Luisa says: “Hardly awakened, as the eyes open to the light of the day, thus let us make all our being rise in the Light of the Will of God, and let us begin our rounds” (Divine Will Prayer Book).
O my God, in union with the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary (here kiss your Brown Scapular that you wear in the name of all) and in your Divine Will, I renew again this morning my perpetual intention of offering You my every heartbeat, breath, thought, word, joy, sorrow and every act, and of performing them always in your Most Holy Will. In each act I intend to offer You the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, everywhere He is Sacramentally present throughout time, and every Sacrifice of the Mass offered throughout time. I wish to say in each of these acts, “I love You, I adore You, I praise You, I thank You, I beg pardon and make reparation for all sins,” all in the name of every human creature who will exist throughout time. I also wish to implore in each of these acts, the quick and complete triumph of the Divine Will on earth, and its quick and complete triumph in me.
O my Jesus, I desire this day, as I strive to make my acts one with yours, to gain all the indulgences I can; and I offer these acts containing your infinite merits, to Mary Most Holy, that She may best apply them to the interests of your Most Sacred Heart.
(Adapted from Vol. 11: May 3, 1916).
With my vigilant care to observe modesty in dress I wish to continuously make divine reparations for all immodesty — especially in our times and more particularly in our churches; and I also wish to make reparation for the disobedience of clerics and religious who do not wear their religious garb, and for the good they leave undone because of this. I ask You Lord, to grant that good, by your grace, to those souls who should have received it. Let no act of mine escape your Holy Will. And no matter how small they may be, may they all work in a universal manner repairing, supplementing and substituting everyone’s human acts so as to bring down your grace for the salvation and greatest possible sanctification of everyone, even to living in the Divine Will.
Finally my Jesus, it is my perpetual intention to continuously set all my acts in flight to all the Tabernacles of the world, and to every place your Sacramental Presence exists throughout time, to keep You continual company, and to provide You with constant relief and reparation (Adapted from Companion to the Hours of the Passion, 8 p.m.).
Sweet Mother Mary, please come, bring me the Cross Jesus has prepared for me with so much love today. Please be with me, along with dear Luisa, my Guardian Angel and Saint ( your patron) at every moment to help me carry it, with love, most faithfully all day long.
My Guardian Angel, please remind me continually, to call the Divine Will into all my acts throughout the day.
(Vol. 19: February 28, 1926).
As you were calling everyone I felt Myself loved by everyone in return. Since you have a free and deserving will, when you performed your act, My Will unleashed from Itself a greater Love, glory and happiness with which everyone felt themselves imbued; the Angels and Saints feel a greater glory and happiness as they feel themselves more reciprocated in Love by God; those on earth receive more help and more graces according to their dispositions.
(Vol. 35: September 12, 1937).
How many Saints and spiritual writers have said that the morning meditation must never be omitted! This is also true for the Children of the Divine Will. Here you will obtain the graces needed to Be Faithful And Attentive to the Divine Will throughout the day.
In the first part of your meditation, go mentally over the foreseen activities of the day. Think of the places you will be and the persons you may encounter. What temptations lie before you? What practical steps can you take to avoid succumbing? This is the time to make a resolution to avoid a certain occasion of sin, to overcome a fault, and to be more faithful to some particular aspect of living in the Divine Will such as mortification, abandonment, or interior recollection.
Always finish your meditation with an act of gratitude.
The souls in purgatory have a share in each day of your week. Through the offering of indulgences that you make each morning, my divine Mother, according to her wise choice, applies the merits of your prayers and actions. You have no merits apart from my merits, and my merits are infinite, inexhaustible. The intentions for each day of the week do not deprive the souls in purgatory who are as dear to me as anything. My merits can be applied to them as well as to the special intentions of each of your days.
The kind of charity most acceptable to Me is helping those who are closest to Me, and those closest to Me are the souls in purgatory, for having been confirmed in My Grace, without any opposition between My Will and theirs, they live in Me continually, ardently loving Me and I am therefore constrained to see them suffer within Me, incapable themselves of obtaining the slightest relief. Oh, how My Heart feels torn for the plight of these souls! For they are not far from Me but very close, and not only close, but within Me, whence how pleasing they are to My Heart those who seek to help them. Suppose that you had a mother, a sister in a state of sorrow with whom you lived, and a stranger also in a state of sorrow who lived outside your home, who nonetheless could help himself by alleviating his own sorrow. Would it not please you more if a person were to help your mother and your sister rather than the stranger, who can help himself without the aid of anyone? (Vol. 4: January 16, 1901).
(Vol. 35: January 10, 1938).
(Vol. 35: October 31, 1937).
If you have the happiness of receiving Holy Communion today, remember to make some fervent and loving aspirations now, during your morning prayers, to enkindle your desire to receive Him.
One morning, Jesus reminded me first of the following historic fact: St. Elizabeth of Hungary, daughter of the King of Hungary, was betrothed at the age of four to the son of the Duke of Thuringia in Germany. In spite of her age, the young Princess had to be sent to the foreign country where later she would be living. Her mother, Queen Gertrude, who had the most tender motherly love for her, did everything her heart could invent in order to adorn the dear child; she lavished on her jewels, precious stones, countless costly gifts; in a word, she tried to do everything in her power, having at her disposal an immense fortune.
Then Jesus led me to understand the action of the Blessed Virgin in my regard. My Heavenly Mother was preparing me not simply for betrothal but for the marriage that would take place in eternity. If Queen Gertrude’s maternal love could be so great, what must be that of the Heart of Mary! Motherly love here on earth, in spite of its wealth of dedication, is like ice compared with the burning love of the Virgin Mother, the perfect creature. The Queen of Hungary showered on her daughter adornments and rare jewels that she would hand over to a human fiancé from another country. The Blessed Virgin is a Queen whose power and wealth are beyond compare: She possesses the Heart of God! What would She not do to embellish my soul so as to make it pleasing not to a fiancé, but to the Bridegroom; not to a man but to God, not to a stranger, but to her Son! And what part did little Elizabeth play? — None at all. At four years of age, she was completely unaware of what was happening all around her, and totally in her mother’s hands.
In the same way, I was not to worry about anything but to let my Blessed Mother have her way; She undertook to make reparation for and bring to perfection the past, the present and the future, making everything ready through the merits of Our Lord and her own. That is why I am certain to glorify God in Heaven to the extent that He desires of me. My faults and failings are great and innumerable, but my Mother is there to cover me with her cloak of perfection and give me Jesus together with his infinite treasures.
If you only knew how much this Celestial Queen loves souls… She, the faithful copy of Her Creator, gazes within Herself and discovers her immense seas of Love, of Grace, of Sanctity, of Beauty and of Light. She then gazes upon the creature and yearns to give her entire Self together with all of her seas, so that they might possess their Mama with all her riches. To see such children poor while their Mother is so rich — only because they do not live as heirs of their Mother — causes such grief… She would have them immersed in her seas of Love, such that they would love their Creator as She loves Him, hidden within his Sanctity, embellished with his Beauty, filled with his Grace. But not seeing them as She would like, had She not been in the state of Glory where there is no room for pain, would cause her to die from pure grief for each creature who does not live in the Divine Will.
(Vol. 35: August 9, 1937).
…all Heaven prays and waits anxiously for the Divine Will to be known and to reign. Then, the great Queen will do for the Children of My Will what She did for her Jesus, and her Motherhood will have life in her many children.
I will give over My place in her Maternal Heart to the ones who live in My Will. She will rear them for Me, She will guide their steps, She will hide them in her Motherhood and holiness. All their acts will be endowed with her motherly love and her holiness. They will be her true children, who resemble Me in everything… And, oh, how I’d like to have everyone know that the one who wants to live in My Will has a powerful Queen and Mother! She will make up for what is lacking in them, She will rear them on her maternal lap and, in everything they do, She will be with them to pattern their acts according to hers. In this way, one can tell that they are children who have been reared, guided and bred in the love of My Mother’s Motherhood. They are the ones who will make Her happy and who will be her honor and her glory.