Luisa’s Dominican Tertiary Cross

Luisa wearing her Dominican Tertiary Cross

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“Being a lay Dominican seems to Luisa to be an adequate form of consecration that is recognized by the Church. Thus she became a Dominican tertiary with the name of Sister Magdalena and, up until her final days, she will recite the Divine every day. She is very devoted to St. Dominic and St. Catherine and  she prepares for their feasts with a novena in their honor “. (Maria Rosaria Del Genio, The Sun of My Will Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2014, p.48).

These words, contained in the biography of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta describe Luisa’s membership in the Dominican Third Order. From the testimonies and the documents that have been collected it appears that she was a part of it since her earliest youth, when the Third Order was restored in the city of Corato.

Also Mons. Luigi D’Oria was reporting it. In the biographical profile that he wrote in 1951 he said: “Luisa, as she herself repeatedly reminded her followers and as they attested, became a lay Dominican (…) in 1882, when she was 17 years old. (…)

Five years had passed since Jesus addressed her His heartfelt invitation: “Soul, help me!” Luisa felt the fire of the divine love that burned in her heart and she was all intent on finding “how better” to follow her heavenly Spouse, to imitate His examples, to suffer with Him and, thus, to cooperate with Him in the salvation of souls.

Luisa did not delay in understanding that the Third Dominican Order, like any other third order, bringing to life the religious spirit, led the souls of good will on the purely evangelical path and thus gave the opportunity to live with confidence following Jesus. (…) Moreover, our new daughter of St. Dominic kept faith in the promises and commitments she had made. Luisa, until her last days, recited daily the Office of the Dominican tertiaries , as the members of her family who lived with her until her death, confirmed “.

Luisa herself in her writings did not fail to refer to St. Dominic and St. Catherine from Siena. Witness the rich and profound references contained in the notebook “Aneliti di Santità”, in which some of Luisa’s disciples gathered her thoughts and prayers.

A link, therefore, with the Dominican spirituality, which is to be discovered and valued!

don Sergio Pellegrini

Book of Heaven:  May 27, 1922
The Prevenient Act and the Actual Act. 

I was thinking to myself:  “If one act done in His Will is So Great, how many of them, alas! do I not let escape?”  And my Sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, there is the Prevenient Act and the Actual Act.  The Prevenient Act is when the soul, from the first rising of the day, fixes her will in Mine, and decides and confirms that she wants to Live and Operate only in My Volition.  She anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in My Will.  With the Prevenient Will, My Sun Rises, My Life remains Duplicated in all her acts, as though in One Single Act; and this makes up for the actual act.  

“However, the Prevenient Act can be shaded, obscured, by the human ways, by one’s own will, by self-esteem, by negligence and other things, that are like clouds before the sun, that render its Light less vivid on the face of the earth.  On the other hand, the Actual Act is not subject to clouds; on the contrary, it has the virtue of dispelling the clouds, if there are any, and it makes many other Suns Rise, in which My Life is duplicated, with such Vividness of Light and Heat as to form as many New Suns, one More Beautiful than the other.  However, both of them are Necessary:  the Prevenient Act gives the hand, disposes and forms the Plane for the Actual Act; the Actual Act preserves and expands the Plane of the Prevenient.”

St. Michael

This is from. Fr. Richard Heilman:
(This was First Posted by him in 2023, but still relevant for today)
April 25th is a very significant date in history. There have been two times in history that St. Michael the Archangel appeared on April 25th, after prayers had been said to stop plagues. The first time was on April 25th, in the year 590, in Rome. Pope St. Gregory the Great, after leading people in prayer saw St. Michael the Archangel along with other Angels descend above the crowd, a heavenly perfume filled the air and the plague ended on that date. The second time St. Michael intervened during a plague was on April 25th, 1631 in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
     I know many us of have been praying daily during this current pandemic. Please pray the Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel on Saturday April 25th. Please remember that when we pray with great faith, prayers and yes, miracles can happen.
     The Chaplet of St. Michael has been attached. (See comments). Pray this Chaplet with an intent heart to ask Our Lord, through St. Michael with the intercession of the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph and all the angles and saints to end this plague in this current time.
Remember prayers united in true faith and firm belief from the faithful is powerful. Let us pray to St. Michael to hear us and lead us to victory. St. Michael, pray for us.
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St. Michael Combat Chaplet
(from Fr. Richard Heilman’s website)

HOW TO PRAY THIS CHAPLET

The chaplet begins with the invocation on the medal. Then say one Our Father and three Hail Marys after each of the nine salutations in honor of the nine Choir of Angels as follows

Invocation on the Medal
O God, come to my assistance! O Lord, make haste to help me! Glory be to the Father……..etc.

First Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Seraphim, may it please God to make us worthy to receive into our hearts the fire of his perfect charity. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Second Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Cherubim, may God in his good pleasure, grant us grace to abandon the ways of sin, and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Third Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the sacred Choir of Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts the spirit of true and sincere humility. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Fourth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of the Dominations, may it please God to grant us grace to have dominion over our senses, and to correct our depraved passions. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Fifth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of the Powers, may God vouchsafe to keep our souls from the wiles and temptations of the devil. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Sixth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the admirable heavenly Choir of the Virtues, may it please God to keep us from falling into temptation, and may He deliver us from evil. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Seventh Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Principalities, may it please God to fill our souls with the spirit of true and sincere obedience. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Eighth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Archangels, may it please God to grant us the gift of perseverance in the faith, and in all good works, that we may be thereby enabled to attain the glory of paradise. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Ninth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of all the Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant us their guardianship through this mortal life, and after death a happy entrance into the everlasting glory of heaven. Amen
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)

Say an Our Father on each of the four large concluding beads:
The first one to St. Michael,
The second one to St. Gabriel,
The third one to St. Raphael,
The fourth one to our Guardian Angel.

End this Chaplet with the following Anthem and prayer.

Anthem
Michael, glorious prince, chief and champion of the heavenly Host, guardian of the souls of men, conqueror of the rebel angels, steward of the palace of God under Jesus Christ, our worthy leader, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtues: vouchsafe to free us all from every ill, who with full confidence have recourse to thee; and by thy incomparable protection enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our God. V. Pray for us, most blessed Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ. R. That we may be made worthy of his promises.

Prayer
Almighty and Eternal God, who in thine own marvelous goodness and pity didst, for the common salvation of man, choose the glorious Archangel Michael to be the prince of the Church: make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficent protection from all our enemies, that, at the hour of our death, none of them may approach to harm us; rather do Thou vouchsafe unto us that by the same Archangel Michael, we may be introduced into the presence of thy most high and divine majesty. Through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
(From EWTN Website)

Book of Heaven
Volume 9; November 2, 1909

One should never look at the past, but at the present.

     Continuing in my usual state, I was thinking about my things of the past, and Blessed Jesus, making Himself seen for just a little, told me:  “My daughter, do not look at the past, because the past is already in Me and can be of distraction for you, and it can make you mistake that little bit of path that is left for you to cover.  In fact, your turning to the past makes you slow your pace on the present journey, and so you lose time and do not advance on your way.  On the other hand, by looking only at the present, you shall have more Courage, you shall remain More Closely United with Me, you shall Advance More on your path, and there shall be no danger of your being mistaken.

On April 23
Anniversary of the birth of Luisa Piccarreta in 1865, and in 2019 the Inauguration of the Restoration of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel
where the body of Luisa was then transferred to

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Birthday and Baptism of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta – April 23, 1865

First Holy Communion and Confirmation – 1872

V30 – 4.23.32 – “We Repeat to her:  ‘We Love you, oh! daughter.’  As she repairs Us, so do We Press her to Our Heart; as she thanks Us, praises Us, blesses Us, so do We Keep Repeating:  ‘We Thank you that you are thanking Us’, ‘We Praise you for you are praising Us’, ‘We Bless you for you are blessing Us.’  We can Say that We Put Ourselves in a Contest with her.  Heaven and earth are Astounded that their Creator Engages in a Contest with His beloved creature.”

Fiat!!!

What Jesus Said About Luisa on April 23

Luisa, Daughter Who Lays her will Within Jesus’ Will and With her Acts Extends a Second Heaven over the Heads of All (12 – 4.23.21)

Luisa, Through her Divine Acts Jesus Looks at the Acts of the Creatures (12 – 4.23.21)

Luisa, Who will Force Jesus’ Eternal Volition to Descend Below the Spheres, so as to Triumph Over the Evil of the Human Will (12 – 4.23.21)

Luisa, Who Together with Jesus Assails the Creatures with His Volition and with His Love and Confuses Them so They Cannot Resist Them (12 – 4.23.21)

Luisa, the Littlest of All, Just Newborn (16 – 4.23.24)

Luisa, Who the Enemy Cannot Approach (16 – 4.23.24)

Luisa, Pilgrim Soul Whose Kiss All Heaven and All Created Things Await (17 – 4.23.25)

Luisa, Who has the Eyes, Hearing, Mouth, Hands and Feet of Jesus’ Will (17 – 4.23.25)

Luisa, Who Never Departs from the Origin from which she Came (17 – 4.23.25)

Luisa, Who Remains Always in Jesus’ Arms and Easily Feels Jesus’ Breath (17 – 4.23.25)

Luisa, Whose will Serves as the Dwelling for Jesus’ Will (17 – 4.23.25)

Luisa, Daughter of Jesus’ Divine Will to Who He Made Known All the Peculiarities with which Man was Created (28 – 4.23.30)

Luisa, Who Comprehended the Excess of the Supreme Being’s Love and the Right of Their Fiat to Reign in Man (28 – 4.23.30)

Luisa, Blessed Daughter of Jesus’ Volition (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, One Who Hears the Call of the Divine Will (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, One Who Possesses the Divine Will as Life (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, the Soul Who Possesses the Divine Will and Its Echo Forms the Same Echo in her (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, in Whose Power are the Heavens and Earth (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Whose Work the Divine Omnipotence and True Power Enter into (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Diffuses herself in Everything and Everyone (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who with her Empire, Makes herself Heard by Everyone (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, The Soul Who is in the Continuous Act of Being Reborn in the Acts that She does in the Divine Will (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Reborn in Divine Love (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, the Triune God’s Beloved Creature (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Reborn in Divine Reparation (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Holds the Disarming Power (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Converts Scourges into Graces (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Acquires Lives that are Nourished by Divine Sources (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Forms an Entire Life of Thanksgivings toward her Creator (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Forms an Entire Life of Praises and of Blessings toward her Creator (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who Forms the Fullness of Life (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Fortunate Creature Who had the Good of Acquiring Rebirths and Lives that Form in her the Most Beautiful Harmony (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Gaze of the Triune God is Always Fixed on (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Ears of the Triune God are Intent on Listening to (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Triune God Loves (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Triune God Clasp to Their Heart (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Triune God Thanks, Praises, Blesses as she did to Them (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Who the Triune God Place Themselves in Contest with (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, the Creator’s Beloved Creature (30 – 4.23.32)

Luisa, Jesus’ Blessed Daughter (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, Jesus’ Little Daughter of His Volition (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, Who Can do no Less Than Always Keep Present All the Acts Done by the Divine Will (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, in Who the Divine Will has All Its Acts with All the Order It had in Creating Them (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, Who Follows the Divine Acts in Order to Unite herself to Them to do what the Divine Will Itself has Done (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, to Who the Divine Will Gives the Cord to Take All the Triune God’s Works (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, God’s Clock Who, Winding the Cord, Marks the Minutes and Hours of God’s Works (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, Who has the Good of Knowing All the Hours of the Day of God’s Divine Will (32 – 4.23.33)

Luisa, to Who the Divine Will Gives Itself Completely Whole with the Fullness of Its Light, Sanctity, Power, and Its Works (32 – 4.23.33)

Fiat!!!

Thank you Lord for Our Little mama Luisa!

Thank you Luisa for your Fiat Voluntas Tua!

Little Daughter of the Divine Will, Luisa Piccarreta
Born April 23, 1865