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[music] [music] [music] Good evening. Yes, good afternoon. Good evening. Uh, everyone is welcome. I'm going to deliver this little message in in Spanish. And I was trying to figure it out if I could do at the same time English as Spanish, but it's a little more complicated for the translation. So, I'm going to go for uh for Spanish. Okay? And remember, God is multilingual. Okay? He understands and speaks all the languages. So, let us begin with a prayer. Let's start with a prayer.
In the holy name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Amen.
Holy Father, we thank you for this afternoon, for this beginning of this gathering in your holy will. We enter into your perfect divine act, your creating, redeeming, sanctifying act. We give you the glory and honor for all creatures. We place this dialogue, this sharing in this hour, which is the second hour of your passion. It is the hour in which you break the bread with your disciples before the last supper and you hold the Passover meal. We ask for all the graces that you poured out that night upon your disciples that you may pour them out upon us. Open our minds, our hearts so that we may understand, so that we may open ourselves to this marvelous gift of knowing, loving and living your divine will. Amen.
And let us pray together to our beloved mother Mary that she will intercede for us.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
Glory be 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.
The official opening of the congress will be tomorrow. But I take the liberty of welcoming all of you in the name of our bishop John Nunan. He will be with us here on Saturday. He will preside over the mass. Also in union with Monsor Leonardo Dasheno, Archbishop of Trani Barleta Bishier, the arch diocese where Korato is, where this whole marvel of the divine will was born. I also welcome all the representatives of the diocese who are here with us to the uh little children of divine will group uh Jeff uh Alejandra uh Mary Circle who have organized this congress and to all the volunteers who have worked to make this a reality. Uh I believe that this gathering is a providential gathering. It is the Holy Spirit who has guided it. Uh I tell you that we are only the little donkeys that do the work. The Lord is the one who does all the work.
Uh I would like to begin simply with uh doing a brief overview here of where we come from uh from Europe. Uh who is coming from Europe? Italy. Welcome. Uh Spain, England, Scotland. Well, welcome to all the Europeans. A round of applause for the Europeans. Put your hands together for Europe. [applause] Very good. Let's go to the Americas. Who comes from North America? Canada, USA. Well, raise your hand. Put your hands together for all the Americans. Good. Beautiful. A round of applause for all the Americans. Amen. [applause] Ah, South America, Central America, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala. Very good. Welcome everyone. >> [applause] >> South America. Who comes from South America? Who is coming from South America? Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil. Well, everyone. Africa. Anyone from Africa? Very good. Welcome. Welcome. Beautiful [applause] Oceanana. Well, and the rest of the world, we carry all of them in our hearts. Very good. The Caribbean. The Caribbean. Puerto Rico. Very good. Everyone is welcome.
I believe we all have the experience and could share that each of us has had a moment of encounter with the writings of the divine will. We are all Christians, Catholics, baptized. Some are brother priests, religious men, religious women, married, single. But there is a moment in life when you had an encounter with what is called the writings, the book of heaven, Luisa Picareta and the divine will. You can be here giving this testimony and I want this testimony as I give it to simply be a way for you to also remember your own process of how you began to know the writings of the divine will as a priest. Uh uh I'm going to narrate a little of what happened to me because for me it has meant a before and an after knowing the writings of heaven.
I am Colombian. I was born in the year 1961 in Palmyra. I was educated in a Catholic family. I studied in a Catholic school. I entered the seminary at 18 years old as a Passionist religious. I professed for the congregation of the passion of Jesus Christ. Uh I was there for several years. Uh then I went to study. I did my studies in Rome. I studied some biblical theology there. Uh I was ordained in Rome as well. I had the blessing of being ordained by John Paul II, St. John Paul II. I returned to Colombia to teach for some uh years. I taught some biblical theology there in the universities. And since the year 1994, I have been here in the dascese of Orlando. I went back to study to do doctoral studies in Rome in the year 2000. And after being about to finish, the Lord pulled me away and wanted me to do another doctorate. And I've been working on that doctorate for 24 year 22 years as a parish priest in a parish here in Orlando. It has been a very wonderful experience. Yes. As as as the pastor of this parish called Holy Cross. Some of my parishioners are here. Uh welcome. [applause]
I began to learn about the writings of heaven through a seminarian who was very familiar with the writings who was doing his pastoral year in my parish of Holy Cross. And he was a very strange seminarian because at 2 in the afternoon he would be in the chapel reading a little book. Contemporary seminarians at 2 in the afternoon they go to the gym normally. But he was an atypical seminarian I would say. And while he was reading that little book, one day I asked him, "What? What are you reading?" He told me, "I'm reading the writings of Luisa Picareta." I really hadn't heard of her. The name rang a distant bell, but I had no real knowledge. And I said to him, "Can you explain to me what it's about?" He said, "Yes, father." And he told me a lot, but he said something that caught my attention. Uh, we have always done the will of God. We have lived by doing the will of God, but now the Lord wants us to live in his will. We have been doing the will of God, but God wants for us now to live in his divine will. And that caught my attention. I told him, "Well, that's nothing new. It's the same thing the church has preached all along." He told me, "No, father, it's not the same. This is something new." And the next day, he gave me a little book. I remember the little blue cover, the writings of Luisa. Read this, Father. He told me. That night, I started to read. It was volume 11. I don't know how late into the morning I was reading that volume. Uh I practically devoured it in a few days and something happened. What I was reading there was something uh marvelous because of my studies and my well my formation I was somewhat out of personal interest quite familiar with because I had read them the mystics of the church Teresa Paul of the cross Hildigard Catherine I had read them not systematically but I had a sort of foundation in the mystics of the church but nevertheless when I read this writing uh it seemed to me something completely knew. I must say that when I read it, I didn't know who Luisa was. I mean, I had no background on who Luisa was. I knew nothing about Luisa or the divine will. For me, it was like an encounter with a person who is speaking. And it turns out that the one speaking to that person is Jesus. And Jesus is telling this person something marvelous, something new. Because everything sounded new to me. They were they were phrases that just reached me, you know. Uh, lose your temperament and gain mine. Be a living host. I am in the blessed sacrament making reparation for all human beings. On the day I consecrated, I consecrated all the hosts that will be consumed until the end of time. These were things that right from the start seemed marvelous to me. And always as a priest uh there's that little intellectual voice saying uh hey wait a minute is this in line with the church that was I was impressed by certain expressions and certain things that were here in the writings. It especially caught my attention. Uh after reading volume 11 I continued reading the other volumes. It was like uh an infatuation you know like love at first sight right and I think that has been the experience for many of you. you start reading the writings and you just want to stay there reading, reading, reading and you don't want to leave because the grace is so abundant and you're trying to process everything you're reading. Uh I didn't do it systematically. Uh I read up to I don't know volume 20 21 then I kept reading the others then I went back to the first one. But I must say that afterwards this led me to start reading a little about Luisa and to see that really uh it was everywhere. So I went on the internet and started reading and I found books by some priests who have published on the divine will and what I found was like like a marvelous boom like an explosion realizing that this divine will was something new. I didn't start attending any groups. I did it on my own and I didn't found any divine will group in my parish either. But I did start doing two things because this led me to read the hours of the passion and it also led me to read the book of our mother. I'll be talking about that in in in uh tomorrow. Uh I think I have another little talk. Uh and all of that was something like an something interior that that began to transform me. Uh that was around the year 2007 2008. in the year 2016 through a parishioner, may she rest in peace, Hilda Amaro, who is with the Lord, she received uh I mean like many lights from the Lord about these writings and and with her talking a little and uh I began to understand and that's when I began to study the the the writings of heaven a little more systematically and that's what I want to share with you a little bit what the writings have meant to me. I'm not going to do many quotes from Luisa. It gets a little long but I'll make some reference.
The first thing I have to say is that in studying the writings a little more systematically. Uh two things caught my attention. Who is Luisa and who is the Lord or the other way around? Who is the Lord who speaks to Luisa? Because that's what I wasn't clear on when I first read it. Uh it becomes clear absolutely clear that there is a newness there is a newness in the in the writings uh throughout all the writings Louisa asks the Lord many times Lord and why didn't you uh choose another why did you wait until now could it be that I am the first and the Lord repeats to her again and again you are the first with you I want to begin this which is called divine holiness when the Lord Lord gives the the title of the book to father defia. I believe the lord tells him the title you will give the book about my will is this the kingdom of the divine will in creatures book of heaven calling creatures to the order the place and the purpose for which they were created by God because until man enters into it into my will he will be without a place without order and without purpose. I understood and I am coming to understand that Louisa is the head of the mission that she has been chosen by God for this great work but that this work which culminates in Louisa is in continuity with everything the church has taught us. Uh here I want to say something I don't yet know of because we are at the beginning any systematic studies on the divine will and surely it will be the work of theologians now that we have the critical edition. Uh there are no systematic studies because the 36 volumes are not a systematic study. Our Lord does not write treatises on theology. He simply narrates to Louisa. He narrates to her and she enters into this her own process.
I also discovered something very beautiful that I wasn't clear about at first that Louisa in the first 10 volumes uh 10 writings I would say rather than volumes writings that's what the Lord calls them uh reaches the pinnacle of human holiness. Louisa reached the pinnacle of human holiness. At first I didn't understand that the gift of the divine will as we know I'm not going to quote all the writings. It's a gift. It's a present. It's unmmerited. But Louisa has to travel and redo the acts of all creatures of all times as Mary did and as Jesus did naturally. And after she reaches that height in virtues and in human holiness, she receives the gift of the divine will. And here there is something marvelous for me. I understood that the first 10 writings and it is so important to read them are the commandments. And here there is a question we all ask ourselves which is well how am I going to receive this of the divine will and we begin. And here is what I share with you from my from my experience. You have to read in order. You have to read from the first one. And from the first to the 10th you have to enter little by little. And here I discovered something marvelous that what the Lord says now is that until now we have worked with the virtues not with the attributes and we strive to fulfill the commandments to do it but we leave the Lord out of it and there's a great difference that's why the Lord wants to say I want you now in the first holiness in the holiness in which I created Adam and Eve in the beginning and I want you because that is what you were created for by God. That's what the letter to the Colossians says. I created you in the beginning to be holy and blameless before him through love. And so here is what became very clear to me as a priest that everything the church has taught us is in the writings of heaven. But the writings of heaven are the absolute fulfillment of everything God did in the beginning when he created us. And I'm going to give you the summary that I give to my my parishioners every week. And I always say it with three little words that they already know by heart. Creation, redemption, and sanctification. Can you repeat that with me? Creation, redemption, and sanctification. Very good. And why do I repeat it so much? Because this opened my eyes. I took the catechism and said, "Well, if I take the catechism, basically I'm not a systematic theologian. And as the pastor of a parish of 4,000 families, I barely have time to eat. So I haven't been able to dedicate myself to systematic study but just here and there uh this is what what I've retained a little of of this beauty that the four parts of the catechism. Let's remember what are the four parts of the catechism. Uh first is what we believe then what we celebrate. First what we believe, the faith, the foundation, the creed, then what we celebrate, the sacraments, then what uh uh what we live, right? The ethics, the commandments, and finally what we pray, the our father. These four beauties that the catechism condenses, the last 2,000 years of theology, right? That was the work of Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Ratzinger, and of John Paul. Well, that's another story. We have the compendium of our faith summarized. That's why it's a catechism. But what I found is what a beautiful thing it is to know that everything the church has taught us is in there and that there is no contradiction with what we have been taught. But and this is key that it is truly with the divine will that we arrive at what God wants for all of humanity and what he wanted in the beginning. And here comes the bombshell that only began with Louisa Picareta that only and we shouldn't be afraid to say it. I know there has been a lot of misinformation and doubts and so on. Let's remember that in the year 1938 the writings uh were not confiscated but well confiscated would be the word. Why? Because this beauty this marvel was not understood. Uh and I would say briefly there are many many passages where the lord speaks of the old testament of everything he did in the old testament starting with Adam. There is a particular writing that says that Adam received the gift. Abraham is the sign of faith, the sign of the promise, Jacob the possession, uh Isaac the anticipation of Christ, uh the kings, the dominion, uh the prophets, the grace, and in many many others. The passage speaks of the Lord preparing humanity after we fell and departed from the original version. The Lord in this whole process of leading Louisa, taking her through stages naturally reveals that what he wants now with this gift is for us to return to what we were created for. And here comes something wonderful that I discovered and that for me meant uh a change in mentality, right? Normally sometimes we priests or when we study theology, we flirt a little with science, right? It should be the other way around. Science has to flirt with theology because everything is in there, right? And of course, we studied evolution, the origin of man, all those things. Wonderful. But something that powerfully caught my attention, especially in the later writings, is that the purpose of what God wants for us is for us to return to what we had in the beginning. And let me remind you a bit that this is wonderful. The pre-ternatural gifts. Uh this is from the catechism. If someone asks you what are the preternatural gifts, what did Adam and Eve have at the beginning of creation? Because they participated fully in the divine life. Do we remember what the catechism of the church teaches us? They had impossibility. They didn't have any uh they didn't suffer from anything. They had naturally immortality because death had not entered as a consequence of sin. Not only impossibility and immortality but they also had integrity total dominion over all their uh emotions their passions and finally infused science through which they knew everything exactly when I had studied that I had put it aside like in a little corner thinking that's interesting but now reading the writings what a beauty now we have the possibility of returning to that so I'm going to connect it all a What began with Adam and Eve? What was it? The divine life. And it's clear in the beautiful passages where the Lord refers to the creation of Adam. I had never prayed such a beautiful prayer about my own life as when the Lord narrates to Louisa how he created Adam and in Adam he created us all. In the mind of the father, we were all made perfect, holy, and immaculate like our mother. That was the original original sin. What is it? It's the negation of the divine life. I want to do my will. And that's why everything bad we have in the world enters what we've become accustomed to. I always repeat this. We say in our language, sickness is normal. Division is normal. War is normal. This situation we're living in is normal. Look at the world's situation today. The wars, Hamas, Ukraine, our political situations, the oppressions, that's normal. It is not normal. We were not created for any of that. We were created to be one. One love, one communion with the divine family. The divine family and the human family were one in the beginning. And that is God's only project through sin that was lost and it remained pay attention in the mind and ideal of the father. That is why the entire history of salvation in light of the writings I can define with this. It's a strategy of love. A strategy of love from the divine family to reach the human family so it can return to the original state for which we were created. So you might ask, well, hasn't the church taught us all of that? Of course, it has taught us. But now there is something new. The entire Old Testament was preparation. Creation which was damaged by sin has been restored in Christ. Redemption. The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ into the world. His incarnation in the pure womb of our holy mother is the beginning of what everyone knows is the second fiat. First creation, the second the incarnation together with Mary. The two fiats join together. Let it be done. And now this marvelous process of rescuing us begins. Why? Because God and here comes everything the church teaches about the two natures of Christ. Right? True man, one single person but with two natures, two wills, human and divine, has to remake all the acts of all human beings of all time. Look, this is a bombshell because that had not yet been explored in theology. Again, I am not a systematic theologian. I have read quite a bit, but I am not a systematic theologian. And this is yet to be explored. And here comes one of the novelties in continuation with Revelation. I would say the deepening the deepening the spirit of truth will reveal all truth to you when he goes when I go if I do not go the spirit will not come and the spirit will guide you to all truth that for the first time and the lord says it I am going to show you what my divinity my divine part was doing in my humanity and that is new. I in all my years as a priest had never stopped to think about the 30 years that our Lord Jesus Christ spent in the little house of Nazareth. Only with Luisa do we know this and not externally. And here comes the beauty when he says that all his acts were remaking man. He says it was in the chapter in book 11. It took me the thoroughess of 30 years to remake man. Every thought of mine pay attention from my mother's womb. For me that was new. Jesus was conscious. He had the awareness of being God from his mother's womb. And what is the answer? Say it loud. Yes. Look, theology doesn't really get into that much. Yes, but no. Jesus. Let's recall the Christmas novena, the nine excesses of love. For me, that left a profound mark. The dialogue that Jesus has with his mother from the womb. That is why in this part of the redemption we have an arsenal of what our Lord did. And through all the writings he reveals to her that every act he performed thought, word, deed, glance, eating, working, everything. And finally his sorrowful and glorious passion have remade us. Then once the redemption is fulfilled, the Holy Spirit comes, the apostles begin and they start to announce the kingdom of the redemption. Because the redemption was the preparation for the gift of the divine will. And here comes something that theology still has to explore. And it is that we have two dimensions of holiness. Pay attention to what I'm about to say from Louisa from Louisa. Something new is marked in Louisa in continuation but it is new because until Louisa we lived in the imitation of Christ. We lived in human holiness which is good because it is also the divine will but we were not yet consciously aware that what the Lord truly wants and it is the petition of the our father is for him to be operative in us and that we in our human acts configure ourselves to him because he is the redeemer and at the same time in some way we return to the eternal act for which we were all created by God. This is a bombshell. Divine acts that you and I can perform. Divine acts that you and I by virtue of our baptism with the grace of the sacraments can now enter into the continuation of the redemptive action in favor of all the souls of the past, the present and the future. I found it truly marvelous, really wonderful to know that my small human acts, my small daily human acts united to the acts of Jesus and the acts of the mother have the power to repair just like Jesus's acts for all of humanity. Look, that is a bombshell. And we are at the heart of the message of the divine will. This holiness is not simply the holiness of the virtues. It is not about being holy at the cost of making an effort. One must prepare with the virtues. That is why it is a gift to the one who is prepared. The Lord wants to give it the gift of acting with him, thinking with him. In the chapter, sorry, in book 11, writing 11, the beginning of writing 11 is a very beautiful prayer that Louisa says as a good morning to Jesus. I'm sure you know it. And in that prayer she asks to be united to all the acts of Jesus. It's something like today I want you Jesus in my mind, in my eyes, in my lips, in my mouth, in my heart, in my hands. I want to do everything with Jesus through Jesus for Jesus. This idea that our acts united to those of Jesus are reparative is a novelty. And here uh well let's say that the church as we look toward the future is waiting for the new Thomases, Bonaventures, Hildigards and Catherine, these truly great and inspiring saints who can explain this more adequately for us. That is why I believe that sometimes if there has been some confusion, it is as the Lord himself says because of the immense holy light that exists in the writings and because the writings as I told you at the beginning are not presented in a systematic way.
Two other things that also impressed me greatly were the reading of the hours of the passion. Uh who has read the hours of the passion? How many of you are familiar with? Well, I hope everyone has, right? And here I'll tell you, I began to read the hours of the passion. Having been a passionist, religious, my spirituality was passionist. Uh but I didn't know the hours of the passion. I began to read the hours of the passion. And I was accompanied by this lay person as I'm telling you whom the Lord greatly enlightened in all this of the divine will. Uh an experience uh on a holy Thursday, the hour of agony in the garden. I had always experienced the passion a little from the outside but that day I understood the meaning of the hours of the passion which is once again to make reparation with Jesus and to do what he himself did for others and to do it in reparation for us during those three hours on a holy Thursday when I was sick. This was before COVID, long before. But I had a terrible flu. I couldn't be at the church. And I began to meditate on the hours. And that day, I had something like a small revelation from the Lord about my entire life, of all my sins, of all my infidelities as a priest down to the most minimal things. I had never in my life cried so much. And never in my life had I understood the immense pain, the great pain that my sins had caused the Lord. And that they were double sins. And especially because of my status as a priest, it was as if right there I had a vision of what the sin of a priest signifies and mine were grave in my youth. I had it was as if I were there in the garden with the Lord and when the Lord shed his blood, it was as if I were under that blood. Uh I'm not claiming to be a mystic, far from it. But that day, that experience was something that marked me profoundly because I understood the meaning of what Paul said. He loved me and gave himself for me. Before this, I had already done the hours of the passion many times, but I had not yet entered into what the hour of the passion truly means.
Later, if we could place all of this on a sort of timeline, what would we say? That the Lord in his mercy, as he says in various writings in volume 19, renews, he is renewing the earth every 2,000 years. He says it himself. I renewed it in the flood in the first 2,000 years. I renewed it with my coming. And here is the other one. I let 2,000 years pass until the arrival of Louisa with the cherry on the cake, the cherry upon the cake to tell you that now I want you and that in the writings of heaven you have the methodology, the way, the how you can live in this divine holiness which does not contradict anything of my church which is in continuity but which now wants to reach the highest level. Here comes the other idea of all that the divine acts mean united to those of Jesus and the way to pray in the divine will. That is why I told you that the four parts of the catechism are crystal clear. The project of belief, the entire history of salvation, the sacraments as means, the ethical life as living with the attributes of Jesus united to his acts and those of his holy mother. And finally prayer. And in prayer we know that in the divine will we have this marvelous thing called the rounds. How many of you are familiar with the rounds? Okay, very good. The rounds are the way one prays in the divine will. It starts there's something in volume 13 but from 17 18 and onward the Lord tells her that to do the rounds is to repeat the divine life. to do the rounds in uh in creation, to do the rounds in redemption, to do the rounds in sanctification, the sacraments of the church in the rounds. This really caught my attention and I want to cite volume 18 1811 when the Lord speaking of the Holy Spirit talks about the groans of the Holy Spirit in the sacraments. And what the Lord says about the sacraments is that despite being instruments for each of us, sometimes because of the one celebrating, the priest himself or the deacon or the people who receive them, the sacraments don't achieve their their efficacy. And he tells her uh you place your I love you in each of the sacraments. Make reparation for all the sacraments. Ever since I read that, I try to be very careful in the celebration of the of the sacraments because that is the divine life. And as priests we have the uh the obligation and the responsibility to ensure that sacrament is truly the instrument the vehicle of the merited grace that the lord continues to give. It is the fruit of redemption for you for everyone and we priests are the ones in charge and sometimes we don't do it as as as we should.
The divine will then I would summarize it for myself as a priest has been like the rediscovery of an intimacy with my Lord with Jesus who loved me and died for me. It has been a rediscovery of the celebration of the sacraments. It has been a rediscovery of the reading of the scriptures. Because of my studies in biblical theology, uh I have always preached a lot from the word and so on. But here there is a new way to preach and to see the scripture. That idea present in the writings that every time we proclaim a biblical text, what the Lord did in that moment is repeated again. And that every action of our Lord in his healings was an anticipation of this coming of the kingdom of the divine will. I could tell you much more about this part about what has impressed me in the theological aspect. But above all, I want to testify that this is the beautiful way in the books to fulfill what we were created for by God. We are at the beginning, dear family, of an era uh of renewal in the church. When the Lord said it clearly, you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The saints, all the saints who have existed are the rock upon which Peter, they are the successors of Peter. of course the pontiffs but each of us through baptism is a Peter and the Lord builds his church upon the saints. That's why in this congress we will also be told we're looking forward to tomorrow's presentations about the status of Louisa's canonization which is important. We all know that she is the holiest saint that has ever existed uh before God. But that canonization, that beatatification, they are needed because it is the the the public approval of the church that in this person the Lord acted and so that all the doubts that still remain are resolved. Uh we must pray for the beatatification and for the canonization of Louisa which will come and part of this congress also has the objective of informing us a bit about how that is going and how we can help.
I want to finish by saying that uh my experience with Mary uh I will share that with you in the next talk that we will have but I am sure that for each one of us uh we must be grateful to all those who have made it possible for these writings to reach us. I know that the translation the whole history of how these writings came to be uh like all human things uh uh it has a long process. So uh I read in a little book I didn't know about all the additions or the critics. Now I know a little more. Uh and surely the little book that came to you that you read the one you are reading is not yet the critical edition. But we must give thanks to God for all the priests those who were involved from the beginning for the ley. It has been you the ley who have carried this message. It has been the ley and perhaps without much theological knowledge because deep down this matter of the divine will is for simple people too. It's for everyone. You don't have to be you don't have to be a theologian to understand the divine will. There are no doors nor are there. The divine will is a gift. It is a present and but thanks to all who have made it happen. We must pray now. And that is why this congress of unity in the divine will is to say we want to be with the church. Uh there is no need to fear. There is no craziness here. Uh and if the language that Louisa expresses and what she has as a mystical person that belongs to her uh the church has to clarify it and has to discern it. And here I'll say two more little things about Louisa. We are not going to repeat the life of Louisa. Louisa is unique. She receives the mission. She passes it on to us and she passes it on to us through the writings uh in a conference or in a dialogue about the divine will. A lady told me this story that in her parish a couple began to read the writings of the divine will. And the husband said to his wife, he said, "I have received the call from the Lord to stay in bed like Louisa reading the writings while you work." That's what the husband told the woman and she replied, "Well, the scripture also says that he who does not work shall not eat." She grabbed the broom and chased him out of the bed with it because he was so I'm here to meditate on the writings and you work. See, the divine will does not take us away from our reality. The divine will. The divine will leads us to reality. Acting in the divine will is an exchange of life with Jesus. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about what I do. Since this is a gift, no one has to worry about whether they are living in the divine will or not because it is a gift. But we do have to prepare ourselves and that's where I stress the importance of reading methodically. That's why in all the groups in the cynicles all that there is everything on YouTube. Glory to God for all of that. Glory to God for each cynacle, for each person, for the one who reads, for the one who writes. Uh I I hope that in the future there will be holy priests, theologians, lay people who carry this wonderful message. But none of that replaces your personal encounter with the writings and in practical life. What he tells Louisa in several several several writings, you have to know love and live knowledge, love and the experience of living it. The divine will is not lived by distancing oneself from the world. The divine will is lived in the world without being of the world as the Lord says and it is to be lived 24 hours a day. And here is the beautiful thing about all this that it is a a it's not a spirituality mind you when I hear that the divine will is a spirituality it scares me a little. It is a doctrine. It is life. If we reduce it to a spirituality, we're going to resort to little formulas and let's do this to do that and this prayer that Louisa did and we enter into something like a series of rules. No, no, no. The divine will is doctrine. It is life. That is why the church will have to make all of that explicit in the in in the future. And how do we live it? And here is the experience of each one of of us that we could share. It is look at your life and see if reading the writings is challenging you to change your life and for your life to begin to be configured with the very life of Christ. That is why you during your daily routine can always be uniting your acts to the acts of Jesus in reparation for all of humanity. We are all familiar with the preventive act. I'll give you a little I'm about to finish the account of not an account a little bit of how I pray with the divine will and why this has changed the way I pray. We priests have to pray uh with the liturgy of the hours every day and my brother priests know this and surely not all of us have been faithful to the liturgy of the hours every day of our lives because at the end of a day you're tired. Uh I'm going to pray vespers. It's already 9 at night. No action is prayer. I'd rather go to sleep. Look, for me, it has been a rediscovery of the liturgy of the hours. And something as simple as with these psalms, Jesus prayed. With these psalms, all the saints of the Old Testament prayed. Well, not the patriarchs. They hadn't yet. From Moses and Solomon uh uh onward, all the saints of the church have prayed with these psalms. The church has been praying with the psalms for 2,000 years. And it never occurred to me to think that I could enter into the acts of all those who have prayed. So I always begin my lord's vespers with a little turn. Beloved Jesus, I enter into your will. I bring all the prayers of all the priests of all the saints of all the for my brother priests who didn't pray for those in purgatory because they failed leaving a void of love. And so here I am now half tired at the end of this day. I bring to you all my poor parishioners who have not had time to pray today. I bring to you all those who have asked me for prayer and there and the psalm says how joyful when they said to me let us go to the house of the Lord but I have no joy I am dead tired but it doesn't matter because this is your prayer and it is the prayer of the church that simple act not with sentimentality but in the union of the will I believe is pleasing to the Lord. That's why for me the psalms have now become something wonderful because I can swear to it. The celebration of the sacraments as I mentioned before also the celebration of each sacrament is a moment to enter into union with all that the lord has done right and extend it to all human generations. the celebration of holy mass which must be the center and the recitation of the holy rosary which I will speak about later as a way of uniting with the holy mother in reparation for all of humanity past present and future. I have discovered that one of my favorite places to pray in the divine will is at traffic lights because we're always impatient at traffic lights, aren't we? The traffic light is like a microcosm, isn't it? So once I was at a traffic light, I was running late. I got up late. My alarm clock didn't go off. And the panic that one feels. And 152 cars passed in front of me. I counted them. 152 cars passed in front of me. And I was bewildered. And I started to think the little turn. Well, what is this divine will? What is happening? Will. And I began to make the little turn. And I began to imagine someone just passed who lost their job. Another just passed who was fired. Another just passed who was promoted. Someone who committed a mortal sin. Another who is 52 human beings crossed my path that day. I was flustered because I was running late. When I began holy mass, I said, "Brothers and sisters, I am late because I have just met 152 human beings and we will offer a mass for them." Let's pray for these 152 people I met here. I call them traffic lights because the traffic light is divine will. You can pray at a traffic light bringing to mind the actions of all human beings because surely you are the only one there giving glory to the Lord for all those who are there making amends for their sins asking for mercy for them. And when you get to the office you'll find another one and you'll go through that same routine all day long. The divine will is the exchange of life of of the divine life that the Lord gifted us at the beginning when he created us which was lost through sin has been restored in the redemption and continues to be present and alive in the church to which we have access through the sacraments. The intercession of Mary in communion with all the saints. The divine will is not a fairy tale. It is not an invention. It is not a new doctrine. It is not a new doctrine. It is doctrine in continuity with everything the church has taught us. But it is definitively divine holiness. Be holy as I am holy. I invite each of you to continue in your process by reading. Do not be discouraged. This conference has that purpose for us to know that we are in union with the church. Continue in your cynacles. Continue watching your programs, podcasts, YouTube. But absolutely nothing can replace you in the humility and silence of your heart. Reading each writing, going through it, letting the Holy Spirit enlighten you and guide you. Without reading the writings and delving deeply into the writings, we cannot live in the divine will. There is no crash course for learning the divine will. There are no formulas, no recipes. The Lord insists on it. You have to read. You have to read. You have to read. You have to love. And you have to [music] live. Amen. [music] >> [music]