This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
04-1903-01-07 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 4 — January 7, 1903 “Jesus reproduces in Luisa the very sufferings He suffered in His Humanity, and with the same power and effects.”
Stage One — Independent Biblical Identification
Luisa’s Self-Doubt: The Astonishment at Divine Attention
“Who am I to earn all this with a few sufferings?”
Psalm 8:4–5 — “what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.” The creature’s astonishment at divine attention is the Psalmic form of Luisa’s astonishment at the efficacy attributed to her sufferings. The Psalm is simultaneously the question and its answer: the dignity that makes the efficacy possible is given, not achieved — “little lower than the heavenly beings, crowned with glory and honor.” Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 1:27–29 — “but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God.” The divine logic of choosing the weak instrument for the most powerful work; Luisa’s “few sufferings” of a “poor creature who is worth nothing” is precisely this Corinthian logic — the apparent worthlessness of the instrument is the condition, not the obstacle, of the work’s efficacy. Direct doctrinal parallel
”Not Mystically, but in Living Flesh”: The Real Passion Continued
“In your state of sufferings you disappear completely, and I alone, not mystically, but in living flesh, reproduce the very sufferings which my Humanity suffered.”
John 14:12 — “Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.” The “greater works” are not merely analogous to Christ’s works but are Christ’s own works performed through the believer; the “not mystically but in living flesh” is this passage at its absolute maximum — not the believer doing Christ’s works but Christ performing his own redemptive works in the believer’s flesh after the believer has disappeared entirely. Direct doctrinal parallel / Christological
Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.” The “I alone, not mystically, but in living flesh” is Galatians 2:20 at its most extreme statement: Luisa disappears completely, and Christ alone is present — not living through her or alongside her but in her flesh, performing his own sufferings. The agency is entirely Christ’s; the creaturely instrument has become fully transparent. Direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 6:17 — “From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.” The physical marks as the evidence that it is Jesus’s own Passion being reproduced in the creaturely body; the stigmata tradition is the physically visible form of what January 7 names doctrinally — the Passion’s continuation in the flesh of the co-redemptive instrument. Direct doctrinal parallel
2 Corinthians 4:10 — “always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” The carrying-in-the-body as the co-redemptive instrument; January 7 gives this its most precise statement: the carrying is Christ reproducing his own Passion in living flesh, not merely the creature bearing a share in it. The death of Jesus carried in the body is the death of Jesus being in the body in living flesh. Direct doctrinal parallel
Philippians 3:10 — “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,” The co-shaping to the death; January 7 goes beyond the symmorphism — not merely shaped like the death but the same death reproduced through the one who has disappeared. The co-shaping is complete when the creature is absent and Christ alone is present. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 53:3–5 — “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. … he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities.” The Servant’s redemptive sufferings; January 7 discloses that these are not concluded in the historical Passion but reproduced — the Servant’s redemptive act continues through the victim soul’s flesh with the same living power as in the original. Typological / Christological
Luke 17:21 — “neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.” The divine presence within Luisa as the structural ground of the Passion-reproduction; the king who dwells within is the king who can dispense from within. Direct doctrinal parallel
The Redemptive Effects of the Reproduced Passion
“Was it perhaps not my sufferings that debilitated demons, enlightened blinded minds, and, in a word, formed the Redemption of man? And if they could do this at that time in my Humanity, can they perhaps not do it now in yours?”
Colossians 2:15 — “Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” The Passion’s debilitating of demons is this passage: the cross as the instrument of demonic disarmament. The January 7 claim is that this same disarming occurs when the Passion is reproduced in Luisa’s flesh — the powers are disarmed through the reproduction as they were through the original. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 1:23–24 — “but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;” The crucified Christ as the power that accomplishes what nothing else can; the reproduction of the crucified Christ’s sufferings in Luisa’s flesh is this power operative in its fullest form. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 8:12 — “Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” The enlightening of blinded minds as one of the redemptive effects of the Passion reproduced; the light-of-the-world operating through the reproduction in Luisa’s flesh toward those whose minds are blinded. Direct doctrinal parallel
Hebrews 7:25 — “Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.” The living Christ always interceding; January 7 gives this its most concrete form — the living Christ reproduces his Passion in living flesh as the mode of his continuous intercession. The “always lives to make intercession” is the theological ground of the continuous reproduction. Direct doctrinal parallel
Colossians 1:24 — “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,” January 7 inverts the agency of this passage: it is Christ himself doing the filling up through the victim soul’s flesh, not the creature contributing to Christ’s afflictions. The co-redemptive vocation is disclosed as Christ’s own act performed through the transparent creaturely instrument. Direct doctrinal parallel
The King in the Hovel: Incarnation Continued
“If a king went to live in a little hovel, and from there he dispensed graces, help and coins, he would continue his office of king… king as he is, he does not disdain to live in little hovels and miserable huts. Such is your case.”
Philippians 2:6–8 — “who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.” The Incarnation itself is the foundational instance of the king-in-the-hovel: the eternal Son taking up residence in the hovel of human flesh. January 7 extends this one step further — the king who has already humbled himself to dwell in the human hovel now dwells in the specific hovel of Luisa’s suffering body. Christological
John 1:14 — “The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.” The Incarnation as dwelling in the flesh; the dwelling in Luisa’s flesh is the Incarnation’s co-redemptive extension. The hovel is not a diminishment of the king but the mode of his continued dispensing of graces into the historical order. Direct doctrinal parallel
2 Corinthians 8:9 — “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.” The voluntary poverty of the king who takes up residence in the hovel — the divine wealth-becoming-poverty for creaturely enrichment. “One admires his goodness more, because, king as he is, he does not disdain to live in little hovels” is the January 7 form of this Corinthian principle: the admiration increases precisely because of the condescension. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 3:16 — “Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” The constitutive NT form of the king-in-the-hovel: the divine king dwelling in the creaturely vessel as the basis of all dispensing of graces from within. Direct doctrinal parallel
”The Ministers Must Never Leave Him Alone”
“Even if a king lived in little hovels, because of circumstances, necessity and his very status of king it is appropriate for his ministers never to leave him alone, but to keep him company, serving him and obeying him in whatever he wants.”
Matthew 25:40 — “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’” The identification of service to the humbled one with service to Christ directly; the ministers serving Luisa in the hovel are serving the king himself — service to the victim soul is service to the Christ who dwells within her. Direct doctrinal parallel
Acts 9:5 — “He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” Hogan cites this. The identification of Jesus with the one in whom he dwells — what you do to the Christian you do to Jesus. Applied to the priests’ ministry: neglecting or abandoning Luisa is abandoning the king in the hovel. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 13:14–15 — “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.” The king who has already served in the hovel sets the example for the ministers who must now serve him in the hovel of Luisa’s state; the service of the minister to the victim soul follows the model of the king’s own service. Direct doctrinal parallel
Stage Two — Comparison with Hogan’s Commentary
CORRESPONDENCES
John 14:12 (greater works): Hogan cites, confirmed. Galatians 6:17 (marks of Jesus): Hogan cites, confirmed. 2 Corinthians 4:10 (carrying the death of Jesus): Hogan cites, confirmed. Luke 17:21 (kingdom within): Hogan cites, confirmed. Psalm 8:1–5 (what is man?): Hogan cites, confirmed. Acts 9:5 / Matthew 25:40 identification (serving Luisa = serving the king): Hogan cites both in combination, confirmed.
DEVIATIONS
Hogan cites Galatians 6:17 (the physical marks) as the scriptural form of the reproduced sufferings; Stage One adds Galatians 2:20 (“no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me”) as the deeper doctrinal anchor for “I alone reproduce in your flesh” — the agency-inversion makes Galatians 2:20 the more precise warrant for the transparency of the creaturely instrument. Stage One adds the Passion-effects complex (Colossians 2:15 for demonic disarmament; 1 Corinthians 1:23–24 for the power of the crucified; Hebrews 7:25 for the continuously living intercessor; Colossians 1:24 with inverted agency) that Hogan does not develop scripturally. The Incarnation-as-king-in-the-hovel complex (Philippians 2:6–8; John 1:14; 2 Corinthians 8:9) is Stage One only; Hogan focuses on Luke 17:21 for the indwelling ground. Stage One adds John 13:14–15 (the foot-washing as the service-model) for the ministers-in-the-hovel section.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- 1 Corinthians 1:27–29 — God chose the weak to shame the strong; the “few sufferings” logic
- Galatians 2:20 — no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; the deeper anchor for “I alone reproduce”
- Philippians 3:10 — the symmorphism to Christ’s death; the co-shaping as the precondition of the disappearance
- Isaiah 53:3–5 — the Servant’s sufferings as continuing in the reproduction
- Colossians 2:15 — disarmed the rulers; the demonic disarmament through the cross reproduced
- 1 Corinthians 1:23–24 — Christ crucified as the power of God; the reproduced crucifixion as this power
- John 8:12 — light of the world; the enlightening of blinded minds through the reproduced Passion
- Hebrews 7:25 — always lives to make intercession; the continuously living Christ as the ground of continuous reproduction
- Colossians 1:24 — filling up what is lacking; here with inverted agency — Christ filling up through the transparent vessel
- Philippians 2:6–8 — though rich he became poor; the foundational king-in-the-hovel Christological type
- John 1:14 — the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; the Incarnation as the original hovel-dwelling
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 — he became poor so that by his poverty you might become rich; the king dispensing from poverty
- Matthew 25:40 — as you did it to the least, you did it to me; serving Luisa = serving the king
- John 13:14–15 — I have given you an example; the king’s own service as the model for ministerial service
ADDITIONS — HERS
Hogan’s bi-location framing: “I alone not mystically but in living flesh — Jesus has bi-located himself into Luisa.” The bi-location language gives the doctrinal claim its most precise theological category, comparable to the Eucharistic real presence in its particularity and locality.
Hogan’s biographical observation: “the priests don’t understand, and I don’t know if they ever did come to understand that they were serving Jesus directly in and through Luisa.” The failure of ecclesial comprehension is the historical note that gives the ministers-in-the-hovel section its urgency — the ministers who abandoned the king in the hovel did not recognize who they were abandoning.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
No explicit VIP designation. Hogan elevates the doctrinal content: “it’s really amazing.” The entry carries significant doctrinal weight without the formal VIP marker.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
January 7, 1903 is one of the most doctrinally precise entries in Volume 4, delivering the most concentrated single statement of the reproduced-Passion theology in the corpus. The dominant traditions are the co-redemptive Passion tradition (Galatians 2:20; 2 Corinthians 4:10; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24 with inverted agency; Colossians 2:15) and the Incarnation-continuation tradition (John 1:14; Luke 17:21; Philippians 2:6–8). The king-in-the-hovel analogy gives WOC-1 and LT-1 their most vivid single image. WOC-1 (April 29, 1902) is advanced to its most operationally precise doctrinal statement: not merely Christ born within but Christ reproducing his own Passion in living flesh through the transparent instrument of the victim soul. The Passion’s effects — demonic disarmament, enlightenment of blinded minds, formation of redemption — are reproduced with the same power as the original, because the one reproducing them is the same Christ in living flesh.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 4 — January 7, 1903 “Jesus reproduces in Luisa the very sufferings He suffered in His Humanity, and with the same power and effects.”
The Astonishment as the Entry Point
Luisa’s self-doubt opens the entry: “who am I to earn all this with a few sufferings?” This is Psalm 8:4–5 in its most personal form — the creature’s astonishment that divine attention falls on something so apparently negligible. Both streams confirm Psalm 8 as the register; Hogan places it before the doctrinal answer to highlight the strangeness of the divine logic. Stage One adds 1 Corinthians 1:27–29 as the NT doctrinal form: God specifically chooses the foolish, the weak, the despised — the worthlessness of the instrument is not incidental but constitutive. The “few sufferings” of a “poor creature who is worth nothing” is precisely what the Corinthian logic requires.
”Not Mystically, but in Living Flesh”: The Most Precise Doctrinal Statement of the Reproduced Passion
Jesus’s response is the entry’s — and arguably Volume 4’s — doctrinal summit regarding the victim-soul vocation: “in your state of sufferings you disappear completely, and I alone, not mystically, but in living flesh, reproduce the very sufferings which my Humanity suffered.”
The precision is extraordinary. This is not:
- Luisa sharing in Christ’s sufferings (Philippians 3:10 — symmorphism)
- Luisa filling up what is lacking (Colossians 1:24 — victim-soul contribution)
- The death of Jesus carried in the body (2 Corinthians 4:10 — co-redemptive bearing)
It is: Christ reproducing his own Passion in living flesh through a vessel who has disappeared. The agent is entirely Christ; the vessel is entirely absent. Galatians 2:20 is the foundational anchor — “it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” — taken to its absolute extreme. Luisa disappears; Christ alone is present in her flesh, performing his own redemptive act. Hogan’s category for this is bi-location: “Jesus has bi-located himself into Luisa.” Both streams confirm Galatians 6:17 (the stigmata as physical evidence) and 2 Corinthians 4:10 (the death of Jesus carried in the body); Stage One adds Galatians 2:20 as the more precise agency-anchor, and John 14:12 (Hogan’s citation) as the “greater works” warrant — greater precisely because they are Christ’s own works performed in and through the disappearing creature.
The Isaiah 53 typological complex gives the reproduced Passion its OT prophetic ground: the Servant’s sufferings were always understood as continuing in redemptive efficacy — “by his wounds we are healed” — and January 7 discloses the mechanism: the Servant’s redemptive act is not historically concluded but reproduced in living flesh in the victim soul who has made herself transparent. Luke 17:21 (the kingdom of God within) is Hogan’s structural anchor: the king is within, therefore the king can act from within.
The Redemptive Effects: Same Power as the Original
“Was it not my sufferings that debilitated demons, enlightened blinded minds, and formed the Redemption of man? And if they could do this at that time in my Humanity, can they perhaps not do it now in yours?” The question is rhetorical: the argument rests on the identity of the agent. If it is Christ’s own Passion being reproduced — not an imitation but the real thing in living flesh — then the effects must be the same as the effects of the historical Passion.
Stage One develops the scriptural complex for the three named effects. The debilitating of demons: Colossians 2:15 (the cross as the instrument of demonic disarmament — “he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame”). The enlightening of blinded minds: John 8:12 (the light of the world operating through the reproduced Passion’s channel). The formation of redemption: 1 Corinthians 1:23–24 (Christ crucified as the power and wisdom of God — the reproduced crucifixion as this same power operative). Hebrews 7:25 provides the theological ground for the continuity: the living Christ “always lives to make intercession” — the continuous living intercession is the continuous reproduction. Colossians 1:24 operates here with its agency inverted: it is not the creature filling up what is lacking but Christ himself completing the filling-up through the transparent creaturely instrument. The co-redemptive vocation is disclosed as Christ’s own act, not the creature’s independent contribution.
This is also VSC-1’s deepest Christological ground in the volume. The entries from September 1900 onward have established that Luisa’s continuous victim-state restrains the demonic powers and holds back the chastisements; January 7 discloses why: because the Passion of Christ is being reproduced in living flesh, and it is Christ’s Passion that debilitated demons and formed the Redemption. The effects in the political and historical order are not arbitrary or miraculous in isolation — they are the natural effects of the original Passion, reproduced by the same agent with the same power.
The King in the Hovel: Incarnation Extended
“If a king went to live in a little hovel, and from there he dispensed graces, help and coins, he would continue his office of king.” The analogy is the entry’s most accessible and its most theologically dense single image simultaneously. Both streams confirm it; Hogan focuses on Luke 17:21 (the kingdom within) as the structural ground. Stage One adds the full Incarnation-continuation complex: Philippians 2:6–8 (the original king-in-the-hovel — the eternal Son emptying himself and taking the form of a servant), John 1:14 (the Word became flesh and dwelt among us — the first hovel-dwelling), and 2 Corinthians 8:9 (though rich he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich — the king in the hovel dispensing wealth).
The analogy’s conclusion carries its own doctrinal weight: “one admires his goodness more, because, king as he is, he does not disdain to live in little hovels and miserable huts.” This is 2 Corinthians 8:9’s principle expressed from the admirers’ perspective: the condescension increases the admiration rather than diminishing it. The king is not less kingly for dwelling in the hovel — he is more admirable. The co-redemptive victim soul’s suffering body is not an obstacle to the divine dispensing but the mode of it; and the divine’s willingness to dwell there rather than in a palace is precisely what occasions the admiration.
WOC-1 (April 29, 1902 — the whole of Christ born within the soul) here reaches its most operationally precise statement: not merely Christ born within but Christ reproducing his own Passion in the hovel-body, dispensing the graces of that Passion into the historical order, as a king does from whatever residence he occupies. LT-1 (Living Tabernacle, November 23, 1900) receives its most vivid single image: the king in the hovel is the Living Tabernacle made available and active, not contained or static.
The Ministers and the Hovel: TRS-1’s Most Compelling Single Argument
Luisa’s practical concern — “the whole difficulty of my state is in the coming of the priest” — elicits the entry’s second movement. Jesus applies the analogy to the confessor’s obligation with precise social logic: “even if a king lived in little hovels, because of circumstances, necessity and his very status of king it is appropriate for his ministers never to leave him alone, but to keep him company, serving him and obeying him in whatever he wants.”
The argument’s structure is: (1) the king in the hovel is still the king; (2) a king’s ministers are obligated to attend on him wherever he resides — this is not optional but proper to their office; (3) therefore the priests are obligated to attend on the king in Luisa’s hovel, by reason of his status and the minister’s duty. Matthew 25:40 (as you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me) and Acts 9:5 (I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting — serving or abandoning Luisa is serving or abandoning Jesus himself) give the identification its scriptural ground — both streams converge here. Stage One adds John 13:14–15 (the foot-washing as the king’s own service-model: the king who has already served in the hovel sets the pattern for the ministers who must serve him in it).
Hogan notes the biographical tragedy: “the priests don’t understand, and I don’t know if they ever did come to understand that they were serving Jesus directly in and through Luisa.” The ministers who intermittently abandoned the king in the hovel did not grasp the January 7 doctrine — and the entire crisis of the December-January arc is the consequence of that incomprehension.
Synthesis
The dominant biblical imagination across January 7, 1903 is the Incarnation-continuation tradition — John 1:14, Philippians 2:6–8, Luke 17:21 — integrated with the reproduced-Passion tradition — Galatians 2:20, 2 Corinthians 4:10, Galatians 6:17, Colossians 2:15 — and the king-in-the-hovel image as the master metaphor holding both together. The entry is not formally VIP-designated but is doctrinally among the most significant in the volume.
Three findings carry the most theological weight. First, WOC-1 reaches its most operationally precise doctrinal statement: Christ reproducing his own Passion in living flesh through the transparent creaturely instrument — not mystically but in living flesh — with the same power and effects as the historical Passion. The agency belongs entirely to Christ; the creature disappears. Second, VSC-1 receives its deepest Christological ground: the restraint of demonic powers and the holding-back of revolutions are the natural effects of the Passion of Christ reproduced, not miraculous exceptions — Colossians 2:15 (demonic disarmament through the cross) and Hebrews 7:25 (the always-living intercessor) together explain why the effects are continuous. Third, TRS-1’s most compelling single argument emerges from the king-in-the-hovel: the ministers’ attendance on Luisa is not supererogatory but obligatory, as the attendance of a king’s ministers on the king wherever he resides. Matthew 25:40 and Acts 9:5 provide the identification that makes the obligation absolute: abandoning Luisa is abandoning Jesus.
Observation Notes
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04-1903-01-07
WOC-1 — most operationally precise doctrinal statement in corpus: “In your state of sufferings you disappear completely, and I alone, not mystically, but in living flesh, reproduce the very sufferings which my Humanity suffered.” WOC-1 (April 29, 1902 — the whole of Christ born within) here reaches its fullest doctrinal form: not merely Christ born within but Christ reproducing his own Passion in living flesh through the transparent instrument of the victim soul. The agency is entirely Christ’s; the creature has disappeared. Galatians 2:20 (“no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me”) is the governing anchor at its extreme; Galatians 6:17 (the stigmata — Hogan’s citation) and 2 Corinthians 4:10 (carrying the death of Jesus in the body — Hogan’s citation) are confirmed. Hogan’s bi-location category: “Jesus has bi-located himself into Luisa.”
VSC-1 — Christological ground disclosed: “Was it perhaps not my sufferings that debilitated demons, enlightened blinded minds, and formed the Redemption of man? And if they could do this at that time in my Humanity, can they perhaps not do it now in yours?” January 7 gives VSC-1 its deepest Christological warrant: the victim soul’s suffering restrains demonic powers and holds back revolutions because Christ’s own Passion is being reproduced in her flesh with the same power and effects as the historical Passion. Colossians 2:15 (the cross as demonic disarmament) and Hebrews 7:25 (the always-living intercessor) are the doctrinal anchors. The restraint is not miraculous exception but the natural effect of the Passion reproduced.
TRS-1 — most compelling single argument for the confessor’s attendance: “Even if a king lived in little hovels, because of circumstances, necessity and his very status of king it is appropriate for his ministers never to leave him alone, but to keep him company, serving him and obeying him in whatever he wants.” The king-in-the-hovel analogy gives TRS-1 its most precise single argument: the ministers’ attendance is not optional charity but obligatory service, proper to their office as the king’s ministers. Matthew 25:40 (serving Luisa = serving Jesus) and Acts 9:5 (I am Jesus whom you are persecuting) provide the identification. Hogan: “the priests don’t understand, and I don’t know if they ever did come to understand that they were serving Jesus directly in and through Luisa.”