The Resurrection of the Lord

The Resurrection (Faith) Jesus:

“My daughter, in my Resurrection, the right was given to creatures to rise again in me to new life. It was the confirmation, the seal of my whole life, my works and my words. If I came on earth it was to give to each and every one my Resurrection, as their own - to give them life and make them rise again in my own Resurrection.

But, do you want to know; where is the real resurrection of the creature? Not in the end of her days, but while she is still living on earth. One who lives in my Will rises again to light and says: ‘my night is over.’ She rises again in the love of her Creator, so that there is no more cold or snow for her, but the smile of the Heavenly Spring; she rises again to sanctity, which puts to rushed flight all weaknesses, miseries and passions; she rises again to all that is Heaven, and if she looks at the earth, Heaven and Sun, she does it to find the works of her Creator - to take the opportunity to narrate to Him His glory and His long love story Therefore, one who lives in my Will can say, as the Angel said to the holy women on the way to the sepulcher, ‘He is risen. He is not here any more.’ One who lives in my Will can also say, ‘my will is not with me any longer - it is risen again in the Fiat.’ And if the circumstances of life, opportunities and sufferings surround the creature, as if they were looking for her will, she can answer: ‘my will is risen again, it is not in my power anymore. I possess, in exchange, the Divine Will, and I want to cover with Its light all things around me - circumstances and sufferings, to make them like many divine conquests.’ The soul who lives in our Will finds life in the acts of her Jesus, and as always, in this Life, she finds our operating, conquering, triumphant Will. She gives Us so much glory that Heaven cannot contain it. Therefore, live always in our Will - never leave It, if you want to be our triumph and our glory.”
(From Vol. 36; April 20, 1938)

THE FIFTH LUMINOUS MYSTERY – THE INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST

Reflection:

Jesus left Himself in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist in order to provide the soul with the divine nourishment of His very Life, having the ultimate purpose of establishing a perennial Communion with her, as it was meant to be from the beginning of Creation. The complete fruit of the Holy Eucharist is the soul’s becoming a living Host herself – and not for brief moments and through the sacramental veils of the accidents of the bread; but always and continuously, because of the Divine Will dwelling in her as Life, which is the very source of the Sacraments. As the soul fuses herself in the Divine Will and lives and operates in It, she finds, present and in act, the very act of Jesus of instituting the Holy Eucharist and of communicating Himself to souls. She participates in this act, as if it were her own; she gives herself to all, together with Jesus; and at the same time, she becomes the depository of His Sacramental Life, receiving Him worthily within all communicants, and also on behalf of those who do not receive Him, just as Jesus received Himself within all souls. And all this, not because of her personal merits – oh, no; but because of the exuberant excess of love, inconceivable to a created mind, of the Divine Will dwelling in her.

From the Writings:

Prodigies, wonders, excesses of love of Our Lord in instituting the Most Holy Sacrament, and in communicating Himself.

Luisa: I was feeling all absorbed in the Most Holy Will of God, and blessed Jesus made present to me, as though in act, all the acts of His Life on earth. And since I had received Him sacramentally in my poor heart, He let me see, as though in act in His Most Holy Will, the moment in which my sweet Jesus, in instituting the Most Holy Sacrament, communicated Himself. How many wonders, how many prodigies, how many excesses of love in this act of communicating Himself. My mind wandered amid so many divine prodigies, and my always lovable Jesus told me:

“Beloved daughter of my Supreme Volition, my Will contains everything, It preserves all of the divine works as though in act, and It lets nothing escape It; and to one who lives in It, It wants to make known all the goods It contains. Therefore, I want to make known to you the reason for which I wanted to receive Myself when I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament.
The prodigy was great and incomprehensible to the human mind. For the creature to receive a Man and God, to enclose the infinite in a finite being, and to give to this infinite Being divine honors, decorum and a dwelling worthy of Him – this mystery was so abstruse and incomprehensible, that the Apostles themselves, while they easily believed in the Incarnation and in many other mysteries, remained troubled before this one, and their intellects were reluctant to believe. And it took my repeated saying for them to surrender. So, what to do? I, who instituted it, was to take care of everything, since, when the creature would receive Me, the Divinity was not to lack honors, divine decorum and a dwelling worthy of God. Therefore, my daughter, as I instituted the Most Holy Sacrament, my Eternal Will, united to my human will, made present to Me all the hosts which were to receive the sacramental consecration until the end of centuries. And I looked at them, one by one; I consumed them, and I saw my Sacramental Life palpitating in each host, yearning to give Itself to creatures. In the name of the whole human family, my Humanity took on the commitment for all, and provided a dwelling within Itself to each host; and my Divinity, which was inseparable from Me, surrounded each sacramental host with divine honors, praises and blessings, to give worthy decorum to my Majesty. So, each sacramental host was deposited in Me, and contains the dwelling of my Humanity and the cortege of the honors of my Divinity; otherwise, how could I descend into the creature? And it was only because of this that I tolerated sacrileges, coldness, irreverence, ingratitude, since, in receiving Myself, I secured my own decorum, the honors and the dwelling which befitted my very Person. Had I not received Myself, I could not have descended into creatures, and they would have lacked the way, the door, the means to receive Me.
This is my usual way in all my works: I do them once in order to give life to all the other times in which they are repeated, uniting them to the first act as if they were one single act. So, the power, the immensity, the all-seeing-ness of my Will made Me embrace all centuries; It made present to Me the communicants and all sacramental hosts; and I received Myself as many times, so that, through Myself, I might pass into each creature. Who has ever thought of so much love of mine? That in order to descend into the hearts of creatures, I was to receive Myself so as to secure the divine rights and be able to give them, not only Myself, but the very acts I did in receiving Myself, to dispose them and almost to give them the right to receive Me?”

Luisa: I remained surprised, and as if I wanted to doubt, and Jesus added: “Why do you doubt? Is this not perhaps to operate as God? And this one single act of forming as many acts for as many as want to enjoy it, while it remains one single act - was it not the same for the act of the Incarnation, of my Life and of my Passion? I incarnated Myself only once, one was my Life, one my Passion; yet, this Incarnation, Life and Passion is for all and for each one, as if it were for one alone. So, they are still as though in act, and for each one, as if I were now incarnating Myself and now suffering my Passion. If it were not so, I would not be operating as God, but as creature, who, not containing a divine power, cannot let herself be possessed by all, or give herself to all.
Jesus:

Now, my daughter, I want to tell you of another excess of my love. One who does my Will and lives in It, comes to embrace the works of my Humanity; because I greatly yearn that the creature become similar to Me. And, since my Will and hers are one, my Will takes pleasure in her; and, amusing Itself, It places all the good I contain into the creature; and I form in her the deposit of the very sacramental hosts. My Will, which she contains, lends her and surrounds her with divine decorum, homage and honors; and I entrust everything to her, because I am certain to keep my works in a safe place, since my Will becomes actor, spectator and custodian of all my goods, of my works and of my very Life.”
(June 18, 1923; Volume 15)

Prayer: Luisa:
O my sweet Love, in this hour, You transubstantiated Yourself into bread and wine. Please, O Jesus, let all that I say and do be a continuous consecration of Yourself in me and in souls. Sweet Life of mine, when You come into me, let my every heartbeat, desire, affection, thought and word feel the power of the sacramental consecration, so that, being consecrated, all my little being may become as many hosts in order to give You to souls. O Jesus, sweet Love of mine, may I be your little host in order to enclose all of Yourself in me, like a living Host. From: (The Hours of the Passion – 4th Hour, from Reflections and Practices)

Suggestion[8] for the journey:
During this decade, which takes the soul up to the unfathomable heights of Divine Love, though it does not conclude her luminous journey in the acts of the Divine Will, guided by Her Celestial Mother, the soul accompanies Jesus in His Eucharistic Life, with Its divine joys and Its unspeakable sorrows, through her acts of thanksgiving and of reparation. And so, bead after bead, (1)she takes part in the act of Jesus of instituting the Holy Eucharist, receiving the deposit of His Sacramental Life; (2)she participates in the act of Jesus of receiving Himself, so as to be able to receive Him, herself, within the worthy dwelling of His Humanity, and with the decorum and honor of His Divinity; (3)she does the same within each soul; (4)she requites Jesus in the name of all with His very Divine Love; (5)she repairs for all the offenses and sacrileges committed against the Most Holy Sacrament; (6)she prays that all may be disposed to receive Him; (7)she asks for the complete fruit of the Holy Sacrament for all; (8)she brings the whole of Creation around Jesus to adore Him; (9)she calls all Angels and Saints around Jesus to praise Him and glorify Him; (10)she renews and confirms her desire to live in perennial Communion with Him, in the Unity of the Divine Will.
“I will give my own place in my Mother’s Maternal Heart to those who live in my Will. She will raise them for me, guiding their steps and hiding them in her Maternity and Sanctity. Her Maternal love and her sanctity will be impressed in all their acts, they will be her true children, being like me in everything….

My Lord, and My God!