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The Doors of Heaven open, the Sun of the Eternal Word places Himself on the lookout. He
sends His Angel to tell the Virgin that the Hour of God has come.

 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, ²⁷ to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. ²⁸ And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace,^[e] the Lord is with you!”^[f]29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. ³⁰ And the angel said to her,^[g] “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. ³¹ And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. (Luke 1:26-31)

Day Nineteen-The Virgin Mary In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will

My prayers were incessant, and
while I was praying in my little room, an Angel came, sent from Heaven as messenger of the great King. He came before Me, and bowing, he hailed Me: “Hail, O Mary, our Queen; the Divine Fiat
has filled You with grace. He has already pronounced His Fiat – that He wants to descend; He is
already behind my shoulders, but He wants your Fiat to form the fulfillment of His Fiat.”
At such a great announcement, so much desired by Me – although I had never thought I would be
the chosen one – I was stupefied and hesitated one instant. But the Angel of the Lord told Me: “Do
not fear, our Queen, for You have found grace before God. You have conquered your Creator;
therefore, to complete the victory – pronounce your Fiat.”
I pronounced my Fiat, and – oh! marvel – the two Fiat fused together and the Divine Word descended
into Me. My Fiat, which was endowed with same value as the Divine Fiat, from the seed of my
humanity, formed the tiny little Humanity which was to enclose the Word; and the great prodigy of
the Incarnation was accomplished.

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, words fail at this solemn moment when Our Lady gave Her Fiat to the Incarnation! All we can offer You is all the Acts of the Divine Will found in the Mystery of the Annunciation along with all our acts of reciprocal love, which in the name of all creatures, embrace these acts!

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Solemnity of the Annunciation of The Lord

Fiat

There has never

been a time of grace like this since the Word became Flesh. Blinding

Satan will shake the world.” (Mary) (September 3, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 1)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we celebrate Our Blessed Mother’s Fiat and we are thankful and rejoice at Her docility to Your Holy Will. Lord we believe that nothing is impossible with You.  You became Man in the darkness of this world at the time of the Annunciation and Your Presence has never left us. Like Our Blessed Mother, we must accept Your Will and walk in faith, even when it all just does not make sense. Lord we believe You are up to something in these times, that Your Mercy and Grace have not left us.  In fact, this is a time of grace as never before. The world seems shaken but You hold us all in the palm of Your Hand. Let us give our Fiat to Your Holy Will today which is Love and Mercy itself!

Jesus is the contentment of contentments. The Celestial Mother was filled with Jesus through Her constant thinking of His Passion.

Thou dost keep him in perfect peace,
    whose mind is stayed on thee,
    because he trusts in thee. (Isaiah 26:3)

Volume 11, March 24, 1913

I was feeling a certain discontent because of the privations of my always lovable Jesus; and He, coming for just a little, told me: “My daughter, what are you doing? I am the contentment of contentments. Being in you, and feeling some discontents, I recognize that they come from you, and therefore I do not recognize Myself completely in you, because discontents are part of the human nature – not of the Divine; while it is my Will that what is human no longer exist in you – only my Divine Life. ”I add that I was thinking to myself about the sweet Mother, and Jesus told me: “My daughter, the thought of my Passion never escaped my dear Mother, and by dint of repeating it, she filled all of Herself with Me, completely. The same happens to the soul: by dint of repeating what I suffered, she arrives at filling herself with Me.”

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, so often we are full of discontented feelings which are not of You. Your Divine Life is nothing but peace and contentment even in suffering. Blessed Mother fill us with Jesus- Jesus we trust in You!

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Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Close To The Brokenhearted

That is why I stay close to you now. I do not disturb your rest. I am here with you in silence. May our hearts beat to the same rhythm. (Jesus) (January 19, 1964)

Today’s Readings:

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;

and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.

Many are the troubles of the just man,

but out of them all the LORD delivers him. (Psalm 34)

Prayer Meditation- O my Jesus, I know that You know every sorrow of our broken hearts- You stay close to us in silence. You have walked this suffering and you never leave us or forsake us. Lord You are as close as our next breath, even closer, please breathe in our breathing may Your Heart beat with ours as You accompany us and deliver us in whatever troubles we may be going through.

The Divine Will renders the soul little. Luisa is the littlest of all.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 18:10)

Volume 12-March 23, 1921

And then He said to me: “My daughter, my Will has the special virtue of rendering souls little, making them become so little, that they feel the extreme need for my Will to administer life to them. Their littleness is such that they are unable to do one act or take one step if my Will does not administer to them the act or the step. So they live completely at the expense of my Will, because their littleness carries no baggage, either of their own things, or of love of self, but they take everything from my Will – not in order to keep it for themselves, but to give it to Me; and since they need everything, they live dissolved in my Will.
Listen: I went round the earth over and over again; I looked at all creatures, one by one, in order to find the littlest of all. Among many I found you – the littlest of all. I liked your littleness and I chose you. I entrusted you to my Angels, so that they might keep you, not to make you great, but to preserve your littleness; and now I want to begin the great work of the fulfillment of my Will. Nor will you feel greater because of this; on the contrary, my Will will make you smaller, and you will continue to be the little daughter of your Jesus – the little daughter of my Will.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, Your Kingdom is for the little ones, not the wise (Matthew 11). Makes us little Lord, little children who depend on You for every act and every step, direct our steps Lord always in union with You! May our feet journey together!

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Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Seeking Only God

“O God, what have You done with me? Why do I no longer

value earth? My eyes see nothing. My ears do not perceive the

world’s voice. My heart beats only in You and for You. My lips desire

only to praise You. I want to bless You but I cannot find words

worthy of You. (Elizabeth) (April 8, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “I do not accept human praise;
moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
I came in the name of my Father,
but you do not accept me;
yet if another comes in his own name,
you will accept him.
How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another
and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? (John 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, how many of us have been not seeking Your Praise but the praise of others. We have cared more about human respect than what You think of us in so many ways, even those who as the Gospel says, search the Scriptures but somehow miss You! Lord, let us hear Your Voice so that we would know what is pleasing to You! Let us see nothing but You!

How one who lives in the Divine Will lives in the echo of the voice of Jesus. Effects of the rising of the Sun of the Divine Will in the soul.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
    from those who walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11)

Volume 21-March 22, 1927

My daughter, when the sun rises, it dispels the darkness and makes the light arise. It changes the humidity of the night, with which the plants have been invested, in a way that they lie there, oppressed, torpid and melancholic; but as the sun rises, it turns that humidity into pearls, pearling everything – plants, flowers; and over all nature its silvery aura brings back gaiety and beauty, taking away the torpor of the night; and with the enchantment of its light, it seems to take all nature by the hand, in order to vivify it, embellish it, and give it life. The sea, the rivers, the springs, strike fear during nighttime, but as the sun rises, the sun’s rays dispel the fear, and investing them down to the bottom, it forms in them a golden and silvery bed, it crystallizes the waters, and forms in them the most beautiful enchantment. So, all nature rises again by means of the sun; if it were not for the sun, it could be called a work without life.
My Will is more than sun. As It rises in the soul, It clothes her with light; all of her acts are pearled with divine light, in such a way that they convert into more than most refulgent diamonds and precious ornaments. Before the Sun of my Will rises, they are like night dew, which oppresses the plants and gives them no tint of beauty; but with the rising of the sun, that dew forms the most beautiful ornament for all plants, and gives to each one of them its tint of beauty, and makes the variety and the vividness of their colors stand out. In the same way, as my Will rises, all the human acts become invested with light, they take their place of honor in my Will; each one of them receives its special tint of beauty and the vividness of the divine colors, in such a way that the soul becomes transfigured and enveloped with an indescribable beauty. As the Sun of my Will rises, It puts to flight all the evils of the soul; It takes away the torpor which passions have produced; even more, before the light of the Divine Fiat, passions themselves lap up that light and aspire to convert into virtues, to pay homage to my Eternal Will. As It rises, everything is gaiety, and even the pains which, like seas at nighttime, strike fear in the poor creatures, if my Will rises, It puts to flight the night of the human will, and taking every fear away, It forms Its golden bed in those pains, and with Its light, It invests the bitter waters of the pains, and It crystallizes them into a sea of sweetness, in such a way as to form an enchanting and admirable horizon. What can my Will not do? It can do everything, and It can give everything; and wherever It rises, It does things worthy of Our creative hands.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord we love You, adore You and glorify You in the Sun of Your Will- please live in us and rise in us each day!

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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

He Never Forgets Us

“Cannot I work a miracle?” He replied. “I will so bless this

impossible problem that it will be straightened out. I cannot

deny my Mother anything when she uses her Flame of Love.” (Jesus) (August 3, 1962)

Today’s Readings: For the LORD comforts his people

and shows mercy to his afflicted.

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;

my Lord has forgotten me.”

Can a mother forget her infant,

be without tenderness for the child of her womb?

Even should she forget,

I will never forget you. (Isaiah 49)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord where would we be without Your Mercy and Your Compassion. You comfort us in all afflictions. We can feel forsaken but You will never forget us! And You have given us Our Beautiful Mother who pleads for us constantly- Mother pour out The Flame of Love into our broken hearts today!

The irresistible need of Jesus to make known to the soul how He loves her and all the gifts with which He keeps filling her.

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (1 John 4:16)

Volume 11-March 21, 1914

Jesus continues: “My daughter, I love one who does my Will so much, that I cannot manifest to her everything – or everything at once – of how much I love her, the grace with which I keep enriching her, the beauty with which I keep embellishing her, and all the goods with which I keep filling her. If I manifested to her everything together, the soul would die of joy, her heart would burst in such a way that she could no longer live on earth, but, in a flash, would take flight toward Heaven. However, I feel an irresistible need to make Myself known, as well as the love I have for her. It is too hard to love, to do good, without making oneself known. I feel my Heart as though crack, and unable to resist so much love, I keep manifesting to her, little by little, how I love her and all the gifts with which I keep filling her. And when the soul feels filled to the brim, to the point of no longer being able to contain them, in one of these manifestations of mine she will disappear from the earth and will emerge within the bosom of the Eternal One.” And I: ‘Jesus, my Life, it seems to me that You exaggerate a little bit in manifesting to me where a soul who does your Will can reach.’ And Jesus, compassionating my ignorance, smiling, told me: “No, no, my beloved, I do not exaggerate. One who exaggerates seems to want to deceive; but your Jesus knows not how to deceive you – on the contrary, what I have told you is nothing. You will receive more surprises when, once the prison of your body is broken and you are swimming inside my bosom, the point that my Will made you reach will be openly revealed to you.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, Your love for us is so great and full of surprises always! Let us fly to You to Heaven as You show Yourself to us little by little and glory to glory!

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Do You Want To Be Well?

“Because your soul has been purified of the anguish of

doubts, you now have been given the power to rise to the heavenly

Father and be immersed in the delightful and joyful contemplation

of the Holy Trinity. (Jesus) (October 22-23, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. (John 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we read about a man who was ill for a long time. He was defeated, could not even get himself to the cure. And You asked him, as You ask us now. do we want to be well? That seems like an absurd question – of course we want to be well. And yet, after the man is cured, You tell him something else that is interesting. You tell him that he is now well and not to sin anymore. May we use this time, as we progress toward Holy Week, as a time of purification from our attachments, some of which we never knew were so strong, and let us abandon ourselves to Your Mercy and Your Never Failing Love!