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Introduction to Divine Will
This “Little Catechism on the Divine Volition”
is an aid for those who wish to know the spiritual message
of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta,
“the Little Daughter of the Divine Will” in her life and in her writings,
their basic formation in the Faith and as a guide in their lives.
“Pro manuscripto privato”
Fr. Pablo Martín Sanguiao
Civitavecchia, March 25 2015,
Solemnity of the Annunciation
and of the Feast of the Divine “Fiat” of Jesus and Mary .THE FIRST QUESTIONS
REGARDING THE GIFT OF GOD
WHO ARE WE?
“What great love the Father has given us, to be called children of God; and
that’s what we truly are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did
not know Him. Beloved, we are already God's children, but what we will
become has not yet been revealed. However, we know that when He will
manifest Himself, we shall be similar onto Him, since we will see Him as He is”.
(1 Jn 3,1-3).
WHAT WAS JOHN ANNOUNCING BY SAYING THIS?
He was announcing that the Divine Volition had yet to be revealed as Jesus’
interior life, and that living within the Divine Will will become our way of life,
following the example and spiritual guide of the Servant of God Luisa
Piccarreta, through whom the Lord has desired to manifest it in our own time.
WHAT IS THEN “LIVING IN THE DIVINE WILL”?
It is having as one’s own life the very Will of God, as we learn from the
writings of Luisa Piccarreta. This is the life lived by Our Lord Jesus and by
Mary, His and our Mother.
WHO IS LUISA PICCARRETA?
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The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta,
“the little Daughter of the Divine Will”,
is the creature chosen by Jesus to initiate
the fulfillment of His idyllic, of His eternal
decree, and to make known to the Church
and throughout the world, that His Divine
Will would be in us the same as it is in
God. We will enjoy His life, His happiness
and the Source of all His works.
Luisa was born in Corato (Bari, Italy) on the 23rd of April, 1865, where she
lived her entire life, and where she died on March 4th, 1947. To this day people
remember her as “Luisa, the Saint”. The cause for her beatification was
opened in 1994. Many have been the witnesses to her cause, amongst which
are priests, bishops, one cardinal and even one canonized Saint, St. Hannibal
Maria Di Francia, who frequented her for 17 years. She was always subject to
the authority of various confessors, holy priests charged by the Church’s
authority for her guidance. However, the principal witness to this cause is Luisa
herself, who through her writings narrates her life and her mission.
WHAT DID LUISA WRITE? WHAT ARE THESE WRITINGS?
Luisa was not an educated person, she had completed only the first, and
perhaps, the second grade of grammar school. Yet, in obedience to her ...confessors, she wrote 36 long volumes, in a diary format. These volumes, as
Jesus Himself says, were written by Him first, with His own finger of light, at the
bottom of His own soul and then transcribed by Luisa onto paper.
These marvelous writings are entitled by Jesus Himself “The Kingdom of
my Divine Volition within the creature – Book of Heaven – The recall of
the creature within the order, at its place and within the reason for which
the creature was created by God.”
St. Hannibal, as a censor in charge of the writings of Luisa, was the first to
examine them (he examined the first 19 volumes) and granted them the "Nihil
obstat", to which then the Archbishop immediately gave his "imprimatur".
Luisa also wrote "The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ",
the “Pio Pilgrimage of the Soul in the Divine Will” and "The Virgin Mary in
the Kingdom of the Divine Will".
Furthermore, in order to complete the first volume, she wrote a notebook on
“Memories of childhood”. She also left many prayers, novenas and even
many letters.
BUT WHAT, IN SIMPLE TERMS,
IS LUISA’S MESSAGE ?
Luisa can say Jesus’ words: «My doctrine is not mine, it belongs to the
one who sent me forth. Those who wish to do His will, will get to know if
this doctrine is from God or if I am speaking on my own» (Jn. 7,16-17).
Also these other words that Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman: «If you were
to know the gift of God and who is the One telling you ‘Give me some water to
drink’, you would have asked Him to give you water to drink and He would have
given you living waters». (Jn 4,10).
And what is God’s Gift? It certainly is not a simple gift, nor a virtue or a
charisma, and not even a spiritual thing; it is instead, the very, omnipotent,
eternal, most holy Divine Will. To observe the commandments, to do all that
God wants us to do, to accept with serenity whatever God permits or disposes
are all things necessary to our salvation, but it is too little to satisfy His love.
A popular chant says: “God became like us so that He could make us like
Himself”. God desires us to become like Him, in His own image. God desires
us to live in perfect union with Him, He desires us to be able to say the very
same words that Jesus said to Him, our Father: “All that is yours, is mine;
and all that is mine is yours” (Jn. 17,10). God wants us to love, and to love
Him with His own love, so that our reciprocal love will not be unjust. He knows
that our heart, our will, is not capable to love in a divine way, a way worthy of
God, this is why He is now offering to us the gift of His own Heart, of His
adorable Will, the Heart of the Three Divine Persons, so that we may live
with God, live His life, participate in His works, and love as the Divine Persons
love.
The Lord is telling us: “It is too little that you would be my servant, I wish to
make you light of nations” (Is. 49,6).
Conclusion
This is the beginning of our topics about the Divine Will in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will later write some words that we discuss together about the Book of the Divine Will and what we must live with, with all the special messages in it for the children of God so that they can live in complete surrender to the will of God in our lives.