Omelie e Catechesi · Don Pierpaolo Maria Cilla

La liturgia del quotidiano

March 20, 2026·39 min·3 clips

Jesus tells Luisa that living in the divine will means to reign, while doing it means to receive orders.

1. Omelie e Catechesi presents a retreat session on the spirituality of Luisa Piccarreta, focusing on the daily life transformed by living in the Divine Will. 2. The host is the sole speaker, presenting himself as a priest who has only recently encountered Luisa Piccarreta's writings, describing himself as 'at zero' on the spiritual itinerary — Volume 1, Chapter 1. 3. The episode's central question is: what is the decisive difference between 'living in' the Divine Will and merely 'doing' the Divine Will, a distinction Jesus explicitly draws in Volume 17? 4. Volume 17, dated September 18, 1924, is identified as the primary text; Luisa recounts asking Jesus to help her explain 'this blessed living in the Divine Will' because her confessors could not understand it. 5. Jesus answers: 'Living in my Will is to reign; doing my Will is to stay at my orders — the first is to possess, the second is to receive my orders and execute them.' 6. The host unpacks the servant metaphor: doing the Divine Will means obeying commandments under the weight of a rebellious human will, just as a servant must follow orders regardless of inclination. 7. Living in the Divine Will means the human will is fused with the Divine Will like metals alloyed into bronze — the alloy's individual metals are still present but the dominant material rules without conflict. 8. Jesus explains that in this state 'passions tremble before this supreme will and dare not move or oppose, seeing that heavens and earth tremble before this holy will.' 9. The host uses the Christological example: Jesus had a human will and a divine will, yet they were never in conflict because his human will was always immersed in the divine — and fusing with Jesus's humanity means fusing with his Divine Will. 10. San Francesco is named as the clearest illustration: he threw himself on thorns and into snow because even at the highest traditional holiness his passions still cried out, quoting Paul's lament 'who will free me from this body of death?' 11. Living in the Divine Will, by contrast, makes the person 'not merely human but divinely human' — human nature is elevated to participate in the divine nature as it was before original sin. 12. Jesus states that the distance between living in the Divine Will and doing the Divine Will is 'as far as heaven from earth' and 'as far as son from servant, king from subject.' 13. The son–servant metaphor is extended: the son does not ask the Father for virtues — he goes and takes them because they are already his property; a son does not travel on foot but by carriage; a servant's contract can be broken. 14. The host connects this to John's Gospel discourses in which Jesus says 'I and the Father are one' and 'everything that is mine is yours' — arguing Luisa's writings make these lines intelligible. 15. Volume 14 (April 29, 1922) is then read: Luisa sees her thoughts, affections, and interior movements transformed into threads of light stretching to the sun, heaven, and all the earth, with Jesus holding and directing all threads from her home in Corato. 16. Jesus explains that each daily act performed in the Divine Will contains divine life; when these threads touch created things, all creatures feel the force of the original creative 'fiat' — the divine word that gave them existence. 17. The host warns against allowing another human will to dominate the interior life, explicitly naming 'abuses of conscience' as more common and damaging than the sexual abuses the Church is known for confronting. 18. The episode closes by connecting the Volume 14 vision to the Gospel of the Transfiguration read on the second Sunday of Lent, arguing the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor is the exterior image of what happens internally when any act is performed in the Divine Will. 19. Devout Italian-speaking Catholics attending a retreat who want deep theological engagement with Luisa Piccarreta's spirituality will find this session dense and rewarding. 20. Listeners seeking accessible or introductory Catholic content will find the vocabulary and theological density too specialised without significant prior study.

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