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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Okay. To be succinct, to the point, I'm going to talk about the Epiphany because we celebrate that on the 6th of January, just a couple of days. And uh the Jubilee year ended on the 28th in all dascese throughout the world except Rome. The Jubilee Year of Hope ends in Rome on the feast of the Epiphany. And the only door that remains open to January 6th is the door of St. Peter's Basilica. And so those who go to St. Peter's Basilica uh in the next couple of days can receive the Jubilee the Jubilee um blessing indulgence.
Okay. So the blessed virgin Mary in meditation three of the ble blessed virgin Mary in the kingdom of the divine will book that we could recite any month even though it's devoted to the month of flowers the month of May talks about the epiphany. It's really a continuation of day 23. Why did Louisa Al add six extra meditations to the 31 meditations for the month of May? Because St. Hannibal asked her to elaborate a bit more on that which she addressed concerning the mysteries of Mary and Jesus. So on meditation 3 which is an elaboration of day 20 meditation 3 which is an elaboration of day 23 Louisa writes, "Holy mother, here I am again on your maternal lap as you press your sweet baby Jesus to your bosom. Your enraptturing beauty so captivates me that I cannot separate myself from you. Today you appear more beautiful as it seems that somehow the sorrow of the circumcision has rendered you more beautiful. Yearning with the desire of making Jesus known, you sweetly gaze into the distance to see if those dear to you are arriving. I wish to remain on your lap, listen to your beautiful lessons, and come to you and love Jesus more."
And Mary gives her lesson to Louisa and through her us. Dearest child, you are right in saying that I appeared to you more beautiful. For when I saw my son being circumcised and the blood pouring forth from his wound, I lovingly reverenced it along with his wound, thereby redoubling my motherhood. In addition to being the mother of my son, I now also became the mother of his blood, of his bitter sorrow. Now, in this moment, Mary receives the prerogative of universal motherhood. And um by virtue of which she later administers Jesus blood to all souls of all centuries, which we find in the 1100 p.m. hour of the passion. And she also acquires the title co-redemptrics. She does in the writings of Louisa. By the way, the Vatican document materialis that talks about how redeemer can only apply to Christ. And if it is to be used, it has to be used in relation to Mary in a subordinate sense and rightly so because Mary does not take away original sin. Only Christ does which is the beginning of the work of redemption. Right? Only God man could eliminate original sin. Mary had to be redeemed. She couldn't redeem. She had to be redeemed by Christ of original sin. That happened on day two in this book where God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit prevented the seed of corruption from contaminating her seed. That was redemption. But Mary co-redeemes with Christ, never apart from him, in the sense that while she can take away original sin, which only Christ can, she can administer, mediate grace with Christ, never without him, to all human generations. And this is what happens in the 11 p.m. hour of the hour of the passion where she administers Jesus blood to all mankind.
All right? So um the Vatican therefore after issuing this document in November issued up a follow-up clarification a couple of weeks later during an interview where Fernandez the prefect of the diccastry of the doctrine of faith stated yes you can use the title co-redemptrics in relation to Mary but in the context I just shared it with you. Okay. How Mary here receives a double motherhood and um she receives actually 12 titles in this book. The blessed virgin Mary in the kingdom of the divine will. 12 titles she's given in this book and one of them is co- redemptric. Okay. So she adds therefore I acquired a two-fold claim to the office of motherhood before the supreme majesty. I acquired a two-fold claim to God's grace for myself and for all mankind. That's her redemption. So she's administers ad mediates grace to all of us. And this is why you see me more beautiful. My child, how beautiful it is to do good and to suffer in peace for love of the one who created us. Such an attitude bonds the divinity to the soul and gives the soul so much grace and love. that it inebriates it. Such love and grace cannot remain idle, but yearn to run and give themselves to all creatures in order to make known the one who has bestowed upon them so much. This is why I had the yearning desire to make my sons known.
Now, my blessed child, God's divinity, which can deny nothing to the one who loves him, has caused a new star that is ever so beautiful and radiant to appear in the blue skies. Now, here we come to the epiphany, the star that led the magi. Now, it was not a real star. If you read the writings of an Katherine Emerick, it was something supernatural that was moon because stars don't go in a straight line and then stop in the middle of the sky. So this was not a star even though it appeared like a star because it was luminous. It was brilliant and it was moving and then it positioned itself right over the crib. It was a supernatural phenomenon that God created naturally. Um and speaking of star if ever you want to know if someone's from New Jersey and I was told this joke from a woman of New Jersey, Iowa woman of New Jersey. She said, "All you have to ask the person is sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." I said, "How does that work?" And she said, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, [laughter] New Jersey." I said, "How did I how did you know?" Because of the accent, of course.
But apart from the humor, a twinkling star Mary talks about here appearing over the manger. He says, "With this light, this star goes in search of adorers in order to proclaim to the whole world with its silent twinkling, the one who has come to save you was born. Come adore and acknowledge him as your savior." But there was so much human ingratitude among so many that the only three individuals gave this star any attention and without considering the cost followed its path. So they voyaged these three wise guys, these three magi, you know, Balthasar, Casper and Melkure through the cold, through the night, several days with camel, with treasures of gold, frankincense, incense. So despite the inconvenience, they like Mary endured suffering for the sake of others to spread the good news and to also provide the good Lord prophetically with that which would be used for his burial, the mere, the frankincense and so forth and help Joseph and Mary with the gold of course because they had to spend many days years in Egypt when Herod tried to kill the child and they had nothing to live on except that which the magi gave and what Joseph could do with his limited resources in a foreign land. So she calls this a star, but it was not an ordinary star. It was a supernatural star, a unique star.
And she adds, "Just as a star guided these individuals, so my prayers, love, size, and graces whose aim is to reveal to souls the heavenly infant Jesus, whom all centuries awaited, descended into their hearts like many stars, illuminating their minds and guiding their hearts, whereby without knowing Jesus, they felt love for the one whom they were searching. Thus they hasten their step to reach and see the one they love so much." Now uh Mary here is talking again about her grace. She said she acquired for them with her prayers, love, size, and graces the gift of God's knowledge descending into their hearts like many stars illuminating their minds, guiding their hearts. So Mary acquires grace for us. So she's a medatrix of all grace as well. So God gives us what called what is called condine grace, meaning it's not merited by anything we do. And that is manifest in the incarnation. Did anyone merit the incarnation? No. Did Mary merit it? No. Nobody did. But God freely gave it because he in his omniscience foraw that a woman would come to the redemption of the human race with the God man. prophesied in Genesis 3 chapter 15 where he says that I will a woman will crush your head and you will strike at her heel and it's found in the book of Revelation the last book of the Bible chapter 12 the woman clothed with the sun with the moon under under her feet and a crown of stars speaking of stars these stars accompanied Mary too in the womb of her mother an she talks about this on day uh let's see what day are we on it's I think day um one of the blessed virgin Mary in the kingdom of the divine book. She says that in her womb the stars came to her and acknowledge her as queen of all creation forming an array in her head in the womb of an by the way I visited Anne's relics yesterday. I I visited a family and we went to Genova just about an hour drive from here and I went into the Basilica of the Duoma, the Cathedral of Genova where Christopher Columbus's statue is and there is Anne's armor forearm first class relic. I took a couple of photos of that and other relics of John the Baptist his remains are there as well as well as St. Lawrence his bones are there too you know the martyr and the deacon.
So um Mary adds here that uh God's grace that she assisted with um the cooperation to God's undying grace that's freely given uh in illuminating their minds and guiding their hearts to find the child. She adds, "My dearest child, my motherly heart rejoiced over the faithfulness, correspondence, and sacrifice of these magi kings who had come to know and adore my son. But I cannot hide from you a secret sorrow of mine." Of the many people in those days, only three had come. What ingratitude, right? And then she says, "A star of is a sorrowful encounter endured for the love of God or a divine truth well received." A star is having one's love rejected or enduring a setback out of love for God. A star is a disappointment or a dejection lovingly endured or even a blessing in disguise. These are the many stars that shed light in the minds of my children. These stars dispose souls to seek out the heavenly infant Jesus who was eagerly awaiting their love as he shivers with cold while seeking refuge in their hearts so as to be known in love. But alas, I who hold Jesus in my arms will wait in vain for these stars, for these many occasions that God disposes in souls to dispose the souls of my children to come to me whereby I may deposit Jesus in their hearts and so my maternity is denied and remains ineffective.
Okay, I'll stop there because as I mentioned, I'm in company. I broke away to do this. I carry my computer with me and I'll make I'll answer three quick questions and then run there because they're waiting for me. They're having dinner. So, the first uh Sister Chris, please unmute yourself. >> Okay. Uh thank you. Can you hear me? >> Yes, I can. >> Okay. I sometimes meet individuals, Catholics who I think are ready to learn about the divine will and I don't have much time to at that point to explain it to them. Can you recommend a pamphlet or a booklet that wouldn't be too long, but it could give them enough information um to be encouraged to go further with it? Well, on my website, uh, it's the website controlled by the community Missionaries of the Holy Trinity, there's a free download called How to Instruct Others on the Gift of Living in the Divine Will. And it's 11 pages. That's what comes to mind right now. >> It all depends on their aptitude, their age, their knowledge of church teaching. So in that 11page manual it talks about the difference between public and private revelation to instruct them of how this does not surpass the Bible. You know the writings of Louisa it complements it. It explicates it but it doesn't add anything to it >> and then I talk about Louisa's life her spirituality and her writings and how I talk she wrote 36 volumes and other works and yeah so I would recommend that 11page book. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> My pleasure. Okay. Um there's a question from Javier and then one more. Make it real quick please. You can unmute Javier. >> I'm sorry for that. I'm not asking a question. >> Oh no problem. I'll ask iPhone. Hands raised. He's a no name just iPhone. Hello, father. Can you hear me? >> I can hear you. Present yourself. >> My name is George. I have two quick questions. >> One, >> yes. >> I have I have a cousin that's dying of a liver disease >> and she just turned Catholic. >> I have masses sent for her while she's alive or if she dies, if she happens to go to purgatory. Do I share in those masses that I'm having said for her? >> Why not say as many mass as you can? Yeah. >> Okay. >> I think you muted yourself accidentally. >> Okay. Well, thank you for that. One last question from JMJ. >> Hi, Father. They're telling me my food ready. It's getting cold. And the Italians are saying if you come and eat cold spaghetti, it's a mortal sin. We're you're excommunicated. So, I'm going to have to close it here. They interrupted me. My my my apologies. May God bless you all and keep you always in his most holy will. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. God bless you and I'll see you in a week.