The Rounds of Creation - The First Fiat Most Blessed Trinity, I fuse myself in your will and I place my I love you and glory: + On our galaxy and on all the galaxies outside of our galaxy. + On the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors and comets. + On the sun, the sunrise, every sunset, its heat and on all the places where its light penetrates. + On the moon and moonbeams. + On the blue sky, the night sky and the air we breathe. + On the clouds, the wind and the howling of the wind. + On every raindrop, hail stone, snowflake, lightening, thunder and rainbow. + On every tornado, earthquake, typhoon, monsoon, drought, flood, hurricane, blizzard, volcanic eruption and sandstorm. + On every tree, on every leaf and branch of every tree, on every bush, plant, flower, shrub, evergreen, vine and weed. + On every blade of grass, spec of dirt, grain of sand, stone, boulder and pebble. + On all the morning dew, fog, humidity, frost and chill of the air. + On every glacier, piece of ice, avalanche, iceberg and icicle. + On every sea, ocean, lake, pond, stream, waterfall, rapid, river, wave, tilde wave and undercurrent. + On all fish, water creatures, seaweed and lily pads. + On all jungles, quicksand, swamps, caves, caverns, canyons, gullies, marshes and gorges. + On all fire and its heat. + On all animals, reptiles, rodents, insects, birds of the air and their songs and warbles. + On every side of every mountain, volcano and hill. + On every desert, valley, plain, field, forest and cactus. + On all food, fruit, vegetables and water. + On all creatures, their heartbeats, breaths and steps. + On the love Father, in which you invested each creature with its qualities. + In the hearts of all the Holy Angels and Saints. + On the creation of our first father and mother, Adam and Eve, and on all of their divine acts before the fall. + On each act of the Eternal Volition. + On the power, wisdom and love of the Supreme Fiat. + On the Fiat of the Father and on the love in which He created all of creation. + On the Divine Volition. We thank you Heavenly Father for the Gift of Your Creation
Thanksgiving seems an appropriate day to thank you two dear ladies for your postings on this thread. It is a breath of fresh air!!!
We give THANKS to God, the author of the Book of Heaven and of the precious quotes we are sharing here, and to His faithful servant Luisa, the Little Daughter of Divine Will. It is a pleasure to share these treasures and to find echo and appreciation. May God be praised in everything!
We continue further with the same day's quote: ... "Even the wildest animals repeat to us: “See, Oh man, how wild you must be for all that is not God. See, when we see that someone gets close to us, with our roars we strike so much fear, that no one dares to come close to us any more, to disturb our solitude. You too, when the stench of earthly things - that is, your violent passions – are about to make you muddy and make you fall into the abyss of sins, with the roars of your prayers and by withdrawing from the occasions in which you find yourself, you will be safe from any danger.” And so with all other beings, such that it would take too long to tell them all; with one voice they resound among themselves, and repeat to us: “See, Oh man, our Creator has created us for love of you, and we remain all at your service. And you, don’t be so ungrateful – love, we beg you; love, we repeat to you; love our Creator.” After this, my lovable Jesus told me: “This is all I want: love God and your neighbor for love of Me"B.H. March13, 1899
Rounds of Redemption– Second Fiat I place my I love you: + On the Fiat of the Blessed Mother. + On Jesus’ incarnation. + On each word of the psalm of praise that the Blessed Mother proclaimed in the Magnificat. + On all of the sufferings that Jesus endured while in the womb of the Blessed Mother. + On the act in which Jesus sanctified St. John, while in the womb of St. Elizabeth. + On the pain that the Blessed Mother endured when holy Simeon prophesied her sorrows. + On all of Jesus’ tears and on each death that He suffered for love of creatures. + On the act in which Jesus subjected himself to the painful cut of the circumcision, which was the first payment before the Divine Justice to redeem all human generations. + On the suffering that Jesus endured when He was forced to flee to Egypt. + On the pain that the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph endured when they lost Jesus for three days and then found Him in the temple with the elders. + On all the acts of Jesus’ hidden life. + On the act when Jesus was baptized by St. John in the Jordan. + On each act that Jesus performed while He fasted and prayed for 40 days and nights in the desert. + On the act when Jesus selected each of the Apostles. + On Jesus’ every miracle, prayer, reparation, healing, lesson and sermon that He gave. + On Jesus’ every thought, word, deed, action, desire, breath, heartbeat, glance, touch, step, suffering, each time He slept and on each bead of His sweat. + On the act when Jesus raised Lazarus and the little girl from the dead. + On the act when Jesus chased the merchants and peddlers from the temple. + On all the acts between Jesus and the Blessed Mother. + On all the tears and sorrows of the Blessed Mother. + On all the sufferings that the Blessed Mother endured both interiorly and exteriorly. + On the act when Jesus instituted the Catholic Church, proclaiming to Simon Peter that “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” + On Jesus’ transfiguration. + On all that Jesus suffered while in the Garden of Gethsemane, as well as on His every prayer and reparation, on each drop of His most precious blood and on the consolation sent to Him by the Father through an angel. + On all that Jesus, endured from His enemies: on every push and slap, on the loathsome spit, on every punch and kick, each time He was dragged and stepped upon, each time His lips were twisted and His hair was pulled from His head and His beard from His face. + On the humiliation Jesus suffered, when being stripped of His clothing. + On each scourge Jesus endured for love of creatures, on each piece of flesh torn from His sacred body and on each drop of His most precious blood. + On the pain that Jesus endured, when Barabbas the criminal, was preferred to Him. + On the pain that Jesus endured, when He was mocked, declared crazy and a clown. + On the suffering Jesus endured, when He was covered with a purple garment and a reed was placed in His hand. + On the pain that Jesus endured, when the purple garment was ripped from His sacred body, the crown of thorns was ripped from His head and His flesh was torn. + On the rejection that Jesus endured, and on all that hurt Him emotionally, physically and spiritually. + On each wound Jesus endured, when He was crowned with a crown of thorns “three” times. + On the act when Jesus received the cross and kissed it. + On each fall that Jesus endured while carrying the weight of the cross, as well as before, beneath and behind each of His steps. + On the act when Veronica wiped Jesus’ face and He left His image of gratitude on her veil. + On the act when Jesus consoled the pious women. + On the wound that penetrated Jesus’ shoulder from carrying the weight of the cross. + On the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet from the blunt nails that were so barbarically beaten into His sacred body. + On the pain that Jesus endured, when His enemies stretched Him on the cross and His bones were dislocated. + On the pain that Jesus endured, when the cross was dropped into the ground and His wounds were rent. + On all the sufferings that Jesus endured, while He hung on the cross for three hours. + On the painful suffocation that Jesus endured. + On each word that Jesus spoke from the cross. + On the act when Jesus pardoned the criminal on the cross. + On the compassionate act, when Jesus gave the Blessed Mother to creatures as their mother. + On the wound in Jesus’ side made by Loginus’ sword, and on the blood and water that immediately gushed forth. + On the act when Jesus commended His soul to the Father. + On the pain that the Blessed Mother endured when the sword of sorrow pierced her heart not with one sword, but with thousands of swords. + On the act when Jesus was taken down from the cross and placed into the arms of the Blessed Mother. + On the act when Jesus was placed into the tomb, anointed, covered with a garment and left His holy image on the shroud. + On Jesus’ glorious Resurrection. + On the act when Jesus arose from the dead and appeared to the Blessed Mother first. + On Jesus’ glorious Ascension into heaven. + On each act that the Blessed Mother made in the Divine Will from the moment of her Immaculate Conception through her Assumption into heaven. + On all the Blessed Mothers acts that she prepared as food to feed the children of the Divine Will. + On all the acts that Jesus and the Blessed Mother performed that involved all the acts of creatures. + On the Immaculate Conception. + On the Blessed Mother’s seas of love and on her whole life. + On the Fiat of Luisa Piccarreta and on all the acts that she made in the Divine Will. + On all the sufferings that Luisa Piccarreta endured interiorly and exteriorly; and on every moment she spent writing the 36 Volumes of the Book of Heaven, The Hours of the Passion and The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. + On all the acts of the sons and daughters of the Divine Will of the past, present and future, as well as all of my acts in the Divine Will of the past, present and future.
Thank you for reading these posts and applying them to your life. How I wish all would open their hearts to the knowledge of the Divine Will that all may come to accept this great Gift that Our Lord wants to give us!
I feel the same. But I "passed" on reading about Luisa for over 20 years, then over a year ago I was suddenly attracted to her writings. I can only assume that "when the student is ready, the teacher appears." I've been listening to the audio lectures of father Robert Young on the Divine Will, and reading the Book of Heaven nearly every day for over a year, and I'm convinced this is THE way to navigate the storm and do all we can to bring about the kingdom of the Divine Will, on earth as it is in heaven. Allowing Jesus to do His will in me has none of the frustrations and failures that marked all the years I tried to do God's will and acquire virtue on my own. An amazing benefit of living in the Divine Will more and more each day is the fortress of protection it provides from the assaults by the enemy. He despises the Divine Will, and can't bear to come near it. (This is mentioned in Luisa's writings).
Bless you! Please continue reading the writings of the Book of Heaven, and place all your acts in the Holy Divine Will - even the Words of Jesus that you read can be offered back to Him.
"Today I did my meditation on the harm that can come to our souls from the praises that creatures give us. While I was doing the application to myself, to see whether there was in me complacency for human praises, Jesus came close to me and told me: “When a heart is full of the knowledge of self, the praises of men are like those sea waves that rise and overflow, but never go out of their shore. In the same way, the human praises yell and shout, they clamor, they get close even to the heart, but in finding it full and well surrounded by the strong walls of the knowledge of self, unable to find a place for themselves, they draw back, causing no harm to one’s soul. So, this is what you must pay attention to; and the praises and scorns of creatures - take them into no account.”B.H. April 23, 1899
WOW! Does this strike close to home, or what? In Ignatian spirituality, the uprooting of one's core sin is an integral piece of the puzzle. Mine happens to be vanity, where the opinion and feelings of others tend to pull me away from fully embracing the Will of God. My realization of the fact is a good start, but I'm still having trouble getting to second base. John 5:44 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Here's the difference - in the Divine Will Jesus crowds out all those weaknesses and sinful places that you're not able to conquer on your own. There's not room for them anymore1 It's as simple as putting your acts in the divine will in the morning and all through the day, whenever you think of it (Jesus, think in my thinking, work in my working, drive in my driving, pray in my praying, love in my loving, in the center of your will) and giving your fiat to His will whenever your own will tries to wrestle your own preferences in situations that arise during the day. Because our free will is the greatest gift God has given us, when we hand it over and ask for His will as our dwelling place, it is so pleasing to God He can't resist answering that prayer. I know it sounds too good to be true, but it really is! It takes my breath away to see what He's done in my soul the past year (after 25 years of failing miserably to root those defects out myself.) He's still got his work cut out for him, but I'm so grateful for what He's done so far.
Yours is a beautiful and humble comment, Mario. Thank you! I think that the wisdom of Kathy's response suggests a different "second base" from the spirituality the Gift of the Divine Will beyond Ignatian spirituality. First step is self knowledge, indeed. You are already there, Mario, -and always growing deeper and further into it, with God's Grace. Then the second base is not "getting rid" of the defect -we are not asked to become perfect by our efforts. That is not in our hand or power, it is God's Gift, never our achievement. So instead of hiding and letting the feeling of failure take over, we just present our weakness to Jesus, and ourselves with it, accepting ourselves as we are, because God does accept us as we are. At the same time we beg for the Gift of becoming more like Him, one day at a time. This is never totally achieved. It is a work in progress. And we don't take the pulse of where we are in the spiritual Journey. We let that to God and keep walking the path. We look at Jesus and, as Kathy says, we ask Him to come and be in us. This is what He wants and asks for. Perfection beyond that is not in our hands but is up to Him.
"Blessed are those who interest themselves in His Will, because the Lord will use them to open the ways which had been closed."
Kathy, What a beautiful image! It reminds me of a passage from Matthew: 12:43 "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. 44 Then he says, `I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. May Jesus fill with His Love what he has cleansed through His Mercy! Glory to God in the highest!
WCWTS, So true. Have you ever read Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard? There is a scene in this beautiful allegory where the heroine, Much Afraid, reaches the altar of sacrifice at the top of the mountain where the Shepherd had called her. The text reads: She felt nothing but a great stillness in which only one desire remained, to do that which he had told her, simply because he had asked it of her. (Living Books edition, 6th printing, October 1981, p.211) However, pull as she may, Much Afraid is unable to uproot the human love in her heart. Only the Shepherd, disguised in priestly garb, is able to accomplish for her this ultimate oblation! It is a marvelous spiritual novel. Try it; you'll like it! Glory to God in the highest!
THE FIRST STEP TO SELF KNOWLEDGE: I begin, oh Jesus, in You, with You, and for You. I have no trust in myself, but I have faith in You. Without You I can do nothing. May this writing, from beginning to end, be done for your greater glory, for the growth and increase of my love toward You, and for my great confusion. (Vol. 1) You must be like an infant in swaddling bands who, unable to move by himself, even to walk or move a hand, must rely on its mother for everything. In that way, I want you to remain near Me—like an infant—to always ask for my help and assistance, acknowledging your nothingness and expecting everything from Me.” (Vol. 1) He gave me other new insights regarding self—annihilation saying, "You are not, and should not consider yourself more than a shadow that quickly passes by and eludes you as you try to catch it. If, therefore, you want to see something in yourself that is worthy of Me, consider yourself nothing; and I, pleased with your true debasement, will pour my All into you." Saying this, my good Jesus impressed on my mind and heart a self—annihilation of such magnitude, that I wanted to hide myself in the deepest abyss. Knowing how impossible it was for me to hide my shame from Him as I continued the destruction of my self-esteem, He would say, "Get closer to Me, lean on my arm. I will support you and give you strength to always work for Me and do all for Me." (Vol. 1) Luisa: Have You forgotten that I am wicked and that without You I can do no good? And Jesus sweetly and calmly answered; “I do this so you will understand what you are without Me. Do not despair. I am doing this to you for your greater good, to prepare your heart to receive the new graces I shall bestow upon you. Until this time I have helped you visibly; but now, invisibly, I will make you feel your nothingness with your own hand. (Vol. 1)
