Message from Michele Colonna, President of The Luisa Piccarreta Association in Corato, Italy:

Vi abbraccio tutte nella Divina Volontà….FIAT (Original)
I hug you all in the divine will…. Fiat (Translation)

Michele Colonna, the president of the Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta LCDW in Corato, Italy has given the good news that the Vatican has just given permission to move the body of Luisa from the side of Santa Maria Greca Church where she has been since July 3,1963 to the front of the Church at the side Altar of the Holy Spirit.

This is a great sign that the Vatican recognizes her heroic sanctity.

Keep on praying for her Beatification

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Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!

Last Sunday we listened to the recommendations of the Apostle Paul (Eph 5), with which he traces the portrait of the ideal Christian. Those recommendations continue today with an invitation to make good use of our time. In fact, the one who wastes time in idleness, vice, or banality, can hardly be called a good Christian, because he wastes opportunities to do good.

The passage from today’s Gospel concludes (Jn 6:51-58) the discourse of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum, concerning the Eucharist that He would institute some time later, during the Last Supper. Jesus continues the discourse on communion in an extremely realistic way, at the limit of sharpness, and with an impressive insistence: “The bread that I will give is my flesh…; Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood…; For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink…; Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood… remains in me.”

We understand how these words may have confused (we will hear this next Sunday) Jesus’ disciples, who did not yet know how He would give Himself to eat. However those words are fundamental; It is not by chance that the evangelist begins the account of the life of Jesus with an affirmation (Jn 1:14) that can be seen as title: “The Word became flesh”. Moreover, in the prologue, the evangelist announces also why the Word, the Son of God, became flesh, that is a man: ” To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God “. With these words the evangelist summarizes another aspect of the speech of Capernaum, concerning the consequences of “eating the flesh of Jesus”. We understand it trough the following sentences: “The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world “. unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.”

Those words also lead us to reflect on a more general but fundamental theme: what is faith? What is religion? and in particular the Christian religion? How does it differentiate itself from the others? According to some people, one religion is as good as another: it is in any case the relationship between man and what he considers as transcendent entities, however he wants to call them. But a minimum of study suffices to show how this opinion is unfounded; all scholars recognize at least the basic difference between the positive religions (the monotheism of Jews, Christians and Muslims), which profess to rely on a divine revelation, and natural religions, usually polytheistic, originated from simple human reflection.

Without dwelling on such a complex subject, the Christian faith is distinguished by the Incarnation: God has not only revealed Himself to men, but He Himself became man in the person of Jesus, the Word became flesh. Consequently, the Christian is not a man who recognizes as divine a series of utterances and tries to translate them into his own life; being a Christian does not mean embracing a philosophy, nor sharing a series of worship practices with other people. The peculiarity of the Christian is something that is not found in any other religion: his faith allows him to meet “a Person”, it makes him adhere to that Person who is unique, who is man and at the same time God, a Person with whom he can weave a relationship of love, of trust, which leads to welcoming all that belongs to him: His words, His style of life, His promises. Moreover, that relationship is nourished by finding its visible manifestation, in participating in the Eucharist, in which those who love feed on the Beloved and become one with Him.

On June 18, 1923 Luisa reported in her diary an important teaching of Jesus on the Eucharist, in particular on why Jesus wanted to institute the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

The prodigy was great and incomprehensible to human mind. For the creature to receive a Man and God, to enclose the infinite in a finite being, and to give to this infinite Being divine honors, decorum and a dwelling worthy of Him – this mystery was so abstruse and incomprehensible, that the Apostles themselves, while they easily believed in the Incarnation and in many other mysteries, remained troubled before this one, and their intellects were reluctant to believe. And it took Jesus’ repeated saying for them to surrender.

So, what to do? Jesus, who instituted It, was to take care of everything, since, when the creature would receive Him, the Divinity was not to lack the honors, the divine decorum, the dwelling worthy of God. Therefore, as Jesus instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, His Eternal Will, united to His human will, made present to Him all the hosts which were to undergo the sacramental consecration until the end of centuries. And Jesus looked at them, one by one; He consumed them, and He saw His Sacramental Life palpitating in each host, yearning to give Itself to creatures.

Jesus’ Humanity, in the name of the whole human family, took on the commitment for all, and gave a dwelling within Itself to each host; and His Divinity, which was inseparable from Him, surrounded each sacramental host with divine honors, praises and blessings, to give worthy decorum to His Majesty. So, each sacramental host was deposited in Him, and contains the dwelling of His Humanity and the cortege of the honors of His Divinity; otherwise, how could He descend into the creature? And it was only because of this that He tolerated sacrileges, coldness, irreverences, ingratitudes, since, in receiving Himself, He secured His own decorum, the honors and the dwelling which befitted His very Person. Had He not received Himself, He could not have descended into creatures, and they would have lacked the way, the door, the means to receive Him.

This is Jesus’ usual way in all His works: He does them once in order to give life to all the other times in which they are repeated, uniting them to the first act as if they were one single act. So, the power, the immensity, the all-seeingness of the Divine Will made Him embrace all centuries; It made present to Him the communicants and all the sacramental hosts; and He received Himself as many times, to make His very Self pass, through Himself, into each creature.

The same was for the act of the Incarnation of His Life and of His Passion. Jesus incarnated Himself only once, one was His Life, one His Passion; yet, this Incarnation, Life and Passion is for all and for each one, as if it were for one alone. So, they are still as though in act, and for each one, as if He were now incarnating Himself and now suffering His Passion. If it were not so, Jesus would not be operating as God, but as creature, who, not containing a divine power, cannot let herself be possessed by all, nor give herself to all.

Moreover…one who does the Divine Will and lives in It, comes to embrace the works of His Humanity, because He loved so much for the creature to become similar to Him. And since the Divine Will and hers are one, God’s Will takes pleasure in her, and, amusing Itself, It places all the good He contains into the creature, and He forms in her the deposit of the very sacramental hosts.

The Divine Will, which she contains, lends her and surrounds her with divine decorum, homages and honors; and Jesus entrusts everything to her, because he is certain to keep His operating in a safe place, as the Divine Will makes Itself actor, spectator and custodian of all His goods, of His works, and of His very Life.

don Marco

“The greater is the work I want to do in a soul, the littler I choose her. I like childlike freshness and beauty very much;…”
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On a spring morning, in a remote village in the Galilee something unpredictable and unthinkable is about to happen.

Suddenly a deep silence envelops the room where Mary is immersed in prayer. Everything seems to stop in an eternal moment. God breaks into Her life. An angel appears to Her. No, it’s not a dream. What is unspeakable becomes tangible, a transcendent reality, overcoming what we can imagine and experience according to the categories of what is natural and sensitive, becomes lived history.

The coming of the Lord in our lives always happens in unusual ways. He rarely manifests Himself in an extraordinary way. God prefers to meet us in simplicity, where we spend our daily life, with our joys and hopes, our anguishes and misunderstandings. Our limits, our sins, the hardness of our heart make us unable to discern the manifestation of the Lord. We must learn to recognize God as alive and present in the many “angels” that He puts on our path, in the many witnesses and prophets who listen, live and proclaim His Word, who go through the paths of our existence. Very often we are distracted by the sparkle of human wisdom, by the comfort of our certainties, the reassuring warmth of our good intentions, even by the habit of listening to His Word: we know it very well, by heart, to the point that we become impervious and insensitive to it. We do not let ourselves be touched, questioned. Our faith is academic. The Lord, on the other hand, seeks us and wants to transform us, to show us a new, different path on which we can direct our future.

God always chooses ways that are far from human logic, to carry out His plan of redemption. He wants man to cooperate with Him, but He does not address the rich and powerful man, those who enjoy prestige and consideration in society.  He Chooses what in the world is foolish, to confuse the wise, what is considered as nothing, as was the status of women in the cultural context of the time of Mary, whose social position was comparable to little more than a servant. A virgin in addition, a woman unscathed and without any stain, uncorrupted.

Well, in Mary’s virginity there is something deeper and more significant than the simple, though essential consideration of her physical condition. Mary’s virginity is synonymous with an inner purity and image of a complete availability to listen, welcome and incarnate the Word of God. To do this. it is essential to prepare a worthy dwelling for the Lord. We should free ourselves from what is an obstacle for us, we should join God in an incessant prayer that becomes a lived life, so that He can be all that fills us, and satisfies us with Him

In a long and fascinating passage from the Diary of Luisa, on November 10, 1923, Jesus spoke in an extraordinary way of the smallness of Mary. He also spoke of the smallness that Luisa should have to welcome the gift of living in the Divine Will.

Among all generations, the Virgin Mary is the littlest, because Her will never entered into Her as acting, but always the Eternal Will; and this not only kept Her little, beautiful, fresh, as She had come out of God, but made Her the greatest of all. Only because of Her littleness was She lifted up to the height of Mother of the One who formed Her. So, all the good of man is in doing the Divine Will; all the evil is in doing his own. Therefore, in order to come to redeem man, God chose Mary because She was little, and God used Her as channel in order to let all the goods and fruits of Redemption descend upon mankind

So that the Divine Will might be known, and Heaven might be opened to let the Divine Will descend upon earth and reign on it as It does in Heaven, God had to choose another little one among all generations. Since this is the greatest work God wants to do – to restore man in his origin, from which he came, to open to him that Divine Will which he rejected, to open His arms to him to receive him once again into the womb of the Divine Will – God’s infinite wisdom calls the littlest one out of nothing. It was just that she be little: if God placed a little one at the head of Redemption, He had to place another little one at the head of the Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it is in Heaven.

Between two little ones God was to enclose the purpose of the creation of man – God was to realize His designs upon him: through one, He was to redeem him, wash him of his ugliness with Jesus’ Blood, and give him forgiveness; through the other one, God was to make him return to his beginning, to his origin, to the lost nobility, to the bonds of the Divine Will broken by him, admitting him once again to the smile of the Eternal Will, kissing each other and live one within the other. This alone was the purpose of the creation of man, and what God established no one will be able to oppose.

Centuries upon centuries will go by – just as in Redemption, so also in this; but man will return into God’s arms as he was created by Him. But in order to do this, first God has to choose the one who must be the first to live life in the Eternal Will, bind in her all the relations of Creation, and live with her with no split of wills; rather, with her will and His as one.

The Divine Will preserves her fresh and beautiful; she forms God’s smile and amusement, and God does with her whatever He wants. Enjoying her littleness and her happy destiny, she will cry for her brothers and will occupy herself with nothing else but compensating God, for all and for each one, of all the wrongs they do to God by withdrawing from His Will. The tears of one who lives in the Divine Will will be powerful; more so, since she wants nothing but what God Himself wants; and after the first channel of Redemption, through her God will open the second one of the Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it is in Heaven.

On hearing this, Luisa was disconcerted and asked who this second creature was. Jesus answered that it was her, His little one because of her smallness and to make it clearer, Jesus showed her all generations, as though divided into two wings – one on the right and the other on the left of the throne of God. At the head of one wing there was the August Queen Mama, from whom descended all the goods of Redemption.

Luisa remained attracted by the beauty of Mary’s marvelous, prodigious littleness: little and powerful, little and great, little and Queen; little, with everyone hanging upon Her littleness, while She disposes of everything, rules over all, and only because She is little, She enfolds the Word within Her littleness, making Him descend from Heaven to earth, to let Him die for love of men. At the head of the other wing one could see another little one, -she was the one whom Jesus had called His little daughter of the Divine Will.

And Jesus, placing Himself in the middle of these two wings between the two little ones who were at the head of them, with one hand took Luisa’s hand, and with the other that of the Queen Mama, and He joined them together, saying that they were His little daughters. He asked them to hold each other’s hand before God’s Throne, and to embrace the Eternal Divine Majesty in their little arms. To them alone, because they are little, is it given to embrace the Eternal One, the Infinite One, and to enter into Him. And if the first little one snatched Redemption from the Love of the Eternal One, so may the second, her hand held by the first, be helped by Her to snatch from the Eternal Love the Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it in Heaven.

Luisa had no words to be able to express herself.  She remained more humiliated and confused, and almost like a fussy little girl, she wanted Jesus in order to tell Him of her fears, of her doubts. And she prayed that He would cast all these things away from her, as she feared that the mere thought of them was a subtle pride, and that He would give her the grace to really love Him and to do His Most Holy Will in everything. Then, Jesus, interrupting her thoughts, made Himself seen inside of her, and said that she should not be afraid, He was the One who would do everything in her; she would do nothing but follow Him faithfully, as she was right that she was too little and could do nothing, but Jesus would do everything in her!

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Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!

The passage from today’s Gospel (Jn 6,41-51) continues the teaching that Jesus addressed to all those who followed Him to Capernaum, after the multiplication of the loaves and fish. Last Sunday we listened to Jesus’ self-revelation. (“I am the bread that came down from heaven “) Today the Gospel takes it up again: On hearing that, Jesus’ listeners, remain disconcerted and ask themselves: “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’? “But Jesus reiterates:” I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever”.

The reference to the Eucharist is already clear (it will be even more later). To explain the greatness of this gift, Jesus recalls the comparison with the manna, called by Jews “bread from heaven”, that in the wilderness had nourished the ancestors and freed them from the slavery of Egypt: “Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died; This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.” Thus, Jesus Himself establishes a sort of parallel between the “bread of heaven” in the Old Testament and the one in the New Testament, the former foretells the latter, and finds its full meaning, its fulfillment, its perfection in the latter.

In the Old Testament we can see a foretaste of the Eucharist in the first reading of today concerning the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 19: 4-8). Elijah who lived in the ancient dissident kingdom of Israel, was seized by a moment of despair: after so many struggles, risks and memorable undertakings to bring back to God a rebellious people, he noted his failure: everyone preferred to follow false, but easy and comfortable pagan deities. Then the prophet went away; he went into the desert, he lay down under a broom and asked God that He would make him die; but God intervened, He sent him bread and water, He ordered him to continue the journey that would lead him to a direct encounter with Him.

Elijah’s discomfort reflects what many people feel, sooner or later: disappointment, distrust, bitterness, awareness of their limitations, desire to throw in the towel in that endless match that sometimes the days of man, one after the other, seem to be. But when this happens, it is because one forgets God’s help: His Word, His promises, the certainty that He is always with His own and offers to them His support, the true “bread from heaven”.

Elijah, like the Jews with the manna, and the crowd for whom Jesus multiplied the loaves and fish, received a material food, which is granted “one-off” in particular circumstances. But, how much greater the spiritual food is! Yet it is not a prerogative of some privileged people: it is available to anyone who wants to receive it, and not only once, but always, as long as the journey can last until the goal.

The Eucharist is also the indispensable support to realize the portrait of the ideal Christian that the apostle Paul traces for the benefit of the Christians of Ephesus and of all the others, both past and present (second reading, Eph 4,30-5, 2). He says: Brothers and sisters “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, … Let all bitterness, indignation, anger, shouts and slanders with all sorts of malice disappear from you. Be kind to one another, merciful, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you (through the merits of) Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, in the way in which Christ also loved us and gave himself for us “.

The portrait made by the apostle Paul is a double portrait: first, it outlines how the Christian should not be, so as not to grieve the Lord (what a beautiful reason!); then there is the positive thing, to suggest how to live in love, imitating the love of Christ for us. There is nothing more to say.

In the passage of November 2, 1926, while Luisa was following in the Divine Will what Jesus did in Redemption, Jesus explained to her that His Redemption came as remedy for man, and therefore It serves as remedy, as medicine, as food, for the sick, for the blind, for the mute, and for all kinds of maladies. And because they are sick, they do not enjoy nor receive all the strength which all the remedies that Jesus came to bring them for their good contain. The Eucharistic Sacrament which He left as food in order to give them perfect health – many eat It over and over again, but they appear always sick. How many corrupted palates, how many undigesting stomachs, which prevent creatures from enjoying the taste of Heaven ‘s food, and from digesting all the strength of God’s Sacramental Life. And so they remain infirm; and because they are members feverish in evil, they take it with no appetite.

This is why Jesus longs so much for the coming of the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat – because, then, everything He did in coming upon earth will serve as food for those who enjoy perfect health. What is not the difference between a sick person who takes the same food, and someone else who enjoys perfect health? The infirm one takes it without appetite, without taste, and it serves him in order to sustain himself and not die. The healthy one takes it with appetite, and because he enjoys it, he takes more, and preserves himself strong and healthy. So, what will not be God’s contentment in seeing that, in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, everything He did will serve no longer as food for the sick, but as food for the children of God’s Kingdom, who will be all full of vigor and in perfect health? Even more, by possessing the Divine Will, they will possess God’s permanent Life within them, just as the Blessed in Heaven possess.

So, the Divine Will will be the veil that will hide God’s Life in them. And just as the Blessed possess Him within themselves as their own life, because true happiness has its origin inside the soul, and so the happiness which they receive continuously from the Divinity holds hands and exchanges the kiss with the happiness which they possess inside, and this is why they are fully happy; in the same way, the soul who possesses the Divine Will will have His perennial Life within her, which will serve her as continuous food – not once a day, like the food of His Sacramental Life. In fact, the Divine Will will make greater display, nor will It be content with giving Itself once a day, but It will give Itself continuously, because It knows that these have pure palates and strong stomachs to be able to enjoy and digest, in every moment, the strength, the light, the Divine Life. And the Sacraments, His Sacramental Life, will serve as food, as delight, as new happiness for the Life of the Supreme Fiat which they will possess.

The Kingdom of the Divine Will will be the true echo of the Celestial Fatherland, in which, while the Blessed possess their God as their own life, they receive Him into themselves also from the outside. So, inside and outside of themselves, Divine Life they possess, and Divine Life they receive. What will not be God’s happiness in giving Himself sacramentally to the children of the Eternal Fiat, and in finding His own Life in them? Then will God’s Sacramental Life have Its complete fruit; and as the species are consumed, He will no longer have the sorrow of leaving His children without the food of His continuous Life, because His Will, more than sacramental accidents, will maintain Its Divine Life always with Its full possession. In the Kingdom of the Divine Will there will be neither foods nor communions that are interrupted – but perennial; and everything He did in Redemption will serve no longer as remedy, but as delight, as joy, as happiness, and as beauty ever growing. So, the triumph of the Supreme Fiat will give complete fruit to the Kingdom of Redemption

don Marco 

FIAT – Quando la Divina Volontà regna nelle Anime
(FIAT – When the Divine Will reigns in the Souls)
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– AvailabLe in Italian. It was published by the Association Little Children of the Divine Will in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the Transit to Heaven of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. It’ s a collection of excerpts from Luisa’s writings, by Saint Hannibal M. Di Francia. It was added to the 3rd edition of the Hours of the Passion with the title of “Treaty” (1917).

August 2, 2018 @ 12:45pm
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St. Michael Archangel

Lo and Behold!

I am calling upon the Powerful Prayer Warriors of the Redeemer, the Son of God.
You are now in the end times of your world, and I call upon those of you who are in the United States and Russia, in particular, to bind yourselves together in prayer for the future of the world, for the peace and prosperity of the future will depend on your two great countries to defeat the new world order and their plans to create a third world war between your countries.

All the Redeemer’s sons and daughters in the world, and particularly in the United States and Russia, must pray powerfully and support your leaders who want peace and prosperity, as opposed to the evil one’s new world order which has survived and thrived through the centuries by creating divisiveness, hatred and war between the peoples of the world.

It is the plan of the Father in Heaven to defeat this evil that satan and his minions have devised against humanity, and now it is time for the people of the world to support the leaders who want nothing but peace and prosperity for the people.

For the first time in centuries, the leaders of the world can bring about world peace and democracy throughout the world, but satan and his minions will use the evil one’s evil basket of tools and weapons to thwart the plans of your leaders who have the best intentions for the people.

As Powerful Prayer Warriors, it is your responsibility to support these leaders and their intentions for a better world.

The greatest weapon for you to help defeat the evil one is
frequent veneration and reception of the Holy Eucharist.

The most powerful gift of the Father in Heaven through His Son, the Redeemer, and through the power of the Holy Spirit is the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Recognize that the Holy Eucharist is more powerful than any of the weapons of the evil one and his minions. Recognize that in addition to your prayers and frequent veneration and reception of the Holy Eucharist that you must act as disciples and apostles to your family members, friends, and to all your brothers and sisters in Christ to encourage them also to recognize the importance of the Holy Eucharist in your prayer life daily.

If you do as I say, you will usher in a new era of peace for humanity and contribute to the destruction of the evil one and his plans to destroy humanity.

The future is yours to achieve greatness for God’s children through your prayers and frequent veneration and reception of the Holy Eucharist.

But you must act quickly and decisively now for the evil one and his minions are near to being defeated and cast into the bowels of darkness.

You may recognize in the air that the threat of world war is being diminished. Recognize that this is a sign from the Father in Heaven that the great transformation is near and pray that the evil one is finally thwarted in his plans to destroy humanity.

If you align yourselves in prayer and through the frequent veneration and reception of the Holy Eucharist, the power of your works will go a long way to ushering in a renewed Era of Peace and a New Heaven and a New Earth.

So be it!

Thanks be to God!

Message ended 1:03pm