Fiat voluntas tua
Fiat voluntas tua is a Latin clause of the Lord's Prayer.
Quotes about
[edit]- In the third question: Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth, we ask for the grace to do in all things the will of God by obeying his holy commandments so promptly, as the Angels and Saints obey him in heaven. We also ask for the grace to correspond to divine inspirations, and to live resigned to God's will when He sends us tribulations.
- Your will be done, as in heaven so on earth. Your will, Father, with that of the Son and the Spirit is unique, divine, holy, indivisible. Make it come true in us, as it came true in the light of your sky.
- Adrienne von Speyr, Esperienza di preghiera (Gebetserfahrung, 1965), translation by Gildo Manicardi [with Le preghiere della terra and Le preghiere del cielo, translation into Italian by Maria Luisa Milazzo], Jaca Book, Milano, 1990. ISBN 88-16-30183-X, p. 107.
- God's will is unique, that I should grow in greater likeness to my creator. [...] Then praying and saying "your will be done" will no longer be the echo where resignation and patience creep in, but will be the source of a future that rises, that ascends, that rises; rich, germinal words.
- Ermes Ronchi, Il canto del pane, Edizioni San Paolo, 2006.
- At once we spoke about prayer; as soon as I showed her that by "your will be done" we do not propose to God our own work, but our willingness to be assumed by his work and always committed to it, it was as if I had inadvertently pressed a switch that suddenly turns on all the lights in the room. Adrienne was freed from all obstacles, her prayer began to overwhelm her, like a long-barred river.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, La vita, la missione teologica e l'opera di Adrienne von Speyr, in Adrienne von Speyr, Mistica oggettiva, edited by Barbara Albrecth, translation into Italian by Benedetto Testa, Jaca Book, Milano, 1989. ISBN 88-16-30175-9 (preview on Google Books)
- And the Fiat lux that drew all things from nothing, almost buried in creatures, rises again and redeems all creation to unity, in the Fiat voluntas tua of the prayer of Christ and the Church.
- Attilio Mordini, Povertà regale, Edizioni Cantagalli, edited by Maria Camici, Siena 2001.