November 21st A.D. 2015 – Feast of the Presentation of the BVM

Calendar for the Traditional Roman Rite

(The Golden Legend)

When the Blessed Virgin was three years old, and was weaned from the breast, her parents brought her with gifts to the Temple of the Lord. Around the Temple there were fifteen steps, one for each of the fifteen gradual Psalms; for, since the Temple was built upon a hill, one could not go up to the altar of holocaust from without except by the steps. And the Virgin, being placed upon the lowest of these steps, mounted all of them without the help of anyone, as if she had already reached the fullness of her age. When they had made their offering, Joachim and Anna left the child with the other virgins in the Temple, and returned to their home.

 Day Thirteen

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will departs for the Temple and gives example of total Triumph in the Sacrifice

.The soul to the Triumphant Queen:

Celestial Mama, today I come to prostrate myself before You, to ask for your invincible strength in all my pains; and You know how my heart is filled with them, to the point of feeling drowned with pains. O please! if You love so much to act as my Mother, take my heart in your hands and pour into it the love, the grace and the strength to triumph in my pains, and to convert them all into Divine Will.

Lesson of the Triumphant Queen:

My child, courage, do not fear; your Mama is all for you, and today I was waiting for you so that my heroism and my triumph in the sacrifice may infuse in you strength and courage, that I may see my child triumphant in her pains, with the heroism of bearing them with love and in order to do the Divine Will.

Now, my child, listen to Me: I had just turned three years old when my parents made known to Me that they wanted to consecrate Me to the Lord in the Temple. My heart rejoiced in hearing this – that is, consecrating Myself and spending my years in the house of God. But beneath my joy there was a sorrow – a privation of the dearest persons one can have on earth, which were my dear parents. I was little, I needed their maternal cares; I was depriving Myself of the presence of two great saints. Moreover, I saw that as the day

approached on which they were to deprive themselves of Me, who rendered their lives full of joy and of happiness, they felt such bitterness as to feel themselves dying. But, though suffering, they were disposed to make the heroic act of taking Me to the Lord.

My parents loved Me in the order of God, and considered Me a great gift, given to them by the Lord; and this gave them the strength to make the painful sacrifice. Therefore, my child, if you want to have invincible strength to suffer the hardest pains, let all your things be in the order of God, and hold them as precious gifts given to you by the Lord.

Now, you must know that I prepared Myself with courage for my departure for the Temple, because, as I delivered my will to the Divine Being and the Supreme Fiat took possession of my whole being, I acquired all virtues as my own nature. I was dominator of Myself; all virtues were in Me like many noble princesses,

and according to the circumstances of my life, they promptly showed themselves, to do their office without any resistance. In vain would they have called Me Queen, had I not possessed the virtue of being Queen over Myself. Therefore, I had in my dominion perfect charity, invincible patience, enrapturing sweetness, profound humility, and the whole endowment of the other virtues. The Divine Will rendered my little earth of my humanity fortunate, always flowery, and without the thorns of vices.

Do you see then, dear child, what it means to live of Divine Will? Its light, Its sanctity and power convert all virtues into one’s nature; nor does It lower Itself to reign in a soul where there is a rebellious nature – no, no. It is sanctity, and It wants the nature in which It must reign to be ordered and holy. Therefore, by the sacrifice of going to the Temple, it was conquests that I made; and over this sacrifice, the triumph of a Divine Will was formed in Me. And these triumphs brought into Me new seas of grace, of sanctity and of light – to the extent of feeling happy in my pains, in order to be able to conquer new triumphs.

Now, my child, place your hand upon your heart, and tell your Mama: do you feel your nature changed into virtue? Or, do you feel the thorns of impatience, the noxious herbs of agitations, the bad humors of affections which are not holy? Listen – let your Mama do it; place your will into my hands, determined in not wanting it any more, and I will make you be possessed by the Divine Will, which will banish everything from you; and what you have not done in many years, you will do in one day, which will be the beginning of true life, of happiness, and of true sanctity.

The soul:

Holy Mama, help your child; make a visit to my soul, and with your maternal hands, snatch from me everything You find which is not Will of God. Burn away the thorns, the noxious herbs, and You Yourself, call the Divine Will to reign in my soul.

Little Sacrifice:

Today, to honor Me, you will call Me three times to visit your soul, and will give Me all the freedom to do with you whatever I want.

Ejaculatory Prayer:

Sovereign Queen, take my soul in your hands, and transform it completely into Will of God.

THE TINY LITTLE MAMA OF THE TINY LITTLE CHILDREN

FROM THE BOOK OF HEAVEN

 Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

  VOLUME 25

November 14, 1928

How the creature possesses the human unity, and one who lives in the Divine Will possesses the Divine Unity.  One who does the Divine Will becomes mother.

I feel all abandoned in the Holy Divine Volition, and in spite of the privations of Jesus, my poor mind is taken by an irresistible force to follow Its acts.  I believe that it is the Divine Will Itself that, having subdued mine, does Its course calling all of Its acts, as if It were doing them in act.  And I, following It in Its acts, was thinking about the first times of Creation, when everything was happiness in man, and being in the Will of his Creator, he lived in His Unity, in which he could receive everything and could give everything to the Supreme Being.  Unity means everything.

But while I was thinking about this, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter(Luisa), We created man with Our Likeness, therefore he too possesses his human unity.  So, if he speaks, if he operates, if he walks and so on, these can be called the effects of his unity, because one is his will, one his head on which all of his acts depend.  Therefore, it can be said that it is the strength of the unity of his will that speaks, that operates, that walks, as the effects of it.  If man did not have this unity, all of his acts would be in contradiction with one another.

“It happens as to the sun:  from the height of its sphere, one is its act of light, and since it possesses the unity of light given to it by its Creator, while it is one single act, its effects of light are innumerable.  Now, for one who does and lives in My Divine Will, the human volition ceases, its life ends, nor has any reason to exist any longer, because the life of the Unity of My Will begins.  And since Mine is one single act, and everything It created, or can do, can be called the effects of this single act, the soul, living in this Unity of My Divine Volition as in her own center, is present in all the effects of the single act of It, and—oh! how beautiful it is to see this happy creature in all the effects that Our Will knows how to, and can produce.

“She runs in the light of the sun as the effect of Our Will; in the heavens, in the sea, in the wind—in everything.  She runs as the human will runs in all the human acts, and as the light of the sun runs in all of its effects; so does the soul run in the Fiat, in all the effects that It possesses and produces.  This is why the living in Our Will is the greatest prodigy, and if Our Divinity wanted to make a greater one, It could not; nor could It find anything greater, more prodigious, more powerful, more beautiful, more happy than Our Will to give to the creature, because by giving Our Divine Will We give everything.  Its power forms Our echo in the depth of the soul, and forms Our most beautiful Images; and the echo of the human littleness becomes one with Ours, in such a way that, uniting to Our prime Act, she runs and diffuses herself in all the effects that the single Act of God produces.”

After this, my lovable Jesus made Himself seen as a tiny little child, who, throwing His arms around my neck, told me:  “My mama, My mama….  One who does My Divine Will becomes mother; My Divine Fiat embellishes her for Me, transforms her, and renders her fecund, in such a way as to give her all the qualities in order to be a true mother.  And I keep forming this mother with the reflections of the Sun of My Divine Volition, and I glory and take so much pleasure in calling her My mama, My mama….  And not only do I choose her as My mother, but I call many more tiny little ones and give to them My mother as their mother.”

And while He was saying this, He showed me many little boys and girls around me; and the child Jesus said to them:  “This is My mother and your mama(Luisa).”

The little ones made feast and drew all around me together with Jesus; and Jesus added:  “These little ones you see are no other than the first cohort of the children of My Divine Volition.  In It, all will be little, because My Divine Will has the virtue of preserving them fresh and beautiful, just as they came out of Our creative hands.  And since It called your littleness to live in It, it is right that, as the first one, you(Luisa) be the tiny little mama of the tiny little children.”

BOOK OF HEAVEN

Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta,

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

 VOLUME 13

 August 9, 1921

Effects of the acts done in the Divine Will. Example of the machine.

Continuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself in the midst of a most extensive sea. I saw a machine, and as the engine moved, water would spurt out from all sides of this machine. Rising up to Heaven, these waves of water spouted upon all Saints and Angels, and reaching the Throne of the Eternal One, they poured impetuously at His feet, and then descended again into the depths of the same sea. I remained astonished in seeing this, and I said to myself: ‘What can this machine be?’ And a light which came from that very sea told me: “The sea is my Will, the machine is the soul who lives in my Volition, the engine is the human will operating in the Divine Will. Every time the soul makes her own special intentions in my Will, the engine puts the machine into motion; and since my Will is life of the Blessed as well as of the machine, it is no wonder that my Will, which springs out from this machine, enters into Heaven and glows with light and glory, spouting upon all, up to my Throne, and then descends again into the sea of my Will on earth, for the good of pilgrim souls. My Will is everywhere, and the acts done in my Will run everywhere – both in Heaven and on earth. They run to the past, because my Will existed; to the present, because my Will has lost nothing of Its activity; to the future, because It will exist eternally. How beautiful are the acts in my Will! And since my Will contains ever new contentments, these acts are new contentments for the very Blessed; they substitute for the acts of the Saints, which have not been done in my Will; they are new graces for all creatures.”

Afterwards, I remained all afflicted because I had not seen my sweet Jesus; and He, moving in my interior, clasped me in His arms, telling me: “My daughter(Luisa), why are you so afflicted? Am I not the sea itself?”

Jesus Can Not Live Without The Children of the Divine Will

BOOK OF HEAVEN 

From the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta

“The Little Daughter of the Divine Will”

 VOL. 11- March 3, 1911

These are the souls to whom I keep repeating, ‘Had I not created Heaven, I would create It only for you’, because I place in them the Heaven of my Will, and I make of them the true images of Myself. And I go wandering in these Heavens, delighting and playing with them. To these Heavens I repeat, ‘Had I not left Myself in the Sacrament, for you alone I would have done it’, because they are my true Hosts. Just as I could not live without a Will, in the same way I could not live without these Heavens of my Will; rather, they are not only my true Hosts, but the purpose of my Calvary and my own Life.

These Heavens of my Will are more dear to Me and more privileged than the Tabernacles and the Consecrated Hosts themselves, because in the Host my Sacramental Life ends as the species is consumed, while in these Heavens of my Will the Life of my Will never ends. They serve as my Hosts on earth, and they will be my eternal Hosts in Heaven.

To these Heavens of my Will I add, ‘Had I not incarnated Myself in the womb of my Mother, for these souls alone I would have incarnated Myself, and for these I would have suffered my Passion’, because I find in them the true fruit of my Incarnation and Passion.”

The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.     

   The Teacher of the Apostles,

Dwelling and Center of the Nascent Church, and the Boat of Refuge.

The Descent of the Holy Spirit.

.Lesson of the Queen of Heaven:

 Day 30

  Now, you(Luisa) must know that as My Son departed for Heaven, I remained together with the apostles in the cenacle, waiting for the Holy Spirit. They were all around Me, clinging to Me, and we prayed together; they did nothing without My advice. And when I began to speak to instruct them and to narrate some anecdotes about My Son which they did not know – as for example, the details of His birth, His baby tears, His loving traits, the incidents that happened in Egypt, the so many wonders of the hidden life in Nazareth… – oh, how attentive they were in listening to Me! They were enraptured in hearing of the so many surprises, the so many teachings that He had given Me, which were to serve for them. In fact, My Son had said little or nothing about Himself to the apostles, reserving for Me the task of making known to them how much He had loved them, and the details which only His Mother knew. So, My child, I was in the midst of My apostles more than the Sun of the day. I was the anchor, the wheel, the boat in which they found refuge, to be safe and sheltered from every danger. Therefore, I can say that I delivered the nascent Church upon My Maternal knees, and that My arms were the boat in which I led Her to a safe harbor, and I still do.

Then the time came for the descent of the Holy Spirit, promised by My Son, in the cenacle. What a transformation, My child! As they were invested, they acquired new science, invincible strength, ardent love. A new life flowed within them, which rendered them intrepid and courageous, in such a way that they scattered throughout the whole world to make Redemption known, and to lay down their lives for their Master. I remained with beloved John, and was forced to leave Jerusalem, as the storm of persecution began.

My dearest child (Luisa), you(Luisa) must know that I still continue My Magisterium in the Church – there is nothing which does not descend from Me. I can say that I pour all Myself out for Love of My children, and I nourish them with My Maternal milk. Now, during these times, I want to display an even more special Love by making known how My whole life was formed in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Therefore I call you(Luisa) onto My knees, into My Maternal arms, so that, forming a boat for you(Luisa), youLuisa) may be sure to Live in the Sea of the Divine Will. Greater Grace I could not give you(Luisa). O please! I beg you(Luisa), make your Mama content! Come to Live in this Kingdom so holy! And when you(Luisa) see that your will would want to have some act of life, come and take refuge in the safe boat of My arms, saying to Me: “My Mama, my will wants to betray me, and I deliver it to You, that you may put the Divine Will in its place.”

Oh, how happy I will be if I am able to say: “My child is all Mine, because she Lives of Divine Will.” And I will make the Holy Spirit descend into your soul, that He may burn away from you all that is human; and by His refreshing Breath, He may rule over you and confirm you in the Divine Will.