Reflections on the Meaning of the Blessings of Jesus

 From The Book of Heaven 

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

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will:

 VOLUME 24 

July 29, 1928

Meaning of the blessing and of the sign of the cross. 

My days become more bitter and long because of the privation of my sweet Jesus. Hours are centuries, days never end; and while I do my usual rounds in the Creation, I want and invite everyone to cry for He who, flying away from me, leaves me alone and abandoned in my hard martyrdom of living as if I had no life, because He who formed my true life is no longer with me. 

And so, in my bitterness, I call the sun to cry tears of light to move Jesus to compassion, so that He would come back to His little exiled one. I call the wind to make tears of moans, of screams, and to deafen the hearing of Jesus with its mighty empire, so as to bend Him to come back.  I call the sea to my help, that it would convert all of its waters into tears, and murmuring tears and tumulting with its waves, it may make a tumult deep into His Divine Heart, so that He may quickly resolve to give me back His Life, my All.  But who can say all my nonsense?

I sought help from all, so that they would make Jesus come back to me. But He would not come; and I would continue my round in His adorable Will, and following all the Acts He did when He was on this earth, I paused when Jesus was blessing the children, blessing His Celestial Mama, blessing the crowds, and other things, and I prayed Jesus to bless this little daughter of His, who so much needed it. 

And He, moving in my interior and raising His arm in the act of blessing me, told me: “My daughter(Luisa), I bless you(Luisa) from the Heart in your soul and body—may My blessing be the confirmation of Our Likeness in you(Luisa).  My blessing confirms in you(Luisa) what the Divinity did in the creation of man—that is, Our Likeness. 

“You(Luisa) must know that during the course of My mortal Life, in everything I did, I always blessed. It was the first act of Creation that I called back upon creatures, and in order to confirm it, in blessing I invoked the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit.  The very Sacraments are animated by these blessings and invocations.  So, while calling the Likeness to the Creator within souls, My blessing calls also the life of My Divine Will, that It may return as in the beginning of Creation to reign in souls, because My Will alone has the virtue of painting in them, vividly, the Likeness of He who created them, of making it grow and of preserving it with the vivid Divine colors. 

“See then, what blessing means: confirmation of Our creative work, because the work We do once is so filled with wisdom, and with sublimity and beauty, that We love to repeat it always.  And if Our blessing is nothing other than the longing of Our Heart to see Our Image restored in creatures, as well as the repetition of Our confirmation of what We want to do, the sign of the cross that the Church teaches to the faithful is nothing other than impetrating Our Likeness on the part of creatures; and so, echoing Our blessing, they repeat: ‘In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’ Therefore, without knowing it, the Church and all the faithful harmonize with the Eternal Creator, and all want the same thing:  God, by blessing and pronouncing the words, ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit,’ wants to give His Likeness; creatures impetrate it by making the sign of the cross, pronouncing the same words.”

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

 The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

  VOLUME 23 

September 21, 1927

How the soul who lives in the Divine Will places the acts of It in exercise. How the truth is perennial life and continuous miracle.

 I was going around throughout the whole Creation, asking for the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat in each created thing; and my adored Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, since all created things are fixed in God, as you ask for the Kingdom of My Divine Will in each of them, the created things move in God and ask for My Kingdom.  Each of them forms its supplicating wave, the incessant motion to ask for what you want; and since created things are nothing other than acts come out of My Divine Will, and each act was given an office, as you ask for My Kingdom in each created thing, you place all the offices of the acts of My Supreme Volition in exercise around the Divine Being, and you make Our Goodness, Our Power, Justice and Mercy, Our Love and Wisdom, ask for the Kingdom of Our Will. 

“In fact, each created thing contains a Quality of Ours, and We feel waves of beauty, of power, of justice, of mercy, of love, of wisdom, coming to Us, one after the other, that, with Divine ways, supplicate, pray, plead for the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat in the midst of creatures. And in seeing Ourselves being prayed so much by the very acts of Our Divine Will, We ask:  ‘Who is she who moves a Will so great with all Its innumerable acts, to ask of Us that We give Our Kingdom to creatures?’ 

And Our Acts answer Us: ‘It is the little daughter of the Eternal Volition—it is the daughter of all of us, who, with so much love, moves Our Acts to ask for what we all want.’ 

And in the excess of Our Love, We say: ‘Ah! it is the little daughter of Our Will!  Let her do it—to her it is given to penetrate everywhere; let her pass freely, because she will not do anything, nor ask for anything, but what We Ourselves want.’”

After this, I was thinking about all that my adored Jesus had told me on His Divine Will, and it was as if I wanted additional and more sure proofs that it was Jesus who was speaking to me.

And Jesus, coming out from my interior, told me: “My daughter, there is no proof that is more certain and sure, and that can do greater good both to you and to others, than My having manifested to you so many truths.  Truth is more than miracle; it brings permanent Divine Life within itself, and wherever it reaches and in whomever listens to it, it bilocates the truth together with its life, to give itself to whomever wants it.  Therefore, My Truths are perennial light, not subject to being extinguished, as well as life that never dies. 

“What good can a Truth of Mine not produce? It can form Saints, it can convert souls, it can dispel darkness, and has the virtue of renewing the whole world.  Therefore, I perform a greater miracle when I manifest one of My Truths than when I give further proofs that it is I who go to the soul, or did other miraculous things, because these are the shadow of My Power—passing light; and because it is passing, it does not bring the miraculous virtue to all, but is limited to the individual who has received the miracle, and many times not even the one who has received the miracle makes himself a Saint.

“On the other hand, the truth contains life and, as life, brings its virtue to whomever wants it. Be certain, My daughter, that if in coming upon earth I had not spoken so many truths in the Gospel, even if I had done miracles, the Redemption would have been hampered, without development, because they would have found nothing, neither teachings nor light of truth, in order to learn the remedies, to find the way that leads to Heaven. 

“So it would be with you: had I not spoken to you so many Truths, especially on My adorable Will, that has been the greatest miracle I have done in these times, what good would your mission bring—the mission so great, entrusted to you, of making known the Kingdom of My Supreme Fiat?  On the other hand, because I have told you so many truths about It, My Divine Will can be known in the world; the order, the peace, the light, the lost happiness can be restored.  All these truths will bring man onto the lap of his Creator, that they may exchange the first kiss of Creation, and man may be given back the Image of He who created him. 

If you knew the great good that all these truths I have spoken to you will bring to creatures, your heart would split with joy. Nor can you fear that the infernal enemy might dare to manifest to you a single truth about My Divine Will.  In fact, before Its light, he trembles and flees, and each truth on My Will is one more hell for him; and because he wanted neither to love It nor to do It, It changed for him into torments that will have no end.  Before the mere word ‘Will of God,’ he feels himself burnt so much, that he flies into a rage, and he hates that Holy Will that torments him more than hell.  Therefore, you can be sure that Will of God and infernal enemy never get along, nor can they be together or close; Its light eclipses him and hurls him into the chasms of hell. 

“Therefore, what I recommend to you is that you let not even one truth or a simple word on My Divine Will be lost, because everything must serve to perform the chain of perennial miracles, so as to make known Its Kingdom and give back the lost happiness to creatures.”

  PASSAGES ON THE UNKNOWN PASSION OF JESUS FROM

THE BOOK OF HEAVEN

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

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

 VOLUME 23 

September 17, 1927

The pains are like iron beaten by the hammer, that emits sparks. Differences between the cross of the Humanity of Our Lord and that of the Divine Will, and how the Divine Will has Its incessant Act.  

My Jesus, Life of my poor heart, come to sustain my weakness. I am still a little child, and I feel the extreme need for You to keep me in Your arms, to guide my hand while I write, to feed me the words, to give me Your Thoughts, Your Light, Your Love and Your very Will.  And if You do not do it, I will remain here like a fussy little girl, doing nothing.  If You love so much to make Your Most Holy Will known, You will be the first in the sacrifice; I will be in the secondary order.  Therefore, my Love, transform me into Yourself, take away from me the torpor I feel, for I can bear no more, and I will continue to fulfill Your Holy Will, even at the cost of my life.

So, continuing in my abandonment in the Divine Will, I felt myself in the nightmare of the pains; and my Beloved Jesus, clasping me to Himself to give me strength, told me: “My daughter, the pains are like iron beaten by the hammer, that makes it sparkle with light and become red-hot, to the point of being transformed into fire; and under the blows it receives, it loses its hardness, it softens, in such way that one can give it the shape one wants. 

“Such is the soul under the blows of pain: she loses hardness, she sparkles with light, she is transformed into My Love and becomes fire; and I, Divine Artificer, finding her soft, give her the shape I want.  Oh! how I delight in making her beautiful; I am a jealous Artificer, and I want the boast that no one can and knows how to make My statues, My vases—both in their form and in their beauty, and even more in their fineness and in the light that, sparkling, converts them all into truth. 

“So, for each blow I give her, I prepare a truth to be manifested, because each blow is a spark that the soul emits from herself; and I do not lose them as does the smith in beating the iron, but I use them to invest those sparks of light with surprising truth, such as to serve the soul as the most beautiful clothing, and to administer to her the nourishment of Divine Life.”

After this, I followed my sweet Jesus, but He was so afflicted and in suffering as to arouse pity; and I: “Tell me, my Love, what’s wrong?  Why do You suffer so much?” 

And Jesus added: “My daughter, I suffer because of the great sorrow of My Will.  My Humanity suffered, It had Its cross, but Its Life on earth was short; on the other hand, the Life of My Will in the midst of creatures is long—it has been already six thousand years, and will last even longer; and do you know who Its continuous cross is?  The human will.  Each act of it opposed to My Will, and each act of My Will that It does not receive, is a cross that it forms for My Eternal Volition.  Therefore, Its crosses are innumerable. 

“If you look at all Creation, you will find It all full of crosses formed by the human will. Look at the sun:  My Divine Will brings its light to creatures, and they take its light but do not recognize who He is that brings this light; and My Will receives so many crosses in the sun for as many as are those who do not recognize It, who, while they enjoy the light, use that very light to offend that Divine Will that illumines them.  Oh! how hard and painful it is to do good and not to be recognized. 

“The wind is full of crosses: each of its blows is a good that it brings to creatures, and they take and enjoy that good, but do not recognize who He is that, in the wind, caresses them, refreshes them, purifies the air for them.  And so It feels Itself being thrust with nails of ingratitude and crosses at each blow of the wind. 

“The water, the sea, the earth, are full of crosses formed by the human will. Who does not avail himself of water, of the sea, of the earth?  Everyone does; and yet, My Will, that preserves everything and is primary life of all created things, is not recognized, and is present in them only to receive crosses from the human ingratitude. 

“Therefore, the crosses of My Will are numberless and more painful than those of My Humanity; more so, since My Humanity does not lack some good souls who have comprehended Its sorrow, Its torments, the pains that they made Me suffer, and even My Death, compassionating Me and repairing for what I suffered in My mortal Life. On the other hand, those of My Divine Fiat are crosses that are not known, and therefore without compassion and without reparation.  This is why the sorrow that My Divine Will feels in all Creation is so great as to cause now the earth, now the sea, now the wind to burst with sorrow; and, in Its sorrow, It unloads scourges of destruction.  This is the extreme sorrow of My Will that, unable to endure any more, strikes those who do not recognize It.

“This is why I call you so very often to go around in all Creation, to make known to you what My Will does in It, the sorrow and the crosses It receives from creatures, so that you may recognize It in each created thing, love It, adore It, thank It, and be the first repairer and consoler of a Will so holy. In fact, only one who lives in It can penetrate into Its acts and recognize Its sorrows, and with Its very power, become the defender and the consoler of My Will that, for many centuries, has been living isolated and crucified in the midst of the human family.”

Now, while Jesus was saying this, I looked at the Creation, and I saw It as all full of crosses that could not be counted, so many they were; and as the Divine Will would issue Its acts from Itself to give them to creatures, the human will would issue its cross to crucify those Divine Acts. What sorrow! What pain! 

And my Beloved Jesus added: “My daughter, My Eternal Fiat has had an incessant act toward creatures from the moment It created the whole Creation, but because My reigning Will was missing in creatures, these acts were not received by them, and therefore remained suspended in the whole Creation within My very Divine Will.  Now, when I came upon earth, My first interest was to take into Myself Its incessant act, that had remained suspended within It because it had not been able to take its place in the creature; and My Humanity, united to the Word, first was to give place to this incessant act, giving satisfaction to it—and this was My unknown Passion, the longest and most painful—and then I occupied Myself with the Redemption. 

“The first act in the creature is the will; all other acts, whether bad or good, are in the secondary order. Therefore, I had to have, as first, the concern of placing in safety within Myself all the acts of My Divine Will, descending down below to the human acts, to reunite the two wills together, so that, in seeing Its acts being placed in safety, My Will might reconcile with creatures.  Now, today I invite you to take into yourself these acts rejected by creatures, because My Will continues Its incessant act, and remains with the sorrow of seeing it suspended within Itself, for It finds neither anyone who receives them, nor anyone who wants them, nor anyone who knows them.  Therefore, be attentive in working and suffering together with Me for the triumph of the Kingdom of My Divine Will.”

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

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

 VOLUME 4

January 10, 1903

The most pleasing words for the sweet Mama.

This morning, after much hardship, the Queen Mother came with the Baby in Her arms, and gave Him to me, telling me to keep Him courted with continuous acts of love. I did that as much as I could, and while I was doing it, Jesus told me:  “My beloved, the most pleasing and consoling words for my Mother are ‘Dominus Tecum’ [‘The Lord is with Thee’].  In fact, as soon as they were pronounced by the Archangel, She felt the whole of the Divine Being being communicated to Her, and therefore She felt invested with divine Power, in such a way that, in the face of the divine Power, Her own power dissolved; and so my Mother remained with the divine Power in Her hands.”