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Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Jesus, you want to pray. So, we're going to pray with you. Come divine will, come pray in our praying. Lord Jesus, we give you the little pebble of our will in exchange for the gift of living in your divine will. And Lord Jesus, we fuse ourselves into your will, refusing to every act we've done today and every act that we will do. Every thought, every word, every breath, every heartbeat, the flow of our blood, our memory, intellect, and will. Lord Jesus, we make an act of abandonment to your divine will. And we make an act of resignation to your divine will. Come divine will. Come think in our thinking. Come breathe in our breathing. Come beat in our heartbeat. Come recall in our memory. Our Lady Queen of the Divine Will pray for us. St. Joseph pray for us. St. Annabel the Francia pray for us. Servant of God pray for us.
And we pray the prayer of beatification which I've got about 10,000 around but I can never find one when I'm about to do this talk. It's really funny. There we go.
August most holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we praise and thank you for the gift of the holiness of your faithful servant Louisa Pigoreta. She lived our Father in your divine will, becoming under the action of the Holy Spirit, in conformity with your Son, obedient even to death on the cross, victim and host pleasing to you. Thus cooperating in the work of redemption of mankind, her virtues of obedience, humility, supreme love for Christ and the Church, lead us to ask you for the gift of the glorification on earth so that your glory may shine before all and your kingdom of truth, justice, and love may spread all over the world in the particular charisma of the feared volunteer and terror. We appeal to her Mary to obtain from you most holy Trinity the particular grace for which we pray to you with the intention to fulfill your divine will. Amen.
Name the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Well, good evening everyone and welcome. Thank you for those of you who are joining on Sunday afternoon, especially in America where it's Mother's Day. So, thank you those of you doing that. It's not Mother's Day here in England. That happened in mid-Lent when we have our Sun La Sunday, I think it's called, when we have our Mother's Day. Daddy's Day will be in a couple of months. So, um, taking a look at our new Holy Father, um, just congratulations to those of you who are in America for having an American Pope, first time in history. We English had our one and only Pope over a thousand years ago. So, um, we both stand with one Pope each on that one. But praise God and the beautiful Pope he is as well.
Um, so I want to just take a look at some of the, um, comparisons between Pope Leo the 14th and Pope Leo the 13th and the divine will. Um, and before, before I get into the Leo the 13th and Leo the 14th, um, just want to take a look at his opening words. Um, when John Paul II became Pope in 1978, his first words were, "Do not be afraid." And now here we are, um, a generation later, and Pope Leo the 14th opens up with, "Peace be with you."
Um, now there's a beautiful parallel to this in the Gospels. I'm opened up on Luke chapter 1 when the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah in the Jerusalem temple. The first words of the angel to Zechariah are, "Do not be afraid." Six months later, the same angel appears to Mary. And the second phrase, the same angel says to the Blessed Virgin Mary is, "Do not be afraid." Same as John Paul II back in 1978.
Then the Gospels proceed and Jesus brings salvation and establishes, um, and, and he and our Blessed Mother do all their acts in the divine will. And we get to John 20, um, uh, on the evening of the first day of the verse 19, on the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews. Jesus came to them and said, "Peace be with you." And Jesus repeats this twice. This message of Shalom, which is the Hebrew phrase, Shalom. And this becomes the message, if you like, of, um, of all the letters after, after John's Gospel.
So we get to St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians, one of two Corinthians, um, um, Ephesians, Philippians, uh, Romans. I forgot about Romans. And Paul's letters all begin with the same phrase, "Grace and peace." And in one way or another, "Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Grace and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ." So Paul's proclaiming peace all the way through his letters. It's his opening greeting in every letter. So it's a contrast with the Old Testament and the beginning of the New, where the message there is, "Do not be afraid." The it goes onto a new dynamic with this, "Peace be with you."
Why is this so important for us? Because we are now nearly 50 years closer to the era of peace than when John Paul II was appointed as Pope. And we have a new Pope, Leo the 14th, now, who is proclaiming a message of peace. And that's our message. The message of the divine will is the message of peace. And I often talk to you about the necessity for interior silence and interior stillness and cultivating an interior silence. The necessity of this. I was talking to my wife about this earlier when we went out for our Sunday walk. And, um, I mentioned about the, the, um, the prime purpose of creation. And she said, "Oh, tell me more." So I said, "Well, when God created the universe, he created it as a dwelling place of man." And so before he created man, he had to create everything in the universe and the earth and all the vegetation, all the animals. He had to create the, the area in which man was to be living. Then he creates man. But he creates him physically first. He creates the body first. And as Jesus says, "I always start off with the lesser work and proceed to the greater." So the universe is the lesser work. The creation of man is the greater work. The creation of man's body is the lesser work. The creation of man's soul is the greater work.
And Jesus says it like this. He then says that when I created man and I created him, I fused into him the soul, which is the greatest of all our creations. The soul is, is my dwelling place. So Christ created the soul, the human soul, as his dwelling place. Unfortunately, because of sin, the soul is left disturbed, agitated, unrest, um, anxious, fearful, and worried. And all these things mean that Jesus cannot dwell there. He can only dwell in the soul that is completely silent and that is completely free from even a shadow of disturbance. Louisa actually covers this in her very first diary. The necessity for the soul to be without a shadow of disturbance, to be completely silent, and to be completely at rest so that Christ can dwell in the soul in a very special way. And this is really what this era of peace is about. It's about Christ abiding in us in this very unique and beautiful way and us doing every single act in the divine will. Um, so that's, that's the one of the reasons why I'm constantly talking about the necessity for interior silence.
Now, you might say, "How can I get interior silence?" It's a grace. It's not something you get. It's something you receive. Okay. So when Jesus appeared to his apostles on Easter Sunday, he proclaims, he says, "Shalom. Peace be with you." Earlier on, before his crucifixion, he said to them, "Peace I give you." So he's giving them peace. So the task for us is receiving what God is wanting to give us. Okay.
So let's see how this flows into our new Pope's ministry, as it were, the mission that he's given to us. I was at a conference about a decade ago with, um, the Colombian, um, Marino Estreo, and I was talking to him about the papacy and asking him about a question, a few questions about his thoughts about the papacy. I think it was Benedict the 16th at the time. And he said that when he was, um, in Colombia, he was stood at, outside a cave one morning, and he was looking at a flock of birds flying and changing directions as the wind blew. And he said, "The Lord revealed to me that this is like the Church. Whenever Jesus appoints a new Pope, it's almost like the breath of God takes us in another direction. And what we have to do is fly with the Pope. Whatever direction he takes us, because he is moving on the breath. We have to move on the same breath. And if we don't fly with that breath, we separate ourselves from him. We, we purposely do that. So we have to fly on the breath. And the breath at the moment is the message of peace. He's speaking Shalom to us."
In his opening address, he then explains it to the cardinals. He explains why he chose the name Leo the 14th. And he connects it to Leo the 14th, which is right. You know, when John Paul II became Pope, he connected it to the ministry of John Paul I. Why did John Paul I choose that name? Because he, he thought he saw his papacy as flowing from the papacies of John the 23rd and Paul VI, and to, to further establish the teachings of Vatican II, um, in the Church. Leo the 14th has also referred to that same scenario.
So let's take a little look at the papacy of Leo the 13th in the light of Louisa. So Pope Leo the 13th becomes Pope in February 1878. Shortly after he becomes Pope, Louisa is standing on the balcony of her house on V, what we call now Via Louisa Piccoret. It wasn't called that back then, of course. And she has a vision of Jesus walking up the street carrying a cross, surrounded by a crowd of people. And he looks up at the balcony where Louisa is and he speaks three words. "Soul, help me." And that was a defining point in Louisa's journey. Now, that happens under the papacy of Pope Leo the 13th. And it's always worth noting the different things that happen when a certain person is Pope, because this is the fruitfulness of that particular papacy. Um, shortly after that incident, 1881, Louisa becomes a victim. She's intermittently confined to bed. 1882, at the age of 17, Louisa composes the Christmas Novena. Now, in volume 25 of Louisa's diaries, Jesus reveals to her why she composed the Christmas Novena, or the Nine Excesses of Love. He reveals to her that he gave her the Christmas Novena, and he says, "It is the prelude to all of the teachings on the divine will." And in the order of divine providence, Louisa writes the Christmas Novena in her first volume. She introduces her first volume. Then she does the first Excess of Love. Then she writes the whole volume, and then she concludes the volume with the other eight excesses. So these excesses prepare the soul for receiving the gift of living in the divine will. And Jesus gives this teaching to Louisa under the papacy of Pope Leo the 13th. Always remember, we're flowing from Leo the 13th to Leo the 14th. The divine will begins under Leo the 13th. Will it have its triumph under Leo the 14th? In my opinion, I think it will.
September the 7th, 1889, Louisa receives the gift of living in the divine will for the very first time. At that point in time, Jesus has not given her any teaching on the gift. The teaching starts to come much, much later. At this point, she receives the gift and she begins to be centered in the divine will. So under the papacy of Pope Leo the 13th, the gift of living in the divine will is given to the Body of Christ for the first time in history. Okay, ponder that mystery. Because now Jesus has given us Pope Leo the 14th. Remember, it's Jesus who gives us these Popes.
When you read the diaries of Louisa, Jesus reveals to us certain mysteries associated with the Church. For example, in, I think it's in volume 25, when Louisa is celebrating the Feast of Christ the King for the second time. It's only been a feast for two years. And Jesus then reveals to her why he has given the Church the Feast of Christ the King. So we wouldn't think of it like that. We would think of it as, "Oh, Pope, uh, Pius the 9th or 10th was the one who gave us the Feast of Christ the King." No, Jesus gave us the feast, and he gave us the feast because he says, "This is a precursor to the Kingdom of the Divine Will." This is to prepare the Church for the coming Kingdom of the Divine Will. So he gives that gives the feast specifically to prepare us for the coming kingdom.
September the 7th, 1889. So Louisa takes, receives the gift for the very first time, and it's the eve of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Leo the 13th became known as a, as the Pope of the Rosary because he wrote 12 encyclicals on the Rosary, which were published on the feast of Our Lady's birthday every year, September the 8th, every year for 12 years, the same date, if you like, on which Louisa first received the gift of living in the divine will. So once again, the Church is directing us towards something important here. Pope Leo the 13th giving us 12 documents on the Rosary. Louisa doesn't talk about the Rosary much in her diaries, but in volume 25, she tells us that Our Lady revealed to her, or I think it was Our Lady revealed to her, that the, the Rosary will be instrumental in the coming triumph of the divine will. So the Rosary is absolutely vital for the era of the divine will.
The Pope dies in 1903. It is. But before he died, now this is, this is, um, a vision that Louisa gives us. November the 1st, 1899. This is right at the end of the 19th century. At this point in time, Pope Leo the 13th has communicated with all the bishops in the world, asking them to join him in a novena to conclude on January the 1st, 1900. The purpose of the novena was to pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the world in the 20th century. So the Pope, Pope Leo the 13th, instrumental in calling for this new Pentecost that has actually been pouring out upon the Church for over a hundred years. How so? Well, when Louisa had the gift of living in the divine will, she teaches us that every act you do in the divine will is an outpouring of God. Every single act contains an outpouring of God. So, when you're in the divine will, you are flowing in a new and perpetual Pentecost. Whether you feel it or not, you're flowing in it.
Now, this is her vision. Pope Leo the 13th is Pope, but the vision could well be for Pope Leo the 14th. It could be for every Pope that we've had since Leo the 13th. As I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself inside a church in which there was a priest celebrating the divine sacrifice. And while doing this, he was crying bitterly and was saying, "The pillar of my Church has no place on which to lean." In the act in which he was saying this, I saw a pillar, its top touching the heavens. At the bottom of this pillar, there were priests, cardinals, bishops, cardinals, and all other dignitaries sustaining this pillar. But to my surprise, I went about looking, and I saw that of these people, some were very weak, some half rotten, some infirm, some full of mud. So very scarce was the number of those who were in a condition to sustain it. So this poor pillar kept swaying, unable to remain still. So many were the quakes it received at the bottom. At the top of this pillar was the Holy Father. Now, notice she says "the Holy Father." She doesn't actually name Pope Leo the 13th, Pope Pius the 11th, Pope Pius the 12th, John Paul I, just "the Holy Father," who with gold chains and with reins emanating from his whole person, did as much as he could to sustain it and to chain and illuminate the people who dwelled at the bottom. Sorry, Helen. This is volume three, the first entry. The first entry of Louisa's third volume. Now, notice the Pope is the one who is illuminating the people who dwell at the bottom. And he does this through his teaching and through his ministry. He illuminates us. What we have to be aware of is the illuminations of grace that come to us from the Holy Father. Pope Francis was the one who illuminated us for the last 10 years or so. Now we have Pope Leo the 14th illuminating us, and he's the one on top of the pillar. Although some of the people were fleeing so as to have more ease in getting rotten and muddy. Not only this, he did as much as he could to bind and illuminate the whole world. While I was seeing this, the priest who was celebrating Mass, I'm not sure whether he was a priest or our Lord. It seems to me it was him, but I cannot tell with certainty, called me close to himself and told me, "My daughter, see in what a heart-rending state my churches. The very ones who were supposed to sustain her fall short, and with their work, they knock her down. They beat her and reach the point of denigrating her. The only remedy is that I cause so much blood to be shed as to form a bath to wash away that rotten mud and to heal their deep wounds, so that healed, strengthened, embellished in that blood, they may become instruments capable of keeping us stable and firm." Then he added, "I have called to tell you, do you want to be a victim and therefore be like a prop to sustain this pillar in these times?" So, encouraable. So Jesus needs the blood of the martyrs and the victim souls to sustain the pillar.
Now, I was reading the third secret of Fatima earlier on today, and in the, at the end of the third secret of Fatima, you have the Pope being martyred, bishops, priests, and lay people being martyred, and you have the angels collecting the blood and washing souls in the blood of the martyrs. And that's kind of what happened in the 20th century. More martyrs in the 20th century than in the previous 20 centuries combined. So, uh, go to the last paragraph of the third volume. "After this, I saw the bloodiest daughter that was made of these people who are at the bottom of the pillar. What a horrible catastrophe. Extremely small was the number of those who would not be victims. They reached such daringness as to try to kill the Holy Father. But then it seemed that the blood that was shed, those bloody tormented victims, were the means to render strong those who were left so as to sustain the pillar without letting it sway anymore. What happy days after this! Days of triumph and peace would arise. The face of the earth seemed to be renewed, and the pillar would acquire its original prestige and splendor."
Now, you've got to notice the centrality of the Holy Father in this. In the last few years, the enemy has deceived many people to stray away from the papacy. Many Catholics, or some Catholics, have even boasted about going across to the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is, for me, utter foolishness. Staying close to the Holy Father is central to the coming triumph. And I'm going to prove it again. What I've just shared with you came from Louisa. If I can, I'm going to see if I can share my screen with you all. Where's my share button? There it is. Okay, let's see if we can do, let's see if we can do Google Chrome. There we go. That's unknown. That's unknown. H might not let me do this, but we'll see what we can do. Okay, won't let me do that. I think I've got too many open.
So, what I'm going to do is just, uh, deny it's going to go to, um, it's going to read. This is basically the vision of St. John Bosco. Um, this was, uh, just bear with me. So John Bosco, Don Bosco, died in 1888, once again during the reign of Pope Leo the 13th, and this was a vision he had. Try to picture yourselves me on the seashore, or better still, on an outlying cliff with no other land in sight. The vast expanse of water is covered with a formidable array of ships in battle formation. Prow is fitted with sharp spear-like beaks capable of breaking through any defense. All are heavily armed with cannons, incendiary bombs, and firearms of all sorts, even books. And they're all heading towards one stately ship, major. As they try to close in, they try to ram it, set it on fire, and it, as much as possible. So that's all these ships attacking the Church. This stately vessel is shielded by a flotilla escort. Winds and waves are with the enemy. In the midst of this endless sea, two solid columns, a short distance apart, saw high into the sky. One is surmounted by a statue of the Immaculate Virgin, at whose feet a large inscription reads, "Help of Christians." The other, far loftier and sturdiest, supports a communion host of proportionate size and bears the inscription, "Salvation of Believers." The flagship commander, the Roman Pontiff, the Holy Father, seeing the enemy's fury and his auxiliary ship's very grave predicament, summons his captains to a conference. However, as they discuss their strategy, a furious storm breaks, and they must return to their ships. The Pope again summons his captains, but the storm rages again. Standing at the helm, the Pope strains every muscle to steer his ship between the two columns from whose summits hang many anchors and strong hooks linked to chains. The entire enemy fleet closes in to intercept and sink the flagship at all costs. They bombard it with everything they have. Books and pamphlets, incendiary bombs, firearms, cannons. The battle rages ever more furious. And the flagship is rammed again and again. At times a ram splinters a gaping hole into its hull, but the, the hole is immediately sealed. The enemy starts to take hand-to-hand combat, but suddenly the Pope falls seriously wounded. He is instantly helped up, but struck down a second time and dies. But no sooner is the Pope dead than another takes his place. The captains of the auxiliary ships elected him so quickly that the news of the Pope's death coincides with that of his successor's election. Breaking through all the resistance, the new Pope steers the ship safely between the two columns and moors it to the two columns. First to the one surmounted by the host, then to the other topped by the statue of the Virgin. At this, the enemy ships panic and disperse, colliding with and destroying each other. Many other ships which was far away from the fight now head for the two columns and tie with them. Flagship, and a great calm now covers the sea. The summary was: Very grave trials await the Church. What we have suffered so far is almost nothing compared to what is going to happen. The enemies of the Church are symbolized by the ships which strive to sink the flagship. Only two things can save us. Devotion to Mary and frequent communion. He misses out one thing though there. The recognition of the necessity to stay close to the Holy Father in this time. And the reason I pull that out is because when St. Don Bosco had that vision, Catholics were known for staying close to their Holy Father. But in the last few decades, I think it's probably since Paul VI, Catholics have strayed. Under the reign of Paul VI, when he released Humanae Vitae, many Catholics left the Church. Many priests and religious left the Church following Vatican II. And following the Church's reinstatement of his teaching against contraception, many Catholics left or jumped off the ship. The same happened, believe it or not, when John Paul II was Pope. He had a lot of opposition. People don't realize it, but he had a ton of opposition. Benedict XVI suffered the same. He suffered so much he decided that he had to resign. And then Pope Francis comes on, and he asks Pope Benedict what he should watch out for. And Pope Benedict told him that actually his enemies were not non-Catholics. It was many Catholics were going to be his worst enemy. And that became true to such an extent that Catholics were wanting Pope Francis to die. Now we have Pope Leo the 14th, and he has come on, and there's a lot of enthusiasm, but just be aware the crowd will turn, and then it's very important to stay close, because the era of peace will come through the ministry of the Pope.
Just bear with me. I'm just gathering my thoughts on the, Oh, that's right. I wanted to go to Pope, to his opening message. Now, I'm going to have to go back onto Google for this because I got them on there. I'm sorry I can't share it with you. Um, it just blanks on me when I go to the Zoom share button. This was his meeting with the College of Cardinals. This is one of the paragraphs from his, his very short sermon. "I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, from which I'd like to highlight several fundamental points: the return to the primacy of Christ in proclamation, the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community, growth in collegiality and synodality, attention to the sensus fidelium, the sense of the faith, especially in its most authentic and inclusive form, such as popular piety, loving care for the least and rejected, courageous and trusting dialogue with the contemporary world, various components and realities." He then calls these the evangelical principles that have inspired and guided the life and activity of God's family. So that's what he's saying to the cardinals. That I'm going to, he then refers to Pope, uh, Leo the 14th, and I'm going to come back to that in a moment. But first, "renew today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council."
Now, you guys are, in a sense, a step ahead of many in the Church because you've embraced the gift of living in the divine will. Teachings that were first revealed to the Church during the reign of Pope Leo the 13th, and teachings that were released to the Church when John Paul II was Pope. But teachings which became extremely popular among a minority of people in the Church while Francis was Pope. So it has spread very powerfully. When Benedict XVI was Pope, um, the teachings weren't spreading so much. When I, I went on my first Divine Will retreat around the time of the change between the two. And when I came off that retreat, I couldn't find any YouTube videos. I found it hard to find any websites. I could, I only had access to seven diaries. I don't think Father Joseph had completed or published his doctoral thesis. So the resources were very scant during the papacy of Pope Francis. The, the resources have gone through the roof. We've got loads of YouTube videos, um, websites, all the diaries are available in multiple languages. Um, and we have doctoral theses like Father Joseph's, and the diaries are being published or prepared for publication, the ultimate, the definitive edition. This all happened under Pope Francis. So it's almost like a foundation has been established. And one of the things I wanted to say to you tonight was to be prepared under the papacy of Leo the 14th. His name means lion, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And the phrase, the blessing of Jacob upon Judah was, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah." That scepter, or a scepter, was given to Louisa in volume one, a scepter of authority, a scepter, a sign of a covenant. And now our Pope himself carries a scepter, if you like, a scepter of authority, the scepter of Peter.
So what we have to do is prepare ourselves for for growth. Um, and we have to be very careful with this, because when we get busy with evangelical ventures, which are the exterior work of evangelization, we can very quickly neglect our interior life. Now, that's from somebody who has traveled the world as an evangelist and at times neglected my interior life because I got so busy with evangelization. Some eight years ago, I began a sabbatical, and at the beginning of the sabbatical, I was given a book called "The Soul of the Apostolate," written in the early 20th century. Um, and on the back of it, Pope Pius the 9th had written, I think it was Pope Pius the 9th or the 11th, I can't remember now. He had written, "This was my favorite bedside book." And "The Soul of the Apostolate" basically teaches us that no matter how busy our apostolate becomes, we have to cultivate our interior life. And it's my belief, I mean, the divine will is only going to spread, folks. It's only going to grow. Okay. But I want you to bear in mind what happened with St. Paul in, um, in the reading. Was it yesterday to this today? Sunday. Yeah. Sorry, to the vigil Mass. And he says to the Jews, "Since you do not want to hear this gospel, we will take it to the pagans," or the Gentiles, depending on your translation. We need to be ready for that.
I was listening to, um, I was listening to Mother Gabriel talking the other week. Um, she was on a, on a video chat with me and a few others, and she kind of alluded to this when she spoke about how the kingdom will be taken from the Pharisees and the Sadducees and given to those who will welcome it. It might well be that many Catholics reject the kingdom of the divine will. We've already seen that happening in certain circles, and that non-Catholics will welcome the kingdom. Now, you have to be ready for this, because it's going to accelerate under this new papacy. The wind will blow in a new direction, and it will accelerate under a new papacy.
On John Paul II, the diaries are released and translated. It's like a, a pinprick. Released and translated. On Benedict XVI, the diaries start to get published, and things start to develop. Under Pope Francis, Louisa's process starts to grow. Vatican theologians approve the writings for the Joseph in, he publishes doctoral thesis, and we have conferences, synods, um, books, videos. It all starts to grow. Now we have a new Pope. Get ready. Okay? Really get ready to to run and to fly. Jesus will give you a twofold grace in this era. He will give you a grace of a deeper interiority so that you can become more silent, more peaceful. The first words of our Pope, "Peace be with you." Does a grace flow into that interior peace that comes with those opening words? Flow into it. Let that peace, that peace has to become everything. We have to become all about peace.
It's to be noted that, um, May the 8th, I'm sure you know, the feast of St. Michael from the, I mean, not the feast, but the time is the anniversary of his appearing in Italy all those years ago. It's also the anniversary of VE Day in Europe. On VE Day in Europe, all those decades ago, the message of the European newspapers was "Peace in Europe." Unfortunately, it wasn't a true peace. It just meant a cessation of hostilities. And John Paul II challenged him on this. And he said, "Peace is not a cessation of hostilities." What is peace? Peace is a deep interiority, a communion with God, tranquility of soul, the soul completely at rest, and Jesus abiding in the soul, and you are entering that era of peace. So as you're journeying into it, your interior life has to deepen as your exterior life becomes active. So it's like a, a two-way thing, and it's nothing new in the life of the Church in one sense. St. Francis of Assisi would spend six months in his cave in prayer and six months evangelizing. We have to learn to do that. We have to have the prayer life which we ring-fence and do not let anyone disturb it, and our evangelization life which we have to carefully discern. How busy do I let myself get? What does Jesus want me to do? And then, but keep our interiority protected, defended. Okay.
And as I, you know, Pope Leo the 14th was talking about the following of what flowing from Vatican II. What was the purpose of Vatican II? The prime purpose, evangelization. John the 23rd wanted to make the teachings of the Church more accessible. Evangelization. The greatest message of evangelization is the one that the children of the divine will have, because we have both the Gospel of Redemption and the Gospel of the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Don't expect, Oh, and by the way, don't wait for Pope Leo the 14th to start preaching on the divine will. Okay? Don't wait for it. Don't look for it. Get on with your task.
Um, in volume 15, April the 20th, 1923. Volume 15, April the 20th. Is that right? 1923. Just find it. Here we go. "If Jesus so much, if Jesus loves so much that this way of living in the divine will be known, since it will be a new epoch that must bring so much good as to surpass the very goods of His redemption. He could have spoken to the Pope, who, as head of the Church, having the authority, could immediately influence the members of the whole Church by making known this celestial doctrine and bringing this great good to the human generations or to some authoritative people. To them it would be easier, but to me, poor, ignorant one, unknown, unknown." How many of us feel unknown in comparison with a person like the Holy Father, who apparently has got such influence? Right? How can I make this great good known? How can I make known the great good of living in the divine will? Think of yourself. Think, you ask yourselves the question, "How can I make this known?" Jesus, thinking of Louisa, who was confined to bed. She could not leave her room. Right? How can I do this? Jesus saying and squeezing me tightly to himself told me, "Daughter, so very dear to my supreme volition, it is my usual way to do my greatest works in souls that are virgin and unknown, and not only virgin of nature, but virgin of affections, of heart, of thoughts. Because true virginity is the divine shadow, and only in my shadow can I found my greatest works. During the times when I came to redeem, there were also pontiffs and authorities, but I did not go to them because my shadow was not there. Therefore, I chose a virgin unknown to all, but well known to me."
Next paragraph. "The greater the work I want to do, the more I cover the soul with the appearance of the most ordinary things." Okay? So Jesus has picked you in this time not because of your power and authority, but because of your ordinariness. And you've got to think of the children of the divine will as being the minority of minorities. You're the, you are the holy remnant under this Holy Father. You are the victim of victims in terms of victim souls. You are the ones who's going to help Pope Leo the 14th to secure the Church against the Eucharist and Our Lady, because you live a special consecration to both when you consecrate yourself to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. This is a consecration of consecrations. It's unique in the history of the Church. And you don't just receive the Eucharist at Sunday Mass or at daily Mass. Remember, one part of the message was frequent communion. When you do one act in the divine will, Jesus fills the act with his divine life. The act becomes eucharistic. You become a living host. Think of that in the light of John Bosco's vision where he secures a ship to Our Lady and the Eucharist. You are not the problem in the Church. You are the solution. You have, you not only have the solution, you are the solution because you carry the gift of living in the divine will.
Let's go back to Pope Leo the 13th's speech to the cardinals. He talks about the evangelical principles that have always inspired and guided the life and activity of God's family. And in these values, the merciful face of the Father has been revealed and continued to be revealed. Then you say, "Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo the 14th." There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo the 13th, in his historic encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor. So he has a connection with this. But look at the phraseology. "The merciful Father, the face, the merciful face of the Father being revealed, continuing to be revealed in his incarnate Son. Seeing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo the 14th." So this is the path of mercy and truth and justice and peace and fraternity. So following on from Pope Francis.
Just coming back to Zoom because I'm looking at Google at the moment. Um, just gathering my thoughts just for one moment, because there was another thing I had to say to you about this. There was the vision of Don Bosco, the vision of Fatima, the message of why doesn't Jesus tell the Pope, Pope Leo the 13th is the Rosary Pope, and volume 25 tells us the necessity for the Rosary, and Pope, he, Pope, he chooses a name in order to continue the ministry of the previous one, which was Leo the 13th, when Louisa first receives this gift. So I'm just going back over some of my notes to remind myself of what, because it's got, it's slipped my head now, what I was going to say to you at the end.
The triumph. How will the triumph come? The triumph is mentioned several times in Louisa's diaries, and she associates it with the Eucharist and with the Rosary. And so God has given us another Pope who is obviously eucharistic and devoted to the Rosary, and who's flowing from the papacy of Leo the 13th, who was known as the Rosary Pope, as were the following Popes after him. So what we have to do is take confidence from this, this appointment that God has given us in Pope Leo the 14th and his message of peace, and think about that message of peace.
Now, if you go to the message of evangelization, so your children of the divine will involved in evangelization under Pope Francis's pontificate, around 300 million Catholics were added to the Church, um, given the stats that I was reading the other day. So, we're going to have even more come in, because the era of peace, Jesus says that approximately one-third of humanity are going to accept the gift of living in the divine will. So that makes around 2.5 billion people, based on today's, based on today's population numbers. Around 8 billion people on the planet. Roughly a third of that, 2.5 to 3 billion souls. At the moment, there are 1.4 billion, probably just a few thousand children in the divine will. So you have to prepare yourself for this great march on towards a triumph.
What is the prime message of evangelization? It's evangelization is not fundamentally about preaching the gospel. The word itself is to do with peace. And the way to proclaim peace is to be peace in the divine will. The prime task really is giving God a perfect return of glory in every single act that you do. And your evangelization is through your acts in the divine will. Those acts are inspired by the breath, because you're, um, you're in the era of the Fiat of the Sanctifier, the Holy Spirit, who has appointed Pope Leo the 14th. It's the breath who appoints him, the Ruach, the Holy Spirit. He inspires you to the cardinals to vote for this one. And our task, if you like, in the divine will is to flow on that breath and to make sure that we do all of our acts in the divine will. And as you do your acts in the divine will, Jesus will give the gift, or he can offer the gift to other souls. And you'll find people coming to you for the gift. You have to be prepared for this sort of evangelization.
If you take a look at the Acts of the Apostles, the last few days, I think it was even this Sunday, or maybe yesterday. It was an angel. Oh, that's why it was a story of Philip. It was an angel that guided Philip to the Ethiopian. Philip did not have to figure out where to go or what to do. The angel guided him. And when you read the Book of Revelation and you look at the end-time harvest, the angels are doing all the work. So tune in to that. Tune in to the fact that we are passive evangelists. When it comes to the proclamation of the good news, we are passive evangelists. We are not the, you have this modern 20th-century idea that you have to get out there with your Bible and preach the gospel. The Church, I don't think, has ever really done that. Mainly because most of the evangelists in the Church didn't have a Bible. The Bibles were only published a few hundred years ago, and they've only become incredibly easy to get hold of in recent decades. The evangelists of the Church really were very simple message. Francis of Assisi used to go around silently, and Pope John Paul II said, "The missionary must be a contemplative in action." So we too must adopt these ways, especially in this new pontificate. Think of the Pope as soaring on eagle's wings and wanting you to soar right behind him, to flow in his direction, and he, under his pontificate, you'll be led even more deeper into the divine will.
Now, under Pope Francis, it's kind of like foundations were being laid, and the persecution was beginning. Under Pope Leo the 14th, you might find the persecution on the increase, but the foundations run a lot deeper, and you might find yourself being able to flow far more powerfully in the divine will. Let me tell you something here. Um, I had a very bad night. Was it, he was appointed on Wednesday, isn't it? Was it Wednesday? Okay. Not too sure. Okay. You're all shaking your heads and trying to say something with your microphones off. Thursday. Thursday. Um, I had a very bad night. See, the, the day, I think it was the day before he was appointed, I had a very bad day. And then the day of the appointment, when I woke up, I had a really powerful conviction to place myself in the divine will and to keep flowing in the divine will all day long. And it was a day where I felt I was really caught, and I couldn't not do an act in the divine will. And that is what it's about. You know, I preached last week on how the divine will imposes itself. So, you be, be ready for this.
Think of when Louisa was first introduced to the divine will under the rule of Pope Leo the 13th. She's, Jesus invites her to be a victim. He invites her to bed. He invites her to mystical marriage. Three mystical marriages. On one of those mystical marriages, he surprises her, and he takes her, and he takes out her heart, and he purifies her heart, places the heart back in, and he fuses into her soul the gift of living in the divine will. She didn't ask for any of this. It was all what Jesus gave her. So just be aware that under this new papacy, the graces are going to increase tremendously, and to learn how to flow with what Jesus wants to give you.
I'll give you one more example of this. Just before Lent began, my wife and I were praying about my ministry. And I was saying to her how I feel called to spend more time writing and less time traveling, and I don't know what to do about it. And so we said, "Okay, let's pray about it and ask God to show us how to do this." Three days later, a message came from the bishop asking me to stop all my travels. And that was on Ash Wednesday. Now, there was a whole narrative behind it. It wasn't a problem. There was a whole narrative behind it. And I thought, okay, this is something I have to do. So I had to cancel every trip I was on, and had to cancel all spiritual direction as well. And for the entirety of the last two months, most of my work has been
online conferencing and writing. We felt that this was what God wanted from us. And then God revealed it. This is what I want you to do. Okay.
Now that was my exterior work. There was also an interior work that God had to do. So just tune into this, you know, when our pope proclaims "Peace be with you," there is a phenomenal grace to flow from that. Okay.
Now, I think I'm just about done. That's pretty good because I've just gone over the hour mark. Any questions? Nothing. Only one thing on the chat. That's good. Um, what reference is this, deck the pillar? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've already answered that, haven't we? Because that was in, uh, that's in that volume. There's another reference I'll give you to look at. Um, volume 4, September the 2nd, 1901, where Louisa again talks about the Holy Father. And in this case, she's again under the rule of Pope Leo the 13th. So it's worth looking at what happened on Pope Leo the 13th in the light of what we're doing now in Pope Leo the 14th. Louisa's, I think he dies around 1903 after Louisa, or during Louisa. I think it's during the fifth volume when Leo the 13th dies, and I think it's Pope Pius the 9th or 10th takes over. Okay.
Um, and it's just worth noting that because you're flowing now, he's, he's, he's done this on purpose. He's taken the name of Leo the 14th to continue what happened under Leo the 13th. What happened on Leo the 13th? The gift of living in the divine will is given to a soul in the state of who was conceived in original sin for the first time in the history of the church. And now Jesus can complete what he began. Bear that in mind. Jesus can complete what he under Leo the 14th. He can complete what he began under Leo the 13th. And he completes that in you. He begins it under Leo the 13th. He gives Louisa possession of the divine will on, or he centers her in the divine will under Leo the 13th. Under Leo the 14th, he can now center all the children of the divine will in the divine will. There were no coincidences in God, and he has spent the last hundred years preparing the church for what's going to happen to you. Okay.
So, no questions there. Let's pray. Just a message come through. May I just make a little point here? Just, just give me one moment because there's a, a thing come across from Marie. Okay. You did not say anything about Leo the 13th's vision of the church and the prayer of St. Michael. No, I didn't do that on purpose because I did some research on the vision of Pope Leo the 13th about a month ago, ironically. Um, and I couldn't find anything substantial that said that said Pope Leo the 13th had that vision. I couldn't find anything substantial. I couldn't find anything on the Vatican site. I couldn't find anything on various places, and I found a few websites which question whether he had the vision. Okay? And that's the reason why I didn't bring it up today. I normally talk about it quite freely, and I have done over the years. Um, but that's the reason I didn't bring it up because I couldn't find anything that would be from the church. And as you know, today I've actually pulled out the, the Vatican press bulletin on Pope Leo the 14th. Um, I've gone to sacred scripture, uh, um, Father Inuti's thesis for the timeline for Louisa, Louisa's volumes, and also I even looked up the third secret of Fatima on the Vatican website. So, I could actually look at what the Vatican says about that third secret. But as I say, I could find nothing about Pope Leo the 13th's vision, even though it supposedly happened on October the 13th, 1878, 33 days before. Oh, 1884. So that's why I didn't ask it.
Now, what was that other question coming through? Somebody was asking me something there. I think I may have direct Josephine. Sorry. Yeah. As time goes along, when I'm at Mass, I would definitely say the, um, peace that's been given by the priest is becoming more and more meaningful. And, um, when we were going through a date in volume 13, I said that to my little group that we were going through this particular date, December 18, 1921, "Peace is the springtime of the soul." Amen. Yes, I remember that that entry. Absolutely. And I think that this is one of the things we have to be very aware of as children of the divine will. This necessity for cultivating that interior peace. What we're coming into is not primarily exterior. It's primarily interior. Um, okay.
Uh, so if that's concluded, I, what I'll do is I'll pray a prayer for you all like I always do. And I have on this side, St. Joseph the Worker, on this side, Our Lady of La Salette. Behind me, I have, um, uh, Lavl Norata, and over this side, I have G, an icon of Jesus the Good Shepherd, and an icon of Pope John, Pope John Paul II, which was done by my son. So, you're surrounded by the heavenly hierarchy, as it were. Um, and I wanted to pray when I was asking Our Lady, what should I pray for? Um, she, she kind of nudged me in a particular direction. So, let's just, um, take a moment of silence and compose ourselves. Jesus, you want to pray. So I'm going to pray with you. Come, Divine Will, come, pray in my praying. Dear Mother Mary, we thank you for this special month dedicated to you, your month. And we thank you as Queen of the Divine Will for calling us into this beautiful treasure. Blessed Mother, I ask you to touch each one of these your children. I ask you to keep them close to the Holy Father in this season in which we are in, which we are now in, this new season in the life of the church. A season which is going to become peace. The nations prepare for war. We prepare for peace. Blessed Mother, guide us in this season. Touch each one of our hearts. Calm our souls. Bring stillness, peace, and rest to the soul. And I repeat the words of Pope Leo the 13th, 14th, and the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus, you want to speak these words, so I will speak them with you. "Peace be with you." Peace, peace in the name of Jesus. And I invite you all to remember these words, these words of peace. Jesus wants to establish his kingdom of peace in your soul. A peace which will be a fortress. Beautiful peace. May all the conflict, fears, anxieties in your soul be brought to nothing, and may the peace grow and be strengthened. Our Lady, Queen of the Divine Will, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. Servant of God, pray for us. St. Annabel defania, pray for us. In the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Recording stopped. Thank you everyone for joining me tonight. I hope it was worth it. Um, thank you, Derek. Have a great Sunday, everyone. God bless you all. Thanks very much. Appreciate that. Good night all. God bless you all.