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prayer of the heart “the place man withdrawals” our “hidden
centre beyond the grasp of reason or others”.

It also goes on to explain this is receiving fully the Holy Spirit -
the gift of love- where the sin is then forgiven and the
communion of the Holy Spirit is fully realised or mature, the
Divine likeness restored CCC 734. Again Mary’s Angelus

experience is our guide for this as the CCC puts eloquently in
N.2617 “... FIAT: this is Christian prayer: to be wholly God’s
because he is wholly ours.”

So this confirms what Jesus said to Luisa that the DIVINE WILL
is the Third FIAT of God, the FIAT of the Holy Spirit. With the
first FIAT that of the Father re Creation and the second the

FIAT that of Jesus re the Redemption.

Thus St Augustine says Jesus gives us the likeness of God
once more, the more we follow him as the Way, Truth and Life.
If we had God’s likeness we would not sin, and would not need

the redemption of Jesus! God’s likeness is living in the DIVINE
WILL .

Thus very many prayers of the liturgy, opening and closing

prayers, are an asking from us to have God’s likeness once
more (I will devote whole chapter to this). Here is one prayer
from the Liturgy of the Hours: Office of Readings, 7 January

“Let us pray. God, our Father, when your Only-Begotten Son
revealed himself in flesh and blood, we came to know him as
our fellow-man. May he transform us inwardly until we bear his
likeness, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy

Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen.”

As Pope Francis put it in his morning homily 10 June 2014: “To

meet God it is necessary to go back to the situation where the

man was at the time of creation, standing and walking. Thus did
God create us: capable of standing full upright before Him, in

his image and likeness, and on our way with Him. ‘Go, go

ahead: cultivate the land, make it grow; and multiply.’ [Then, to
Elijah], ‘Enough! Go out and go up to the mountain and stand

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