{"id":2703,"date":"2024-12-05T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2024-11-10T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:36:25","slug":"today-is-the-feast-day-of-st-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"12\/6 Today is the Feast Day of St. Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preparation for Holy Christmas
\nThe Nine Excesses of Love<\/a>\u00a0in the Incarnation of the Word<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe silver star in the Grotto of the Nativity\u00a0<\/em>marks the spot of Jesus’ Birth<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today is the Feast Day of St. Nicholas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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St. Nicholas of Bari
\n(also known as St. Nicholas of Myra)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Saracens invaded Myra<\/strong> (part of modern day Turkey) the relics of St. Nicholas were moved to Bari in Italy.\u00a0The Archbishop for Corato has jurisdiction over the provinces of Trani,\u00a0Bari, <\/strong>and\u00a0Bisceglie. The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta<\/a>, the Little Daughter of the Divine Will, was born and lived her whole life in Corato, the province of Bari<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop\u00a0of\u00a0Trani also has \u00a0the title of\u00a0Bishop\u00a0of\u00a0Nazareth, because when Palestine was lost in 1190 the title of that\u00a0see was transferred to\u00a0Barletta\u00a0(the ancient Barduli), a seaport on the Adriatic, a little south of\u00a0Trani, to which\u00a0diocese\u00a0it then belonged.<\/p>\n

Book of\u00a0<\/strong>Heaven
\n<\/strong>The Call of the Creature to the Order, the Place and the Purpose
\n<\/strong>for which He was Created by God
\nVolume 6 – December 6, 1904
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The beginning of Eternal Beatitude is to lose every taste of one\u2019s own.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta the Little Daughter of the Divine Will:<\/p>\n

As I continued struggling, blessed Jesus came for just a little, and I saw myself as naked, stripped of everything \u2013 perhaps a soul more miserable than I am cannot be found, so extreme is my misery.\u00a0 What a dismal change!\u00a0 If the Lord does not make a new miracle of His omnipotence to make me rise again from this state, I will certainly die of misery.<\/p>\n

Then blessed Jesus told me:\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter, courage, the beginning of Eternal Beatitude is to lose every taste of one\u2019s own<\/strong>.\u00a0 In fact, as the soul keeps losing her own tastes, the Divine Tastes take possession of her, and the soul, having undone and lost herself, no longer recognizes herself; she finds nothing else of her own \u2013 not even spiritual things.\u00a0 Seeing that the soul has nothing else of her own, God fills her with all of Himself and replenishes her with all the Divine Happinesses<\/strong>.\u00a0 Only then can the soul truly be called blessed, because as long as she had something of her own, she could not be exempt from bitternesses and fears, nor could God communicate His Happiness to her<\/span>.\u00a0 No soul that enters the port of Eternal Beatitude can be exempted from this point \u2013 painful, yes, but necessary; nor can she do without it.\u00a0 Generally they do it at the point of death, and Purgatory does the last job; this is why, if creatures are asked what God\u2019s taste is, what Divine Beatitude means, these are things unknown to them and they are unable to articulate a word.\u00a0 But with the souls who are My beloved, since they have given themselves completely to Me, I do not want their Beatitude to have beginning up there in Heaven, but to have beginning down here on earth. I (Jesus) want to fill them (souls who have given themselves completely to Our Lord Jesus Christ) not only with the Happiness, with the Glory of Heaven, but I want to fill them with the goods, with the sufferings, with the virtues that My Humanity had upon earth; therefore I strip them, not only of material tastes, which the soul considers as dung, but also of spiritual tastes, in order to fill them completely with My Goods and give them the beginning of True Beatitude<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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