Luisa Piccarreta

In response to Josephite on Padraig's thread and others regarding the misinterpretation of Luisa's writings and the difference in translations:

Misinterpretation of Luisa's writings is not the only danger. As a Confessor in both public settings and private settings, as I am also a Spiritual Director, lack of knowledge on the part of the penitent and/or a scrupulous conscience on the part of the penitent as two examples, may have the same result as a misinterpretation of the writings. All sin is a result of the act of the will. So for example, if the Confessor perceives that the will was not complicit, then no sin has been committed, and therefore no absolution necessary. With Luisa this may well have been the case with the writing that was referenced due to her high spirituality. If the Confessor detects that the penitent has an exaggerated idea and therefore is being super scrupulous on a particular scenario, then the Priest may determine because of a particular circumstance, again no sin was committed, and therefore no absolution is necessary. If a penitent leaves out pertinent information because of embarrassment or a desire to appear holy so that the Priest cannot detect an actual sin being confessed, then again, no absolution is necessary. The Priest has an obligation to help people to form their consciences.

In the early writings, Luisa's Confessors did not recognize that what was happening to her was from God, and they had to go out of their way, and to come to her to confess her. Unfortunately, there were times that they were in a hurry, or inpatient, or thought that she was being overly dramatic, or was exaggerating the severity of the sin. They in essence were treating her as though she were a penitent on a Saturday morning with a long line of penitents and they were the only Confessor. This even happened when Jesus put her in a state when she lost all of her senses and only the Confessor could bring her back. Many times she complained to Jesus because He refused to do the job Himself because He wanted the Church involved, and He wanted us to recognize that He, Himself, is the power of the Priesthood and to tell us how great that power is. As a Priest I have also come to recognize through Luisa's writings how awesome the responsibility of an Alter Christus is and how I must maintain the state of my soul for maximum effect in guiding other souls.

LIVING IN THE DIVINE WILL​

According to many credible sources, Our Lady, conceived without sin, and sinless throughout Her life, was given certain privileges. One of them was that other than the three days that Jesus was lost in the Temple (to Her and St. Joseph) when He was twelve, and the three days when Jesus was in the tomb, She had the beatific vision. She could see God. A scriptural reference to this can be found in St. John 2:3 when Our Lady tells Jesus "they have no wine". And Jesus in verse 4 says to Her: "Woman, what is that to Me and to thee? My hour is not yet come." The very next verse has Our Lady telling the waiters: "Whatsoever He (Jesus) shall say to you, do ye." Obviously the answer was already there. God spoke to Her spirit and gave Her the answer to Her plea. The Eternal Father must also have told Jesus and He began to tell the waiters what to do; and, the miracle of the water becoming wine was performed by Jesus. Obviously the Father told Him that His hour had come, and He began instructing. Their actions revealed the unspoken communication from the Father. This is living in the Divine Will. For this to happen, both had to be without sin because God doesn't sin. And by definition, Our Lady is Divine, the definition of which is: of or God-like.

So how did this work for Luisa who was born with original sin and therefore a fallen and sinful nature and therefore how will it work for us?
The answer is the connection to what's in the reply by Josephite. This is exactly why, and absolutely why, throughout Luisa's writings her Confessor plays a leading role. Anytime we do, on purpose, what is not God's Will, "it is sin". Luisa is the second most important human being in salvation history. Being as how Jesus and the Blessed Mother taught her the Gift of the Divine Will, she knew only too well what sin could do to take that privilege away from her even in the case of venial sin, it could hinder her understanding. This is consistent with the teachings of Holy Mother Church that when you commit a mortal sin, the Holy Spirit leaves you and your intellect is darkened and you are prone to more and worse mortal sins. If you truly intend to live in the Divine Will, you should educate your conscience and fine tune it and this should be done with the help of a Confessor who knows what you are trying to do, and/or a Spiritual Director (one to whom you vow obedience - Lady Obedience). The first one, the Confessor, is to help you to be honest and to keep the devil from lying to you about your true state of soul, and the other, the Spiritual Director, to keep you as St. Matthew 7:13~16, going toward the "narrow gate" and how to recognize false prophets. What applied to Luisa, applies to us. After all, most of us have not offered ourselves to God as victim souls as Luisa did and therefore do not have those special Graces. It is absolutely absurd to think that we can even get our little toe in the Divine Will if we are in serious or deliberate sin. Deliberate venial sin is when we give ourselves permission because it's only venial.

The second way in which we must imitate Luisa in order to even think about living in the Divine Will is to have constant intercourse going on with Jesus in our interior. These writings are the proof of what I'm saying. Luisa, with her entire being, is always reaching out for Jesus. She doesn't want to say or do anything without His approval, without knowing that it's His Will. Her actions as those of Jesus and Our Lady that are expressed in St. John 2 tell this story. Luisa's actions express the unspoken communications with Jesus.

At a private Divine Will teaching session in Atlanta some thirty years ago, before I was even Ordained, the Priest who was teaching us challenged us on whether or not we were living in the Divine Will. We all thought sure that we were. We were all saying "Come Divine Will to do this in me". Unfortunately, as the Priest told us, we were simply asking God to rubber stamp what we wanted to do that which was our will, our plan, without any concern as to whether it was God's Will, or God's plan. I hope you can appreciate how silly we felt at the realization that we had been leaving Jesus completely out of the decision. Are you doing the same thing? Have you, using the Bible, meditative prayer using the Baltimore Catechism, or the writings of St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, etc. practiced living in the presence of God? Have you come up with a means by which you have an agreement with God on what sign you will know it is from Him, that what you're contemplating doing is indeed His Will and not your own or someone else's before you say: "Come Divine Will"?

Jesus told Luisa in the third volume (third of thirty six) that she needed to practice what He had already taught her before He could teach her more. In the first twelve volumes Jesus put Luisa through what is commonly known by Spiritual Directors as the "purgative process". You can see this process in action in the story of Abraham and Moses and Jesus' Apostles, as examples. Jesus calls the Gift of His Will the Sanctity of All Sanctities. If we will become little saints of the Divine Will, we too must go through the purgative process. There are no short cuts, no free passes. Luisa imitated Jesus and Our Lady in taking a seat at the low end of the table and doing all that They did out of love for God. Can you?

 

Hi Father. Welcome to the forum! You strike me as someone in the know about the Divine Will and sin in general. I hope you are open to questions because I'm throwing one out there.

After a person gives their will to God, what happens if they sin?

 

Thank you Father for giving clarification. It is more than helpful to me.
God bless you

 

My dear fellow peccator (sinner), Rain,
Before you retired to your bed last night, did you set your alarm or did you ask Jesus in His Divine Will what time He wanted you to get up? When you wake up in the morning, whether with the alarm or without, do you ask Jesus if you should open your eyes? If you should get up out of the bed? If you should shower before your morning prayers? ... Do you ask Him what He would like you to have for breakfast or if you should even have breakfast? Do you ask Him if it's His Will for you to go to work or to school, etc.?

Have you really given Him your will?

Most people have never given any thought as to how pervasive their will is/must be from the moment that you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night. How much do you do that does not take your will for you to do? How many "preferences" for your own will do you not express in what you're going to eat, what you're going to wear, what you're going to pray, or not, (St. Matthew 6:25~34, and verse 33 says specifically: "Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God, and His justice (Sanctifying Grace) and all these things shall be added unto you." This too is a part of giving up your will.) who you're going to interact with, what you're going to say? How many of these things do you consult Jesus on before you do them or decide not to do them? Have you really given your will away?

I, personally have been working on this for over 32 years, and the number of times each day that I go into "automatic" and just do it, say it, or eat it without asking Jesus what His Will is says that I am still a work in progress and not a fait accomplis. In cold hard fact, I pray that God does not leave me here in the exile until I have completed giving Him my will. I'll be here forever! In fact, I prayed for some time to Jesus, knowing my inadequacy, that He be the one to speak to you through me so that I would not lead you astray.

Because I'm only His instrument, and an instrument is talked or moved or played by a superior force, the words, "I" and "me" according to Luisa's writings, are totally inappropriate; but rather it should be "we" and "our". Not the royal, "we", because I'm in the equation, Jesus is the King, not me. When you think of it, is there anything that any of us does that we do not of necessity use everything that God has put at our disposal to speak, to think, to walk, to breath, to eat, ...? The only possession that we have that enters this equation is the free will that He gave us which we would not have without His generosity.

Imagine that all these goods that God has put at our disposal are at the mercy of our will and fallen sinful nature and all God can do is watch and try to inspire.

In the writings Jesus tells Luisa that He wants to give her His Will but that He knows that she can never appreciate It for what It is. Jesus knows His creatures and knows that we are all handicapped in that our free wills are affected by our sinful fallen natures. For this reason, He told Luisa that He would put His Will in her, but that He would keep His Hands on It so that the moment that she was about to commit a sin, He would remove It from her because His Will cannot be a party to sin!

Holy Mother Church has all that we need in Catechisms, and I recommend the Baltimore Catechism, and in Examinations of Conscience that instruct us on what sin is and how we are to deal with it.

(And let's face it, our goal to live in the Divine Will. By Jesus' own account It is the Sanctity of all Sanctities. So, how holy do we have to be to live in It? 2 Peter 3:11: "... Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, (our wills) what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness? (3:14) Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before Him unspotted and blameless in peace, ..." So how justified is Jesus to not leave this tremendous Gift in our power without this proviso? You may order this "Examination of Conscience for Adults" by Rev. Donald F. Miller, C.SS.R. from Catholic Treasures, P.O. Box 5034, Monrovia, CA 91017-7134, or 800-257-4893.)

To put it plainly, when you sin, you cannot use the Divine Will to sin. So Jesus removes It from you. Therefore you are no longer in the Divine Will.

For venial sins, Holy Mother Church tells us that if we make a good act of contrition, and remember, the end of the act of contrition is "I firmly resolve with the help of Your Grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin." This is a precondition for an effective absolution. So, say it like you mean it, mean it when you say it, and be sure to make a good faith effort to do it.

In reference to Josephite in the other thread, this is undoubtedly one of the reasons why Jesus would say that Sacraments are a waste of time. If you are in serious sin, that is exactly true. They become a sacrilege. If you are doing nothing in accordance with your resolution to "sin no more" and "to avoid the near occasion of sin" then the absolution of the Priest is nullified. This is also why the act of contrition is required so that we are making this commitment. Jesus told the woman caught in adultery: "...go and sin no more". It is imperative at all times that we are honest with ourselves and with Jesus through His Priest so that we can be in Sanctifying Grace so that we are eligible to get into the Divine Will, and to return to It after we have sinned.

Holy Mother Church teaches us that the Holy Spirit is the "Lord and Giver of Life" and that He is the "Forgiveness of Sins". So if we have caused Him to vacate with mortal sin, He takes that Life with Him. You must make a formal confession, and at the end of it you must make a good and honest act of contrition and follow through with it. Whereas with venial sins, an act of contrition under the same conditions, or an interior confession in conjunction with the Sign of the Cross made with Holy Water confected by a Priest that has the Power of Exorcism, so that he imparts to that Holy Water through the ritual the power to forgive sin and chase off the demons that caused you to commit that venial sin is all that is necessary to remit it. This is all part and parcel of the purgative process that all of us, like Luisa and all the Saints, must go through all of our lives and even through Purgatory (remember it's the purgative process) until we pass through the Veil into that place of "refreshment, light, and peace" described in the Prayer for the Dead at the Holy Tridentine Mass.

James 1:17&18 says it best:
(V17) "Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with Whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration." (His Word will stand forever, with 'no change, nor shadow of alteration'.)
(V18) "For of His own Will hath He begotten us by the Word of Truth, that we might be some beginning of His creature." (We are not a finished product until we make it through the Veil to the beatific vision. In fact, Jesus told Luisa that Our Lady was the only completed creature that existed while living in the exile.)

 

Welcome, Father. I pray for the hasty Canonization of Saintly Luisa Piccarreta, so that all Catholics may come to know her works, and spiritually profit from being able to read, meditate on and practice them. There's no doubt she is a Saint - like St. Hannibal Francis De Maria, her Canonized Confessor - for she lived her whole life in complete Union with, and loving Sacrifice to, the Divine Will. As you so rightly teach us, it is necessary to give up our will entirely, that only God's Will may live in us. St. Paul also in Sacred Scripture taught us to live like that, saying he lives no more, but only Christ lives in him. That is how the Saints all became Saints. And there is no doubt also, that if we truly follow the path the Divine Will traces out for us, we also can become saints, for the Glory of God! Sancta Luisa Piccarreta, ora pro nobis.

"We only wish to place ourselves in his hands and say that we want to fulfill his Will because, if we do not dedicate ourselves, we are also going against the thoughts and will of our own Luisa, who had only one, single desire: to fulfill the Will of God. The FIAT that she continually repeated was an immense desire to do only the Will of God, and she presented her FIAT by sacrificing herself. For many years, almost her entire life, she was bed-ridden, many times in great pain and overwhelmed with much of the Passion of our God, Jesus Christ. As a young child, even before her illness, she saw our Christ asking her for assistance in suffering the Passion, to carry the Cross; and she was willing. From that moment, the rest of her long life was a continuous sacrifice." https://luisapiccarreta.com/biographical-notes/letters-from-trani-archdiocese/

St. Hannibal Francis Maria on the Hours of the Passion in the Divine Will: "What to say about how great this tool would be for each Religious Community in order to advance in holiness, to be preserved, to grow in the number of chosen souls, and to obtain true prosperity? How much commitment, then, should each Community have in the constant practice of this pious exercise! And the souls of that Community who attend Holy Mass daily would receive Communion with such dispositions of fervor, and with such love for Jesus, that each Communion would be a renewed marriage of the soul with Jesus in the most intimate and increasing Union of Love!"

St. Padre Pio on Saintly Luisa Piccarreta: "“The world will be filled with Luisa…The third millennium will see her light.” — St. Padre Pio
Blessed Padre Pio sent many people to Luisa Piccarreta and would say to the people of Corato who went to San Giovanni Rotondo:
“What have you come here for? You have Luisa, go to her”. https://www.queenofthedivinewill.org/saint-padre-pio-and-luisa-picarreta/

"Her daily life
Luisa lived in the strictest poverty, on a small income derived from lace making, which she carried out while sitting up in her bed during the day. Although she wished to live in obscurity, people of all ranks, from the humblest peasants to high-ranking prelates of the church visited her, seeking spiritual advice or consolation.

Luisa never left her bed of suffering and remained sitting in the same position for 64 consecutive years, not counting the first six years when she was often bedridden. Remarkably, she never contracted any bedsores which are normally inevitable for those bedridden.

In the morning Luisa would be found immobile and immovable, huddled in her bed, stiff as though petrified, to the extent that no one could manage to move her, until her confessor or any other priest would come in prayer to bless her; only then would Luisa be able to move and be released. So her sister Angelina and faithful Rosaria would place her again in her usual sitting position, while the priest would begin Holy Mass on a movable altar which was in her room. With the permission of Pope Leo XIII, renewed later by Pope St. Pius X, Mass was allowed to be offered in her bedroom daily."

From: http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2010/08/servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta-little.html

 

Thank you for your very thoughtful reply. I think you're saying that a person living in the Divine Will isn't immune from falling into sin. Should they sin, God's Will left the building prior to the sin. If I'm understanding correctly, we are still sinners with the same old faults as before we received "The Gift". If we can be "knocked" out of God's Will when we sin, how are we better off than before we are given "The Gift"? It seems like after "The Gift" our sins would be even more devastating because the more we are given, the more God expects from us, so the worse it is when we fall.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but this bothers me.

For instance, in the morning I can ask Jesus if I should open my eyes or not, but He's not going to answer. If I wait for Him to tell me what to eat, I'll starve. He's never going to say, "No Lucky Charms for you. Go for the scrambled eggs." I'm pretty sure if I heard a voice from above say, "Eat a beet!" Even though I detest beets, I'd go out of my way to eat one, but in my experience this isn't how God works. Most of the time He's mostly quiet about the little decisions we make all the day long. How can we function without using our own will when His Will is unknown? Maybe I'm being too literal. Please help me understand.

 

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but this bothers me.
For instance, in the morning I can ask Jesus if I should open my eyes or not, but He's not going to answer. If I wait for Him to tell me what to eat, I'll starve. He's never going to say, "No Lucky Charms for you. Go for the scrambled eggs." I'm pretty sure if I heard a voice from above say, "Eat a beet!" Even though I detest beets, I'd go out of my way to eat one, but in my experience this isn't how God works. Most of the time He's mostly quiet about the little decisions we make all the day long. How can we function without using our own will when His Will is unknown? Maybe I'm being too literal. Please help me understand.

My thoughts exactly Rain... Also even if I did think I "heard "an answer, how would I know that I am not being deceived.

 

I will say this though, when God really wants me to learn something he puts it in my path for me to stumble upon and my inquisitive mind that he has blessed me with makes me seek it out.

 

His ways are not our ways
And thank God for that!!!!

 

I think it all comes down to doing everything with love, every little thing you do. Once Mother Angelica as a young nun was asking Jesus about His Will and He said don't call it my Will, say My Love be done.

Live in the sacrament of the moment, do every thing with love.

Some saint's comments:

Conformity to the Will of God – Quotes by the Saints

I know, I know, it's not the same as living in God's Will

 

But it's Catholic, and not heresy.

 

“The world will be filled with Luisa…The third millennium will see her light.” — St. Padre Pio

He saw it all.

 

Padre Pio was never in any way associated with Luisa Piccarreta.


Return Address:
OUR LADY OF GRACE CAPUCHIN FRIARY
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO ITALY

13/1/98

Dear Mrs. Turner,

I have received your request about Padre Pio and Luisa Picaretti. I can give you no information as they never met, nor corresponded. This has been verified with a local person who has been much involved with the Divine Will movement.

There are absolutely no grounds to connect the Venerable Padre Pio with that movement and I strongly desire that his name not be used in any connection whatsoever.


Sincerely yours,


(Signed)

(Reverend) J. P. Martin

 

I suspected as much.

 

This is so legalistic. Christ taught us not to worry about what we will eat or what we will put on.

 

And if anyone needed any other proof that this cult (as being presently presented on this forum anyway) is dangerous spiritually - here you go.

 

"with that movement". That was to emphasize that P. Pio was not any chosen person established on earth by God to be the one to teach this new holiness. That was solely Luisa Piccarreta's responsibility and he emphasized this to all who came to him and asked him of Luisa. They did not live far from one another. P. Pio knew Luisa through correspondence, approved of her calling for these messages and believed in her and them.....in fact he was awaiting such to occur. That is why he did indeed "know everything" about this timing for teaching what he already experienced himself. Therefore that is why he sent others to her....asking them even why they were coming to him when they had Luisa! He had a contact who was asked to keep him informed of Luisa, assure her of his prayers for her and the role chosen for her....as she also assured P. Pio of her prayers for him.

"Padre Pio was never in any way associated with Luisa Piccarreta." ???

Luisa and Padre Pio exchanged greetings and prayers, and each one referred visitors to the other. This is evidenced in excerpts from the letters of Luisa Piccarreta to Federico Abresch a close friend of her and of Padre Pio.

It is all documented for anyone who truly wishes to know the truth of P. Pio's connection to Luisa rather than myopically looking for personally desired sound bites to prove an erroneous point. He wanted no confusion or interruption in this movement of God by inserting him into it. To show that the comment by the monastery was solely for this purpose the grounds there actually housed a place for those interested in the movement.

Padre Pio recommended to certain of his faithful (including Federico Abresch) that they open a spirituality center at San Giovanni Rotondo, inspired by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.

Adriana Pallotti is a wonderful lady who lives in San Giovanni Rotondo in Foggia, Italy, where she founded the “House of Prayer for the Kingdom of the Divine Will”.

In San Giovanni Rotondo, she attended the Cenacles of Federico Abresch on the Divine Will, when Luisa was still alive.

She also gives wonderful testimony on the conversion of Federico Abresch through Padre Pio on the first Divine Will Cenacle in the San Giovanni Rotondo and on direct and specific comments of Padre Pio regarding the spreading of the Writings of Luisa.

INTERVIEWER: Are there other things that-as you remember –Padre Pio said about the Divine Will? Did you talk with Padre Pio about Luisa?

ADRIANA PALOTTI: Yes, I asked him if it was a good thing to get a recorder in order to tape the Writings of Luisa… and I went to Milan to buy a recorder, because here I couldn’t find a good one… I asked him and he said”YES!!!” After this other positive answer… I went to Milan to get it.

I – So he was aware of this…

AP – Yes,yes,yes,very much… Even more, among the young people who came to Abresch to listen to the Lessons on the Divine Will, one of them told us that he went to Confession to Padre Pio, asking him: “Father is it true that the Blessed Mother is Great not because She has been the Mother of God… for Her Virginity… for Her being Immaculate, but because – as Luisa says in her Writings- She never did Her human will ,but only and exclusively the Will of God? Padre Pio answered “Yes my son ,this is the truth! “This is the truth!

 

Totally the opposite. It's the minds of those who have only had learning up to this point that itself has been legalistic who compare it in that way and thus obviously, as here, cannot allow themselves to move to this other state of mind. It's actually more like what Augustine said....:"love God and do what you will". That is why the teachings of His unfathomable Mercy via St. Faustina who herself lived in the Divine Will to the point that Jesus called her a "Living Host", led the way to this revelation of the Divine Will. One first must trust Jesus completely....that trust leads to giving Him everything and then opening one's self beyond the defective thinking since the fall. Luisa herself went in and out of the Divine Will due to her own original thinking....which was obedient but not completed as the Father's Will desired for all and which was fulfilled in her as the first little daughter of this expanded understanding so that all might also benefit and give the Father the pleasure He desires from His creation.

 

To Rain and HeavenlyHost,
As I have said previously, I will say more emphatically, I am horribly inadequate to this task for which I apologize, I have no desire to lead you astray. One of the examples that Jesus uses with Luisa to teach her about His Will is that of a diamond in a setting that our perceptions of its beauty and its facets changes with the angle of the light and the angle from which you look at it. In other words, its permutations are infinite and only the infinite God Whose Will it is can even begin to describe or explain its beauty. In fact Jesus tells Luisa that He will be revealing to us new and more beautiful things about His Will for all eternity. And that obviously is not me. So please be patient with me and the stammering way in which I try to explain while in the eyes of my soul I am so bedazzled and confused by its light. Even after 32 years.

It's very difficult to walk the fine line of defending the justice and righteousness of our God in His Holy Will and at the same time express His infinite Love for each of us which is His Will. His Love equals His Will.

When I first perceived that there was such a thing as a "Gift of the Divine Will", it took me like a storm. My usual habit was to be at my job, which most days was 12 plus hours, at 6:30 in the morning. I felt compelled to get up early enough to pray the "Divine Will Prayers" from my prayer book, and the daily lesson from the "Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will". I also took every moment that I could from any other activity so that I could pray and meditate on "The Hours of the Passion". My wife began to hate the Divine Will because, as she said, she felt that God was taking me away from her. This of course was my fault and not God's. When I was a pubescent teenager, I tossed God and the vocation that He had revealed to me to be a Priest aside. My marriage had already been falling apart and my wife and my son divorced me. All that they left me was this newfound Gift of the Divine Will. When I finally stopped feeling sorry for myself, I realized that God was only coming back to give me a second chance. I wouldn't have to stand before Him in judgement and answer for my broken promise to be all His. I still didn't realize that the "Fiat!" that I was giving Him was an equally great commitment and that He wanted all of me.

The devil then tempted me with a new relationship which I nearly fell for. My mentor in the Divine Will at that time accepted God's Graces and he warned me about that relationship. I was angry with God, because He used my mentor to tell me of my impending sin. I told God that when the Warning came, I would get out of that relationship. That was in 1988. His answer was a tornado hitting the trailer that I lived in that belonged to my mentor. I got the message! I can still remember, vividly, dropping to my knees before a statue of the Holy Family crying my eyes out and asking God why He insisted upon using a baseball bat upside of my head instead of a gentle warning. The answer that He put in my heart at that moment was that I had given Him my "Fiat!" and that that bargain was just as much His responsibility as it was mine since it was His Will. I needed to look at what was His and treat it as my Faith had taught me with the utmost reverence and honesty and truthfulness and loving care as He did. It was not His Will to jettison me or put me in Hell, but rather to have me do as I had promised so that He could say, "Come on in my good and faithful servant!" at the end of my journey.

HE LOVED ME!

He was giving me an opportunity to reciprocate that Love.

He reminded me of my mindset and behavior when I was "courting" the woman I married. She was "always on my mind". There was nothing that I would not do for her and to please her. He also reminded me that He was the Bridegroom and the Church His Bride. As His Alter Christus, I had to become the bridegroom also, and that meant that I had to be as St. Paul said: "It is no longer I that live but Christ Who lives in me." I could not be as the folks in St. Luke 14:17&18 and "excuse myself" when He sent His servant to tell me "that I should come, for now all things are ready". For me the Priesthood is very similar to giving my "Fiat!" only more binding as it is a Sacrament that puts an indelible mark on my soul. Had I not become His Priest, to give my "Fiat!" was my commitment to Him as His Bride. When two people are married, they are responsible to each other and for each other, and nothing else should come between them. Nothing and no one else.

My description yesterday was not meant to be in a legalistic sense, and not to be accusatory of the Bride. I meant only to describe that loving relationship between the Bride and the Groom. Can you imagine waking up in the morning and not talking to your spouse who is right there beside you? Can you imagine not asking your spouse what they want for breakfast? Can you imagine standing before the matrimonial altar and telling your spouse that you love her/him but don't expect to hear it anymore from my lips? Just take my word for it here and now and forever?

I would sincerely, sincerely hope that you would consider this thread more as a pre-Cana conference because my desire for Jesus and for you, is that your relationship in His Will will bring you both eternal happiness. No divorce.

 

Yes Daniel nine 27,

I have myself been accused of scruples in the holy sacrament of confession, possibly like yourself. Lord Forgive us please.

It is true..... I need the graces offered by the Our Lady the Blessed Mother and the graces offered by Her most pure spouse St Joseph!

Please pray for me Father Daniel nine 27.... through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Faithful heart of St Joseph. Amen.

Thank you
May God be with you Daniel nine 27.