The three Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
are the only Angels named in Sacred Scripture.

The Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta the Little Daughter of the Divine Will, had a great love and respect for the Angels, evidenced by her prayer written when she was given the obedience to write her spiritual diary. 

Thus Luisa begins Volume One in the “Book of Heaven, The Call of the Creature to the Order, the Place and the Purpose for which He was Created by God“:

In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Out of pure obedience, I begin to write.
You know, O Lord!, the sacrifice it costs me, such that I would submit myself to a thousand deaths rather than write one single line of the things that have passed between me and You. Oh my God!, my nature trembles, it feels crushed and almost undone at the mere thought of it. O please!, give me strength, oh Life of my life, that I may do the holy obedience! . . .

. . . Most Holy Virgin, lovable Mother (The Blessed Mother), come to my aid, obtain for me from Your sweet Jesus and mine, grace and strength in order to do this obedience. Saint Joseph, my dear protector, assist me in this circumstance of mine. Archangel Saint Michael, defend me from the infernal enemy, who puts so many obstacles in my mind to make me fail this obedience. Archangel Saint Rafael and you, my Guardian Angel, come to assist me and accompany me, and to direct my hand, that I may write nothing but the truth. . . .

The work of the theological Censors. 

Before 1927, the writings of Luisa (the first 19 Volumes and The Hours of the Passion), had already obtained the “Nihil Obstat” from the now Saint, Annibale Maria di Francia (Censor on behalf of the Archdiocese) and the Imprimatur of the then Archbishop Mons. Giuseppe M. Leo. 

In addition to this previous study, the Congregation for the Saints, conforming to the canonical normative and actual praxis establishes that the writings of a Servant of God should be submitted for examination by at least two theological Censors (whose names would remain secret); this should be completed before formally initiating the process at the level of the Holy See. 

As this work on the writings had not taken place within the diocesan process, the Dicasterio ordered the completion of this requisite with the intention to be able to issue the decree on the legal validity of the diocesan investigation and in this manner initiate the Roman process. The theological Censors, named by the Church, must examine the writings and verify that there is nothing in them contrary to faith and tradition, and must also describe in their verdict the personality and the spirituality of the Servant of God.

The Holy Congregation for the Saints assigned this work to two theological Censors, asking their evaluation. After almost three years, I ANNOUNCE TO YOU TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY:

Corato (Italy), July 23, 2010. Sister Assunta Marigliano, President of the Píous Association “Luisa Piccarreta – Little Daughter of the Divine Will” with its seat in Corato, Italy, who is responsible for the promotion of the Cause for Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta; unofficially disclosed today grand news in relation to the Cause of Luisa, which fills us with great joy: 

It was learned today that ALSO the second theologian appointed by the Holy See for the evaluation of the writings of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, has completed his assessment and has Officially Rendered his Verdict: POSITIVE.  The results of this assessment, is in itself a Recognition of the Purity of the Doctrine of the Divine Will Manifested in these Writings.

Kaia’tanó:ron
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Flower of the Algonguins
Lily of the Mohawks
1656-1680

Feast Day
14 July in the United States
17 April in Canada

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha,
Model of Fidelity Against Religious Persecution

  “Today the Church needs saints. This calls for our combating our attachment to comforts that lead us to choose a comfortable and insignificant mediocrity. Each one of us has the possibility to be a saint, and the way to holiness is prayer. Holiness is, for each of us, a simple duty.” St. Mother Teresa

The true American heroes are not sport or entertainment figures, but Catholic saints. We should turn our “lonely eyes” to them and follow their good examples, virtues and works. They are our true friends and are alive in heaven with God. They are models of holiness for us. They can help us just like friends on earth by their prayerful intercession on our behalf. They give us courage and hope.

July 14 is the feast of one of our saints of the states, St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Let our nation turn its lonely eyes to her for courage and hope. Pope Benedict XVI canonized her at St. Peter’s square in Vatican City October 21, 2012.

The blood of the martyrs is often the water that sprouts the seed of the Catholic faith. The blood of the only martyrs of the United States, Saints Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and Jean de la Lande, watered the seed of the faith in the Mohawk Village at Auriesville, New York. Kateri Tekakwitha was born there in 1656, ten years after they were martyred there.
Kateri’s Baptism

Kateri lived in the Mohawk Village with her uncle, the chief of the Turtle Clan, after her parents died from smallpox when she was four. The smallpox left her disfigured with impaired vision. “Tekakwitha” in Mohawk means “one who puts things in order” or “one who feels her way”, because Kateri had to feel her way with her poor eyesight in the darkened lodges. She often stayed in the Longhouse because the sunlight hurt her eyes.

She fell in love with Jesus and decided to remain a virgin. Virginity was unheard of amongst the Indians and they pressured her to marry and to work on Sunday, but she refused to do so. When they connived to have her lodge visited by a young warrior in the hopes of their union, she turned him out. Then the Indians treated her as a slave and put her to work for the village.

In 1666, the French attacked and burned down Kateri’s village. The Mohawks built a new village on the north side of the Mohawk River at Fonda (Caughnawaga), New York. Here Kateri first  heard of the Catholic faith from Father Jacques de Lamberville, a French Jesuit, who occasionally visited her village at St. Peter’s Mission. He baptized her on April 18, 1676 and she took the name Catherine that the Mohawks pronounced “Kateri”.

The other Mohawks persecuted her for her faith. They mocked her devotion to Our Lady and her recitation of the Rosary. Kateri was not deterred, but to avoid the persecution she escaped in 1677 with some companions from the village to Canada. She trekked north through New York and paddled Lake Champlain to Sault Saint-Louis, a Christian Indian Mission near Montreal on the St. Lawrence River. Her journey took over two weeks, traveling by foot and canoe about three hundred miles through woods, rivers, swamps and lakes.

 The Lily of the Mohawks 

At the Mission, Kateri lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices and care for the sick and aged. Her day at the Mission began at 4 a.m. each morning in church where she remained for several hours of prayer and Masses. She helped the sick and the poor. She formed a group called the Slavery of the Blessed Virgin and they fasted and endured exposure to the cold in the woods as acts of penance. On March 25, 1679, Kateri was permitted to make a vow of perpetual virginity.

Kateri was a half-blind, pockmarked orphan Indian maiden. She was little more than a slave in her own clan, but in God’s eyes she was His pure daughter and a model for her race. Many Indians followed her good example and converted. Kateri received the Eucharist with the greatest devotion. Father Pierre Cholenec, who prepared her for her First Communion said, “Only God knows what passed between Himself and His dear Spouse.”

Kateri attended daily Masses at 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. and visited the Blessed Sacrament five times daily, after her daily visitations to the sick and the poor. During her own last sickness, she dragged herself to Mass until she could no longer walk. She died at the age of 24 on April 17, 1680 in the presence of Father Cholenec and all of her pox marks disappeared. He said that at the time of her death Kateri’s face “… so disfigured and so swarthy in life, suddenly changed about fifteen minutes after her death, and in an instant became so beautiful and so fair that just as soon as I saw it (I was praying by her side) I let out a yell, I was so astonished.”

Two hundred and ninety three years later on the very same date, April 17, 1973, young Peter McCauley’s hearing was spontaneously restored through Kateri’s intercession. This was the miracle that led to her beatification by Pope John Paul II on June 22, 1980.

Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri on October 21, 2012. He called St. Kateri the “protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint” and he entrusted to her “the renewal of the faith in the First Nations and in all of North America.”

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, who is of American Indian descent, said, “I think many young people today are embarrassed about embracing the Catholic faith because they live in a secular culture that’s hostile toward religious experience. St. Kateri also grew up in a place where there was great hostility toward Christianity, but she resisted all efforts to turn her away from her faith, so in some ways she would be a model of fidelity in the face of persecution on religious freedom grounds.”

Kateri’s Feast Day is July 14. Because of her purity, she is known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.”

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary In the Kingdom of the Divine Will

Book of Heaven; Volume 34 – April 21, 1936

“Blessed daughter of my Volition, you have reason, the waves of my Volition inundate you, drown you and your little capacity remains lost and needs your Jesus in order to better explain that which you see, but don’t know how to say.  Now know my daughter, our love is such and so much for one who wants to live and lives in our Divine Volition that we want to make them participant with all our works, for as much as (a) creature it is possible, also giving her the merit of our divine works.  As the creature enters in our Will, He calls in act his Divine work as if in that instant the same (was) operating, and uniting her in his act, he makes her see the prodigies of his work, and receives and confirms her in the good, making her feel the new life of his act; you have seen the conception of the Sovereign Queen, and how you being in my Will, you have found yourself conceived in Her Maternal Heart, you see the great difference for who lives in my Volition, the prodigies of the Immaculate Conception were unheard of.  My Will that animated this conception, which no one can escape from, called present all creatures, so that they might remain conceived in her virgin Heart, and might receive her maternity, her help, her defense, they might find the refuge, the support in this Celestial Mother.

The Prodigies of the Divine Will in the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Most Holy Divine Will

June 8 – June 16, 2023

 

Day 1 – June 16

V19 – 6.20.26 – “…if I came in Redemption, I came to realize My Ideal and My Primary Purpose – that is, the Kingdom of My Will in souls.  This is so True, that in order to come, I formed My First Kingdom of the Supreme Volition in the Heart of My Immaculate Mama – outside of My Kingdom I would never have come upon earth.” 

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 2 – June 17

V21 – 4.8.27 – “All the prophets symbolized the Grace, the Communications, the Intimacies with God which, more than they did, the Children of My Divine Fiat would possess. 

See, all these were but symbols – images of them; what shall happen when the lives of these symbols shall come out?  After all these came the Celestial Lady, the Sovereign Empress, the Immaculate, the Spotless – My Mother.  She was not symbol or image, but the reality – the True Life, the First Privileged Daughter of My Will; and in the Queen of Heaven I looked at the generation of the Children of My Kingdom.  She was the First Incomparable Creature, Who Possessed, intact, the Life of the Supreme Volition, and therefore She deserved to Conceive the Eternal Word, and to Mature within Her Maternal Heart the generation of the Children of the Eternal Fiat.” 

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 3 – June 18

V24 – 8.15.28 – “My daughter, the Glory of the Mama of Heaven is Insuperable.  No one else in the Celestial Regions Possesses Seas of Graces, of Light, Seas of Beauty and of Sanctity, Seas of Power, of Science and of Love; and what is more, She Possesses these Seas within the Endless Sea of Her Creator.  The other inhabitants of the Blessed Fatherland possess, at most, some, little rivulets, some, little drops, some, little fountains.  She is the only One, because She alone Lived Life in the Divine Fiat.  Never did the human volition take place in Her – Her Life was all of Divine Will; and by Virtue of It, She Centralized all creatures within Herself, Conceiving them in Her Maternal Heart, and Bilocating Her Son Jesus as many times, to give Him to each creature whom She had Conceived within Her Virginal Heart.

This is why Her Maternity is extended to all, and all can boast and say:  ‘The Mother of Jesus is my Mother, and this Mother so Sweet, Lovable, Loving, gives Her Beloved Son to each one of us as Pledge of Her Maternal Love.’ 

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 4 – June 19

V26 – 9.8.29 – “This Celestial Baby Girl, by keeping Our Divine Will intact within Her soul, without ever doing Her own, reacquired all the Rights of Adam Innocent before Her Creator, and the Sovereignty over all Creation.  Therefore, all felt themselves being Reborn in Her, and We saw in this Holy Virgin, in Her little Heart, all the seeds of the human generations.  So, through Her, humanity reacquired the Rights lost, and this is why Her Birth was the most Beautiful, the most Glorious Birth.  From Her very Birth, She Enclosed within Her Maternal little Heart, as though in-between Two Wings, all generations, as Children Reborn in Her Virginal Heart, so as to Warm them, keep them Sheltered, and Raise them and Nourish them with the Blood of Her Maternal Heart.  This is the reason why this Tender Celestial Mother Loves creatures so much – because all are Reborn in Her, and She feels the Life of Her Children within Her Heart.  What can Our Divine Will not do wherever It Reigns and has Its Life?  It Encloses everything and everyone, and makes one the Provider of Good to all.  So, all feel, under Her Blue Mantle, the Maternal Wing of their Celestial Mother, and they find in Her Maternal Heart their little place in which to take cover.”

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 5 – June 20

V33 – 2.4.34 – “Now, the Celestial Queen Enraptured Us with Her Beauty, and Our Love ran and ran; with Her Love She Wounded Us, and Our Love, Overflowing, hid within Her; and looking at all creatures through Her Beauty and Her Love, Our Love Poured Itself out, and We Loved all creatures with Love Hidden in this Celestial Queen.  So, We Loved all in Her; seen through Her Beauty, they no longer seemed ugly to Us; Our Love was no longer restricted within Us, but Diffused in the Heart of a Creature so Holy.  And by Our Communicating to Her Our Divine Paternity and Loving everyone in Her, She acquired the Divine Maternity, to be able to Love all as Her Children, Generated by Her Celestial Father.  As She felt that We Loved all creatures in Her, so She felt that Our Love Formed the New Generation of all mankind within Her Maternal Heart.” 

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 6 – June 21

V33 – 2.4.34 – After this, I continued to think about the Divine Will.  The thought that my Celestial Mama Possessed in Her Maternal Heart the Hidden Love with which my Creator Loved me Filled me with Joy, thinking that I was looked upon by God from within my Dear Celestial Mother, through Her Sanctity and Her Enrapturing Beauty.  Oh! how Happy I felt, and all Trust, for I no longer was to be Loved and Gazed upon by myself, but Loved and Gazed upon together with my Mama.  Oh! She – to make me Loved more by my Jesus – shall Cover me with Her Virtues, She shall Clothe me with Her Beauty, and shall hide my miseries and my weaknesses.

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 7 – June 22

“…the Sovereign Lady, in Heaven, still Possesses Our Hidden Love toward each creature; even more, feeling Her Creator loving all creatures from within Her Maternal Heart is Her greatest Contentment; and She, Acting as True Mother, how many times She Hides them inside Her Love, to make them Loved; inside Her Sorrows, for them to be forgiven; inside Her Prayers, to obtain for them the Greatest Graces.  Oh! She is the Coverer Who Knows how to Cover and Excuse Her children before the Throne of Our Majesty.  Therefore, let yourself be Covered by your Celestial Mama, Who shall take care of the needs of Her daughter.”

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 8 – June 23

V34 – 12.8.35 – “…by Possessing Our Will as Life, the Sovereign Queen, had always something to give Us, always something to say; She kept Us always occupied, and We had always something to Give, and always Our Loving Secrets to Communicate to Her, So Much So, that We do nothing without Her:  We deal with Her First, then We Deposit that Good in Her Maternal Heart, and from Her Heart it descends into the Fortunate one who must receive that Good.  Therefore, there is no Grace that Descends upon earth, there is no Sanctity that is Formed, there is no sinner that is converted, there is no Love that Departs from Our Throne, which is not Deposited in Her Heart of Mother First; and She forms the Maturation of that Good, She fecundates it with Her Love, She enriches it with Her Graces and, if needed, with the Virtue of Her Sorrows; and then She Deposits it in the one who must receive it, in such a way that the creature who receives it feels the Divine Paternity and the Maternity of her Celestial Mother.  We can do it without Her, but We don’t want to.  Who would have the Heart to put Her aside?  Our Love, Our Infinite Wisdom, Our very Fiat impose Themselves on Us and don’t let Us do anything that would not Descend through Her.”

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Day 9 – June 24

V34 – 4.21.36 – “See the great difference:  for one who Lives in My Will the Prodigies of the Immaculate Conception were unheard-of; My Will – which Animated this Conception and from which no one can escape – called all creatures to be present, that they might remain Conceived within Her Virginal Heart, and receive Her Maternity, Her Help, Her Defense, and find Refuge and the Support of this Celestial Mother.  Now, one who Lives in Our Will finds herself in this Act of Conceiving; she is the daughter who, spontaneously, of her own human will, seeks Her Mama and takes her place, Enclosing herself in Her Maternal Heart, to let the Celestial Queen be her Mama.  This creature shall take part in the Riches of the Sovereign Lady, in Her Merits, in Her Love; she shall feel within herself Her Nobility, Her Sanctity, because she Knows to Whom she belongs, and God shall let her participate in the Infinite Goods and Exuberant Love He had in the Conception of this Holy Creature. 

Prayer:  Holy Mama…I want to tell You many things; I want to enclose my pains, my fears, my weaknesses, and all my being in Your Maternal Heart, as the place of my Refuge – I want to Consecrate my will to You. O Please! My Mama, accept it; make of it a Triumph of Grace, and a Field upon which the Divine Will may extend Its Kingdom!

Feast Day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

V36 – 12.28.38 – I could always feel my mind as if it was hidden under her Maternal Wings, which never left me alone; each one of my thoughts was kept by my Loving Mother, Who gave me all her Maternal Attentions.  Her Maternity was placed in each one of My Breaths and Heartbeats; and if My Mreath and Heartbeats felt smothered by My Love and Suffering, She would Run with Her Maternity to free Me from My Suffocating Love and put Balm on My Pierced Heart.  If She Looked, Spoke, Worked and Walked – She Ran, as a Mother, to receive in Her Maternal Love My Glances, Words, Works and Steps, Investing them with Her Love and Hiding them in Her Heart.  She would also make Her Maternal Love Flow in the food She prepared for Me, so that while eating it, I could feel Her Loving Maternity.  How much more could I tell you of the expression of Her Maternity in My Sufferings?  There was not a Pain, not a Drop of the Blood I shed that was not felt by My Mother.  But after doing these things as My Mother, She would then take all My Pains and My Blood, and Hide them inside Her Maternal Heart to Love Them and continue Her Maternity. 

“…I shall give My own Place in Her Maternal Heart to those who Live in My Will.  She shall Raise them for Me, Guiding their steps and Hiding them in Her Maternity and Sanctity.  Her Maternal Love and her Sanctity shall be Impressed in all their acts; they shall be Her True Children, being like Me in everything.  Oh!  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 shall Compensate for all they lack.  She shall Raise them on Her Maternal Lap, being with them in everything they do, Molding their acts as Her own; to the extent that they shall be Known as the Children Grown, Kept and Educated by the Loving Maternity of My Mama.  These shall be the ones who shall Make Her Happy, the ones who shall be Her Glory and Honor.” 

Little Sacrifice: – Today, to Honor Me, you shall give Me your will, your pains, your tears, your anxieties, your doubts and fears, into My Maternal Hands, so that, as your Mama, I may keep them in Deposit within My Maternal Heart, as pledges of My child. And I shall Give you the Precious Pledge of the Divine Will.

“Know that I shall go all over the world; I shall go to each individual, to all families, to religious communities, to every nation, to all peoples, and if needed, I shall go about for entire centuries until, as Queen, I have Formed My People, and as Mother, My Children, who would Know the Divine Will and let It Reign everywhere. …and with Gold Characters I shall write their names in My Maternal Heart.” – Maternal Appeal of the Queen of Heaven – Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will

FIAT!!!

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Link to The Novena to The Holy Spirit

Prayer for PENTECOST SUNDAY

Abba Father,
In the Name of Jesus,
in the Unity, Power and Love of the Holy Spirit,
Under the Mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
with All the Angels and Saints,
through the Intercession of the Little Daughter of the Divine Will,
Luisa Piccarreta,
One with Luisa, on behalf of all mankind,
Take this humble appeal, that of fusing in the Order of Grace
in everything the Sanctifier has Done and Shall Do for those who are to be sanctified.
May the Spouse and Temple of the Holy Spirit, Mary Most Holy
Make the Holy Spirit Descend into all souls through little Luisa, the Reflection of the Holy Spirit,
to burn away all that is of human will,
and by His Refreshing Breath Rule and Confirm all souls in the Divine Will,
so that the Holy Spirit may Receive the Requital of Love
in each Baptism, Restoring innocence;
in each Confirmation, rendering souls invincible;
in each Sacrament of Penance, where Jesus’ Blood Gives Back lost Grace;
in all the Tabernacles and each Sacramental Host, which form, grow and develop
the Life of God in all, where each can say ‘I am another Christ’;
in each Ordination, constituting man to a supreme height, repeater of Jesus’ Life,
administer of the Sacraments, revealer of God’s Secrets, of the Gospel,
of the Most Sacred Science, peacemaker between Heaven and earth,
and bearer of Jesus to souls, placing all other Sacraments in safety;
in each Sacrament of Marriage, sacred bond and symbol of the Sacrosanct Trinity;
and in each Sacrament of Extreme Unction, the final clothing of the soul.
We pray that the Divine Will Reign in all souls with Absolute Dominion,
and may all be Accomplished and Completed
in Your Most Holy Divine Will.

WE BELIEVE, WE RECEIVE!

Fiat! Amen!

 

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort included a chapter on Mary’s role in the last days which stressed the necessity of appealing to Her intercession in order to combat the forces of Satan.

He believes that the latter days will be marked by steadily increasing periods of persecution of Christians that will not end until the time of the Antichrist and explains Genesis 3:15 in light of these persecutions:

51. It is chiefly in reference to these last wicked persecutions of the devil, daily increasing until the advent of the reign of anti-Christ, that we should understand that first and well-known prophecy and curse of God uttered against the serpent in the garden of paradise. It is opportune to explain it here for the glory of the Blessed Virgin, the salvation of her children and the confusion of the devil. “I will place enmities between you and the woman, between your race and her race; she will crush your head and you will lie in wait for her heel” (Gen. 3:15).

52. God has established only one enmity – but it is an irreconcilable one – which will last and even go on increasing to the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and followers of Lucifer.

Thus the most fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary, his holy Mother. From the time of the earthly paradise, although she existed then only in his mind, he gave her such a hatred for his accursed enemy, such ingenuity in exposing the wickedness of the ancient serpent and such power to defeat, overthrow and crush this proud rebel, that Satan fears her not only more than angels and men but in a certain sense more than God himself. This does not mean that the anger, hatred and power of God are not infinitely greater than the Blessed Virgin’s, since her attributes are limited. It simply means that Satan, being so proud, suffers infinitely more in being vanquished and punished by a lowly and humble servant of God, for her humility humiliates him more than the power of God. Moreover, God has given Mary such great power over the evil spirits that, as they have often been forced unwillingly to admit through the lips of possessed persons, they fear one of her pleadings for a soul more than the prayers of all the saints, and one of her threats more than all their other torments.

He explains that in the days leading to the Antichrist, a powerful group will emerge from among the clergy which, through their devotion to Mary, will be granted special powers to fight Satan:

56. But what will they be like, these servants, these slaves, these children of Mary?
They will be ministers of the Lord who, like a flaming fire, will enkindle everywhere the fires of divine love. They will become, in Mary’s powerful hands, like sharp arrows, with which she will transfix her enemies.

58. They will be true apostles of the latter times to whom the Lord of Hosts will give eloquence and strength to work wonders and carry off glorious spoils from his enemies. They will sleep without gold or silver and, more important still, without concern in the midst of other priests, ecclesiastics and clerics. Yet they will have the silver wings of the dove enabling them to go wherever the Holy Spirit calls them, filled as they are with the resolve to seek the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Wherever they preach, they will leave behind them nothing but the gold of love, which is the fulfillment of the whole law.

59. Lastly, we know they will be true disciples of Jesus Christ, imitating his poverty, his humility, his contempt of the world and his love. They will point out the narrow way to God in pure truth according to the holy Gospel, and not according to the maxims of the world. Their hearts will not be troubled, nor will they show favour to anyone; they will not spare or heed or fear any man, however powerful he may be. They will have the two-edged sword of the word of God in their mouths and the blood-stained standard of the Cross on their shoulders. They will carry the crucifix in their right hand and the rosary in their left, and the holy names of Jesus and Mary on their heart. The simplicity and self-sacrifice of Jesus will be reflected in their whole behaviour.

He also tells us:

47. “….towards the end of the world, ….Almighty God and His holy Mother are to raise up saints who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs.”

48. “These great souls filled with grace and zeal will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the Blessed Virgin. Illumined by her light, strengthened by her spirit, supported by her arms, sheltered under her protection, they will fight with one hand and build with the other. With one hand they will give battle, overthrowing and crushing heretics and their heresies, schismatics and their schisms, idolaters and their idolatries, sinners and their wickedness. With the other hand they will build the temple of the true Solomon and the mystical city of God, namely, the Blessed Virgin… “

57. “They will be like thunderclouds flying through the air at the slightest breath of the Holy Spirit. Attached to nothing, surprised at nothing, they will shower down the rain of God’s word and of eternal life. They will thunder against sin; they will storm against the world; they will strike down the devil and his followers and for life and for death, they will pierce through and through with the two-edged sword of God’s word all those against whom they are sent by Almighty God.”

49. “Mary scarcely appeared in the first coming of Christ… But in the second coming of Jesus Christ, Mary must be known and openly revealed by the Holy Spirit so that Jesus may be known, loved and served through her.”