JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

Daily Calendar from The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

Vol. 13 – January 11, 1922

The souls who live in the Divine Will will be for the mystical body of the Church like skin to the body, and will bring to all of its members the circulation of life.

Finding myself in my usual state, I was thinking about the Holy Divine Volition, and I said to myself: ‘All the children of the Church are members of the mystical body, of which Jesus is the Head. What will be the place that the souls who do the Will of God will occupy in this mystical body?’ And Jesus, always benign, on coming, told me: “My daughter, the Church is my mystical body, of which I glory in being the Head; but in order to be able to enter this mystical body, the members must grow to the proper stature, otherwise they would deform my body. But alas! how many not only do not have the due proportion, but are rotten, wounded – so much as to be disgusting to my Head and to the other healthy members. Now, the souls who live in my Will, or will live, will be for the body of my Church like skin to the body. The body contains internal skin and external skin, and because in the skin there is the blood circulation, which gives life to the whole body, it is by virtue of this circulation that the members reach the proper stature. If it wasn’t for the skin and for the blood circulation, the human body would be horrid to the sight, and the members would not grow to due proportion.

Now, see how these souls who live in my Will are necessary to Me. Since I have destined them to be like skin to the body of my Church, and like circulation of life for all the members, they will be the ones who will give the proper growth to the ungrown members; who will heal the wounded members, and who, by the continuous living in my Will, will restore the freshness, the beauty, the splendor of the whole mystical body, rendering it fully similar to my Head, which will sit with all majesty upon all these members. This is why the end of days cannot come if I do not have these souls who live as though dissolved in my Will – they interest Me more than anything. What impression would this mystical body make in the Celestial Jerusalem without them? And if this interests Me more than anything, it must interest you also more than anything, if you love Me; and I, from now on, will give to all your acts done in my Will the virtue of circulation of life for the whole mystical body of the Church. Like blood circulation for the human body, your acts, extended within the immensity of my Will, will extend over all and, like skin, will cover these members, giving them proper growth. Therefore, be attentive and faithful.”

Then, afterwards, I was praying, all abandoned in the Will of Jesus, and almost without thinking, I said: ‘My Love – everything in your Will: my little pains, my prayers, my heartbeat, my breath – all that I am and can, united to all that You are, to give proper growth to the members of the mystical body.’ In hearing me, Jesus made Himself seen again, and smiling with satisfaction, added: “How beautiful it is to see my truths in your heart as fount of life, immediately having the development and the effect for which they have communicated themselves. Therefore, correspond, and I will make it an honor for Myself, that as soon as I see one truth developed, I will make another fount of truth arise.”

Scripture Meditation- ¹⁴ For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸ But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. ¹⁹ If all were a single organ, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.  (1 Corinthians 12:14-20)