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We begin without our prayer. Welcome everyone in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Most holy trinity, recognizing our nothingness, we want to offer you our entire life, our worries and sufferings, our whole being, body, and soul, our intellect, and especially our will, so that we may unite ourselves to your eternal and divine will, the source of all good, and 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 Louisa to touch our forehead and imprint upon it the Holy Spirit and to infuse us with the light so that we may understand the truths and the blessings found in these writings. Amen. Fiat.
All right then, very well indeed. Let us now resume this deep and thoughtful reflection and our comprehensive study of the first volume of the holy mass together. We left off right at the explanation about the holy mass where our lord was showing Louisa how in the holy mass it is Jesus himself who is performing the prayers. He is not only the one who is sacrificed and offered to the father in the eukarist that is in the sacred host and in the chalice but also in the person of the priest he is liturggically and sacramentally performing all those prayers because those prayers express what Jesus is doing in the eukarist in other words it is reciprocal isn't it so how beautiful it is to think about this when we go to mass from the penitential liturgy it is Jesus who is there asking forgiveness for all of us, making reparation for all of us and we unite ourselves to that attitude of Jesus. We receive what he wants to give us personally. Yes. But also in the divine unity, we do it on behalf of everyone. Right? Then we move on to the liturgy of the word and it is Jesus himself who is speaking to us through the sacred scriptures. And then we enter into the liturgy well into the prayers. All the prayers that are said are done through him through our Lord Jesus Christ who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen. All the prayers in the liturgy are done this way. That is through Jesus with Jesus and in Jesus. And for example, the whole part of praising the father, blessing, glorifying all of that together with Jesus. I mean it's wonderful, isn't it? And this way we can go through the entire liturgy to understand it much better and live it much more fully together with Jesus. Right?
Well, now Louisa is going to continue writing some more reflections. Well, here is yet another reflection. Here we understand more how the idea of the church is that we also participate more in the holy mass. Previously the idea was that it was the priest who offered Jesus to the father and now the church has come to understand that it is all of us together as an assembly as the mystical body of Christ who unite ourselves to that offering being made the priest. Why? Well, because we are all part of the mystical body and we can all unite ourselves to what Jesus is doing, not just the priest. So, this is what he had already been teaching Louisa all along. You see, so the church is moving in the right direction. This is what God wants that we participate more in that to unite ourselves to what is happening in the holy mass internally and sometimes also externally. But above all we must go inward to what is happening let's say on the spiritual level through the rights. In other words, the rights must lead us to that spiritual plane so that we can understand it. Well, I'll continue here. Do you remember that Jesus told her he wanted her to keep writing more about the holy mass? So Louisa says while she saw Jesus or the priest celebrating the divine sacrifice, Jesus made her understand that in the mass lies the entire foundation of our most holy religion. Well, yes, it is there to begin with that we speak of the one and triune God which is where absolutely everything has its origin and everything begins like this in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. And it ends that way as well. So from there we place ourselves at our beginning where we are meant to be. And the entire holy mass is directed to the one and triune God. That trinitarian love that trinitarian praise. And in that all three works of God are encompassed. For example in the creed all three are mentioned. the father who creates, the son who comes and the entire work of redemption carried out by the holy spirit, all the activity he does. So one unites oneself to all of that spiritually inwardly. Well, also as we recite the words of the creed together with the priest, we unite ourselves not only in that profession of faith, that public proclamation of faith, all joined together in the same faith, but inwardly one can be praising God, giving thanks to him, making a journey, a reflection on the three works of God, for example, right? And so, if we take a closer look, the liturgy of the Holy Mass is incredibly rich. And here we're not referring to any specific right, but rather to the right that is currently in universal use, which is the Roman right. Right? The current one. So it is so rich. It's just that sometimes we need to pay more attention to each prayer, to each gesture as well. It is so rich. We need to meditate more on each gesture during holy mass. Jesus is inviting us to do this through these readings. It says something here but he's forming us so that we also meditate more. So Jesus made me understand that in the mass lies the entire foundation of our most sacred religion. In this way the mass tells us everything and speaks to us about everything. The mass reminds us of our redemption. Here redemption is seen specifically but we have already seen that it encompasses creation, redemption and sanctification but it focuses especially on redemption. It speaks to us in detail about the sufferings that Jesus endured for us. It also reveals to us his immense love for he was not content with dying on the cross but wanted to confirm his state as victim in the most holy eukarist. Well, with these words, he is speaking to us about what sacramentally the church tells us and what is done during holy mass. The church tells us this and it is carried out during holy mass. The entire sacrifice of Christ is so to speak contained there within the sacramental rights. That is to say, in the consecration first of the bread and then of the wine separately, it speaks to us of the total sacrifice of Christ. They are not consecrated together. First one is consecrated and then the other and they remain separate. That is to say in that this suffering is being signified there. That suffering which Jesus endured to the last drop and his blood was separated from his flesh his passion and death. That is why Louisa says all his sorrows and his entire passion are contained there. This is the liturggical way in which the passion and death of Jesus are signified. But it is not only that. It is his whole life. Why? Well, because we know when Christ's sacrifice began. It did not begin only on Good Friday when he was crucified or when his passion started. Internally we know that his passion began from the moment he was incarnated and also at the moment of the elevation and consecration. It is like an incarnation in the host. What does Jesus do? And his passion begins from there throughout his whole life. Jesus tells her that his passion began with him with his incarnation. Why? Well, because his entire will, his human will, was always crucified in the divine will, in the will of the father. So, it was an extended crucifixion throughout all his years here on earth. And he says that this is the true crucifixion. The external one was as well, but the strongest and most effective was the interior one. Even the external crucifixion was an expression of his will being crucified. The will of the father who at that moment wanted it and he did it. He did not do what he wanted but what the father wanted. Well, so there you have it. Meaning in the right all his passion, death and here comes another point, the resurrection. It's not just the sacrifice but also the resurrection. Because it is not a dead Jesus that we see there in the eukarist but a Jesus who is alive that is who rose again and is alive. So here he is going to talk about the resurrection as well. The mass also tells us teaches us that our bodies reduced to dust by death will rise again on judgment day together with Christ to immortal and glorious life. That is the consumation let's say of our entire life here on earth and in eternity. the fullness. Jesus made me understand that the most consoling thing for a Christian and the highest and most sublime mysteries of our holy religion are Jesus in the sacrament and the resurrection of our bodies to glory. Okay. Jesus in the sacrament as mentioned above not only offered himself for us once on Calvary or during those 34 years of his life here but that is renewed and made present that is it is in the act of happening in the eukarist we know that it exists in the divine will but sacramentally it is made present in the eucharist in the holy mass. So for us this concept that the life of Jesus is in act in the divine will is not foreign since we have always experienced it in the eukarist. His entire life is always in act there. Passion, death and resurrection. So Jesus did not do it just once but is doing it continuously and perpetually. And this speaks to us of an immense and divine love of God for us. Of an eternal love that does not fade, but is in continuous act. He shows us his immense love as he was not satisfied with dying on the cross alone but wanted to confirm his state as victim in the most holy eucharist. So Jesus in the Eucharist, this is why it is one of the highest and most sublime mysteries of our holy religion and also the resurrection of our bodies to glory. That is to say the consummation in other words that we have fulfilled in Jesus united with Jesus we die and we fulfill and everything does not end with death but rather in eternal life precisely in eternal life for our soul and for our body always in union with Jesus. These are profound mysteries that we will only understand beyond the stars. But Jesus in the sacrament allows us to almost touch them with our hands in various ways. That is to perceive them more vividly. First of all, his resurrection. Secondly, his state of self emptying under these species. And yet it is true that he is alive and real. So there under the species is Jesus alive, true, complete, resurrected and at the same time in the act of offering himself but also resurrected right and yet he cannot be seen. That is why it is a mystery but he is there. In this way he allows us to touch this reality. He says, "Then once those species are consumed, when communion takes place, they are consumed. And it might also seem as if Jesus dies sacramentally in the species that he is no longer there. But it is not that he has been destroyed. Rather, his real presence is no longer there. But when the species are consecrated again, Jesus once again takes on his sacramental state and is continually renewed. Let's say he continually rises again. In this way, Jesus in the sacrament reminds us of the resurrection of our bodies to glory. In other words, Jesus is also continually in the act of rising again in the sacrament sacramentally. So this also gives us the certainty of our own resurrection. And just as Jesus when his sacramental state ceases resides in the bosom of God the Father, so too when our life ends, our souls will take their dwelling in heaven in the bosom of God and our bodies are consumed. The corpse remains here consumed. So it can be said that it no longer exists. But later through a marvel of God's omnipotence, our bodies will acquire new life and united with the soul will go together to enjoy eternal bliss. Could there be anything more comforting for the human heart than the knowledge that not only the soul but also the body will be divinely glorified and will enjoy eternal joys and happiness? So look here is what the church calls the last things that is the final things of the human being death, judgment, heaven, hell and resurrection. So if through the holy mass we keep these thoughts of the last things in mind where we are going what true life is what awaits us then that will give us greater strength to unite ourselves more closely to Jesus and to do so many good things in this life to live more fully in the divine will and so on. Let us not lose sight of that when God when Jesus speaks and when the church speaks specifically about the last things even about the end of the world and all these kinds of events it is not about the events themselves but rather to to highlight that eternal life those last things and that we are heading toward eternal life so that from here we can already have that eternal life. Let us remember the words of Jesus which become effective and alive in every eukarist. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day on his last day. Then so as Louisa says what a consoling promise. No matter how important something may seem to us here when we think about this those things lose their importance and we put them in perspective. anything here, any sacrifice, anything that God asks of us here or that we have to go through is small compared to the eternity that awaits us and the glory that awaits us in soul and body. So in order to aspire to that and so that all of eternity may be better let's say it gives us more strength to endure all of this in the best possible way that is by living it in the divine will. You see, so every holy mass produces or should produce all these effects, all these thoughts in us. It seems to me that on that great day, it will be like when the sky is full of stars and the sun rises. What happens then? The sun with its immense light absorbs the stars and makes them disappear. But the stars still exist. In this way, the sun is God and all the blessed souls are the stars. God with his immense light will absorb us all into himself. So we will exist in God in his light and we will swim in the immense sea of God but without ceasing to exist. That is the stars are there but within the light of the sun. How many things does Jesus tell us in the sacrament? And he goes on to say, "But who can say them all?" Certainly, I would go on for too long. If the Lord wills, I will save saying something else for another occasion. But then here it is that when one enters into meditation, Jesus will go on enlightening you with more things. And I can tell you that in every mass, God enlightens you with something. Whether it be through his word, through the priest's explanation, through some right you hadn't paid attention to or a little phrase that because you were thinking about other things you hadn't noticed and he enlightens you again, he sheds more light on that point for you or on that gesture. So we need to be more attentive and meditate on the parts of the mass. God gives his light to those who seek it and want to receive it. Those who are distracted or only focused on what's already in their heads don't make any further progress. So we should always have that openness. For example, another beautiful thing about the liturgy which the pope has by the way the holy father Pope Leo has been explaining the liturggical reform in his recent Wednesday cateesis. I haven't seen if he said anything today but I'll check later. But last time for example he spoke about the richness of the readings which used to be very limited in the previous right and now they have included very meaningful readings and many more readings so much so that there are three liturggical cycles. Over the course of these three liturggical cycles, that is 3 years, a faithful person who attends holy mass daily will have read practically all of the sacred scriptures, the most important and significant parts which did not happen before and in their own language. So even if someone doesn't read the Bible at home, if they go to holy mass, they will be reading it over the course of those 3 years. This is an enormous treasure that was introduced later that is as a result of the second Vatican council and its liturggical reform. So there are many very positive aspects of the current liturgy that perhaps no one has explained to us properly. And so they've explained to you or to some people the previous liturgy and they believe that one is the best. know the church is growing and so now there is more richness, more participation even though there is more simplicity. Yes, there is more simplicity but that is part of God's plan because God wants us now to pay much more attention to the spiritual aspect than to external ceremonies. The external ceremonies are the minimum needed to connect you with that spiritual part which is where the true richness lies. Jesus was simple. It's not as if Jesus himself established the rights. Those have been established by the church according to its understanding and the times. So the church keeps growing. God gives it more light. And that's how the liturgy is continually shaped. So let us learn to appreciate it. the liturgy as it is, as it is given to us because it is there that God speaks to us and that is more than enough for us to be able to unite ourselves to this whole mystery of our religion that takes place at every holy mass because it is Jesus himself who is there. The external things don't matter so much. What matters is that Jesus becomes alive and present there. And everything that Jesus is doing and wants to give us is something we must strive to understand more and more so that we can participate more in it in this immense richness. This is so beautiful. All of this about the holy mass. Well, in fact, look, this is already a reflection. It seems very significant to me that well I don't know if I'm mistaken but as far as my memory as I recall Louisa hardly ever speaks about the holy mass itself. This is one of the few or maybe the only. I'm not sure if it's the only but at least one of the few times she talks about it. In general, Jesus speaks to Louisa about the eukarist, about himself in the sacrament of the eukarist, not about the celebration of the holy mass or the right because that's precisely to teach us that what is truly important is not so much the right but Jesus in the eukarist and all the chapters most of them as far as I remember talk about that in Louisa how to receive communion what acts Jesus performed internally what Jesus is doing in the eukarist how he wants to give you the deposit of his entire sacramental life. In other words, it's about Jesus present in the Eucharist and what he is doing there. So let's not focus so much on the external things. Let's use what we have and that is enough for us.
Well, here we're going to change the topic a bit because Louisa continues with the topic of preparation for the mystical betrodal that Jesus promised her. So Louisa says in those outof body experiences that the Lord made me have sometimes he would renew the promise of the betroal already mentioned of the marriage. Well, who can say the burning desires that the Lord instilled in me for that mystical marriage to take place that is that intimate union with Jesus. Many times I would beg him saying sweetest spouse do it soon. do not delay my intimate union with you any longer. Ah let us bind ourselves with stronger bonds of love so that neither of us can be separated from the other not even for a few moments. So we must learn to have this desire to truly live united with Jesus to unite ourselves more closely to Jesus and to live in union with him. And Jesus would now correct me about one thing. Now about another. I remember that one day he said to me, "Everything that is earthly, everything you must remove. Not only from your heart, but also from your body. You cannot understand how harmful they are and what obstacles they pose to my love. Even the slightest earthly shadows. that is anything she might have in her heart to which she had affection, attachment or gave a place in her heart. I immediately said to him, well here we can imagine that it was something let's say neutral or even so to speak outside of God. But no, let's see what happened here. I immediately said to him, says Louisa, if there is anything else I need to remove, tell me because I'm willing to do it. So Louisa always showed her dosility, her openness to follow the will of God, not what she wanted, but what he was teaching her and always with that attitude of learning. But while I was saying this, I myself noticed that I was wearing a gold ring on my finger that bore the image of the crucifix. And I immediately told him that was what Louisa still had left. Something we could call a religious article, right? A devotional article, something that reminded her of Jesus. She says, "Holy spouse, do you want me to take it off?" And he said to me, "Should I not give you a more precious, more beautiful ring in which my image will be vividly imprinted? So much so that every time you see it, your heart will receive new arrows of love. That is why that ring is not necessary." So I promptly took it off. So this is the episode of the ring. So here what does Jesus teach us that even religious things look here he is specifically referring to religious material things devotional articles that can help us think of Jesus we should not be attached to those things we should not give them more importance than they deserve the important thing is Jesus not the article you see so it is important that we understand this so you might ask me does God want me to take off all my medals all those things? Well, let's understand this. I mean really, as it says here, they are not necessary. What is necessary is our love for Jesus, our faith. With a medal or without a medal, if you believe in God, he will help you with a crucifix or without a crucifix outwardly. It's just a way that maybe helps you think about Jesus. If it helps you, that's great. If you notice that it's actually something else, that it doesn't even help you anymore and instead you have a certain attachment to it, then you need to reflect on that. Everyone needs to examine themselves just like Louisa did. If you want to keep using them, let it be with that purity of intention. Let it be only to remind you of Jesus and to direct you to Jesus and not to attribute anything to the object itself. He is protecting. No, the object doesn't protect you. Jesus protects you directly and the object is just a means for you to think about Jesus. You don't focus on the object or the image or anything material. Material things. Notice in the gospel Jesus didn't leave behind material things. He didn't say now wear a cross or now have a picture of me in your house. In reality, Jesus didn't leave that behind. We do it and the church allows it, even recommends it to remind us and help us turn to Jesus. But we have to be careful not to become attached to them and not to have more affection for them than you have for Jesus. Whether it's stolen from you or you take it off, that doesn't affect your relationship between you and Jesus or between you and the blessed virgin. God wants us to be freer and less attached to those material things at least in the divine will. It doesn't mean you can't use them. You can but with that freedom of spirit. Well, so this episode teaches us that there are people who especially at the beginning of their spiritual life of their conversion need material things more. Yes, I don't criticize them. I'm not saying they don't have their purpose. The church blesses them, recommends them, but we have to discern how much they actually help you and where they don't. That's up to each person. So, it's not that I'm condemning them either. We need to have that balance to understand what this episode, this passage is teaching us. Neither one thing nor the other. In other words, balance. having balance. Louisa continues here. That was just an example, right? Then she says, "Finally, the long awaited day arrived after much suffering." Well, I'd like to finish that topic by saying that sometimes they really do become an obstacle for the soul. That's why Jesus warns us here. There are people who really do get very attached to images, to medals, to a certain rosary, in other words, to the material things of religion and they don't want to, I mean, they really don't even want to let go of them and they believe their faith depends on those things. So, that's when it starts to become an obstacle. You see, and it's not just Louisa. I once read St. John of the cross and he said exactly the same thing that the soul should reach a point where it is indifferent to all of that and not say I prefer this image over that one I like this one more and then seek out that particular image no why because it's not about the image it's about God the image should lead you to God to the blessed virgin and any image can do that see it with more indifference with greater freedom of spirit Don't get stuck on that because it hinders your spiritual growth. It becomes an obstacle. So if Jesus is asking us to detach even from that, then we need to understand the spirit of what he is saying. That's all.
Finally, she says that the long awaited day arrived after much suffering. Here the topic shifts a little. I remember that there was little time left before reaching a full year of being bedridden continuously. So it was almost a year already. Those 40 days had long passed and it had been several months, almost a year. It was the day of the purity of the most holy Mary. The night before that day, my beloved Jesus appeared to me in a festive manner. He approached me in joyful celebration and took my beating heart in his gentle hands. He looked at it very carefully and examined it with great love. Gently dusted it off. In other words, that light dust wasn't from grave sins, not even from venial sins. You could clearly tell because it wasn't actually dirty, but it did have a little bit of dust. those tiny little miseries and human defects. And so he dusted it off thoroughly and then he finally returned it to me. So notice here how Jesus looks at the heart and pays attention to our inner selves. Then he carefully selected an exquisite piece of clothing of truly breathtaking beauty. Here let's remember the mystical language once again. We're using images that Louisa understood and that we can also understand. He is going to teach us spiritual things. Then he took a garment of immense beauty. It seemed to me that the fabric was like solid gold. In other words, extremely valuable. Let's say marbled with various colors. and he dressed me in it. Then he took two gems as if they were earrings and adorned my ears with them. Then he adorned my neck and arms, and he crowned my forehead with a crown of immense value, all encrusted with gems and precious stones, all shining with light. And it seemed to me that these lights were so many voices that resonated among themselves and in clear tones they spoke to me. Graces of beauty, of power, of strength and of all the other virtues of my spouse Jesus. So here these are not like earthly jewels simply and plainly, but rather it is about understanding how all of these are virtues of God, of beauty, of power. With this he was crowning Louisa and clothing her in this most precious garment. That is she sees it as the most valuable thing on earth of solid gold stre with various colors. In other words, something exquisite. What is the most valuable thing? Well, the grace of God, Jesus himself, his will and so on. So, we can imagine that he clothed her with the merits of Jesus. In short, with what is most precious in the spiritual realm plus the crown which spoke of those virtues of Jesus, his qualities and the other virtues of my spouse Jesus and he places them on her as a crown. Right? In other words, he gives them to her. Who can say what I understood? And in what sea of consolation did my soul swim? In other words, all of this is a symbol of how in order to be betrod, to be united with Jesus, well, you have to be well presented. Remember the wedding garment as well. There you were a guest, but here he invites you to be the bride. He invited Louisa then as a bride. Not just as a guest, but he gives her this garment not just as a guest, but as the bride. So then, while the Lord Jesus gently girded my forehead, he spoke softly to me, saying, "My sweetest and most beloved spouse, I now place this precious crown upon you so that absolutely nothing may be lacking. to make you truly worthy of being my eternal bride. But after our betroal is accomplished, I will take you to heaven to keep it for you for the moment of your death." Finally, Louisa says, "He took a veil and with it covered me completely from head to toe, and thus he left me." truly like a bride, you see, like someone preparing to be united in this case to God. Ah, it seemed to me that this veil had a great significance. Why? You see a great significance. She is also speaking about meanings. It's not the veil for the sake of the veil, but rather it signifies something else. Because when the demons saw me covered with it, they were so frightened and felt such fear of me that they fled in terror. Even the angels themselves were around me with such veneration that I myself was left confused and completely filled with shame. And well, I can imagine it like this. The garment was all of Jesus, his merits, his works, everything. And the veil was the divine will. Well, that's how I imagine it. She doesn't say it explicitly but look before that the demon would flee and the angels would look upon it with veneration that veil which covered those garments of light that as she later says Adam had right and that Jesus himself resurrected had them. So here it was already symbolizing the divine will.
On the morning of that day, that is the day of the mystical marriage, Jesus appeared again, all gentle, sweet and majestic, together with his most holy mother. She cannot be separated from him, especially at this moment when a soul is united to him. Right there she is. And in this particular case, St. Catherine has this to say. Let us remember that the holy St. Catherine of Sienna was a Dominican tertiary and so was the servant of God Louisa Picareta. So God truly wanted them to have that profound spiritual connection. But this also has a meaning. Now why weren't other saints present there? St. Catherine in Italy especially in that era was recognized as the great mystic from there. A Dominican, a lay woman, consecrated and precisely of the third order. In other words, they are not religious nuns but lay consecrated people. So Catherine and Louisa were consecrated lay women and mystics who without St. Katherine without any formal human studies had such great wisdom that she wrote very profound treatises about God and mysticism about the mystical things of God and his relationship with souls and we know that this wisdom exists. She used it to give advice to kings and even to popes, right? And she helped a lot in her time to how shall we say to restore the papacy to its splendor with that devotion she had for the pope whom she called the sweet Christ on earth. Well, all of this why wasn't Catherine present there? Well also to signify to her to us and to the whole church that this mysticism that is the union the relationship of the soul with God continues to grow and from St. Katherine in a certain way it passes to Louisa or is present there as if to say yes this continues here. So there are so many similarities between Louisa and St. Katherine, but here with Louisa is the fullness after so many years. Right? In other words, it's a continuity. There are no breaks. It's not that she was one thing and I am another. No, it's all that continuity and growth in the church of this knowledge of how the soul's relationship with God works and of all that teaching that spiritual doctrine. So I repeat once more Jesus appeared again before me appearing gentle, sweet and truly majestic together with his holy mother and the blessed St. Catherine. The angel sang a hymn. St. Catherine assisted me. The mother took my hand and Jesus placed the ring on my finger. Then we embraced and he kissed me and so did my mother that is the blessed virgin. Afterwards we had a conversation filled entirely with love. Jesus spoke to me about the immense love with which he loved me. And I also spoke to him about the love with which I loved him. The blessed virgin made me understand the great grace I had received and the response I should give to the love of Jesus. Well, there are numerous significant and essential elements here in order to fully comprehend what the concept of mystical marriage truly is. That is what is a marriage? It is a total giving of oneself to the other. Total that is in the case of Louisa and Jesus it is total. Jesus gives himself completely to Louisa. But how shall we put it? Jesus has always previously given himself completely to souls, hasn't he? So here rather it is Louisa who reaches that point of giving herself totally to Jesus totally her whole life, her intellect completely her will completely her actions. So and why? Well out of love. Here love is present as in a marriage but here it is sublime that is here is the truth the earthly marriage as St. Paul said is in fact more of an image of the spiritual which is the true fullness of the soul with its God with God who loves you so much that is the true let's say marriage that should exist in every soul to which each soul is called here it is not about man or woman here we are souls and marriage is a symbol of the union that should exist between you and God from that God who loves you so much who has given himself to you completely and has given you everything. Thus the act of self-giving is symbolized by the ring. Then it says we embraced and he kissed me. That is an act of love, an act of giving yourself completely to the other. A sharing of goods. Remember that in mysticism the kiss means just that Jesus he kisses Louisa that is he shares his goods with her. Let's say that Louisa is like a king right he is the one who is extremely rich and Louisa is the poor commoner who is going to marry the king. So who has to give to whom? Well the soul the commoner gives everything she has. But to receive everything the other has, the one who has the riches is the other. So she opens herself. She gives herself completely in order to be open to receive what the immensely rich spouse gives her. So look here it is about total surrender and the goods. When the soul receives the goods of Jesus willingly and consciously, it's not that Jesus doesn't always give them, but the soul doesn't have the capacity to understand it until she is prepared and receives them willingly. That is when there is this union of wills wanting the same thing as the spouse wants. So here they are no longer two but one. That is to say, as I explained before, that the stars remain. Yes, it's not that Louisa's personality is no longer there. It is there. But now there is only one life, the divine life, that of the spouse in her and also with her. So now Louisa is going to live the life of the spouse and she is going to use the goods of the spouse, those virtues, the divine qualities. In short, she now comes into possession of all of this. We also had a conversation entirely about love. Jesus spoke to me about the great love with which he loved me and I also spoke to him about the love with which I loved him. Then the blessed virgin made me understand the great grace I had received. So there her maternal role is always present. How beautiful and the response that I should give to the love of Jesus and her role as a model for a relationship with God. Teacher, model, mother. My spouse Jesus from that moment on, Louisa says, gave me new rules to live more perfectly. But since a lot of time has passed, I don't remember them very well. That's why I moved forward and that's how that day ended. So Jesus kept giving her more rules that is more ways to live more of the life of Jesus. He was perfecting her and in the same way that's how it has to be with us. Well, this is truly beautiful. Let's remember that this is a ceremony. Well, she experienced a ceremony. For us to reach this point, it's not that the ceremony is not indispensable. I had already mentioned this once before. What is indispensable is the will we have to want to unite ourselves with Jesus. He truly wants to. He truly wants to because as I've told you he has already given himself completely to us and unites himself with us as far as we are willing each one of us. So it depends on us. It's like a groom. He is the one who proposes marriage to you. On whom does it depend on the groom? No, he already made the proposal. It depends on the bride, whether she accepts, whether she doesn't accept, how much she accepts, when she accepts, and so on. Right? So, it depends on us how far we want to give ourselves to the one who is proposing a divine marriage, a spiritual marriage. So, we'll leave that as your homework. What are you going to answer or what are you answering to your spouse of the soul? May he help us to respond to him to be those faithful virgins who prepare ourselves for this wedding. Or if we have already had that intention, then let us perfect ourselves to be better spouses.
In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Amen. My Jesus with a heart overflowing with love. Well, we want to say fiat. Yes, we want to unite ourselves and surrender ourselves completely in you and for this mystical marriage between us and you and between our will and the divine will to be fulfilled that we may become one with you and live your very life sharing that life in common so that we may possess it. all your goods that you so generously and so lovingly wish to give us. Help us to be ready to receive everything you want to give to each one of us. And we ask you for all souls so that they may reach these heights, this intimacy with you. For this is why you created them all. And you most holy virgin, help us, assist us as mother, as teacher, as model for us and for everyone. So be it. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.