of all, it was necessary to centralize the Eternal Sun of My Divine Will into one creature (Luisa); so that, as a unique Mission, this Sun might let its Rays Blaze from her (Luisa), and all might take the good of Its Light.  This implies that, for the Decorum and Honor of My Divine Will, I (Jesus) had to pour into you (Luisa), as bearers and preparations, such Graces, Light, Love and Knowledge of It, as to befit the residence of the Sun of My Divine Will.  Even more, you (Luisa) must know that, just as My Humanity, in Its Office of Redeemer, conceived all souls, the same was to happen in you (Luisa), in your Mission (Luisa) and Office to make My Divine Will Known and Reign: as you (Luisa) continue to do your acts (Luisa) in My Divine Will for all (past, present and future), all creatures remain conceived in your will (Luisa); and as you keep repeating your acts in Mine, you (Luisa) form many sips of Life of Divine Will, in order to be able to nourish all the creatures (past, present and future) which are as though conceived in yours (Luisa), by virtue of My Divine Will.  Do you not feel how, in My Divine Will, you (Luisa) embrace all (past present and future), from the first to the last creature which is to exist upon earth; and for all, you (Luisa) would want to satisfy, love, please this Supreme Will, binding It to all, removing all obstacles that prevent Its Dominion in the creatures – making It Known to all; and even with sufferings, you (Luisa) expose yourself to satisfy for all, this Supreme Will, which so much loves to be Known and to Reign in the midst of creatures?

To you (Luisa), Firstborn Daughter of My Divine Will, 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 ones, and placed by the good ones at the level of the other virtues, as if It were a little light which is lit by men – as virtues are in comparison with my Divine Will – and not the Eternal Sun that My Divine 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.  Everything is Centered in It: Our Interior Works and those which We (Triune God) have delivered; the Creation of the Angels, of the world, of men; all Virtues, all Merits, all Predestinations, all Goods, all the Glory of the chosen ones, all the Mysteries of the Infinite Love, which are still unknown to man; and the past, the present, the future – all in one Act and in act, and in one single point.

Therefore, be attentive, and do not want to waste time with doubts or uncertainties (Jesus is talking to us as well). Everything I (Jesus) told you (Luisa) for this Mission was Necessary – not for you (Luisa), but for the Honor, the Glory, the Knowledge and the Sanctity of My Divine Will and of Its Dominion in the creatures.  And since My Divine Will is one, one was to be the creature (Luisa) to whom I (Jesus) had to Entrust It, and through whom It would Make Its Rays Blaze, to do good to all.”

How one (Mary and Luisa) who is chosen for a Mission encloses all the Goods that others must receive.  How all Redeemed ones turn around the Celestial Mama (Mary). 

“There is no Good that will not descend through you (Luisa Piccarreta), by virtue of the sphere of My Divine Will placed in you (Luisa), nor Glory that will not ascend again along the same way. 

“When I (Jesus) Choose a creature for a Mission that must bring Universal Good into the midst of the human family, first I (Jesus) fix and enclose all the Goods in the Chosen One (Mary and Luisa), who must contain all the superabundant good that others must receive, who, perhaps, will not even take everything that the Chosen Creature encloses.  This happened in the Immaculate Queen (Mary), who was Chosen to be the Mother of the Eternal Word, and therefore the Mother of all Redeemed ones.  Everything that they (souls) were to do, and all the Good they (souls) were to Receive, was enclosed and fixed inside the Sovereign Queen of Heaven, as though inside a sun’s sphere, in such a way that all the Redeemed ones move around the Sun of the Celestial Mama; in such a way that She (Mary), more than most tender Mother, does nothing but feed Her (Mary’s) Rays to Her children, to Nourish them with Her (Mary’s) Light, with Her (Mary’s) Sanctity, with Her (Mary’s) Maternal Love.  But how many of the Rays that She (Mary) spreads have not been taken by creatures, because, ungrateful, they do not all draw around this Celestial Mother?

“So, one who is Chosen must Possess more than what all others together should Possess.  Just as all find light in the sun, in such a way that all creatures do not take the whole expanse of its light and the intensity of its heat, so it happened with My Mama (Mary):  the Goods that She (Mary) contains are such and so many that, more than sun, She (Mary) spreads the Beneficial Effects of Her (Mary’s) Vital and Vivifying Rays.  And so it will be for the one (Luisa) who has been Chosen for the Kingdom of My Divine Will.  See then, how the sacrifice of writing will be repaid to you (Luisa):  first, the Good of the Ray of that Knowledge is fixed in you (Luisa); and then, you (Luisa) will see that Good (the Ray of Knowledge about the Kingdom of the Divine Will) descend through you (Luisa) into the midst of creatures, and, in return, the Glory of the Good that they will do, ascend again within that same Light.  How happy you (Luisa) will be in Heaven, and will thank Me for the sacrifices I (Jesus) had you (Luisa) make!

“My daughter (Luisa), when a Work is Great, Universal, and encloses many Goods that all can enjoy, greater sacrifices are needed, and the one who is Chosen to be the First must be disposed to give and sacrifice her life as many times for as many Goods as she encloses, in order to Give, together with those Goods, her very life for the Good of her other brothers.  Did I (Jesus) not do the same in Redemption?  Don’t you (Luisa) perhaps want to imitate Me (Jesus)?”(and don’t we as well?)

Exchange between Jerusalem and Rome. 

My (Luisa’s) poor mind was thinking about many things regarding the Divine Will—especially about how Its Kingdom could come, how It (the Divine Will) could spread, and many other things that it is not necessary to write on paper.

And my Beloved Jesus, moving in my (Luisa’s) interior, told me (Luisa):  “My daughter (Luisa), if Rome has the primacy of My Church, she (Rome) owes it to Jerusalem, because the beginning of Redemption was precisely in Jerusalem.  Within that homeland, from the little town of Nazareth I (Jesus) chose My Virgin Mother (Mary); I Myself (Jesus) was born in the little town of Bethlehem, and all of My Apostles were from that homeland.  And even though, ungrateful, she (Jerusalem) did not want to recognize Me (Jesus) and rejected the Goods of My Redemption, it cannot be denied that the origin, the beginning, the first people who received the Good of It (the Redemption), were from this city (Jerusalem).  The first criers of the Gospel, those who established Catholicism in Rome, were My Apostles, all from Jerusalem—that is, from this homeland.

“Now there will be an exchange:  if Jerusalem gave to Rome the life of religion and therefore of Redemption, Rome will give to Jerusalem the Kingdom of the Divine Will.  And this is so true, that just as I (Jesus) chose a Virgin (Mary) from the little town of Nazareth for the Redemption, so I (Jesus) have chosen another virgin (Luisa) in a little town of Italy (Corato) belonging to Rome, to whom the mission of the Kingdom of the Divine FIAT has been entrusted.  And since It (the Kingdom of the Divine Will) must be known in Rome, just as My coming upon earth was known in Jerusalem, Rome will have the great honor of requiting Jerusalem for the great Gift received from her (Jerusalem), which is Redemption, by making known to her (Jerusalem) the Kingdom of My Divine Will. 

“Then will Jerusalem repent of her ingratitude, and will embrace the life of the religion (the Catholic Church) that she (Jerusalem) gave to Rome; and, grateful, she (Jerusalem) will receive from Rome the life and the great Gift of the Kingdom of My Divine Will.  And not only Jerusalem, but all the other nations will receive from Rome the great Gift of the Kingdom of My FIAT, the first criers of It, Its Gospel—all Full of Peace, of Happiness and of Restoration of the creation of man.”

Volontà amabile e potentissima,

Volontà immensa da cui tutto esce

E niente sfugge, vengo a portare

Ai tuoi piedi Santissimi l’amore di tutti”.

Luisa Piccarreta

Fra Giuseppe Bernardino Bucci

Frate Minore Cappuccino

Nel 50° Anniversario

Dell’Ordinazione sacerdotale

1964 – 14 marzo – 2014-06-12

Convento Frati Minori Cappuccini

76015 Trinitapoli (BT) – Via Barletta, 2

“Gesù fu il somministratore della Santissima Trinità:

elargì alle genti la potenza, la sapienza, la carità delle Divine Persone. Il sacerdozio ministeriale, essendo la continuazione del sacerdozio di Cristo nel tempo, perpetua la stessa Sua opera presso le anime”.

Serva di Dio Luisa Piccarreta

Loving and Powerful Will,

Immense Will from which everything comes out of

And nothing escapes, I come to bring

To your Most Holy feet the love of all.”

Luisa Piccarreta

Friar Giuseppe Bernardino Bucci

Friar Minor Capuchin

On the 50th Anniversary

Of his Priestly Ordination

1964 –March 14 – 06/12/2014

Monastery of Friars Minor Capuchin

76015 Trinitapoli (BT) – Via Barletta, 2

“Jesus was the administrator of the Most Holy Trinity:

He bestowed on people the power, the wisdom, the love of the Divine Persons.

The sacerdotal priesthood, being the continuation of Christ’s priesthood through time, perpetuates His work in souls. “

Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

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