Welcome Emmett, from Bangor in Ireland. http://unveilingtheapocalypse.blogspot.co.uk/ Could you write a little about your book; it looks fascinating and just the kind of thing I like to read. Many thanks. Is it on Kindle?
Here is an interesting prophesy Emmet picks up on in his blog: http://unveilingtheapocalypse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-prophecy-of-bl-tomasuccio-de-foligno.html 'One from beyond the mountains shall become the Vicar Of God. Religious and clerics shall take part in this change. Outside the true path, there will be only disreputable men; I shrug my shoulders when the Bark of Peter is in danger and there is no one to lend it help... The schismatic shall fall into the scorn of the Italian faithful... By about twelve years shall the millennium have passed when the resplendent mantle of legitimate power shall emerge from the shadows where it was being kept by the schism. And beyond harm from the one who is blocking the door of salvation, for his deceitful schism shall have come to an end. And the mass of the faithful shall attach itself to the worthy Shepherd, who shall extricate each one from error and restore to the Church its beauty. He shall renew it." (Miscellanea Francescana 1 p173)'
Great to have you here Emmett. I am a big fan of your Unveiling the Apocalypse site. When I say big fan ,I mean, I just like visiting your site. I dont want to creep you out. I just mean I enjoy reading your articles. Im not like gonna stalk ya or anything , just because your site is awesome..
Hi Padraig! Bangor, St. Malachy's old haunt? Such a lovely place! Yeah, the book is available on Kindle, but I wouldn't buy it right now. I'm currently completing a new version of the book which has doubled in size.
Welcome Emmett (my middle name is Emmett!). Bangor has a history of producing saints https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor_Abbey
One of the visionaries at Medugorje ..I think it might have been Viska was asked years ago about the Ten Secrets of Our Lady . She said that she didn't know why people kept asking about these since they are all contain in chapter 12 (or 13) of the Book of Revelation . So of course I used to hit my bible and eneded up more confused than ever. I finally realised that unless the Holy Spirit gave me the key I would never understand this. I admire you for trying, Emmett. Here is an interesting prophecy from Lousia (divine Will): “My beloved daughter, I want to make known to you the order of my Providence. Every course of two thousand years I have renewed the world. In the first two thousand years I renewed it with the Flood; in the second two thousand I renewed it with my coming upon earth, in which I manifested my Humanity, from which, as though from many fissures, my Divinity shone forth. And the good and the very Saints of the following two thousand years have lived of the fruits of my Humanity, and, in drops, they have enjoyed my Divinity. Now we are at the turn of the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal. This is the reason for the general confusion – it is nothing other than the preparation for the third renewal; and if in the second renewal I manifested what my Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what the Divinity was operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth has been purged and the current generation destroyed for the most part, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what my Divinity did within my Humanity...” http://dwdropbooks.com/?tag=book-of-revelation
Padraig, I have a problem with this quote........ This is the reason for the general confusion – it is nothing other than the preparation for the third renewal; and if in the second renewal I manifested what my Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what the Divinity was operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth has been purged and the current generation destroyed for the most part, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what my Divinity did within my Humanity... In the scriptures and even in the old testament, Jesus clearly tells us that he is truth and the fullness of all truth. When any Catholic contemplates the Rosary we are immersed in the mystery of what "the Divinity of Christ did whinin His/Christ's humanity". This is a given, and it is sacred doctrine!. When the earth is purged, and we enter,[ as some say] a "new ear of peace without our Lord's second coming" than all the survivors of the previous chistisement, will of course be living in the grace of God or as some put it in the will of God? However we wont have, Our God given[ beautiful] gift of Free will according to Lusia? How can this be? Will we all be divine like God or will we be robots! without an ability to chose right from wrong? Which would be no different from an inanimate object [eg; a stone] or an animal that follows the laws of Pavilo [like a salivating dog]? Will God not require the same of the future saint's as He has required of the past? To freely choose God, is the sublime gift God gave as at the beginning! If not, than we shall be following God, not as Angels or Saints have in the past, but we will offer God what He already has [His Will] and our offering will be without any expression of our free will! So logically God would lose because by subtracting our will free will from us, He gains only an automotive affect of something He already possesses!! So why would God envisage an Era where all creatures live without their free will? Is this proposition of spiritual enlightnement [living without our free will] a progress in the spiritual Life?
Hi josephite. This caught my attention: "Will we all be divine like God or will we be robots! without an ability to chose right from wrong?" Remember that the Blessed Virgin Mary had free will. She was not a robot, rather was "full of grace" and thus did NOT ever sin. I have no interet in Lusia's writings by the way.
Welcome Emmett! I read all your stuff, one of my favorite web sites. Whataya gonna say? The boy's got good stuff.
Josephite, I am not as they say INTO the Divine Will movement as you might call it. I hope to be living in the Divine Will as long as staying within the 10 Commandments...... Just a simple Catholic in a state of Grace. But I do believe you misunderstand what people are saying about living in the Divine Will as Luisa has written about it. You even state yourself, you know Blessed Mother lived in the Divine Will. She had never been contaminated by original sin; but that did not mean she was without free will. Neither would we be without free will if we were able to live perfectly in the Divine Will like our Blessed Mother. To me it is the same as for example when you fall in love with another human being, (now place God in the first place) you would never want to look at another person (sin would be like the other person). You would still be free to do so (you would still be free to choose). But you would not want to spoil the perfect love you had found in that one other human being. Every one else would be loved in a brotherly way, and one special love would remain for the one special person. I suppose you could say, living in the Divine Will is like falling in holy Love with God our Father, and any sin would be like a betrayal of that holy love. This does not exclude normal human relations. But puts God in the first place. First to go would be one night stands and friends with benefits for example. I remember Marino Restreppo saying that each sin we commit has a spirit attached to it, and he was shown this by Our Lord in his mystical experience after which he reverted to his Faith. I think we will all be enlightened at the Warning/Illumination; because today our minds have been warped by modern thinking where true and holy love is concerned. Just my little perspective.
The following quote from a book recently published in English by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, The Sun of My Will: Luisa Piccarreta, An Ordinary Life Outside the Ordinary, may be helpful in answering your questions. "The first step of the journey that Jesus proposes to Luisa is 'doing' the will of God and the second step is 'living in His Divine Will.' This second step is rooted in two fiats: Jesus' and Mary's." "Ordinarily the verb 'to do' is used when talking about God's Will, almost as if it were just another action like any other, including the exercise of virtues. In actuality, both Mary at the annunciation and Jesus in the Garden of Olives do not use a verb that is connected to any action on their part. Rather they talk about being open: Mary says, 'May it be done to me' (Lk 1:38), and Jesus says, 'Not my will but yours be done' (Lk 22;42). And Luisa encounters the same situation. It is not she who wants 'to do' the Will of the Father, but it is the Father who -- by 'fusing' their two wills -- has Luisa's life in His hands. She will have to make it understood that God is not a master to obey; rather He is someone who wants humanity to be fully realized -- and that can only happen when the individual freely wants the Will of God. What, in fact, does man know about his own mystery if he does not have a relationship with the mystery of God? He cannot explain the mystery which is himself. That is what is new about Luisa Piccarreta's message: the Divine Will working in each person and the person working in It in a divine way. What is new about this grace of graces, this 'gift of gifts,' is that we are not just doing what God wants us to do, but that we let His Will become our will and His life our life so as to live and reign with and in His Will." "What is new is the continuous exchange between the human and Divine Will, thus restoring the divine likeness that was lost through sin. Through the gift of His Will to the individual, God forms 'His life' in the person, His way of 'real presence.' Therefore, this person serves as 'another humanity' for Him, as Carmelite Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity would say. Obviously this is not some kind of 'hypostatic union' (the union of divine and human natures in one person), but is the union of two wills -- the human and the divine -- united in one act of willing, like two hearts beating in unison. That way this individual becomes the triumph of Jesus; it is 'another Jesus,' not by nature, but by the gift of grace according to the words of St. John, 'because as He is, so are we in this world' (1 Jn 4:17.)"
I notice a few answers to this already from people who really do know a little about this Devotion. Which is a lot more than I do. But concerning The Divne Will itself I was thinking it is a bit like Marriage. In marriage each spouse in a sense has to give up their own will. But this, since it is for a higher good, is not a loss but a gain. So it depends on how you look at it. You could look at marriage (as indeeed many people do) as a kind of imprisonment or you could look at it as a greater freedom, an opening to new possibilities...like having a family. For me one of the greatest teachers on the Divine Will are the angels. I love when I am in the woods alone to pray to the angels and simply to talk to them. I love the idea out there on my own, of being surrounded by guardian angels. A few days ago I joked with them and asked to stop making so much noise rattling their armour as they were disturbing my prayer with the rattling. I am sure I heard them laughing. People ask at once what angles or Our Lady look like? But that is to miss the point. The essence of an angel is in what the angel is. The metaphysical reality of what the dear angel is. To me angels are like a compass. A compass always points north, an angel always points towards heaven. So even though they are walking down here in the woods they are alos mostly at the feet of God. Their one desire being to do God's Will. They are perfectly Holy in this. Now does this make them 'Robots?. No. I like to think of angels as bieng like dancers. When God asks them to do something like being our angel guardains the angel puts on his dancing shoes to come down to do God's Will For, for the angel doing God's Will is very joyful and he gives all his heart in doing it. He would prefer to be nowhere esle doing anything else. For doign God's WiIl lis what he was made for. Just as doing God's Will is what we were made for. So the angels dance. Lightly and joyfully. They can even laugh at stupid jokes. I think tha tis partly the reason why we see Angels going up and down ladders, they have their dancing shoes on. As to the Divne Will Devotion itslfl. I think it is a bit like Devotion to the Sacred Heart or Divine Mercy or whatever. If we have a Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it provides a highway to understaning God's love. Of respondging to it, by loving a bit more ourselves. I think it is given that we might copy the angels a bit better by getting our own dancing shoes on. Robots do not make good dancers. Angels do..
Lusia doesen't just say 'its a continual exchange of the Divine will for our will'. Which by the way, makes sense. But Lusia also teaches us, that our will is evil! The difference I believe is.......our will is capable of evil, due to original sin, the world, the devil and the flesh. However, we read that when God created the world and the flesh which includes the gift of free will for Adam and Eve to choose Him, "He looked at what He created and said it was good. And indeed it was very good"
Hi Emmett I have been reading Unveiling the Apocalypse for a long time now. I love the site. I don't always agree with every interpretation you come up with, but I will say I have never read one of your posts and not come away learning something (or usually a bunch of things They are all well thought through as well. Thanks for your work.
