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We begin this morning, this beautiful day of the Annunciation, the feast with our prayer of the Divine Will. Most Holy Trinity, recognizing our nothingness, we want to offer you our whole life, our worries and sufferings, our entire being, body and soul, mind, and especially our will to unite ourselves to Your eternal and Divine Will, the source of all good, and to give You the glory and joy of fulfilling the purpose of our life, to carry out all our actions in Your Divine Will and thus live in it. Come, Divine Will, with all the angels and saints, especially with our sweet Mother and with Luisa, to touch our forehead and imprint upon it the Holy Spirit.
Well, we can continue a little further by moving on to the act of the Incarnation of Jesus, to the Fiat of the Blessed Virgin, and the Incarnation of our Lord. We come before Him to offer our deepest gratitude in the Divine Will and on behalf of every single soul throughout all of history for that marvelous, so divine act of coming to be incarnated, to take on our human flesh, and to humbly descend to become small without ever ceasing to be God. Thank You, Jesus, on behalf of all humanity. We want to give You the full and heartfelt response of infinite love and of profound adoration on behalf of everyone, so that You are not alone in that moment, but rather to bring all of humanity from us to You, so that they may respond to You, that they may marvel at this excessive love of Yours for us. And to You, Most Holy and Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother, we thank You for Your Fiat at this moment and Your constant and ongoing Fiat, because thanks to it, You brought forth for all of us the Redeemer and the possibility to live eternally within the Divine Will.
Well, let's take a moment to review, to remember where we left off. We saw the stage in Luisa's life of struggling against the demon. Well, the demons, because Jesus allowed them to be a multitude, right? All kinds of temptations, especially spiritual ones as well. And how she overcame them. The last phrase is this, uh, well, Jesus, all the teachings He gave her regarding all of this, right? How to overcome the demon, to overcome temptations, to make use of them, to love God, to repair all of this, right? How He gave her so much value, so much strength, that the demons began to move away from her. So, she says, "Although the demons didn't stop bothering me from time to time, it wasn't as often. Also, the battle was no longer so fierce, and I got used to ignoring them." And that's where it began. A whole new life for Luisa.
The whole new life that began was in the country house called to Desperata. There, one day, on a day when more than ever I was tormented by the demon, I felt myself losing strength and fainting. And in the afternoon, while I was like that, I felt something deadly come over me. That is, like a sensation of death, something deadly. She says, "I lost consciousness." And in that state, I saw Jesus Christ surrounded by many enemies. She describes it like this: It's as if it were an ecstasy that came over her, meaning she was no longer using her senses, but rather as if she were outside herself. With her soul, she saw Jesus. A group of cruel enemies struck Him repeatedly, while others slapped Him across the face, and still others pressed the sharp thorns deep into His head, while others violently tore apart His legs and His arms. After they had completely torn Him apart in this way, they finally placed Him into the sorrowful arms of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This was happening a little ways away from me. After the Blessed Virgin took Him in her arms, she came over to me and, crying, she said to me, "She together with Jesus, daughter, look at how my Son is treated by men."
So here we already see the intervention of the Blessed Virgin, how she is present there as the Mother of Jesus, and we will see that obviously she is also the Mother of Luisa. Let us remember that Luisa had already had at least one other vision, or several more visions of Jesus. But she recounted that vision in which He looked out from her balcony, right? And that time it was Jesus who invited her to meditate more deeply on His Passion. Here it will be another invitation. Each manifestation of God to her is a step forward, a further communication, a new light, and a progression in her spiritual life of union with God, each time deeper. And so she spoke softly to her daughter, "Take a moment to see how my Son is treated so poorly by all of these men. The horrible offenses they commit give Him no respite. Look at how He suffers." So there, in this specific way, through a profound spiritual vision, she is helping her to fully understand this divine mystery that our Lord's holy sufferings are always occurring in one continuous act. They happen as a vivid and ever-present act. And she shows how various offenses and sins are being committed against Him continuously throughout time.
"I tried to look at Him," says Luisa, "and I saw Him all covered in blood, all bleeding, full of wounds, torn apart, reduced to a mortal state. He suffered such pains that I would have, beloved, I would rather die a thousand times than see my Lord suffer so much. And I was ashamed of my small sufferings." The Blessed Virgin always added, weeping, "Come closer to kiss the wounds of my Son." So remember that each idea is a teaching. So here she is inviting her to kiss the wounds of Jesus. That is to show Him her love in each of His sufferings. This is only possible because He has specifically and intentionally chosen you to be His next victim. Here it is already an invitation. He chooses you as a victim. And if many offend Him, you, by offering yourself to suffer what He suffers, will give Him relief in so much suffering. You, by offering yourself to suffer what He suffers. So here she is explaining what the state of victimhood consists of: to offer yourself not only to suffer and to accept the sufferings that God wants for her in her life, but to suffer what Jesus suffers, to participate in the sufferings of Jesus, and that will give Him relief in so much suffering.
"Do you accept?" I felt very annihilated. I mean, when she says annihilated, that's how it is, like wiped out, you know. She felt annihilated. She says overwhelmed; they are synonyms to describe that state, that is to express how she felt like nothing before God. "I saw myself as so bad and unworthy, as I still am, that I didn't dare to say yes." See, she never goes around thinking she's a saint, and she doesn't say it as a pose. She says it from the heart. That is because before Him, she truly saw the immense difference between being a creature and being God, right? God. And even the tiniest defects, before Him who is most perfect, she saw them as such. We've mentioned this before, haven't we? But just so we understand, because it might seem like a pose, and sometimes we really need to reflect more on this and be very clear about it. So, "I felt very annihilated. I saw myself as bad and unworthy, as I still am, and I didn't dare to say yes. My nature trembled."
Luisa felt that too. "I felt so weak from the sufferings I had endured that I barely had a thread of life left. Furthermore, I don't know how, but from afar, I could see the demons making a lot of noise. And I saw that everything I had seen them do to the Lord, they would do to me if I accepted. And within myself, I felt such sorrows, pains, and wounds that I thought I would lose my life. At last, I approached and kissed His wounds. It seemed that as I kissed them, those severely wounded limbs were healed." Obviously, she did it with all the love, respect, veneration, adoration, and gratitude. It only says that she approached to kiss, but in what attitude, right? "It seemed to me that as I kissed them, those severely wounded limbs were healed. And the Lord, who before seemed almost dead, began to revive to new life." So in this way, He makes her realize that those adorations, those kisses to the wounds of Jesus, with all this attitude, truly do console Jesus.
Internally, she received great insights about the offenses that are committed and a strong attraction to accept being a victim, even if she had to suffer a thousand deaths. In other words, when God invites someone to something, calls someone to something, even if it is difficult, God also places those attractions, those draws that the soul feels. This happens in everything. For example, those who feel, let's say, an attraction toward a profession. So, it is said that they are discovering their professional vocation, right? And so they feel more attracted to one career, to one type of service, than to another kind of service of giving to others, right? So that attraction is something that helps us to also discover the path God wants us to take. It's the same with vocations: vocations, whether priestly for men, religious, consecrated life, marriage, and even for those who consecrate themselves in the world or remain single by their own choice. It can be this way. That is, if we analyze that what is sometimes called a vocation is an attraction or includes an inner attraction to that. Well, sometimes it's not considered a vocation. For example, marriage is not seen as a vocation, and people only focus on what I want, my plans, or worse, my passions. Well, no. But when it is taken as a vocation, God also places, that is, while the soul is searching, "What is Your will, my God? Where do You want me?" Well, also one should analyze where they feel that inner attraction, because God is calling them to something. He's not going to call you, as we said on another occasion, with apparitions, with extraordinary voices, or at least that's not the norm. There may be some exceptions, but normally, ordinarily, He makes you feel that attraction towards something. So here, in the invitation to Luisa to be a victim soul, He also placed that in her. Not that she liked it 100%, because she says her nature also trembled her, well, her human nature, since it's not as if we like suffering, right? But inwardly, deep within her very soul, she truly did feel this a powerful and strong attraction to accept being a victim for Him, even if she had to suffer a thousand painful deaths, simply because the Lord deserved everything she had to give.
"And I knew that I could not oppose what He wanted." And all of this, I mean, all this inner work, like a light within her, is something we also need to learn to see in ourselves because sometimes we lack that spiritual sensitivity to notice it. But look, for her, being outside of her senses, it was easier to perceive this work of God in her soul. She says, "All this happened while we were in silence. Jesus did not always speak to her. Those glances we exchanged were so many invitations, so many burning arrows that pierced my heart." In other words, just the gaze of Jesus was enough, as it already told her so many things and worked within her soul. "The Blessed Virgin especially encouraged me to accept." There it is. The Blessed Virgin always collaborating so that the soul accepts the will of God. She is there helping as a mother. "She encouraged me to accept." But who can say everything that happened? Well, no, she doesn't say everything because many things are spiritual.
"Finally, the Lord looking at me kindly said to me, 'Hear now comes the word of God. Have you seen how much they offend me and how many walk the paths of iniquity and without realizing it plunge into the abyss?'" So first, notice what we have mentioned on some occasions. First, to Jesus, the gates of Jesus. "Have you seen how much you offend me?" In other words, the sufferings of Jesus, how much He is offended. Next point: "And have you seen how many walk the path of iniquity?" That is our neighbor. "How many go down the path of iniquity and without realizing it, they plunge into the abyss? Come now and humbly offer yourself before the throne of Divine Justice as a holy victim of reparation for the many offenses that are being committed against Him." So here, "come to offer yourself before Divine Justice." Justice. Well, here it says Divine Justice. But in the end, we already know who moves Divine Justice: it's the will of God. Just like with all His attributes, who moves mercy, who moves love, who moves beauty, the power of God, it's His will. So in the end, what is being surrendered here is the Divine Will at this point about offering oneself as a victim to suffer the sufferings of Jesus. And notice how more is being added, as if really painting the state of being a victim. It's not just one aspect; there are several. As a victim of reparation for the offenses that are committed. So it's not just about suffering the sufferings of Jesus, but also with what intention. Here it is for reparation for the offenses that are committed in general. Another point: "for the conversion of sinners who blindly drink from the poisoned fountain of sin." See, maybe we see this as something very general, but let's also look at it more closely, including ourselves. That close to us, even in our own family, there are people like this, as it says here, who go down the path of sin and without knowing it, without realizing it, fall into the abyss. And they can fall into the eternal abyss. So, it's not just something for the world in general. It's even for our own loved ones. But well, here we are first analyzing Luisa's case.
"A vast and overwhelming landscape of suffering unfolds itself before you. It is truly undeniable, but also of graces. If we realize it, we can say that the equation goes together. More sufferings with these intentions of receiving them from Jesus, of living them as Jesus did, with the intentions of Jesus, that is, in His Will, the more graces are received, the more love is also received from God. In other words, it all progresses together, right? So here He always connects it to the graces because we tend to only see the sufferings. Then we don't pay attention to the graces that God gives. So we have to put them together, just as it is done here. What beautiful words. Well, I love this language. Look, an immense field of suffering opens up before you. Yes, but also of graces. In other words, but also an immense field of graces. I will no longer leave you. I will come into you to suffer everything that men do to me." So here it is already the life of Jesus in Luisa. "I will come into you to suffer everything that men do to me, making you share in my sorrows. And as help and consolation, I give you my Mother." So here it is already the life of Jesus. Yes. And also, "My Mother is yours." But not only as the general Mother of all the baptized, of all the faithful Catholics, or of all humanity, but now as the Mother of a victim, as a Mother, just as she was the Mother of Jesus the Redeemer. Now it is yet another level in the way of relating to the Blessed Virgin and the Virgin to her. And it truly seemed that He completely entrusted me to her care, and she graciously accepted me into her life.
So from here on, we see, well, we have always seen that the Blessed Virgin has been present in Luisa's life since she was very little, when she had those bad dreams. She says that she prayed to Jesus, Our Fathers, and Hail Marys to the Virgin. In other words, always remember the first lessons of living in the little house of Nazareth with Jesus, with Mary, and with Joseph. So the Blessed Virgin was always present, but her relationship with her also keeps growing. Even though she is always her daughter, that relationship grows ever more intimate, and she receives more and more of her maternal assistance, her maternal activity, her motherly love, and all the maternal inheritance that she wants to give her. So this is also how it happens with souls. So let us not settle for just saying, "I already have a very intimate relationship with the Blessed Virgin since I converted," or even before, "since I was a child," or whenever it was. We can always continue to grow in that relationship with our Blessed Mother, and she can always help us more and more in our spiritual life, especially in living in the Divine Will. So that bond, that relationship with her keeps growing, and we receive more from her, and we also love her more and correspond to her more as well.
In short, little by little, we will also see this beautiful aspect in Luisa, the aspect of relationship because notice that I know, I believe that all of you, not just some, but all, I imagine, are very devoted to Mary and love our Mother very much. And sometimes we have been deeply preoccupied with certain messages, apparitions, and various other phenomena. But we truly need to transcend those initial experiences, not just remain at a superficial level, but go much deeper into our personal relationship with her, to get to know her much more. Not just a few little things she says on the outside, but what she did. Well, it is in the Divine Will where we come to know what she did in the Divine Will, what more she can give us, what she wants, what additional help she offers us. So the profound relationship with her that we can discover throughout all of Luisa's writings is actually significantly more profound. Someday we'll talk about the Book of the Virgin, right? It's beautiful. But well, it's going to be May soon, in just a few, in about a month, a month and a bit, and well, it's going to be beautiful. But let's truly value everything we learn here about the Blessed Virgin because it will help us so much, okay? Well, so here we already have the maternal figure in which Luisa gives herself to her, and she to Luisa. At this point, also as a victim. I'll repeat that last part: "I also offered myself completely to Him and to the Virgin, ready to do whatever He wanted." And that's how the first time ended.
Well, so here comes Luisa's acceptance. "I offered myself completely to Him," that is, accepting His invitation to become a victim, "and also to the Blessed Virgin, ready to do whatever He wanted." So we can reflect a little more on what the state of being a victim means, so that we can better understand Luisa and also better understand what God is asking of us as well. So, as we've already seen, the state of being a victim means opening yourself not only to suffer what God has planned for your life but also to the sufferings of Jesus, to participate in Jesus' very own sufferings. With what intention? Well, with the same intentions as Jesus; it can't be that you have other intentions. He is inviting you to associate yourself with His sufferings, or rather, to live His sufferings within you. So that for you, they count as if they were the very sufferings of Jesus Himself in you. Then they will no longer be just your sufferings, but the sufferings of Jesus in you, lived with His intentions. How did He live them? Of course, it was always just a small participation. As Luisa says, "I saw that my sufferings were always small compared to those of Jesus." And therefore, lived with His very same intentions, that is, with His very own Will. And so, in this very way, one takes part in that great work of spiritual reparation which He has already come here specifically to do for all of the sins of humanity, in order to give full satisfaction for them all. All those who do not give Him satisfaction, that is, who use that act to commit a sin, it is necessary to make up for it and give to God through those sufferings what others did not give Him in love, in gratitude. What other aspect is there? I am going to rely on a later chapter where Jesus speaks to her more so that we can understand a little more. In other words, this must obviously be lived in union with the Will of God. That is because He wants this, and you want it too. So there, when Luisa accepts, she is uniting her Will to His at that point. And that is very important for it to truly be the state of victim because there are many sufferings in the world, and not everyone is a victim, nor do all sufferings count as being a victim. Why? Because they do not have this inner attitude of saying, "I accept it as coming from God. He wants it, and I want it too, to participate in the sufferings of Jesus." In other words, they don't have all of this. So yes, they suffer, but they are merely human sufferings. If they offer them to God, well, so many don't even offer them to God. So consider that as well, to take on the sufferings of everyone and to remake them as one in the Divine Will because, well, out of ignorance, out of lack of knowledge, people don't do it in general. It's not out of malice, right? There may be some who do it out of malice, but generally, it's out of ignorance. So other sufferings, well, they offer them to God, but we know, in human will, not with a very intimate union with Jesus. Others, well, there are different degrees, right? But well, the sufferings of victimhood, here He is already telling at least Luisa that she has to do them in union with Him, with His Will, with His intentions.
Second, if we pay attention, it is out of love. Even though it says before Divine Justice, but He also first showed her how Jesus suffered, and she offers herself out of love for Jesus. And He also showed her the state of human beings, of sin, and that they go to hell, and she also does it out of love for her neighbor. So that's another point. Always act and offer everything out of love, out of charity, out of love, out of the very love of God, out of the love with which He also did it. He did it that way. We already mentioned the attitude of sacrificing oneself in everything and the intention of reparation. Well, more or less. So here it is already a participation, as I said, in the life of Jesus, in the sufferings of Jesus, directly.
Is this only for Luisa? This is a question that many people ask. Well, if we think about it, it's actually a step toward living in the Divine Will. We can't say, "Jesus, I want to live in Your Will, but I don't want to accept suffering." So, there's a part of Your Will that you're not surrendering. You can't do that. Surrender happens, but here it goes point by point. That's why it's important to look at it step by step. Later on, people say, "Jesus, I give You my Will." But they don't really know what that includes because maybe they haven't really read these first volumes carefully. Here it tells us point by point, and when you finally say, "I give You my Will," you understand everything it means, including the part about suffering completely, whatever You want to do, whatever You want me to participate in. Now, I repeat, it really is necessary for us to make this offering to God because it is the offering of our entire Will. It is complete abandonment to the Will of God. "Whatever You want, I am willing." I will not set any limits because if I set limits, it's my Will that won't let You fully develop Your life in me. And we must be open like the Fiat of the Blessed Virgin. She said, "No limits." Yes, I want to be Your Mother, but not the part about suffering. No, obviously she didn't say that. Yes, whatever You want, however You want, to give all the thanks I would need and even more, all the love. And so, with that, one fully trusts in the loving arms of God and in His Will. So we have to learn this. You see, even if, like Luisa, our nature finds it difficult, if it makes us a little afraid, if we tremble, it doesn't matter. We have to meditate on it more with the soul, more than with what we feel in our nature, with the soul. And it is in meditation where we will feel that light, that attraction to say, "Yes, that's right. To live in divinity, I have to surrender myself completely and accept whatever He wants." That at some point, I've already said this, does not mean that we will all end up bedridden like Luisa. Like Luisa did, no. God will have something different for each one of us, a different way to participate in His sufferings. And normally, already living in the Divine Will, it happens through ordinary means, not extraordinary ones. That is, an illness, difficulties at work, poverty, being abandoned by your loved ones, misunderstandings, states of loneliness, and so on, right? Some slander, betrayals, in other words, those kinds of things from ordinary life, but which we must already have this attitude that you have already offered yourself as a victim. Let's say all of this aspect. So you will live everything this way, as something given by God, as a participation in the sufferings of Jesus, with all these intentions. That is what it means to live in the Divine Will. If you notice, this is already a beginning of living in the Divine Will.
Well, then may God help us to understand this and to do it. And He remembers, if He asks us to bear a serious illness at any given moment, He will also give us all the graces we need. And it means that it is necessary for us to participate in this way in His Passion and all His sufferings, and therefore in all His merits and all the graces contained in those sufferings. You see, otherwise, how would we participate in the Passion of Jesus? Just with pure imagination? It would remain just in the imagination. You see, it's like, how do you participate in the life of Jesus? Well, you have to go to Communion, indeed. Not just through pure imagination, which sometimes isn't possible for one reason or another. And that's fine sometimes, but ordinarily, you should go to Communion. How are you going to participate in the hidden life of Jesus? Well, by living your daily life, working, eating, sleeping, and so on, doing chores with your family, etc., right? Otherwise, it would just be imagination. If I say, "Jesus, I unite myself to Your hidden life. Come, work. Come, be in me," but I don't do anything, then you're not actually developing the life of Jesus. You see, that's why every act in our lives is so important. God arranges them so that the life of the Divine Will in Jesus can be made complete. In other words, the life, the divine life within us, just as it was in Jesus. So in this way, it becomes much clearer. Look, it is Jesus who wants to develop His life within us. And therefore, our circumstances will resemble those of Jesus in terms of ordinary life. Sometimes there will be suffering, and for some, there will also be a bit of public life, but just a little. In other words, for Jesus, ordinary life lasted 30 years. His life, public life, was 3 years. So let's say, so we understand, our ordinary life is much more important than preaching, than sharing, than speaking to others. So don't just focus on that because sometimes I know you get filled with divine joy, and it seems so wonderful that everyone wants to share it, right? But we shouldn't neglect our ordinary life, which is where we receive that life from Jesus, unite ourselves to that life of Jesus, and develop it. And the life of, let's say, suffering, because in Jesus too, look, let's analyze a little more as well, how it was in Jesus, because the first victim, obviously, is Jesus. Jesus was only a victim during the 24 hours of His Passion, and that's when He offered Himself to the Father for us. And the rest of His life, you know, well, know, Jesus was a victim from the moment of His Incarnation. He already says here, "O Father, I come to do Your Will," and from that moment, we already know that He comes and suffers for us from that very first instant of His Incarnation. We already meditated on this during the Christmas Novena. So from that moment on, Jesus is already a victim. That is to say, He encompasses everyone. He begins to give reparation for all, satisfaction to the Father for everyone, giving the Father what others do not give Him in all His actions. And suffering always goes along with it. It's not that Jesus only suffered on the last day of His life. I mean, physical suffering, being struck, yes, bleeding, bloody, cruel suffering. Well, there was also the circumcision, right? But in general, what was Jesus suffering? There were many others, but they were mostly interior, a lot, and also persecutions. Well, Herod wanted to kill Him. He endured extreme poverty and the bitter cold at the time of His birth, hiding away for so many long years. Consequently, He was never exempt from the heavy burden of suffering for us. In other words, as a victim, pain was always with Jesus. And in all, in practically all His actions, He suffered because in all His actions, He saw the sins of everyone, and that caused Him incredible suffering. As Luisa says, well, He tells Luisa, "A death for every sin and interior death." So His Passion was conceived with Him, and throughout His life, He suffered His interior Passion. I think that's about it. We already shared in the forum group something about the three passions, a talk, a reflection that my dad gave. It's interesting for you to listen to it so that we can understand what the passions of Jesus consist of: the external one from the Jews, the interior one, and the one from the Divinity. Because in this way, we better understand how He was a victim, let's say, before the Divinity. And just as the soul in the Divine Will is called to be that victim, which doesn't consist only of sufferings, but in all our acts, to live them in this way with the intention of uniting them to Jesus and offering them for these intentions we've already mentioned, right? For reparation, for satisfaction, for charity, for love, etc. In other words, that activity in the Divine Will. Exactly. And to be attentive then to all this interior activity, right?
So Jesus, the victim, was a victim his entire life. For us, when we offer ourselves as victims, we are already victims from that moment on. That is, you don't have to wait to see when God will send you a great suffering. No, from now on, have that interior attitude of Jesus and take everything we see in that way, everything we go through, everything we suffer, even if they are the smallest things, with this attitude. And that is what it means to be a victim. And as I said, let's not expect extraordinary things or that God will grant us visible stigmata. No, on the Divine Mountain, outward signs are not needed at all. So rather than waiting for that or thinking that will happen to us, we need to keep our eyes open to live everything with that attitude.
Well, let's continue a little bit. So I think it's clearer now, isn't it? And maybe it takes away a little of your fear, or maybe not. So Luisa says, "That's how the first time ended. Once I had finally regained my senses and fully recovered from that overwhelming state of mind, I was overcome by a profound sense of deep sorrow. I also felt annihilated within myself. So much so that I saw myself as a miserable worm that knows nothing but how to crawl on the earth. And I said to the Lord, 'Help me. Your omnipotence terrifies me.'" In other words, she really did see that comparison. "I see that if You do not help me, my nothingness falls apart. Give me suffering, but I beg You to also give me strength, for I feel like I am dying." And so began an alternation of visits from our Lord and torments from the demons. "The more I resigned myself, the more their rage increased."
So let's ask ourselves here: And how is it possible that a new life began for Luisa? Then it says that the attacks from the demons continued. But she felt it was a new life because then she no longer suffered in the same way as before this offering as a victim. You see, she felt that it was Jesus Himself suffering in her, and it was part of what they did to Jesus. And she was already fully identified with Him. So what a wonder! All those sufferings caused by the demons helped her to identify more with Jesus and to live His life, to be transformed. Remember that from the beginning Jesus told her this: "Remember what I want is the imitation of My life." For whoever is truly like Me, there is this entire profound part of identification with Jesus Christ. And so we see that the demons were actually being used as instruments in God's own hands to carry out His Divine Work within Luisa. So right here is yet another significant level of not having any fear of the demons. That is, even in the case that whether directly, which is rare, but well, sometimes it does happen spiritually speaking, yes, but also through other people who can bother us or send us some kind of suffering. Let's not say today it's the devil's doing. No, let's say deep down it's God's Will, and He is allowing me to share in some of Jesus' sufferings. Sufferings that, as Luisa saw, Jesus endured at the hands of that demon-possessed mob, those people who seem possessed to make Jesus suffer like that during His Passion. And He was neither afraid nor anything like that, and He used all those sufferings, we already know how and how He lived through them, and thus accomplished the work of redemption. So God even makes use of the demons to carry out His work. That is the life of the Divine Will within us. And we should not be afraid. We should use everything, absolutely everything, as coming from God, as God's Will, and live it in the Divine Will. And that will be the defeat of the devil on our part. In other words, the greatest defeat is when you use what the devil gives you to live it in the Divine Will. Man, just imagine the anger and hatred they are left with because it turned out to be exactly the opposite of what they intended, that is, God's triumph. That is why Jesus triumphed in His sufferings, in His Passion. That is where He proclaimed, "Yes, I am King." He didn't proclaim it there on the Mount of Beatitudes when He performed those immense miracles of multiplying the bread in that way. He didn't proclaim it then, but right before Pilate, when He was suffering everything from all of them. And that's where He solemnly proclaims Himself the supreme King over all of creation, above the demons and every dark power, above that is conquering all disordered passions, repairing all sins, and using all of that to bring about redemption, to love us all even more. That's where you can see that He was God because not just anyone would do it. In fact, no one else was capable of suffering the way Jesus suffered. And that's why at that moment, some who weren't so hardened or weren't precisely under the power of the devil truly converted. "This is the Son of God." No one has suffered like Him, with such peace, with such love, with such forgiveness, with such dignity, with such mastery over suffering. In short, you see, that's where you see the ultimate proof that Jesus is King.
In short, well, I think we'll stop here because from this point, it starts to go a little into another topic, even though it's still related to the same subject, and it's already been three-quarters of an hour. So, we can say our final prayer and leave a little time for comments and questions because I know this is a topic that's a bit difficult to understand.
All right. Our most beloved and precious Lord Jesus Christ, we come before You today to offer our deepest thanks for all of the divine and holy teachings that lead and guide us along the narrow path of complete and total surrender to Your most holy and perfect Will. We understand and trust that every single thing that You ask of us in our lives is ultimately intended for our own spiritual good, born out of Your infinite and everlasting love for us. We seek to fully realize and experience Your Divine Life within our hearts, and we receive this gift with all of Your boundless love. Therefore, we place our absolute trust in You completely and without reservation. We surrender our entire selves totally and unconditionally to You. And we do so with the fullest confidence that You will also graciously provide us with all the many graces we truly need, the inner strength, and everything else required, not only to endure or sustain ourselves through these trials, but to live it out exactly as You lived it within Your own Divine Will for Your most perfect glory and for the ultimate good of all humanity throughout the world. Thank You for uniting us to You in Your life, for uniting us to Your Divine Will. Most Holy Virgin Mother of Jesus and our Mother, we also surrender ourselves to You, and we accept You as our Mother in the Divine Will. We want to deepen and strengthen our relationship with You more and more each day. We also trust in You completely and surrender ourselves to You, knowing that You will help us in everything, enlighten us as well, and help us to fulfill God's Will in us in every way. So be it. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Thank you, Alejandra. We have some really good questions in the chat if you'd like to take a look. So, do we associate ourselves with Jesus from the Incarnation? For example, in my case, my earthly mother tried to abort me a few times. Does this connect Jesus with our life story and vice versa?
Of course. That is why Jesus wanted to become incarnate and from the very first act to make Himself like us and to give us that first act as well. Everything He did is to give it to us so that we may find in Him all that love for us, all the graces we need, all those things that, well, in one way or another, because of original sin alone, we all lack, right? Now, in this case, it's the same. I mean, what a wonder, right? To unite your conception to the conception and Incarnation of Jesus, of course. And from that moment on, your whole life is already united to His. So it's wonderful. And that in every act, you receive the whole life of Jesus with all that infinite richness of graces and love that He contains, you see. And to unite yourself to His sufferings, you could say that from that moment on, in a certain certain way, you are suffering together with Jesus. So to unite to those sufferings that Jesus already experienced from the womb, not because in His case the Blessed Virgin did anything so horrible, but rather He saw precisely everything that was going to happen and He took it upon Himself and felt it as His own. In other words, when a mother, for whatever reason, wants to do that, tries to do that, deep down it's not just against the child. Deep down, it's also against Jesus. Every offense goes directly against Jesus, against love, right? So we also unite ourselves to that suffering that Jesus truly endured. He stands on the side of the victims, precisely. He is also on the side of sinners, the poor, the ignorant who are driven to do these kinds of things, perhaps poorly advised, and so on. So also to suffer for the, to obtain the repentance of those people, their true conversion, and so that they may truly return to union with God, right? So yes, of course. And this is not only in this particularly dramatic case, let's say, but in all cases, as I said, we all come from original sin. So we must unite ourselves from our conception to that of Jesus. The life of Jesus is a complete gift, a grace that He gives us. So we can take all the acts of Jesus. In fact, in the Divine Will, all the acts of Jesus are taken. You see how wonderful. But anyway, he says, "Is it already answered?" Yes. But also, well, it's good that we go a little deeper, right? Let's see further down. I mean, to have someone say a thousand Hail Marys, Jerichos, and so on, would be to leave it in the past and accept everything, which has much greater value. That is what it means to live in the Divine Will. No longer acting in a human way, wanting to rid ourselves of suffering. Thank you. Of course.
So let's see, within what God asks of us, that is, our surrender, our will to God. It's that you no longer want, meaning you no longer want, "I want my health," or "I want my illness." No, surrender your will to God, and whatever He wants. If He gives you health, use it in the Divine Will to live your daily actions in the Divine Will. If He gives you illness, use it in the Divine Will. So, we abandon ourselves to whatever God has for us and use everything to live in the Divine Will because the director of our souls comes right here. The director is Jesus, and He will give us what we need to live it in His Will, to grow in that life of the Divine Will. So, let us trust in Him. But why are we imposing our own will? "I want health now. I want illness now." No, that's your own desire, your own will. Instead, we should only use our will for one thing: to want what God wants and to live it in the Divine Will, right? "Whatever You want." And in the Divine Will, there is my desire. That is to say, I want to unite my Will to Yours. And in what You are giving me, to live it in the Divine Will. That is what our Will is for now, which is for the greatest thing. Exactly. To give the greatest value to all our acts by living them in the Divine Will. So see how we have to start ordering our thoughts, our desires. Everything needs to be put in order. Today we looked more at the aspect of suffering, which is harder for us. So let's take this opportunity to start putting ourselves in order. I can well, let's finish the questions.
I have a question. Are the sufferings we experience because of following our human will also God's Will? Can these sufferings also be united to the suffering of Jesus?
We already said that even those from the demons, once you have this light and this will that you want to unite your will to God's, everything falls within the Divine Will and can be lived in the Divine Will. Blessed be God. Right? Everything, remember, everything except sin. That is, sin must be corrected. That does need to be removed. But if you are left with sufferings because of that sin, it doesn't matter. Live them in the Divine Will. But the sin itself does need to be removed, okay? You know, through confession, with the intention to amend, etc. But here we're talking about sufferings. Yes. Suffering itself. Yes.
From another perspective, can I, as a person, take the acts of Jesus to pray?
Yes, you certainly can do that. The acts of Jesus are divine. Mine are human. If I take the acts of Jesus, it would mean participating in the Divine Will. That is, they would become divine acts for him. The acts of Jesus are already divine, aren't they? So when one unites oneself to the acts of Jesus, but you say, "Jesus, in Your Divine Will, I unite myself to Your acts." That's when they are united because you want the same thing that God wants. Then within you, your own acts become divinized and transformed into those of Jesus, into those of Jesus within you, together with your own. That is, and before Jesus, your acts are undoubtedly divinized. So it's wonderful. So remember that in Jesus, there are those two aspects, but they are unified, made one. It is human suffering lived in the Divine, together with His Divine Will. So it becomes divinized, made divine. So in Jesus, it is human and divine suffering together. So we say divine suffering, but in reality, it is also human. You can see this in the crown of thorns and throughout His Passion. In other words, it was His human body that was suffering as well, but in a divine way, and that had a divine value. So for us, it is the same. It will be our human sufferings, but by living them with God's own Will, that is, your Will united with God's, your intentions, everything, then your act becomes divinized by the Divine Will in you, by Jesus in you, not by you. I mean, what are we able to do, really? Well, we just have to make room for Him to act and for His Will to act in us and to take on those divine ways, right? Little by little.
If someone is completely far from Jesus, can we pray for their conversion?
Absolutely.
Yes. Of course. Jesus prayed for everyone, didn't he? And he suffered for everyone. He offered himself for everyone. Even for the most distant person in the world, even Judas. If he didn't accept it, that was Judas's problem. But Jesus did offer himself for Judas and wanted to save Judas. He did everything. The same goes for everyone. Even for those who might seem the worst to us in this world as well.
For me, well, I can tell you that before, you know, as you mature and grow in all this understanding, but when I was young, for example, I used to be horrified just thinking about the whole issue of abortions. And I would say, how is it possible since even a single abortion excommunicates you from the church? I mean, such a grave sin. Now, when I found out, you know, that there are doctors who dedicate themselves to that, I thought, what an outrage. How terrible. No. Well, those people are already in hell. I mean, as humans, that's what we think, right? But you keep praying and everything. Well, once I received a testimony from a doctor who converted, one of those who had performed I don't know how many thousands of abortions, but he converted and then dedicated himself to doing the opposite. You think what a wonder? I mean, as if Jesus, his sufferings have a purpose. The sufferings of victim souls, the acts in the divine will, and of course, they convert. So, you should never consider anyone a lost cause and you should pray for everyone. And if someone doesn't want it, that's their problem. But we should embrace everyone like Jesus did. And the merit we will have before God is having desired the salvation of all, the conversion of all and not excluding anyone. That's why in the divine will, it's the greatest because we are going to do it for everyone just like Jesus.
Another question, can we unite the acts of those who are not on the path of living in the divine will? Yes, we can unite them to the divine will and in us God will see them as remade in the divine will just as he saw everyone in Jesus. God sees Jesus and not only does he see Jesus he sees as if all of us had lived perfectly in the divine will. He gave everything that we do not give him but in Jesus in the other person if they do not unite themselves to Jesus then they remain with their human life and even their life of sin. So Jesus did give everything as if all humanity had been remade in him. Well, it was truly remade in him. So he invites us in the divine will to do exactly the same. To live our lives in order to remake them for everyone to encompass the acts of all within ourselves and to give the father everything that others do not give him. In this way, God the Father and Jesus Christ, that is the full presence of the Holy Trinity dwelling within us. If we choose to do it this way, we'll look upon every single person not the lives of all people not though not just ourselves but everyone held within us as though they themselves had lived their lives through us perfectly in the divine will. So it will no longer be just in Jesus but in another person in Louisa in the blessed virgin well sorry first in the blessed virgin then in Louisa and then in everyone else since we are giving glory to God on behalf of everyone. In other words, this multiplies and people there will be people who join in that is we ourselves join in and this can already be accomplished in us. There will be people who don't but there will be people who do. So in this way the kingdom of God grows within each one of us. So those people receive this yes as soon as they want to as soon as they also unite themselves. If not they don't receive it but we are offering it to God. And if in any case that person is saved but did not unite with the divine will what happens to their acts their acts remain with them done in the human will let's suppose right that it was like that but when they enter heaven they are purified etc when they enter heaven they will find them in you as in Jesus as well remade in the divine way and they will be able to enjoy or delight in them as if they had been made perfect in the divine way but shared by others. In other words, they won't say I did them but rather ah the other person did them but they are also sharing that joy with me which thanks to them I can now have not as my own but as something shared. You see that's why Jesus also says this well in heaven they will also have a different glory because they will also share with others those joys which for them will be essential glory and for the others it will be a shared or accidental glory. That's the point we're looking at. As you can clearly see right here those are the major differences between them. Now let's move right along to the next section.
Oh, the pain my children cause me by not coming closer to the sacraments. Can I unite and offer this to Jesus to make reparation for the sins of my family? Well, that's already been answered, hasn't it? Yes, that's right. Yes. And also pray for all those who are in the same situation. Yes, of course. So see how beautiful it is not just for my family but like Jesus for everyone as well. So notice how sufferings begin to give us the opportunity to become more like Jesus and to live everything together with him and in his will. And we are growing there in the divine will. Wonderful isn't it? So now with this let's see sufferings as a springboard that brings us closer to Jesus and helps us to live more in the divine will.
I understand another question that we can remake our past and make up for others. Yes, in general I already more or less said it, didn't I? Of course, we can remake our past. The correct way is as we already said above to unite ourselves to fuse ourselves with Jesus and all his acts and in him we will find all our acts already remade and repaired by him and then we take them from him and so our whole life is repaired as well. by taking them from him. It's not that I am going to repair my life myself. No, it's that Jesus has already repaired it for me and I accept it and together with Jesus I can repair my life. But really it is Jesus who repairs for me and who filled all my acts because I gave him space and I also want what he wants. Do you see? And keep meditating and you'll see that more things will come to mind. And so it's an opportunity to make more acts in the divine will. So don't just leave it as questions but say now I'm going to do it in prayer. If Jesus wants to unite my whole past life to his then my will is always going to be his. That's why I can also unite my past acts and so on. And you make your prayer in the divine will and for everyone not just for me but also for all etc.
In the divine will I can ask Jesus to come and pray through me in the prayers that I offer. Of course, we've already said that we can ask Jesus to come and divonize everything except sin. So prayers as well. Of course, today we are focusing on sufferings, but obviously also on prayers. Someday we will focus more on prayers. And at the same time, we will have to learn to have the intentions of Jesus in our prayers. That is to encompass more just as Jesus encompassed in his prayers. But for now, yes, say that in the divine will, I ask you, Jesus, to come and pray in me with me in the prayers I'm about to make. And you'll see that little by little, even the prayers themselves will start to adjust them, right? I mean, if it's a prayer that's already written, some prayer, I don't know, anything. You start saying, "Oh, and for everyone, too, Jesus." So, you begin to take on Jesus' ways and do it for everyone. Okay?
Ever since I've known about the divine will, I haven't had a single day without being interrupted for whatever reason. It's very strange but true. Whether I'm praying, studying, or resting, is this God's will? Well, yes, you have to offer it up if that's the case. If that's how it is for you, Jesus was also interrupted sometimes. Just imagine he would be withdrawn and the apostles would say or he would run into someone, I don't know who. So yes, it's part of it. Now really, do you want not to be interrupted? Well, sometimes you can make a visit to the blessed sacrament and there you can pray. Well, and I think it's less likely you'll be interrupted there a little while there before the blessed sacrament. So you can if you can go out, I don't know, right? Depending on each person's circumstances, or you can tell them, hey, I'm going to pray or I want a little time. Do you need anything right now? Please don't interrupt me and we can turn off our cell phones etc. And then have that little moment of deeper recollection if you can and if not offer it up to the divine will. Well, I think that was all of them, right? Yes. Many. Thank you. I'm going to stop the recording now. Heat. Heat.