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[Music] [Music] Let us begin. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
We give you thanks, O most Holy Spirit, for the outpouring of the greatest gift God has reserved for mankind in these end times. And for this great feast day in the universal church, whereby we start afresh, are reborn spiritually, and begin a new chapter in our lives by the grace of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit that cleanses us of all sin and punishment.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
You know, in that prayer that I just recited, the Gloria, we in the end say world without end. I did a theological study on this about I don't know 30 years ago, 25 years ago. And Thomas Aquinas put out a work entitled, um, on the power of God. It's not part of the Summa, it's separate. And in it, he talks about the earth being infinite. And this is the teaching of the Catholic Church as well. The earth that we are now on, it will be renewed. That's why, you know, St. Peter in the second letter talks about a new heavens and new earth. So does the book of Revelation. But the earth remains. Even though it's new, it doesn't mean it will be destroyed. Pope Pius the 12th made a doctrinal statement that the earth will not be destroyed. So the earth will be forever transformed, like our bodies, but nonetheless, in substance, the same earth. The same earth, sorry, the same wind. What do you call it? Air, fire, earth, and water. The four elements, right? They will remain on this planet for all infinity. I don't say eternity because eternity means no beginning. The earth had a beginning. Infinite means has a beginning but no end. Finite means has a beginning and an end, like a presidential mandate, right? Paycheck, things like that.
So, getting back to the theme of the Orthodox and the Catholic Easter, this causes our Lord a lot of suffering because he, God, sees us as his children. Number one, I want to emphasize this to understand why the Lord suffers because of our division on the dates of Easter. When God revealed himself to Luisa Piccarreta on earth during Lent, she would suffer more than during other times of the year. Because the Lord, remember, he's the head of the body of which St. Paul speaks, the mystical body of Christ. We are the members. He's the head. So if the church is going through Lent, Christ is doing that too. He cannot disconnect his head from the body. And therefore, it is no coincidence that many, if not all, of those who have participated in the Lord's passion through mystical sufferings have gone through the most intense sufferings during Lent. Right? That's the time of Christ's heightened passion. Suppose now you have one part of the church celebrating his passion and he's suffering, and another part rejoicing at the same time. See the division in his body. He feels that. We don't feel it, but he does. And we wouldn't know he suffers unless he tells us. And he does in the messages I just spoke to you that are approved by the church. So when the Orthodox and the Catholics have different dates of Easter, it causes him suffering. It's, it's a division in his own body. It's not working in sync. So he's begging us to unite the dates of Easter to alleviate his suffering and to mitigate the fire that's going to come.
In fact, in those messages I mentioned that they're the impromoters in the hill, signed by several bishops, True Life in God messages. They talk about the same outpouring as Luisa. These messages are still being received today, by the way. And it talks about living in the divine will. In these messages, and yet the person who receives them, Vassula, never, never read one word of Luisa, right? Nor did she have any catechism. So, um, this is a, a testimony as it were to the consistency of the word of God in both revelations. But I bring this up because today is the feast day of Divine Mercy, and the Orthodox don't have this today, and they don't celebrate it even in their Orthodox calendar. But I do know many Orthodox, hundreds, that participate in pilgrimages, that participate in this Catholic feast day.
Back to the question I brought up before. Since the Lord asked Fina, actually, he demanded it, that this be a universal feast day in the church, and on this day the image be solemnly blessed of his that he asked Faustina to have painted after the pattern of his own appearance to her. And he asked that this be a universal feast, meaning for everybody. So, anyone who's baptized can receive confession and communion. Can, in 8:44. Um, you know, um, there are conditions for people that are not of the same creed as Catholics that want to receive these too. They have to be properly disposed. The pastor makes that discernment if they're disposed or not. And there are other conditions that I mentioned in an article online. But again, my theological conclusion is, yes, this is available even for the Orthodox if they desire it on the first Sunday after their Easter. Um, it's not a teaching of the Lord, it's just a theological argument I make. And I put out an article on this, why the Lord would not depart the Orthodox of the sacrament if they so desire it. But they can also receive it today by going to the Catholic Mass. You see, they can do that. It's permissible in Canada. Um, so this is a beautiful day. And I started this talk with that because I had just come back from celebrating Mass downstairs in the church, and after that, I went out for a gelato. Do you know what gelato is? Oh, by the way, let me ask you to unmute and share where you're tuning in from. I'll start it. Hello, I'm from Italy. Where are you from? I'm from Spain. Australain. Thank you for joining in. Connecticut. South Australia. Javier from Calgary. Calgary. Mary Joe from Thibodaux, Louisiana. Oh, Cajun country. Yes. Good morning from New Zealand. Phoenix, Arizona. Very wonderful. I'm from Louisiana. Thank you. Florida. Ireland. Ireland. Thank you for joining. And I'm from Auckland, New Zealand. Oakland, New Zealand. London. Oh, London. Very nice. How's the weather in London now? Beautiful today. Oh, wonderful. Absolutely beautiful. Italy here. Yes. Thank you. Michigan. Michigan. What part? On away about two hours away from your place, Father. Oh, that's Sally. Yes, she's, she's Sally's the one who sells, who who mails all the books out. I'm lying. She's the gopher. She's the one. Hi, Sally. And hi, Father. It's your sister, Janette. Oh, how you doing, Jenny? Janette. I never called her Jenny in my life. That's the first time. Oh, that's all right. Divine Mercy. Does anyone call you? Thank you. Does anyone ever call you Jenny or any other nickname? No, they call me other things, but not that. Oh, that's from New York. Hey, you got to get used to. She's from New York. Hi. Oh, this is Sharon here in Winnipeg. Oh, Winnipeg. Sharon. She's put us on for many years. The international from Italy. Near Milano. Milano. In province. They're from they're from Milan. And I said I'm only two hours away from you. Oh, that's a plant. I was wondering what's that green thing. This, uh, one of my favorite plants is Gardenia. I love the jasmine, star jasmine. It's a beautiful smell. It's all over Italy. But these Gardenias really, really have a beautiful perfume as well. All right. So, have you all had the opportunity to receive the plenary indulgence today or not yet? Yes. Yes. For some of you, not yet. Not yet. Ours is at three. Oh, not yet. Yeah. I'm, I'm sick. I, I wanted to go, but I'm sick. I can't. Oh, well, you know what you can do? Well, did you were you able to go yesterday to the vigil? No, I'm since, since a week or so, I'm sick. I'm like COVID or something else. I don't know. Can you have somebody bring you communion? Uh, no. No, I don't know anyone. Have you, have you tried? Uh, I, I never did that, to be honest. Oh, you haven't received the done ever? Okay. Yes. Okay. Well, if you have gone to confession within 20 days and you're disposed, then you can receive it today. But if I were you, yeah, I could call a priest. You know what you could do? Call up and ask for an extraordinary minister to bring you, uh, communion. But if you haven't received confession in the last 20 days, have a priest, you know, just say, "Look, I'd like to receive the indulgence. Can you hear my confession? Give me communion." And give him a little stipend for a Mass or something. That would be nice. Um, because these spiritual benefits are eternal. You know, this is such a powerful feast day. See, when you go to confession, and this is something that I like to repeat because it reminds me too of the importance of this day. When you go to confession, your sins are forgiven and forgotten, but not the punishment. Therefore, after you leave the confessional, you will probably still have to go to purgatory and expiate the punishment, even though the sin is forgiven. Case in point, okay, let's take an extreme case of murder, one of the worst crimes, worst sins, whether it's abortion, whether it's a human, whatever. Okay, I committed a murder. I go to the priest and sincerely repent and resolve not to do it again. I'm forgiven and the sin is forgotten, but the punishment remains. Expiation, that's called, remains. That's time in purgatory. Now, the average lifespan in the late 1800s in purgatory, I should say lifespan, time spent in purgatory in the late 1800s was about 40 years on the average for the average soul. Why do I say this? Because in a, in a published work, it's ironically entitled an unpublished manuscript on purgatory, but now it's published that it has the impromatur and the ecclesiastical approval. And it was the revelations of a nun in purgatory who appeared to another nun in the convent of France, Sister M.D. and Sister M.D.L.C. They give the initials to keep their anonymity. And the sister in purgatory revealed to the nun in the convent whom she vexed what purgatory is like, so that by her being sanctified through her lessons from purgatory, the nun on earth would help her be set free. That's how God ordained this. So the nun who was vexing the other nun had to remain in purgatory until the nun on earth was sanctified. During this time, she explained to the nun on earth many things that we don't know about purgatory that are not contained in scripture and public revelation. One of the things she was asked from the nun on earth is how long do people normally spend in purgatory? And the response was, on a, now this is the late 1800s when there was no internet and promiscuity was much lower. She said the average person spends 40 years in purgatory. Imagine today, right? So when you go to the feast of Divine Mercy, you receive confession and communion. That doesn't just take away sins, which confession does. It takes away all the punishment. That means that if you should die after receiving communion, you don't go to purgatory. You go straight to heaven. And it gets better. Let's suppose you're completely cleansed of all sin and punishment, equal to receiving a new baptism, right? In its effects. And you sin a month later. When you are judged, you will only be judged from this day onward. Nothing from before this day. That's how powerful it is. So your time in purgatory is cut down to zero. And that's why I'm telling you, don't be hesitant about stepping on other's toes when it comes to receiving spiritual gifts, because these eternal realities, you know, nothing can buy. It's really priceless. So, um, yeah, that's the. You're welcome. You're welcome. Can I ask a question, uh, pertaining to that indulgence? Um, sure. So, if you receive, and of course, you're, uh, all your sins are forgiven and, uh, the corporal punishment as well. What, how does that work then at the end when they say all our sins will be revealed to, to all? That's a good question. I brought that up last time. I said that's a question to consider. It seems like a paradox, but I'll explain that. Not only is just the temporal punishment, but also the spiritual punishment is done away with. So on the one hand, let's say right now I just received the sacrament of communion about an hour ago, just over that, before going outside. Um, so right now I'm not aware of committing any sin. Okay. Now, after that, I went and had an ice cream. That's not a sin, by the way. It's Sunday. Anyway. Now, on the last day, when Jesus says in scripture that everything will be revealed in broad daylight, nothing will be hidden, everything will be disclosed. And the Council of Trent made it a teaching of the church, doctrinal teaching, that at the general judgment, everybody will be raised in their bodies, even if they're cremated. How that happens, I don't know, but by God's divine intervention, it will happen. The bodies will be recomposed. And you see an image of this in Ezekiel where the bodies are being reformed, coming back out of the graves. So the general judgment, all will rise, good and bad. And then we'll be judged in the body. Now, at the moment of death, known as the particular judgment, the soul is judged, not the body. Yes, it's judged for the works in the body, but the body's in the grave. At the general judgment, the body will participate in that particular judgment. The judgment won't change. It'll be universal, public instead of private. In that moment when everything's revealed, will those sins that we've been forgiven for on this feast of Divine Mercy be revealed? If Jesus says, "When I forgive, I forget." Then how could they be remembered on the universal, universal judgment? This is how. Let me give you an example by way of question. God says he forgives and he forgets. Well, if God knows everything, how can he forget? This is how. If you have a friend or a loved one, and they hurt you, and you love them, son, child, spouse, whatever, you want to forgive them, but you want them to be, uh, contrite and repentant. And they are. Now that they're completely repentant, and they say, "I'll do anything to make it up." You put it out of your mind. You don't bring it up anymore. Do you forget that? Yes. Can you remember it? Yes. But you choose not to remember it, to avoid coloring your relationship, marring your, uh, rapport with that person. You just try to forget, and you forget it. That's how God forgets. He can always recall it, but he, he withholds that intention to do so. So on the general judgment, when everything is revealed, even the sins forgiven will be shown, but not to be judged, but to glorify God's mercy. So they will be only revealed, not to impugn us, but to praise God for the greatness of his mercy. That's why they will be revealed. Not in any way to say, "Shame on you." No, to say, "This is how much God loves us." It will be a cause for rejoicing, not for repentance. Thank you. Okay. You're welcome. Yeah. So, um, and then we have some more questions. Let's just go right into them, then. Natalie, go ahead, Natalie. Um, yes, Father. Thank you for doing this. Um, I'm confused about there's so many books to buy. Uh, can you tell me as a new person? I know you're supposed to read. I do listen to the YouTube Passion, but if I was to pick a book that I have to read, can you tell me what translation? Where do I get a book to start reading? I don't need the Passion because I listen to that on YouTube, but where can I get a book? You mean of Luisa, or just any book? Whatever. I'm a prayer person, so I guess, you know, I always hear you're supposed to be reading these books. I hear, "Oh, you must read." I do listen to her stories about you and her history and all that, but as a prayer person to meditate outside of the Passion, what book should I recommend that I can pray and Jesus can speak to me through her writing? Okay. So, I mean, above and beyond the Bible, right? Yes, I do. I do read the Bible. I know the Bible. I've read it a lot. Pentecostal. So something from Luisa. Well, Luisa wrote different thematic works. Naturally, the Passion, you're aware of that, that's on the theme of His Passion. I would have you read The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will book. No. And I will be happy to get it, but how do I know? Is there like different versions? Or can I buy one from you or how does this work? Yeah. Well, as I mentioned earlier, Sally mails them out. You can order it on the website. I translated it personally from Italian into English. Oh, okay. And it's a faithful, it's faithful to the original and it has footnotes and cross-references and footnotes. So, explains what Mary means. I would recommend that as the starting point. Why? Because what better person to teach you than a mother on the first steps of learning about how to walk in God's will? And that's what that book does. It's the maternal instructions with tenderness, little by little, with a little meditation each day to train us on how to do divine acts, how to pray in the divine will, how to assimilate our sentiments with those of Jesus and Mary, as Mary did. So Mary shows you what she did on earth so that we can emulate her interior, uh, prayer life and intentionality. So, she would intend to bless God in and through all things through our creation. What's the code again? What's the code again? Father, the BVM, the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine. It's a long title, but that's the title Luisa gave the book, The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. So, if you go to livinginthedivine.org, LTDW.org, for and you'll find that it's a blue cover book and, uh, that's, yeah, you can order it just like that. Oh, I'm so excited. Thank you. And when I'm done reading that, I'll let, I'll ask you what's next. Thank you. I'm so grateful. You're welcome. All right. Thank you, Michael. Yes. Yes, Hermengard. Hermengard, please go. Hello. Thank you. But I have a question. In volume 12 from Luisa's book, there is a passage where Jesus writes, um, um, then my goodness, not indirectly through creatures, but directly from heaven will strike men, and he touched by my hand will recognize himself, will wake up from the sleep of sin, and will recognize his creator. Is this an allusion to the warning? Can you repeat that again? That phrase, uh, it is volume 12, October 4th, 1917, at the end of the. Can, can you read that one more time? Uh, all this will. Let me ask you a question. Can you go back one sentence and read from there? Uh, all this will serve in some way to make the rot which man contains come out. And then my goodness, not indirectly through preachers, but directly from heaven will strike man. And these chastisements will be like beneficial to you, descending from heaven, which will kill men. And he touched by my hand will recognize himself, will wake up from the sleep of sin, and will recognize his creator. Therefore, daughter, pray. Okay, thank you. Then. Now, this is not the warning as you mentioned. That's mentioned at. So I want to clarify what, what we mean when we say warning. And in Spanish, the word, the first time we heard of this, that it was revealed was by Mary, these are the bells in Italy, by the way. We mean by Mary was to the children of God and Medjugorje in the early 60s. And Our Lady said, used the word in Spanish, "aviso," which means warning in English. And it will precede the chastisements that the Lord speaks of there in volume 12. So this chastisement is after this illumination of our intellect, our conscience, our will, where we will see how we have hurt God. We will see our sins as God sees them. In other words. But, um, the chastisement the Lord speaks of comes after that. Now, I think it comes before and after, because we're seeing right now chastisements, right? Yes. They're happening in pockets. And this is before the warning. But then there will be greater ones, even after this. A big chastisement. What will that be? The earth will be knocked off its axis, okay, with us on it. This is mentioned in the Old Testament book of Habakkuk, where God says, "I will pound the earth." And it's also mentioned in other prophetic revelations approved by the church. But the great chastisement that coincides with this earth being knocked off its axis is fire. It'll throw off the magnetic field and other things. And fire will purge the earth. St. Peter says in his second letter. And this will really decimate civilization. Jesus tells Luisa, when the great part of humanity is destroyed, the greater part, that's the fire. Okay. And this is why earlier I said, when if we unite the dates of Easter, we will mitigate this fire. It's very important that we unite these dates. And Pope Francis last week made a public statement to the Orthodox. He said, "You pick the date, and we'll unite on that date you pick." So he's very open to doing this. And that's good. Let's hope that it happens. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Father. You're welcome. Janet. Janet, go ahead. Hi. Thank you, Father. Uh, I have a few, just kind of, um, anyway, I'll just start. But in response to Natalie's question, this is a really good one. I don't know if you can see it. Is it blurring? No, I can't. It's Father's, uh, it's Father's Prayer Green Prayer Book from his website. Oh, yeah. I can show that. Yeah. Um, it's got the, the Virgin Mary and the Kingdom, the Hours of the Passion, and everything. And it's, yeah, I actually just got it, Father. And I love it. One of my questions, even though it cost me $100 to get it into Canada. Yes. Crazy. But wow, that's a lot of. Yeah, Canada. I'm sorry. The prices are extremely high now. Yeah. Yeah. What's going on? The shipping was more than the cost of the book, but it's worth it. If you can, if you got an extra hundred, don't go out for gelatos. Go buy this book. Um, but anyway, I just wanted to know what we can use of your translations in here. Father, can we, uh, reprint them with, you know, with credit, or how should we, what are we free to do? Well, there's a copyright in the opening cut. Yeah. But I mean, when it comes to sharing, Yeah. Feel free to share. Okay. Yeah. It talks, it talks, the copyright covers introductions, annotations, and theological presentations. Doesn't say translation, right? Yeah. Like I said, feel free to share. Yeah. Okay. But, uh, reproducing the whole thing like that, that's a copyright, the whole book. But you can share the, the, the translations like that. Yeah. Okay. Super. I don't know exactly how, how that works, but, yeah, that's fine. Okay. Good. Good. Because I mean, if we're sharing stuff, we're better off to share yours than anyone else's at this point. For sure. I appreciate that. Yeah. Um, I had another question. Last time you had, you mentioned your MHT group, and you said you had 3,000 people. Who can join that? No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not MHT. That's the, that's Divine Instructor Synodal. Oh, okay. Yeah, we have over 3,000. Yeah. And we're gonna actually, yeah, because of the Holy Week, things are on hold because priests are very busy this time of year. But within the next week, I'm, we're going to put out a date for a lesson for the priests and then for the laity. But this is connected with, um, a corporation in Australia, and it's also connected with the MHT, but it's not the MHT. The MHT serves to promote the Divine Will, but this is separate. And, um, I, there was a letter put out about two weeks ago through the MHT email, and it's, yeah, and anyone can join this. So we'll be sending out through the MHT email this information as to when we'll meet and start doing the lesson so that people can be properly educated on how to teach the Divine Will by starting with the public revelation of Christ and the prophetic revelations of Luisa in that order. Okay. So, it's basically a formation class, not only to know our own faith, but how to understand Luisa's writings in relation to it and present it to others in that way. Thank you. Okay. And if we know a priest who is in, in the Divine Will, like he, he's studied the Divine Will, should we put him in contact? Sure. The more the merrier. Yeah. In that statement, it's very clear where, what our objective is. And we're very, we're very, we're very adamant, if you want to use that word, or, or serious about this statement, because in the church today, even in the Divine Will, you have groups that are separated from Rome. We do not want to associate with that schismatic movement. And that's the proper Catholic word. If you look at the Catholic Catechism, if you look at the Catholic Canon Law, and if you look at the Catholic Encyclopedia, they all refer to those who separated themselves from Rome as schismatic. Okay? Now, the difference between schismatic and heretic is, a heretic is denying a divine truth from God, like the resurrection, the incarnation. A schismatic is denying either a divine truth and or a church truth. For example, um, uh, teaching of the church that's not found in scripture is the Immaculate Conception, right? Um, and another church teaching is, uh, let's say, um, the office of the papacy, that he is the Pope is the bishop of all bishops. Meaning no bishop has authority when separated from the Vicar of Christ. That's a teaching of the church. If you reject that, you're a schismatic. Okay? And unfortunately, there is a group, there are several groups. They're not big, they're small, but they're all attacking the magisterium. They're attacking the papacy. No one's perfect. People can take exception to what this priest or bishop or pope may say, but it's another thing to condemn the magisterium and the Pope. And some are doing that, promoting the Divine Will. So, we make it clear in that statement that, no, this is not Luisa's attitude. She would never do this. And this is not our attitude. We want to live the life of the Divine as exemplified by Jesus, Mary, Luisa. But, yeah, the more the merrier. Thank you. Steo. Steo, go ahead. Hi. Uh, thank you. Um, there's been a lot of talk about, um, the chastisements or the coming chastisements. Uh, Fina talks about this, uh, great cross in the sky. Blessed Mother with the, uh, warnings and the children. But I was also wondering too, I read early, uh, in one of your books about the Parousia. And is that something that is to come or that has come? Or, you know, like in the Bible, the wheat grows with the chaff, is that intermingled? Or how exactly? Okay, I would recommend it has all the answers to all the questions you just asked. The Splendor of Creation publication, endorsed by two bishops, that's found on the same website, livinginthedivine.org. Um, the Splendor of Creation. The Parousia, it's a Greek word. And this is, this comes at the end of time, on the end of the world, right before the final coming, Revelation chapter 22, in particular, talks about Christ coming down, chapter 22, yeah, on a white horse. Right? That's the Parousia. The end, the final coming of Christ. That's the Parousia. So, we're far from that. There's going to be a long period of peace. Revelation chapter 20 talks about this. St. John refers to it as a thousand years of peace. Thousand years in scripture is a symbolic number, meaning a long period of time. Could be more than a thousand or somewhere around that. And, uh, St. Augustine talked about this. St. Bernard of Clairvaux talked about this. And St. Cyril of Jerusalem talked about this long period of peace. So did Jacqu Daniel the Cardinal. And before the final coming of Christ, the Parousia, there will be this long period of peace, known as the reign of the Divine Will on earth. St. Paul alludes to this in Ephesians when he says that in order for Christ to come and join the Parousia, he must first find the church in a state where it is without blemish, spot, or wrinkle, otherwise it's not worthy to espouse the bridegroom. So you have the bridegroom and the bride espousing in the, the book of Revelation, the, the nuptials of the bridegroom and the bride, meaning the church. Christ will not come unless the church is worthy to wed. What will prepare the church for its state of immaculacy to espouse the immaculate Christ? The Divine Will. It will be precipitated by fire. Fire will purge the earth of all evildoers. Then there will remain a remnant, as in the days of Noah. Jesus talks to Luisa about this. This remnant will be a royal priesthood, a holy nation. The meek will inherit the earth, where every knee will bend and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ. There will be all Christians on earth worshiping and practicing their faith. It will be the Eucharistic reign of Christ, of which Father Goyi spoke, or married to Father Goyi. It will be the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, of which Our Lady spoke at Fatima. It will be the reign of the Divine Love, which our Lord speaks to Luisa. All these will coincide. So the Parousia is far off. Okay. This cross in the sky that you mentioned of Talstina, this will come very soon. This will happen in conjunction with this chastisement of fire at Medjugorje and Garabandal. The Blessed Mother spoke of the chastisement coming and signs accompanying the chastisement. There are 10 secrets given at Medjugorje, and these will all happen very in quick succession once they start. There, just to give you an idea how close we are to this. Only one seer remains, and one secret remains. The other, how of the Medjugorje, they all have the secrets, except one. Five, five. Okay. They all have 10 secrets. So it's only, that's how close we are to all this starting to happening. So it's going to happen very soon. We shouldn't focus on the negativity because it's going to be short-lived. It's going to be very intense, but short-lived. But we should focus on things like today, receiving a total remission of all sin and punishment. If we're in that state of sinlessness, we have nothing to fear. Right? And this, this, this feast is so great. To give you just one final confirmation, at Medjugorje, Ivan, the seer who was, was receiving apparitions from Mary, um, he had an apparition. Pope John Paul II made this a universal feast in the church, today's feast of Divine Mercy. God rewarded him by allowing him to die on the feast of Divine Mercy. Yeah. He died on the Saturday vigil Mass. He had communion from Archbishop Dziwisz, who caught him when he was shot in the square of St. Peter's. He heard his confession Saturday evening. And Pope John Paul II passed away after 4 p.m. after receiving Sunday communion during the vigil Mass, which is Mercy Sunday. The next day, Ivan had an apparition of Mary. Pope John Paul II was right next to her in heaven in that apparition. Wow. Confirming that if you receive these sacraments, you go straight to heaven. Beautiful. Okay. Next. Christian. Christian, go ahead. Yes. Uh, dear Father Pro, the birthday greetings from Austria. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. And you're welcome. As a little consolation for Jesus, I thought about that, uh, in May 5th, there will be this year, the Orthodox Easter Sunday. So I could maybe just propose at Good Friday, Orthodox, May 3rd, 2024. I can start the novena as, as like I did last Good Friday. So I can go on, uh, to the Sunday in Albis, May 12th, and I can, uh, again, gain an indulgence because it's, that's my theological conclusion. It's not the teaching of the church, it's my theological conclusion. Okay. Based on. Yes. And I did my arguments for it in an article I wrote. Okay. Okay. I will do it. Thank you. Wonderful. I'll do it too, just in case, you know. Okay. Um, yeah. Because, you know, who knows what can happen from now till May. I may be Italian one day or two and act like Father Joey instead of Father Joseph, you know. So, we will, we will do it. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh, and Father, we have Chat. Chat, go ahead, Chat. Yes. Uh, of course, we're focused on Divine Mercy at present, but I'm thinking in my mind that if you are actually living in the Divine Will, is that not superfluous to try to do both? Or is there a reason for doing both? Yeah, there is. It's not so superfluous at all because one enables the other. They are like the body and blood of Christ. They're inseparable but distinct. You have the cleaning house event. That's Divine Mercy Sunday. That disposes you more than anything else to receive the gift of living in the Divine Will. Because in order for Christ to operate in us 24/7 with his one eternal act, which renders our finite human acts divine and eternal by virtue of his eternal activity and our finite operation. In order for that to be continuous, we have to be without sin. We have to cease sinning. Every time we sin, we interrupt that influx of God's one eternal act. So, Divine Mercy Sunday, what it does is it takes away the roots and the inclinations to these bad patterns of activity that trap us or make us slip and fall. Sort of like going to confession, right? When you go to confession, not only are your sins forgiven, but the roots of sins are eradicated, meaning the inclination is mitigated to fall back into that same sin. This is the positive effect of the sacrament of confession. And the Council of Trent teaches this. I'll give you a very, how do I put it? Um, beautiful teaching of the Council of Trent on confession that most Catholics are not aware of. This is how powerful the sacrament of confession is, which is part of Mercy Sunday. You cannot receive this indulgence without confession and without communion. When you go to confession, let's suppose I have seven sins, 20 sins, 50 sins. I have to confess them. All you have to confess in the confession are two things. Remember the letter N, nature and number. That's it. You have to mention every single sin. You mention the nature, mortal or venial, and the number, how many times. So I was impatient five times. I was angry once. I fibbed once. I, um, overindulged once. I, uh, broke fast once. I, uh, whatever. Okay, these are all venial sins. I suppose there was some sin. So you have to mention that the nature and the number. When you do that, after the priest gives you the penance to do, which takes away part of your time in purgatory. It's not supposed to take all of your time because only God knows what that requires. And you do your penance that he gives you. You do your act of contrition and penance, and you confess. You emerge after the sacrament with more grace than before you committed those sins. That's how powerful the sacrament of confession is. Most Catholics don't even know this. It's so powerful that even before you committed those 20, 30, 50 sins, um, you don't have enough grace as you do after you leave that confession. So not only does the confession take away your sin, it gives you multiplies the grace you had before even sinning. So that's how the Divine Mercy, the day disposes you to receive the gift of living in the Divine Will and remain in it because it removes, removes the inclinations to, eradicates the roots to that repeated behavioral, um, activity. Okay. It, it's like a big push. One enables the other. Okay. Stefan. Stefan. Good evening, Father. I, I heard that there is a 12-year-old mystic in Mexico to whom Luisa appears and asks her, for example, to pray the Hours of the Passion. But are you, do you know something about her? A 5-year-old girl? 12, 12-year-old girl, please. Mother Gabrielle. Yeah. What does the bishop say about this? No, I don't know. This is all the information. Yeah, look into that. You have to be careful here because I'll tell you two things. I'm not saying yay or nay because we have to allow the bishop's commission to look into that first before we start to invest faith in that. And I say it's being cautious is healthy. It's healthy because the majority, this is just a statistic. I'm not saying whether she's good or bad. The majority of those who claim to receive messages today are false. Or false. That's a fact. I know this because this is my field of expertise. I, I'm asked by bishops and others to investigate, and I do that. The majority are false. So that's reason to be cautious. I'm not saying all those who are false are deliberately trying to deceive. Some are, some are in it for the money and for fame, and that's a fact. But others are just genuinely deceived. They are confusing their voice with the voice of God. Okay? And this is more often the case. Now, um, there are two cases of similar things like this happening. There was a woman in Canada claiming to be be receiving the continuation of Luisa's volumes, which is false. Okay. God never lets someone continue a mission given to someone else. Never. That's not the way God works. And Jesus has even said this in approved prophetic literature. So for someone to say, "I'm continuing Luisa's works," and not only was that shot down by the church, but just the nature of that itself is already a red flag. So, we, let's wait on that before starting to, you know, let, I would say this to you. Don't, um, invest time in that just yet. That's my advice. Invest your time in Luisa. Why run after this when this is already approved and there's plenty there to keep you busy? I mean, why run after this, run after that when you have it right in front of you? You know what I mean? But thank you for sharing that. Father, that's all the questions we have today. Okay. Wonderful. All right. We have a. May I have a question? May I ask a question, Father, before you close? Yes. Um, my name is Teresa, and I, um, my question is, when Luisa got the gift of the Divine Will, she, I mean, she never committed a mortal sin, right? Correct. Jesus told her that. Okay. So why did she have to have a confessor? And good question. Did he have, did she have? Yeah, because that she had daily Mass, so all venial sins will be forgiven, right? Not, not all the time. Sometimes when she went to the country, to Desperata, there was no sacrament, no priest, and she would, it would, it would really hurt her because she wanted to receive the, it was from the age of 12, she was in love with the Eucharist. She would spend two to three hours after communion just praying on her knees. But then when her parents went to the country, there was no availability for some time. But, um, why did she have to go to confession if she never committed a mortal sin? Well, number one, Pope John Paul II put out a work on penance, the sacrament of penance. And he said that we should, it's a good practice. It's not obligatory or compulsory, but it's recommended that we confess our venial sins, too. Not just mortal sins. So, confession is not just for mortal sins. It's for venial sins, too. As I mentioned earlier, it eradicates the roots. And Pope John Paul II says that too. And this is not his teaching, the teaching of the early church fathers and doctors. Confessing venial sin is a pious practice. So she would do that. She never committed a mortal sin, but you will, Luisa is a unique case here. Jesus combined, which something he doesn't do for the average person, both confessor and spiritual director in one. Most priests don't have that. So her spiritual director was her confessor. You can have the spiritual director and then confess to any priest you respond to. Most of us do that. She would go to the saint all the time. And that's because she had a special mission. And this confessor was her spiritual director, and he had to know her very intimately. And she initially resisted, and unfortunately, it caused her problems, in part her own fault. Remember, she's young now. She's around 16 when the Lord asks her to submit her will, her intellect, her memory, her soul completely, in an open fashion, like an open book, to a confessor whom she barely knows. She wouldn't do it. And the Lord got angry with her. I don't mean upset, angry. Wow. He had stopped appearing to her, stopped talking to her. And she felt so mortified that she said, "Okay, Lord. Okay, whatever you want." Because she said the hardest thing for her in volume one, the hardest thing for her to endure was the absence of our Lord. She said she would endure anything, even the fires of hell, but not the absence of our Lord. So he literally said, "If you keep this up, Luisa, I'm never going to come to you again." Imagine that. Imagine Luisa being on the point where he's going to stop the revelations altogether. He was at that point with her in volume. And she was resisting confessing to the priest everything and opening up her soul to him. Thank you, Father. You're welcome. Okay. Last five minutes. Um, I'll share with you a passage from volume one now that we're on that subject. In fact, I'll share this exact passage with you that I just referred to. Um, it begins as follows. One morning after communion, when the time came for the confessor to depart for the countryside, the Lord informed me that the state of immobility was suddenly going to seize me. Thus inviting me to keep him company by sharing in his pains. When I immediately said to him, Lord, how am I to endure this? For the confessor is not here. Now, you have to understand, Luisa, within a few weeks earlier, just discovered that only the priest can bring her soul back to her body. Her soul would bilocate. It would be in her body, but her body would be impervious to external stimuli. It would be heavy like a ton. Nobody could move her while her soul was with our Lord. But her vital signs would be retained in her body. She would still breathe. She'd still have her heartbeat, but she would not respond to any external stimuli. She'd be in like a state of coma, and only the priest's blessing would call her soul back to her body. So when the Lord says that this state of immobility is going to seize her, she's perplexed. The confessor is not here. Who's going to bring me back? So Jesus said to her, "Your trust must be only in me. Be resigned, for resignation renders the soul radiant and it keeps all the other passions in check. Whilst I, attracted by the rays of light from this radiance, will enter within the soul and transform it completely within me, making it live by my own life." And Luisa, I resigned myself to His Holy Will, offered a communion as if it were the last one of my life. She doesn't know if she's ever going to come back now that the confessor's gone. And offered Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament my last goodbye. And although I was resigned, my nature was so affected by this that for the whole day, I did nothing but cry and implore the Lord to grant me strength. Truthfully, the situation turned out to be quite embittered, and to my unawareness and knowledge, I suddenly found myself under the weight of such a new and heavy cross of suffering that I believe it was the heaviest one I'd experienced in my life. While I was in the state of suffering, all I could think of was dying to myself and doing the will of God. As for my family, who also suffered in seeing me in this state, they tried to send for some priests to come, but for one reason or another, they did not wish to come. After 10 days, she was in this state for 10 days. There arrived the confessor who had heard my confessions when I was little, and it so happened that he too was able to make me regain consciousness and free me from this rigid state. It was then that I realized the quandary in which the Lord had placed me. Henceforth, a great dispute arose among the priests. Some said that my condition was inauthentic, while others that I deserved a good spanking, some that I wished to come across as a saint, and yet others that I was possessed. And there were so many other things said that if I were able to tell them all, it would take too long to recount. So when my sufferings would occur, and my family would call on someone, they with these ideas in their minds would strangely make such a scene that my poor family suffered very much. I'm going to get to the part where she starts to resist our Lord. Um, all right. He said, "Okay, I prayed, shedding the most bitter tears so that Jesus might release me." And oh, how so many times I willingly resisted the Lord when he wanted me to offer up myself as a victim and accept such pains, thus leading me to say, "Lord, promise me that you yourself will release me from the state of immobility, and then I will accept everything, otherwise no, I do not want to accept this." So here Luisa is refusing to, uh, welcome the priest to free her. She doesn't want that. She wants just Jesus to free her. And Jesus is saying, "Nope." Now, there's a reason for this later on that Jesus reveals to her, not yet. And he tells her, he will give her light to understand this later, but trust him now. But she wouldn't trust him. So she says, "No, I will not accept this." And I would resist the first day, for the second day, the third day. But who can resist God? He would reveal to me so many things that in the end, I was compelled to submit myself to. At other times, I would say to him from the heart and with confidence, "Lord, how is it that you have done this? How, between you and me, you now wish to introduce a third person? For as this third person does not want to make himself available. You see, we could have been so happy just the two of us. When you wanted me to submit myself to suffering, I immediately accepted it because I knew that you yourself would free me from the state. Now, no, there is no need for another hand to free me. I beseech you, you free me, and then the both of us will be happier." Sometimes he pretended not to hear me and would remain silent. At other times, he would say, "Do not fear. I am the one who brings forth darkness and light. The time of light will come." See, he tells her, "You will understand later. The time of light," meaning the light of knowledge, will come. "It is my usual way to carry out my works through the priests." Thus, I spent the next three or four years experiencing the aforementioned contradictions on the part of some priests. Many times they would subject me to very hard trials, even to the point of them telling me to remain, oh, to the point of them letting me remain in the state of suffering, that is petrified and incapable of making making the slightest motion, not even taking a drop of water, until they were pleased to deliver me therefrom, which could take as long as 18 days or more or less. The Lord alone knows what I went through in the state. After that, after they came, I didn't even have the pleasure of them at least saying to me, "Have patience and try to fulfill the will of God." But rather, I was admonished for being fussy and disobedient. And then she goes on to say that she was at times disobedient. She admits it to the Lord and to some of the priests. But this was while she was going through this learning process until finally the Lord, through enough admonishments, let her know that she shouldn't resist His desire for her to submit herself to the priests. All right. So that's the end of the time we have. All right. Okay. So I'll ask you, I'll ask you all to hold it for next week. I'll ask you to unmute. All right. And just say hello. Goodbye. Hello. Goodbye. Hello. Goodbye. Thank you. And I'll give you. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Final blessing. May God bless you and keep you on the feast of Divine Mercy, always united with God's Holy Will. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. [Music] Thank you, Father. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]