Week 4 - Morning Prayer - Day of the Divine Will

INVITATORY

HYMN Vol. XIX, August 8, 1926

O power of my Will,
how great you are!
You alone unite the greatest and highest Being
with the smallest and lowliest,
forming them into one alone!

Only you have the power to empty the creature
of everything that doesn’t belong to you,
and with your reflections,
form that eternal sun
whose rays make it fuse
with the sun of the supreme majesty!

You alone have this virtue
of communicating the supreme power,
so that with your power the creature
can rise into that single act of God, the Creator! Amen.

Ant. 1 Only my Supreme Will is a single act which does not have a succession of acts.

Psalm 1 Vol. XVIII, October 24, 1925

The one act of my Will
is, as it were, always fixed in a single point
that never moves,
and this point is eternity.
And while it is only one act,
it is prime act and unending act.

But its circumference is so great
that nothing can escape it.
It embraces everything and everyone in a single embrace,
and everything issues from that prime act
as if it were a single act.

So, creation, redemption and sanctification
are just one act for the divinity.
And only because this act is one,
it has the power to make all acts its own,
as if they were one alone.

Whoever lives in our Will possesses this single act,
and finds his Creator in it,
as if in the act of creating creation.
Forming one single act with his God
he creates together with Him,
flowing, as it were, in a single act,
in all created things.

This forms the glory of creation for his Creator;
his love glistens on all created things.
He delights and enjoys them,
loving them as his own and as God’s.

In that single act he sounds a note
that echoes in everything God has done.
And in the intensity of his love, he says,
What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is yours;
glory, honor and love be to my Creator!

Glory be to the Father…

Ant. 1 Only my Supreme Will is a single act which does not have a succession of acts.

Ant. 2 When my Will is the center of the soul’s life, I can repeat the pains of my passion, which are in the single act of my Will.

Psalm 2 Vol. XVIII, October 24, 1925

In the one act of my Will,
the soul finds the redemption in act,
takes possession of it and suffers my pains
as if they were its own.

It flows in everything I did:
in my prayers, in my works and in my words.
In everything it has a note of reparation, of compassion,
of love and of substitution to my life.

In this one act the soul finds everything,
takes possession of everything
and puts its exchange of love everywhere.
So, the living in my Will
is the wonder of wonders.

It is the enchantment of God and of all heaven,
because they see the littleness of the creature
flowing in all the things of their Creator;
and they see it like a ray of sunlight
bound to this single act,
that spreads everywhere and into everyone.

So, I urge you never to go out
of this one act of my Will,
even if it should cost you your life,
so that I can repeat in you, as in act,
creation, redemption and sanctification.

Man’s human nature also contains
the likeness of a single act,
and this is the beating of the heart.

Human life begins with the heartbeat.
The heart has only one act; it beats.
Yet, the power and the effects of this heartbeat
on human life are innumerable.

Just as the heart is always beating in man’s human nature,
thus forming its very life,
so too, my Will beats continuously
in the depths of the soul,
but with a single beat.

As my Will beats, it gives the soul beauty, holiness,
strength, love goodness, wisdom.

Glory be to the Father …

Ant. 2 When my Will is the center of the soul’s life, I can repeat the pains of my passion, which are in the single act of my Will.

Ant. 3 O Divine Will, how much you love us! You always want to give yourself without ever stopping, to form your life in our poor souls!

Psalm 3 Vol. XXXVI, September 11, 1938

In the fulfillment of our Will there is enclosed
all the glory that the creature can give us,
the love we must love the creature with,
and the love it must love us with.

So, in one act completed in our Will
we can say that we have done everything,
given everything, even ourselves,
and have received everything.
When it lives in our Will,
we give the soul everything,
it takes everything, and can give us everything.

But when the soul doesn’t live in our Will,
if our Will is not fulfilled,
we can’t give everything because
the soul is incapable of receiving our love,
and it lacks the capacity to love us
as much as we want to be loved.

We are not content when we give what is ours
in tiny bits, as it were,
as if we were poor.

We don’t like to give just part of what is ours.
To be able to give but not give,
is always a sorrow for us.
Our love remains repressed and puts us in a frenzy.

This is why we want the soul to live in our Divine Will:
because we want to give everything continuously,
without ever stopping.

Our divine being is never exhausted.
The more we give, the more we can give.
For us to give means relief,
happiness and the venting of our love.
It is the communication of our life;
and my love is so immense
that I stay in the soul to make myself grow.

Glory be to the Father …

Ant. 3 O Divine Will, how much you love us! You always want to give yourself without ever stopping, to form your life in our poor souls!

SHORT READING - Vol. XVIII, October 24, 1925

“The power of one continuously repeated act is great. Far greater is the one act of an eternal God who has the power to do everything with one single act. Consequently, the past and the future do not exist in this act; and whoever lives in our Will already finds himself in this one act. It is a continuous wonder where this one act is the heartbeat of the soul, has full force and reigns completely. It is the miracle that only a God knows how to do. So, new heavens are unveiled in this soul, and vast new oceans of grace and of surprising truths as well.”

RESPONSORIAL Vol. XIX, May 6, 1926

G. My Will * brings together everything it does, and makes one act out of
it.

E. My Will brings together everything it does, and makes one act out of it.

G. And if it is said that my Will creates, redeems, sanctifies and so on, these
are the effects of that one act which never changes action.

E. It brings together everything it does, and makes on act out of it.

G. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

E. My Will brings together everything it does, and makes one act out of it.

Ant. of Thanksgiving In my Will there is no time to lose; there is so much to be done. It is important that you follow the never-interrupted act of God. (Vol. 36, June 5, 1938)

SONG OF THANKSGIVING

Ant. of Thanksgiving In my Will there is no time to lose; there is so much to be done. It is important that you follow the never-interrupted act of God.

INTERCESSIONS
+ O divine and immense Will, as your little new-born children, grant us to always live and do everything in your one, eternal act: Come Divine Will, come and reign in us!

+ With your own power may we make your one act ours, in each act that we do: Come…

+ May your eternal heartbeat, beating in us, create new heavens, new graces and surprising truths in us: Come...

+ For all those who assist us, and for those who commend themselves to our prayers, that the Divine Will may give them its every good: Come…

OUR FATHER …

PRAYER
O God, let us know your one and eternal act, so that we may live in it and thus convert all our life into a single act perfectly unified in yours.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.