THE TRIUNE INDWELLING: A GIFT RESERVED FOR THESE END TIMES
Fr. J.L. Iannuzzi, STL, S.Th.D.
In the True Life in God messages the three divine Persons reveal to us through their instrument Vassula a new “Presence” in the souls of the baptized. This new Presence is the work of the Holy Spirit (TLIG, August 12, 1998;[1] June 21, 1999;[2] November 4, 2016[3]) who restores to the soul of the baptized the same interior union with the will of God that our first parents enjoyed in Eden. And it is manifest in Gods’ revealing himself to us today “totally” (Nov. 4, 2016) and in giving himself to us ‘totally’ (February – April, 2003), whereby we may “be filled with the absolute fullness of God’s Trinitarian Deity” (June 7, 1998).
As a theologian I wish to emphasize that up until the 19th century, before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in these End times, there is no mention of a Trinitarian indwelling or holiness among the baptized. As God the Father created the universe and God the Son redeemed it, so now the Holy Spirit is sanctifying it in these End Times. One simply cannot find in any of the writings of the saints before these End Times the soul of the baptized experiencing a Trinitarian indwelling. Indeed the 13th century scholastic theologian St. Thomas Aquinas relates that only the Holy Spirit dwells in the baptized – not the Father nor the Son – via sanctifying grace, and that the Son is known by other effects: “Although the Son can be known by us according to other effects, yet neither does he dwell in us, nor is he possessed by us according to those effects.”[4]
In the ecclesiastically approved True Life in God prophetic revelations we find a new Presence of the three divine Persons in the soul who establish within it their Trinitarian holiness. As further proof that this Triune indwelling is a new gift of the Holy Spirit recently outpoured upon mankind, consider its articulations in the lives and writings of the following contemporary exemplars whose writings are approved by the Church and that include St. Hannibal di Francia (1851-1927), the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (1865-1947), Saint Padre Pio di Pietrelcina (1887-1969), St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), the Servant of God Marthe Robin (1902-1981), St. Faustina Kowlaska (1905-1938), St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) and others whose writings are contained in my publication prefaced by two Catholic bishops, “The Splendor of Creation.”
On July 17, 1996 Jesus affirms, “I shall descend upon you to give you freedom and bring you in union with Our Oneness, filling you with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Holiness; a baptism of Fire is coming upon you, creation! a baptism so longed for, to make all things new again; daughter, proclaim the Kingdom of God and let no one hinder you”. To which Vassula replies, “I shall do Your Will and I shall bring as many as possible in union with Your Oneness, so that they too will be filled with the absolute fullness of Your Trinitarian Holiness.”
On June 7, 1998 Jesus continues this theme when revealing, “Count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity.”
On June 21, 2999 Jesus reveals, “You are all called to become gods by participation and enter in the Triune life to rule with Us; indeed I am Sovereign of your soul, oh, but such an intimate Friend as well, who can draw you into deification.”
On November 11, 1998, Vassula relates, “My Lord, most gracious, I beg You to come and cultivate my will that it becomes Your Will, stripping it and transforming it to be nothing else but Your Divine Will.”
In response and on January 18, 2002 Jesus affirms, “I will continue to give Myself more to you so long as you allow My Divine Will to remain in you, relying on It and renouncing your will to Mine.” In the following messages Jesus reiterate this important truth:
In the following messages Jesus reiterates the importance of this new outpouring of the Holy Spirit that establishes within us a Triune holiness.
“The real knowledge is to know Us, in Our Trinitarian Holiness and live in an intimate union with Us; I have no favourites, so let the devotion of My Sacred Heart be known to all people” (TLIG, November 28, 1996).
“Your heart will continue to be adorned with the wealth of your King and Lord; this wealth of knowing Me in My triune glory… and the wealth of doing My Divine Will and what is pleasing to Me, your God” (TLIG, May 6, 1997).
“O child of the Father!… come back to Me as a child and My grace will be upon you and My Holy Spirit thrice Holy will be your guide and your lamp” (TLIG, November 27, 1996).
“Feast of Our Mercy! Enjoyment of Our Trinitarian Holiness, be rooted in Our Will and be like a sprig of frankincense in summer-time, to continue to manifest the Truth and give a better explanation of the Revelation given to you… continue to walk in the path laid out with sapphires for you, and be a herald and apostle of Our Trinitarian Deity” (TLIG, October 19, 1998).
There are several characteristics or signs that accompany this new Presence of three divine Persons in the souls of the baptized. One sign is the soul’s ability to experience while it is still on earth the same interior union of the blessed in heaven in which the three divine Persons are operating in the souls thoughts words and actions. Consider the following two messages of May 5, 2001 and Feb-April 2003. In the former message Jesus reveals, “One who dwells in Me and is nourished by Me, raised by Me and clothed with Myself in glorious perfection, will be able to say: ‘I am one with God, for I am living now, while still on earth and among beings: a True Life in God … I am like a fortified city, because my walls were rebuilt by the Holy Spirit Himself; with the Holy Spirit within my walls I am destined to everlasting glory; the Holy Spirit has shrouded my soul in a celestial beauty to be able to step into Your Glory O Christ and live forever! my step will not be mine but His! I will be walking with God because from carnal pleasures I have turned away, and now my spirit is living in blessedness and is incorrupt befitting the Triune God and His Holy Presence.’”
In the later message Jesus reveals, “What is Eternal Life? Eternal Life is to know Us in Our Triune Glory; therefore, if you are wavering, not knowing what I mean, I offer you My Hand and once you take it I will offer you through Grace Life in Us; receive My precious help for this will prepare you to espouse Me and be forever in My Divine Presence; I will then be the ineffable Parousia in your heart because I am the inner power within you; I said I will offer you Life through Grace; what is Grace? it is like a lustrous light that shows you how to share in the Divine Life; Our Triune Holiness and Mercy perfume the whole cosmos… while your body will be moving among men your heart and mind will be enraptured in the luminous light of heaven; if anyone, Vassula, lifts his eyebrow to you and narrows his eyes and asks you: ‘what do you mean when you say, we too can possess God? this cannot be done, nor said;’ I tell you, unless one has experienced the Divine Presence in his heart, the radiance and the Luminous Light of My presence within him, he will never know nor comprehend what is sealed and hidden, for it is through Me that those mysteries are revealed; the door of Wisdom will only open to a contrite heart and to those who in spite of their impoverished soul will fulfil the Commandments; in these souls will I reveal Myself.”
Other signs that accompany the soul that receives this new outpouring of the Holy Spirit that establishes within it God’s Trinitarian indwelling are found in the following words of Vassula from March 3, 1999. She states, “God’s Presence is so very manifest in our days and we have to be blind not to see it. How would we know of this? We would know it by the joy and peace our soul obtains, the tranquility in which He puts the soul to rest. Our Lord asked me one day: ‘…What does My Presence give you?’ I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me, and He opened my mouth to utter these words: Your Presence gives me a foretaste of the Beatitude Vision. It gives me a contemplation of Your glory; Your Presence gives me an indwelling delight, that which is given to the saints with merits. I have none. It gives me an intellectual awareness that in Your transcended Light, You, the Godhead, who fill all things without being contained by their limits can dwell in me, can dwell in us. I find in Your Presence, joy, light, sighs of longing, longing to penetrate even more in contemplation so that I may see what no eye has seen and hear what no ear has heard.” (20.1.1999)
In his Odes of February 3, 2003 God the Father reveals “dispassion” as another trait of one who experiences the new Trinitarian indwelling, “Near Me and in My Embrace you will grow upright in purpose and learning; you will ponder in all My hidden mysteries and upon the angelic Virtue of dispassion…”
In the ecclesiastically approved True Life in God prophetic revelations the three divine Persons speak to us through the “Odes of the Trinity.” An ode is a type of lyric poetry. The Trinitarian Odes are lovingly structured poems revealing God’s love for mankind and the new and divine glory he wishes to bestow upon us. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit take turns is lovingly courting mankind as a bridegroom its bride, or as a lover its beloved, by revealing the noble heights to which we are forever destined.
The Odes of the Trinity reveal a new outpouring of grace God upon mankind that has been reserved for these End Times. Although we are the most sinful generation and the least worthy to merit this divine benevolence, God the Father begins the Odes by manifesting to us his great mercy. He reveals, “I address My Odes with no sword by My side; My Divine Mysteries are loveable and are revealed to you with oil of gladness; although I have seen your wretchedness and known the miseries of your soul, I have not turned My Face from you, but rather, with Love I remember you” (TLIG, Feb. 3, 2003). Inasmuch as St. Paul reminds us that “where sin abounds grave abounds all the more” (Rom. 5:20–21), Jesus saved his best wine for last (Jn. 2:10), and Jesus reveals to St. Faustina that “The greater the sinner, the greater the right he has to My mercy” (Diary of St. M.F. Kowalska, 723), so God the Father has reserved for these End Times his greatest mercy and the finest spiritual fruits. The three divine Persons today seek to actualize in wounded human nature the same interior union with the Divine Will that our first parents enjoyed before sin. God the Son reveals in the True Life on message of February 3, 2003, “make haste at your King’s command to write this Ode, giving it the name: ‘Odes of the Holy Trinity’ then make it known in every city, every province and honour Us…”
God the Father reveals,
I have to re-educate them [mankind] to learn how to seek My Holy Face and recognise it; when your foundations fall to ruin, am I not to intervene? have you not read that I never ceased to work? 1 but to believe that I have ceased to enrich My creation with abundant gifts as in ancient times, is the most harmful of heresies!”
…creation, do not weep, do not mourn, but rejoice and be glad! raise no more dirges when your Creator is singing to you! but open your heart instead so that My Glory and My Light adorn you majestically; shut neither your ears to your King who brings you this wealth from heaven; the One whom you classified as inaccessible, invisible or as: hidden essence, ministers to you now! rejoice in these times of Mercy and be glad!
… My Ode now is to lead you to repentance and to acknowledge Me… many of you ask today with disbelief: ‘how can this hidden essence above every essence, absolutely inconceivable, that is God, be manifesting Himself in this most mystical way in our modern times and express Himself in such direct terms through one of us who is also dust and ashes?’
… I am free to sing to you and remind you of your true foundations… My Ode will be as sweet as honey to all mouths, and like music at a wine feast…I am telling you all, you too could be counted among My saints who are fit to see Me if you allowed My Holy Spirit to pass through you to shatter all your impurities, and once purity is acquired, the vision of Myself will be given you; ah, generation, from the very beginning We created you in the image of Our Own Nature, saying: ‘let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, in the likeness of Ourselves’… now, come all you who desire Me and throng round Me; come and listen to this Ode coming from the reservoirs of Heaven…
today, I am stepping out of the highest heaven, to call you and become one with Me; I am giving Myself to you to discover My greatness and My Divinity; it is the mystical union between the Creator and His creature; the Bridegroom, who is your King as well, invites you to wed Him; just like a bridegroom stepping out of his golden pavilion, shining like a sun with graciousness, shimmering in his light, I step out of heaven to invite you into the Golden Chamber of My Heart, that is My Bosom and Love…
My Heart is your nuptial bed, come and learn My language… I am inviting your delicate soul to enjoy My sweetness; My desire, and I would add, My thirst, is to save you and lift you to ascend in heaven where you belong;
come to Me, My own, in the Golden Chamber of My Bosom and I will grant your soul the sight of My Holy Face; beloved, to have heard Me is to be reborn; to have seen Me is to be; what better offer than someone offering you eternal bliss in a life spent with Me? and for all eternity? in the Abyss of My Mercy I can wash you from every stain and purify you from all your sins, in order to obtain My heritage…”
In the Odes of the Trinity God the Father reveals that in order for the Trinity to establish their Indwelling in us they must cleanse, re-educate, transform and divinize us so that we may be properly disposed for the Holy Spirit and God’s angels to clothe us with Christ’s garment of light and the cloak of God the Father’s integrity. These garments enable us to enjoy on earth the same interior union with the Will and Love of God that the saints and angels enjoy in heaven. Indeed, the angels become the “Guardians of God’s Kingdom’s Threshold,” which is, the kingdom of heaven now experienced on earth by those who have allowed themselves to be divinized by God’s grace. These angels will drive out demons, and cleanse and purify us before they lead us to God. After all a period of cleansing and wiping away is a customary preparation for the bride-to-be. After having cleansed us, the angels will open a path for us, spreading sapphires on it, to lead them to us to union with him. In this way we will be joined in procession together with God’s angels and saints who live in his Will and enter with them the King’s Royal Chamber. For this reason Vassula implored God follows on April 22, 1990as follows, “May we be one, united, and live holy as your angels in heaven, like all souls who live in heaven.”
God the Father reveals, “In order to be becomingly adorned and fragranced and worthy to enter in the Nuptial Chamber of the Divine and espouse Him I must transform you to be like the morning star… when My Holy Spirit will put on you the splendid Garment… you will be clothed with Christ Himself, your wedding gown, you will be dressed in glorious perfection, ready to go up to the holy altar to meet your Bridegroom, where Divine Grace will lead you to be… I will grant you then, My own, the sight of My Divine Face; although you will still be on earth, you will be in Me, and having been giving a vision of Myself, your heart will rise in heaven in the Divine Light…
You, in wonder and in your ravishment, will cry out to Me: ‘how am I considered deemed to enter in Your Royal Chamber, O Sovereignty? how am I deemed to be so privileged… to be joined to my Beloved, passionately I will fly like a dove in Your Embrace and melt, fading away in Your radiant Light and becoming light myself’…
I am giving Myself to you to possess Me… discover Me in My transcendent Light and you will shine on every one of your members like Moses’ face shone upon seeing Me face to face; come forward and I will shine on each one of your members’… this is the very moment I prepared for all of you from the beginning of your creation: the Nuptial Chamber where I lead every soul to take part in My Mystical Marriage… this glorious manifestation from heaven is revealed to you to hallow you and make a saint out of you upon seeing the grandeur of your Triune God.”
God reveals on February 3, 2002 “…the angels and the whole celestial Court will wrap the cloak of My Integrity around you lifting you like a censer filled with incense to fragrance the earth…”. The angels of God play an important role in establishing within us the Triune indwelling. This is particularly manifest when God the Fathers reveals, “I have by royal command given authority to all My Angels to go from North to South and from East to West and gather you all, announcing that the Triune God, in an ineffable way intends to transfigure His creation; these Angels are the Guardians of My Kingdom’s Threshold…
I tell you truly, that you too will join the procession round the altar together with My Angels and Saints if you are open to My Will, allowing in this way to be led into the King’s Royal Chamber with the Angels and Saints in your train; these Guardians of My Kingdom’s Threshold [angels] then in one voice will cry out: ‘gate, raise your arch, rise, you glorious door, let the bride in! the King of Glory, the Ruler of nations who reigns forever, her Beloved, is waiting for His bride’… ‘the angels then will sing in one voice: ‘God’s Domain is immeasurably wide’… your King comes to you now in your dark days with a train of His angels to invite you to His wedding feast; many are called but few are chosen… My angels, the guardians of My Threshold, will open a path for them, spreading sapphires on it, to lead them to Me… and you, you who cry out to Me: ‘gravediggers are gathering for me, Lord, save me! I want to renounce to sin and be with you now in the wedding feast!’ do not despair, you too will be saved since you are willing to be saved; and the gravediggers will be chased away by My angels; then My angels will lift you sublimely on a dazzling white sheet and holding it by its four corners, will soar the skies carrying you in the heights to treat your wounds with heavenly balm, oil of myrrh, spices and lotions; this will be done to cleanse you and purify you before they lead you to Me; this period of cleansing and wiping away is customary preparation for the bride-to-be; every bride-to-be has, for a period of time, to be cleansed before My angels deliver you into the Nuptial Chamber to meet your Bridegroom…
And on July 20, 1992, Jesus reveals that the angels will separate the good from the bad: “I will say to My angel: ‘the hour has come to sort out and pull out all who are not Mine; sort out from those who acknowledged Me, all those who have not willed to comply with My Law; sort out from those who allowed and welcomed My Holy Spirit to be their Guide and their Torch, all those who rebelled in their apostasy against Me; sort out from those who are branded on the forehead with the Lamb’s Seal, all those with the name of the beast or with the number 666;’ the Time is here and I Myself am branding My people with My Name and My Father’s Name.”
As noted earlier, this outpouring of the Holy Spirit reserved for these End Times engenders within us a new Presence of God, that is, the indwelling of all three divine Persons. Through this Triune Presence of God in the soul, not only do we live in God, but he “lives” in us with the fullness of the Godhead, thereby animating all of our thoughts, words and actions. On June 5, 1993 Jesus reveals, “live then the way I want you to live since I live in you…” On February 11, 1992: “the Power of My Holy Spirit will be in full union with you all, to guide you to live: a True Life in Me, your God.” October 2, 1989: “I tell you solemnly that anyone who lives in Love lives in Me your God and I live in him.” On October 25, 1994: “We will carry your mind and soul and heart in Us to live in Us… shall teach you that we are Life and in Us you will not cease to be.” On February 11, 1992: “My Heart is open for everyone to come and live inside It; be rooted in Me and you shall live…” On January 9, 1996: “Blessed are you, for allowing My Holy Spirit to rest upon you and act in you; these are the things now I want to reveal, so that everyone on this earth can be drawn towards Me and live in My utter fullness and that every living creature can possess Me as I too would wish to possess them; freedom is to be found in My Spirit, thrice Holy consolation and refreshment is to be found in My Spirit; your sinful passions can be washed away by My Spirit thrice Holy and He can offer you the freedom to serve Me in a new and delightful way, attracting hordes of nations into sanctity, because you would be renewed by My Holy Spirit.”
September 25, 1997: “I, who only act out of love, will fasten your little heart on integrity… inviting you to enter into the True and Unique Knowledge of Our Triune Deity; this Knowledge of Ourselves will teach you that We can give you back your divinity, divinising your soul to enter into Eternal Life; and that Our Divine Light can glitter too into your soul and body to live in Our Light and in Us… I, the Most High, Bridegroom of My creation, will show you such fullness of love and tenderness that your soul will taste what it is like in heaven while you would still be on earth”
January 5, 2006: Vassula declares to God, “Now, I know that I possess You as You possess me and all these delights I experience in Your Presence are given by You, Lover of mankind! this is to live a life beyond being, a life in eternity, a life that illumines the rest of the world.”
From February-April 2003 God the Son reveals, “not many understand the Holy undivided Trinity, yet We are one Substance, one Power, and one Knowledge, one God alone… and We are free to communicate Ourselves to any soul and at any time; the Father and I and the Holy Spirit, all three descend as three witnesses to respell Our Word and re-educate you to live a true life in Us… is created in such an ineffable way that it should be able to maintain all the Sublime Love, and Sweetness of Our Presence… for men this is impossible; for God everything is possible; anyone who truly and sincerely struggles to participate in My Grace, can remain dispassionate of this world…
I had said that My Father and I and the Holy Spirit will come and dwell with the soul that loves Me and keeps My Commandments; My Presence is fully in these hearts and through the Light We shed in them, these souls come to the Divine Knowledge of Myself; this great Knowledge filled with love lead their feet into the Nuptial Chamber where I, their Bridegroom, wait for them to enjoy untroubled peace… every soul can attain the heights of My Love; every soul is called to a Divine union with Me… it is time, yes indeed, to separate the darnel from the wheat… I will give them, through the power of My Holy Spirit, the Grace for their hidden self to grow strong to anyone who responds to My graceful Call, so that they may live in Me, and I may live in them… these noble Odes will be sung to this generation and to others that follow it…
blessed are those who hear My Word and act on it, the ineffable Light will englobe them entirely, transforming them into gods by participation;
Along with the Father and the Holy Spirit, the Son of God begins to restore to us the primordial holiness that man enjoyed before sin. Jesus reveals, “now you will become part of Me and one with Me adorning each one of your members with Divinity and Light, incorruption and blessedness to be befitting for Me, your God and King;all of a sudden the world of the past will seem to fade away gently from you with all its contents, forever; and in a single moment, impassibility, the angelic virtue, will blossom in your heart, likewise a spiritual sensuousness of what it would be like to be near the Beatific Vision will occur itself instantly; angelic virtues in variety will be your crown from thereon… enwrapped in My Holy Spirit, your mouth will be My Mouth, your limbs, My Limbs, your eyes, My Eyes, your utterance will be My Utterance; your acts and thoughts will all be divine… this will be the beginning of your new life in Me… I will be possessing you and you in your turn will be possessing Me;
I, who am the Absolute, will infuse in you… the desire to be permanently inside of Life… these are the ones favoured to reach deification… these are the ones destined to become light for having given their life for Me and having allowed Me to wholly assimilate them in Me…”
[1] “Will I hear from you these blessed words:… ‘ah, adorable Bridegroom, transfigure my heart into a pure heart and deify me through the divine power of Your Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the Divine; let Him shine within me like a Parousia now, and my soul will live and will glorify Your Triune Divinity as well.’”
[2] “My Holy Spirit progressed you to get to know Me and love Me bringing you to Me, as a bride is brought to her bridegroom and perform an everlasting union; in that same manner, but in a more ineffable way, the Holy Spirit brought you to an everlasting union of love with Us and in Us the Triune God…”
[3] “One cannot understand Me, your God, without the Spirit… I do reveal Myself totally; after having been sated with My Spirit, the dullness of your flesh being no more your spirit free from flesh, belongs thoroughly to the Holy Spirit.”
[4] T. Aquinas, Summa Theol. 1.43,3 ad 3.
