Introduction to the Divine Will - 5th Jan 2024

This is the first teaching video of the Divine Will Study Day on 5th January 2024 with Fr Richard Oduor. This is the text taken from the handout: 1 Cor 2:7 Catechism of the Catholic Church 460, 671, 556, 557 Introduction to the Divine Will (taken from Fr Joseph Iannuzzi): 1. The three Fiats of Creation, Redemption & Sanctification. In Luisa’s text this appropriation attributes to God the Father the work of creation, to God the Son the work of Redemption, and to God the Holy Spirit the work of sanctification. 2. The 3 modes of prayer and action: In light of John of the Cross’s tripartition of the three stages of mystical union with God, i.e., purgation, illumination and unification, and Teresa of Avila’s 7 interior mansions, mystical theologians reveal two modes of praying and acting: The human mode (modo humano) and the divine mode (modo divino). The human mode corresponds to Teresa’s first 3 mansions. The divine mode corresponds to Teresa’s 4-7 mansions. Until the gift of Living in the Divine Will was freely actualized by God in the Church, no mention was made of an eternal mode, that is, until Luisa’s approved writings revealed that the gift of Living in the Divine Will admits the human being to God’s “eternal mode”, whereby God absorbs and elevates the soul’s prayers and actions to continuously participate in the Trinity’s one eternal operation (ad intra operation). 3. A new holiness: To Luisa Jesus reveals that the gift of Living in the Divine Will is “A new sanctity that surpasses all other forms of sanctity”, and that those who receive this gift on earth “leave all other saints behind” and will in heaven form the “new hierarchy” that no one else is permitted to occupy. Jesus reassures Luisa that Living in the Divine Will is God’s “greatest gift to mankind” that he has recently actualized within his Church, and that brings with it a new holiness. This new holiness consists of the soul’s sharing in the infinite merits of Jesus, who “has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified” (Heb. 10.12). Accordingly, the soul who lives in the Divine Will shares, in every action and in every instant, in the same merits of Jesus’ humanity, as it perfects and sanctifies all creation with Christ and hastens the realization of the kingdom of his Divine Will on earth. This realization is the fulfilment of the words of the “Our Father” prayer, in which one prays, “your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” 4. Difference between “Doing” and “Living” in the Divine Will: In considering the divine and eternal modes of prayer and action, Jesus reveals to Luisa the expressions, “doing the Divine Will” to signify the former, and “Living in the Divine Will” to signify the latter. He affirms that “Living in the Divine Will” is the model that is “closest to the blessed in heaven” and as distant from “doing the Divine Will” “as that of heaven from earth”. Living in the Divine Will is to invite God’s one eternal operation into our finite prayers and actions, who bequeaths to them an eternal quality, whereby they impact all souls of the past, present and future concomitantly. 5. The gift of Living in the Divine Will establishes in the soul Jesus’ “Real Life”. This Real Life is similar to Jesus’ “Real Presence” in the Eucharist, and it is perpetuated in the soul who lives in the Divine Will. The Baltimore Catechism affirmed that after one consumes the consecrated Host, the accidents of bread remain in him for about 15 minutes, and then they are digested. In the soul who lives in the Divine Will, Jesus tells Luisa that although the accidents are consumed, his presence in the consecrated Host is perpetuated in that soul, thus constituting his Real Life. By this means, the soul who lives in the Divine Will becomes a “living host”, that is, another Jesus, interceding on behalf of mankind. According to Fr Dr Iannuzzi’s approved dissertation at least these saints lived in the Divine Will and described it as: The Servant of God Luisa Piccaretta (1847-1965) and St Hannibal di Francia (1851-1927): “Living in Divine Will” Blessed Conchita de Armida (1862-1937), the Servant of God Archbishop Luis Martinez (1881-1956): “Mystical Incarnation” St Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906): “The New Indwelling” St Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941): “The Assumption of Souls in Love” Blessed Dina Belanger (1897-1929): “The Divine Substitution” St Pader Pio (1887-1969), St Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), Fr Michael Sopocko (1905-1938), St Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) and Marthe Robin (1902-1981): “The Divine Will” and “Living Hosts” The Servant of God Vera Grita (1923-1969): “Living Tabernacles” #divinewill, #divinewillteaching, #luisapicarreta, #ourlady, #divinelove, #catholic, , #carmelite, #carmelites, #sttherese, #stteresa, #stjohnofthecross, #priest, #catechsim, #truth, #samkhadhouri, #sam, #beingcatholicmedia