Novena to Christ the King

November 11 – 19, 2016

Day 1 – November 11

V5 – 10.12.03 – “…the Crown of Thorns means that there is no glory and honor without thorns; that there can never be dominion over passions and acquisition of Virtues without feeling oneself being pricked deep in one’s flesh and spirit, and that True Reigning is in mastering oneself by the pricks of mortification and of sacrifice.

Moreover, these thorns signified that I AM the True and Only King, and only one who Constitutes Me King of her heart enjoys Peace and Happiness, and I Constitute her queen of My Own Kingdom. So, all those rivulets of Blood which poured from My Head were many little streams which bound the human intelligence to the Knowledge of My Sovereignty over them.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 2 – November 12

V6 – 4.16.05 – “Today is the Day of the Palms in which I was Proclaimed King. All Must aspire to a kingdom, but in order to acquire the Eternal Kingdom it is Necessary for the creature to acquire the regime of herself through the dominion of her passions.  The only means is Suffering, because Suffering is Reigning; that is, through Patience, man puts himself in his place, becoming king of himself and of the Eternal Kingdom.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 3 – November 13

V11 – 5.18.15 – “Just as the kings of the earth have their own courts and quarters in which they keep safe in the midst of dangers and among the fiercest enemies – since their strength is such that while the enemies destroy other places, they do not dare to look at that point for fear of being defeated – in the same Way, I too, King of Heaven, have My Quarters and My Courts on earth. These are the souls who Live in My Volition, in whom I Live; and the Court of Heaven crowds round them.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 4 – November 14

V13 – 9.2.21 – “You Must Know that I Acted with you, Luisa, as a King who begins to Love a friend, who is very dissimilar from Him in status; but His Love is so great, that He has decided to make him similar to Himself. Now, this King cannot do everything at once and render His friend like Himself; rather, He does it little by little. First He prepares a Royal Palace for him, similar to His own; then He sends the Adornments to decorate the Royal Palace. He forms a little Army for him; then He gives him half of His Kingdom, so as to be able to say: ‘What you possess, I possess. King am I – king are you’. However, each time the King would give him His Gifts, He would look at his faithfulness; and giving the Gift would be for Him an occasion for New Contentment, greater Glory and Honor for Himself, and a New Feast.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 5 – November 15

V13 – 11.19.21 – “…This is why I love so much one who lives in my Will: I recognize my portrait in her, my noble features; I feel my own breath, my voice; and if I did not love her I would defraud Myself. I would be like a father without offspring, without the noble cortege of his court, and without the crown of his children. And if I did not have the offspring, the court and the crown, how could I call Myself a King? My Kingdom is formed by those who live in my Will, and from this Kingdom, I choose the Mother, the Queen, the children, the ministers, the army, the people. I am everything for them, and they are all for Me.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 6 – November 16

V15 – 7.25.23 – “…wanting to scrutinize Me also, Pilate asked Me:  “Are You king? And where is your kingdom?”, I wanted to give another sublime lesson by saying:  “I am King”.  And I wanted to say:  “But do you know what my Kingdom is?  My Kingdom is my pains, my Blood, my virtues.  This is the true Kingdom which I possess, not outside of Me, but within Me.  What one possesses on the outside is not a true kingdom, nor a safe dominion, because that which is not inside of man can be taken away, usurped, and he will be forced to leave it.  But that which he has inside, no one will be able to take away from him – its dominion will be eternal within him.  The characteristics of my Kingdom are my wounds, the thorns, the Cross.  I do not act like the other kings who make their peoples live outside of them, unsafe, and eventually, even starving.  Not Me – I call my peoples to dwell inside the rooms of my wounds, fortified and sheltered by my pains, their thirst quenched by my Blood, their hunger satisfied by my Flesh.  This alone is true reigning; all other reigns are reigns of slavery, of dangers and of death, while in my Reign there is true life.”

“This is the Kingdom of peace, to which all my children should aspire.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

Day 7 – November 17

V13 – 12.3.21 – “…Since this thing is great – establishing My Kingdom in the soul also on earth – I Acted like a king who has to take possession of a kingdom. He does not go there first; rather, first he has his royal palace prepared; then he sends his soldiers to prepare the Kingdom and to dispose the peoples to his subjection; then follow the guards of honor and the ministers – and the last one is the King. This is decorous for a King. So I did: I had My Royal Palace prepared, which is the Church; the soldiers have been the Saints, in order to make Me known to the peoples; then came the Saints who sowed miracles, as My most intimate ministers; and now I Myself come to Reign as the King. Therefore, I had to choose a soul, Luisa, in whom to establish My first Dwelling, and in whom to found this Kingdom of My Will. So, let Me Reign, and give Me full Freedom.”

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

DAY 8 – November 18

V36 – 5.10.38 – “…I burn of Love. I feel like fainting, I AM delirious for desire of Love.  And to reach this end, do you know what I do?  I put My Love in the heart of the creature, I let it flow in her mind, words, works and steps; I turn all this Love that flows everywhere into coins of Divine Love, and to let it circulate as Our Currency We impress on them My Image and the Writing: ‘Jesus, King of the Kingdom of the Divine Will.’

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

DAY 9 – November 19

V36 – 5.6.38 – “I would never have come down from Heaven without the Court of My People; without a Reign in which I could Dominate with My Laws of Love. All the centuries are just like a point for us, in which everything is Ours, in Action.  Therefore, when I came down from Heaven as Dominator and King of My children, I felt courted and Loved—as only We can do—and My Love was such that My children were all conceived together with Me.  I just couldn’t be without them; I couldn’t have tolerated not finding My Loving children.  So they grew with Me in the Womb of My Queen Mother; they were born together with Me, cried with Me, did everything I did.  They walked, worked, prayed and suffered together with Me, and I can say that they were with me even on My Cross, to die and Rise Again to New Life for human generations.

“Therefore, the Kingdom of Our Will is already established. We know its numbers, we know them all by name.  We already feel them palpitating in ardent Love.

Prayer:  My Sweet Jesus,…You are waiting for them (creatures) to call You into their midst, to receive You as Triumphant King, and to make You Reign on earth as in Heaven.  Linked with Luisa we pray, “Let Your Kingdom come.  O please, let It be Known, Loved and Possessed by the human generations.”

 FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

V25 – 10.28.28 – After this, I was thinking about today’s feast—that is, the Feast of Christ the King; and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, the Church does nothing but intuitively grasp what She Must Know on My Divine Will and how Its Kingdom Must come.  Therefore, this Feast is the Prelude of the Kingdom of My Divine Fiat.  Indeed, the Church is doing nothing other than Honoring My Humanity with those Titles that, by Right, are due to It; and when She has given Me All the Honors that befit Me, She will move on to Honor and to Institute the Feast to the Kingdom of My Divine Will, by which My Humanity was animated.

“The Church proceeds step by step, and now She Institutes the Feast to My Heart, now She Consecrates the century, in All Solemnity, to Christ the Redeemer, and now She moves on, with greater Solemnity, to Institute the Feast to Christ the King. Christ the King means that He Must have His Kingdom, He Must have peoples worthy of such a King.  And who will ever be able to form for Me this Kingdom if not My Will?  Then, yes, will I be able to say:  ‘I have My people—My Fiat has formed it for Me.’

“Oh! if the leaders of the Church knew what I have Manifested to you, Luisa, about My Divine Will, What I Want to do, Its great Prodigies, My Yearnings, My Sorrowful Heartbeats, My anguishing Sighs, for I Want My Will to Reign, to make Everyone Happy, to Restore the human family—they would feel that in this Feast of Christ the King is nothing other than the Secret Echo of My Heart that, Echoing in them, without their knowing it, has them Institute for Me the Feast of Christ the King in order to call their attention and reflection: Christ the King….  And His True People—where are they?

“And they would say: ‘Let us hasten to make His Divine Will Known; let us let It Reign, that we may give a People to Christ the King, whom we have called so.  Otherwise, we have honored Him with words, but not with facts.’”

 ‘Fiat,’-‘We belong to the great King of the Supreme Fiat.’ – V29 – 10.26.31

 Holy Lord, Jesus Christ, Great King of the Supreme Fiat, Your Holy Church has Instituted the Great Solemnity of the Feast of Christ the King. And since Christ the King means that You Must have Your Kingdom and a People worthy of Such a Great King, we humbly pray Your prayer that you taught the Apostles in the name of All human generations for Your Kingdom to Come, for Your Will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven.  Lord Jesus, Come quickly as our King, Fulfill Your Ardent Yearnings to Make Everyone Happy and to Restore the Human Generations.

Heavenly Father under the Blessed Mother’s Mantle, and with our little mama Luisa, through the Power of the Holy Spirit we pray in the Name of All souls past, present and future that You grant the Abundant Grace needed to make the Divine Will Known, Loved and Possessed; may It Reign so that All Your People return quickly to Christ Our King.

Fiat!

Thank you God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit!

From the writings of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta,

The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

VOLUME 31

August 7, 1932

 How the Light of the Divine Will makes one lose the life of all other things. It gives Divine Freshness, and one who Lives in It is Confirmed in Good and acquires the Right of Citizen of Heaven.

I am in the arms of the Divine Will, although under the press of the privations of my very sweet Jesus. Without Him the hours are centuries, the days are unending, and O! how I mourn for His sweet and Lovable Presence, and I feel all the hardness of my long exile.  But while I moan and yearn, the Divine Fiat makes Its Light flow over my pain, and mitigating it, makes me flow in the Eternal Waves of Its Acts in order to unite mine to Its, and make of them one alone.  Ah! it seems to me that It gives me no time to grieve over being deprived of He who so much Loves me and one whom I love.  And Its Light imposes itself over everything, it eclipses and absorbs everything, it wants everything for itself, nor does it permit the loss of time even over the Holiest things, that is, the privation of Jesus.

          But while I swam in the sea of sorrow, my dear Life, hardly as lightning that flees, visiting my little soul told me:  “Good daughter (Luisa), Courage.  Let yourself be guided by the Light of My Divine Will, that will know how to convert sufferings, pains, My very Privations, into Perennial Peace, and into Divine Conquests.  The nature of Its Light is eclipsing, corroborating, strengthening; and where Its Light reaches, sorrows lose strength and life, and change into Conquests and Joys, because the strength of Its Light surpasses everything, and where it takes its place, all other things lose life.  And if before the Light of My Divine Will they feel other effects and desires, it means that the Fullness of Its Light is not full in the soul, nor does It Reign in her in an Absolute way.  Its Reign is Absolute Reign, not conditional, therefore it has the Supreme Right of absorbing everything, of making all other things lose life, and of converting everything into Divine Will. 

“You (Luisa) must know that every time the creature does her acts in My Will, a beneficial dew rains over her that conserves the Divine Freshness, and gives her opium for all that does not pertain to It, and O! how Beautiful it is to see her always fresh in her acts, fresh in her love, in her sorrow; awaiting, in act, to receive Its dew, to receive the opium, to convert it into sweet Conquest of Divine Volition. Freshness renders her lovable, attractive, as a person and as an object.  Old things please no one, and therefore I Love so much one who Lives in My Divine Will, because I feel in her Our Divine Freshness, Our charming Fragrances.  In sum, she gives of Our Things, and your Jesus encloses in My Divine Heart this beloved creature, and I form her, raising her completely in My Will.  So this noble flock of children of My Volition will be formed in My Most Holy Heart as so many little queens, as daughters of the Great King.”

          So, continuing my state of oppression because of the privations of my sweet Jesus, I thought to myself:  “And yet, even though I am deprived of He who is more than my own life to me, still I feel a profound Peace, nor do I fear anything, nor have I any fear if it is through my fault that the Celestial Jesus deprives me of Himself, nor have I any fear that He might be able to lose me.  I feel nothing else in my little soul than a placid sea, that although it murmurs, yet its murmur is nothing other than ‘I love You.’  And this little ‘I love You’ of mine asks You nothing other than that the Kingdom of Your Will come on earth, and without ever ceasing to murmur, I make my little waves, again and again, in order to free myself from my exile and take Heaven by storm so as to enclose myself in my Celestial Fatherland.  But what! in vain; my waves fall into my sea, and I placidly continue to call out:  ‘I love You, I love You!’ and I pledge Heaven and earth to ask You for Your Fiat.” 

But while my mind blundered, my Highest Good Jesus, clasping me in His arms, all tenderness told me: “My Newborn of My Will, it seems you go searching how to disturb yourself, but I do not want it.  I do not want tempests in the sea of your soul, but Perennial Peace.  The tempests—that is, the fears, the frights, the doubts, they are tempests—would impede in you (Luisa) the continuous murmur of your placid ‘I love You’ that must run and murmur always in order to Conquer your Creator, so that He send His Will to descend on earth in order to let It Reign.

          “Now, you (Luisa) must know that for one who lets herself be Dominated by My Will and Lives in It, evils lose life. The fears of offending me, the frights, the disturbances, lose the seed in order to be born; the soul and the body remain Confirmed in Good.  She finds herself in the conditions of the Blessed; evil has no more life for them, because in those Celestial Regions, in My Will, evil absolutely cannot enter.  Therefore, one who Lives in It, can be called, and acquires the Right of, Citizen of Heaven; and if she finds herself on earth, where My Divine Will keeps her for Its Great Designs and for the Good of poor humanity, it is as a citizen away from the Celestial Fatherland.

          “But, despite the fact that she is on earth, she does not lose the Rights of being a Citizen of Heaven, or of Living with the same Properties of the Celestial Fatherland.  And although she feels herself as away, yet by Right she must possess Heaven in her soul in order to Live not of earth, but of Heaven.  Ah! to Live in My Will calls Heaven to earth, and Its Light writes on her forehead, with indelible letters:  ‘Perennial Love, Imperturbable Peace, Confirmation of all Goods, Daughter of the Supreme Being.’  Therefore, always in My Will do I want you (Luisa), so that you (Luisa) can enjoy the Properties of your Celestial Fatherland, that are:  continuous Love, Highest Peace, and Divine Will as Life of all the Blessed.”

Often overshadowed by the two days preceding it, Halloween (October 31) and All Saints Day (November 1), All Souls Day is a solemn celebration in the Roman Catholic Church commemorating all of those who have died and are now in Purgatory, being cleansed of their venial sins and the temporal punishments for the mortal sins that they had confessed, and being made pure before entering into the presence of God in Heaven.

Quick Facts About All Souls Day

• Date: November 2

• Type of Feast: Commemoration

• Readings: Wisdom 3:1-9; Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Romans 5:5-11 or Romans 6:3-9; John 6:37-40 (full text here)

• Prayers: Eternal Rest, Eternal Memory, Weekly Prayers for the Faithful Departed

• Other Names for the Feast: All Souls’ Day, Feast of All Souls

The History of All Souls Day

The importance of All Souls Day was made clear by Pope Benedict XV (1914-22), when he granted all priests the privilege of celebrating three Masses on All Souls Day: one for the faithful departed; one for the priest’s intentions; and one for the intentions of the Holy Father.

While All Souls Day is now paired with All Saints Day (November 1), which celebrates all of the faithful who are in Heaven, it originally was celebrated in the Easter season, around Pentecost Sunday (and still is in the Eastern Catholic Churches). By the tenth century, the celebration had been moved to October; and sometime between 998 and 1030, St. Odilo of Cluny decreed that it should be celebrated on November 2 in all of the monasteries of his Benedictine congregation. Over the next two centuries, other Benedictines and the Carthusians began to celebrate it in their monasteries as well, and soon the commemoration of all the Holy Souls in Purgatory spread to the entire Church.

Offering Our Efforts on Behalf of the Holy Souls

On All Souls Day, we not only remember the dead, but we apply our efforts, through prayer, almsgiving, and the Mass, to their release from Purgatory. There are two plenary indulgences attached to All Souls Day, one for visiting a church and another for visiting a cemetery. (The plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery can also be obtained every day from November 1-8, and, as a partial indulgence, on any day of the year.) While the actions are performed by the living, the merits of the indulgences are applicable only to the souls in Purgatory. Since a plenary indulgence removes all of the temporal punishment for sin, which is the reason why souls are in Purgatory in the first place, applying a plenary indulgence to one of the Holy Souls in Purgatory means that the Holy Soul is released from Purgatory and enters Heaven. 

Praying for the dead is a Christian obligation. In the modern world, when many have come to doubt the Church’s teaching on Purgatory, the need for such prayers has only increased. The Church devotes the month of November to prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, and participation in the Mass of All Souls Day is a good way to begin the month.

Today the Church celebrates all the saints: canonized or beatified, and the multitude of those who are in heaven enjoying the beatific vision that are only known to God. During the early centuries the Saints venerated by the Church were all martyrs. Later on the Popes set November 1 as the day for commemorating all the Saints. We all have this “universal call to holiness.” What must we to do in order to join the company of the saints in heaven? We “must follow in His footsteps and conform [our]selves to His image seeking the will of the Father in all things. [We] must devote [our]selves with all [our] being to the glory of God and the service of [our] neighbor. In this way, the holiness of the People of God will grow into an abundant harvest of good, as is admirably shown by the life of so many saints in Church history” (Lumen Gentium, 40).

Don’t forget to pray for the Poor Souls in Purgatory from November 1 to the 8th.

All Saints Day
During the year the Church celebrates one by one the feasts of the saints. Today she joins them all in one festival. In addition to those whose names she knows, she recalls in a magnificent vision all the others “of all nations and tribes standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands, proclaiming Him who redeemed them in His Blood.”

The feast of All Saints should inspire us with tremendous hope. Among the saints in heaven are some whom we have known. All lived on earth lives like our own. They were baptized, marked with the sign of faith, they were faithful to Christ’s teaching and they have gone before us to the heavenly home whence they call on us to follow them. The Gospel of the Beatitudes, read today, while it shows their happiness, shows, too, the road that they followed; there is no other that will lead us whither they have gone.

“The Commemoration of All Saints” was first celebrated in the East. The feast is found in the West on different dates in the eighth century. The Roman Martyrology mentions that this date is a claim of fame for Gregory IV (827-844) and that he extended this observance to the whole of Christendom; it seems certain, however, that Gregory III (731-741) preceded him in this. At Rome, on the other hand, on May 13, there was the annual commemoration of the consecration of the basilica of St. Maria ad Martyres (or St. Mary and All Martyrs). This was the former Pantheon, the temple of Agrippa, dedicated to all the gods of paganism, to which Boniface IV had translated many relics from the catacombs. Gregory VII transferred the anniversary of this dedication to November 1.

Things to Do:

• Visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead during the Octave of All Saints’ Day (November 1 through November 8) will gain a plenary indulgence that can be applied only to the souls in purgatory. On other days, this work gains a partial indulgence.

• Spend a little time after Mass thanking God for all the unnamed saints, some of whom could be our own relatives.

• Have a special meal and if you have young children have them dress up like saints and play games.

• Pray the Litany of the Saints — you could make it really special by chanting it (“he who sings prays twice”) and you could read an explanation of this litany, which is considered the model of all other litanies.

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