Q. What does the term “Fiat” mean?
A. The terms “Fiat” means “Let it be done.” It’s an authoritative command or decree that something be done. It can also mean saying “yes” to a request to do something, with the full intention of carrying out that request. In this way, one can unite his or her “Fiat” of acceptance to the “Fiat” of the one who makes the request or issues a decree.
Q. What does it mean to do the Will of God on earth as in Heaven?
A. To do the Will of God as it is done on earth is to be like a ‘servant’ who carries out the commands of his mater. The ‘servant,’ with the help of grace, conforms his weak, inconstant will to the infinitely perfect Divine Will. To do the Will of God as in Heaven is wholly different. In this sublime activity the soul possesses the Divine Will as one’s own, as in Heaven. Moreover, the soul freely lets God Himself carry out His own wishes in the creature, divinizing the fortunate creature’s acts, which multiply to the infinite, take root in the Eternal Act of God, and even enrapture the Three Divine Persons, who gaze at their own activity in the creature.
Q. In the Lord’s Prayer, what is meant by the words: “Thy Kingdom come”?
A. The words, “Thy Kingdom come,” taught by Jesus Himself, signify that He did not come to establish the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Otherwise, He would have said: “My Father, our Kingdom, which I have already established on earth, let It be confirmed and our Will rule and reign.” Instead, He said: “come.” This signified that It must come and that creatures must await It with the certainty that the Hebrews awaited the future Redeemer.
Q. Was Luisa Piccarreta the very first person to receive the Gift of the Divine Will?
A. Except for Adam and Eve in the beginning and Jesus and Mary, Luisa was the first. This becomes very clear upon examination of her life and writings. Jesus called her the Herald of the Divine Will; the Little Daughter of the Divine Will; the Little Newborn in the Divine Will and other titles, explaining to her how she was the first to be called into the New Era of Divine Sanctity in fulfillment of the Lord’s Prayer. Luisa received the Gift of the Divine Will on September 8, 1889, at the age of twenty-four.
Q. What are the “Three Fiats of God”?
A. In God’s relationship with mankind, there are three prime decrees, which the Most Holy Trinity has issued and which absolutely must take effect. The “First Fiat of God” is the Decree of Creation, of all that exists outside of God Himself. Here, two humans are the principal objects of this decree: Adam and Eve who were created in a most perfect manner. They were created immaculate, without sin. In their original state of justice, they were full of grace because they possessed the fountain of all grace – the Divine Will – which was the crowning glory of their creation, super-added to their perfect human nature. They lived and acted by the vital principle of God Himself, namely the Divine Will, which eternally animates the Three Divine Persons.
Had our first parents maintained the Gift of the Divine Will at the time they were tested (a test that was to confirm this Kingdom within them) the other two decrees would not have been necessary. But the omniscient Trinity foresaw the rejection of their greatest Gift to man. Behold, therefore, the merciful Decree of Redemption, the second of the three prime decrees: to free man from the bonds of sin and darkness resulting from the fall of Adam and Eve.
The two principal humans involved in the Decree of Redemption are Jesus and Mary. Here we have a Man God. The eternal, uncreated Word becomes man in the most pure womb of Mary. She is Mother of God! These two holy ones are full of grace. Jesus possesses the fountain of grace – the Divine Will – by nature, for He is God. Mary possesses the Divine Will by Gift. It is cause of her Immaculate Conception. This Kingdom of the Divine Will, which reigned in Mary, drew the Word to come to earth, incarnating Himself in her virginal womb. It would have been unfitting for God to enclose Himself in Mary had the human will be reigning in Her; for the human will on its own is weak, inconstant, prone to evil.
When the Man God, Jesus, our Redeemer, was on earth He taught us only one prayer: The “Our Father.” In that prayer He – and we – ask our Father in Heaven that His Kingdom come and that His Will be done on earth as in Heaven. The Kingdom we ask for is none other than the Kingdom of the Divine Will. This is God’s own Eternal Kingdom. When It comes to reign in souls on earth, then those fortunate souls will be able to do the Will of God as It is done in Heaven. This is the third prime decree of the Holy Trinity: The reign of the Divine Will on earth – the Decree of Sanctification !
The Decree of Sanctification is the fulfillment of God’s eternal decree to sanctify man with the Divine Sanctity Itself – by gifting souls, as far as it is possible to a creature, with the fullness of the very same Life of the Holy Trinity, which is the Divine Will, eternal fountain of all grace and blessings. This Gift enables man to do the Will of God as in Heaven. This is what Jesus taught us to pray for in the Lord’s Prayer.
These three prime decrees, being put into effect, are the Three Fiats of God. The First Fiat, the Decree of Creation, involved Adam and Eve. The second Fiat, the Decree of Redemption, involved Jesus and Mary. Who does the Third Fiat, the Decree of Sanctification, involve? From all Eternity that person was also chosen. Jesus called her the Little Daughter of the Divine Will and other similar titles for she would be the very first to do the Will of God as in Heaven in fulfillment of the Lord’s Prayer. She is Luisa Piccarreta of Corato, Italy (1865-1947).
Q. What is Eternity? What is the relationship between God and Eternity?
A. Eternity is an immense circle. Where it begins and ends cannot be known. In this circle is found God, without beginning or end, where He possesses infinite happiness, beatitude, joy, riches, beauty, etc. In every divine motion, which never ceases, He puts forth from this circle of Eternity new happiness, new beauty, new beatitudes, etc. But this new is an act that is never interrupted. The Divine Contentments, distinct among Themselves, are always new; one is not the same as another. The beatitudes of the Holy Trinity are such and so many that while They are enjoying one, others are always surprising Them; and They never end – They are eternal, immense, on par with the Divine Persons. What is Eternal has the virtue of always making new things arise. Old and repeated things do not exist in what is Eternal.
Q. Will the souls in Heaven participate in these always new joys and contentments?
A. Yes! Those who have practiced doing good on earth will take part in Heaven, in that new which is never exhausted. The good that they do on earth will be the seed that will bring them knowledge of the Holy Trinity’s beatitudes, joys, beauty, love, goodness, etc. According to the good that the soul has practiced on earth, which was harmonious with the Trinity’s varied beatitudes, so will that soul approach God and in large draughts fill herself with the beatitude of which she has contained the seed, even to overflowing outside of herself. She will take part in all that the circle of Eternity contains; and for however many seeds she will have acquired on earth, so will she be filled.
Now, what will it be for the soul who has lived in the Divine Will, where all her acts become as an Eternal and Divine seed? The circle of Eternity will flow so profusely in her that all the Celestial Jerusalem will be stupefied because of her and will celebrate new feasts and receive new glory.
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