{"id":18094,"date":"2016-11-29T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2016-12-04T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T02:09:14","slug":"the-immaculate-conception-in-the-divine-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=18094","title":{"rendered":"The Immaculate Conception in the Divine Will – Novena from November 29th to December 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0NOVENA FROM NOVEMBER 29 to DECEMBER 8<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Pray for Luisa’s intersession
\nto receive the Graces<\/em>\u00a0of December 8th\u00a0of the Feast\u00a0 Immaculate Conception
\nthrough the Divine Will.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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From the Writings of<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Little Daughter of the Divine Will<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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BOOK OF HEAVEN\u00a0\u00a0Volume 34 \u2013 December 8, 1936)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy child, I want to honor my Celestial Mother.\u00a0 I want to narrate to you the story of her Immaculate Conception.\u00a0 Only I Who am the Author can worthily speak of this great, prodigious Act.\u00a0 Her acts, her words, her steps\u2014before having life in her person\u2014were first conceived in Me, Son of the Living God.\u00a0 Her love, incarnate in Mine, enclosed everything and everyone and loved as God loves, with the same madness toward Us\u2014and toward all creatures.\u00a0 Even her prayer was conceived in Mine.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026My child, really no one is qualified to speak of the Immaculate Conception of my Divine Mother.\u00a0 Even Holy Church, up till now, did not reveal but tiny bits of knowledge of her sanctity, of her greatness, and of the gifts with which She was enriched.\u00a0 Only I, having conceived Her in Me, can narrate the true story of her life, and reveal the marvels that were accomplished in Her by our Divine Fiat.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOVENA OF THE IMMACULATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luisa wrote this novena as a little example of how to thank and requite God for the Most Holy Virgin (e.g. Dec.18, 1920 Volume 12); of how to thank and requite our Celestial Mother Herself (e.g. June 26, 1926 Volume 19), and of how to put into practice the teachings contained in the chapters about the Immaculate Conception (e.g. Dec.8, 1922 Volume 15).\u00a0 More than simply reciting it with words, we should follow it with the will, truly uniting ourselves to the acts that Luisa did. (J.L. Acu\u00f1a)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDay\u201d, in God, means the time in which one operates and acts\u2026\u00a0 And when it is a Divine Will that operates and acts, then a \u201cday\u201d becomes an eternity, and the acts or works done in that \u201cday\u201d are infinite and inexhaustible goods placed at everyone\u2019s disposal.\u00a0 The six \u201cdays\u201d of Creation are not yet ended, because God continues to operate, in every instant, by preserving all things and maintaining them in existence.\u00a0 The \u201cday\u201d of the creation of man, in which God says,\u00a0\u201cLet us make man in our Image and Likeness\u201d<\/em>and infuses His life-giving breath in him, is certainly not ended, because this act of God is eternal and continuously in act, and from this act we receive life and preservation at this very moment!\u00a0 The seventh \u201cday\u201d, then, is the eternal day in which God, far from ceasing to operate, actively enjoys and delights in His works, resting in them because they fulfill the purpose for which He made them.\u00a0 The longed-for seventh day is the Kingdom of His Will reigning on earth as it does in Heaven \u2013 the eternal perennial sunny day in which man possesses the Will of God as his own life, and does all that God does together with Him, in perfect Unity and mutual Rest.<\/p>\n

With this novena of nine \u201cdays\u201d, Luisa is calling us to enter the Divine Will and participate actively \u2013 with our acts \u2013 in the eternal Day of the Will of God.\u00a0 Every single act of love, of reparation, of thanksgiving that we do in the Divine Will fills Heaven and earth, and all eternity.\u00a0 Therefore, each \u201cday\u201d of this novena can be an eternity of love and glory that we give to God, and of good that we do for all, if we call His very Will to animate and vivify all of our acts.\u00a0 But eternity never ends\u2026! In the same, this novena must never end within us!\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed Luisa wrote it for us in order to help us to acquire and to exercise, for\u00a0\u201cninety times nine days\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>the continuous attitude of going around in the Divine Will, to trace all of Its acts and repeat them within us, so as to let Divine Life grow in us, increasing our Likeness to our Creator and Father, and therefore fulfilling the purpose for which we were created!<\/p>\n

How infinitely greater and more profound than a simple devotion or pious practice!\u00a0 Thank you Luisa.\u00a0 Guide us in this eternal Day!<\/p>\n

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Day One<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us honor Mary with nine acts of love.\u00a0 Let us do these acts in the Divine Will, so as to be able to place a most refulgent Sun over the august head of our Queen, with all the fullness of grace, of light and all the good which the Divine Will contains.<\/p>\n