CHAPTER 10 THE VIRGIN MARY AND THE DIVINE WILL Jesus said: “My daughter, the Kingdom of the Divine Will shall arrive without fail... And besides, is it not the Queen of Heaven with her sweet reign who implores continually for this Kingdom to come to the earth?” (May 14th 1935) There were curtains around Luisa’s bed, which could be closed as required, and one year during the month of May, the curtains were closed each day at 4 pm. At that time Our Lady would come to see Luisa, and sit at the end of her bed. She came in order to teach, and to relate her personal spiritual story. This account is published in the book The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Some extracts from the book now follow, and remember that Mary is teaching Luisa primarily - but her words are intended for everyone. This took place 100 years ago, so you will notice a difference in the style of speech compared with today. Our Lady asked Luisa to come to her three times a day, and to say: “My Mother I love you. Love me too, and give me a taste of the Will of God for my soul. And give me your blessing, that I might do all my actions under your maternal gaze.” 79 DAY 1 “To hear my child call me because she wants my lessons on the Divine Will, is for me the happiest occasion and the purest joy. If you will listen to my lessons, I will consider myself fortunate to be your Mother. Oh how I long to have a child who wants to live entirely in the Divine Will ! Tell me my child, will you content me? Will you place your heart, your will, and all your being, into my maternal hands so that I may prepare you, dispose you, strengthen you, and empty you of everything, in such a way that you can be completely filled with the light of the Divine Will, and it can form in you its Divine Life? Then rest your head upon the heart of your heavenly Mother, be attentive and listen to me, so that my sublime lessons will make you decide to never do your own will - but always that of God. My child, my maternal heart loves you so much, and wants to pour its love upon you. Know that you are here, written in my heart and I love you as my true child. Yet there is pain in my heart, because I do not see you as similar to your Mother. Do you know what makes us dissimilar? Alas it is your will that takes away from you the freshness of grace – the beauty that enchants your Creator, the strength that conquers and withstands all, the love which consumes everything. In sum, it is not that Will which animates your heavenly Mother. You must understand, that I knew my human will only to hold it sacrificed in homage to my Creator. My life was all of Divine Will. From the first instant of my conception I was formed, warmed, and placed in its Light, which with its power purified my human seed, so that I was conceived without Original stain. Therefore if my conception was without stain, and so glorious as to form the honour of the Divine Trinity, it was because the omnipotent Fiat flowed over my seed, and pure and holy I was conceived. Thus if the Divine Will had not like a tender mother flowed over my seed, to impede the effects of Original Sin, I would have encountered the sad lot of other people - of being conceived with Original Sin. Therefore the honour, the glory, the thanksgiving, for my having been conceived without Original Sin, is entirely due to the Divine Will.” DAY 4 “God now wants to bestow surprising graces upon mankind, which in all the history of the world he did not grant to anyone. He wants to make known the wonders of the Divine Will, and what it can do in the person who permits himself to be governed by it. Therefore God wants to place as model in the sight of everyone - myself, who had the great honour of forming 80 Chapter 10 my life in the Divine Will. Now know my child, that scarcely having been conceived, I caused the Divinity to celebrate. Heaven and earth welcomed me, and they recognised me as their Queen. I was so identified with my Creator, that I felt myself to be owner of the divine kingdoms. Indeed I did not know what separation from my Creator was, because that same Divine Will which reigned in me, reigned in Them (the Divine Persons) and rendered us inseparable. And while all was smiles and happiness between me and Them, I saw that They could not trust me, if They did not have some proof from me.” .……………………… The Holy Trinity took great pleasure in Mary’s soul, since she was the first person since Adam and Eve, to be untouched by Original Sin. Nonetheless, Mary would have to undergo a test in order to prove her loyalty. And the ‘proof’, the test, was to give up her human will. ..……………………… DAY 5 “Child most dear to me, how I yearn to confide my secrets to you. These secrets will give me so much glory, and will glorify the Divine Will, which was the primary cause of my Immaculate Conception, my sanctity, sovereignty and maternity. I owe everything to the Divine Will, I know nothing else: all my sublime qualities for which the Church so honours me, are none other than the effects of the Divine Will which ruled, reigned and lived in me. This is why I yearn so much, that the One who produced in me so many qualities and admirable effects, as to astonish Heaven and earth - should be known. Listen dear child: when the Supreme Being asked of me my human will, I understood the grave evil that the human will could do in a person, and how it puts everything into danger, even the most beautiful works of its Creator. A person with their human will, is all vacillating, weak, inconstant, disordered. And this is so, because God created mankind to be united in nature with his Divine Will, in such a way that it would be the strength, the prime mover, the support, the food, the life of the human will. Thus by failing to give life to the Divine Will in your own will, the gifts and the rights received from God in the act of Creation are rejected. Oh how well I understood the grave offence which is made to God, and the evils which pour down upon mankind! l had such 81 horror and fear of following my own will, and I feared with good reason - because Adam also was created innocent by God, yet by doing his own will, into how many evils did he and all the generations plunge? Therefore I your Mother, stricken by dread and even more by love towards my Creator, swore never to do my own will. So as to be more sure, and to better prove my sacrifice to the One who had given me so many seas of graces and privileges, I took this human will of mine and secured it to the Divine Throne, in a continuous homage of love and sacrifice, swearing to never use my own will even for one instant of my life, but always to rely on God’s Will.” DAY 6 “My daughter, you must realise that the Divinity was satisfied by the test that it wanted from me. Yet everyone thinks that I did not have any test, and that it was sufficient for God to work the great miracle that he did in me, when I was conceived without Original Sin. Oh how they are deceived! God asked of me a test which he did not ask of anyone else, and this he did with justice and with great wisdom. The Eternal Word (Jesus) was to descend into me, so not only was it proper that he should find no stain of Original Sin in me, but also that he should not find a human will in operation. It would have been improper, for God to descend into a person in whom the human will ruled. This is why he wanted as proof from me, my will for my entire life, in order to secure the Kingdom of the Divine Will in my soul. Assured of this in me, God could do what he pleased with me, he could give me everything - and I can say that he denied me nothing.” DAY 7 “Now my child, I saw you were surprised at hearing the story of my possession of the Kingdom of the Divine Will. But understand that you too are given this destiny. If you decide never to do your will, the Divine Will shall form its heaven in your soul. You will feel the divine inseparability, you will be given the scepter of command over yourself, and over your passions. You will no longer be a slave to yourself, because the human will alone puts the poor creature into slavery. It clips the wings of love towards Him who created it, taking away the strength, the support, and the confidence to fly into the arms of the Heavenly Father. In this way a person cannot know the secrets, nor the enormous love with which God loves them, and they live as a stranger in the house of the Divine Father.