Hope does not disappoint…

We boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to …

Pure Love…

A couple of years ago I learned that a composer of popular Catholic hymns, many of which are in our hymnals, a married man, was found to have used his fame to seduce women. I was shocked and so disappointed, going so far as to cross out his songs in my choir book. I did …

General Confusion…

[Jesus tells Luisa:] “Now we are around the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal. This is the reason for the general confusion: it is nothing other than the preparation of the third renewal.” (L. Piccarreta, Book of Heaven, Volume 12, January 29, 1919) In case you haven't seen the official release of the …

Dry Bones…

We hear a lot about waste these days. Reduce, reuse, recycle is the modern mantra. Some of the things we waste unnecessarily are obvious, such as water and food. But some wasted things are less obvious—like suffering. Wasted suffering is any suffering we do not offer to God for a higher purpose. As a child …

Restorer of Lost Innocence…

For years I have been praying for the protection and safety of children, of the innocent. Eventually I realized that we were all innocent once, and that at some point innocence was lost in all of us. I am not talking about original sin, but brokenness, relentless temptations, and the suffering that inevitably comes from …

Glorious Passages from Volume 12…

Dear friends, I am currently going though Volume 12 and there is so much depth and richness in it! But you could say that about all the Volumes. I have selected a few excerpts to share with you. May God give us new hope and great joy in the Divine Will. Fiat! Volume 12, January …

Jesus’ Descent into Limbo

Dear friends in the Divine Will. As we continue to observe the silence of the tomb, this meditation from Luisa's Rounds of the Soul in the Divine Will can help us see how the plan of God was unfolding even in the silence of death. God is always "in act". Let us follow in the …

A follow-up…

Continuing on the topic of death, I just had to post this moving video conversation between Fr. Cristino Bouvette and Ken Yasinski. May it give us all hope. Fiat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yggilm2AHB0

Reparation, Voids, and Kintsugi…

Blessings in the Divine Will dear friends. Recently a reader asked a question about praying for a relative who was not Christian and had no intention of ever being one. She wondered if she should increase her prayers for this soul.  Don’t we all wonder that? The answer is, sort of. In the Divine Will, …

“Those who are closest to Me are the purging souls…”

Dear friends, let the following passage spur us to take seriously the daily act of charity for the purging souls that the Holy Church presents to us from November 1-8. The requirements are described very clearly on this parish website. Volume 4, January 16, 1901Jesus Christ explains to (Luisa) the order of charity. As I …