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Well, the topic that has already been mentioned is more or less about the church, its situation, its passion, its purification and its renewal. So, regarding this topic, we are not going to address it so much from the point of view of spirituality specifically of living in the divine will, but rather how this is integrated into the church and its development. That is what is God's will for his church. All this about the divine will. So well what can I possibly teach you about the church? You are well surely better prepared than I am. But we are going to do a brief summary of the church. Right.
The church then comes from the divine will. It is an act of God's will. Specifically God Jesus when he was here on earth wanted to form his church. He willed it and that will is an act of God. God's will in such a way that the church springs forth from the will of God. Let's remember the words when he says to Peter, you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church. So he wants to build the church there. So by also saying build, it is a reality that is being constructed that he is building with human collaboration. It's not just that he is going to build his church in human beings and human beings are just inert as if they didn't have freedom or will. No, it requires the cooperation of the chosen ones in this first instance that would be the apostles. And then for all of us who will be incorporated into the church, it requires God builds it with us but with our free and voluntary cooperation to the point that each one is precisely willing it freely.
Well, from the beginning, God Jesus wanted this is also God's will for the church to be hierarchical for there to be different levels of authority that too you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church and he says it in front of the twel apostles but he is only giving the and the rock is only one it is Peter who has the supreme authority and from there the Other hierarchies of authority come among them. Well, as we know the bishops, then the priests, the 72 disciples came later and then all the faithful women too. As disciples, they have their role there. As women, as anyway, each one there are different well you could say missions, services, tasks within the church. So, as they say, right, we are all part of the church. We all form the church of Christ but each one according to their mission and their specific task.
We also have the reassuring promise of our Lord that the powers of hell shall not under any circumstances prevail against it. So our faith in the Catholic Church is not just because God founded it and that's it but because he is promising because his word is effective. Right? What he says is what is that the powers of hell will not prevail. That is to say there will be much struggle many attempts to silence it to submerge it to crush it to kill it in short but it will not prevail. So it is in a struggle another of the promises of Jesus is I will be with you always until the end. So our faith in the church is founded I repeat not so much on the church but on the will of God on the word of Jesus. We believe in Jesus in that what he says is true. So that is why we believe in the church. I say I say this because surely you as priests come across people where right now there are many trends saying the church is wrong that the church I mean that God is going to make another I mean like renew the church. Well, he will renew it. But it's not that he sets aside this church and makes another. No, this same church is the only one. The one that is alive, is being built, one part is being purified and everything is being built upon this church. We have that help and that divine promise. So it cannot be said that the church is wrong. The church is holy because of its founder, because of what he promised, and because of his assistance and that of the Holy Spirit, and because of everything he deposited in it.
What was it that Jesus deposited in his church? Well, all of himself, everything he did and everything he preached, all his examples, everything, his sacraments, well, everything he did, his word, everything that is deposited as a living reality in his church. First, as we said, he entrusts all this to his apostles and then it goes on as the church grows and develops. Well, this is what nourishes us. And what is the sap? It is the life, the divine life that is present there in all these manifestations that you know very well. Well, it is divided more or less the church divides it into dogma which are all the teachings of faith, morals, the examples of Jesus, his virtues that we must follow and that are our rule of morality and worship well in which we unite liturggically with Jesus precisely to give him glory, adoration and pray to the father always united with our lord in the liturggical and sacramental forms. Right? But it is always united to everything our Lord has already done. The greater the union we have with him and with all this deposit that is in the church, well, the more that is we will grow much more in all this and the greater value our adoration, our love, our praise to God will have. So more or less well it can be said that all this is the church in broad terms. All this in the end Jesus still gives an order go throughout the whole world and preach my gospel that is my word my doctrine baptize everyone there it is the sacraments and whoever believes will be saved there is the faith too so that order is given to keep growing to make the church grow and for it to reach all human beings well all this how is it in the writings of Louisa to start with well it is in full consonants and harmony here it does not come to teach something else. It does not come to descent that is to be against something but it comes to on this basis which is already there that we have of ecclesiology well to give it greater development and its fullness. One could say I want so you can see well to read a chapter from volume two of Louisa in which she speaks precisely about the church May 2nd 1899 explanation about the church right Louisa writes this morning this is from 1899 I really like to see the dates so that we can place ourselves in what historical context they are saying this let's say the 20th century is just about to begin, right? Just 1900.
This morning, Jesus inspired much compassion. That's how Louisa saw him. He was so afflicted and suffering that I didn't dare say anything to him. We looked at each other in silence. He from time to time would give me a kiss and I to him. That is to say, they communicated their love then. And so he did it again. So he made himself seen several times. The last time he made me see the church telling me these precise words in my church. It truly feels as though all of heaven itself is beautifully represented. So it's going to be a comparison as well. So in my church one is the head which is the pope and even in the tiara that surrounds his head the holy trinity is represented and many are the members who depend on this head that is the different dignities different orders superiors inferiors from the greatest to the smallest all serve to embellish my church. So here it is the beautiful thing that here although it's said big small well it might seem that way to us like the members of a body big small but all are necessary and all give beauty to the church all have their function within the church also here it can be said as in creation for creation if we say the sun is big and the little flower is tiny and that difference appears to us but everything everything God created And everything serves us for something and has its function in nature in all that creation. And everything everything gives a balance to all of God's creation and everything beautifies and everything contributes something. So in this way in the mystical body we are all important for that reason. All serve to embellish my church. Each one according to their degree has a task that has been entrusted to them and with the exact fulfillment of the virtues. There it is with the exact fulfillment of the virtues and of their mission that important and sacred mission that has been entrusted to them gives my church a most fragrant and radiant splendor that is most beautifully perfumed so that earth and heaven both remain perfumed and illuminated. The people, the individuals remain so attracted by this light and by this wonderful perfume that it becomes almost impossible, nearly unthinkable not to surrender to the truth. So well, here we see how well we are all responsible for attracting more people to belong to this mystical body with our prayers, our good works, our testimony, our example, etc. where God placed us. I mean we don't need to desire to be something else or more. No, no, no. Where God placed us, we are fine. We just have to do it well. Right?
Now it goes to the part about the well infected members. Right? It says I leave it to you to consider the infected members who instead of giving light give darkness. What destruction do they cause in my church? So veiledly he tells her well like that he doesn't go into so much detail but it's worth meditating on right if the good members when they are exact in the fulfillment of their office and virtues the splendor they give it well the opposite right what is it that gives darkness when we are not each exact in the fulfillment of our of our task of our function and of the virtues that Jesus wants. I mean not only do we not give splendor to the church or it damages our soul our own mission but will we affect other members or even potential people who could join and by not giving testimony ourselves well we affect that development of the church so we see then how here it deals with the church well let's say in a sense well that has always been treated the mystical body of Christ that's how Jesus treats it in Louisa the same I am the vine you are the branches it goes in that sense I mean it's the life of Jesus that he allowed to be deposited in the church and that has to run through all the branches and come to produce the fruits another of the important points relating to our beloved church which is so dear to us is that Jesus before ascending to heaven after his resurrection tells his disciples iples I will send you the paraclete spirit the holy spirit who will lead you to all truth. So here it is very clearly saying that the church the community of believers will continue progressing step by step in the understanding and deepening of the truth. This means that the journey of the church is ongoing, always moving forward in its grasp of spiritual truths guided by the spirit and that this process of growth and discovery truly never ends. Yes. I mean, it's not that the fullness of the church was at Pentecost. No, that was the beginning of the church in which it already has all the Holy Spirit in which it will begin to work to lead the church to the fullness of truth. So look, we've already had 2,000 years of the church and our holy mother church continues to grow. If it had reached its fullness, God would no longer need to give more time to the church, that is to humanity, because it would have reached fullness, the fulfillment of its mission. But if he still gives time, humanity exists, and the church exists, and God continues to assist his church, it's because we as a church must continue developing until we reach fullness. Until what? Fullness? Well, I'm going to read you another chapter from Louisa volume 15 November 28th 1922 that is what what is the whole truth or the whole fullness let's see Jesus himself will be explaining it to us you'll see the divine will is the seed the means and the crown of the church and of everything.
Louisa says that she was praying, merging herself entirely into the most holy will of God. But I had in my mind some doubt about everything Jesus has been telling me about this most holy will. Louisa also sometimes had well certain doubts about how well of many kinds right how it was going to develop in short things she sometimes thought about and Jesus well he would answer her he would explain and Jesus says drawing me close to him with a light he cast into my mind he told me my daughter my will is the beginning the middle and the end of all virtue well beginning right now. Well, we'd better let Jesus explain it. I'll just repeat that phrase. My will is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all virtue. Without the seed of my will, the name of true virtue cannot be given. It is like the seed to the plant which after it has deepened its roots underground. The deeper they are, the taller the tree that the seed contains is formed. So here he makes that comparison with a seed. So first there is the seed. This the seed forms the roots. The roots have the strength to make the plant sprout from beneath the earth. And as the roots go deeper, that's how the branches are formed, which grow so high as to form a beautiful crown. And this will form the glory of the tree, which by giving abundant fruit will form the utility and the glory of the one who swed the seed. Well then, this is the image of my church. The seed is my will. That is why I began by saying that the church came from the will of God. The church there swed the seed of the divine will. Why? Because it was sown in Jesus. The whole life of Jesus was to do the will of the father. So and there all of Jesus is deposited in the church. So the seed is already sown. The seed is my will in which it was born and grew the church. But for the tree to grow, time is needed. And to bear fruit in some trees, the duration of centuries is needed. The more precious the plant is, the more time is needed. Thus the tree of my will which is sown in the church. Being the most precious, the most noble and truly divine, the very highest of all time itself was needed to grow, to develop and to gradually make its many fruits known. So the church has known the seed that is in Jesus. We know that he did everything in the will of his father. That is his whole life can be summarized. He did the will of his father in everything. So there is the seed and so many other things that right now well I won't give you you know the quotes where Jesus speaks of the will of his father right and there is no holiness without the will without the seed of the divine will. This is true in the holiness that has been known in the church until now. Well, there is that seed of doing the will of God. It has always been that doing the will of God following the example of Jesus together with Jesus to do the that is to keep the ten commandments. The ten commandments are the will of God. They must be kept. So there is the seed of the will of God. Ah the virtues are also the will of God. they must be fulfilled. Many also the evangelical councils. Well, also now then that's where we're going. There is the seed of doing the will. And in the church there have been several degrees of fulfillment of the will of God, resigning oneself, conforming, uniforming oneself and until reaching the highest degree which is making one's will one with God's. the transforming union as it's called or mystical marriage uniting with God's will making the human will one with the divine will in everything possible. Yes, the church has reached that. So the seed is already there. It has grown branches. It has even produced flowers. It says then so I'll repeat the last phrase. The church has known the seed of my will and there is no holiness without it. Then it has known the branches, but it has always revolved around this tree. It has been right there. Now it must know the fruits to be nourished by them and to enjoy them. And this will be all my glory and my crown from Jesus who is deposited there in the church. It will be his glory and his crown. He will give everything well yes the full development to be known all the truth because what is the truth I am the truth Jesus said so fully knowing how Jesus fulfilled the father's will and how he lived in it will be the glory of Jesus which is what he reveals to Louisa then because until now we only knew how he fulfilled it in his humanity what was seen from the side all his 33 years of life. But how he fulfilled it from within, how his human will worked in his divine will in every act of Jesus, that is what has not been known yet. We know and the church has already said it that in Jesus there are two wills united, not opposed but united in which the human will follows the divine in everything that there are two operations in him. the human operation and the divine operation. That is to say that all his acts have that aspect. They are human acts but at the same time divine acts both are found. Why? Because he had a human will and a divine will. Yes. But in practice to see how that divine will worked in his human will in every act of Jesus in his prayers for example in his sufferings in his passion. That is what is not yet widely known in the church. Well, then when the church knows all this, it will be the crown and the fullness of Jesus of the truth. It says, "This will be all my glory and my crown and also the glory and the crown of all virtues because they all have their beginning in the divine will in the will of God. All virtues to be truly virtues exist because God wants them and we imitate them from Jesus. I mean poverty why is it a virtue? Well because Jesus said right learn well blessed are the poor in spirit. I mean it's God's will. It's Jesus teaching. It's God's will. That's why whoever wants to be poor and all that. Go sell everything you have and then come and follow me. uh it came from the word of Jesus from his example from his life that is from the father's will that's why they are virtues and so on with all of them I won't go into detail on all of them meekness obedience well he was obedient in everything even unto death on the cross so that's why obedience is a virtue why because it is rooted in the father's will following Jesus example he who is obedient well he is following the father's will he has the root of the divine will there the seed anyway. So in the divine will all that development will be given the virtues won't be taken away but rather they will be given full development as Jesus lived them to live them in the manner of Jesus. Well, right now I'm not going to focus only on the virtues because well it's not the topic. But just in passing I'm going to continue and it will also be the glory and the crown of all virtues and that of the whole church. So knowing all this about how the divine will works in the human will first in Jesus and then how it wants to work in us. That is what will give the glory and the crown to the church. We will reach the fullness of the fruits and of that seed of the divine will that is already sown. It will have full development and will bear fruits. Finally, those fruits that are being nourished by the divine life and will bear divine fruits in our acts. We are talking right now at the church level. But if we look at the church particularly in each one of us, in us it will bear those fruits of divine life which are the acts in the divine will. So Jesus says to Louisa, "Why are you amazed that instead of manifesting the fruits first, I think this was Louisa's doubt. Why are you amazed that instead of manifesting the fruits of my will first, I have manifested them to you after so many centuries. It's the doubt that can arise for many of us when we start hearing about Louisa." But how to Louisa? He comes to manifest. Now the thing about the divine will and why didn't he manifest it in his time here he's going to explain it well he already sort of explained it because they are the fruits and in his time he just came to sew the seed and start letting it develop everything works this way. If a king is to be made, the king is not crowned first. Not before the kingdom is formed, the army, the ministers, the throne, and at the very end is when he is crowned. If one wanted to crown the king first without forming the kingdom, the army and so on, he would be a joke of a king, a mockery. It wouldn't be anything serious. So the tree well I don't know if it says it here but so the tree one is not going to expect to have the fruits at the time of sewing the seed. So you have to water it. You have to wait for its full development to have the fruit. Those stages cannot be skipped then. So it says now my will must be the crown of everything and the fulfillment of my glory on the part of the creatures because only in my will can the creatures say everything is fulfilled like Jesus. But only until we reach this fulfillment this knowledge and this divine life in the divine will and I finding in her in the creature everything I want fulfilled. Sorry. Finding in her everything I want fulfilled, I not only make her know the fruits, but I nourish her and make her reach such a height as to surpass everyone. This is why I love so much and have so much interest in the fruits that are in my will, the effects, the immense goods that are in my will that the soul receives by living in him be known. For if they are not known, how can they be desired? much less can it be nourished by them. And if I did not make known what living in my will means, what it signifies and the value or the values it contains, the crown would be missing. As I said before, from everything from all of what? From creation also from creation. This has already been seen in other retreats how living in the divine will was God's plan for human beings. And so he created Adam and then well Eve and man at the time of the trial where God freely well gives him a test so that he may exercise his will freely to freely want to join this life and do it freely himself. That's where man well through temptation and so on went astray and he no longer wanted to and separated himself from this plan of God. So our Lord promises the redeemer right there. Our Lord comes after many years, centuries, millennia and he comes to plant the seed. But to reach its full effect, time is required. But the full effect is that that God's creative plan be resumed and also fulfilled. That is also the full redemption of the human being to return to that original state of holiness. I mean not living in a paradise like that, let's say material. So we shouldn't think of it physically or materially but speaking of the human soul in that state of union like Adam had in the state of original justice as it's called in the church or original holiness which the church hasn't known how to say exactly what it consisted of either because it wasn't the time to know it until the fruits arrived precisely to understand what those fruits of the tree of life were like. Do you remember that the tree of life was planted in the center of paradise and he ate of those fruits? But afterwards he could no longer eat from there because he separated himself. See, it's the same tree, the tree of the divine will that we were talking about with that biblical image of the tree of life. Well, then I'll repeat this last one. It would be missing if what it is to live in my will is not known. The crown would be missing from creation from the virtues and my work would be a work without a crowning. See then he says to Louisa how necessary it is that everything I told you about my will comes out that is be published be known because Louisa will always with those hesitations about not being known that her intimate things wouldn't be known anyway. So Jesus tells her it's not just that I'm doing this for you. It's for the whole church and all of humanity. The work I'm doing in you. So well there our Lord is explaining to her little by little the importance also of this ecclesial aspect let's say or general level. This is also the reason why I urge you so much. And it seems to you that I'm making you step out of the order I've had with others. For if I make them known and the graces that that I bestowed upon them, it's only after their death and instead with you, I allow that even in life what I told you about my will be known. Because if it's not known, it will be neither appreciated nor loved. Knowledge will be like fertilizer to the tree that will make the fruits ripen from which once well ripened creatures will be nourished and how great will be my joy and yours to see that everything already has its fruit after so much work. So that is the tree of the divine will that is already well planted in the church and that has to keep developing within the church.
When was the seed of the divine will sown in the church? In general, I already said it in the whole life of Jesus and everything when it forms the church. But there is a specific point that Jesus marks. Let's see in this chapter of volume 15, April 14th, 1923. I'm going to read it quickly because it's a bit long, but it also explains a lot of all this development. It's important to understand how God is working. I'll skip the part about Louisa which is more or less the same, her doubts, right? And Jesus tells her, pressing her very tightly to his heart, "Beloved daughter of my will, you must know that when I want to do great works, works in which the whole human family must take part or must participate whenever I want." Look here, this phrase is beautiful. I love it. Yes, God does these things for all of humanity, but he always leaves freedom whenever he wants or when he wants or whoever wants. So, freedom is always preserved. As we were saying about the church, yes, God founded his church and everything and he builds it as far as one wants, how one wants and when one wants. In other words, he respects us in our freedom. So our will, that's why it plays a very important role there. And we must, dear brothers and sisters, know how to appreciate more the very important role of our free will, right? And how it can reach its greatest development. Well, when we use it in the best possible way, I mean, if we already understand that something is good, well, we use it to freely choose that good thing. I mean, if we had to choose between something good and something bad and we understand what the good is, well, we know it's a benefit. It's a good for us, so we freely and gladly do it. If we have to choose between something good and something better, understanding that it's something better, it won't be hard for us to freely choose the best. And if we understand that something is there's good better and the ultimate well freely choosing the ultimate listen it's the greatest good we can freely aspire to right but that's why Jesus says there's a real importance to knowledge the more we truly understand what is best the greatest good we can have and that God wants to give us well we'll freely want it that's why God doesn't come to force us he doesn't come well yes to want it to be a forced thing by force or out of obligation. No, no, no. In this it's all for love. I mean freely he gives you all his knowledge. I mean he humbled himself to give us all this so that freely if we want to start knowing well that's already a step and upon understanding we'll freely want to do it. Whoever wants to and whoever doesn't well their freedom also remains intact freely. See, so the importance of self-educating ourselves, the importance, sorry, in that importance then that our will or our free desire has. And if we're going to understand that the ultimate is to unite our will with God's and act as God acts and reach as far as Jesus reached, well, we'll freely do it in that divine will. And that freedom will never be taken away from us. That is freedom in heaven. Exactly. That is freedom in heaven. Our Lord tells her in volume 17, right, that the blessed haven't lost their freedom. It's not that they're in heaven by force and have nothing like, "Oh, well, here only God's will and I do nothing." No, they already understand. So, they've already been purified. God and his will have been manifested to them. And they understood that that is the ultimate. So, they already freely want it. They've already purified everything that wasn't exactly God's desire. And they always freely want that. and are confirmed in the good but by their own will. So that's why in heaven there can be nothing else because they are freely absorbed in the divine will and they want nothing more than that because they understood it's the greatest good. See, so here that's why it's called living as in heaven on earth because the will of God and God himself is being manifested to us but from the earth through this work of Louisa and freely whoever wants to can now live like this like the blessed ones absorbed in the divine will with the difference one could say there are two differences that here well we don't see it so clearly unveiled only intellectually as far as God allows us and that here we suffer here we still have suffering and we can act that is perform acts there the blessed can no longer perform more acts because their time to perform acts for themselves has passed. It's no longer the time to work but rather the time just to enjoy. And for us here he unveils it so that we may act with that divine will and put it to work. So well we have in a way we'd say a disadvantage but no rather an advantage because we'll also have the divine will unveiled up there to enjoy. But right now it is not Louisa says beatatifying in heaven. Here it is working conquering new riches for us and for everyone. Well then our Lord tells her all because of this little phrase. I'll repeat it. When I perform great works in which the entire human family must participate whenever they wish, it is my custom to concentrate in one single creature. All the goods, all the graces that this work contains. This is the look right here. He is telling us very clearly about how God works. Not how we imagine, how we interpret. No, how he is telling you he works. It is my custom to concentrate in one single creature all the goods, all the graces that this work contains so that all others as if from a fountain may take from that good as much as they want. When I perform individual works, I give limited things. On the other hand, when I perform works that must serve the general good, I give things without limit. This I did. It says here in the work of redemption, well, let's leave it at that. This I did in the work of redemption to be able to elevate a creature to conceive a man and God. I had to concentrate in her all possible and imaginable goods. I had to elevate her so much that I placed in her the seed of the same paternal ficandity. And just as my heavenly father generated me virgin in his bosom with the virginal seed of his eternal fakundity without the work of a woman that is the father and he generated him right and from this same seed the holy spirit proceeded. Thus here on earth my heavenly mother with this eternal seed all virginal of paternal ficondity conceived me in her virgin womb without the work of man. In short the sacrosan trinity had to give of its own to this divine virgin to be able to conceive me the son of god. Anyway, I'm going to skip ahead because it talks a lot about the blessed virgin there. And well, that's not the topic, right? About how he did it in the redemption just in general in the blessed virgin. Well, he filled her with graces full of grace to be able to bring about in her the incarnation and for her to be a cooperator in the whole redemption. The work was very great and incalculably created. I had to concentrate in her all goods and even myself to make it so that everyone could find what they needed. Therefore, the work of redemption having to be so great as to involve all generations. Here also comes another point. The first point that everything concentrates in one creature. The second point says, I wanted for so many centuries the prayers, the size, the tears, the penances of so many patriarchs, prophets and all the people of the Old Testament. So he also wanted all that. And I did this to dispose them to receive such a great good and to move me to concentrate in this heavenly creature all the goods that everyone was to enjoy. And what was it that moved these people, the chosen people to pray, to sigh and so on? the promise of the future Messiah. So since they had that promise that the redeemer was going to come, then they prayed, sighed and waited and they did all this activity to gradually obtain it and prepare themselves. This promise was like the seed of so many pleasant tears. If there had not been this promise, no one would have thought of salvation nor would have expected it. Now my daughter let us come to my will. Do you think it is a holiness like other holinesses? A good a grace almost equal to the others that I have done for so many centuries to the other saints and to the whole church. No. No. Here it is about a new era of a good that must also serve old generations. But it is necessary that I first concentrate all this good in a single creature as I did in the redemption. Concentrating everything in my mother. So there is God's way of acting. That is how he will act again or rather how he acted. And notice how things go at the very same steady pace to make the redemption come and to carefully prepare souls for this. I made the promise of the future Messiah. So that by waiting for him with hope, they would not only be prepared, but they could also in the future find their salvation in the redeemer who was to come. Now to prepare souls to live in my will and make them partakers of the goods it contains, and to return man to the path of his origin as he was created by me. I wanted to pray first making my voice resound from one point of the earth to the other up to the heights of heaven pausing for a moment saying our father who art in heaven. And I did not say only my father but instead I called him the father of the entire human family of all people. the mystical body of Christ uh our father to commit him to what I was going to add that everyone hallow your name so that your kingdom come on earth and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This was the purpose of creation and I asked the father that it be fulfilled. As soon as I prayed the father yielded to my please. See it's logical. There's no way the son prays and the father doesn't listen. At that moment he heard him and I formed the seed of this so great a good of such a good. So there the kingdom of the divine will was formed. And to make this important seed known and to let it truly develop, I taught my apostles my prayer and they faithfully transmitted it to the whole church. So that just as the people of the future redeemer, that is the ancient chosen people found salvation in him in that promise and in that hope and prepared themselves to receive the future Messiah. So in parallel with this seed formed by me, the church asks and repeats my same prayer countless times. That is the church has always followed the line of Jesus. And even today and prepares to receive that they recognize and love my heavenly father as their father and receive the great good that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, Jesus left us that to prepare ourselves and know that we are going there. It is very important. Look at how we are going to analyze a little bit how he said thy kingdom come. If the kingdom, he did not say let the kingdom spread because sometimes it is said the kingdom is already here. Well, the church sometimes interpreted it that way or some people did. No, if it were already here, he would have just said let your kingdom spread which is already here. He said come, which means that it was not yet here. That is it was in Jesus. In him it was indeed present in the blessed virgin but he ascended to heaven the virgin too. And there was no longer a kingdom here on earth of the divine will. So he leaves us asking come come again. In that sense I mean every word has its meaning. Thy kingdom come. That is what is your kingdom. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven as it is in heaven on earth. And if it were not meant to come, why would he leave us asking for that? Right? So we must understand what Jesus wanted us to ask for. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So how is it possible that sometimes we as a church do not have that clarity that the kingdom is going to come. I mean Jesus was clear. If it were not meant to come, we would not be asking for it. Let's see how does the apocalypse end. and I saw the heavenly Jerusalem descending from heaven dressed in radiance and well he describes it beautifully right with all the riches wonderful goods. He is not referring to us going to heaven because then it would say I saw the earth ascending to heaven to the heavenly Jerusalem. No, it does not say that. It says I saw the heavenly Jerusalem coming down to earth. That is, it ends with the prophecy of the kingdom with that the revelation is closed and that he made his dwelling among men and that the tree of life was there. So says the apocalypse and everyone was nourished by its fruit. So that is the final prophecy of the New Testament meaning we must wait for it while the church is currently in that process. So the church asks and repeats my same prayer many many times and carefully prepares to receive so that they may truly recognize and deeply love my heavenly father and to receive the great good that comes when my will is done on earth just as it is in heaven. The saints themselves form their holiness in this seed and in this hope that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The martyr shed his blood and so on. There is no good that does not derive from this seed of my will. From this seed of thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And just as all the tears, the penences, the prayers to have the Messiah were directed toward that sublime virgin whom we had to prepare to concentrate such a great good to be able to receive her savior, even though they did not know who she would be. Although the promise was there, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. So well the promise was there and so vaguely every time they asked for the descent of the word for the redeemer to come. Well, they were also asking for that virgin so that God could choose her, prepare her and everything so that the redeemer could come. Well, also so now the church when it prays the our father it is precisely for you for whom it prays to make me concentrate in you all the good that my will contains every time we pray God takes it or took it well to also prepare that special person in whom he was going to concentrate everything as is God's way of working to concentrate everything in one person in due time. And although for now you are not known, the church echoing my prayer, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, asks me, begs me to concentrate all this good in a second virgin. Well, a side note here, it is not saying second virgin with a capital letter. Right? In other words, it is not saying that she is another one exactly like the blessed virgin because there are those who misinterpret it that way. No, it is speaking in a general sense. A second virgin that is a virgin woman who is going to have a general mission, a vision. Um, yes, with this mission for the whole church and humanity. He's saying it in that sense just that nothing more. What's more, this second virgin with a lowercase V will always be the daughter of the blessed virgin. Right? He's never putting her on the same level or taking away from the virgin. I mean because there have been those misinterpretations. In fact, I was just coming from a retreat in Los Mochi and they told me there that a little prayer card appeared an image or I don't know a montage made by some group or some people I don't know where they put the image of the virgin. I don't know of which title and instead of the face of the blessed virgin they put Louisa's face on it. I mean totally distorted right? I mean that's not the sense of what's being said here. And then why do they say that Louisa says things? It's not that Louisa doesn't say that someone misinterprets or exaggerates things. You see, we have to be careful, my dear brothers, because there are currents or little groups or people who can and are misinterpreting the writings. We've already mentioned it on some occasion. So, well, I'll close the parenthesis so that this little phrase isn't misinterpreted. So that with thirst the church asks every time it prays the our father as well. I mean by asking for the kingdom it's asking for God to act as he acts that is concentrating everything in one creature although we as a church didn't know or understand that look it doesn't matter because the one who is praying every time the our father is prayed is also God himself. It's Jesus himself who asks and he does know what he's asking for. I mean every time we pray an our father in the church Jesus himself is with his our father repeating it and doing it in that soul and in that assembly in that holy mass there is the living Jesus repeating his same prayer and he does know what he was asking for and what he asks so he well as head of the church well he's performing his function as head too you see anyway so that as another savior also with a lower case as she may save humanity which is going to its ruin in this sense. It's not her who's going to save. It's not Louisa. It's the work that God is doing and that he wants to give us through Louisa. Okay, they're signaling to me that it's almost going to end. Okay, five little minutes I'll finish the chapter and then we'll see what because I had prepared the topic a bit longer. Let me know if there's more time or what we should do. Okay. To round it off, right? At least so that it's more rounded off. I'm going to skip some parts then just straight very straight to the point. Well, in summary, I think you were already given them, right? You can read it later in great detail. But the idea is this. Where did Jesus form the seed in the our father? for the fruits of that tree of the divine will to come and
How Jesus, God, his plan was to deposit it in a soul, in a person, just as he did with redemption. Here too, and this I'll make a parenthesis here too, is also in tune with another of the Bible's prophecies, the announcements when it says in Genesis, in the protoevangelium, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, between her lineage, between her offspring and yours, right? And she will crush your head."
So it says, "the woman," it doesn't say "a woman." So it's not just the Virgin. God also wanted for this work, and to complete all his work, to choose another woman. That's where it comes from. He didn't say, "a woman will only crush your head." But "the woman." Sometimes it's been interpreted as a woman, and undoubtedly, at the head is the Blessed Virgin. But it also remains a bit open to everything being completed by another woman as well. Jesus tells her in some chapter, "The first was a woman, Eve, through whom it began. And I want to use the woman too. I used my mother, and now another woman as well, to bring man back to his original state and to complete the fulfillment of all this."
Anyway, so this woman, who is Louisa, in whom Our Lord does all his work, is fully inserted into his Church. She is a fruit of the Church. Why is she inserted into the Church? Well, first, because she's Catholic. She was baptized. She frequented them. She was a Catholic person, first of all. Second, because of her state or her mission as a victim soul. When she uh starts feeling this, receiving rather, this calling from Our Lord to offer herself as a victim soul, she does it only uh out of obedience. He tells her to ask the priest for permission, and at first, it's for a certain time, and then more and more. And so she asks, goes to ask the confessor for permission again, involving her Church there, so that her state as a victim is always under, that is, closely followed by the Church, inserted in the Church, and followed by the Church, under the authority of the Church.
So she remains in bed, and and daily, we had already seen this too, but now with this focus on why, right? Um, how the priest has to wake her up every day, and she requires priestly authority to uh continue her daily life. And besides, because of the priest, in order to discern her, he commands her to write. So her volumes are also born out of obedience to the Church, fully inserted in the Church, and fully supervised, always by the Church. Both her and her victimhood development, which, by the way, she also always offered for the Church. That was another of the chapters I wanted to read to you, how she offers herself for the help and the resurgence of the Church in these times, in the renewal of the Church of Jesus, and she ha has a very important role as a victim in sustaining the Church in these times. So that would be uh uh a topic that's a bit pending there.
And her writings, well, they didn't just come out of obedience to the Church, but the priest reviewed her writings daily, asked others. Well, he uh made them known to the bishop, to his bishop, to his to the authority. And the bishop sometimes asked other priests or theologians to review them, to give him their opinion. So they were always very guarded and followed by the Church. Even St. Hannibal, who you already know well, even published them after reviewing them and all that stuff, right? And now the Church, well, also, in short, everything about Louisa was deposited in the Church, and now the Church, well, uh, through its bishop, has both allowed them to be disseminated in the Church and also for the Vatican to study them as the highest authority, and they are working on that. But the theologians have already spoken out, saying that there is no error in Louisa's writings, right? I mean, the the process goes step by step, but we already have this statement. They will continue to study it, but it's there. I mean, sometimes the there are people who say, "No, but the Church hasn't spoken out." Okay, the whole process hasn't reached its peak yet, making a pronouncement, uh, let's say, handing it over and saying, "Yes, everything is fine. Understand them in in such a way." I mean, no. But in that process, it has already reached the point where it says, "They are fine. There is no error in them." They are not going to review them again to see if there are errors or not. No, that's already behind us. It's already been reviewed in the Vatican, first in her diocese, and then in the Vatican. Now they are going to look at certain critical or special points to be able to explain them better as a Church.
So, in summary, everything about Louisa, every aspect of her life and her teachings, is truly within the Church and is, in fact, a genuine fruit of the Church itself. Yes. And it's already available for all of us. And well, uh, there it is. Well, it's it's everything from the Church. Yes. We are still in that process. But here come the human beings, which are also us. And we can also cooperate by studying them, knowing how to interpret them, living them, making them known. In short, well, God requires us as human instruments first to produce these fruits in us, and then well, in other souls. As many souls have welcomed them, and sometimes even turned to you as priests, right? So, it's important, well, also that you more or less know how to to guide them within the ecclesial path where all this about Louisa is indeed located. Well, I would like to tell you so many more things, but well, the time is up, and well, we'll see if there's another opportunity. Well, thank you very much.