Living In The Kingdom of the

Divine Will

Luisa Piccarreta 1865 – 1947

J.M.J.
Living in
The Kingdom of the Divine Will
Jesus speaks to Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947
Cause for Luisa’s Beatification opened 20 November 1994

This little booklet is intended to be a simple aid to living and praying in the Divine
Will as taught by Jesus to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta.

It is not a complete guide, but it is hoped that newcomers to this spirituality will find,
in these simple lessons, a means of embracing and understanding Jesus’ invitation to
live in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

With Ecclesiastical Approval

Trani, Italy - 17th October 1997
+ Carmelo Cassati
Archbishop of Trani Barletta – Bisceglie

A little at a time
Jesus said to Luisa:

“Promise to be faithful to Me and I shall pour into you many graces that will
cause you to marvel. I have great designs on you, but only if you correspond
and conform to my Will. I shall delight in making you a perfect image of
Me. You shall imitate Me from My birth to My death. Do not have any doubt
about succeeding, because I will teach you how it can be done a little at a
time.”
Book of Heaven Volume 1
 The Purpose of the
Gift of the Divine Will
The purpose of the Gift of the Divine will is to allow God to receive perfect
glory from the whole human family. (i.e. from Adam to the last person to be
created.)

[Perfect Reparation is the primary work of the Gift.]

From the moment he was created, Adam could give God a perfect return of
love and glory in everything, all of the time, because he possessed the Gift of
the Divine Will. At the Fall, Adam lost this Gift and was then able to
correspond to God with only his limited human capacity - not with the
unlimited capacity of the Divine Will which he previously enjoyed.

Jesus told Luisa that when He created Adam He placed within Adam’s human
will the Divine Will. The Divine Will ‘resided’ there only because Adam
consented to this, allowing himself to be animated by God in every way: his
thoughts, words, glances, steps, movements, breaths and heartbeats etc. For
this reason all of Adam’s acts were of a Divine order because he was
consenting to letting the Divinity do everything within him. It is because the
Divinity was doing everything in him that Adam’s acts were perfect, thereby
giving perfect glory and perfect correspondence of love to his Creator.

This does not imply a lack of free will on the part of Adam. Instead, Adam
was continuously consenting to giving the Divinity the freedom to ‘operate’
in him in this way*. The human will is presented by Jesus as an empty glass
in which the waters of the Divine Will reside. This was intended by God to
be the permanent condition of man. The human will was not created to be
isolated from the Divine Will. Up until the Fall, the Divine Will operated in
every aspect of Adam’s being. With the gift of freewill Adam could empty
himself, at any time, of this Divine capacity to glorify God perfectly. In fact,
he did empty himself of this Gift when he took the forbidden fruit.

* This does not mean that Adam was made divine. He was always a creature,
but a creature consenting to letting the Creator animate him in every act of
life.
 The Saints and the Gift of the Divine Will
A frequently asked question is: “But didn’t the saints possess the Gift of the
Divine Will?”
The answer is ‘No’.

Until now, the saints have been able only to align themselves to God’s Will -
i.e. as they became more aware of what God wanted them to do and how he
wanted them to be in their daily lives, they corresponded as best they could
to His Will.

However, the Gift of the Divine Will is not only about doing God’s Will, but
possessing God’s Will, i.e. letting God carry out His own will, Himself,
within you through your consent. This is what Adam was doing up until the
Fall, and what Jesus did in His humanity throughout His whole life while on
earth.
Jesus points out that Luisa, who received the Gift of the Divine Will on 8th
September 1889, marks the beginning of the era of the Kingdom of the Divine
Will on earth.

This Gift is now available to everyone.

How this Gift was prophesied in the Scriptures
The first biblical prophecy can be found in Genesis 3:15.

This prophecy was spoken by God to Satan.

God prophesied the coming of a future Redeemer, the Messiah. The Jews
prayed for the fulfilment of this prophecy and so Jesus came. Before leaving
the earth Jesus gave another prophecy which He placed in the one prayer that
He taught us: the Our Father.

The prophecy is: “Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven.” In other words, just as the saints in Heaven possess the Divine Will
with which to perfectly glorify God and correspond perfectly to His love, so
have the Christian generations (on earth) been praying for this same Will to
be enjoyed on earth as It is in Heaven.

Thus, we have been praying for a return of our original capacity to perfectly
correspond to our Creator. And this is why Jesus subtitled these writings:
“The recall of the creature to the Order, Place and Purpose for which it was
created by God.”

The Trinity and the Divine Will

The Three Persons of the Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - do not each
possess Their own separate Wills consenting to one another’s wishes. Instead,
the Three Persons of the Trinity share the same one Divine Will. This is why
there can only be agreement, peace, harmony etc., between Them. By the
powers of the one Divine Will the Father is able to direct all His infinite love
to His Son, and by the same powers of the same one Divine Will, the Son is
able to perfectly return this same infinite love to the Father.

It was this same one Divine Will which Adam originally possessed in Eden
prior to the Fall, and which Jesus also possessed in His Humanity throughout
His earthly life. Thus Adam was able to correspond to God’s love as was
Jesus Himself. One could say that the Uncreated Son (Jesus) and the created
son (Adam) could perfectly correspond to the Father by the powers of that
same one Divine Will which they both possessed.

Jesus’ Prayer in John 17

This prayer of Jesus is a threefold prayer. He prays first for Himself, then for
His disciples, and finally for all future disciples. It is in the final part of His
prayer that Jesus makes this request of the Father:

“That they may be one with Me, as I, Father, and You are one.”

As we have learned (Page 8) the Trinity are not just good friends agreeing
with one another but are one in the Divine Will. Thus, for each disciple to be
one with Jesus, in the same way as Jesus is one with the Father, would require
the disciple to also possess the same one Divine Will as Jesus and the Father.
And this is what Jesus prayed for the night before He died.

How to receive the Gift of Divine Will

To receive the Gift of the Divine Will one needs the desire to receive It, and
to decide to no longer give life to one’s own human will. Jesus said:

“… you do not need paths, nor doors, nor keys to enter into My Divine Will
…
To enter creatures need but remove the pebble of their own will …
A soul has but to desire It and all is done, My Will assumes all the work …”
Volume 12 - 16th February 1921

It is important to remember that having desired the Gift after deciding to

sacrifice one’s own will, that it is Jesus who does all the work. Only Jesus
can do a divine act. We always remain as creatures, surrendering to His most
holy Will.

GOLDEN RULE
We desire it
and Jesus does all the work

A lesson for life: FORGET SELF

From the first moment a soul decides to embrace living in the Divine Will she
must learn to forget herself. Jesus says that there is only one way of achieving
this, and that it must be practiced for the rest of your life:

“My daughter, in order for the soul to be able to forget herself everything she
does or has to do must be done as if I wanted to do it in her. If she prays, she
should say: ‘It is Jesus who wants to pray, and I pray together with Him.’

If she works: ‘It is Jesus who wants to work,’ it is Jesus who wants to walk,
it is Jesus who wants to eat, who wants to sleep, who wants to get up, who
wants to enjoy Himself.’ And it should be like that in everything for the rest
of her life, excluding errors. Only in this manner is the soul able to forget
herself. For not only will she do everything because I want it, but, because I
want to do it, she will need Me.
Volume 11 – 14th August 1912
Everything should now be done with reference to Jesus because it is He who
is doing everything within us - except error, i.e. sin.

What if I sin?
If we sin we would lose the gift of the Divine Will. This is because we
obviously cannot make Jesus sin. If we make a sincere act of contrition then
we can ask Jesus to return the Gift to us, and He will do so.

Jesus is yearning so much for us to always possess this Gift that He gladly
returns the Gift to us. It is only through our having this Gift that Jesus can
ensure a perfect return of love and glory to the Father from within the
creature.

If our sin was of a serious nature - mortal sin - then we would first have to
go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and then ask Jesus to return the Gift
to us.

Praying in the Divine Will (1)

To pray in the Divine Will we should remember Jesus’ instruction to forget self. We
can begin by saying:
“Jesus wants to pray so I pray with Him.”

Jesus gave this lesson to Luisa:

“I want to teach you the way of how you must be with Me.

IMPORTANT
First you must:
enter inside Me
transform yourself into Me
take that which you find in Me.”
Volume 8 - 9th February
1908

Remember that everything is achieved by the

‘Golden Rule’
We desire it and Jesus does all the work.

Notice that Jesus did not say “think,” but “desire.”

Thought alone will not do. It is the desire of the heart which ensures living in
the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

Praying in the Divine Will (2)

We first desire to enter into Jesus (and He brings this about by the ‘Golden
Rule’.)
Then we transform ourselves into Him (also brought about by the ‘Golden
Rule’.) As St. Paul said: “Put on Christ,” so we do everything as another
Jesus, since Jesus is doing everything within us: our thoughts, words, actions,
steps, movements, breaths, heartbeats - everything, except sin.

Next, we take what we find in Jesus.

Jesus explained to Luisa (Volume 11 – 14th August 1912) that while He was
on earth, during His Hidden Life.
(i.e. up to the age of 30 years when His Public Ministry began,)
He took into Himself all the thoughts, words, actions everything about
everyone from Adam to the last person to be created, and He redid everyone’s
life in His Divine Will. In this way there is a divine version of each one’s life.
Why? Because only the divine version can give God perfect glory - our
human attempts at glorifying God, no matter how holy we become, would
always fall short of absolute perfection.

Praying in the Divine Will (3)

Jesus did not immediately offer the divine version of our lives to the Father,
but suspended them within Himself, waiting for the day that you would come
along - and after giving your ‘fiat,’ your ‘yes’ to the Gift of the Divine Will -
you would

enter into Him

transform yourself into Him
and take what you find in Him.

Now you can find in Jesus the divine version of your life suspended in Him.
Take it, make it your own (by the ‘Golden Rule’) and offer it with Jesus to
the Father. You can do this repeatedly, not only with your own life, but also
repeatedly with every-one’s life. Jesus wants you to do this for every-one’s
life.

Praying in the Divine Will (4)

In the name of everyone

Because Jesus redid the lives of everyone (from Adam to the last created soul)
in His Divine Will then we can also pray, work, speak, walk, eat, sleep, and
enjoy ourselves etc., in the name of everyone.
This is what Jesus said to Luisa:
“In my glances I took all the creatures’ eyes, in my voice their words, in my
movements theirs, in my hands their works, in my Heart their affections and
desires, in my feet steps; and, making them like Mine, my Humanity satisfied
the Father …”

“Now, why cannot you also do it? FOR HE WHO LOVES, ALL IS
POSSIBLE UNITED TO ME! In my Will pray and bring before the Divine
Majesty in your thoughts the thoughts of everyone; in your eyes the glances
of everyone; in your words, movements, affections and desires of those of
your brothers to make reparation for them; to obtain light, graces and love
for them. In my Will you will find yourself in Me and in everyone. You do my
Life. You will pray with Me; and the Divine Father will be content with it,
and all Heaven will say, “Who calls us upon the earth? Who is it that wants
to embrace this Holy Will in herself enclosing all of us together? And how
much good you can obtain for the earth by making Heaven descend upon the
earth.”
Volume 11 - 3rd May 1916

Therefore, finding everyone in Jesus, we can pray in the name of everyone,

and Jesus promises that it will be as if everyone is praying in a divine way.

If the whole of humanity prayed together in a human way, even this volume
of prayer would not compare with just one prayer in the Divine Will because
a divine prayer has infinite value, or merit, since it possesses the very
dispositions and qualities of Jesus Himself because it is He who is doing all
the work in His Divine Will.

We can now pray the Rosary, for example, in the name of everyone; and keep
Jesus company in the Blessed Sacrament in the name of everyone, etc., so
that God is receiving a perfect return of love and glory from everyone
simultaneously in every-thing we do - providing we desire it!

Remember: the size of your prayer group, if you are praying in the Divine
Will in the name of all, is every-one from Adam to the last created soul!
 Rounds in the Divine Will
There is much to be said about ‘Rounds’ in the Divine Will, but here is a
beginning.
On one occasion, as Jesus was taking Luisa around the Universe, she could
hear Jesus’ voice saying ‘I love you’ on everything - every star, planet, moon,
etc. While she was enjoying this experience, Jesus turned to her and said:
“Luisa, where is your ‘I love you’ to Me?” Jesus explained that if she desired
it (in the Divine Will) she could place her ‘I love You’ to Jesus on everything
too, because Jesus would do it for her.

And so we are invited by Jesus to do the same: to place our ‘I love You’ to
Jesus on every created being/thing (past, present and future). These are the
Rounds of Creation.

We can place our ‘I love You’ on everything that Jesus said and did during
His life on earth, including His resurrection and Ascension. These are the
Rounds of Redemption.

We should also place our ‘I love You’ on all the acts of the Holy Spirit, e.g.
the sacraments, prayer, inspirations, graces etc. These are
Rounds of Sanctification.
Jesus told Luisa to make these Rounds incessantly Volume 18

‘I love You with Your Will’

Luisa writes: Continuing my usual state, Blessed Jesus let Himself be seen
inside of me, but so fused with me that I would see His eyes in mine, His
mouth in mine, and in the same way all his body. And while I was seeing Him
like this, He said to me: “My daughter, see how I fuse Myself and make
Myself one sole thing with the soul who does my Will. I make Myself her
own life, because my Will is inside and outside of her. You can say that It is
like the air she breathes which gives life to everything in her. It is like light
that makes everything be seen and understood; It is heat that warms,
fecundates, and makes things grow. It is heart that beats, hands that work, feet
that walk. And when the will unites with My Will, My Life is formed in
the soul.”

Afterwards, having received Communion, I was telling Jesus: “I love You,”

and He told me: “My daughter, do you really want to love Me? Say: ‘Jesus,
I love You with your Will.’ And since my Will fills Heaven and earth, your
love will surround me everywhere and your ‘I love You’ will reverberate high
in the Heavens, and in the depths of the abysses; and so, if you want to say:
‘I adore You. I bless You, I praise You, I thank You.’ you will say it united
in my Will, and you will fill the Heavens and earth with adorations, blessings,
praises, and thanksgiving in my Will.
These are simple things easy and immense.
Volume 11 - 2nd October, 1913

Our Lady and the Divine Will

Jesus made Mary the “Queen and Mother of the Kingdom of Divine Will.”
Mary was the third person (after Adam & Eve) to be given the Gift of the
Divine Will, from the moment of her Immaculate Conception). Jesus, in His
humanity, was the fourth Person to possess the Gift of Divine Will. Next was
Luisa Piccarreta, and everyone after her who will say ‘yes’ to this Gift.

Our Lady gave Luisa thirty-one lessons* on the Kingdom of the Divine Will.
With this Gift, what one would strive for in years can be accomplished in just
one day! (Lesson 13*)

Three times a day Our Lady wants us to sit upon her lap, (morning, noon and
evening), and say to her:

“My Mother, I love you. Love me, too, and give me a sip of the Will of
God for my soul. Give me your blessing also, that I might do all my
actions under your maternal gaze.”

At night Our Lady also wants us to present all our acts of the day onto her
maternal lap.

* Book: The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

MUST READ

IMPORTANT: IN THIS BOOK, MOTHER MARY WILL TEACH

YOU 31 LESSONS ON HOW TO LIVE IN THE DIVINE WILL
WITH HER!
 IMPORTANT

Prevenient and Actual Acts

[Anticipatory and Current Acts]

Prevenient [Anticipatory] Act

This is to be done as soon as you awake,
‘at the break of dawn’
Jesus says; it is when you tell Jesus in your own words that you want
everything today to be done only in His Divine Will.

EXAMPLE: COME MOST HOLY DIVINE WILL, COME AND

REIGN IN EVERY THOUGHT, WORD, DEED, PRAYER, JOY AND
SUFFERING OF THIS DAY.

Actual [Current] Acts

These are the particular acts you do during the day, like washing, eating,
working, praying, etc.
“You should say: Jesus wants to … and so I do it together with Him.”
Volume 11 - 14th August 1912

As far as your memory allows, one should continue throughout the day in this
way. Fortunately, Jesus does not accuse us for our poor memories. Our acts
continue to be in the Divine Will because of the Prevenient Act, but, as Jesus
says:
“Both acts are necessary; the prevenient act assists, creates the disposition
and makes room for the actual act. The actual act preserves and enlarges
the disposition for the prevenient act.”

Volume 14 - 27th May 1922

Calling down the Divine Will in our daily lives

Jesus wants us to call down the Divine Will into everything and everyone.
Like the lesson (Page 11) about forgetting self, we can call down the Divine
Will in the following way:

Come Divine Will, come wash in me, or

Come Divine Will, come eat in me, or
Come Divine Will, come drive in me, or
Come Divine Will, come work in me, or
pray … rest … speak … etc.

There is no set formula for praying in the Divine Will. So, alternatively one
might pray:

Come Divine Will, come wash in my washing,

Come Divine Will, come eat in my eating, etc.

Jesus said to Luisa that the Kingdom of the Divine Will, will not reign fully
on earth until a certain number of Acts in the Divine Will have been
completed.
[Saint] Hannibal di Francia’s
Little Rosary of the Divine Will

START SAYING THIS PRAYER DAILY IN ALL THE

DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE!
(5th July 1851 - 1st June 1927)

Saint Hannibal di Francia was one of Luisa’s extraordinary Confessors. So

inspired was he by the spirituality of Luisa’s writings that he founded two
Religious Orders: the Rogationist Fathers and the Daughters of the Divine
Zeal. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 7 th October 1990, and
canonized on 16th May 2004. In the later years of his life he composed the
following simple chaplet to be said on a Rosary Beads. Every day he prayed
this chaplet, often more than once, especially in his last sickness.

Begin
One Our Father… One Hail Mary… One Glory Be…

On the Small Beads.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.

On the Large Beads.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

In conclusion
Lord Jesus, we praise You, we love You, we bless You and we thank You
together with the Father and the Holy Spirit in Your Holy and Eternal Divine
Will.
Amen.
 Prayer for Luisa’s Beatification
O Most Holy Trinity,
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that as we pray we should ask that our
Father’s Name be always glorified, that His Will be done on earth and that
His Kingdom should come to reign among us.

In our great desire to make known this Kingdom of love, justice and peace,
we humbly ask that you glorify your Servant Luisa, the Little Daughter of the
Divine Will who, with her constant prayer and suffering, deeply yearned for
the salvation of souls and the coming of God’s Kingdom in the world.

Following her example we pray to You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to help
us joyously embrace the crosses of this world so that we may also glorify your
Name and enter into the Kingdom of your Will. Amen.

Act of Consecration to the Divine Will

Luisa Piccarreta

Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity of Your
Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make me
enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable
Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into
the little group of the sons and daughters of your Supreme FIAT.

Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that It clothe me

and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life,
the centre of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole
being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I
will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden of peace, of happiness
and of love.

With It shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness
that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God.

Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity, that They permit
me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first
order of creation, just as the creature was created.
Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and
introduce me into the light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most
tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order
and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole
being to your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine
Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me
with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this
sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.
Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they
may burn me, consume me, and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine
Will.

Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my heart, and will
keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and
shall never give it to me again, that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of
God.
My Guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my
Eden may flourish and be the instrument that draws all men into the Kingdom
of the Divine Will. Amen.

Pray this Consecration Prayer in the name of everyone

LUISA’S WRITINGS
By 1938 Luisa had written 36 volumes. The title to this work was given by
Jesus Himself (in Volume 19). He called the volumes; “BOOK OF
HEAVEN” and Jesus also gave the subtitle: “The recall of the Creature to
the Order, to the Place and to the Purpose for which he was created by God.”

In addition to the 36 volumes (only some are presently available in English)

there is a selection of Luisa’s prayers in THE DIVINE WILL PRAYER
BOOK, and a series of lessons on the Divine Will dictated to Luisa by the
Blessed Virgin Mary in a book called THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE
KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL.

Another important work is THE HOURS OF THE PASSION in which Jesus

not only shares certain details concerning His Passion, but also some of His
thoughts and prayers during the last 24 hours of His life.
 Seven Points to Remember
Daily Check List

1. When you wake up make your Prevenient Act

2. Never lose sight of the Golden Rule

3. Sit upon your Heavenly Mother’s lap three times a

day, and speak these words with the heart of a
loving child

4. Begin doing Actual [Current] Acts, remembering

to do this as often as your memory allows. Example: Divine Will walk
in my walking.

5. Make your Rounds in the Divine Will — pray the Rosary of the Divine
Will

6. Before retiring to bed place all your Acts of the

day upon Our Lady’s lap

7. Before closing your eyes give Jesus permission to

have you make Rounds during your sleep

FIAT!