 
† **JMJ** † The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta Page| 15

This book follows Daniel's last, _The Crown and Completion of All Sanctity_ (published March 4, 2015), as a more thorough treatment of the same matter.

**The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta was a 19th and 20th century Italian mystic whose messages from Jesus (encompassing thousands of pages of material) reveal a new, definitive gift of sanctity for the Church—** _the Gift of Living in the Divine Will_ **—and trumpet its impending universal reign. Here you will find an introduction to just what this Gift entails (after a foundation for this introduction has been laid in accord with Church doctrine), an explanation of how to receive this Gift yourself, a description of the nature of its universal reign (along with how you can hasten this reign), and a theological analysis of the orthodoxy of these revelations as perfectly and beautifully harmonious and compatible with Catholic faith and morals.**

**The top cover image** shows the mystery of the Annunciation—the greatest event in history- because the essence of Living in the Divine Will is contained within this most sublime moment. Though countless renditions exist, I have chosen the painting by Leonardo da Vinci because it is among the few that rightly depicts Our Lady as higher than the Archangel Gabriel—who, though referred to as an Archangel, nevertheless belongs to the highest (Seraphic) choir, and even still is immeasurably below the Immaculate Queen. The middle cover image is an actual photograph from NASA (with color optimization) of the sun rising over the earth. The rear cover image is the original [Vilnius] Divine Mercy Image Jesus gave to St. Faustina along with the promise that whoever venerates it, "will not perish."

**In this book you will see that from Our Lady's Fiat, and our own modeled after it, the Reign of the Divine Will shall dawn first in our own hearts, and then over the whole world, in fulfillment of what was both the greatest prayer and greatest prophecy, for it was uttered by the Son of God Himself:** _Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven_ **, and the total fulfillment of what Pope St. Pius X foretold as both a prophecy and a Magisterial teaching in his Encyclical** _E Supreme_ **—The Restoration of All Things in Christ.**

### Published March 4, 2019

© Daniel O'Connor

ISBN 9781795766197

To the four women of my life: The Blessed Virgin Mary, my heavenly mother; my dear wife, Regina, whose support and help made this book possible; my daughter, Mary Faustina; and my own earthly mother, Eileen.

Readers of my first book may remember its own dedication page, in which I shared that my mother had just been diagnosed with malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, a particularly lethal cancer of the lungs with a prognosis generally allowing for only 6-12 months to live, even with aggressive treatment (although in my mother's case, the doctors thought she might even have 1-3 years).

That was over 4 years ago. Since then, we have been praying nightly for her healing through the intercession of Luisa Piccarreta.

According to my mother's last CT Scan, she is completely cancer free.

ALL FOR THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS, THROUGH THE IMMACULATE

HEART OF MARY, UNDER THE PROTECTION OF ST. JOSEPH, TERROR OF

DEMONS AND PATRON OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH.

#  Brief Contents

### Introduction
### Preface, Foreword, and Important Introductory Notes |

### Part One: The Gift

### Necessary Foundations: God's Existence, Christianity, and Catholicism; Private Revelation in General, and on How It is Properly Discerned | ### The Validity of Luisa's Revelations Demonstrated

### The Gift Itself and its Foreshadowing in Scripture, the Fathers of the Church, and the Development of Catholic Spiritual Theology

The Gift Found Elsewhere in 20th Century Catholic Mysticism

### The Gift and the History of the World

### Part Two: Receiving & Growing in the Gift | ### Desiring the Gift and Asking for the Gift

### Growing in the Virtues and Knowledges

### Growing in the Gift with Mary and the Passion of Jesus

### Part Three: The Era of Peace or the Reign of the Divine Will on Earth | ### Millenarianism Concerns Addressed

### The Era in the Fathers of the Church, Other Private Revelations, and Elsewhere

### The Chastisements

### The Nature of the Era

### Appendices | ### Theological, Orthodox Catholic Answers to Objections and Concerns

Brief Contents 4

Preface: My Journey in the Divine Will 16

Foreword by Mark Mallett 21

This Book's Viewpoint 23

100% Catholic 23

Abbreviations, formatting, style, etc. 23

Introduction 26

 The Essence of the Message in One Page 27

The Greatest Story Ever Told 28

Part I: The Gift 30

The Certain Logical Foundations 31

a.The Certainty of God's Existence 31

Life 31

"But Who Made God?" Won't Work 34

The Errors of Today's Most Famous Atheist 35

The Nature of Today's Most Common Fallacy 36

The Ultimate Question for the Atheist 39

b.The Fact that God Became Man 40

Undeniable Historicity 41

Clear Divinity 41

The Nature of Evidence 43

Like Nothing Else in World History 44

c.The Fact that this Man Founded the Catholic Church 45

Peter, the Rock with the Keys 45

No Viable Alternatives 46

The Miraculous Paradox 50

The Truth of the Modern Crisis 50

Our Present Duty Given These Foundations 51

On Private Revelation in General 53

Against the Sowers of Discord 54

The Term "Private Revelation" 55

Holy Curiosity and Love 56

The Rotten Fruit of Dismissing Private Revelation 56

The Only Sure Guard Against Modernism 58

Great Minds on Private Revelation 59

Pope St. John Paul II 59

St. Mother Teresa 60

St. Padre Pio 60

Mother Angelica 60

Fr. Rene Laurentin 61

Fr. Edward O'Connor 61

Dr. Mark Miravalle 62

Bishop Paul Kim 63

Fr. John Arintero 63

A Word of Caution and Comfort 64

Discerning Alleged Private Revelations 66

Official Church Sanctioned Norms 66

Additional Norms for Discernment 67

Luisa and The Index of Forbidden Books 69

 The Authenticity of Luisa and Her Revelations 71

General Overview 71

Timeline of Events Relevant to Her Cause 73

Providence in the EWTN Monastery: the Story of Mother Gabrielle 76

Luisa's Own Doubts Addressed 79

The Life of Luisa Herself 80

Her Life According to St. Hannibal 85

Theology too Deep for Human Origin 85

The Will Constrained by the Good 86

Jesus and Faith 86

The Exaltation of Marriage and the Family 87

On the Body 88

On Exaggeration 88

Perfect Orthodoxy in Mariology 88

Passions in Jesus 89

Limbo and Paradise 89

Free Will and Beatific Vision 90

Limits of the Humanity of Jesus 90

The Number of the Elect 91

Wisdom in Her Letters 92

Ease of Living in the Divine Will 93

On Feelings 93

On Suffering 94

On Peace 94

Prophecies Fulfilled 96

World War II 96

Globalization 98

Miraculous Knowledge of Current Events 99

Mussolini's March on Rome 99

The "Century of Pride" 100

St. Hannibal di Francia's Exaltation 101

The Law of Divorce (Hague Convention of 1902) 102

Earthquakes 104

Socialism and The Italian People's Party 105

The Gift Itself 107

What It Is 107

Against the Most Perverse Inclination of Fallen Human Psychology 109

The Gift Foreshadowed 111

The Four Great Invitations 111

Unification of Wills 112

Divinization 113

Mystical Marriage 113

Marian Consecration 116

The Old Testament 118

The New Testament 119

St. Peter 119

St. Paul 120

St. John 120

The Church Fathers 121

St. Maximus the Confessor 122

St. Athanasius 123

Sts. Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory of Nazianzus 123

Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement, Theophilus, Hippolytus, Gregory 124

The Great Spiritual Writers 126

St. Bernard of Clairvaux 126

Richard of Saint Victor 126

St. Thomas Aquinas 127

St Catherine of Siena 128

St. Francis de Sales 128

Pierre de Bérulle 130

St. John Eudes 131

Jean-Jacques Olier 131

Jean Pierre de Caussade 132

St. Alphonsus Liguori 133

St. Thérèse of Lisieux 135

Various Teachings 137

The Gift Elsewhere in Private Revelation 140

St. Faustina 140

Living Hosts: The "Unprecedented" Grace of Union with God 142

Transconsecration of Self 143

Faustina's "Great Secret" 144

Cancellation of the Self-Will: Exclusively Living by the Will of God 144

Servant of God Archbishop Luis Martinez 145

Venerable Conchita 146

The Mystical Incarnation: "Much More" than Spiritual Marriage 147

Blessed Dina Belanger 149

Divine Substitution: The Same State as the Elect in Heaven 149

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity 151

Personal Possession of the Trinity 151

St. Maximilian Kolbe 152

Transubstantiation of the Self into the Created Immaculate Conception 152

Servant of God Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity 154

Fusion of Wills: Apostolate of Jesus' Eucharistic Life 154

Vera Grita 155

Living Tabernacles 155

 The Gift in Today's Catholic Voices 157

 The Gift and the Entire History of the World 161

The Original Glory 161

The Fall (~ 4000 BC) 163

The Protoevangelium 164

Up to the Flood (~ 2000 BC) 164

Up to Redemption (~ 0 AD) 165

Redemption Itself (26 AD) 167

The Church 170

The Prophetic Explosion of the Modern Era (1900s) 172

The Gift Attacked by Satan (1900s) 176

Voluntaristic Existential Nihilism 176

Distorted Teachings on "Divinization" in Mormonism 176

The New Age Movement and "Gender Theory" 177

The Culture of Death 178

The Time for the Coronation (~ 2000 AD) 178

 Part II: Receiving and Growing in the Gift 182

Preliminary Necessities 183

Examine your Conscience 183

Address the Looming Issue 185

Desire Sanctity Above All things 187

A Desire for Sanctity Examen 190

Renounce the Self Will 192

Renunciation via Crosses 193

Miscellaneous Ways to Renounce the Self-Will 194

Holy Indifference to Circumstances 195

Desire the Gift 196

In Its Granting of All your Wishes 196

Perfect Happiness 196

More Power than a Saint in Heaven 197

Unmatched Treasures in Heaven 197

Assurance of Salvation 199

Deliverance from Aridity, Temptation, Restlessness, and the Like 200

Deliverance from Any Purgatory 200

Transformation of Your Past 200

In the Eucharist 201

St. Faustina's Revelations 201

Ask for the Gift 203

In Marian Consecration 203

In Putting It to Use as a Divine Will Missionary of Mercy 204

In Your Current Spiritual Regimen 205

Ask Again 206

 Do All of Your Acts in the Divine Will 207

Various Helps 209

Manual Labor 211

Grow in Knowledge of the Truths 212

 Grow in the Foundational Virtues for the Gift 215

Perfect Love 215

Self-forgetfulness and Humility 218

The Need for Nothingness 218

Do not Think About Yourself 219

Against Pride 222

Attentiveness 222

Discernment 224

Constant Prayer and a Preference for Silence 226

Detachment 228

...From Worldliness 228

...From Our Time Wasters 230

...From Other People 230

Abnegation 231

Even in Our Pursuit of Sanctity 232

Perennial Peace and Trust 234

Choose Peace 235

Sins against Trust 236

Obedience 237

Courage and Fearlessness 240

No Fear of Anything 241

No Fear of the Devil 242

No Fear of Death 243

No Fear of Pain 245

No Fear of Purgatory 246

No Fear of Jesus 247

Mortification and Sacrifice 247

Love of the Cross 250

Against Distorted Views 251

On Ailments 252

Our Reaction to Pain 253

Demeanor 253

Gentleness 254

Joy 254

Dignity 255

Masculinity and Femininity 256

Modesty and Purity 258

Constancy 261

Daily Invocation for the Virtues 263

 Heed the Hard Words of Jesus for the Church 264

The Story of Joe 266

On the "Devout" 268

The Abuse Crisis 269

On Sacrilege Against the Sacraments 270

Be a New Evangelist of the Third Fiat 272

 Pray the Hours of the Passion and Fuse with Jesus in His Sufferings 278

Grow in the Gift Through Mary 293

Truths About Mary Revealed to Luisa by Jesus 293

The Enmity Between the Woman and the Serpent 294

Our Lady, The Mother of Sorrows 294

Never at Odds with Christocentric Piety 295

Our Lady, Queen of the Church 296

The Immaculate Conception: The Greatest Feast 297

The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will 297

With Joachim and Anne 298

Her Service in the Temple 300

The Marriage to Joseph 301

The Incarnation and Nativity 302

The Circumcision and the Prophecy of Simeon 304

The Holy Home of Nazareth 306

Her Son's Public Life 306

Do the Rounds 307

Part III: The Era of Peace 318

Why the Era? 319

On the Heresy of Millenarianism 323

Refutations of the Anti-Era Inquisitors 323

Promotion of an Eschatology of Despair 325

Heresies Implicit in Accusing the Era of a Messianic Duplication of Heaven 327

Erroneous Extrapolations of Statements About the World's Imperfections 328

Ignorance of the History of Millenarianism 331

Ignorance of "Modified" or "Mitigated" Millenarianism 332

Misuse of Ratzinger's Works 333

Abuse of The CDF Notification on Vassula Ryden 337

Fallacies Regarding the Antichrist and the Conversion of the Jews 338

Absurd Teachings on Fatima's Promised Peace 340

Millenarianism and the Catechism 342

Letter vs Intent 346

Dogmatic vs. Non-Dogmatic 347

Augustine & Amillennialism: No Blow to the Era, Under Any Scenario 349

Augustine Himself Declared the Era Orthodox 351

Now Being the Complete Meaning of the "1,000-Year" Chaining is No Longer Tenable 352

The Clear Sense of Scripture 354

Joachim of Fiore: Radically Divergent from Teachings on the Era 355

On Dispensationalism 356

The Era of Peace Elsewhere 357

The Fathers of the Church 357

Popes & The Church's Magisterium 360

Pope St. John Paul II on the Millennium 361

Pope Francis on the Kingdom 363

Old Testament References 364

Against the Neo-Marcionite Heresy 365

20th Century Private Revelations on the Era of Peace 366

Our Lady of Fatima 367

St. Faustina (Divine Mercy) 370

Lady of All Nations (Ida Peerdeman) 370

Venerable Conchita 371

Venerable Marthe Robin 372

Edson Glauber (Itapiranga, Brazil) 372

Gladys Quiroga (San Nicolas) 374

Our Lady of Ngome 375

Pedro Regis 375

Elizabeth Kindelmann 377

Our Lady of Zaro 378

Servant of God Maria Esperanza 379

Medjugorje 380

Luz de Maria 381

Fr Ottavio Michelini 382

Barnabas Nwoye (Precious Blood Revelations) 383

Servant of God Cora Evans 383

Our Lady of America 384

Alicja Lenczewska 385

Fr. Adam Skwarczynski 386

In Sinu Jesu 388

Apostolate of Holy Motherhood 389

Sr. Natalia of Hungary 389

Fr. Stefano Gobbi (Marian Movement of Priests) 391

Jesus King of All Nations 392

Janie Garza 393

Julka (Yugoslavian Visionary) 393

Traditional Prophecies About the Era 395

Our Lady of Good Success (Quito) 395

Sacred Heart 395

Miraculous Medal (St. Catherine Labouré) 396

La Salette 397

Various Prophecies throughout Church History 397

Authoritative Voices 401

Conflicting Interpretations of Prophecies about the Antichrist and the Era 404

 Private Revelations That Say There Will be No Era of Peace 408

Most Theologically Fitting 409

A Time for Necessary Purgation Before the End 409

"Lead All Souls to Heaven" 409

Intimations of the Era Outside of Catholicism 411

The Chastisements 413

On the Era Itself 417

It is All About Heaven 417

The Glory of the Era 419

Clarity of Faith 420

Multiplicity of Sanctities 422

Physical and Bodily Transformation 422

Audible Celestial Music 423

Death as Mere Transition 423

Abundance of All Goods 424

Universal Happiness 425

Sacramental Reign 426

Hastening the Coming Reign of the Divine Will 427

It's Coming is a Guarantee 430

"When Will All of This Take Place?" 433

Part IV: Appendices 434

 The Moratorium and the Status of Luisa's Writings in the Church 434

 The Only Presently Binding Church Norms—Abp. Pichierri's 2012 Notification 437

Answers to Objections 439

Isn't important Catholic content missing from Luisa's writings? 440

Why, then, does the Our Father say Thy Will be "done," not "lived"? 440

Isn't this Millenarianism, modified Millenarianism, Chiliasm, Dispensationalism, or Joachimism? 441

Isn't this "new sanctity" heretical—simply too great? 442

The Fifth Marian Dogma 443

Isn't too much greatness ascribed to something as "easy" as living in the Divine Will? 445

Isn't the Eucharist the greatest thing? 448

Isn't Christian holiness already greater than original holiness? 450

The Natural End of Man 454

Isn't ordinary holiness enough? How could not "Living in the Divine Will" be an evil? 455

But what about St Joseph? 456

This is a new revelation? Isn't that heretical? 457

Novelty-Phobia and Novelty-Philia: Both are Traps 458

This is only private revelation; can't I ignore it if I wish? 460

Isn't this at least an artificial or development of Tradition? 460

Doesn't the sheer magnitude of these revelations imply they claim to surpass Public Revelation? 461

 Public Revelation in Christ vs. Private Revelation Through Luisa 462

Isn't Luisa herself too highly exalted in these writings? 464

Don't these revelations espouse the heresy of Monothelitism or Quietism? 465

Isn't asserting primacy of will (and not intellect) the error of Voluntarism? 468

Head vs. Heart 470

Doesn't this contradict the Theory of Evolution? 472

A Few Words for Scholars 477

Miscellaneous Resources 481

List of Things the Gift is NOT 481

The Chaplet of the Divine Will 482

Prayer for the Beatification of Luisa 482

Morning Offering in the Divine Will 482

Prayer of Consecration to the Divine Will 483

 "Ordinary" Holiness vs. Living in the Divine Will 483

A Round in the Divine Will 484

 Some Advice for Current and Prospective Followers of Luisa 493

Be an Ordinary Catholic 494

Do not Compare Luisa to Jesus 495

On Reading the volumes 496

Quick Answers to The Biggest Criticisms 497

An Epilogue for the Unconvinced 500

 A Brief Checklist for Living in the Divine Will and Hastening the Coming of the Kingdom 502

About the Author 504

#  Preface: My Journey in the Divine Will

#  Foreword by Mark Mallett

#  This Book's Viewpoint

#  Introduction

I have a confession to make. Having read many spiritual, theological, and philosophical books over many years, I have observed a common theme in these situations. My reaction after putting them down is often:

"Oh, what wonderful things I have just read! I have just learned hundreds of excellent pieces of advice that I should really live my life by... but **how on earth am I to even begin to do this? I could scarcely at this moment pass a pop-quiz on the contents of these pieces of advice, much less succeed in, first, remembering them all; second, holding them all continually before my mind; third, realizing when I am in a situation that they apply to; and, fourth, succeeding in applying them to these situations!"**

Perhaps you sympathize with my sentiments, in which case you will be relieved to hear that Living in the Divine Will is the answer to all such anxieties. It is the simplest thing you will ever learn about the spiritual life, while also being the most endless, beautiful, deep, wide, and intricate a thing you will ever learn about the same. And the truly great thing is that the simplicity enfolds within itself the intricacy, while the intricacy is permeated throughout by the simplicity. What this means for you, practically, is that after you have read this one single page which follows, you can rise to the same height as one who has spent his whole life studying Luisa's writings. And if at any point during your journey in the Divine Will the greatness and diversity of what you are exploring overwhelms you, you can always return to the following page to be reminded of the great simplicity of the journey you have embarked upon, and thus be reassured that you have nothing to fear and nothing to even suffer the slightest anxiety about. You are already where you need to be. For it is as simple as this:

##  The Essence of the Message in One Page

At this unique moment in the history of the world, the fitting time has at long last arrived in which God wishes to give us His own Will—the Gift that contains every imaginable gift—the true Crown and Completion of all Sanctity both in Heaven and on earth. This Gift entails not only the grace to do God's Will perfectly but also the total immersion of your human will within His Will, so that this Divine Will becomes the life principle of your soul even as your soul is the life principle of your body.

Within this Gift is all love, invincible joy, and perfect peace. Within It is absolute assurance of salvation. Within It is total deliverance from Purgatory. Within It is God's infinite pleasure. Within It is the complete victory of every noble mission in one simple principle. Within It alone is the full realization of man's creation in the Image _and Likeness_ of God. Within It is the Culmination of Deification, the fruitfulness of Mystical Marriage, the aspiration of the Unification of Wills, and the essence of Marian Consecration. Within it is the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary promised at Fatima.

You cannot earn this Gift or merit it—you can only allow God to give It to you, and in exchange for His Divine Will, He asks only for your loving and trusting relinquishing of the tiny pebble of your own human will.

Whoever you are, no matter what, it is easy to allow Him to give His Will to you: simply say with sincerity, " _Jesus, I Trust in You. Thy Will be Done. I give you my will, and in return I want to live only in Your Will._ " If you strive to converse with Him continually in this manner, then rest assured that He has given you His Will. Though your journey is not yet over, the victory already permeates your every step.

God wishes also to give this Gift to the whole world. Pray unceasingly, therefore, for the Coming of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, by way of which God's Original Design for the world and for mankind will at last be realized. Pray with the joy and confidence that comes from knowing that the arrival of this reign is a guarantee, for it is nothing other than the full realization of the _Fiat Voluntas Tua_ of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus Himself prayed, and thus bears the absolute certainty of being fulfilled. Its arrival is only a question of time, but you can—and now are called to—hasten this time.

Entrust yourself completely to Our Lady, who lived more perfectly in the Divine Will than any other creature ever has or ever will, and she, who loves you—her dear child—will ensure that you Live in the Will of Her Son. Especially let her sorrows and the Passion of her Son be always before your mind.

Finally, rejoice always in the invincible and continuous peace that will inevitably inundate the soul of anyone who really believes these truths.

" _Do you want that My Will Reigns and Lives in you as Life? If you truly want it, everything is done... not too much is needed to Live of My Will...if [your volition] decides and strongly and perseveringly wants it, already [you have] conquered Mine and made It [yours]_ **.** "—Jesus to Luisa. Solemnity of St. Joseph, 1935.

" _See then, how easy it is to live in Our Will: the creature does not have to do new things, but whatever she does—that is, to carry out her life as We gave it to her, in Our Will."_ —Jesus to Luisa. May 17, 1938.

" _O! how I would Love everyone to know that if they want to Live in My Will, they have a Queen and a Powerful Mother who will compensate for all they lack. She will raise them on Her Maternal lap ..._ "—Jesus to Luisa, from the very last paragraph of Luisa's writings, the Fourth Day of Christmas, 1938.
Part I: The Gift

Luisa

"... if [your will] wants the life of Our Will into its own—[which is] wanted, commanded by Us with such great longing... it will have the great good of possessing Our Will as life. And if it were not so, the sanctity of living in my Will would be a difficult sanctity, and almost impossible, while neither do I know how to teach difficult things, nor do I want impossible things. On the contrary, it is my usual way to make easy, as much as it is possible for the creature, the most difficult things and the hardest sacrifices...

And my love is so great, that in order to facilitate her even more, I whisper to the ear of her heart: 'If you really want to do this good, I Myself will do it together with you, I will not leave you alone, I will place at your disposal my grace, my strength, my light, my sanctity; it will be the two of us doing the good you want to possess.' Therefore, it does not take too much to live of my Will; the 'too much' is in wanting it, but if the creature makes up her mind and wants it, firmly and perseveringly, she has already won my Will and has made It her own...

The human will possesses, with indelible characters, everything it does and wants to do; and if the memory forgets, the will loses nothing, it contains the deposit of all of its acts, unable to disperse anything. Therefore it can be said that the whole of man is in his will: if the will is holy, even the most indifferent things are holy for him; but if it is evil, maybe even good itself changes for him into a perverted act. So, if you truly want my Divine Will as life, it does not take too much; more so, since united to yours there is Mine that wants it, there is a power that can do anything; and on your part it will show by deeds if in all things you will conduct yourself as the possessor of a Divine Will."

#  The Certain Logical Foundations

#  On Private Revelation in General

#  Discerning Alleged Private Revelations

#  The Authenticity of Luisa and Her Revelations

#  The Gift Itself

#  The Gift Foreshadowed

#  The Gift Elsewhere in Private Revelation

#  The Gift in Today's Catholic Voices

#  The Gift and the Entire History of the World

#  Part II: Receiving and Growing in the Gift

"...the whole of Heaven prays and anxiously awaits the Divine Will to be known and to reign. Then will the Great Queen do to the children of my Will what She did for Her Jesus, and Her Maternity will have life in Her children. I will surrender my own place in Her Maternal Heart to those who live in my Will. She will raise them for Me, She will guide their steps, She will hide them within Her Maternity and Sanctity...

### Oh! how I would love for everyone to know that if they want to live in my Will, they have a powerful Queen and Mother who will make up for whatever they lack. She will raise them on Her maternal lap, and in everything they do She will be together with them, to shape their acts after Her own; so much so, that they will be known as the children raised, kept and instructed by the Love of the Maternity of my Mama. And these will be the children who will make Her happy, and will be Her glory and Her honor."

-Jesus to Luisa. The very last lines of the very last entry in her diary. December 28, 1938.

#  Preliminary Necessities

#  Renounce the Self Will

#  Desire the Gift

#  Ask for the Gift

#  Do All of Your Acts in the Divine Will

#  Grow in Knowledge of the Truths

#  Grow in the Foundational Virtues for the Gift

Before closing this chapter on the Virtues, I wish to remind everyone to read, in the beginning of Part One of this book, "The Essence of the Message in One Page." Remember that the Gift is simple and receiving it is not difficult! (Even if a lengthy exposition on some of the virtues particularly associated with It belies that fact.) No matter how much you may think you now lack virtue (and no matter how much you do in fact lack virtue!), there is no reason to feel the slightest discouragement, and you will be reminded of this by re-reading that single page.

#  Heed the Hard Words of Jesus for the Church

#  Be a New Evangelist of the Third Fiat

#  Pray the Hours of the Passion and Fuse with Jesus in His Sufferings

#  Grow in the Gift Through Mary

#  Do the Rounds

#  Part III: The Era of Peace

  | ### Mass of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe:

Collect:

Almighty ever-living God,

whose will is to restore all things

in your beloved Son, the King of the universe, grant, we pray,

that the whole creation, set free from slavery,

may render your majesty service

and ceaselessly proclaim your praise...

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Preface:

... making all created things subject to his rule,

he might present to the immensity of your majesty

an eternal and universal kingdom,

a kingdom of truth and life,

a kingdom of holiness and grace,

a kingdom of justice, love and peace...

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"This is our great hope and our petition: "Your Kingdom come"—a kingdom of peace, justice, and serenity, that will re-establish the original harmony of creation."

### —Pope St. John Paul II

#  Why the Era?

#  On the Heresy of Millenarianism

What the Catechism Says | ### What the Critics Think It Says

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The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time **the** claim is made to realize within history that messianic **hope which** **can only be realized beyond history** through the eschatological judgment.

The **Church has rejected** even **modified forms** of _this_ falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.

The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only **through** this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in His death and Resurrection.

The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause His Bride to come down from heaven. God's **triumph** over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world. | The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time **any** claim is made to realize within history any form **of hope for worldwide Divine Intervention** before the eschatological judgment.

The Church **has rejected** any **superficially similar forms** **of** _any_ anticipation of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.

The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only **entirely after** this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in His death and Resurrection.

The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church of any sort whatsoever, but only by God's victory over the end of time unleashing of evil, which will cause His Bride to come down from heaven. God's **only triumph** over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.

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#  The Era of Peace Elsewhere

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As we can see, there is an utterly overwhelming consensus in private revelation as to the guaranteed coming of a Glorious Era of Peace, to be lived on earth (before the end of time). In fact, while writing this section, there came a point where I simply had to stop myself. It was getting too long, and I could have easily kept going for many more pages, so inescapable are these prophecies of the Era in trustworthy private revelation.

Now, as mentioned in the introduction to this section, it would not be surprising if a few of these apparitions or revelations here listed will wind up being someday proven false. This says nothing; we have considered dozens in this partial overview alone. _All_ of them would have to be proven false in order to weaken the argument for the Era. And we can rest assured that there isn't even the slightest chance of that ever happening.

**Dismissing the Era, therefore, is to simply dismiss private revelation entirely and adopt the position that the** _sensus fidelium_ **(sense of the faithful) can err (which, in turn, is a heretical position, directly condemned by the Catechism** 1069 **and** _Lumen Gentium_ 1070 **) by an entire century of prophets—trustworthy, devout Catholics, across the entire world—being systematically and radically deceived on one of their fundamental, unanimous tenets.**

##  Private Revelations That Say There Will be No Era of Peace

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Before turning to what Jesus told Luisa about this coming Era, we need to first do something difficult, and consider what must necessarily precede the coming of this Era: the purification.

#  The Chastisements

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Having addressed the looming Chastisements—their nature and their necessity—we turn now to the more joyful task of contemplating the Glorious Era of Peace to come thereafter. And let us end this chapter by deferring to the words of Jesus to Luisa, in which He reminds us that these Chastisements will serve a greater purpose:

My daughter, everything you saw [Chastisements] will serve to purify and prepare the human family. The turmoils will serve to reorder, and the destructions to build more beautiful things. If a collapsing building is not torn down, a new and more beautiful one cannot be formed upon those very ruins. **I will stir everything for the fulfillment of my Divine Will**. And besides, when I came upon earth, it was not decreed by Our Divinity that the Kingdom of My Will should come, but that of Redemption; and in spite of human ingratitude, It was accomplished. However, It has not yet covered all of Its way; many regions and peoples live as if I had not come, therefore it is necessary that It make Its way and walk everywhere, because Redemption is the preparatory way for the Kingdom of My Will... And when We decree, all is done; in Us, it is enough to decree in order to accomplish what We want. This is why what seems difficult to you will all be made easy by Our Power.

Furthermore, it is only because God – being eternal and therefore outside of time—Himself can see the times to come and the glory of the Era, that it is possible for His justice to refrain from annihilating all creation instantly. Jesus tells Luisa:

And if there was not in Us the Certainty that Our Will would Reign in the creature, in order to form Our Life in her, Our Love would Burn Creation completely, and would reduce it to nothing; and if it supports and tolerates so much, it is because We see the times to come, Our Purpose Realized.

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#  On the Era Itself

#  Part IV: Appendices

#  The Moratorium and the Status of Luisa's Writings in the Church

##  The Only Presently Binding Church Norms—Abp. Pichierri's 2012 Notification

Prot. N. 182/12/C3

COMMUNICATION n°. 3

About the process of Beatification and Canonization

of the Servant of God LUISA PICCARRETA

Addressing the many who, in different ways in the world, are interested in the Servant of God _Luisa Piccarreta_ and the spirituality of _Living in the Divine Will,_ I like to [sic] update what I have previously reported on several occasions, and above all in the Communications of April 23, 2007 and of May 30, 2008.

The diffusion in the world of the figure and writings of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta has grown considerably in recent years, reaching new nations in all continents. Letters from Bishops, priests, and lay persons alike give proof of this, as well as the record of visitors to the places related to Luisa in Corato.

The joy of witnessing the growth of this reality is accompanied by the concern to extend to all a heartfelt **appeal for unity** and the mutual esteem, rejecting "quarreling and jealousy" as one who waits for the advent of the "fullness of day" (Rm 13:11-14). If we live in the light of the Divine Will we cannot but cultivate in ourselves the fruits of mutual Charity, for "anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness, " (1 Jn 2:9).

I still observe with sorrow that "the doctrine of the Divine Will has not always been presented in a correct and respectful way, according to the doctrine and the Magisterium of the Church, putting remarks in the mouth of Luisa that are not even implicitly found in her writings. This provokes a trauma in consciences and even confusion and rejection among the people and by some Priests and Bishops" ( _Letter_ of March 9, 2006).

Therefore, it is my duty to point out some directions in a way that is clear for all.

Current state of the Cause

  1. Actor of the process of Beatification and Canonization is the "Association "Luisa Piccarreta—Little Children of the Divine Will" of Corato, that with its new statute dated June 13, 2010, I wanted to constitute as a Public Association of the Faithfu [sic] due to its particular ecclesial significance.

  2. I have given the Association a mandate in 2006 to constitute _the Secretariat of the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta_ , as an organism of liaison, support and information at the service of the many who in various ways are interested in the Cause itself; with the further task of opening dialogue with other Dioceses, persons, groups, and associations. "The Archdiocese and the Association will use _exclusively_ the Secretariat to receive and answer any request made to them" ( _Communication_ of April 23, 2007). Therefore, no person or Association in the world can issue official notice apart from this Secretariat. I forbid anyone from attempting to do so in my name.

  3. In 1994, with the _non obstare_ of the Holy See was opened the Diocesan Inquiry into the life, virtues and fame of sanctity. This was concluded on October 29, 2005 with the transmission of the Proceedings to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the nomination of Dr. Silvia Monica Correale as Postulator and Rev. Fr. Sabino Amedeo Lattanzio as Vice-postulator. The Congregation subsequently has communicated to me that "before proceeding _any further_ , an examination of the writings of the Servant of God will be done, in order to clarify difficulties of a theological nature."

  4. In the prayerful anticipation of the outcome of this examination, I wish to _address all those who claim that these writings contain doctrinal errors_. This, to date, has never been endorsed by any pronouncement by the Holy See, nor personally by myself. I would like to note that in this way, in addition to anticipate [sic] the legitimate judgment of the Church, these persons cause scandal to the faithful who are spiritually nourished by said writings, originating also suspicion of those of us who are zealous in the pursuit of the Cause. In the anticipation of the judgment by competent Authority, I invite you to make more serious and in-depth meditations and reflections in your personal reading on these writings in light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium of the Church.

  5. Furthermore, I wish to reiterate that if the writings of the Servant of God are read by people as to lead to the formation of one or more groups, this should not occur against the will of the Ordinary of the Place. Likewise, I recall what I have already communicated: "Neither the Archdiocese nor the Association nor the Secretariat has delegated any person, group or other association, in any way, to represent them outside of their legitimate locations, to spread knowledge about the life, thought and writings of the Servant of God or to make any decision in their names. From the moment that the Diocesan Inquiry was begun, the Archdiocese has never officially designated any Theologian or Censor for the writing of Luisa. Likewise, it has never nominated any official translator of the writings from Italian into any other language" ( _Communication_ of April 23, 2007).

Preparation of the typical edition of the writings

  6. "As I have already expressed at the conclusion of the diocesan phase of the Cause, it is my desire, after having heard the opinion of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, to present _a typical and critical edition of the writings_ in order to provide the faithful with a trustworthy text of the writings of Luisa Piccarreta. So I repeat, the said writings are _exclusively_ the property of the Archdiocese" (Letter to Bishops of October 14, 2006). To accomplish this demanding work that requires a certain kind of competence, I shall avail myself of a team of experts chosen in agreement with the Postulation.

  7. Nevertheless, I must mention the growing and unchecked flood of transcriptions, translations and publications both through print and the internet. At any rate, "seeing the delicacy of the current phase of the proceedings, any and every publication of the writings is absolutely forbidden at this time. Anyone who acts against this is disobedient and greatly harms the cause of the Servant of God." (Communication of May 30, 2008). All effort must be invested in avoiding all "leaks" of publications of any kind.

Groups of the Divine Will

  8. "It is with great joy that I receive the news that more and more of the groups that are inspired by the Divine Will are strengthening their community links with their diocesan Bishops, so creating that indispensable communion within the local Church and so allowing any possible tension or division to be overcome" ( _Communication_ of May 30, 2008). I reiterate, therefore, that "initiatives that are taken in reference with the spirituality of Luisa, for example conferences, spiritual retreats, prayer meetings, etc., must be authorized by one's Bishop in order to give serenity to the participants" (Letter of November 24, 2003).

  9. Necessary prudence cannot lessen the ardor of those who feel compelled to spread the knowledge of the sanctity of life of the Servant of God, or of those who recommend the reading of her writings, or of those who encourage the faithful prayer for her beatification. All this not only is not prohibited, rather very much desirable. I also invite you to "reinforce the unity and communion among the dioceses in which individuals, groups and associations inspired by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, and who know her writings, are to be found" (Final Communication of October 28, 2005).

What is asked of those familiar with Luisa Piccarreta

  1. To pray for the Beatification of the Servant of God, that the Most Holy Trinity might be glorified and be diffuse the Reign of the Divine Will.

  2. To send to the Postulation, through the Secretariat the testimonies and all else that regards the Servant of God, together with the economic donations needed today more than ever, for the work of the "typical edition" of the writings of Luisa.

  3. To create a network of links between the several groups united with their Bishop, and our own Archdiocese, to make visible, ever more the great family of the _Divine Will_ , established in the bond of unity, of the ecclesial communion and of the commitment of the new evangelization for the tradition of faith.

With great friendship and warmth, I greet and bless you all.

Trani, November 1st, 2012

#  Answers to Objections

###  Public Revelation in Christ vs. Private Revelation Through Luisa

Definitive Public Revelation in Christ | Private Revelation through Luisa

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  1. God is revealed as Three Persons, not One

 |   1. These Three Persons now wish to share Their life more fully with creatures

  2. Jesus reveals Himself as Divine
 |   2. Luisa insists she is the lowliest of all creatures, and Jesus confirms that she is just that

  3. Though truly fulfilling and not contradicting The Law, nevertheless a radical shift of focus is instituted away from it, and toward the Person, Jesus Christ
 |   3. Simply a deepening and intensifying of focus on and love of the same Person, Jesus Christ

  4. New, permanent _Church_ established on earth that is necessary for salvation
 |   4. New _spirituality_ introduced, intended to be obedient to and peacefully fit within this same Church, for the sake of full sanctification

  5. Seven Sacraments Instituted
 |   5. No Sacraments instituted; the same 7 Sacraments remain the path to holiness

  6. New Priesthood established
 |   6. No new priesthood: These very same (Catholic) priests are called to be the primary heralds of the Divine Will

  7. Laws altered (e.g. Divorce made impermissible, juridical Mosaic precepts dispensed from, all foods declared clean, circumcision abolished)
 |   7. Laws entirely unchanged

  8. Radically new liturgy in both substance and form
 |   8. Identical liturgy

  9. Many called to a completely new and different life, even externally (e.g. the Apostles, the disciples, communities in the Book of Acts, religious orders, clergy)
 |   9. Followers called to live their same lives

  10. Total change in leadership away from the Levitical Priesthood and to the Petrine Ministry
 |   10. All authority remains with the Successor of Peter and all his Magisterium.

Head (Intellect) | Heart (Will)

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Sacred Head Devotion & the Crowning with Thorns | Sacred Heart Devotion & the Piercing with the Lance

These are two important devotions for our time, but who can deny that it is really the Sacred Heart devotion that Heaven has mandated for our times as being preeminent between the two? And of these two great acts of the Passion here mentioned, both are essential to be regularly meditated upon. But which has Heaven asked us to give more focus to? Jesus said to St. Faustina: " _When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion. This is the prayer: 'O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.'"_ 1282 Additionally, He said to Faustina, regarding the pale and red rays of the Divine Mercy image, _"These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. These rays shield souls from the wrath of My Father. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter..."_ 1283

Faith | Charity

Scripture settles this matter: " _And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity._ " Furthermore, of the three supernatural virtues, only Charity remains in Heaven. (For you cannot have Faith in what you see, nor can you Hope for what you already have.)

God is Truth | God is Love

God is Truth and Love. But which requires particular focus? The latter. The Catechism mentions both, but it mentions God as Love at least five times, and God as Truth only once. "' _God is Love' and love is his first gift, containing all others._ "

" **Saints of Intellect"** | " **Saints of Will"**

The Church is blessed with countless great saints, some of whom could (roughly and admittedly sloppily) be categorized into these two groups of "head" or "intellect" saints and "heart" or "will" saints, both of which are indispensable to the life of the Church. But which is greatest? We must conclude the latter. Great as the saints of the intellect are (e.g. Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Bellarmine), they simply have not been proven the instruments of _as much_ grace as the great saints of the heart have been (e.g. Francis of Assisi, Thérèse of Lisieux, Teresa of Calcutta, and the many approved Marian visionaries).

Jesus, Word of God | Jesus, Son of God

Both titles of the Second Person of the Trinity contain immense Christological value, but they are not on the same level. Jesus Himself (not to mention the Creed) prefers to refer to the Second Person of the Trinity as "Son" more than as "Word."

#  A Few Words for Scholars

#  Miscellaneous Resources

##  "Ordinary" Holiness vs. Living in the Divine Will

" **Ordinary Holiness"** | Living in the Divine Will

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Grace and sacraments as medicine | Grace and sacraments as food, water, air

Receiving the Eucharist and having the Real Presence leave after 15 minutes when the sacred species dissolve | Receiving the Eucharist and, through this reception, being transconsecrated into a Living Host

Praying for all | Praying in, through, and on behalf of all

Divine Will as orders to discern and obey | Divine Will as animating force of one's entire life—every thought, word, and deed.

Righteousness of the saints | Glory of Mary

Growth in virtue and in imitation of Christ | Growth in the depth of and penetration into the inner life of the Trinity through the humanity of Christ

##  A Round in the Divine Will

#  Some Advice for Current and Prospective Followers of Luisa

#  Quick Answers to The Biggest Criticisms

#  An Epilogue for the Unconvinced

#  A Brief Checklist for Living in the Divine Will and Hastening the Coming of the Kingdom
#  A bout the Author

Daniel O'Connor is a Philosophy Professor who holds a Master's degree in Theology from a Catholic seminary. He teaches courses in general philosophy, Existentialism, and religion, and is also a doctoral student working on a PhD in Philosophy. Daniel is the founder of the Divine Will Missionaries of Mercy (DWMoM.org). He may be contacted through his personal website, DSDOConnor.com. Daniel teaches in and writes from New York, where he lives with his wife and three children. Together they pray daily for all who read this book and sincerely request prayers from the same.

1 March 6, 1932

2 A take on the Benjamin Franklin quote, "Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough."

3 I should add that I do not intend to imply that I now reject the notion of mortification, or that I've since "grown out" of my "overzealous early days when I thought the flesh should be forcefully opposed," as some self-proclaimed "experienced Catholics" assert, in a thinly veiled attempt to clothe their lukewarmness in pious looking attire. Rather, I now know – as will be discussed in this book – that mortification must be undertaken for the right reasons (out of love for God and a desire to suffer redemptively with Christ, not out of a servile fear of Him), and if it is done for the right reasons it will naturally be done in accord with the virtue of prudence (for indeed, prudence, being a virtue, has the same form as all the virtues: charity).

4 I later discovered that every trustworthy private revelation that has addressed the issue teaches squarely – either explicitly or implicitly – that, although damnation is the greatest tragedy imaginable and indeed countless souls are now falling into hell, nevertheless most are saved—albeit only thanks to Purgatory. The only private "revelation" that I know of which says otherwise is that of "Maria Divine Mercy," in which Jesus said that 33 times as many people go to hell as go to Heaven. This "revelation" is now condemned by the Church.

5 The traditional (and most theologically and philosophically accurate) definition of evil is simply "the absence of a due perfection."

6 Cf. Genesis 1:27. The question of exactly what is essential to the nature of man will be treated with more theological detail in a later section

7 St. Thomas Aquinas

8 Summa Theologica, I, q. 5 a.4

9 Preface of Virgins. The Roman Missal

10 cf. Matthew 7:24

11 Also referred to by evolutionary biologists as the LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor); it is the alleged "starting point of evolution."

12 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution. Edited by Mark Pagel. 2012 Oxford University Press, Inc. Page 138.

13 An American computer programmer, in the year 2011, triumphantly asserted that his "computer monkeys" already succeeded in typing out Shakespeare at random. Though many news outlets reported on this, I could not find even one that bothered to clearly report that his claim was a lie. For his erroneous personal criteria with which he measured his "victory" was merely that all the individual words in Shakespeare be successfully typed out by these computational pseudo monkeys. This is nearly as ridiculous as saying that once all 26 letters have been successfully punched at random (which any monkey would likely accomplish over the course of a few minutes), Shakespeare's works have successfully been typed, for they are essentially nothing but a large conglomeration of such letters. For a story is in the configuration of the words and therein lies the essence of its design.

14 There are approximately 10^80 atoms in the universe. If there were 10^80 monkeys with typewriters, each typing 100 words per minute, then each would have completed approximately 24,178 billion (about twenty-four-thousand-billion) attempts at pounding out Hamlet over the course of 13.8 billion years (the number physicists often cite as the approximate age of the universe). With each of the 10^80 monkeys completing 24,178 billion attempts, we have a total of approximately 2.4 times 10^93 attempts made. Take the previously calculated probability (1/26^75000) of a given attempt succeeding, and multiply it by that number of attempts, and you will still calculate a zero percent chance of success. We cannot possibly be more generous to the argument that chance can create order, and we still have arrived at a zero percent chance of this happening. Bear in mind that, despite some referring to this as the "infinite monkey theorem," the simple fact is that we are not dealing with infinite monkeys or typewriters; at the very minimum, we can say that we must limit ourselves to deal with the actual hypothetical maximum constraints which the actual universe gives.

15 The world's most powerful computer (named "Summit," it is a joint venture of the US DoE and IBM capable of executing 200,000 trillion calculations per second) would need about 100 trillion years of continuous operation solely dedicated to the task in order to have a good chance at breaking a single 128-bit encryption key.

16 (1/2^128) [the probability of guessing the encryption key in each attempt] x 10^80 x 24,178 billion attempts each (which is the same number of attempts that still gives a zero statistical probability of Shakespeare's Hamlet arising from randomness) yields a statistical certainty of success more than a trillion trillion trillion trillion times over.

17 Fr. Georges Lemaitre

18 Cf. Phys.org

19 Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Stephen Hawking, 2018. Chapter 1.

20 ibid

21 Wherein, for example, one supposes he can use the heat produced in a thermodynamic cycle (e.g. a refrigerator) to in turn power a heat engine (e.g. a steam turbine) hooked up to a generator, which then powers the same thermodynamic cycle to continue the process and generate abundant free heat and electricity. This can never work because the excess heat from the thermodynamic cycle can never possibly exceed the inherent (Carnot) inefficiency of the heat engine.

22 The God Delusion. Page 43.

23 Indeed, over years of teaching introductory philosophy to hundreds of students, I have found that all of them have a fairly solid intuitive grasp of this concept which Dr. Dawkins admits he cannot fathom. If this does not show his lack of intelligence, it should at least demonstrate his utter cluelessness regarding how ordinary people actually operate and understand the world.

24 That is, to commit the logical fallacy of circular reasoning.

25 The primary Islamic sacred text

26 The secondary Islamic sacred text

27 This, of course, is not to mention that believers almost always do live more full and happier lives than unbelievers, rendering the "live now; don't let concerns of the afterlife ruin this life!" argument ridiculous from the very outset.

28 The answer to which is the essence of the remainder of this book; so read on.

29 Bart Ehrman. Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. Pages 2-5.

30 Ibid.

31 A false claim which, even if true, would prove nothing

32 Luke 22:70

33 At www.PeterKreeft.com

34 Even though St. John was not killed, they did try to kill him, and he still did not recant.

35 It is only natural that far more direct accounts would exist of the Apostles' death than of Jesus', since, first of all, there were more of them; and secondly, over the course of their preaching, Christianity grew to be a more significant movement which in turn caused the happenings pertaining to it to be written down by more authors.

36 Contrast this to the alleged miracle of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, whose "miraculous" tablets that revealed the Book of Mormon are only even said to have been seen by three people, each of whom faced no serious tests of his genuineness (e.g. through martyrdom), and one of whom essentially recanted by later admitting he only saw the tablets with the "eyes of Faith," with all three at some point leaving the Mormon religion.

37 The only type of scientifically well-documented mass hysteria that is even remotely comparable is the case where a large number of people are deluded to think they have the same (non-existent) disease. But this is obviously not relevant to the discussion at hand, for when many people are self-diagnosing, they are only describing a subjective phenomenon. This is not the case when people describe what they actually see.

38 Cf. Paragraph 424

39 CCC 552

40 Excepting of course relatively brief periods like the Avignon Papacy; for what makes a Pope the head of the Church is his being the valid successor of the last valid Pope (not necessarily the Bishop of a certain city), who is almost always in Rome, but can be elsewhere.

41 As of this writing, Pope Francis

42 This process is smooth, easy, and clear, at all but one point: the Papacies of Pope Benedict IX, who held the office on three separate occasions and who is considered a disgrace to the Chair of Peter. Despite his dissolute lifestyle and his horrendous practices regarding the papacy itself (e.g. selling the office itself in one of the terms), the Church persevered, and God did not allow Benedict to Magisterially teach any heresies; thus fulfilling, as always, the promise Jesus made to Peter, that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church that He founded on St. Peter. It is worth noting that Benedict IX himself died repentant of his sins.

43 Preface to Mere Christianity

44 Who, as of this writing, recently had Communal Relations broken off with the Russian Orthodox Church, thus further splintering Eastern Orthodoxy and demonstrating that it simply cannot be considered to be the true Church founded by Jesus Christ.

45 This is not to dispute the validity of the Sacraments of the Orthodox; they do indeed have an Apostolic Succession – a lineage of valid bishops who can validly ordain priests who, in turn, can validly consecrate, absolve, etc. (unlike the various Protestant denominations, who only have valid marriage and baptism). But it is not the clear succession of one Head of the Church, to the next, all the way back to Jesus Himself, that the Catholic Church has. Therefore, one cannot suppose that Orthodoxy is a safe refuge for his soul: there is much more to salvation and sanctification than valid sacraments. Indeed, the Orthodox have already succumbed to a number of heresies; some pertaining to Faith (e.g. the Immaculate Conception and the Filioque), and others to morals (e.g. to marriage and contraception), for the promise of Christ to Peter—that the gates of hell shall not prevail—does not apply to those who have separated themselves from Communion with the Successor of Peter, as the Orthodox have.

46 I have no desire to denigrate any man, much less any Christian. But the words of Fr. Leslie Rumble ring true here: "Protestants who idealize Martin Luther urge his supposed sanctity as an argument in favor of the Protestant Reformation. To meet that argument Catholics have no choice but to produce evidence that Luther was not a holy man at all. Catholics argue that one who claims to be commissioned by God to reveal Christ to a degenerate world should himself exhibit a Christ-like life. But Luther did not; and it is inconceivable that such a type of man as he should have been chosen by God to reform the Church of Christ."

47 John 17:21

48 Preface to Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis.

49 Reason, in particular, was discounted by Luther as a "whore"

50 Now, we mustn't go to the other extreme and categorically reject Ecumenism; for Ecumenism properly understood is a great good. Although indeed, "outside the Church there is no salvation" is a dogma (therefore it always will be a dogma), all moral guilt (and consequently all impediments to salvation) can only arise from that which is intentional, which in turn can only proceed from knowledge. No one but God alone knows if a certain soul actually has sufficient knowledge to understand that the Catholic Church is the true Church necessary for salvation (and only a soul with that knowledge could be condemned or deprived of grace for refusing to enter the Catholic Church). These Divine secrets will only be revealed on Judgment Day. ***

51 John 6:68

52 Meaning "from the chair." A papal pronouncement is "ex cathedra" when he is speaking as Pope to the whole Church and employing his Apostolic authority in defining a teaching on faith or morals.

53 For it has already been dogmatically proclaimed, in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, that Mary was assumed into Heaven.

54 It should be noted that most Catholic traditionalists are not of this sort; they are, rather, merely Catholics who are rightly concerned with the abuses that have entered into the practice, not Magisterium, of the Church.

55 Cf. Acts 5:15

56 This duty, of course, does not change the fact that God judges according to the individual's level of knowledge, understanding, etc.; and we can certainly hope that most people who are objectively "guilty" of being outside of the Catholic Church are nevertheless not culpable for their state. But denying this hope for diminished culpability is no more absurd than is blindly and lukewarmly relying on this hope instead of striving with zeal to correspond with that which is objectively true – that all are indeed called to be Catholic.

57 Cf. Matthew 5:48, Lumen Gentium (The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church), paragraph 40.

58 National Catholic Register. "Fatima's Sister Lucia Explains Why the Daily Rosary is a 'Must'" November 19, 2017. Joseph Pronechen, Citing "Fatima in Lucia's own words, volume 1"

59 1 Corinthians 14

60 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 799-800.

61 Mere Christianity

62 Ibid. 1778.

63 Lumen Gentium, paragraph 14.

64 Remember as well, as mentioned elsewhere in this book, that the Magisterium itself now teaches that the Magisterium is insufficient. Cf. Gaudete et Exsultate, paragraph 170.

65 Though a difficult quote to verify, I include it here due to the circumstantial possibility that it referred to the revelations of Mary of Agreda, which was a very contentious issue during his Papacy. Admittedly, however, great weight should probably not be given to this quote, as it is proving a very difficult one to verify.

66 This approval was declared by Bishop Augustin Misago on June 29, 2001.

67 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 773, Cf. John Paul II "Mulieris Dignitatem," paragraph 27.

68 Cf. John 20:29

69 Benedict XVI. Homily at Christmas Vigil Mass. December 24th, 2012 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana).

70 CCC 1022

71 Cf. Luke 5:39

72 I have in mind especially the heretical interpretation of Amoris Laetitia, wherein adultery and divorce are essentially condoned, apparently being promoted by the majority of mainstream voices who have commented on it.

73 "@JamesMartinSJ" Twitter Account. November 13, 2018.

74 Pope John Paul II, Angelus Address to Collevalenza on November 22nd, 1981.

75 Homily at Mass of Dedication of the Divine Mercy Shrine on August 17th, 2002.

76 Mark Miravalle. Is Medjugorje Real? Facts and First-hand Accounts. June, 2008.

77Voice of Padre Pio, November 1998, Friary of Our Lady of Grace.

78https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/garabandal.htm

79"'She's in heaven' – Pope Francis on Mother Angelica." CatholicNewsAgency.com. March 30, 2016

80 Store.spiritdaily.com/product-p/mhb-116.htm

81"René Laurentin, Investigator of Celestial Visions, Dies at 99" New York Times. September 15, 2017.

82 Father René Laurentin collection, 1948-2003. Marian Library, University of Dayton Libraries, Dayton, Ohio. https://archivescatalog.udayton.edu/repositories/2/resources/105

83Michael Brown, spiritdaily.net/Luarentinreligious.htm

84"René Laurentin, Investigator of Celestial Visions, Dies at 99" New York Times. September 15, 2017.

85 Listen to My Prophets. Father Edward O'Connor. 2011. Preface.

86 Ibid xii

87 Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons. Mark Miravalle. Page 840.

88 Not to be confused with Pope Benedict XVI

89 Cf. Heroic virtue : a portion of the treatise of Benedict XIV on the beatification and canonization of the servants of God.

90 Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons. Mark Miravalle. Page 831.

91 Pastoral Letter by His Excellency Paul Tchang-Ryeol Kim, Bishop of the Cheju Diocese, Korea. Easter Sunday. 1999 Marys-touch.com

92F.M. Requena, 'ARINTERO (Juan González)', in Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Turnhout:Brepols Publishers, 2017, vol. 32, cols 514518, in Brepolis Encyclopaedias.

93The Mystical Evolution in the Development and Vitality of the Church Volume II.

94Rejecting submission to God

95 Such prudence is, indeed, called for and extremely important; its details will be considered in the next chapter.

96 1 Thessalonians 5:21

97 Matthew 11:30

98http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19780225_norme-apparizioni_en.html (Bear in mind, when reading this document, that by "the fact," it means "the alleged revelation, apparition, or locution," and by "the subject" it means "the alleged seer, visionary, or locutionist.")

99 Matthew 7:16

100 July 9, 1930.

101 Cf. Romans 9

102http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19660614_de-indicis-libr-prohib_en.html

103http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-51-1959-ocr.pdf

104 "Si rende noto che la Suprema Sacra Congregazione dei Sant'Offizio, prese in esame le asserite visioni e rivelazioni di Suor Faustina Kowalska, dell'Istituto di Nostra Signora della Misericordia, defunta nel 1938 presso Cracovia, ha stabilito quanto segue ... doversi proibire la diffusione delle immagini e degli scritti chepresentano la devozione della Divina Misericordia nelle forme proposte dalla medesima Suor Faustina ... "

105 John Allen Jr. "A saint despite Vatican reservations" August 30, 2002.

106Cf. Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, OFM: Luisa Piccarreta, A Collection of Memories (Roma 52, San Ferdinando Di Puglia: Tipolitographia Miulli, 2000), Ch. 1.

107 Homily given by Pope John Paul II, "Canonization of Six New Saints," May 16, 2004 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana).

108Archbishop Joseph Leo

109Letter of St. Hannibal to Luisa Piccarreta, dated February 14th, 1927. http://www.divvol.org/luisa_piccarreta/en/hannibal_letters.html).

110 Hours of the Passion. Preface.

111 Gaetano Passarelli: Father Annibale, A Heavenly Dream (Transcribed into eBook format by St. Hannibal Rogate Center, 2011), Ch. 7.

112 Address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the Rogationist Fathers. Paragraph 6. 16 May 1997.

113 Although when we consider the context of this quote of Pope St. John Paul II's it is clear that a reference is being made to Luisa's revelations, this unfortunately has not been noticed much in mainstream circles, despite this particular quote of his getting much note. For example, a wonderful book written by Fr. Kosicki, Be Holy, bears endorsements from at least three Bishops, including the late Cardinal George of Chicago. It devotes an entire Chapter to precisely this quote of the Pope's.

114 "The Coming New and Divine Holiness." Mark Mallett. www.markmallett.com/blog

115 January 18, 1928.

116 Address of John Paul II to the youth of Rome preparing for World Youth Day. March 21st, 2002 (Paragraph 5.  vatican.va).

117 These writings were Luisa's Hours of the Passion, Volumes 1-19 of her diary, and The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.

118 Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, OFM: Luisa Piccarreta, A Collection of Memories (Roma 52, San Ferdinando Di Puglia: Tipolitographia Miulli, 2000), Ch. 4.

119 Ibid., Ch. 3.

120 Ibid.

121 Unfortunately, some individuals attempt to dispute this fact of Padre Pio's endorsement of Luisa. Their arguments usually stem from a letter allegedly written by a Franciscan at San Giovani Rotondo who implies that, because he himself knows nothing of the correspondence between Luisa and Padre Pio, it could not possibly have actually happened. Sadly, many often fall into this patently fallacious line of reasoning which supposes that if they do not know of something, it cannot be. Similarly, I recall hearing of a priest who (years before it was popular) warned a penitent away from devotion to the Divine Mercy. His reasoning? "I haven't heard of it, so it cannot be acceptable."

122 Cf. Sun of My Will, pages 174-175.

123 Ibid.

124En.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/news/December-15-2001/195

125 www.benedictinesofthedivinewill.org

126https://danieloconnor.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/official-letter-from-archbishop-pichierri1.pdf

127 Rev. Joseph L. Iannuzzi, STD, Ph.D. "Living in the Divine Will" Missionaries of the Most Holy Trinity (Nov. 2014-May 2015): Page 2.

128 Cf. Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, (www.ltdw.org), 2014.

129 A renowned expert on private revelation, this nevertheless appears to be the only book Fr. O'Connor ever wrote solely dedicated to one private revelation in particular. It also appears to be his last book, as he has since died.

130 En.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/news/the-miracle-attributed-to-luisa/44

131 "Final Letter by the Archbishop" www.luisapiccarretaofficial.org. Posted directly here:  https://danieloconnor.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/final-letter-by-the-archbishop-giovan-battista-pichierri-1.pdf

132 Even among Cardinals, he is highly distinguished, being one of only several" Cardinal Bishops," an honor bestowed upon him by Pope Benedict XVI

133 Here, for example, is one excerpt from his preface: "From her continual contemplation of Jesus' passion, Luisa is led to conform herself to Christ ... This "living in the Divine Will" is the actual way in which the Son Jesus lived on earth, bringing here with him the life of Heaven."

134 Mystery and the World: Passion for God in Times of Unbelief. Maria Clara Bingerner. Page 193.

135 Page 1266.

136 Tinyurl.com/y37rgmrr

137 I do not think, in the entire history of the Church, one will ever find a mystic whose cause has seen a similar degree of success as Luisa's and whose life exhibited the endorsements that Luisa's did, but who has later proven to be a fraud or an agent of the devil. Those are the only two alternatives if one wishes to reject the validity of Luisa's revelations, and when one considers the history of mysticism in the Church, he will find them to be untenable alternatives, as each would entail the assertion of something entirely unprecedented and radically departing from anything we have ever seen. And if any assertion is dubious, it is that one; not the simple recognition that Luisa's revelations are valid.

138 February 19, 1900.

139 April 8, 1908.

140Fr. Bucci relayed this in a live talk given by him at a conference I attended in 2014.

141 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis., 1.1.

142 Ibid, 1.5.

143 Sun of My Will, Ch. IV.

144 Sun of My Will, P. 46.

145 The theologian, Fr. Edward O'Connor, writes in his book on Luisa about another extraordinary account of spiritual blindness and its resolution: "In 1917, Archbishop Regime, newly appointed to the diocese of Trani, forbade priests to enter Luisa's house or to celebrate Mass there (although this privilege had been granted by Pope Leo XIII and confirmed by Pope Pius X). But as he was signing this decree, the Archbishop was suddenly afflicted by partial paralysis. When the priests who were present came to his aid, he indicated that he wanted to take them to Luisa's house. Supported by two priests, and uttering incomprehensible words, he came to the door. When he entered Luisa's room, she said "Bless me, your Excellency!" The Archbishop raised his hand in blessing, and was instantly cured. He remained for two hours in a secret conversation with Luisa, and thereafter visited her regularly for spiritual conversations. Many vocations, of both men and women, were inspired by Luisa..." Listen to My Prophets, P.60.

146 Ibid.

147 Sun of My Will, P. 63-64.

148 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis. , 1.8.

149 Cf. Acta Apostolica Sedis of 1938. Page 318. Vatican.va.

150 Jesus is not telling Luisa to be disobedient. In fact, nowhere in Luisa's 8,000 pages did Jesus ever budge in insisting to Luisa that she obey all authorities placed over her by the Church. Here, Jesus is merely telling Luisa to stay strong in continuing to write down her revelations (she was still under obedience to write in her diary at this point!) and pray, suffer, and sacrifice according to her usual manner, which obviously was not affected by the condemnation.

151 September 18, 1938.

152 Sun of my Will, pages 185-186. (I have taken this quote from the official biography for the sake of ensuring no one doubts its validity; however, this letter was actually published in a parish newspaper in Brooklyn, NY in 1947.)

153 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis. , 1.11.6.

154 March 19, 1927.

155 Sun of My Will, pages 122 and 123.

156 The Mystical Evolution in the Development and Vitality of the Church Volume II. Importance of Private Revelations.

157 February 26, 1912.

158 November 6, 1906.

159 November 5, 1925

160 The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Day Seventeen.

161 July 20, 1934.

162 April 13, 1932.

163 More on the problems with this school of thought are found in Part Three of this book.

164 March 21, 1914.

165 Mary 21, 1926.

166 November 6, 1929.

167 June 10, 1935.

168 Clunymedia.com

169 Luke 23:43

170 April 16, 1927.

171 May 30, 1925.

172 October 20, 1927.

173 March 16, 1910.

174 That is, Anointing of the Sick

175 November 21, 1926.

176 1 John 4:18

177 May 12, 1917.

178 March 22, 1938.

179 Cf. John 10:27

180 Hours of the Passion. Preface.

181 August 15, 1904.

182 January 16, 1923. Nota Bene: There is also an essential teaching contained within this quote: Jesus is not categorically condemning war or insisting upon pacifism. He says clearly, "when it comes to defending the oppressed... I must concur..." It would be a perversion of Luisa's revelations to say that Jesus, in them, is condemning anyone for participating in World War II. Obviously, for example, Hitler was an oppressor, and justice demanded that the oppressed be defended; thus, the Divine Will concurs with those who rise to this defense. War itself is horrendous; but sometimes not all parties involved in a given war bear moral blame for it.

183 September 2, 1923.

184 November 16, 1926.

185 March 31, 1927.

186 August 12, 1927.

187 March 31, 1927

188 Luisa's introduction to the First Volume

189 Ibid

190 Encyclopedia Britannica. Concise Version. 2006. Page 1639.

191 i.e. Martial Law

192 February 19, 1900.

193 Please note that I am not arguing that all was well during the "Pax Britannica." I am aware that there were many conflicts and many atrocities being committed. My point is merely to consider what the commentators of the day would have claimed. How legitimate "Pax Britannica" was in reality is not germane to the issue of demonstrating how very prophetic Luisa's revelations were.

194 not without many tragic violations of human rights, of course

195 Note: at this time, military technology was largely as it had been for many years. But World War I, 14 years later, saw the incredible advance of horrendous and lethal new military technologies. Luisa was likely shown one of them here.

196 February 28, 1928.

197 June 1, 1927 (Note that Luisa is here referring to "not wanting" her writings to be published; recall that, such was her humility, that she only wrote at all because she was commanded to, and she wanted no fame or recognition whatsoever.)

198 Please note, however, I could certainly be forgetting instances of this happening.

199"The Heartbreaking Story of Divorce." Smithsonian Magazine. February 2014.

200 April 17, 1906.

201 December 28, 1908.

202 Modern readers should be reminded that Luisa did not spend her nights sitting up in bed on her iPhone, looking through real-time pictures of events being posted on Twitter.

203 April 7, 1903.

204 The juxtaposition of these terms is not accidental; Mussolini's "conversion" from socialism to fascism was superficial, and "Mussolini the fascist" still maintained what was worst about "Mussolini the socialist." Recall that Mussolini only "declared war" on socialism inasmuch as it was opposed to nationalism.

205 September 21, 1921.

206 April 21, 1923.

207Here I refer only to the created human nature/human soul of Christ (as opposed to His Personhood and His Divine Nature). The Person, Jesus Christ, is of course none other than the 2nd Person of the Trinity, and is uncreated.

208This perfection of course radically changed for Adam and Eve at the Fall

209 Cf. St. Louis de Montfort: True Devotion to Mary (Bay Shore, NY: Montfort Publications, 2006), paragraph 63.

210 Catechism of the Catholic Church 460, quoting St. Athanasius and St. Thomas Aquinas.

211 Ibid., 488, cf. Lumen Gentium, Ch. VIII, Section 2, paragraph 56.

212 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 973.

213 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis. , 3.1.1.

214 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum I, Q25, A4

215 This is an important point. The Christian Creed rests upon and requires the certainty of historical events having occurred in the past; e.g. The Incarnation. To entertain the possibility that the past can change is to have this certainty vanish, and thereby render the contents of our Faith merely contingent upon no one ever acquiring the power to change the past and choosing to use this power. (Take care to note that contingent "faith" is not true Faith.)

216 These concerns are addressed in detail in the "Era of Peace" chapter of this book

217 Third Apparition at Fatima, July 13th, 1917. "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph ... "

218 Cf. St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in my Soul, Paragraph 684. "At the moment of Consecration, love rested satiated—the sacrifice fully consummated. Now only the external ceremony of death will be carried out—external destruction; the essence [of it] is in the Cenacle."

219 Luke 1:65-66

220 Cf. 1 Corinthians 13:12

221 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis. , 4.1.

222 Dr. Thomas Petrisko. The Kingdom of Our Father. P. 32.

223 For example, consider the case of one who foolishly bought a fancy sports car only to have its engine fail months later. Still paying a large sum each month for the loan, the purchaser supposes "Well, I simply must pay $7,000 to replace this engine; I am, after all, still paying off this car." But this reasoning is ludicrous; whether one is still paying off the car has nothing to do with what, in moving forward, is the wise decision —which is to get rid of the obscene luxury of a sports car by selling it for whatever it can obtain without a working engine, and proceeding to buy a more humble vehicle, even though the sports car still must be paid off.

224 September 12, 1913.

225 Some followers of Luisa hold that this is not the case; that, indeed, there have always been souls who truly Lived in the Divine Will. The passage they cite is the following: "...So, the order of Our Wisdom, the operating Life of Our externized Love, could not tolerate the failure of Our purpose; this is why, in all centuries, there has always been some soul whom God has formed as center of the whole Creation, and within her Our Love leaned and Our Life palpitated and obtained the purpose of the whole Creation. It is by means of these centers that the whole Creation is maintained, and that the world still exists; otherwise, it would have no reason to exist, because the life and the cause of everything would be missing. Therefore, there has not been one century, nor will there be, in which We will not choose souls dear to Us, more or less portentous, who will form the center of Creation, in whom We will have Our Life palpitating and Our Love operating. And according to the epochs, the times, the needs, the circumstances, they have been offered for the good of all, they have given themselves to all, they have defended all; they alone have been the ones who have sustained my sacrosanct rights and have given Me the field to maintain the order of my infinite Wisdom." – October 20, 1931. But a careful reading of this passage, taking it fully at its own word, does not say anything about souls actually living in the Divine Will in all centuries; only that each century had its "center" in at least one extraordinary soul. And indeed, it is only thanks to these victim souls that the world has survived. But this does not mean they lived in the Divine Will like Luisa did and like we now are called to so live.

226 CCC 237.

227 Genesis 1:26

228 Cf. Genesis 1:1

229 Daniel 7:13

230 Called to be Children of God. Ch. 8

231 Abandonment to Divine Providence. Introduction. From the Tenth Complete French Edition by E. J. Strickland, 1921.

232 Ignatius Press. 2016

233 Called to be the Children of God: the Catholic Theology of Human Deification. Forward. Ignatius Press. 2016.

234Fr. Jordan Aumann. Spiritual Theology. "Prayer of Transforming Union." Chapter 12.

235 That is, relating to the being itself

236 Casti Connubii paragraph 17

237Hugh Owen. New and Divine: The holiness of the third Christian millennium. John Paul II Institute of Christian Spirituality. 2001. p.44-45. (Henceforth "New and Divine")

238 St. John of the Cross: Ascent of Mt Carmel. Book III, Ch. 16, Paragraph 3.

239St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary (Bay Shore, NY: Montfort Publications, 2006), paragraphs 46-48.

240 Marymediatrix.com

241 Huston Smith. The World's Religions. Pages306-307.

242 John 10:31-34

243 1 Peter 1:12

244 1 Corinthians 6:3

245 Jesus to Luisa. December 8, 1926.

246 CCC Paragraph 460.

2472 Peter 1:3,4

248Fr. David Meconi, and Carl Olson. Called to be the Children of God: the Catholic Theology of Human Deification. Ignatius Press. 2016. Chapter 1. (Henceforth "Called to be the Children of God")

249Gaudete et Exsultate. Apostolic Exhortation. Paragraph 51.

250 1 John 3:1

251 Galatians 4:4-7

252Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 11.

253 CCC, paragraph 398.

254 Apotheosis, on the other hand, is usually a reference to the blasphemous Pagan practice of worshipping men – perhaps rulers of cities.

255 New Catholic Encyclopedia, page 902.

256 Called to Be the Children of God. Chapter 2. (Note that in referring to the "Greek" Fathers, Dr. Keating is not implying that Deification is absent from the Latin Fathers; rather, these words of his are contained in a chapter specifically dedicated to the Greek fathers. In fact, Dr. Keating clearly points out, in preceding paragraphs, that Deification is found in the writings of the Latin Fathers as well.)

257 Benedict XVI. General Audience. June 25th, 2008 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana).

258 Letter 22.

259 This fact Jesus also makes clear to Luisa, thus revealing the slanderous nature of the accusation one may stumble upon on the internet which accuses Jesus' words to Luisa of the heresy of Monothelitism.

260 Jean-Yves Lacoste. Routledge Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. (2004) Page 348.

261 George E Demacopoulos, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. 2012. Page 272.

262 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Series II, Volume 4. Philip Schaff. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters 54.3

263I still recall when, many years ago, I first came upon this Catechism quote. It was printed out from a Microsoft Word document, and I thought that Word must have erroneously auto-corrected the second "God" in the sentence to be capital, even though it should have been lower-case. I, however, was the one who erred: that second capital "G" is in fact intended, and is in the CCC. Divinization is no mere metaphor.

264 February 23, 1927.

265 Office of Readings. Saturday before the Epiphany.

266 Called to Be the Children of God. Chapter 4.

267 Ibid. Chapter 3.

268 unanimis consensus Patrum, DS 1507, 3007

269 Oration 1. Paragraph V.

270 Orations 30 Paragraph XIV

271 Oration 29. Chapter XIX.

272 New Catholic Encyclopedia. Grace (Theology of). P. 385.

273 Philip Schaff. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 1.IX.VII.I.

274 Ibid. Volume 1. IX. VI. XXXIX.

275 Ibid.

276 Ibid. Volume 2. VI. II. I.

277 Ibid. Volume 2. VI. III. III. I.

278 Ibid.

279 Ibid. Volume 2. VI. IV. VII. XVI.

280 To Autolycus. Book II. Chapter 27.

281 Refutation of All Heresies. Book X. Chapter 30.

282 Philip Schaff. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 5. III. IV. II. VI.

283 not to be confused with his friend, Gregory of Nazianzus, already quoted in this section

284 The Great Catechism. Part III. Chapter 37.

285 Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 58). P. 116.

286 New Catholic Encyclopedia. P. 262.

287 Pope Pius XII. Encyclical Doctor Mellifluus. Nota bene: This reference does not mean Bernard literally was a Father of the Church, but rather that he ensured that their legacy did not die in the centuries after the close of the age of the Fathers in the 8th century.

288 St Bernard of Clairvaux "On loving God" Ch. 10

289 THEOLOGY, HISTORY OF. New Catholic Encyclopedia. P. 905-906.

290 Boyd Taylor Coolman. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. 2012 page 258.

291 Andrew Kraebel. Introduction to On the Four Degrees of Violent Love.

292 Ibid.

293 Hugh Owen, New and Divine.

294 Peter Lombard: Sentences Book 1, Distinction XLVIII. (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, was a theologian who, though rarely spoken of today, was an enormous influence on western theology. He is referred to by Aquinas in the Summa simply as "the Master.")

295 New Catholic Encyclopedia; Conformity to the Will of God.

296 Matthew 26:39

297 St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum I-II. Q19, A9.

298 Luisa's revelations build beautifully on the foundation laid by 2,000 years of Catholic Tradition, and in no way do they contradict a single Church teaching. Needless to say, however, they are not simply identical to all that came before. The entire point of them is that they reveal a new sanctity. More on this distinction is contained in the "Answers to Objections" chapter.

299 Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 5.

300 St. Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue, p. 147.

301 Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 8.

302St. Francis de Sales. Treatise on the Love of God. Ch. VIII.

303De Sales went through his seminary formation in the late 16th century- after the Council of Trent- wherein Aquinas' Summa was honored more than ever, and was insisted upon as the primary text for the formation of priests.

304Benedict XVI. General Audience. March 2, 2011.

305Rerum Omnium Perturbationem. Encyclical Of Pope Pius XI On St. Francis De Sales. Paragraph 8.

306Ingold, A. (1907). Pierre de Bérulle. The Catholic Encyclopedia.

307 Wendy M. Wright. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. 2012 page 445

308 Jean-Yves Lacoste. Routledge Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. 2004. Page 202

309 True Devotion to Mary. Paragraph 162.

310 Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 8.

311 Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Page. 446

312Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 8.

313Fr. Frederick William Faber: Growth in Holiness. 1856 Edition. P. 376.

314Robert P. Maloney C.M.: "Vincentian Heritage Journal." Volume 28. Issue 1. Article 1. P. 13.

315https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=879.

316http://www.ewtn.com/v/experts/showmessage.asp?number=481328.

317Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence (also known as "The Sacrament of the Present Moment"). Section IX.

318Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 8.

319Ibid.

320Jordan Aumann. Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition. P. 215-6

321St. Alphonsus Liguori. Uniformity With God's Will.

322Ibid.

323Ibid.

324Ibid.

325St. Alphonsus Liguori. Uniformity With God's Will.

326St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation.

327Pope St. Pius X on Therese

328St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul (New York: An Image Book, Doubleday, Inc. 1989). Ch. XI.

329Ibid, Ch. IX.

330Called to be the Children of God. Chapter 8.

331Hugh Owen, New and Divine: the Holiness of the Third Christian Millennium. Page 70.

332Sun of My Will. Page 30.

333A Year with the Saints. (New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1891).

334A Year with the Saints. (New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1891). Pages 374-375.

335Ibid, P. 376

336Ibid, Pages 373-374.

337Ibid, P. 371.

338A Year with the Saints, Pages 370-371.

339Ibid, Pages 16-17.

340Ibid, Page 26.

341Whitelilyoftrinity.com

342Although we can say this opened the door, it is only in the promulgation of the knowledges in Luisa's Revelations that the way will truly be made straight and clear

343Mark 9:38-40

344 If we are going to here criticize those who err on one side of this issue, we should do the same for those who err on the other side. For there are also those who, taking such a 'flexible' approach to Luisa's writings, have decided that they need only assert that Luisa was merely the "one whose mission" the Gift was, and anyone could have had it any time before her. This is flatly contradicted numerous times in Luisa's writings, and it simply is not honest to hold that Luisa's revelations are genuine and to hold that the saints have always had this Gift.

345 John Haffert. From the Foreword of New and Divine, by Hugh Owen.

346 Pope John Paul II, Angelus Address to Collevalenza on November 22nd, 1981.

347Homily at the Mass of Dedication of the Divine Mercy Shrine on August 17th, 2002.

348First Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Wednesday, April 20th, 2005.

349Pope Benedict XVI. Regina Coeli Address at St. Peter's Square. April 23rd, 2006.

350Benedict XVI. General Audience. May 31st, 2006.

351Benedict XVI. Homily. St. Peter's Square. April 2nd, 2008.

352Pope Francis. Address to the Priests of Rome. March 6, 2014.

353Misericordiae Vultus. Bull of Indiction. Paragraph 24.

354St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1146.

355Misericordiae Vultus. Paragraph 3.

356St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in my Soul, Paragraph 771.

357Cf. Luke 17:10

358St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1489.

359Ibid., 1324.

360Ibid., 1393.

361In and of itself, the veil is not good; but in so far as God permits it temporarily so that we may use it to build up treasures in Heaven, it is indeed a benefit.

362St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in my Soul, Paragraph 508.

363Ibid. Paragraph 650

364Here, "graces" must not be understood in the common sense of the word (which refers broadly to God's action in a soul), but rather as a reference specifically to charismatic graces.

365St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1107.

366Matthew 5:48

367St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 136-7.

368Ibid., paragraph 824.

369For example, see "What Was St. Faustina's Big, Mysterious Secret?" Dr. Robert Stackpole. www.thedivinemercy.org. Nov. 16th, 2011.

370Divine Mercy in My Soul, paragraph 955-957.

371Ibid., paragraph 374.

372Ibid., paragraph 371.

373Ibid., paragraph 372.

374Ibid. paragraph 1279.

375Divine Mercy in My Soul, paragraph 1242.

376Ibid, 1523.

377New and Divine, Pages 25, 33.

378Ibid., P. 44.

379Monsignor Calkins, whom I know personally, is a trustworthy voice in the Catholic scholarly world today and is a great warrior for the Fifth Marian Dogma.

380Arthur Calkins. Missio Magazine. "The Venerable Conchita (Concepción Cabrera de Armida)—Part 1"

381 Fr. Marie-Michel Philipon, O.P. CONCHITA: A Mother's Spiritual Diary. Pages 57-58.

382New Catholic Encyclopedia. Mystical Marriage.

383Poulain, A. (1910). On Mystical Marriage in "The Catholic Encyclopedia."

384Perhaps the most common objection one hears to Luisa's revelations is that they speak of a sanctity– available to everyone—that is greater than spiritual marriage. Conchita's Beatification should, therefore, put a definitive end to this objection.

385Fr. Marie Michel Philipon. Conchita: A Mother's Spiritual Diary.

386Ibid. Page 117.

387 The Splendor of Creation. Ch. 3.5

388https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/es/homilies/1993/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19930320_scoto-belanger.html

389Listen to My Prophets. P. 134

390Blessed Dina Belanger, The Autobiography of Dina Belanger, translated by Mary St. Stephen, R.J.M. (Sillery: Religious of Jesus and Mary, 3rd edition, 1997), P. 219. (February 22, 1925). Cited in New and Divine.

391The Splendor of Creation. Ch. 3

392New and Divine. P. 85-91. Misc. excerpts.

393New and Divine. P. 74-77. Misc. excerpts.

394Saintmaximiliankolbe.com

395Fr. Peter Fehlner. St. Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity–Pneumatologist: His Theology of the Holy Spirit. P. 37-9.

396Ibid. P. 146-8.

397New and Divine, P. 101.

398Fr. Alain Marie Duboin, The Life and Message of Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity, Part 2, Ch 1.

399Ibid.

400Ibid. Part 2, Ch 3.

401Ibid. Part 2, Ch 4.

402Ibid.

403Ibid.

404Fr. Alain Marie Duboin, The Life and Message of Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity, Part 2, Ch 5.

405Ibid. Epilogue.

406The Splendor of Creation.

407 Cf. The Hagiography Circle. Newsaints.faithweb.com.

408http://www.infoans.org/en/sezioni-eventi/item/5274-italy-the-light-of-christ-in-the-heart-of-the-church-the-theology-of-saints

409http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20110319_lethel.html

410The Splendor of Creation. Ch. 2.

411Mother Teresa, In My Own Words. Ch. 3

412Excerpt from "Two Wills – His and Mine" ewtn.com/library/mother/ma28e.htm

413From his diary. February 5th, and 19th 1976.

414 The Splendor of Creation

415https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1601

416 Peter Kreeft. Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas. P. 194

417 Deus Caritas Est 17

418 General Audience. February 1, 2012

419 Fr. William O'Keefe

420 Fr. John McMahon

421Fr. George Kosicki. C.S.B. Be Holy! The Legacy of John Paul the Great. pages 147-148.

422Fr. George Kosicki. C.S.B. Be Holy! The Legacy of John Paul the Great. P. 161.

423Ibid, P. 175-176.

424http://www.ciszek.org/Freedom_And_Gods_Will_For_You.pdf

425Fr. Walter Ciszek, He Leadeth Me. Page 139.

426The Splendor of Creation. Chapter 1.

427Nota Bene: A certain "publishing company" devoted to attacking "false apparitions" (among which it counts Fr. Gobbi's, Garabandal, Medjugorje, Matthew Kelley's, Our Lady of All Nations, Servant of God Maria Esperanza's, and many others) claims, without any evidence or citations, that Mr. Haffert "repented" of supporting some unnamed "false apparitions" before his death. Whatever this allegedly refers to, it should certainly be dismissed given the untrustworthiness of the source and the lack of any supporting evidence.

428August 22, 1931.

429November 20, 1929.

430January 9, 1920.

431July 29, 1926.

432CCC 376.

433October 2, 1927.

434July 7, 1928.

435December 10, 1933.

436Fr. Iannuzzi Doctoral Dissertation. 2.1.2.7 (quoting Luisa's diary).

437November 12, 1925.

438October 11, 1924.

439March 3, 1927.

440April 1, 1928.

441March 31, 1929.

442September 6, 1923.

443October 7, 1929.

444October 2, 1927.

445May 19, 1931.

446September 17, 1926.

447March 12, 1930.

448May 30, 1932.

449June 16, 1928.

450We should here note that, contrary to the exaggerations of Kierkegaard (who, though insightful, also has dangers in his messages), the test of Abraham should not be seen as an example of the need to reduce the absolute nature of the moral norms. Jesus tells Luisa that what He asked of Abraham was "unique in the history of the world" which clearly tells us that God never had before, never has since, and never again will command someone to kill his own child.

451S. Ákerman (auth.), John Christian Laursen, Richard H. Popkin (eds.)-Millenarianism and Messianism.

452December 8, 1936.

453September 28, 1935.

454July 7, 1928.

455October 6, 1927.

456September 8, 1927.

457November 20, 1029.

458February 24, 1933.

459February 22, 1929.

460Divine Mercy in My Soul. 84.

461October 27, 1929.

462May 26, 1928.

463October 3, 1928.

464Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Dissertation, 4.1.1

465December 25, 1927.

466January 18, 1928.

467January 30, 1930.

468May 30, 1932.

469Listen to my Prophets. Fr. Edward O'Connor. 2011. Introduction ix.

470Listen to My Prophets, P. 189-190

471Obviously, Bishop Kim is not using "private revelation" in the strictest sense of the term here (i.e. formal apparitions with messages for the world), but in the more general use of an openness to the voice of God speaking to the soul above and beyond merely the Deposit of Faith.

472Pastoral Letter by His Excellency Paul Tchang-Ryeol Kim, Bishop of the Cheju Diocese, Korea. Easter Sunday, 1999. (Marys-touch.com)

473www.MarkMallett.com/blog

474December 18, 1927.

475Revelation 12:15

476 John 8:44

477To Luisa it is revealed that abortion is the sin that cries out most to God. It was in the 1920s that abortion really started entering into the mainstream of the world stage.

478Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power, final paragraph.

479 NEW AGE MOVEMENT. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Page 273.

480Section 4

481I understand that Fr. Euteneuer had a fall from grace. He repented and has since resigned from all his positions and has remained in silence and obscurity. I see no reason why this fall should preclude us benefitting from his teachings. It is unsurprising that a priest like him would be the object of many attacks of Satan, and I for one will not let Satan win in his attempts to silence the good things Fr. Euteneuer said.

482 Demonic Abortion. Pages 20-22

483November 16, 1926.

484June 18, 1926.

485January 29, 1919.

486January 3, 1932.

487June 18, 1925.

488April 15, 1919.

489Matthew 3:2

490Gaudete et Exsultate. Paragraph 169.

491February 9, 1922.

492These are taken from Section Two of the Compendium, not the Appendix

493CCC2354: "Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties." As we can see from this Magisterial definition, any sex scene whatsoever is automatically the intrinsic grave evil of pornography—completely irrespective of whether or not it is graphic, intended to inspire lust, or intended to glorify evil.

494 CCC 2458

495The Magisterium has repeatedly made clear that NFP, while good and moral in itself, requires that spouses have a serious reason for it to be licitly used to avoid conception. While the details necessitate sincere discernment, the abuses are clear: suffice it to say that ensuring one can continue to afford Disney World vacations and a separate bedroom for each child does not constitute a serious reason to use NFP to avoid conception. More on this point can be found in the "Virtues" section of this book.

496 Matthew 10:37

497Or whatever age is decided upon for adulthood to have begun within one's own culture.

498CCC 2217.

499Paragraph 11.

500Matthew 5:48

501Cf. Decree of the Holy Office under Pope Pius XII, April 1, 1944.

502Philippians 3:8

503Matthew 13:45-6

504C.S. Lewis, the Weight of Glory.

505St. John of the Cross, Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1022.

506 Not physical by quantitative extension in space, but inasmuch as physicality involves the substance of the thing in question (and, indeed, it does), then yes: The Blessed Sacrament is, physically, Jesus Christ Himself.

507 January 22, 1933.

508 July 19, 1928.

509 March 19,1935.

510 Gnosticism essentially is the heresy of the "doctrine of salvation by knowledge," whereby those who are privileged enough to have these certain bits of knowledge are superior, and the only elect.

511 Then why am I writing this book? Because specific knowledge of what is desired is a great benefit. This is why missionaries preach Christ; not because it is objectively impossible to be saved without explicit Faith in Him while on earth (for more on this, see Lumen Gentium, Paragraph 16), but because that clear, explicit Faith is an enormous benefit to salvation.

512St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 46.

513 September 16, 1899.

514 Philippians 2:7

515 New Catholic Encyclopedia, "Spirituality, French School of." Page 450.

516 The First Paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

517 In another sense of the word, "Abandonment" can also refer to the feeling that one is forsaken by God, as in the Dark Night of the Soul. Additionally, beware of false notions of abandonment that entail an act of surrender to things which are intrinsically contrary to His Will; e.g. sacrificing your very salvation for the sake of abandonment. That is a contradiction, the very opposite of true renunciation of the self-will, and is a form of Quietism.

518 Cf. New Catholic Encyclopedia, Self-abandonment, Spiritual Page 884.

519 Particularly noteworthy among his works are: Introduction to the Devout Life and Finding God's Will for You.

520 Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage. 14

521 This same exercise is efficacious in front of a Divine Mercy image, a crucifix, or a statue or image of Our Lady.

522 Job 1:21

523 Whatever teachings are contained in Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations, Council Documents, etc. are necessarily Magisterial; even if not every statement in them qualifies as an infallible proclamation on Faith or Morals.

524 Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven

525Just do not let this become an insistence on always enjoying yourself with prayer. We must remain faithful to our prayer and other spiritual commitments and regimens whether or not we're in the mood on any given day. We should also do works of mercy that are in no way enjoyable in and of themselves; for example, praying outside a Planned Parenthood despite being heckled for it, or visiting those in nursing homes despite overwhelmingly bad odors. It is right and just to enjoy that which is objectively good; the danger only lies in being attached to the sensation of enjoyment, and doing things only because they feel good at the moment.

526 The human will is not an evil; rather, only the "self-will," meaning the movement of the human will that resists or opposes the Divine Will, is evil.

527October 27, 1935.

528 April 28, 1934

529May 6, 1938.

530Cf. Nicomachean Ethics Book I.

531May 7, 1933.

532September 21, 1931.

533October 19, 1926.

534January 30, 1927.

535June 29, 1932.

536July 30, 1929.

537 June 8, 1931.

538 January 22, 1909.

539 September 11, 1924.

540 March 19, 1933.

541 June 8, 1931.

542 October 12, 1931.

543March 28, 1917.

544October 2, 1927.

545April 16, 1931.

546November 28, 1899.

547October 27, 1935.

548November 3, 1936.

549 Matthew 6:33

550January 8, 1909.

551St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1826.

552Ibid., 1289.

553Confusions regarding comparisons between the Eucharist and the Gift of Living in the Divine Will are discussed in the "Answers to Objections" chapter.

554Address of John Paul II to the youth of Rome preparing for World Youth Day. March 21st, 2002. Paragraph 5. vatican.va

555January 18, 1933.

556 March 20, 1932.

557 "Prevenient" simply means "coming before."

558 Proverbs 24:16

559 Bear in mind that nothing in these revelations dispense a soul from the ordinary means of grace for Catholics. Serious sin must always be confessed to a priest, and indeed regular confession is an invaluable means for receiving and growing in the Gift.

560Prayer (theology of). New Catholic Encyclopedia p. 600.

561St. Louis de Montfort. True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Paragraph 206.

562 Cf. Matthew 8:15

563 Matthew 10:1

564 John 20:22

565 www.DWMoM.org

566September 6, 1937.

567September 5, 1938.

568 Romans 13:14

569 Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Dissertation 4.1.10

570 1 Thessalonians 5:18

571Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Dissertation 3.1, 3.1.1.1

572 And hopefully this will serve as a beginning to doing each one of your acts in the Divine Will, so that all you do, even unconsciously, might give God infinite glory. "O Most Holy Trinity! As many times as I breathe, as many times as my heart beats, as many times as my blood pulsates through my body, so many thousand times do I want to glorify Your mercy." – St. Faustina's Diary, paragraph 163.

573 August 14, 1912

574 April 16, 1933.

575 January 4, 1925.

576 For example, we should not clutter up our walls with pointless images (and numerous family portraits can make a house appear as a shrine to one's own family), our counters and desktops with needless trinkets, and above all we should not pollute the air with vain sounds from radio, television, etc. If we haven't used something in a year, it should probably go in a box of items that we will be donating to a local thrift store.

577October 3, 1937.

578September 16, 1931.

579Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum 17.

580 Divine Mercy in My Soul. 210

581 Romans 7:24

582 December 14, 1927.

583 February 28, 1928.

584 August 2, 1930.

585 January 25, 1922.

586 December 8, 1926.

587 November 7, 1937.

588 August 25, 1921.

589 October 30, 1927.

590 January 25, 1922.

591 May 15, 1905.

592 October 20, 1935.

593 May 20, 1909.

594 October 29, 1900.

595 May 21, 1929.

596 1 John 4:8

597 Cf. Matthew 22:37-40

598 July 22, 1905.

599 September 8, 1905.

600 May 15, 1938.

601 CCC 1768.

602 May 7, 1899.

603 January 12, 1932.

604 November 15, 1916.

605 August 28, 1912.

606 October 16, 1906.

607 September 6, 1923.

608 That is, before the Second Vatican Council

609 March 30, 1931.

610 Divine Mercy in My Soul. 1502

611 September 16, 1931.

612 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, 1436.

613 New Catholic Encyclopedia on "John of St. Samson."

614 Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. "Loving our nothingness." lead editorial from Magnificat (February, 2018).

615 Story of a Soul. Chapter 9.

616 Letter II to her cousin Marie

617 Letter VI

618 Letter VII

619 May 16, 1909.

620 August 23, 1905.

621 Luke 16:8

622 November 1, 1912.

623 November 13, 1938.

624 July 1, 1907.

625 March 6, 1938.

626 Letter #13 to Fr Bernardo of the Most Holy Hearts from Assisi.

627 Letter #17 to an unnamed recipient.

628 Letter #60 to an unnamed religious.

629 January 1, 1900.

630 December 25, 1937.

631 November 15, 1918.

632 The Magnificat; Cf. Luke 1:51

633 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1415.

634 Although it is considered to be annexed to the moral virtue of temperance.

635 August 15, 1927.

636 June 1, 1924.

637 December 29, 1904.

638 September 6, 1905.

639 April 8, 1927.

640April 8, 1927

641 July 28, 1902.

642 May 8, 1909.

643 Divine Mercy in My Soul. 477

644Nicomachean Ethics Book IX. Section 4.

645 November 2, 1909.

646 April 1, 1916.

647 December 6, 1904.

648 August 23, 1928.

649 Luke 12:20

650 Louis-Chalres Fougeret de Monbron

651 1 Peter 3:3

652 Romans 13:14

653 Cf. The First Commandment: Thou Shalt Have No Gods Before Me

654 November 5, 1923.

655 Letter #99 to Sister Remigia

656 Luke 5:31
657 Cf. Genesis 25:33

658 John 20:17

659 December 3, 1926.

660 Matthew 10:37-39.

661 April 23, 1933.

662 September 22, 1924.

663 Luke 22:42

664 Cf. Matthew 10:16

665 Cf. Luke 16:8

666 July 31, 1902.

667 June 12, 1913.

668 February 16, 1932.

669 June 18, 1925.

670 October 4, 1935.

671 September 9, 1923.

672 Matthew 6:7

673 September 25, 1913.

674 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1488.

675Benedict XVI. Homily at World Youth Day. August 20, 2011.

676 Matthew 6:25,30

677 September 2, 1924.

678 April 10, 1912.

679 May 26, 1935.

680 December 9, 1916.

681 June 4, 1919.

682 Which does not necessarily mean effusive gentleness or loquaciousness—often times graceful conduct with a tantruming child will mean firmness in correction and punishment as a consequence; but done completely under the direction of reason and never emotion

683 If, on the other hand, by "use NFP" one simply means "use charting, etc., so that fertile times can be better known in order to aid in conception," then obviously the admonishment here presented is irrelevant.

684 January 21, 1905.

685 August 25, 1905.

686 August 9, 1904.

687 March 26, 1927

688 May 13, 1926.

689 CCC 2217.

690 Pope Francis does not teach, in Laudato Si, that man-made "global warming" definitely is happening, nor does he even talk much about it, despite mainstream media conveniently labeling Laudato Si, according to their own narrative, to be "the global warming encyclical." He merely points out that there is a consensus among scientists that it is happening; but everybody already knew that. And scientific consensuses are often wrong. As for me: I do not know if there is in fact man-made global warming.

691 February 12, 1908.

692 October 20, 1916.

693 May 15, 1938.

694 September 8, 1904.

695 August 20, 1912.

696 April 29, 1933.

697 Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 17.

698 October 29, 1907.

699 October 12, 1930.

700 July 29, 1924.

701 December 25, 1927.

702 July 28, 1922.

703 January 4, 1924.

704 November 19, 1926.

705 1 Timothy 2:4

706 1 Peter 5:8

707 March 25, 1908.

708 March 22, 1938.

709 June 23, 1905.

710 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1485.

711 May 23, 1926.

712 Cf. Romans 8:28

713 Cf. Sister M. De L.C., "An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory" (e.g. "God never allows a soul that has been devoted to Him during life to perish at the last moment.")

714 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 741.

715 Ibid., Paragraph 486.

716 Matthew 22:14

717 St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1465.

718 Ibid., Paragraph 1488.

719 July 11, 1926.

720 August 22, 1926.

721 January 30, 1927.

722 May 25, 1933.

723 May 10, 1928.

724 June 6, 1935.

725 Annales de Sainte Therese, Lisieux. Nr. 610, February, 1982. (Citation from Father Hubert van Dijk, ORC. Translated from German.)

726 One plenary indulgence may be received for one's self (or offered for a soul in Purgatory) for each Communion received within 8-20 days of Confession, along with detachment from all sin and, of course, the indulgenced act: such as Stations of the Cross, a Rosary prayed in Church or as a family, 30 minutes of adoration, or 30 minutes of Scripture reading.

727 October 27, 1935

728 Cf. 1 John 4:18

729 June 9, 1922.

730 March 6, 1932.

731 May 1, 1900.

732 April 2, 1931.

733 Cf. Fr. Iannuzzi. Splendor of Creation. Page 113

734 Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity, excerpted from They Bore the Wounds of the Christ: The Mystery of the Sacred Stigmata, by Michael Freze. Pages 66-67.

735 July 22, 1905.

736 July 27, 1906.

737 January 30, 1909.

738 Ibid.

739 1 Corinthians 1:23

740 Matthew 26:41

741 It is not without reason that the Church, in her wisdom, only requires Mass attendance of children once they turn seven! Of course, younger children should be brought to Mass also; but individual Catholics mustn't pretend a strict obligation exists to bring toddlers and babies to Mass, when the Church specifically teaches that no such obligation exists..

742 If these are undertaken with love and willingness, then they can be very spiritually powerful; not so, however, if they are undertaken with a sense of external imposition, since the truth is that these strictures no longer carry the power of external imposition.

743 February 24, 1912.

744 Devout Life, part I. ch. 24.

745 December 3, 1906.

746 Cf. Matthew 5:11

747 October 10, 1905.

748 Cf. Galatians 5:22-23

749 Cf. CCC 1832

750 August 15, 1904.

751 February 5, 1924.

752 January 28, 1927.

753 2 Corinthians 9:7

754 September 16, 1925.

755 John 13:35

756 October 23, 1906.

757 Summa Theologica. II-II. Question 138. Article 1.

758 August 1, 1899.

759 I also recommend researching the movement in support of "Mary-like" dress, which has specific modesty standards pertaining to it and is very much in need of a comeback today.

760https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ANF-Articles/private-revelations.html

761 One of the most obscene movies (which I sadly had the misfortune to watch) made within the past 5 years, was publicly recommended by an Archbishop who is known for his orthodoxy.

762 June 6, 1923.

763 February 2, 1922.

764 September 17, 1905.

765 March 4, 1918.

766 August 25, 1905.

767 May 25, 1916.

768 September 16, 1925.

769 April 11, 1905.

770Cf. Sister M. De L.C., "An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory" "...love is a true martyrdom. The soul that really tries to love Jesus finds that notwithstanding all its efforts it does not love Him as much as it wants to, and that is for that soul a perpetual martyrdom..." (Undergoing this type of martyrdom on Earth can itself dispose one to forego Purgatory entirely.)

771July 22, 1905.

772 March 17, 1900.

773 November 19, 1926.

774This is not to say that priests shouldn't have days off – they certainly should. But these days off should not have to always be precisely the same days off that the world takes. Are not priests called out of the world? Did they not sacrifice the very right to have a family of their own so they wouldn't be constrained by the same limits as the laity? Why then, after such great sacrifice – which could be so powerful before God – do they so readily accept the very restraints and obligations that this sacrifice was supposed to free them from? Police officers and emergency room nurses also need days off – but, unlike many priests (whose job is even more important), they realize the importance of their jobs and therefore do not arbitrarily decide they all need the same days off, which would throw society into peril.

775 Gaudete et Exsultate. paragraphs 164-165.

776 October 21, 1921.

777 September 16, 1906.

778Cf. The 2011 update to the USCCB's 2003 Guidelines on GIRM 160

779Pope Francis calls the many reasons parishes give for locking their doors "excuses," and insists that the doors should be open - literally. (See also Evangelii Gaudium, paragraph 47.)

780 January 15, 1911.

781 January 8, 1910.

782 June 31, 1908.

783 September 25, 1913.

784 Jesus complains of this to St. Faustina, Cf. Divine Mercy in My Soul, paragraph 447, 1385.

785 May 16, 1911.

786 November 5th, 1925

787 November 2, 1926.

788 September 12, 1931.

789 Letter #14 to Mrs. Constanza Benedetta Pettinelli from Siena.

790 January 13, 1929.

791 October 2, 1929.

792 January 18, 1928.

793 January 16, 1930.

794 February 28, 1928.

795 June 1, 1927.

796 Mary 15, 1932.

797 January 24, 1932

798 Most alerts you receive will be auto-generated spam postings that merely re-post random material on random web pages; but some of the alerts will be of genuine postings.

799 2 Corinthians 9:7

800 October 2, 1929.

801 January 30, 1927.

802 Cf. August 4, 1926.

803 August 23, 1928.

804 May 20, 1936.

805 August 2, 1928.

806 My inspiration for this point is Peter Kreeft's excellent talk—"the Culture War."

807 Matthew 6:31-33 (only several verses after Jesus gave the Our Father prayer)

808 Luke 9:60

809 Matthew 26:39

810 April 16, 1933

811 October 1914 (no day given)

812 December 18, 1929

813Jesus repeatedly tells Luisa that He never forces anyone, and that our wills always remain free – this is clearly not a reference, therefore, to literal "forcing," but rather to Jesus doing everything He possibly can to beg and implore us to accept His loving mercy, such that for one who does not choose to be insane and perverted, it will "force" Him to acquiesce to this Divine Love.

814 May 1, 1925.

815 May 19, 1931.

816 July 11, 1926.

817 August 22, 1926.

818 October 22, 1926.

819 May 28, 1937.

820 May 28, 1937.

821 October 7, 1930.

822 May 20, 1936.

823 January 18, 1928.

824Collect for the Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Third English Edition of the Roman Missal.

825Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Divine Life of the Most Holy Virgin. From the Mystical City of God. Pages 40-41.

826 January 6, 1927.

827 January 10, 1937.

828 The Splendor of Creation. Ch. 4.

829 November 30, 1930.

830 December 8, 1926.

831 February 13, 1931.

832 Romans 8:21

833 Daniel 3. Excerpts.

834Pope Francis. Laudato Si'. May 24th, 2015. Excerpts from Paragraphs 233-238.

835Pope Francis. Laudato Si'. May 24th, 2015. Paragraph 246.

836St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraph 1749.

837 Ibid. Paragraph 1750.

838Anthony Lilles. Hiden Mountain, Secret Garden. Ch 4. "The Beauty of Creation"

839Epistola CVI, sect. 2

840 July 6, 1931.

841 June 18, 1930.

842 February 26, 1927.

843 February 26, 1927.

844 March 13, 1927.

845 July 20, 1921.

846 April 9, 192.

847 May 10, 1926.

848 April 29, 1928.

849 Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Dissertation, 4.1.13.1

850 Please note that St. Francis de Sales wrote these words about the culturally prevailing dance of the 1500s and 1600s. Considering how extremely hesitant he is about even these, I think it is more than safe to say he would condemn the forms of dancing that became popular beginning in the 1920s.

851 Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation I

852 Revelation 21:2

853 February 24, 1933.

854 The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Page 173.

855 Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Dissertation, 4.1.1

856 July 14, 1923.

857 June 16, 1928.

858 Mark Mallett. "Vindication and Glory." December 14, 2016.https://www.markmallett.com/blog/2016/12/14/vindication-and-glory/

859 June 18, 1925.

860Cf. Don Quixote; imagined, but non-existent, threats.

861 Nota Bene: I suppose I can think of one such writer, at least, who could be considered a theologian (due to being a Jesuit priest—all of whom are at least somewhat highly trained in theology): Fr. Antonio Spadaro. Most famous for his teaching that, in theology, "2+2 can make 5," he more recently (August 31, 2018) wrote: "No, we don't need to think about a general purification of the cliques of shady powers (God promised that there would not be another universal flood after the first one ... ). It's not possible to eradicate the evil of the divisions of the Church, moreover, as long as it remains human. A pure and sinless Church would be an unreal abstraction. Where there is man or woman there is always a shadow." Here and elsewhere, Fr. Spadaro discounts the very possibility of a glorious Era of the Church. He has even incorporated his views on Millenarianism as an essential component of his infamous condemnation of Catholic-Protestant cooperation in America on the pro-life cause as an "ecumenism of hate." (La Civilta Cattolica . July 13, 2017.)

862 More than one of them prefer personal attacks, slander, or petty attempts to silence their opponents through manipulative complaints to superiors instead of any serious attempt at theological engagement – one can only guess at what stunts they will pull to try and force this book which you are now reading to be pulled off the shelves.

863 One of them has openly admitted to me that this is precisely his goal.

864 Being oblivious as to how the development of doctrine works within the history of the Church, they suppose that an opinion being common or prevailing among theologians in the Church for a certain amount of time automatically elevates it to the level of infallible Magisterium – even though they cannot find a single Magisterial text that have wrought such an elevation.

865 They ignore the fact that no Marian apparitions say there will not be a Glorious Reign of Peace, while many trustworthy apparitions insist there will be; some of which are already approved and others doubtless will be soon (the inquisitors love to pretend that all private revelations that prophecy the Era are entirely unapproved; which is nothing short of slander, as you will see in a following section . Indeed, striving to interpret a silence one way or another is always doomed to failure – reminiscent of those who, after seeing that Vatican II did not explicitly condemn artificial contraception and thus assuming it was thereby rendered legitimate due to the "spirit of the Council" – were sorely disappointed upon the promulgation of Pope St. Paul VI's Humanae Vitae.

866 1 John 4:20

867This is a foreshadowing of how this unnamed author, years later, would in fact levy the accusation of "unrealistic" at this same Pope's Magisterial teaching (in Familiaris Consortio) that unrepentant adulterers cannot receive Communion.

868 St. Hannibal's preface to the Hours of the Passion.

869 I do not know the original source of this quote; I recall it from memory as taught in my graduate school theology lectures given by the Dominican theologian Fr. Brian Mullady.

870 In the same work of Grisez here cited, he implies that we may be in the very beginning of Church History, which may continue for "millions" more years. This may explain his willingness to play fast and loose with Tradition, for in such a scenario he might see himself as a potential Father of the Church. But even granting this as a possibility is harmful and contrary to the Prophetic Consensus. I treated this matter in the "On Private Revelation in General" Chapter of this book.

871 Matthew 28:20

872Etymologically, "fomes" refers to tinder wood; something which could take flame from a spark. In other words, the "fomes of sin" are the potency of sin– sin that lies dormant in the soul even though it's not acted upon.

873 August 22, 1926.

874The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty. Volume 1 p. 86.

875LACUNZA Y DÍAZ, MANUEL DE. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Page 274.

876Pope Benedict XVI. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. Foreword.

877 Peter Seewald and Pope Benedict XVI. Light of the World. Section 16.

878 In none of the dozens of prophecies that speak of it – nor, indeed, in Luisa's – do we see the Era referred to as the result of a "huge turnaround" of events that changes the course of history. We see, rather, that the unanimous consensus of trustworthy private revelation indicates that the Era will come as a gift from God after the global Chastisements essentially demolish the entire world order as it now stands. This is not, by any stretch, a "turnaround," which implies a primarily human effort.

879 I would not count this author – at least, not in accordance with anything I know thus far about his antics – among those I have referred to as "inquisitors," as he seems to be a more serious and respectable individual than they, but it is nevertheless fitting to address his argument at this point.

880 This commentary, in turn—in addition to in no way serving by itself as a definitive or Magisterial conveyance of Sacred Tradition, as it consists in the personal opinions of pre-Papacy Ratzinger, which Benedict himself has said we are free to contradict—only has any merit relative to his thesis if one already presupposes his thesis. In other words, we again see the logical fallacy of begging the question, or circular reasoning.

881Page 488.

882 Earlier in the same work, he implies that the only approved private revelation which speaks of the End Times are those of St. Hildegard. He proceeds to quote a couple small snippets (which actually in no way support his own erroneous Era-free eschatology) of her prophecies and pretends he has thus succeeded in dismissing an entire body of dozens of trustworthy private revelations – many of which are approved – that speak in absolutely clear terms about the Era of Peace.

883 While it may seem strange for me to call this "slander," since it is no sin to be "unapproved," I nevertheless maintain that this is what's being done, since so many of these revelations are approved, and it is essentially slanderous to accuse those who promote them of basing their expectations only on that which is unapproved.

884 Thus achieving the very height of irony since he himself has zero qualifications in anything remotely related to theology in general (much less eschatology in particular).

885 Which is particularly ironic, as Fr. Iannuzzi actually is an authority on these matters – being a Vatican educated Doctor of Sacred Theology whose professional focus is precisely these matters.

886 April 6, 1922.

887 for I am certainly not denying that Ratzinger's concerns in this realm are not limited to merely their implications for Liberation Theology

888 Joseph Ratzinger. Eschatology. Ch. VI. Section2. b.

889 Cf. CCC 675.

890 Philippians 2:12

891 In fact, the critics' zealous promotion of a procedural notification as one of their supposed strongest arguments to support what they say is venerable Catholic Tradition only demonstrates the weakness of their overall case and the lack of any demonstration that Tradition holds what they claim it holds.

892 Of course, it is also possible that the author of this sentence does intend to imply that what follows the clause "in millenarian style" is in itself millenarian. But the wording of the notification itself does not indicate that this interpretation is the correct one and does not at all preclude the interpretation I have given above, therefore it cannot be simply assumed to be the correct meaning. But even if it were the correct meaning, and even if it did refer to any "final, glorious intervention" as Millenarianism, this still would not suffice in achieving what the inquisitors wish to achieve through it, as the following paragraphs demonstrate.

893 Recall that the majority of Luisa's writings have already received official Church approval via multiple Imprimaturs, and that all of Luisa's writings have been declared free of doctrinal error by multiple Vatican-appointed theologians. Remember, also, that for several years, her cause of Beatification has been proceeding smoothly.

894 Interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger by Niels Christian Hvidt. 1999. "The Problem of Christian Prophecy."https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6439

895 Inasmuch as private revelation does not bind as a matter of supernatural Catholic Faith, and dogma always does.

896 2 Peter 3:10

897 Note that the inquisitor emphasized the word "final" in his own quote to draw the reader's attention away from the fact that the Catechism was careful to use the indefinite article, not the definite article (that is, "a" instead of "the")

898 " ... the devil ... was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." - John 8:44

899 September 29, 1931.

900 Heaven's confirmation in grace does not consist in the abrogation of free will, but in the glory of the Beatific Vision giving only one ontological possibility to its operation.

901 Additionally, this passage itself, although cited by the inquisitor in opposition to the Era, actually refutes his own eschatological predictions. For the passage clearly implies that "all Israel" will, in fact, one day recognize Jesus, whereas the Eschatology of Despair, which the inquisitors promote, leaves no room for such a recognition. There is no use arguing that this recognition of Jesus by "all Israel" refers only to Heaven or the last Judgment; much of Israel will continue to reject Him until their dying breaths and, tragically, choose hell. "All Israel," therefore, can only be licitly understood as the time on earth wherein all living Israelites confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. For it is already true—and always has been—that "all Israel" in Heaven recognizes Him as Lord, therefore eternity cannot be that to which the Catechism refers in this teaching.

902http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html

903 St. Teresa of Calcutta. National Prayer Breakfast. Washington, D.C. 1994. https://www.ewtn.com/library/issues/prbkmter.txt

904 http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/how-to-win.htm

905https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope-francis/mass-casa-santa-marta.html

906Celebration presided over by Pope Francis at the Military Memorial in Redipuglia on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Outbreak of First World War. Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis. 13 Sept. 2014.

907 February 24, 1933.

908 Quite the contrary, she insisted that her works be utterly dismissed if anything be found in them opposed to Catholic teaching.

909 CCC, 676-677.

910 1 Timothy 2:4

911Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 14.

912Cardinal Muller's Manifesto of Faith. Paragraph 5: Eternal Life.http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-mueller-issues-manifesto-of-faith

913 Matthew 6:10

914 John 10:16

915 John 12:32

916 U.S. Catholic interview, "Do you hear the cry of the poor? Liberation theology today," at U.S Catholic (March 2010) Vol. 75, No. 3, pages 18-21. www.uscatholic.org.

917 Edward A. Lynch, "The Retreat of Liberation Theology" Homiletic & Pastoral Review (February 1994).

918 "Universalists," in New Catholic Encyclopedia, 322.

919 Cf. onepetervie.com/teilhard-chardin-vii-architect. It must also be noted, however, that Fr. Chardin's teachings are not entirely without wisdom. Cardinal Ratzinger, for example, praised some of Chardin's writings, describing positively his views with the words: "Teilhard went on to give new meaning to Christian worship: the transubstantiated Host is the anticipation of the transformation and divinization of matter in the Christological "fullness." In his view, the Eucharist provided the movement of the cosmos with its direction; it anticipates its goal and at the same time urges it on". This, indeed, is a noble vision and I firmly believe that if only Fr. Chardin was exposed to Luisa's writings, they could have directed what was good in his insights in an orthodox direction. Unfortunately, Fr. Chardin was, instead, won over by the Darwinists.

920 Henry Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, A Translation of the Enchiridion Symbolorum (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1957), "Millenarianism (Chiliasm) by the Decree of the Holy Office, July 21, 1944. Page 625.

921 Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. "Some Current Questions in Eschatology." 1992. Paragraph 2.

922 CCC 773.

923 Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum (18 November 1965), 11.

924 Dei Verbum, 12.

925 JUDGMENT, DIVINE (IN THEOLOGY). New Catholic Encyclopedia. P. 35.

926 This is not a subtle re-wording of the Protestant "Sola Scriptura" heresy, which states that Scripture alone suffices. Scripture alone certainly does not suffice! But it does indeed have an exegetical approach that is reserved to it alone. Catholic Dogma makes clear this sovereign and exclusive dignity enjoyed by the Holy Bible.

927 And the irony will be lost on no one, since the most famous of the critics of the Era, who misses no opportunity to castigate believers in it as heretics, has recently become more famous for openly admitting to his own contradiction of and disagreement with a clear teaching contained in an Apostolic Exhortation written by Pope St. John Paul II: a document of even higher authority than the Catechism.

928(The decree can be found on the Vatican's amazing online resource, Biblia Clerus: http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/dx0.htm#dj5). Due to the immense importance of precision in wording here, I have also double checked this Denzinger entry in the most up-to-date version; the 43rd edition published in 2012, which I have on my desk. Indeed, the same thing is contained within it. Finally, the original Latin can be verified directly on page 212 of the 1944 Acta Apostolica Sedis, posted on the Vatican's website here: http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-36-1944-ocr.pdf).

929St. Augustine, City of God, Book 20, Ch. 7. (Nota Bene: One critic of the Era has claimed that even this teaching of Augustine is nothing but blatantly heretical Millenarianism because, he implies, the "presence of God" on Earth cannot be anything but that heresy. Here this critic only again demonstrates how spiritually (and theologically) bankrupt his arguments are in presupposing that the "presence of God" can only refer to the Millenarianist heresy. One wonders what he thinks of the Eucharist, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the soul, all the Sacraments, the charisms, etc., which we enjoy now. Are they all mere symbols to him, devoid of any presence of God?

930St. Augustine, City of God, Book 20, Chapter 30.

931Cf. St. Augustine. On the catechizing of the uninstructed. Chapter 22.

932By "Church" I do not mean the Magisterium and the Sacraments – those are protected by Christ. I mean the majority of those who call themselves Catholics being mired in objective, grave contraventions of the natural moral law.

933 Cf. Romans 5:20

934 Cf. Genesis 4:10

935This makes no attempt to ascertain culpability, which God alone knows. Nevertheless, the sins themselves are objectively evil, and are committed by the vast majority of people. This is furthermore not to assert that the "vast, vast majority" of people today will wind up in hell – it is simply an honest assessment of their current state.

936 Cf. James 2:10

937 E Supremi October 4th, 1903. Paragraph 3.

938 October 27, 1929.

939 May 19, 1931.

940 Pope Francis. Morning Meditation. (13 October 2014).

941 Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Promoting Biblical Studies Divino Afflante Spiritu (30 September, 1943), 47.

942 John 15:5

943https://www.ewtn.com/library/theology/augustin.htm

944 1 Timothy 2:4

945https://www.ewtn.com/library/theology/augustin.htm

946 2 Corinthians 3:6

947 He thought this would commence in 1260, which he knew would be long after his death, as he was born in 1135.

948 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY. New Catholic Encyclopedia. P. 874.

949http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_1990_problemi-attuali-escatologia_en.html

950 B. McGinn , Karl A. Kottman. Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Volume II. Ch. 1, Page 5.

951 JOACHIM OF FIORE. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Page 876.

952 In this, "last" refers to the Sabbath of the Old Testament: Saturday. Hence Sunday, "the Eighth Day," is allegorical for the eternal new first day – heaven.

953 Benedict XVI. General Audience. March 10, 2010.

954 Not a literal reference to the actual Eternal Resurrection (considering the indefinite article that precedes it) that Justin refers to in the following chapter

955 Justin understands this to be symbolic

956 Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho. Chapter 80.

957 Tertullian. Against Marcion, Book 3. Chapter 25.

958 His work quoted here, Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses), or "On the Detection and Overthrow of So-Called Gnosis," is a large, five volume work written in the 2nd century and contains his rebuttal of Gnosticism. Irenaeus wisely saw that Gnosticism was a grave threat to the integrity of the Faith, as its proponents claimed that they had access to secretive knowledge from Jesus Himself, outside of the Public and Canonical Revelation overseen by the Bishops of the Church. Irenaeus' zeal in opposing Gnosticism helps us understand that his own views on eschatology certainly were not derived from the same fundamental error; namely, that of surreptitiously seeking secretive "knowledge" from Jesus outside the ordinary and correct means of knowing it. We can rest assured that his belief in a coming Era of Peace truly was from the Apostle John; for it is untenable that a saint and Father of the Church would have succumbed to the very same Gnostic errors he is so famous for fighting against. Even though this is only one piece of evidence among thousands demonstrating the validity of the Era, it alone is practically sufficient to render the Era a near certainty.

959 Irenaeus. Against Heresies, Book V. Chapter 33, Paragraph 3.

960 Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Translated by William Fletcher. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Book VII. Chapter 24.

961 Lactantius, Divine Institutes. Book VII. Chapter 25.

962First Vatican Council, Session 3, Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith (24 April 1870), in Decrees of the First Vatican Council, www.papalencyclicals.net, 2.9.

963Council of Trent, Session 4, Decree Concerning the Canonical Scriptures. (8 April 1546), in Decree Concerning the Edition and Use of the Sacred Books, ewtn.com.

964Pope Pius X, On Frequent and Daily Reception of Holy Communion Sacra Tridentina. (20 December 1905) at ewtn.com.

965https://www.markmallett.com/blog/2012/03/02/how-the-era-was-lost/

966 Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical on the Consecrated to the Sacred Heart Annum Sacrum (25 May 1899), 11.

967 Philippians 2:11

968 Pope Pius X E Supremi, 14.

969 Pope Pius XI, Encyclical on the Feast of Christ the King Quas Primas (11 December 1925), 19.

970Pope Pius XII. Le Pelerinage de Lourdes. Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Warning against materialism on the centenary of the apparitions at Lourdes. Paragraph 43-44.

971This letter, in turn, can be found on the 27th Acta Apostolica Sedis, page 7, posted on the Vatican's website here: http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-27-1935-ocr.pdf

972 Address for the Opening of the Second Vatican Council, October 11th, 1962.

973 Urbi et Orbi Message, April 4th, 1971.

974 Fr. C. John McCloskey III, The Final Confrontation. The Catholic Thing. (1 June 2014.)

975 John Paul II. General Audience. January 24, 2001.

976 General Audience of John Paul II. November 6, 2002.

977 More on this point can be found in the "Heresies implicit in accusing the Era..." section in the previous chapter.

978 Address to the Rogationist Fathers. paragraph 6

979Peter Seewald. Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium. Pages 237-8.

980http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1995/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_05101995_address-to-uno.html

981 Message of Pope John Paul II for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace, January 1, 2000.

982 Novo Millennio Inuente, n.9

983 Address to the Guanelli Youth Movement, April 20th, 2002.

984 General Audience, September 10, 2003. Examining the context of this quote, we see that John Paul is referring to the Canticle of Ezekiel. But he makes it equally clear that he is not making a merely historical observation about Ezekiel's own expectation of Redemption. Rather, he changes the terminology, referring to it now as "our" canticle.

985 Pope Francis. Angelus Address. December 1, 2013.

986 Pope Francis. A Document on Human Fraternity. February 4, 2019

987 March 13, 2018

988Pope Francis, Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer. "Thy Kingdom Come."

989MARCION. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Page 142.

990Jim Tetlow. Messages from Heaven. Page 99.

991Ibid. 99-100, 233-234.

992 Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith: The Message of Fatima. (13 May 2000), on www.vatican.va

993http://www.catholicauthors.com/culligan.html

994 Call of the Ages. P. 453-454.

995 The Apostolate for Family Consecration. Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary for Families. Page 192. (The original Italian of the complete homily can be found here: https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/it/homilies/1996/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19960425_esequie-card-ciappi.html )

996http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/5_saturdays_1_salvation/blank.htm

997 The Apostolate for Family Consecration. Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary for Families. Page 194.

998P. 48-49.

999P. 389-390.

1000http://livingfatima.com/the-triumph-of-the-immaculate-heart/

1001https://www.motherofallpeoples.com/blog/the-triumph-of-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary

1002Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul. (Stockbridge, MA: Marian Press, 2005), 1789.

1003 Cf. Ibid.,240.

1004 Cf. Ibid.,1581.

1005Maureen Flynn. Fire from Heaven. Page 208.

1006https://catholicexchange.com/our-lady-of-nations-the-fifth-dogma

1007Fr. Edward O'Connor. Listen to My Prophets. Page 128.

1008Philipon. Diary of a Mother. Page 154.

1009New and Divine, Page 120.

1010Ibid.

1011In March of 2018

1012The website contains little if any original journalism and is in fact more accurately described as a blog-aggregator site than anything else.

1013Mainstream big-business Catholic media organizations very rarely do justice to private revelation until they are certain that doing so is in their best financial interest. No doubt thanks to Mother Angelica's example –and now intercession– EWTN is often an exception to this norm.

1014http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/new-book-sheds-more-light-on-recent-approved-apparitions

1015http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/unapproved_apparitions/itapiranga/

1016 Cf. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/major-apparitions-of-st.-joseph-are-approved

1017https://spiritdaily.org/blog/apparitions/bergamo

1018https://spiritdailyblog.com/apparitions/devotion-to-apparition-approved

1019Page 83.

1020Pages 208-209.

1021Listen to My Prophets. Page 230.

1022http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/statements/ngome_statement3.html

1023http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/messages/ngome_messages.html

1024Ibid.

1025Signs and Wonders Magazine. Spring/Summer 2011. Page 56.

1026http://www.apelosurgentes.com.br/en-us/mensagens/ano/2005/

1027http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2018/03/09/humanae-vitae-under-siege-two-new-assaults-and-a-counterattack/

1028Communication N. 16.604. June 19, 2013. Secretary of State at the Vatican.

1029Kindelmann Diary, October 19th, 1962.

1030 Ibid. November 27th, 1963.

1031 Ibid. November 13-14th, 1964.

1032 Ibid. April 9th, 1966.

1033http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/statements/zaro20140815.html

1034 https://spiritdaily.org/blog/apparitions/a-quake-an-apparition

1035Listen to my Prophets, Page 207.

1036"From Esperanza To St. Bernard, Questions Raised On Christ's 'Intermediate' Coming" Spiritdaily.net. (Google webcache.)

1037 Call of the Ages. Page 469.

1038Ibid. 469-470.

1039Chapter 14.

1040Ottavio Michelini, "Thou Knowest That I Love Thee." Entry from December 9, 1976.

1041 Ibid, December 10, 1976.

1042 Ibid, November 7, 1977.

1043 Ibid.

1044 Ibid June 15, 1978.

1045 Ibid January 2, 1979.

1046 Jesusmariasite.org

1047"Cora Evans: Mystic, wife and mother Monterey diocese backs sainthood cause of woman who proclaimed 'Mystical Humanity of Christ,'" Jim Graves. July 26, 2017.

1048Cora Evans in "Golden Detachment of the Soul."

1049https://spiritdaily.org/blog/apparitions/cora-apparitions

1050http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/burkeolamer.htm

1051http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2016/06/sr-mildred-mary-ephrem-neuzil-and-our.html

1052Ibid.

1053https://aleteia.org/2017/05/31/a-mystic-from-poland-and-her-conversations-with-jesus/

1054www.proroctwo.com.pl

1055https://wobroniewiaryitradycji.wordpress.com.

1056Locution on March 2, 2010.

1057Locution on November 12, 2008.

1058 Thomas Petrisko. Call of the Ages. P. 441

1059https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/mmp.htm

1060 As one is always, unavoidably, implicitly doing by condemning as Millenarianism the anticipation of such a glorious Reign

1061Address by by Fr. Stefano Gobbi. The Triumph, The Second Coming and The Eucharistic Reign. June 24, 1996.

1062 Jkmi.com/jesus-king-of-all-nations

1063 All of these quotes are taken from the website of Dan Lynch, jkmi.com.

1064 For example, here: https://www.motherofallpeoples.com/blog/september-6-2018-message-of-saint-michael-to-janie-garza

1065 Listen to My Prophets. Page 212.

1066 Fire from Heaven. Pages 286-287.

1067 http://www.pdtsigns.com/garzalatest.html

1068Compiled from Call of the Ages, by Dr. Petrisko, and the Marian Messages, by Vince Farrell.

 CCC 92.

 In paragraph 12

1071PROPHECY. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Newadvent.org

1072http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/messages/quito_messages.html

1073New and Divine, Page 57.

1074https://www.ewtn.com/library/CHRIST/PROMISES.TXT

1075Pages 23-24.

1076https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Our-Blessed-Mother/novena-to-our-lady-of-the-miraculous-medal.html

1077William Christian. Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ. Page 352.

1078Call of the Ages, pages 447-451 (misc. excerpts).

1079The Kingdom of Our Father. Pages 61-70. Misc. excerpts.

1080The Three Days of Darkness and Prophecies of Latter Times. Americaneedsfatima.org

1081Ibid.

1082Call of the Ages, Page 479.

1083New and Divine, Page 17.

1084http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/boscodrm.htm

1085Yves Dupont. Catholic Prophecy. Introductory pages.

1086The Christian Trumpet. Page 88.

1087The Christian Trumpet. Page 194.

1088The Christian Trumpet. Pages 196-197.

1089Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1996), 102.

1090Charles Arminjon, The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life (Manchester, N.H: Sophia Institute Press, 2008), 57-58.

1091The Christian Trumpet. Pages 146-148.

1092St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, paragraphs 46-48.

1093Ibid. Paragraphs 54-59. Misc. excerpts.

1094St. Louis de Montfort. "Prayer for Missionaries." Paragraph 5.

1095Hugh Owen. "New and Divine: The Holiness of the Third Christian Millennium." Pages 21- 22

1096Although I admit this proves nothing, as I do not have all of Luisa's revelations memorized!

1097 Pope St. Pius X. E Supremi. Paragraph 5.

1098 Admittedly, Pius wrote this in 1903 – my point in including it is not to argue that such a supposition in his time would have been chronologically accurate. My point is merely that, given this Magisterial admission of the possibility (or, rather, the probability) of the Antichrist being in the world means that it is now impossible for a Catholic to categorically reject the notion that the Antichrist might be imminent.

1099 that is, since 1903

1100 Charles Arminjon, The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life (Manchester, N.H: Sophia Institute Press, 2008), 57-58.

1101https://www.markmallett.com/blog/2007/05/11/eye-of-the-storm/

1102 Cf. CCC 92 and LG 12.

 Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of trustworthy private revelations given by Heaven throughout the history of the Church, including dozens of approved apparitions —although there are a number that do not specifically speak, explicitly, about the Era —there is not a single one which tells us that, after the long-prophesied Chastisements occur, the end of the world will follow immediately with no intervening Glorious Era of Peace in the world. Many, however (see the previous section for some of them), indicate that there certainly will be such an Era.

1104Cf. John 5:28-29

1105Time, being the measure of the reduction of potency to act, clearly is necessary in some sense in Purgatory, where the perfect purity of the soul is only in potency, and the purging fires reduce it to act. This is certainly not to say that it is impossible for God to satisfy the purgation in an instant of earthly time; it is merely to say that it is more fitting if that need not be the case.

1106St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, 20.

1107Hardon, John A. Modern Catholic Dictionary. (Bardstown, Kentucky: Eternal Life, 2004.) UNIVERSALISM, on therealpresence.org

1108 Pope John Paul II, and Vittorio Messori. Crossing the Threshold of Hope. (New York: Knopf, 1994), 185.

1109Not even God can change the past. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I, q. 25, a. 4 trans. English Dominican Province.

1110ST, I, q. 1, a. 8 trans. English Dominican Province.

1111 For example, in Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Aristotle appeals to what we instinctively feel about The Good to justify what it cannot be.

1112For example, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton referred to Genesis' creation account as a "myth" in his March 9th, 2017 article on ncronline.org.

1113 For example, in Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth, John G. Jackson argues that the truth of the Biblical depiction of the Fall is disproven by a similar depiction existing earlier in "sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia" (1941. Page 2. Accessed via archive.org.) Stories of original bliss followed by some sort of Fall by human choice exists in many creation myths.

1114Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Concerning some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine, Humani Generis (12 August 1950), 38

1115Cf. Humani Generis, 37.

1116Pontifical Council for Culture, A Christian reflection on the "New Age." Jesus Christ Bearer of the Water of Life 1.1.

1117Jesus Christ Bearer of the Water of Life, 2.1.

1118 Jesus Christ Bearer of the Water of Life, 1.5.

1119June 6, 1935.

1120 Listen to My Prophets. Pages 189-190.

1121 November 24, 1930.

1122 December 9, 1916.

1123 May 6, 1906.

1124 May 26, 1927.

1125 March 22, 1924.

1126 September 12, 1926.

1127 November 20, 1917.

1128 August 30, 1928.

1129 October 30, 1932.

1130 August 15, 1925.

1131 April 17, 1906.

1132 November 19, 1926.

1133 October 30, 1938.

1134 April 16, 1931.

 April 30, 1928.

 May 30, 1932.

1137 Whether several decades or several centuries makes little difference

1138 April 4, 1931.

1139 January 30, 1927.

1140 June 6, 1935.

1141 August 2, 1930.

1142 April 6, 1922.

1143 September 29, 1931.

1144 November 6, 1926.

1145 February 7, 1938.

1146Thomas Petrisko. Living in the Heart of the Father. Ch. 4

1147June 29, 1928.

1148May 22, 1932.

1149July 7, 1928.

1150 The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude. "By a religious of the order of Poor Clares." 1865. Page 150.

1151 June 9, 1929.

1152 July 30, 1929.

1153 July 7, 1928.

1154 January 28, 1927.

1155 October 10, 1927.

1156 That is, the smoothness of it will be so different from how most deaths today occur that it can scarcely be called "death" when compared – even though it still technically will entail the same result: the soul departing from the body. Luisa's own death is no doubt the example par excellence here, where there was perfect peace, and for days they could not tell if she had even died (see the details in the chapter on Luisa's life).

1157 October 22, 1926.

1158 January 28, 1927.

1159 Cf. 1 John 2:16

1160 Philippians 4:12

1161 January 28, 1927.

1162 June 25, 1928.

1163 January 28, 1927.

1164 January 28, 1927.

1165 August 13, 1923.

1166 April 25, 1923.

1167 That is, those eschatologies which proceed from the "spiritual legacy of Joachim of Fiore"

1168 November 2, 1926.

1169 May 31, 1935.

1170 August 25, 1929.

1171 August 12, 1927.

1172 May 30, 1928.

1173 October 7, 1930.

1174 March 24, 1930.

1175 February 19, 1927.

1176 May 20, 1928.

1177 January 29, 1928.

1178 March 20, 1932.

1179 July 21, 1935.

1180 2 Peter 2:7-8

1181For me, one such thing is tractor-trailer engine braking (or "jake braking"); a practice that should be outlawed except where absolutely necessary (e.g. while driving down mountainous slopes). Large trucks have "engine brakes," which slow the truck down without having to wear down brake pads, but at the expense of generating a thunderous, eardrum-shattering noise, with which some truck drivers seem to take pleasure in, thus destroying the peace of entire neighborhoods. Since I live near a highway intersection, I hear this all the time. Instead of allowing myself to constantly grow aggravated at this practice, I try to always remember to beg God for the coming of the Kingdom each time I have to hear it – for I am sure there will be no engine-braking in the Kingdom!

1182 At this point, I feel the need to add that one cannot hasten the coming of the Kingdom by simply wishing it; that is, by pretending the Fall of Man never occurred, and proceeding to act in accord with this mindset. For there is no negligible amount of people today who seem to think that if only we stop using pesticides, pasteurization, refinement, vaccines, and any agricultural technology, then the Garden of Eden will magically reappear in our midst. Now, the merits or demerits of each of these things must be determined by the qualified experts in their respective fields (not by overzealous bloggers who have done a few Google searches), and however this expert determination transpires, one thing is certain: seeking, through technology and other means, to help limit some of the tragic consequences of the Fall is not only not wrong, but is actually demanded (at least in general) by the moral law.

1183 May 16, 1937.

1184 February 24, 1933.

1185 July 14, 1935.

1186 March 26, 1933.

1187 Cf. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

1188 May 19, 1931.

1189https://danieloconnor.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/final-letter-by-the-archbishop-giovan-battista-pichierri-1.pdf

1190http://www.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/download

1191Ibid.

1192 December 5, 1921.

1193 February 24, 1933.

1194 John 16:12-13

1195 Luke 2:19

1196 Apparition to the children at Fatima, July 13th, 1917.

1197 May 19, 1931.

1198 October 15, 1926.

1199 That is, in addition to his opinion that Mary was not conceived immaculately.

1200 Acts 6:8

1201 St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum III, Q7, A10.

1202 Pius IX. Ineffabilis Deus

1203 Decrees of the First Vatican Council. Chapter 2.9

1204 Council of Trent. Decree Concerning the Edition, and the Use, of the Sacred Books

1205 E.g. Holy Orders

1206 E.g. Matrimony

1207Mary at the Foot of the Cross, VII. Page 200

1208St. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Entry 429. ***

1209Meaning "from the work performed." Defined at Trent to indicate that the sacraments are true instrumental causes of grace; that by the mere fact of them being validly administered, they do indeed confer the grace intended.

1210 That is, as opposed to "comprehensors," or in other words, the blessed in heaven.

1211 Cf. 1 Samuel 16:7

1212 John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love. 1.15(2-3).

1213 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia, Christian and Religious Perfection.

1214St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, paragraph 291.

1215St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul (New York: An Image Book, Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1989), Ch. XI.

1216Ibid, Chapter IX.

1217 Luke 12:48

1218 Stephen Patton, A Guide to the Book of Heaven. Page 48.

1219 Hugh Owen, New and Divine. Page 40.

1220E.g. "Greater grace I could not give" October 20, 1916.

1221This is meant in the scholastic philosophical sense of the word —a category of being whose nature is not to exist in itself, but in another.

1222That is, being existing in and by itself – a thing that other things are said of or inhere in. Primary existent.

1223 Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1453.

1224 Cf. 1 Corinthians 11:29

1225Although it is true that Christ is not in the Eucharist by way of quantitative extension in space, He nevertheless is indeed physically present in the Eucharist inasmuch as He is literally substantially present, and the substantial presence of a thing which has physicality necessarily implies that same physicality present at least qualitatively.

1226 Cf. Matthew 28:20

1227 Luke 2:52

1228As there is in a created person Living in the Divine Will.

1229 Rev Joseph Iannuzzi, Doctoral Thesis. , 4.1.22.1.

1230 Fr. Marie-Michel Philipon, O.P. CONCHITA: A Mother's Spiritual Diary. Pages 57-58.

1231 Roman Missal. Preface of Holy Virgins.

1232It is obvious that Adam was superior in the senses of lacking concupiscence, having infused knowledge, etc., but that is not to what I am here referring.

1233 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 375.

1234 John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology of the Body (Boston, MA: Pauline Books & Media, 2006), Address of September 19, 1979.

1235 St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum I Q96, A2 Corpus.

1236 Ibid., Q94, A1 Corpus.

1237 Ibid., A3 Corpus.

1238Hence it is not "contingent," or dependent upon some other precursor; i.e., The Fall.

1239 "Happy Fault"

1240Cf. Luke 21:3

1241John A. Hardon, S.J., God the Author of Nature and the Supernatural. Thesis VIII. Part III. (Note: in the original text, Fr. Hardon indicates that the Fathers "called sanctifying grace deification;" but I have omitted this from the quote because my purpose here is to draw attention to the view of the Greek Fathers that Fr. Hardon here cites—Church Fathers who clearly view Adam's state as consisting in much more than just sanctifying grace.

1242 Cardinal Christoph Schonborn. From Death to Life: The Christian Journey. 1995. Page 50.

1243 February 26, 1922.

1244 New Catholic Encyclopedia. Second Edition. 2003. Man, Natural End Of. Toward a Solution.

1245 January 10, 1930.

1246 June 20, 1899.

1247 June 21, 1926.

1248Summa Theologica. First Part. Question 49. Article 1. Corpus.

1249 Luke 5:39

1250 Matthew 19:22

1251 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 67.

1252 Ibid., paragraph 66.

1253Pope Francis. Homily on October 13, 2014.

1254 Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Promoting Biblical Studies Divino Afflante Spiritu (30 September 1943), 47.

1255 St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum I-II. 95. 2.

1256 Pope Francis. Gaudete et Exsultate

1257 Cf. Matthew 25:25-30

e.g., Jesus' words to Luisa, "See, then, how easy it is to Live in Our Will? The creature doesn't have to do New Things, but just what she always does; that is to say, to live her life as We gave it, but in Our Will." May 17th, 1938.

e.g. "... in my Church, in which all Heaven is veiled, one is the head, which is the Pope, and the Sacrosanct Trinity is veiled even in the triple tiara that covers his head ..." May 2nd, 1899.

1260May 19, 1931.

1261July 19, 1928.

1262October 16, 1923.

1263September 16, 1931.

1264January 31, 1928.

1265March 26, 1933.

1266Matthew 11:12

1267New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jacopone Da Todi. Page 692.

1268French Congregation of the Oratory. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Newadvent.org/cathen/11274a.htm

1269New Catholic Encyclopedia. Condren, Charles de, Page 73.

1270Peter Kwasniewski. Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness. Ch 4.

1271Matthew 22:37

1272Pope Benedict XVI. Apostolic Letter for the 7th Centenary of the Death of Blessed John Duns Scotus. October 28th, 2008.

1273Cardinal Christoph Schonborn. From Death to Life: The Christian Journey. 1995. Page 50.

1274Fr. Stefano M. Manelli, Blessed John Duns Scotus: Marian Doctor. Page 51.

1275Scotus. Oxon. 3 d.36; 4 d.14 q.2, d.49 q.4 (Citation Cf. aristotelophile.com)

1276Although incredibly wise teachers of wisdom, Socrates and Plato were certainly far from infallible.

1277 June 7, 1928.

1278 February 17, 1922.

1279 February 25, 1928.

1280December 7, 1902.

1281For if having reason distinguishes man from all animals, having a body distinguishes him from all spirits.

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Paragraphs 186-187.

Ibid.,299.

1 Corinthians 13:13

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 733.

1286November 6, 1932. [Personal note: Those who would respond by arguing that a "day" is always, by definition, "24 hours," seem to miss the point that an hour is defined as 1/24th of a day, therefore this response is devoid of any meaning – if there is not a day, then there is not an hour. Newtonian concepts of time that treat it as some sort of an absolute quasi-substance are seriously mistaken. Time is merely a measure (of the reduction of potency to act), not a medium.]

1287Catholicism and Evolution. Michael Chaberek, OP. Conclusion.

1288Nota Bene: Those simple facts alone – just the dogmatic, Magisterial truths which no Catholic is free to deny – are sufficient to on their own cause the worldly to laugh at you; so, what is so hard about garnering a few more laughs from them by outright rejecting macro-evolution?

1289That is, using a radioactive-decay method of absolute chronological dating.

1290I am not trying to imply that the Magisterium may change to contradict itself; I'm simply pointing out that the Magisterium can develop in the future to no longer permit Catholics to believe what it once did permit. For example, before the 19th century, Catholics were permitted to believe that Mary was not Immaculately Conceived. This belief is, however, no longer permitted.

1291Pius XII, Humani Generis. Paragraph 38.

1292Ibid, Paragraph 37.

1293 Indeed, the molecular structure of DNA cannot encode sufficient information within itself to contain the separate design of every species in the genetics of a single cell. It is, of course, useless to propose a theory that any evolutionist would scoff at in order to appease these very evolutionists themselves.

1294February 24, 1933.

1295June 26, 1932.

1296Matthew 23:24

1297December 25, 1910.

1298Summa Theologica. I-II. Question 95. Article 2. (One wonders if this article is censored from the Summa translations that many Thomists today work from; for they show no sign of acknowledging this sage advice—supposing, as many of them do, that their relatively minor theological knowledge of Thomism enables them to dismiss out of hand anything they find abrasive with their own theological opinions, as they write articles demanding that all Catholics do likewise.)

1299 June 2, 1930.

1300Cf. Matthew 5:17-18

1301March 19, 1928.

1302This is not to argue we must moderate our love of the Faith. I am only referring to the need to specifically moderate zeal in certain aspects of the Faith's promotion. In medio stat virtus.

1303Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 65.

1304St. Joseph is the "most dignified" saint after the Blessed Virgin Mary, cf. Quamquam Pluries, paragraph 3, Pope Leo XIII. This is Church teaching, and the Gift of Living in the Divine Will does not change it. Though obviously he is in the New Testament, he nevertheless died before the birth of Catholicism; before he could ever even receive the Eucharist.

1305 Matthew 18:5-6

1306E.g. July 17, 1907.

1307E.g. December 9, 1902.

1308Jesus often flatly told Luisa "You are wrong." E.g. May 15, 1926.

1309Pope Francis, Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer. "Thy Kingdom Come."

1310 E.g. Matthew 3:2.

1311 Luke 17:21

1312 Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation I

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