The Chaplet of the FIAT of Creation, Redemption, and
Sanctification contains twenty-four meditations
divided into four parts which we call The Twenty-four Hours of a
Day in the Divine Will.
The Chaplet is formed by seven groups of three small beads,
one white, one red and one green; separated by a large white bead. The
Chaplet finishes with a medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which has the
word Fiat on the reverse side.
Asking with insistence the Gift
The beads of the Chaplet are of three colors: white, red and green, in
memory of what happened to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, when
at age 23, she received from God the grace of The Mystical Marriage, a
grace she received in the presence of the Most Holy Trinity, when Jesus
gave her a ring with three precious stones: the first white, the second red,
and the third green; which symbolize the Most Holy Trinity and the
Theological Virtues. And that same day, as Jesus told Luisa many years
later, God gave her the Gift of the Divine Will. When we pray the
Chaplet, we ask God, with insistence for the same Gift. We also ask
for the same thing when we pray the Our Father.
The Chaplet is entitled The Rounds of the Soul in the Divine Will
because the twenty-four meditations which it contains, are like a
journey in the form of reflection and prayer, through all the
marvelous works realized by the Holy Trinity since the Creation of
the world for Love of His children. In this
journey, we contemplate
these Works of God with the brief meditation of each Hour which
helps us to reflect on them with love and gratitude, remembering
them and receiving them in our hearts; and giving in return to them
our correspondence of love to Our Creator.
Chaplet of the Fiat of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification
Since in the journey that we make, we briefly visit Creation,
Redemption and the Sanctification of all the human family, we call it
the Chaplet of the FIAT of Creation, Redemption and
Sanctification.
You must have noticed how often the word Fiat is repeated and
you must have asked yourself what it means. Fiat is a Latin
word which means “Let it be done.” In the Eternal Plan of God it is
very important, since It is in the root, and is the Life of the three
greatest Works of God which we consider here: Creation,
Redemption, and Sanctification of man. You know
that “By the Will of God all which never existed was created,” this
Divine Will, to create wanted to pronounce a word, and this was:
FIAT LUX,
which is to say “Let there be light,” and in this way God initiated the Creation of all that exists. The work of
Redemption is also the fruit of God's Will and it was fulfilled by
means of the Incarnation of the Word, His Passion, Death and
Resurrection. However, for the Saving Will to be accomplished,
God decreed that another Fiat be pronounced, but that now it
should be that of a creature. And it was Mary who with her Fiat Mihi, the “Let it be done to me according to Your Word”, received
and opened the door to this grandiose Work.
Creature with
its little Fiat
The fullness of
Redemption, which is the Sanctification of man and the perfect
Glorification of God, will be totally developed with the fulfillment of
the Third FIAT, the FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, the “Thy Will
be done on Earth as It is in Heaven.” In this Third
FIAT the initiative is also from God, and just as it was with
Redemption, it is likewise necessary that the creature respond with
its little Fiat; which like Mary, each of us should pronounce and
live every day in every one of our acts, and in this way, God will
reign in us on earth as in Heaven.
The fulfillment or realization of
this Third or last FIAT is the crowning of all the Works of God; it is
a marvelous, immense, and undeserved Gift, which God wants to
give to all humanity; it is the “Reign of the FIAT in the midst of the
creatures”; it is the Reign of the Will of God on earth as in
Heaven; it is the Reign that Christ conquered for us and taught us
to ask of the Father.
