The Daily Reading Begins:  31 Days in the Month of May

Excerpt from the Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will

Maternal Appeal of the Queen of Heaven

Dearest daughter, I (Blessed Virgin Mary) feel the irresistible need to descend from Heaven to make you My Maternal visits. If you assure Me of your filial love and faithfulness, I will remain always with you in your soul, to be your Teacher, Model, Example and Most Tender Mother.

I come to invite you to enter into the Kingdom of your Mama— that is, the Kingdom of the Divine Will; and I knock at the door of your heart, that you may open it to Me. You know? With My own hands I bring you this book as gift; I offer it to you with Maternal Care, so that, in your turn, in reading it, you may learn to Live of Heaven and no longer of earth.

This Book is of gold, my daughter. It will form your Spiritual Fortune and your Happiness, also terrestrial. In it you will find the Fount of all Goods: if you are weak, you will acquire Strength; if you are tempted, you will achieve Victory; if you have fallen into sin, you will find the Pitying and Powerful Hand that will lift you up again. If you feel afflicted, you will find Comfort; if cold, the sure means to get Warm; if hungry, you will enjoy the Delicious Food of the Divine Will. With it you will lack nothing; you will no longer be alone, because your Mama will keep you sweet company, and with Her every Maternal Care She will take on the commitment of making you Happy. I, the Celestial Empress, will take care of all your needs, provided that you consent to live united with Me.

St. Catherine of Sienna is Patron of Italy, and one of the greatest of Christian mystics.  She began to have mystical experiences at the age of six. She was a Dominican tertiary, and beginning when she was 16, she experienced visions of Christ, Mary, and the Saints interspersed with diabolical visions and periods of spiritual aridity.  She ministered to the ill and condemned prisoners, and was acclaimed for her holiness and abilities as a peacemaker.  St. Catherine received the invisible stigmata, which was clearly apparent at the time of her death, and she has been declared a Doctor of the Church.

 On October 16, 1888, in the presence of the Blessed Virgin and of St. Catherine of Siena, Luisa received a mystical ring from Jesus as a sign of their union.  St. Catherine of Siena assisted at Luisa’s Mystical Wedding by encouraging her, as Luisa wrote in the Book of Heaven, Volume 1:

“The morning of the aforesaid day, Jesus made Himself seen again—all affable, sweet, and majestic—together with His Most Holy Mother and St. Catherine.  First a hymn was sung by the Angels; St. Catherine assisted me, my Mama took my hand, and Jesus put a ring on my finger.  Then we embraced each other and He kissed me, and so also did my Mama . . .”

  
             St. Louis Grignion de Montfort                            St. Peter Chanel

Gospel from John 3:1-8
Nicodemus comes to Our Lord Jesus Christ at Night
“The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice:
but thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth.
So is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

Excerpt from the Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 30

Oh, how Happy I (the Blessed Virgin Mary) will be if I am able to say: “My daughter is all Mine, because she Lives of Divine Will.” And I (Blessed Virgin Mary) will make the Holy Spirit Descend into your soul, that He may Burn away from you all that is human; and by His Refreshing Breath, He may Rule over you and Confirm you in the Divine Will.

Now, My daughter, listen to your Mama: know that I (the Blessed Virgin Mary) Love you very much, and would like to see your soul filled with My Same Seas. These Seas of Mine are swollen, and want to pour themselves out; but in order for them to do this, you must empty yourself of your will, so that the Divine Will may take the Second Step over you, and constituting Itself as Origin of Life in your soul, It may call the attention of the Celestial Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to pour Themselves upon you with Their Overflowing Seas. But in order to do this, They want to find Their own Will in you, because They do not want to entrust Their Seas of Power, of Wisdom, of Love and of Unspeakable Beauty to your human will.

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.