Luisa Piccarreta, a Remarkable Mystic
By: Vic Alcuaz
Tags: Life, Countdown, Mysticism, My Catholic Life, Catholic

I discovered ‘The Countdown to the Kingdom’ website just before the pandemic of 2020. I have done one feature in Ave Maria about their fascinating main theme: ‘The Countdown to the Kingdom’.

The series is presented by two prominent Catholic scholars, Mark Marlett and Daniel O’Connor, who discuss prophecies from the Book of Revelations, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and infuse within these prophesies new day predictions and theological teachings on the ‘end of times’ from the visions of early church Fathers and Popes.

The website cover page quotes the Old Testament succintly:

(1 Thessalonians 5:20–21)

The website further explains why it exists in the first place:

We believe the Church needs this gift of the Holy Spirit more than ever — a light in the darkness — as we countdown to the coming of Christ’s Kingdom.

Can anything God say be unimportant? We don’t think so either, which is why we created this website: a place for the Body of Christ to discern credible voices of prophecy.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries” (n. 66).

All that is necessary for salvation has been revealed. However, God has not ceased to speak to His creation!

Why Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta?

Those who have not yet heard a proper introduction to the revelations on the “Gift of Living in the Divine Will,” which Jesus entrusted to Luisa are sometimes perplexed by the zeal harbored by those who have had this introduction: “Why so much emphasis on the message of this lowly lay woman from Italy who died over 70 years ago?”

Although you can find such an introduction in the books, The Crown of History, The Crown of Sanctity, The Sun of My Will (published by the Vatican itself), A Guide to the Book of Heaven (which bears an imprimatur), the works of Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, and other sources, please nevertheless allow me to here, in just a few sentences, strive to put an end to the perplexity.

Just as the astounding revelations on the Divine Mercy entrusted by Jesus to St. Faustina constitute God’s final effort of salvation (before his Second Coming in grace), so too His revelations on the Divine Will entrusted to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta constitute God’s final effort of sanctification.

Salvation and sanctification: the two ultimate desires God has for His dear children. The former is the foundation for the latter; thus, it is fitting that Faustina’s revelations became widely known first; but, ultimately, God desires not merely that we accept His mercy, but that we accept His very own life as our life and thus become like Himself — as much as is possible for a creature.

While Faustina’s revelations, themselves, regularly allude to this new sanctity of living in the Divine Will (as do the revelations of many other fully approved mystics of the 20th century), it has been left to Luisa to be the primary herald and “secretary” of this “new and divine holiness” (as Pope St. John Paul II called it).

While Luisa’s revelations are fully orthodox (the Church has repeatedly affirmed this and even largely approved them already), they nevertheless give what is, frankly, the most amazing message one can possibly imagine. Their message is so mind-boggling that doubt is an inevitable temptation, and entertaining it would be called for, but for the fact that simply no reasonable grounds remain to doubt its authenticity.

And the message is this:

After 4,000 years of preparation within salvation history and 2,000 years of even more explosive preparation within Church history, the Church is finally ready to receive her crown; she is ready to receive that which the Holy Spirit has been guiding Her toward the entire time. It is none other than the very holiness of Eden itself — the holiness that Mary, too, enjoyed in a far more perfect way than even Adam and Eve — and it is now available for the asking.

This holiness is called “Living in the Divine Will.” It is the grace of graces. It is the full realization of the “Our Father” prayer in the soul, that God’s Will be done in you just as it is done by the saints in Heaven.

It does not replace any of the existing devotions and practices that Heaven has been asking of us — frequenting the Sacraments, praying the Rosary, fasting, reading Scripture, consecrating ourselves to Mary, doing works of mercy, etc. — rather, it makes these calls even more urgent and exalted, for we can now do all these things in a truly divinized way.

But Jesus has also told Luisa that He is not content with merely a few souls here and there living this “new” sanctity. He is going to bring about its reign over the entire world in the imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace.

Only thus will the “Our Father” prayer truly be fulfilled; and this prayer, the greatest prayer ever prayed, is a sure prophecy uttered by the lips of the Son of God. His Kingdom will come. Nothing and no one can stop it.

But, through Luisa, Jesus is begging all of us to be the ones to proclaim this Kingdom; to learn more about the Will of God (as He has revealed Its very depths to Luisa); to live in His will ourselves and thus prepare the ground for its universal reign; to give Him our wills so that He may give us His own.

“Jesus, I trust in You. Thy Will be done. I give you my will; please give me Yours in return.”

“Let Your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven.”

These are the words that Jesus is begging us to have ever on our mind, heart, and lips. (See On Luisa and Her Writings for a short summary on the remarkable mysticism of Luisa and the present ecclesiastical status of her writings).