"Your Faith Anew!"
To help others increase their knowledge of the Catholic Faith, work hard to remain in a State of Grace, bring others to know the joy of the Gospel, Save Souls, Glorify God and become Saints!
Fascinated by the mystical since a young child David found a connection between the various types of magical illusions employed by magicians and deeper spiritual truth. He has authored two books related to his passion for magic and the Catholic Faith; a children's book "Bigger and Better" and "Magi Theology" for which the Nihil Obstat and Imprematur were given by the Knoxville Diocese Bishop's office. In 2010, David discovered Mystic, Luisa Piccarreta and the “Book of Heaven” after a friend suggested some similarities with his own mystical theology.
David has formed “Your Faith Anew!” prayer and study group in 2017 with the goal of helping Catholics fall in love with their Faith. David firmly believes, “The Catholic Faith prepares us to receive the Gift of Living in the Divine Will and the gift enables us to practice our Faith in a Divine manner most pleasing to God.”
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Song: Buddy Comfort - vocals and guitar from the album, "Brother Sun, Sister Moon", www.buddycomfort.com
"Your Faith Anew!"
"Before the Sanctity of the Divine Will"
NOVENA OF HOLY CHRISTMAS DAY EIGHT
December 23, 1900 – Volume 4
Luisa writes:
After going through long days of silence between blessed Jesus and me, I felt a void in my interior. This morning, on coming, He told me: ‘My beloved, what do you want to tell Me that you so much yearn to speak with Me?’
And I, feeling all ashamed, said; ‘My sweet Jesus, I want to tell You that I ardently yearn for You and for your Holy Volition, and if You concede this to me You will make me fully content and happy.’
And He added: ‘In one word you have grasped everything by asking Me for what is greatest in Heaven and on earth; and I, in this Holy Volition, yearn and want to conform you more to It.
And so that my Volition may be more sweet and enjoyable for you, place yourself in the circle of My Will, and admire Its different qualities, by pausing now in the sanctity of My Volition, now in the goodness, now in the humility, now in the beauty, and now in the peaceful dwelling that My Volition produces.
In these pausings you will make, you will acquire ever more new and unheard-of news about My Holy Volition, and you will become so bound to and enamored of It, that you will never go out again.
This will bring you a highest advantage, because being in My Will, you will have no need to fight against your passions and to be always at arms with them, for while they seem to be dying, they are born again more strong and alive.
But rather, without fighting, without clamor, smoothly they die, because before the Sanctity of My Will, passions do not dare to come forward, and lose life by themselves.
And if the soul feels the movement of her passions, it is a sign that she does not make a continuous dwelling in the boundaries of My Volition; she makes some exits, some little escapes into her own volition, and is forced to smell the stench of a corrupted nature.
On the other hand, if you remain fixed in My Will, you will be completely trouble free, and your only occupation will be loving and being loved by Me in return.’
After this, as I looked at blessed Jesus, I saw He had the crown of thorns; I removed it very gently, and I placed it upon my head. He drove it onto me and disappeared, and I found myself inside myself with an ardent desire to remain in His Most Holy Will.”
– Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta
Buddy Comfort – vocals and guitar from the album, “Brother Sun, Sister Moon”, http://www.buddycomfort.com, words and music by Donovan Leitch.