{"id":14878,"date":"2014-05-29T19:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=14878"},"modified":"2014-05-29T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:56:40","slug":"feast-of-the-ascension-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=14878","title":{"rendered":"Feast of the Ascension of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

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January 24, 1938<\/strong><\/p>\n

How our Lord left for Heaven remaining on earth in the Tabernacles, to accomplish the Kingdom of the Divine Will.\u00a0 One who lives in the Divine Will can say with Jesus:\u00a0 \u2018I leave and I stay<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n

My flight in the Divine Volition continues.\u00a0 While I was visiting Jesus in the Sacrament, I wanted to embrace all the Tabernacles and each Sacramental Host in order to live together with my Prisoner Jesus.\u00a0 And I was thinking to myself:\u00a0 \u2018What a sacrifice.\u00a0 What a long imprisonment – not of days, but of centuries!\u00a0 Poor Jesus… could He at least be repaid for this!<\/p>\n

And my beloved Jesus, visiting my little soul, all immersed in His flames of Love, said to me:\u00a0 \u201cMy good daughter, my first prison was Love.\u00a0 It imprisoned Me so much that I had not even have the freedom to breathe, to palpitate or to work if these too were not imprisoned in my Love.\u00a0 Therefore, my Love imprisoned Me inside the Tabernacle, but with reason and with highest divine Wisdom.\u00a0 Now, You must know that the chains of my Love made Me depart from Heaven during my Incarnation.\u00a0 I left to descend upon earth in search of my children and my brothers and sisters, in order to form for them, with my Love, so many prisons of Love as to make it i! mpossible for them to leave.\u00a0 But while I left, I also remained in Heaven, since my Love – being my prison – bound Me within the celestial regions.<\/p>\n

Now, having completed my office down here, I left for Heaven, remaining imprisoned inside each Sacramental Host.\u00a0 Do you know why?\u00a0 Because my Love, being my sweet imprisonment, told me:\u00a0 \u2018The purpose for which you descended from Heaven to earth is not accomplished.\u00a0 Where is the Kingdom of our Will?\u00a0 It does not exist, neither is it known.\u00a0 So, remain there as a Prisoner in each Sacramental Host.\u00a0 In this way, there will not be only one Jesus, as in your Humanity, but a Jesus for each Sacramental Host which will exist. ! In a fury of love, your many Lives will make a way to the Divinity, as well as in each heart which will receive You.\u00a0 These Lives will have a little word to say to make our Will known, because when they descend into each heart, they will not be mute, but speaking, and You will speak about our FIAT in the secret of their hearts.\u00a0 You will be the Bearer of our Kingdom.\u2019\u00a0 I recognized the demands of my Love as just, so I remained willingly on earth in order to form the Kingdom of my Will – until the complete fulfillment of the work.<\/p>\n

You see, by departing for Heaven while remaining on earth, my Life, spread in many Sacramental Hosts, will not be useless down here.\u00a0 I will certainly form the Kingdom of my Will.\u00a0 I would never have stayed if I knew I wasn\u2019t going to obtain the intent; more so, since this is for Me a sacrifice greater than my very mortal Life.\u00a0 How many secret tears, how many bitter sighs in the midst of many devouring flames of love!\u00a0 I would like to devour all souls inside my Love to make those who are going to live in my Divine Volition rise again to new Life.\u00a0 This Kingdom will come from the center of my Love.\u00a0 ! It will burn the evils of the earth, relying upon Itself and arming Its Omnipotence; so, victory after victory, It will win our Reign in the midst of the creatures, to give It to them.<\/p>\n

But I was not satisfied to remain prisoner by myself. \u00a0My Love, flaring up even more, made Me choose you to make you prisoner with chains so strong as to be impossible for you to escape Me.\u00a0 This, as an outpouring of my Love and for company in my imprisonment; to be able to talk to you extensively about my Will – Its anxiety, Its sighs for desire to reign – and also as a pretext of my Love to be able to say before the Supreme Majesty:\u00a0 \u2018A creature of the human race is already our prisoner.\u00a0 We speak with her about our Will, to make It known, and extending Its Kingdom.\u00a0 This prisoner is like a deposit for the whole human family, so that we will! have our Kingdom by right.\u00a0 I can say that each of my Sacramental Lives is also like a deposit that I give You, sufficient to\u00a0 secure my Kingdom for my children.\u00a0 But to these many deposits, my Love wanted to add the deposit of a simple creature who carries the marks of my imprisonment, so as to strengthen the bonds between creature and Creator, and therefore accomplish and complete the Kingdom of our Will in the midst of the creatures.\u2019<\/p>\n

My prayers from each Tabernacle are incessant, so that the creatures may know my Will and may let It reign; and all I suffer – tears and sighs – I send to Heaven in order to move the Divinity to concede a grace so great.\u00a0 I send it to every heart, to move them to compassion for my tears and sufferings – to make them surrender to receive such a great good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus remained silent.\u00a0 I was thinking to myself:\u00a0 \u2018By making Himself a Prisoner, my dear Jesus did an act of heroism so great, only a God could do it.\u00a0 By while He is Prisoner, He is also free; more so, since He is free in Heaven, where He enjoys the fullness of His freedom.\u00a0 Not only this, but even on earth, how many times does He not come to me without His sacramental veils?\u00a0 But having imprisoned my poor existence…, He\u2019s really done it this time.\u00a0 He knows in what a narrow prison He has put me, and how hard my chains are; and I cannot be like Him, Who while being a Prisoner, is also free… My ! prison is continuous.\u2019<\/p>\n

But as I was thinking this, He continued saying:\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter, poor daughter of mine, you were given my own destiny!\u00a0 When my Love wants to do good, It does not hold anything back – neither sacrifices nor pains.\u00a0 It almost seems as if It doesn\u2019t want to hear about anything else:\u00a0 Its whole purpose is to make the good It wants arise.\u00a0 So, certainly I had to do this.\u00a0 This was not about any random good, but\u00a0 about a Kingdom of Divine Will to be ! established on earth.\u00a0 This good will be so great that no other good can be compared to it; all other goods will be like many little drops before the sea – like little sparks before the Sun.\u00a0 Therefore, don\u2019t be surprised if I\u2019ve \u2018really done it this time\u2019, as you say.\u00a0 Your continuous imprisonment was necessary to my Love, to keep Me company and to let Me speak about the knowledge of my Will which is so important to me, and which I felt the need to make known.\u00a0 You must know that as I speak to you about It, my Love repays you and frees you from the shackles of your human will, setting you free in the fields and dominions of the Kingdom of my Will.\u00a0 All the knowledge is directed to this:\u00a0 to unchain the creature fr! om her will, from her passions and from her miseries.\u00a0 Therefore, thank me for what I have made of you.\u00a0 My Love will know how to repay you, and will take into account every single breath of yours, and every instant of your imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n

After this, I continued to think about the prodigies of the Divine Volition, and my beloved Jesus added:\u00a0 \u201cDaughter of my Will, as your Jesus said, in descending from Heaven to earth – \u2018I leave and\u00a0 I stay\u2019; when He ascended into Heaven He said – \u2018I\u00a0 stay and I leave.\u2019\u00a0 My word repeats upon descending as Sacrament in the creatures – \u2018I leave and I remain in the Tabernacles.\u2019\u00a0 In the same way, the creature who lives in my Will can repeat my word in all her acts.\u00a0 As soon as she begins her act, her Jesus is formed in that act.\u00a0 My Life has the virtue of multi! plying Itself to infinity as many times I want.\u00a0 Therefore, in all truth, she can say:\u00a0 \u2018I leave and I stay.\u00a0 I leave for Heaven to beatify It, to reach my home and to make known to everyone my dear Jesus, Whom I enclosed in my act so that all may enjoy Him and love Him.\u00a0 I stay on earth, as my life, support and defense for all my brothers and sisters.\u2019\u00a0 How beautiful one act in my Will!\u201d<\/p>\n

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May 29, 1924<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ASCENSION of Jesus was the greatest sorrow of the Apostles. Pain for love of Jesus forms all the good of Jesus. The Throne and the Kingdom of the Divine Will in Luisa could be established only upon a divine pain: the continuous loss of Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was thinking of when my sweet Jesus went back to Heaven in His glorious ASCENSION, and therefore of the sorrow of the Apostles in remaining deprived of such a great good; and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, the greatest sorrow for all of the Apostles, in their entire lives, was to remain deprived of their Master. As they saw Me ascend to Heaven, their hearts were consumed with the pain of my privation; and much more sharp and penetrating was this pain, since it was not a human pain \u2013 something material that they were losing \u2013 but a divine pain: it was a God that they were losing. And even though I had my Humanity, as It resurrected, It was spiritualized and glorified, therefore all the pain was in their souls; and penetrating them completely, it made them feel consumed with grief, such as to form in them the most harrowing and painful martyrdo! m. But all this was necessary for them.<\/p>\n

One can say that until that moment, they were nothing but tender babies in virtues and in the knowledge of divine things, and of my own Person. I could say that I was in their midst and they did not really know Me, or love Me. But when they saw Me ascend into Heaven, the pain of losing Me tore the veil, and they recognized Me with so much certainty as the true Son of God, that the intense sorrow of no longer seeing Me in their midst delivered firmness in good and strength to suffer anything for love of the One whom they had lost. It delivered the light of divine science; it removed the swaddling clothes of their childhood, and formed them as intrepid men – no longer fearful, but courageous\u2026 The pain transformed them and formed in them the true character of Apostles. What I could not obtain with my presence, I obtained with the pain of my privation.<\/p>\n

Now, my daughter, a little lesson for you.<\/p>\n

Your life can be called a continuous pain of losing Me and a continuous joy of acquiring Me. But between the pain of the loss and the joy of acquiring Me, how many surprises have I not made you? How many things have I not told you? It was pain and the painful martyrdom of losing Me to prepare you and dispose you to hear the sublime lessons on my Will. In fact, how many times it seemed to you that you had lost Me, and while you were immersed in your harrowing pain, I would come back to you with one of the most beautiful lessons on my Will, and I would make the new joy of gaining Me come back, to dispose you once again to the piercing pain of my absence? I can say that the pain of remaining deprived of Me has delivered within you the effects, the value, the knowledges, the foundation of my Will\u2026<\/p>\n

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Letter 19.\u00a0 To Mrs. Antonietta Savorani, widow<\/strong>from Faenza<\/strong><\/p>\n

My good daughter in the Divine Volition,<\/p>\n

Your letter brought me great contentment, especially in hearing that you want to strip yourself of the mourning clothes of the human will; and I briefly answer to your difficulties.\u00a0 To live in the Divine Will is not so difficult as you and others believe, nor does sweet Jesus want impossible things, nor can He teach difficult things; rather, in all He teaches, His love is so great that not only does He facilitate His teachings, but in order to make all that He wants and teaches easier, He puts Himself at our disposition, doing together with us all that He wants and teaches.\u00a0 My daughter, everything is in a strong, firm, constant resolution to deliver our will into the hands of Jesus, so that His Will may underlie each one of our acts. Therefore, in all our being, in the m! ost natural acts of life – in food, in sleep, in sufferings, in prayer, and also in legitimate pleasures, the Divine Will must have Its royal place, Its field of action, and our will must be the ground in which to receive these divine acts, and the footstool on which the Divine Will must place these acts; and these acts, united together, will form its Life.\u00a0 Life cannot be formed with one single act, but with many acts, repeated and incessant.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the love of Jesus, His sighs and also His tears for desire that His Will reign in us as life, are such that He never leaves us alone; He Himself descends into the depth of our will; He molds it, strengthens it, purifies it, prepares it, and does all that we do together with us.\u00a0 So, if we want it, everything is done; however, it is not that we must no longer feel our will:\u00a0 to operate on a dead will would be neither ours nor Jesus\u2019 victory.\u00a0 The dead are buried.\u00a0 Therefore Jesus wants our will alive, so that it may feel all the good, as His operating Will lays Its acts in it.\u00a0 The human will becomes the residence of the Divine, and g! ives It all the freedom to dominate and to do whatever It wants.<\/p>\n

Do you see, then, how easy it is?\u00a0 Nor does one have to be a religious to do this.\u00a0 The Sanctity of living in the Divine Will is for all; or rather, to tell the truth, It is for all those who want It.\u00a0 Therefore, get down to work; tell Jesus from the heart:\u00a0 \u201cI firmly want it, I continuously want it; I want it!\u201d, and Jesus will make wonders, and will use everything you do and suffer as raw material so that you may ask for His Will and let It operate with Its creative virtue.<\/p>\n

As far as the vow, do it on the day of ASCENSION, so that sweet Jesus may bring your will to Heaven as the most beautiful victory He has achieved over you…<\/em><\/p>\n

I finish here, as I cannot continue further.\u00a0 Pray for me and make yourself a saint, for Jesus wants it.\u00a0 I leave you in the place of honor of the Divine Will, with a thousand regards,<\/p>\n

the little daughter of the Divine Will<\/p>\n

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Letter 29. To Mother General of the Daughters of the Divine Zeal<\/strong><\/p>\n

My good Reverend Mother General,<\/p>\n

Today is the sacred day of ASCENSION, the name of which you carry, and I feel the duty, although I am the least among all, to send you my sincere and affectionate wishes.\u00a0 But what wishes can I give you?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t know what else to wish you other than that dear Jesus may make facts correspond to the name He gave you – that is to say, that He may take each one of your acts within Himself and bring it to Heaven, so making of all your life a continuous ASCENSION, like many conquests that sweet Jesus takes from earth to Heaven, and like the triumph of His Love in which your life must be consumed.\u00a0 To live in order to be consumed in love is the most beautiful act, which, putting us on the stake of love, consumes us with Jesus and ma! kes His Life rise within us.<\/p>\n

But this is not enough, most dear Mother, if I don\u2019t let my Divine Fiat act.\u00a0 Therefore I send it to you with all my heart, and I pray that It may pronounce Its Omnipotent Fiat in the center of your soul, and create Its Life within it, nourish it, and carry you always in Its arms of light; and that It may pronounce Its Fiat in every action you do and form in it Its Heaven, the most beautiful stars, the brightest sun, in order to make the most adorned room in which to reign and form Its first Kingdom.<\/p>\n

My Mother, He always gives something to do to those who live in His Divine Volition.\u00a0 He lets not one of our acts escape Him without animating it, molding it, investing it, caressing it with His Creative Virtue.\u00a0 These are the best wishes I can send you, and I want you to accept them, so that the Divine Will may fulfill the wishes I am sending you with all my heart.\u00a0 I commend myself very much to your prayers…<\/p>\n

Luisa Piccarreta<\/p>\n

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Day Twenty-nine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will\u00a0 Jesus departs for Heaven.\u00a0 The soul to her Mother Queen:<\/p>\n

Now, dear child, my beloved Son Jesus spent forty days, risen, on the earth.\u00a0 Very often He appeared to His apostles and disciples to confirm them in the faith and certainty of His Resurrection; and when He was not with the apostles, He was with His Mama in the cenacle, surrounded by the souls who had come out of Limbo.\u00a0 But at the end of the forty days, Jesus instructed the apostles, and leaving His Mama as their guide and Teacher, He promised us the descent of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Then, blessing us all, He departed, taking flight for the vault of the heavens, together with that great crowd of people who had left Limbo.\u00a0 All those who were there, and they were a great number, saw Him a! scend; but as He got up high, a cloud of light removed Him from their sight.<\/p>\n

Now, my child, your Mama followed Him into Heaven, and was present at the great feast of the ASCENSION.\u00a0 More so, since the celestial Fatherland was not foreign to me; and then, the feast of my Son, Ascended into Heaven, would not have been complete without me.<\/p>\n

Now a little word to you, dearest child.\u00a0 All that you have heard and admired has been nothing other than the power of the Divine Will operating in me and in my Son.\u00a0 This is why I so much love to enclose in you the life of the Divine Will; It is an operative life, because everyone has it – but the majority of them keep It suffocated and to their service..\u00a0 And while It could operate prodigies of sanctity, of grace, and works worthy of Its power, It is forced by the creatures to remain with folded arms, without being able to display its power.\u00a0 Therefore, be attentive, and let the Heaven of the Divine Will extend within you, and with Its power, work whatever It wants, and however It want\u2019s!<\/p>\n

The soul:<\/p>\n

Most holy Mama, your beautiful lessons enrapture me, and \u2013 oh, how I wish and sigh for the operating life of the Divine Will in my soul!\u00a0 I too want to be inseparable from my Jesus and from you, my Mama.\u00a0 But to be sure of this, you must take on the commitment to keep my will enclosed in your maternal heart; and even if I should see that it costs me much, you must never give it to me.\u00a0 Only then will I be certain; otherwise, they will always be words, but I will never do facts.\u00a0 Therefore, your child commends herself to you, and hopes for everything from you.<\/p>\n

Little Sacrifice:<\/p>\n

Today, to honor me, you will make three genuflections in the act in which my Son ascended into Heaven, and pray to Him that He might let you ascend in the Divine Will.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ejaculatory Prayer:<\/p>\n

My Mama, with your power, triumph in my soul, and let me stay in the Will of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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