My divine darkness and His divine light combine together to become love…

By Tiziana DellaRovere

Yesterday in the late afternoon, due to a power surge, all the lights in my house went out. Suddenly, I was in complete darkness. Instead of being startled, I felt comforted. My body sank into a state of restful surrender, my mind emptied of all thoughts, and my heart was soothed by the tranquility of that darkness. I felt safe. There is a time for light, and there is a time for darkness. 

We are moving rapidly toward winter, a time when many people feel depressed—too much darkness. But is this refusal to enter into darkness purely physiological or does it have an emotional/spiritual component?

“In the truth of My heart I say to you, your flesh is just as divine as your spirit.”

By Tiziana DellaRovere

Recently, I was watching a TV program about weight loss. The expert being interviewed, an M.D., was a super lean, wiry woman with one of those body types that could eat like a horse and never gain weight. She declared, with an annoyed, smugly superior self-confidence, “It’s real simple: A calorie is a calorie, regardless of where it comes from. Eat fewer calories than you consume, and you will lose weight.”

“In the stillness of the truth, you rest in Me, in My serene heart.”

By Tiziana DellaRovere

I don’t know why Mother Mary appeared to me. She appeared to me in spite of my spiritual prejudices and my wandering as far away as possible from the spiritual traditions of my native Catholic Church and its abuses of power. She came to me in spite of my feminism and the fact that I plainly disliked Her, since to me She was a symbol of demure passivity, second fiddle to the Christ, and in perpetual mourning and sorrow. To top this off,

By Tiziana DellaRovere

Are we men and women, or are we just human beings? In today's culture, there is a trend toward obliterating gender differentiation. This trend results in many people, particularly the younger generation, protesting at the idea of identifying themselves as "a man" or "a woman." "I’m not a man or a woman," they say. "I'm a human being!"