Happy Divine Mercy Sunday! We pray that everyone is getting out today and celebrating Holy Mass, Holy Communion with Our Lord, and Confession in order to receive all of the Graces from God for this Special Feast Day. Here are some quick facts on how to receive the Graces from God on Divine Mercy Sunday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRPcqb6abOo.
Here are some Feasts of Divine Mercy celebrated in Poland from St. Faustina. org. I am posting this early, but the time difference of eight hours ahead right now in Poland, for central time zone, may have put you behind some of the celebrations. https://www.saint-faustina.org/.
Today we are going to reflect on Our Lord being in us and how this is a common teaching from Our Lord to many of the Saints, and to include Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta on how to live in the Divine Will. The more united we become with Our Lord, Jesus Christ, the more Christ-like we become in understanding and sharing of His Divinity. We do not become Divine, but because we are so filled with God in us, we begin to reflect His image to others. We become like a mirror of light because we have obtained the Graces from Him to overcome all obstacles of the flesh and gained all of the attributes of the Spirit while still in our physical bodies. This is the completeness of our Transformations from God into His image while on Earth, and this is the total union with God that the Saints receive that have Surrendered to God’s Divine Will. What is great about the teachings from Frances Hogan is that she thoroughly explains each volume that Our Lord teaches Luisa so that we too have a clear understanding of how to obtain the gift of living in the Divine Will.
Because we are so sinful, God is always with us because of our Baptism in Him, but He cannot fully live and reign in our sinful souls, because God cannot dwell anywhere where there is sin. This is why the Heavenly Kingdom has NO SIN. This sin includes both mortal and venial sin and sins of omission and commission. To be in total union with God, which is the Unitive Way of the Spiritual Life, we have to be so detached from sin, that God can dwell completely in our souls on a perpetual basis, and this is the fulfillment of the Divine Will taught to Luisa Piccarreta. So, how do we get to this point with Our Lord? As an old College Professor said to our class one time, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! Our learning of the Divine Will has to be taken into our hearts and minds so much that we just begin by God’s Graces to keep practicing the foundations of rejecting all sins, purging our souls in Confession, and refreshing ourselves with God in our own perseverance. If we give up quickly because it is too hard, then we will never get there, and we will stay muddied in our perpetual vices and sins, even if they are just venial sins. If we TRUST in God, then we must know that He will bring us into union with Him, if we keep persevering in Faith and Trust. Frances Hogan explained in Volume 6 that Faith is knowing God, but Trust is living in GOD. Meaning, Faith in God only opens the door to God, but TRUSTING in God in everything is living in God perpetually. Here is John 14:9-11, in God’s Holy Word that Frances Hogan quotes often throughout the teaching. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2014&version=NIV.
“9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.”
Our Lord is telling His Apostles and us that Our Heavenly Father is in Him. Our Lord does not just say this because He is Divine. Our Lord reveals to Luisa that this is the essence of the Divine Will. If we are so full of Christ in us, then not only will we do His works, but our fruit will be so abundant that we will do greater works than Our Lord! This is only possible when we allow Our Lord to dwell in us and fill our souls up completely with Him. Not one strip of evidence of our own will still left, but only God’s Will reigning in our souls. We have to understand that this is so much more than just being Baptized in Christ. This is the full and complete allowance of God’s Divine Will to consistently work in us and conquering or pushing completely out our own wills. We have to do this because of our sinful nature of concupiscence, because we will continually succumb to any sin, if we don’t become “nothingness” like Our Lord explained to Luisa. Here are all of the Scriptures on Christ living in us! https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_is_within_us.
If you are just looking at this blog today and have not heard of the Divine Will teaching given to Luisa Piccarreta that is instructed by Frances Hogan, here it is again. If we are going to be able to withstand everything that is coming during the Purification and possibly the Tribulation very soon, we must be prepared Spiritually. There are many other instructors on the Divine Will, but I have found Frances Hogan to be very good at explaining the Spiritual parts that our brains have trouble comprehending, at least my brain did anyway. https://www.littlechildreninthedivinewill.com/frances-hogan.
We have also been studying other Saints and their revelation from God. A Priest said that St. Bridget received a revelation from God about a Comet coming at the end of latter times that we have been trying to find but have not found that information in her writings yet. Nevertheless, here is more confirmation about how to allow God to reign in us given to St. Bridget and this is the basically the same as the teaching of the Divine Will, but the Divine Will is taught on a much deeper level. St. Bridget also received volumes of information from Our Lord that she was instructed to write down for us to learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTLT27Zfgs4.
Here is another teaching from St. Ignatius of Loyola on discernment of Spirits. Practicing all of these teachings all of the time, is what makes us saints, and this is the perseverance Our Lord is always referencing in His Holy Word, especially in the Book of Revelation. https://scepterpublishers.org/blogs/scepter-blog-corner/14-rules-for-the-discernment-of-spirits-by-st-ignatius-of-loyola.
Because we have to know ourselves in order to stop committing acts of mortal and venial sin. The Holy spirit is always working on our intellect to recognize these sins and stop them before we commit them. When we practice being in God’s presence, it’s our own desire to become a saint that is constantly reminding ourselves that God is present, and we must not offend Him, but seek to please Him. If we address these sins (defects) we have in Confession by calling out what the sin comes from, then it helps us narrow down our own personal defect. Frances Hogan teaches this in Volume 2, I believe, of the Divine Will and repeats it in Volume 6. An example of this would be confessing to a Priest, that ” I had two occurrences of gossip, and this stems from Pride.” or “I had three occurrences of judging someone else, or being overly critical, and this stems from my own Pride in believing that I am better.” If we continually call out our sins and where these sins come from in our hearts, then we are identifying our own personal defects that the Holy Spirit is showing us we must eradicate from our souls! Remember, that God cannot dwell fully in us in the Divine Will if we do not completely eradicate all sins and defects. Another example is not correcting or admonishing a sinner if he blasphemes God. This is a big sin of omission for us because this comes from being afraid that we are offending that person if we correct them. But the TRUTH is if we don’t say something for God now, He will show us this as a sin of omission later at the Warning/Illumination of Conscience, or at our particular judgment when we die. This is also a sin we will need to make reparation for in Purgatory, and many, many, people are constantly saying Our Lord’s name in vain all of the time these days. The beautiful Grace from God about becoming a saint now in living in His Divine Will, is that we will not go to Purgatory at all if we obtain the gift of Living in His Divine Will before we die. So, we had better get to learning about this beautiful gift and get busy, because TIME is SHORT!
There are no new messages on After the Warning website, but here are some videos by Mother and Refuge of the End Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CjSrkXhmQ.
Here is another video about a Priest in Brazil that is also receiving prophetic visions similar to Father Michel Rodrigue. We don’t personally have much information about this Priest, Father Oliviera, only what Mother and Refuge of the End Times has posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDvEQKSbNE.
Here is a recent video by Mystic Post TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrnGRXDwUhE.
Here is a video by Quo Vadis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjh0yKbU8k.
Here are the latest messages given to Prophet John Leary. Be sure and read the message given to Prophet John Leary about Our Lord multiplying food and fuels while we are in our refuges. We are just going to have to TRUST in Our Lord that He will do this for us and not worry that we will not have enough for ourselves, or for others that God will send to us when the chaos begins and after the Warning/Illumination of Conscience occurs. http://www.johnleary.com/index.php/2023/04/?cat=3&order=ASC.
Here is the latest Battle-Ready Podcast show from Father Dan Reehil, on ask an Exorcist from his Friday episodes. https://radiomaria.us/category/podcast/battleready/.
Here is the perfect teaching from Father Jim Blount for what Our Lord put on our hearts to write about today, “Christ Dwelling Within.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqG9PRqRbA.
God Bless, and everyone have a beautiful Divine Mercy Sunday!
Emmanuel – “God is with Us.” Oh, Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I Trust in You. Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, save us and the whole world, have mercy on us sinners. Abba, Father, Thy Will Be Done.