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Luisa Piccarreta
"The Little Daughter of the Divine Will"
1865-1947
Luisa Piccarreta was born and baptized in Corato, (Bari), Italy, on
April 23, 1865. In the "Mother Church" of Corato she also received
her First Communion and Confirmation in 1874. At age 11, she
became a Daughter of Mary and at age 18, became a Dominican
Tertiary.
Invited by the Blessed Virgin Mary she offered herself to the Lord
as a victim of love and reparation when she was 17 years old. From
this point on, she was slightly more than 64 years in bed, without
being sick, and was nourished almost exclusively on the Eucharist.
By obedience to her confessor, on February 28, 1899, she began to
write her spiritual diary and finished on December 28, 1938. Her
education consisted of only first grade studies.
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She had as an extraordinary confessor and censor of her writings,
the now Blessed Annibale Maria Di Francia. The relationship with
him started in 1910 and ended in 1927 when he passed away.
Luisa, the "Little Daughter of the Divine Will," chosen by God for
the Mission of "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it
is in Heaven" died on March 4, 1947.
The Congregation for the Cause of Saints, granted the "Nulla
Obstare" on March 28, 1994, to open the Cause of Beatification of
the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, Dominican Tertiary.
On November 20, of the same year, Monsignor Carmelo Cassati,
Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, in the "Mother Church" of
Corato, initiated the process of Beatification and Canonization,
establishing for that purpose the Tribunal. The Archbishop,
President of the Tribunal; the other members of the Tribunal,
faithful from many parts of the world; and a great participation of
the people of Corato attended the Opening Mass of her Cause. This
is how Luisa began the journey toward the honor of the altars.
With the authorization of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine
of Faith, from January 28 to February 3, 1996, copies were made of
the 34 manuscript volumes written by the Servant of God, that since
1937 were in the Archives of the above mentioned Congregation,
and were released to the Tribunal of the Cause for their study.
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"THE ROUNDS OF THE SOUL IN THE DIVINE WILL"
This little book entitled "The Rounds of the Soul in the Divine
Will" which you now hold in your hands is a guide for praying
"The Chaplet of the FIAT of Creation, Redemption, and
Sanctification”.
The book contains twenty-four meditations
divided into four parts which we call "The Twenty-four Hours of a
Day in the Divine Will."
"The Chaplet of the FIAT
of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification"
In your hands you also have a little rosary which we call "The Chaplet of
the FIAT of Creation, Redemption and Sanctification....", because it
is similar to a crown and is formed by seven groups of three small beads,
one white, one red and one green; separated by a large white bead. The
Chaplet finishes with a medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which has the
word "FIAT" on the reverse side.
The beads of the “Chaplet” are of three colors: white, red and green, in
memory of what happened to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, when
at age 23, she received from God the grace of "The Mystical Marriage", a
grace she received in the presence of the Most Holy Trinity, when Jesus
gave her a ring with three precious stones: the first white, the second red
and the third green; which symbolize the Most Holy Trinity and the
Theological Virtues. And that same day, as Jesus told Luisa many years
later, God gave her the "Gift of the Divine Will". When we pray the
Chaplet, we ask God, with insistence for the same “Gift”. We also ask
for the same thing when we pray the “Our Father”.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THREE "FIAT"
Dear brother and sister, now that we are inviting you to make "The
Rounds of the Soul in the Divine Will", praying the "Chaplet of
the FIAT of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification", we
would like to explain to you the meaning and intention of this
beautiful prayer.
The book is entitled "The Rounds of the Soul in the Divine Will"
because the twenty-four meditations which it contains, are like a
journey in the form of reflection and prayer, through all the
marvelous works realized by the Holy Trinity since the Creation of
the world for Love of His children. In this journey, we contemplate
these Works of God with the brief meditation of each "Hour" which
helps us to reflect on them with love and gratitude, remembering
them and receiving them in our hearts; and giving in return to them
our correspondence of love to Our Creator.
Since in the journey that we make, we briefly visit Creation,
Redemption and the Sanctification of all the human family, we call it
the "Chaplet of the FIAT of Creation, Redemption and
Sanctification”.
You must have noticed how often the word "FIAT" is repeated and
you must have asked yourself what it means. "FIAT" is a Latin
word which means "Let it be done". In the Eternal Plan of God it is
very important, since It is in the root, and is the Life of the three
greatest Works of God which we consider here: Creation,
Redemption, and Sanctification of man. You know
that “...By the Will of God all which never existed was created", this
Divine Will, to create wanted to pronounce a word, and this was:
"FIAT LUX", which is to say "Let there be light", and in this way
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God initiated the Creation of all that exists. The work of
Redemption is also the fruit of God's Will and it was fulfilled by
means of the Incarnation of the Word, His Passion, Death and
Resurrection. However, for the Saving Will to be accomplished,
God decreed that another "FIAT" be pronounced, but that now it
should be that of a creature. And it was Mary who with her "FIAT
MIHI", the "Let it be done to me according to Your Word", received
and opened the door to this grandiose Work. The fullness of
Redemption, which is the Sanctification of man and the perfect
Glorification of God, will be totally developed with the fulfillment of
the Third FIAT, the "FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA", the "THY WILL
BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN". In this Third
FIAT the initiative is also from God, and just as it was with
Redemption, it is likewise necessary that the creature respond with
its little Fiat. Which like Mary, each of us should pronounce and
live every day in every one of our acts, and in this way, God will
reign in us on earth as in Heaven. The fulfillment or realization of
this Third or last FIAT is the crowning of all the Works of God.; it is
a marvelous, immense, and undeserved Gift, which God wants to
give to all humanity; it is the "Reign of the FIAT in the midst of the
creatures"; it is the "Reign of the Will of God on earth as in
Heaven"; it is the Reign that Christ conquered for us and taught us
to ask of the Father.
God wants to give us the fullness of this Reign of Sanctity, Beauty,
Love, and Infinite Happiness, but He wants us to dispose ourselves
to receive it, and for that it is necessary to know it, love it, desire
it, and ask for it. To know this Reign, we should meditate on the
Word of God and all that the Church teaches us. Our understanding
of the significance of the Reign of the Divine Will on earth as in
Heaven can also be augmented by reading and reflecting on the
writings of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta "The Little
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Daughter of the Divine Will", which have this as their central
theme. We love this Reign if we put the Word of God into practice
as Mary our Mother, and pronounce our little “Fiat” every day in all
of our acts, uniting them with those of Jesus and Mary. Lastly, a
beautiful way to desire and ask for this Reign is to pray this
"Chaplet", since imprinting our little "I love you, I adore you, I bless
you, I thank you", in all the Works of God, in His eyes we make a
most beautiful act of love; which, little by little begins to give us the
possession of all His Works and together with Them we learn to ask
the Father for His Kingdom.
It is also a very simple way of praying, which helps us to fulfill the
first obligation of love which every creature, and every child has: to
adore, worship, bless and be thankful to God for all His Works and
the Divine Life which He offers us and wants to share with us.
As a complement and help to all which has been said in the
preceding pages, we offer the beginning of the chapter of August 9,
1925; Volume 18 of the writings of Luisa.
“As I was fusing myself into the Holy Divine Will to correspond in
love to God for all that He did in Creation for love of the creature,
my thoughts were telling me that it was not necessary to do that, nor
was this form of prayer pleasing to my Jesus, they were telling me
that all of this was only an invention of my head. And my always
lovable Jesus moving Himself in my interior, said to me:
"My daughter, you must know that this way of praying, that is, of
corresponding to God in love for all the things created by Him, is a
divine right and enters in the first obligation of the creature.
Creation was done for Love of man, even more, so much was Our
Love that if it had been necessary, We would have created as many
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heavens, as many suns, as many stars, as many seas, earths and
plants, and all the rest for as many creatures as would have come to
the light of this world, so each one would have a complete creation
all for itself, a universe all exclusively its own. In the beginning it
was like that. When everything was created, there was only Adam
the only spectator of all Creation. He could enjoy and rejoice in all
the goods that he wanted. And if We did not do it that way, one
Creation for each person, it was because man could enjoy all
creation equally as if it were his, no matter if others also enjoy it. In
reality, who cannot say: the Sun is mine,… and enjoy the light of
the Sun as much as he wants? Who cannot say, the water is
mine,… and quench his thirst and make use of it wherever he needs
it? Who cannot say, the earth, the fire, the air, are mine? And the
same of so many other things created by Me. And if it seems that
man is lacking some things, and does not receive them, it is because
of sin which, obstructing the passage to my benefits, impedes things
created by Me from being magnanimous… and all because of the
ungrateful creature. Then being this way, that in all created things
God bound His love to each creature; it becomes the creature’s duty
to correspond to God with its little love, its gratitude, its thankfulness
towards Him Who has done so much for it. This lack of
correspondence to God in love for all that He has done in the
Creation for man is the first fraud of the creature against God; and
the creature is an usurper of His gifts, without even recognizing from
where they come and Who has loved her so much. That is why, it
is the first duty of the creature; and it is so indispensable and
important, that She who took to heart all our glory, our defense, our
interests, did none other than go around everywhere, from the
smallest to the greatest of things created by God, to imprint her
correspondence of love, of glory, of thanksgiving for everyone and
in the name of all the human generations. Ah, yes, it was really my
Celestial Mother who filled Heaven and earth with the
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correspondence for all that God had done in Creation. After Her, it
was my Humanity which fulfilled this duty so sacrosanct in which
the creature had been so lacking, and which made My Father
favorable towards the guilty man. Thus, they were my prayers and
those of my inseparable Mother and, do you not want, then, to
repeat our same prayers? Indeed, it is precisely for this that I have
called you into my Volition so that you associate with us and
continue and repeat our acts”.
Then I tried so much as I could, to make rounds through all created
things in order to give to my God the correspondence of love, of
glory, and of gratitude for all that God did in the Creation... And I
seemed to see then in all the things, the correspondence of love of
my Mother and of my beloved Jesus, and this correspondence
formed the most beautiful harmony between Heaven and earth and
bound the Creator with the creature. Each correspondence of love
was a note, a little sonata of Celestial music that enraptured….”
PRAYER ON AWAKENING
Oh, Most Holy Trinity! as soon as I open my eyes to the light of this
new day, I ask that You renew the consecration with which You
consecrated me to You in my Baptism. I want to renew this
consecration and the total surrender of all that I am, repeating
together with Mary our Mother: "FIAT MIHI, Let it be done to me
according to your Word"; and together with Jesus in the moment of
His Incarnation: "Here I am Father, I come to do Your Will", and in
the Garden: "Not my will, but Yours be done". Because I want, as
They did to live only and always in Your Will, and that It be my
Life, my nourishment and my All. And so, permit me to enter now
in Your Will, what's more, give me Your hand and put me in the
Immensity of Your Will, so that nothing is done that is not an effect
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of Your Most Holy Will. It is my intention, Lord, that all my acts
of this day, small and large, natural and spiritual, serve to make the
Life of Your Will grow in my person, in Your Church, and be a
continuous prayer which repeats: "Your Kingdom come, Your Will
be done on earth as in Heaven”.
Oh, Most Holy Trinity! in Your Holy Will I want to fulfill my first
obligation as a creature, and so, following Jesus and Mary, I repeat:
"I love You, I adore You, I bless You, and I thank You" for all that
You have created and made for me and for all. And since
everything is found in Your Will, I want to begin the day by going to
each intelligence of the creature, to each thought, affect and desire,
to each beat, breath and movement, to each glance, word and work,
and to all that has been made, is being made and will be made, to
give You the kiss, the correspondence of love, the adoration and the
glory that all owe You for each and every one of Your creatures and
for each one of Your Works.
Lord, I want to unite also these acts to those that were done by
innocent Adam and Eve in the Eternal Light of Your Will, and to
those which have been done and will be done by all who live in
Your Adorable Will.
Oh Most Holy Trinity! to live always in Your Will, I ask that You
fill me with Your Holy Spirit, and grant me the help and protection
of the Holy Angels and all the Saints. And since to Luisa "The Little
Daughter of Your Will", You manifested the grand marvels of
"Living in Your Will", by her intercession, grant me the grace to
imitate her in her love for You and for Your Will, and in her fidelity
and attention to all that You taught her; and let it be as in her, that
the flight of all my acts be continuously in Your Will. Amen.
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HOW TO PRAY THE CHAPLET
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Say the "Initial Prayer": My Lord and God, now that I dispose myself
to visit the Works of Your Hands, I ask that You give me Your Holy
Spirit, and grant me the spiritual wisdom and intelligence to be able to
obtain a perfect knowledge of your Will. Jesus, I want to unite myself to
Your Most Holy Humanity to make this journey, and with You submerge
myself in the Divine Will, where all your Acts are found, to fulfill with
Your help and that of our Immaculate Mother the holy task of keeping
you company and reciprocating with my "I love you, I adore you, I bless
you and I give you thanks for me and for all" to Your Love, to Your Will
in all of Its manifestations in Creation, Redemption and Sanctification of
the world. It is my intention also, to bring into the presence of the Most
Holy Trinity each of Your Acts and together with You and our Mother
ask that "Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done on Earth as in
Heaven". Amen.
Now, choose any one of the four parts into which “The Twenty-four
Hours of the Day in the Divine Will" are divided and start with the
reading of the meditation corresponding to each hour. At the end
of each hour, pray an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be,
which correspond respectively to the small white, red and green bead,
then say the aspiration: "Descend Oh Supreme Will, and come to
Reign upon the earth", which corresponds to the large white bead.
After finishing the six "Hours", say an Our Father, a Hail Mary and
a Glory Be for the intentions of the Holy Father.
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The Twenty-four Hours of the Day
in the Divine Will
FIRST PART
The soul is lifted up in the arms of its Creator and throws itself on
His Divine Heart, to unite itself with Him in all the Acts that He did
in Creation for Love of the soul; it does not want to leave Him
alone, but wants to follow Him in everything. In doing this it returns
to its origin and finds the beginning from whence it came. There, in
His Divine Heart, everything is present as if in actuality He were in
the process of creating everything.
The creature wants to
reciprocate with all its love for each created thing. In order to do
this he must receive in his soul the deposit of the Love and Power
that his Creator effused from His Heart with His Omnipotent FIAT
in all Creation; and so he runs in each FIAT of his Creator to receive
His Love and to be able to give in this way love for Love, glory and
adoration to The One Who loves him so much. God wants His
children always with Him, in everything that He does, He wants the
presence and the company of those He loves and for whose love He
is working.
Later the soul is transported to Paradise, and receives there the
FIAT of God, with which He infused in man the breath and Life of
His Will. The soul is hurt, and tries to amend with love for its fall.
Finally, it travels through all the centuries to embrace all men and to
make reparation for each one of them.
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First Hour
The soul follows the Divine Will in the
creation of the Heaven and of the Sun.
My Jesus, I want to make my own all the love that your Divine Fiat
had in creating the star-studded sky, so I may in turn spread out my
heaven of love in your Omnipotent Fiat. And so, adorning all the
sky with my love, I want to give my voice to every star, so it may
repeat with me: "Jesus, I love You... May your Kingdom come
quickly upon the earth”. ·I come to the Sun which you created for
me, I want to receive in myself all its light, its warmth and all its
effects, so I too may be able to offer you my sun, to praise, glorify
and bless with it the everlasting Light, its unquenchable Love, Your
exquisite Beauty, Your infinite Sweetness, Your countless tastes.
Second Hour
The soul follows the Divine Will in the
creation of the sea and the wind.
My Jesus, I come to the sea, I hear its continuous murmur, the
symbol of your Eternal Motion that never stops. I enter into that
infinite and ceaseless Divine Motion that gives life to everyone, and I
make it my own to give it to everyone and to ask You in behalf of
everyone for the Kingdom of your Will. I make rounds also in the
wind, to love, to praise, to glorify, to sing, and to bless the Kingdom
of your Will in it. Jesus, with the Sovereignty of your Supreme Will,
make Your Kingdom come in the midst of creatures, and dominate
in them in such a way that no one will ever be able to resist It.
Third Hour
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The soul follows the Divine Will flying over
the earth, admiring all created things.
My Jesus, I see that all creation is filled with your adorable Will.
And I want to praise, to glorify, and to seal with my "I love You" the
order and harmony of all Creation, to bring to everyone the order
and harmony of the Kingdom of the Divine Will. I want also to
animate everything, and give my voice to all, so that all will say:
"Thy Will come to reign upon the earth”.
Fourth Hour
The soul goes to Eden and joins in God’s
festivity over the creation of man.
My Jesus, here I am in Paradise where I contemplate how with the
Father and the Holy Spirit You are forming your beloved jewel, your
masterpiece: the beautiful statue of man. With how much love They
form the statue! They infuse so much beauty in it, They dress it in
so many Divine hues! And being able to contain Themselves no
more, They infuse in the statue Life and Their Own Likeness. I also
want to receive Your breath of Creation and I want to love You
and adore You with the same perfection and holiness with which my
first Father, Adam, loved and adored You; and offering You Adam’s
acts, I ask of You, that Your Reign come.
Fifth Hour
The soul is present at the fall of Adam in Eden,
and tries to make amends with its own love.
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My Jesus, Adam and Eve withdrew from your Will to do their
own. And from the highest degree of all joy and delight, they
plunged into the abyss of all miseries. To console your Heart, I
want to form my fixed abode in your Divine Will. I never want to
turn away from It.
Sixth Hour
The soul continues its act of reparation. It passes
in review the principal figures of the Old Testament.
My Jesus, I now pass in review the principal figures of the Old
Testament, I meditate in them the prodigies of your Divine Will.
For that I imprint my "I love You" in the sacrifice of Abraham, of
Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, etc., and I ask of You the Reign of Your
Will”.
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SECOND PART
The soul maintains itself in the arms of its Creator and follows the
Divine Will, detaining itself in all the Acts of the Virgin Mary, makes
them its own and gives them to God as if they belong to itself. It
considers immediately the Conception of the Word, all the Acts that
He did in His Life, and to each of them gives its little
correspondence of love and gratitude, and begs for the advent of the
Reign of the Divine Will upon the earth.
Seventh Hour
The soul submerges into the oceans of Light and Holiness
of the Heavenly Mother. With Her, it prays that
the Reign of the Divine Will come upon the earth.
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I see You are
displaying oceans of power, wisdom, love, and indescribable beauty.
Gathering all these oceans together, You call from the very depths of
these oceans, in virtue of Your Omnipotent Word, the life of the
Little Queen. You create her so very pure, without stain, and so
rich in beauty that Your Own Divinity is enraptured. My Mother, in
this first act of your Conception, together with Creation we storm
upon our Heavenly Father and exclaim: "Let the Kingdom of the
Divine Will come upon the earth!".
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Eighth Hour
The soul continues with the Sovereign Mother to beseech the
Heavenly Father that the Divine Will may be known
to all and His Kingdom come.
Holy Mother, give your hand to your little child and help me cross
the sea of your love, so that with your love I may more effectively
ask for the coming of the Kingdom of Your Divine Will. I make my
own your adoration of our Creator. I make my own your prayers,
your supplications and your sighs, to ask through them for this
Kingdom.
Ninth Hour
The soul follows the Divine Will in the Conception of the Word and
keeps company with the little Prisoner Jesus, in the womb of His
Mother.
While I consider the Conception of the Word, I hide in your
maternal womb my continual "I love You" and all my sufferings, to
render fervent homage to the Son of God. Little Jesus, how many
pains You suffer in the womb of the Virgin Mother for the tightness,
immobility, and darkness you encounter there! I imprint my kiss,
and my "I love You”, on your tender limbs, to ask of You, through
the merits of these sufferings of Yours, that your Divine Will may
have movement in the creatures and, through Its light, may dispel
the night of the human will and form the perennial day of your
Divine Fiat.
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Tenth Hour
The soul follows the Little Child Jesus in the arms of His Heavenly
Mother during the pain of the Circumcision and encloses all
human wills in the pain of that wound.
My delightful little Child, to implore your Divine Fiat I imprint my "I
love You" in the pain You suffered with the cruel cut of
Circumcision. I beseech You to enclose in that painful wound all
human wills, to grant us in exchange the Life of your Divine Will.
Eleventh Hour
The soul follows the Baby Jesus in the flight to Egypt;
it invites all Creation to caress the Child and,
with everyone, asks for the Kingdom of the Divine Will.
My lovable Child, You are forced to flee to seek refuge, for an
impious man desires your death. Isn't this episode, perhaps, a
symbol of the perfidy of the human will, which persecutes your
Divine Will because it doesn't want your Will to reign? And I, my
Jesus, as You run away, I want to make You feel everywhere my "I
love You…", and since You run away to give me Life, I want to
offer You my existence to defend Yours and to ask for the triumph
of Your Will.
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Twelfth Hour
The soul with Jesus in Egypt: It offers Him its heart
as a lodging and asks with the Queen of Heaven
for the Kingdom of the Divine Will.
My dear Jesus, here You are, arriving in Egypt. Accompanied by
sorrow and tears, being forgotten, and by the abandonment of
everyone, You are forced to enter into a small open shed. All this is
symbolic of Your Will also wandering, for centuries, seeking
lodging… and does not obtain it. I unite myself to our Holy Mother
to dry your Face and to imprint my "I love You" in every one of
your tears and over your trembling lips; and, asking You for your
Fiat, I offer my heart to your Divine Will as a perpetual dwelling.
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THIRD PART
The soul follows the Incarnate Word step by step, and accompanies
Him with its love in all the Acts that He did in His hidden life and
later in the most relevant Acts of His public life, asking always that
His Kingdom come.
Thirteenth Hour
The soul is present at the first outing of the dear Child Jesus in the
midst of the children of Egypt; it watches Him as He blesses them
and it prays that He will also seal human wills with His blessing.
My Heavenly Child, the children of Egypt, gather around You and
You instruct them and finish blessing them. My Love, I accompany
You in everything with my "I love You, I adore You, I bless You, I
thank You” and at the same time I ask for the Kingdom of Your
FIAT.
Fourteenth Hour
The soul follows Jesus Who, after the exile, returns to Nazareth.
Showering Him with its "I Love You”, it asks Him with a thousand
voices for His Divine Kingdom to come.
Jesus, my Life, now that the exile is over, You are returning to
Nazareth, and I follow You step by step. What's more, I want to
accompany You with a shower of "I love You, I adore You, I bless
You", inviting all Creation to keep You company. You are now
arriving in Nazareth, and I want to enter together with You into this
sacred enclosure and, there, continue to offer You the canticle of my
"I love You”, to conquer You with love and to obtain what You
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Yourself want and what the Queen Mother asks for: which is, that
Your Will be known by all creatures.
Fifteenth Hour
The soul follows Jesus into the Desert. Stopping by
the Jordan, it asks Him for the Life-giving Baptism
of His Divine Will, so all may receive His Life.
Jesus, my Life, I see that You go into the Desert and to ask You for
the Kingdom of your Divine Will, I follow You step by step with my
"I love You”. As You reach the Jordan, I saturate that water with
my "I love You" to ask You for the Life-giving waters of Your
Divine Will and the coming of Your Kingdom for all creatures.
Sixteenth Hour
The soul follows Jesus to the Wedding Feast in Cana. It asks Him
to exchange the human will with the Divine Will. It continues to
follow Him in His Public Life.
Jesus, at Cana, your Heart beats with special tenderness, because
You recall having blessed other nuptials in Eden, that of innocent
Adam. It was a double wedding feast You attended at that time: a
wedding between your Divine Will and the human, wedding between
man and woman. You gave them as dowry the entire Creation but,
above all, your Divine Will beating in their hearts and in every
created thing. I beg You for love to the Sovereign Queen, to
perform the great miracle: to change the human will into the Divine
Will.
Seventeenth Hour
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The soul follows Jesus in His miracles and asks Him to perform the
great miracle of resurrecting all souls in the Divine Will.
My Jesus, Friend, Master and Physician of men, for everyone You
have words of consolation and You do not hesitate to touch their
diseased limbs to heal them. All human miseries pierce your Divine
Heart and wound It. It is this degraded human will, that in
producing its worst effects, makes humanity so unhappy. That is
why You go dispensing miracles to call Your Divine Will to Reign in
the midst of Your creatures.
Eighteenth Hour
The soul follows Jesus as He enters Jerusalem and asks Him for the
Victory of the Divine Will over the human will. It follows Him
later in the institution of the Sacraments.
My Heavenly Love, I follow you with my “I love You” in the
triumphant entry You made into Jerusalem. This entrance seems to
want to give me the joyful news that the Kingdom of Your Divine
FIAT will soon arrive on earth. My Love, I come close to You to
imprint my "I love You, I adore You, I bless You, I thank You in
each of the Sacraments that you institute.
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FOURTH PART
The soul follows the Incarnate Word step by step, makes its own all
these mysteries, envelops them in its love and offers them to the
Most Holy Trinity asking Them for Their Divine Kingdom. That is
why it follows Him from His Passion to His Death, goes with Him
unto Limbo, waits for Him in the Sepulcher, and asks of Him the
triumph of the Kingdom of His Divine Will in virtue of His Glorious
Resurrection. Finally, it follows Him in His Ascension to Heaven to
urge Him to reestablish the Kingdom of the Divine FIAT over the
earth.
Nineteenth Hour
The soul follows Jesus to Gethsemani and
in the three Hours of agony in the Garden.
My Jesus, here in the Garden, everything makes itself present to
You: the sins of all men, the pains of Your Passion, each of which
bears the infamous imprint of the deadly weapon of the human will
that fights against a God. I want to comfort You, by making my "I
Love You, I adore You, I praise You" flow in every drop of Your
Blood, in Your every suffering, anguish and sigh. And before You
leave Gethsemani I ask you to assure me that the triumph of your
Divine Will will not be long in coming.
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Twentieth Hour
The soul follows Jesus in the suffering of
His Passion to Calvary, and in His Death on
the Cross and prays for the Triumph of the Divine Will.
Jesus, my "I love You" follows You always and seals all Your
sufferings and Your spasms until Your last breath. By the pain that
You suffered in being condemned to death free us from the death
that we give to Your FIAT in our souls, make our will die to itself
and let Your Divine Will resurge dominantly and form Your
Kingdom in all our acts. Oh Jesus, now You agonize and are ready
to take Your last breath, I beg You, for the atrocious pain that You
suffered on the Cross, that You infuse in us a burning desire to live
in Your Will.
Twenty-first Hour
The soul encloses itself in the sepulcher with Jesus to bury its will
with Him, it descends later to Limbo and asks with all those souls
for the Reign of the Divine Will.
My Love, now deceased, I seal Your tomb with My "I love You"
and I ask that You bury my human will in a manner that it will never
have the possibility to return to life. I follow You to Limbo, and
with surprise see that those holy souls rejoice; and, prostrating
themselves, adore You. But it seems that the celebration is not
complete because they all, in chorus say to You: "Sweet Savior, we
thank You for how much You have done and suffered for Love of
us, but now that You have redeemed us, fulfill Your Work: Make
Your Divine Will Reign on earth as in It does in Heaven”.
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Twenty-second Hour
The soul witnesses how Jesus triumphantly leaves Limbo and asks
together with the Queen of Suffering and with all the souls of the
just that the Divine Will Reign upon the earth.
My Jesus, do You not hear the chorus of those voices so dear to
You, and do You not hear the petition of the Queen of Suffering
herself? Today, the day of Your Death, is also the day of Your
victories, of Your triumph, grant us then, before leaving Limbo, the
triumph of Your Divine Will over all human wills.
Twenty-third Hour
The soul follows Jesus in the act of the
Resurrection and asks of Him that the human will be overthrown,
and resurge in the Divine Will.
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My Jesus, now You direct Yourself to the sepulcher to triumph over
death and make Your Most Holy Humanity resurrect from the dead.
What a solemn moment! To celebrate it and to obtain the
resurrection of Your Divine Will in all creatures, I want to hide my
"I love You” everywhere: in the sepulcher, in the Act in which You
rose from the dead, and in the same light of glory that surrounds
You. And You, My Love, in order to celebrate this date of
jubilation, conquer our human will and make Your Victorious Will
resurge forever in us.
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Twenty-fourth Hour
The soul is present at the Ascension of Jesus
and asks to be able to sing always: "May the
Kingdom of Your Divine Will come to earth".
My risen Jesus, while, with Your triumphant entrance into Heaven
You open the doors which were closed for so many centuries to
poor humanity, I imprint my "I love You" over those eternal doors.
By that same blessing that You gave to all the disciples who were
present at the celebration of Your Ascension, I ask You to bless all
human wills, so that they can know and appreciate the gift of the
Life lived in Your Divine Will. My Love, already seated at the right
hand of the Father, I ask You to leave the doors to Your Heavenly
dwelling always open, so that I can come unceasingly to Your feet,
climb up into Your arms and, untiringly, repeat my canticle of love:
"Make the Kingdom of Your Holy Will come and Your Will be
done on earth as in Heaven!".
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be for the intentions of the Holy
Father.
Pray for us Queen of the Divine Will, so that the Divine Will
Reigns on earth as It does in Heaven.
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CONCLUSION
In finishing this "Rounds of the soul in the Divine Will" we would
like to invite you, to pray at least part of this daily, as in this way,
not only will you correspond in love to Our God, but also you will
be tightening the links of love with all His Works and taking
possession of them; and His Reign, of which these Works form part,
will extend itself in your soul. The meditations and prayers of this
"Chaplet" are taken of the "Book of the Rounds of the Soul in the
Divine Will" which Luisa wrote. With the help of this little book you
can complement what you have learned to do in this "Chaplet".
Once you have mastered the intention and the spirit with which
these rounds are done, guided by the Holy Spirit, you be able to do
your own rounds or journeys in the Works of God.
To finish, we would like to insist on the importance, not only in
doing this exercise of love in our prayer, but also that this attitude
should remain in our hearts throughout the day, in all our actions.
One truth which is repeated throughout the writings of Luisa and
which is very important is that the Divine Will wants not only to
enclose all of His Works in us, but also to extend Its Reign, that is to
say, form Its Divine Life in ours. Do you want to know how to
grow in the Fiat, that is to say: how to Live in the Divine Will
during the day? Luisa responds in one of her letters:
"Call the Divine Will in all that you do, if it is a natural thing, or
spiritual. Because everything is in the Divine Will and It wants to
Love together with you, if you call the Divine Will, It will grant you
Its Love to love It, It will give you Its holiness to sanctify you, the
light to know It and to make disappear weaknesses, miseries,
passions, so that they will no longer have life in you, but that only
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the Divine Will extends Itself and forms Its Life in your every little
act”. (From the letters of Luisa, Corato, 2-1-1939)
Fiat !!!
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