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Introduction to the Divine Will by Fr. Emil

PART 1, Based on Australian Divine Will Priests’ Retreats led by

Tony Hickey in 2013, 2015 & Fr Joseph Iannuzzi in

2014

Happy the people who acclaim such a king,
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,
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who find their joy every day in your name,
who make your justice the source of their
bliss. Ps 88:15-16

This quote by Karl Rahner: “The Christian of

the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at

all.” [Used at The Proclaim Conference Sydney
August 2014] sets the context why the Divine Will is so

important for the Church today. I will first present a summary,

then look at today’s context.

We read in the Church’s liturgy in the Divine Office of

Readings, St Thomas Aquinas on the feast of Corpus Christi.

“Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men
should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that

by becoming man he might make men gods.” We call this

Divinisation; it’s the whole point of Christianity.

Only God can do this, quiet obviously, for us. So the teaching

Jesus gave Luisa, could not come from human thinking. It’s the

fulfilment of “Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Scripture has these seeds of truth, but Jesus needed to give

the human heart time to understand, and that was the role of

the Holy Spirit, hence cf Jn 14 says the Holy Spirit leads us into
all truth. Being private revelation it’s filtered through the

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