Ascension Thursday Vow - The Vow that Jesus Wants us to make through Luisa

View Fr. Celso's Teaching for this Ascension Thursday Ascension Thursday Vow - The Vow that Jesus Wants us to make through Luisa

Link to related document with references for Fr. Celso's teaching and the vow he prays

Fr. Celso references the following Book of Heaven readings in his teaching:

Ref 1: BoH Volume 16 - May 29, 1924

May 29, 1924

The pain of the Apostles when they saw Jesus ascend into Heaven. The good which this pain produced.

Lesson to Luisa about the pain of the privation of Jesus.

I was thinking of when my sweet Jesus went back to Heaven in His glorious Ascension, and therefore of the sorrow of the Apostles in remaining without such a great good; and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, the greatest sorrow for all of the Apostles, in their entire lives, was to remain without their Master. As they saw Me ascend to Heaven, their hearts were consumed  with the pain of my privation; and much more was this pain sharp and penetrating, since it was not a human pain, something material that they were losing – but a divine pain: it was a God that they were losing. And even though I had my Humanity, as It resurrected, It was spiritualized and glorified, therefore all the pain was in their souls; and penetrating their whole beings, it caused them to feel all consumed with grief, to the point of forming in them the most harrowing and painful martyrdom. But all this was necessary for them. It can be said that until that moment, they were nothing but tender babies in virtues and in the knowledge of divine things, and of my very person. I could say that I was in their midst but they did not really know Me, nor love Me. But when they saw Me ascend into Heaven, the pain of losing Me tore the veil, and they recognized Me with such certainty as the true Son of God, that the intense sorrow of no longer seeing Me in their midst gave birth to firmness in good and strength to suffer anything for love of the One whom they had lost. It gave birth to the light of divine science; it removed from them the swaddling clothes of their infancy, and it formed them as intrepid men - no longer fearful, but courageous. The pain transformed them and formed in them the true character of Apostles. What they could not obtain with my presence, they obtained with the pain of my privation.

Now, my daughter, a little lesson for you. Your life can be called a continuous pain of losing Me and a continuous joy of acquiring Me. But between the pain of the loss and the joy of acquiring Me, how many surprises have I not given you? How many things have I not told you? It was pain and the painful martyrdom of losing Me that prepared you and disposed you to hear the sublime lessons on my Will. In fact, how many times it seemed to you that you had lost Me, and while you were immersed in your harrowing pain, I would come back to you with one of the most beautiful lessons on my Will, and I would make the new joy of acquiring Me come back, to dispose you once again to the piercing pain of my absence? I can say that the pain of remaining without Me has given birth in you to the effects, the value, the knowledges, the foundation of my Will. It was necessary that I conduct Myself with you in this way – that is, coming to you very often, and leaving you prey to the pain of being without Me. Since I had established that I would manifest to you, in a way all special, many things about my Will, I had to leave you prey to a continuous divine pain, because my Will is Divine, and only upon a divine pain could It establish Its throne and lay Its dominion; and assuming the attitude of teacher, It communicated the knowledge of my Will, as much as it is possible for a creature. Many will marvel in hearing of the continuous visits I made to you – which I have not done with others – and of your continuous pain of my privation. Had you not seen Me so many times, you would not have known Me nor loved Me so much, because each one of my visits brings an additional knowledge of Me and a new love; and the more the soul knows Me and loves Me, the more her pain is redoubled. And I, in coming, kept provoking your pain more intensely, because I want my Will not to lack the noble cortege of pain, which constitutes the soul firm and strong, so that my Will may form my stable dwelling in her, and give her new and continuous lessons on my Will. Therefore, I repeat to you – let Me do, and trust Me.”

Ref 2: BoH Volume 26 - May 12, 1929

May 12, 1929 How one who lives in the Divine Fiat is the narrator of the divine works. The Ascension.

The reason why Jesus did not leave the Kingdom of the Divine Will upon earth.

Continuing in my usual abandonment in the Divine Fiat, I was following the acts of It in the Creation. It seemed to me that, by uniting myself to Its acts, I would do now an act of light, now an act of immensity, now an act of power, and so on and so forth. But while I was doing this, my always lovable Jesus, moving, in my interior, told me:

“My daughter, one who lives in my Divine Will and follows Its acts is the narrator of all Our works. So, as you go around in the sun to repeat together with my Will what I did in creating the sun, you act for Us as the narrator of the story of its light; and the Supreme Being, in hearing all the story of the sun - what it encloses, the good it does being repeated to It by you, feels all the glory of its light being given back to It. And as the light shines over all things, invests everything, fills the air, It hears your echo near and far, down below and in the height of the heavens, and whispering to Our ear, you act for Us as the narrator of the light, and glorify Us so much as to give Us a sun of glory.

“Oh! how delighted We are on the part of the creature, because a sphere so beneficial for the whole earth was created by Us. And how not to love one who lives in Our Divine Fiat? She gathers all Our qualities and happinesses spread in the whole Creation, and now she acts for Us as the narrator of the heavens and tells Us the story of their immensity, and gives Us the glory of the entire heavens; now she tells Us the story of the sea, and she murmurs together with the waters: ‘Love and glory of all the sea to my Creator’. Now she narrates to Us the story of the flowery earth, and all the plants and flowers elevate their fragrance, and you give Us the glory of all the earth; and now you act for Us as the narrator of the story of the wind, now of the water, now of the little bird that sings, now of the lamb that bleats. In sum, she always has things to narrate to Us among the many things which We have done in Creation, in order to give Us the love and the glory which We had in creating It. Oh! how sweet and pleasant it is to hear you act as the narrator of Our works. We feel Our love, Our glory, being doubled; more so, since she who does the narration for Us lives in Our Will, which, instructing her, makes her speak the loving secrets which are present in all created things.”

Having said this, He kept silent. Then, as though unable to contain the love of His Divine Heart, He added: “My beloved daughter, you are my hope - the hope of the Kingdom of my Divine Will upon earth; that hope which does not say ‘doubt’, but ‘certainty’, because its Kingdom is already present in you. Your ways, your prerogatives, your narrations, are all apartments for my Divine Fiat, in you there are Its foundations, Its knowledges, therefore I hope that Its Kingdom will be formed and will spread upon earth.”

After this, I was thinking about when Our Lord ascended into Heaven, glorious and triumphant, with His Humanity no longer humiliated, subject to pains, with the insignia of Adam decayed, but untouchable by any pain, with the insignia of the new innocent Adam, with all the most beautiful prerogatives of Creation, clothed with light and immortal.

But while I was thinking about this, my most sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:

“My daughter, my Humanity redid within Itself, and over Itself, all the evils of decayed humanity, to the point of dying, in order to give to it the virtue of rising again from the death to which it was subject. This is the reason why I did not leave the Kingdom of my Divine Will upon earth – because the humanity of innocent Adam was missing, glorious and immortal, in order to be able to impetrate It and to receive the great gift of my Fiat. Therefore, it was necessary that my Humanity first redo decayed humanity and give to it all the remedies in order to raise it again, and then die and rise again with the qualities of innocent Adam, so as to be able to give to man what he lost. Not only this, but I wanted to ascend into Heaven with my Humanity as beautiful, clothed with light, just as it came out of Our creative hands, so as to say to the Celestial Father: ‘My Father, look at Me, how my Humanity is redone, how the Kingdom of Our Will is safe in It. I am the Head of all, and the One who prays You has all the rights to ask and to give what I possess.’

“My daughter, an innocent humanity, with all the qualities with which it came out of Our creative hands, was needed in order to impetrate again the Kingdom of Our Will into the midst of creatures. Up to that time it was missing, and I purchased it with my death, and I ascended into Heaven in order to fulfil, with my first task, my second task of impetrating and giving the Kingdom of my Divine Will upon earth. It is about two thousand years that this Humanity of Mine has been praying, and Our Divine Majesty, feeling the love of Creation which We had in creating man overflow from Itself again - or rather, with greater intensity - and feeling Itself being enraptured and charmed by the beauties of my Humanity, has poured Itself out again; and opening the Heavens, It has made the rain of light of the many knowledges about my Fiat rain down in torrents, so that, like rain, It may descend upon souls, and with Its light It may vivify and heal the human will, and transforming it, It may cast the root of my Will into the hearts, and may lay Its Kingdom upon earth. In order for my Kingdom to come upon earth, first I had to make It known, I had to make known that It wants to come to reign. And I, and as an elder brother of the human family, am doing all the paperwork in Heaven before the Divinity, in order to give to it a purchase so great. Therefore, it was necessary that I ascend into Heaven with my Humanity glorified, in order to be able to purchase again the Kingdom of my Fiat for my brothers and children of mine.”

Ref 3: BoH Volume 34 - May 20, 1936

May 20, 1936

Difference that passes between who calls the Divine Will in her acts, and between who does good works without Him.

The Ascension; how he departed for Heaven and remained upon the earth.

My poor mind continues to turn in the acts of the Divine Will, and I thought to myself: what is the difference (between) whom calls the Divine Will in her acts, and those that do good works and don’t call him. And my sweet Jesus making for me his brief little visit said to me:

“My daughter, there is no comparison (between) the one and the other, the first one with calling my Will in her acts, strips herself of that which is human and forms the void in her human volition where to give the place to mine, mine embellishes, sanctifies, forms his light in that void, then he pronounces his Creative Fiat, and calls to life his divine work in the human one and the creature not only participates, but remains proprietor of the Divine act, which possesses the power, the immensity, the sanctity and the Divine value, that never becomes exhausted. Therefore in whom lives in our Volition, we look and we find ourselves and our acts that honor us and crown us.

“Instead those that do good works, but not animated by our Volition, we don’t find ourselves, but the finite act of the creature, and since we ourselves don’t know where to hold anything of whatever good that they do, we give them the merit as payment, payment is not property that she can always produce, hence they symbolize those that live to the day, that live however difficultly from the payment that they have, but they are never made rich, they always feel the need of being paid (for) their works in order to live, and if they don’t work, they go through perils of dying of hunger, that is to not feel the satisfaction of the good, the life of the virtues, but the squalid misery of the passions. “Instead who lives in our Volition everything is abundance, we ourselves tell them take that which you want and how much more you can take, rather we put at your disposition our riches, our light, our sanctity, our love, because that which is ours is yours and that which is yours is ours, there doesn’t remain other than to live and to work together.”

After this I was accompanying the Ascension of Jesus to Heaven, how beautiful he was, all majesty, vested with the most refulgent light that enraptured and captivated hearts to love him, and my sweet Jesus all goodness and love said to me:

“My blessed daughter, there is not(hing) drawn from my life that doesn’t symbolize the kingdom of my Divine Will, in this day of my Ascension I felt victorious and triumphant, my sufferings were already finished, rather I left my sufferings suffered already, in the midst of my children that I left upon the earth, for help, for strength and for support, and as refuge where to hide in their sufferings, in order to draw from my heroism in their sacrifices, I can say that I left my sufferings, my examples and my Life itself, as seed that growing and maturing itself the kingdom of my Divine Will should arise. So that I departed and I remained, I remained in virtue of my sufferings, I remained in their hearts in order to be loved, afterwards my Most Holy Humanity went up to Heaven, I felt more pressed (by) the bond of the human family, hence I would not be adapted to receive the love of my children and brothers, that I left upon the earth, I remained in the Most Holy Sacrament in order to give myself continually to them and they to give themselves to me, in order to have them find the rest, the relief and the remedy to all their needs. Our works don’t suffer mutability, that which we do one time we always do.

“Beyond this in this day of my Ascension I had double crowns, the crown of my children that I brought with me into the Celestial Country, and the crown of my children that I left upon the earth, they symbolized the few that will have beginning of the kingdom of my Divine Will; all those that saw me ascend to Heaven they received so many graces, that everyone put forth (their) life in order to make the kingdom of the Redemption known, and they cast the foundations in order to form my Church, in order to make gathered in her maternal womb all the human generations, thus the first children of the kingdom of my Will, they will be few, but the graces will be such and so many with which they will be invested, that they will put forth (their) life in order to call everyone to live in this Holy kingdom. A cloud of light invested me, which took my presence away from the sight of my disciples, whom remained as statues in watching my Person, that such was the enchantment of my beauty, that it held their pupils enraptured, so much so that they didn’t know how to abase them in order to look (to) the earth, so much so that there was needed an Angel in order to shake them and to make them return to the Cenacle.

“Also this (is) symbol of the kingdom of my Volition, the light will be such and so much that it will invest his first children that will carry the beauty, the enchantment, the peace of my Divine Fiat, in a way that they will easily surrender themselves to want to know and to love a good so great. Now in the midst of the disciples there was my Mama, that assisted in my departure for Heaven, this it I  the most beautiful symbol. So that She is the Queen of my Church, assists it, protects it, defends it.

Thus she will sit in the midst of the children of my Will, She will be always the engine, the life, the guide, the perfect model, the Majesty of the kingdom of the Divine Fiat that is so much to her heart, they are her anxieties, her ardent desires, her deliriums of Maternal love, that she wants her children in earth in the kingdom where She lived, she is not content that she holds her children in Heaven in the kingdom of the Divine Will, but she also wants them upon the earth, she feels that the assignment given her by God as Mother and Queen she has not completed it, her mission is not finished, up to such that the Divine Will doesn’t reign upon the earth in the midst of creatures. She wants her children that resemble her and that possesses the inheritance of their Mama. “Therefore the great Lady is all eye in order to watch, all heart in order to love, in order to help who she sees in some way disposed, that they want to live of Divine Will. Hence in the difficulties think that She is around you, supports you, strengthens you, takes your volition in her maternal hands in order to make it receive the life of the Supreme Fiat.”

Ref 4: BoH Volume 35 - January 24, 1938

January 24, 1938

How Our Lord departed to heaven and remained on earth in the tabernacles in order to complete the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

One who lives in the Divine Volition can say as Jesus: “I depart and remain.”

My flight in the Divine Volition continues, and while I was making the visit to Jesus in (the) sacrament, I wanted to embrace all the tabernacles and every single sacramental host, in order to have life together with my prisoner Jesus; and I thought to myself: “What sacrifice, that long

imprisonment, not of days, but of centuries! Poor Jesus, was he at least reciprocated for it!”

And my beloved Jesus, visiting my little soul, all immersed in his flames of love, said to me: “My good daughter, my first prison was love, it imprisoned me so much, that I didn’t have liberty neither to breathe, nor to palpitate, nor to work, if it was not imprisoned in my love. So that it was my love that imprisoned me in the tabernacle, but with reason and with highest and divine wisdom. “Now, you must know that the chains of my love made me depart from heaven in my Incarnation. I departed in order to descend to earth in search of my children and brothers, in order to form for them with my love so many prisons of love, to not be able to go out from them. But while I departed, I remained in heaven, because my love, making for me (a) prison, tied me in the celestial regions.

Now, having completed my career down here, I departed for heaven, and I remained imprisoned in every sacramental host; but do you know why? My love, making a sweet imprisonment for me, said to me: ‘Your purpose why you descended from heaven to earth is not completed. The Kingdom of our Will, where is it? Neither does it exist, nor is it known; hence you remain imprisoned in every sacramental host. Thus it won’t be one Jesus alone, as in your humanity but so many Jesus’ for how many consecrated hosts (that) will exist; so many (of) your lives will make a breach and a rage of love before the Divinity, (and) a breach and a rage to every heart that will receive you. They will have a little word to say in order to make our Volition known, because these lives mute, but speaking, and you will speak in the secret of their hearts of our Fiat; you will be the carrier of our Kingdom.’ “Hence, I saw the just pretensions of my love, and willingly I remained on earth, in order to form the Kingdom of my Will until (it is) a finished work.

“You see, if I departed for heaven and I remained on earth, my life scattered in so many sacramental hosts will not be useless down here. I will form with certainty the Kingdom of my Volition; nor would I have remained if (it was) known (I) should not obtain the intent, even more so that it brings me more (of the) sacrifice of my own mortal life. How many secret tears, how many bitter sighs, in the midst of so many flames of love that devour me! And I would like to devour all [souls] in my love, in order to make re-arise to new life the souls that must live in my Divine Volition. From the center of my love this Kingdom will come forth. He will burn the evils of the earth; he will make (an) account on himself, he will arm his omnipotence, and by his so many wins he will win our Kingdom in the midst of creatures, in order to give it to them.

“Nor was I content to remain imprisoned, but my love blazing more, made me choose you, in order to make you imprisoned, with chains so strong as not to be able to escape me, as vent of my love and company of my imprisonment, in order to be able to speak at length of my Volition, of his anxieties and sighs, because he wants to reign, and as a pretext of my love in order to say before the Supreme Majesty: ‘A creature of the human race is already our prisoner; with her we speak of our Will, in order to make him known and to extend there his Kingdom. This prisoner is as (a) deposit for the whole human family, that with right we must give our Kingdom to.’ I can say that each sacramental life of mine are so many deposits that I give you, sufficient, in order to secure my Kingdom for my children; but to my so many deposits, my love wanted to add on the deposit of a simple creature that carries the signs of my imprisonment, as to confirm the parts between creature and Creator, and thus come to conclusion and complete the Kingdom of our Will in the midst of creatures.

“From every tabernacle my prayers are incessant, so that creatures know my Will in order to let him reign; and all that which I suffer, the tears and sighs, I send them to heaven, in order to move the Divinity to concede a grace so great; I send it to every heart, in order to move them to compassion for my tears and sufferings, in order to make them surrender to receive such a good.”

Jesus became silent, and I thought to myself: “My dear Jesus, by making himself imprisoned, has done an act of heroism so great that only a God can do; but while he is imprisoned he is also free, so very true is it that in heaven he is free, he enjoys the fullness of his liberty; not only, but also on earth, how many times does he not come to my time without sacramental veils? But with having rendered my poor existence imprisoned, he has made it really big, and he knows in what (a) tight prison he puts me, and how hard my chains are; nor can I do as he does, that while he is imprisoned he is free. My prison is continuous.”

But while I thought this, he resumed his speech by saying to me:

“My daughter, my poor daughter, you have suffered my same fate! When my love wants to do a good, he doesn’t spare anything, neither sacrifices, nor sufferings; it seems as if he might not want to give (into) reason. All his intent is to make arise the good that he wants.

“It is then certain that (I had to) made it big. It didn’t concern (just) any good, but a Kingdom of Divine Will to establish upon the earth. This good will be so very great, that no other good can compare itself to this; all the other goods will be like so many little drops before the sea, like little lights before the sun. Therefore do not marvel if I have made it big, as you say. Your continuous imprisonment entered as (a) necessity (of) my love, in order to give me company and to let me speak of the knowledge of my Will, that was so much to my heart and I felt the need to make them known. And you must know that as I speak to you of him, my love pays you and releases you from the fetters of your human will, and renders you free in the fields of the dominions of the Kingdom of my Volition. To this I have directed the knowledge of him: to release the creature from his will, from his passions, from his miseries, therefore thank me for that which I have disposed for you; my love will know how to pay you and will also hold account of one breath of yours, and of one instant of your imprisonment.”

After this I followed to think of the prodigies of the Divine Volition, and my beloved Jesus added: “Daughter of my Volition, as your Jesus said in the descent from heaven to earth: ‘I depart and remain’, thus when I rose to heaven I said: ‘I remain and I depart’; my same word repeats in the sacramental descent into creatures: ‘I depart and I remain in the tabernacles. ‘Thus, one who lives in my Will, in all her acts can say my same word. “As she begins her act, so her Jesus becomes formed in her act. My life holds (the) virtue of multiplying itself to the infinite, how many times I want. Hence she can say with all truth: ‘I depart and remain; I depart for heaven, in order to beatify it, in order to reach my seat and to make known to everyone my dear Jesus, that I have enclosed in my act, so that they enjoy and love him; I remain on earth, my life as support and defence for all my brothers.’ How beautiful is an act in my Will!”

Ref 5: Luisa's Letter 19

19. To Mrs. Antonietta Savorani, widow from Faenza

Fiat - In Voluntate Dei!

My good daughter in the Divine Volition,

Your letter brought me great contentment, especially in hearing that you want to strip yourself of the mourning clothes of the human will; and I briefly answer to your difficulties. To live in the Divine Will is not so difficult as you and others believe, nor does sweet Jesus want impossible things, nor can He teach difficult things; rather, in all He teaches, His love is so great that not only does He facilitate His teachings, but in order to make all that He wants and teaches easier, He puts Himself at our disposition, doing together with us all that He wants and teaches. My daughter, everything is in a strong, firm, constant resolution to deliver our will into the hands of Jesus, so that His Will may underlie each one of our acts.

Therefore, in all our being, in the most natural acts of life - in food, in sleep, in sufferings, in prayer, and also in legitimate pleasures, the Divine Will must have Its royal place, Its field of action, and our will must be the ground in which to receive these divine acts, and the footstool on which the Divine Will must place these acts; and these acts, united together, will form its Life. Life cannot be formed with one single act, but with many acts, repeated and incessant.

Moreover, the love of Jesus, His sighs and also His tears for desire that His Will reign in us as life, are such that He never leaves us alone; He Himself descends into the depth of our will; He molds it, strengthens it, purifies it, prepares it, and does all that we do together with us.

So, if we want it, everything is done; however, it is not that we must no longer feel our will: to operate on a dead will would be neither ours nor Jesus’ victory. The dead are buried. Therefore Jesus wants our will alive, so that it may feel all the good, as His operating Will lays Its acts in it. The human will becomes the residence of the Divine, and gives It all the freedom to dominate and to do whatever It wants.

Do you see, then, how easy it is? Nor does one have to be a religious to do this. The Sanctity of living in the Divine Will is for all; or rather, to tell the truth, It is for all those who want It. Therefore, get down to work; tell Jesus from the heart: "I firmly want it, I continuously want it; I want it!", and Jesus will make wonders, and will use everything you do and suffer as raw material so that you may ask for His Will and let It operate with Its creative virtue.

As far as the vow, do it on the day of Ascension, so that sweet Jesus may bring your will to Heaven as the most beautiful victory He has achieved over you...

I finish here, as I cannot continue further. Pray for me and make yourself a saint, for Jesus wants it. I leave you in the place of honor of the Divine Will, with a thousand regards, the little daughter of the Divine Will

Corato, May 7, 1935

Ref 6: Luisa's Letter 29

29. To Mother General of the Daughters of the Divine Zeal

J.M.J.

Fiat - In Voluntate Dei!

My good reverend Mother general,

Today is the sacred day of Ascension, the name of which you carry, and I feel the duty, although I am the least among all, to send you my sincere and affectionate wishes. But what wishes can I give you? I wouldn’t know what else to wish you other than that dear Jesus may make facts correspond to the name He gave you - that is to say, that He may take each one of your acts within Himself and bring it to Heaven, so making of all your life a continuous Ascension, like many conquests that sweet Jesus takes from earth to Heaven, and like the triumph of His Love in which your life must be consumed. To live in order to be consumed in love is the most beautiful act, which, putting us on the stake of love, consumes us with Jesus and makes His Life rise within us.

But this is not enough, most dear Mother, if I don’t let my Divine Fiat act. Therefore I send it to you with all my heart, and I pray that It may pronounce Its Omnipotent Fiat in the centre of your soul, and create Its Life within it, nourish it, and carry you always in Its arms of light; and that It may pronounce Its Fiat in every action you do and form in it Its Heaven, the most beautiful stars, the brightest sun, in order to make the most adorned room in which to reign and form Its first Kingdom.

My Mother, He always gives something to do to those who live in His Divine Volition. He lets not one of our acts escape Him without animating it, moulding it, investing it, caressing it with His Creative Virtue.

These are the best wishes I can send you, and I want you to accept them, so that the Divine Will may fulfil the wishes I am sending you with all my heart. I commend myself very much to your prayers...

Luisa Piccarreta