What Are Round Songs?

Our first purpose in making the Rounds is to love God.

We enter spiritually into His works, gathering the love He has placed in them and offering it back to Him.

We love Him in the beauty of creation, in the mysteries of Redemption, and in the work of the Holy Spirit.

We do not worship creation itself. Rather, we adore the Creator and recognize His Divine Will working in and sustaining all that He has made.

In this way, even the smallest things become opportunities to glorify Him.

I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat, gathering the whole Creation together, to bring It before the Supreme Majesty as the most beautiful homage, the most profound adoration and the most intense and extensive love for the One who had created It. It seemed to me that there was nothing more beautiful I could bring to my Creator than the magnificence and the continuous prodigy of His own works. Then, while I was doing this, my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:

“My daughter, no homage is more beautiful and worthy of Our adorable Majesty than offering to Us Our own works. As you go around in the Creation, you gather Our divine army to send it to Us as Our glory and as the fierce army which asks with insistence and violence for the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Therefore, as you go around, you place the Divine Fiat in front of each created thing, as a noble and divine flag, and with their tacit speech they ask with divine strength for the Kingdom of my Will upon earth.

Oh, how beautiful it is to see the whole Creation bannered all over with the Divine Fiat! From the smallest to the greatest thing, they all possess the flag of the Fiat placed by my little daughter. They really look like a formidable army; and waving their noble flag with authority, they ask with repeated petitions for what they possess – the Kingdom of my Will upon earth.””

Book of Heaven, Volume 24, May 30, 1928

This is why I push you so much to go around in all Our works – Creation and Redemption – so that you may place the share of your acts, your ‘I love You’, your adoration, your gratitude, your ‘thank You’ upon all Our works.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 19, September 13, 1926

Ordinarily, our prayers are limited by what we know and whom we remember.

But in the Divine Will, we desire to pray with a much greater intention.

We can offer our love, thanksgiving, and petitions on behalf of every soul of the past, present, and future.

We can ask Jesus to reach those who do not know Him, those who have wandered away, those who suffer, and those who have never experienced His love.

Now, such are the acts done in my Will, and still more. In doing her act, the creature makes it small and limited, but as it enters into my Will, it becomes immense, it invests all, it gives light and heat to all, it reigns over all.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 12, December 12, 1917

My daughter, the acts done in my Will dissolve the human acts, and identifying themselves with my divine acts, they rise up to Heaven, circulate in everyone, embrace all centuries, all points and all creatures. And since they remain fixed in my Will, these acts are, and will be, the defenders of my Throne for each offense which creatures give to Me – not only in the present time, but until the end of the centuries. Rising to defend Me, they will make reparations counter to the offenses that creatures will make. The acts done in my Will have the virtue of multiplying themselves according to the need and the circumstances which my Glory requires.

What will the happiness of the soul be, when she finds herself up there in Heaven, and sees her acts done in my Will, as defenders of my Throne, and which, having a continuous echo of reparation, will reject the echo of the offenses that come from the earth? Therefore, the glory in Heaven of the soul who lives in my Will on earth will be different from that of the other Blessed. The others will draw all their contentments from Me; while these souls will not only draw them from Me, but will also have their own little rivers within my Sea. As they lived in my Volition on earth, they formed them by themselves within my Sea. It is just that in Heaven too they have this little river of happiness and contentments, which will extend over all the Blessed. How beautiful are these rivers, within my Sea!”

Book of Heaven, Volume 12, May 24, 1920

The Rounds invite us to join spiritually with the Blessed Virgin Mary, the angels, and the saints in glorifying the Most Holy Trinity.

We can thank God for their holiness, honor His Divine Will in their lives, and unite our praise to theirs.

Heaven is already filled with the perfect praise of God. Our prayer does not add something lacking to the happiness of the Blessed.

Instead, we are invited to participate, even while on earth, in the great hymn of love and glory offered to God.

The Unity of It binds her to God, and she gives Me the glory of the Divine operating; it binds her to the Angels and to the Saints, and she gives Me the Angelic glory and that of the Saints.”

Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta, Book of Heaven, Volume 22, August 15, 1927

And we can offer the acts of the saints!

As you were paying attention to each act, remembering it, offering it, the Saint who had done that act, that sacrifice, felt called by the pilgrim soul, and saw his act palpitating again on earth, and therefore, doubled, the glory to his Creator and to himself.”

There is no greater honor that you can give to all of Heaven than offering their acts that they did on earth.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 29, October 8, 1931

The Rounds also inspire us to remember the souls undergoing purification after death.

In Volume 20, November 3, 1926, Jesus speaks to Luisa about the importance of prayers and suffrages offered in His Divine Will for the souls in Purgatory.

The more the soul possesses of my Will, the more value her prayers, her works, her pains, contain; therefore she can bring more relief to those blessed souls.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 20, November 3, 1926

One of the most beautiful purposes of the Rounds is to ask God to restore the reign of His Divine Will in human hearts.

This is the utility of your little rounds in My Fiat. The acts that you emit in It, your asking, over and over again, for the coming of Its Kingdom, are all necessary things, that are needed for the great purchase of It.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 24, July 4, 1928

My daughter, the prayers done in my Divine Volition to obtain the advent of Its Kingdom upon earth hold a great empire over God. God Himself cannot rid Himself of it, nor can He not grant it.

In fact, as the creature prays in my Divine Fiat, We feel the strength of Our Will that prays with Its empire; with Its immensity, It extends everywhere, and embracing the universal strength, the prayer extends everywhere, in such a way that We feel surrounded from all sides, We feel Our own Will praying within Us; and from prayer it changes into command, and says: ‘I want’. And as it rules over Our Divine Being with its sweet empire, We say: ‘We want.’

Therefore, the prayers done in Our Divine Fiat can be called decisions, commands, which carry the signed deed of that which is wanted; and if what is wanted cannot be seen instantly, it is because We are disposing the secondary causes so as to let what We have decided to give come out of Us. Therefore, it is not to be put in doubt that, sooner or later, one will see, descend from Heaven, that which, with decision, has been granted to him.

Therefore, continue the prayers in Our Fiat – prayers that move Heaven and earth, and even God Himself, if you love to see my Kingdom upon earth; and I will pray together with you in order to obtain the intent. More so, since the ultimate purpose of Creation is precisely this – that Our Divine Will was to reign on earth as It does in Heaven.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 27, January 26th, 1930

Another beautiful purpose of the Rounds is to keep God company. Jesus reveals to Luisa that His Divine Will desires the loving companionship of souls throughout Creation. Although His Will is present and active in all created things, so often His love goes unrecognized and unreturned.

As we make our Rounds, we lovingly accompany His Divine Will in the sun, the stars, the sea, and every created thing. We respond to His love with our own little “I love You,” united to His Divine Love.

In this way, we are not simply admiring God’s works from a distance. We are entering into a loving exchange with our Creator, accompanying His Divine Will, returning His love, and bringing Him joy.

To live in my Will is precisely this: to keep company with all the acts which my Will does. My Will does not want to live isolated in the midst of Creation, but wants the company of the creature, because of whom – because It loves her so much – It maintains the order of the whole Creation and makes Itself life of each thing.

And when It finds the soul who keeps It company in this life which It maintains in the whole universe, my Will rejoices, makes feast and feels happy. It finds the one whom It loves, and by whom It is loved in return; It finds one to whom It can make Itself known, and what It possesses; and in Its happiness, It narrates to the soul the secrets of Its Volition, Its value and Its surprising effects.

But this is nothing. As It narrates Its knowledges, what It does and what It is, so It makes to her the donation of what It manifests to her. More than a valid script, it is knowledge itself that has impressed in the soul, with characters of light, the possession of the goods which the knowledge of It contains.

Oh! how beautiful it is to see the sanctity, the power, the immensity of my Will, dwell with the littleness of the human will, in the act in which it keeps It company. It wants to give always, It never stops; It wants to see the littleness beautiful, rich, powerful; It wants to keep it always close to Itself, to be able to give to it always.”

Book of Heaven, Volume 18, November 19, 1925