4/15 Saturday within the Octave of Easter

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Gospel from Mark 16:9-15
“Go ye into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature”

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From the Reflections and Practices of the 17th Hour of the Passion

How do we compassionate the pains that Jesus suffers in seeing many souls being snatched from His Heart?  Do we make His pains our own so as to relieve Him from all that He suffers?  The Jews want Him crucified, so that He may die like a criminal, and that His name be erased from the face of the earth.  And do we strive to let Jesus Live on earth?  With our acts, with our example, with our steps, we must put a Divine Mark in the world, so that Jesus may be recognized by all, and so that, through our works, His Life may have a Divine Echo, heard from one end of the world to another.  Are we ready to give our own life so that beloved Jesus may be relieved of all the offenses, or do we rather imitate the Jews, people so much favored—almost like our own souls, which are Loved so much by Jesus—and shout like them, “Crucifigatur” [let Him be crucified]?

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4/14 Friday within the Octave of Easter

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John 21:1-14
“After this Jesus showed himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias”

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Third Hour of the Passion

O Jesus, You now arrive at the cenacle together with Your beloved disciples and You begin Your supper with them.  How much Sweetness, how much Affability You show through all Your Person, as You lower Yourself to taking material food for the last time!  Everything is Love in You.  Also in this, You not only repair for the sins of gluttony, but You impetrate the sanctification of food.

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4/13 Thursday within the Octave of Easter

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From Luke 24:35-48
“Peace be to you.  It is I; Fear not”

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Letter #93 from the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta to Mrs. Farilli

Fiat – In Voluntate Dei!

Most esteemed one in the Lord,

I was very pleased in hearing your news, although painful.  They are a good sign that the Lord loves us, and that He wants to make of us His faithful images.  Jesus needs to repeat His Life upon earth, and He can do so in one who submits himself to anything, and who does His adorable Will.  In fact, by doing His Will in all our acts, both spiritual and natural, His image is formed and circulates like a coin throughout the Heavens.  However, this is what I recommend to you:  never lose heart; never be disturbed; try to live abandoned in the arms of Jesus, and He will be your Mama, your Father and your custodian.  You will feel Him living and palpitating within your soul, forming the life of your life.

Let us thank the Lord for all He has disposed upon us.  But I beg you to never go out of His Will.  In this way, the Lord will give you His own Love to love Him, His own Sanctity to make yourself a saint, His own Peace in the storms of life.  Together with Him, you will feel strong – of a divine strength – in the pains you suffer.  In this way you will fear nothing. 

Pray for me, as I do it for you from the heart.  With my regards, and leaving you in the arms of the Divine Fiat, I say,

Yours,

Luisa Piccarreta

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4/12 Wednesday within the Octave of Easter

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Volume 34; May 31, 1936
See, then, how in each Word I spoke, in each Miracle I performed, I called back My Will to Reign in their midst, and I called the people to Live in It.  From the Public Life I passed on to My Passion, symbol of the Passion of My Will that for many centuries had suffered the so many rebellious wills of creatures who, by not wanting to submit to It, had closed Heaven, broken the communications with their Creator, and had rendered themselves unhappy slaves of the infernal enemy.  My Humanity, lacerated, beaten up to death, Crucified, represented the unhappy humanity without My Will before Divine Justice; and in each pain I called My Fiat to exchange the Kiss of Peace with the creatures in order to render them Happy, and I called them into It, to make the Sorrowful Passion of My Will cease.  Finally, My Death, that Matured the Resurrection, that called all to Rise Again in My Divine Fiat; and – O! how vividly does My Resurrection symbolize the Kingdom of My Will.  My Humanity, wounded, deformed, unrecognizable, Rose Again Whole, of an Enchanting Beauty, Glorious and Triumphant.  It prepared the Triumph, the Glory, for My Will, calling all into It and impetrating that all might Rise Again in My Volition – from dead, Alive; from ugly, Beautiful; from unhappy, Happy.  My Risen Humanity ensured the Kingdom of My Will upon earth; It was My only Act Full of Triumph and of Victory; and this befitted Me, because I did not want to depart for Heaven without first providing all the aids to creatures, for them to reenter into the Kingdom of My Will; as well as all the Glory, the Honor, the Triumph to My Supreme Fiat, to let It Dominate and Reign.

4/11 Tuesday withing the Octive of Easter

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The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Wil; Day Twenty-Nine

The Virgin Mary:  “Blessed child, you know that I was present at the Resurrection of My Son.  But I did not say a word to anyone, waiting for Jesus Himself to manifest Himself as Risen, Glorious and Triumphant.  The first one to see Him Risen was the fortunate Magdalene; then the pious women.  And all came to Me telling Me that they had seen Jesus Risen, that the Sepulcher was empty; and I listened to all, and with an air of Triumph I confirmed all in the Faith of the Resurrection.  By evening, almost all of the Apostles had seen Him, and all felt as though Triumphant at having been the Apostles of Jesus.  What change of scene, dear child – symbol of those who have first let themselves be dominated by the human will, represented by the Apostles who run away, abandoning their Master; and their fear and fright is such that they hide, and Peter reaches the point of denying Him.  O! if they had been dominated by the Divine Will, they would never have run away from their Master, but, Courageous and as Triumphers, would never have departed from His side, and would have felt honored to lay down their lives to defend Him.”

4/5 Wednesday in Holy Week

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Book of Heaven
Volume 11; January 22, 1913

The triple Passion of Jesus: of love, of sin, and from the Jews. Jesus is thrown into the Cedron stream.

I (Luisa) was thinking about the Passion of my always lovable Jesus, especially of what He suffered in the Garden. I found myself all immersed in Jesus, and He told me: “My daughter, my first Passion was of love, because the first step with which man, in sinning, gives himself to evil is the lack of love; so, since love is missing, he falls into sin. In order to be repaid through Me for the lack of love of the creatures, love made Me suffer more than anyone; It almost crushed Me, more than if I were under a press. It gave Me as many deaths for as many creatures receiving life.

The second step that occurs in sin is defrauding God of His glory. So, in order to be repaid for the glory taken away by the creatures, the Father made Me suffer the Passion of sin, such that each sin gave Me a special Passion. Although there was one Passion, I suffered for sin as many Passions as there would be sins committed until the end of the world. So, the glory of the Father was restored.

The third effect produced by sin is weakness in man. Therefore, I wanted to suffer the Passion from the hands of the Jews – my third Passion – to restore in man his lost strength.

Therefore, with the Passion of love, love was restored and placed at the right level; with the Passion of sin, the glory of the Father was restored and placed at its level; with the Passion of the Jews, the strength of the creatures was placed at its level and restored. I suffered all this in the Garden, and the pain was so much, so many the deaths – the atrocious spasms inflicted upon Me, that I really would have died if the Will of the Father for my death had arrived.”

Then I began to think of when my lovable Jesus was thrown into the Cedron stream by the enemies. Blessed Jesus made Himself seen in a state that aroused pity, all wet by those filthy waters. He told me: “My daughter, in creating the soul I covered her with a mantle of light and of beauty. Sin removes this mantle of light and of beauty, placing a mantle of darkness and ugliness, rendering the soul disgusting and nauseating. And I, in order to remove this mantle, so filthy, which sin puts on the soul, allowed the Jews to throw Me into this stream, where I remained as though enwrapped, inside and out, because these putrid waters entered even into my ears, into my nostrils and into my mouth; so much so, that the Jews were disgusted to touch Me. Ah, how much the love of creatures cost Me – to the point of rendering Me nauseating even to Myself!”

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4/4 Tuesday in Holy Week

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Holy Card of Luisa Piccarreta’s

Book of Heaven

Volume 12; March 26, 1918 

As one operates in the Divine Will, what is human remains as though suspended, and the Divine Life acts and takes its place.

Continuing in my usual state, I (Luisa) was trying to fuse myself in the Divine Volition, when my sweet Jesus told me: “My daughter, each time the soul enters my Volition, and prays, works, suffers, etc., she acquires as many new divine beauties. Therefore, one more act or one act less, done in my Will, is one more beauty or one beauty less which the soul acquires. Not only this, but in every additional act that she does in my Will, she takes one more Divine strength, wisdom, love, sanctity… And while she takes the Divine qualities, she leaves the human ones. Even more, as she operates in my Will, what is human remains as though suspended; the Divine Life acts and takes its place, and my Love has the freedom to form its attitude within the creature.”