The Biblical Resonance Analysis project took an unexpected turn this past week. I started the project back in March of this year, and by May I had processed every entry in the Book of Heaven. Since then, I’ve worked on refining the prompt I use with Claude.ai to find where the diary entries resonate with passages from the Bible.
The process kept getting more refined, but I also kept running into what I viewed as a problem. The problem: an overwhelming amount of Bible passages for each entry. I would read through the output and find the cited passages relevant, coherent, and sometimes really insightful. However, the sheer volume of passages made an entry impossible to read.
At times, I began to wonder if the project was even worth pursuing. I’m a layman, and whatever theological knowledge I have is just what I’ve picked up along the way over the past 30 years. I’ve had no formal training, or even informal training. Claude kept trying to go into areas where I felt out of my comfort zone. My primary goal, using Claude to help create an aid to contemplate Luisa’s writings in the light of Scripture, kept getting farther out of reach.
The Calendar sparked an idea.
Last week I cracked open the Vault, went to the Calendar view, and selected a reading for that day. One of the passages cited was Galatians 2:20. That evening, after praying Vespers, I remembered I had neglected Lauds that morning. Better to pray Lauds than not, I thought, so I went to Lauds, and when I got to the Scripture Reading, I paused. Galatians 2:19-20.
There was the same passage again, the one that grabbed my attention in the morning, oblivious to the fact that it was part of the Church’s official prayer for the day. It felt like a small Divine Providence Coherence to me, and I decided to take a deeper dive into Galatians 2:20. That dive led to a few days of back-and-forth with Claude as I explored other diary entries, other expositors, and other texts written by or about Luisa. Near the end of that inquiry, an idea occurred to me.
I took one of the second-pass BRA files I had created while working on Galatians 2:20 and prompted Claude Code to reformat it to make it more useful. The raw file output wasn’t appealing to me, and I didn’t think anyone else would be inclined to read those files either. The problem I had with the files wasn’t so much the content as it was the visual overload. The current BRA prompt I am using parses the diary entry text out into “movements” at a more granular level than my earlier versions. As a result, reading through a diary entry and pausing to consider scripture that could apply to a sentence or phrase is not really feasible. It is possible, but not seamless.
I gave Claude a short description of how I wanted to engage the text and let it suggest some options. After just a few iterations and tweaks, I created the On This Day page format. The page view is now live on my website.
With this new page style, the diary entry text is presented whole and entire. The Biblical passage citations appear when you click the text. Now a person can read a diary entry uninterrupted, and if a phrase in the diary entry catches the intellect’s eye, clicking it brings up a collection of passages where the Bible says the same thing in a different way, or from a different angle. It gives the intellect more to dwell on.
It captures the essence of what I hoped to accomplish a few years ago when I first started listening to Frances Hogan. Her way of reading a diary entry, citing scripture that says the same thing, commenting further or simply moving on in the text. I wanted her “that’s John”, “that’s Paul”, or “that’s Psalm” scripture citation on a page before my eyes. Well, I’m no Frances Hogan and neither is Claude or any other AI. AI can excavate a mountain of scripture, provide a short rationale for each passage, and do it at scale. Claude can’t be moved by what it outputs, but it can present the text of the Word of God to a reader who can be moved.
The On This Day pages are live now. As time and tokens allow, I’ll keep adding more entries from the Book of Heaven. I use the World English Bible Catholic Edition (WEB-C) throughout. It is a public domain, modern English translation. For a physical Bible, I like the RSV2E or the ESV, but copyright becomes an issue when a website renders thousands of scripture passages using those translations.
I am enjoying taking some time out of my day to open On This Day and sit quietly with Luisa and Scripture. Perhaps it will be a quiet place that others will find refreshing to their spirit as they seek to learn and live the Divine Will on their own journey.
The BRA Project, produced with AI, can identify where the Book of Heaven and Scripture meet. It cannot stand at that meeting place and be changed by it. These reflections are my attempt to do the human part, the reflection and prayer. These are the personal reflections of a Catholic layman. This work is part of an ongoing exploration of how AI can serve as an analytical tool for Scripture and the mystical writings of Luisa Piccarreta — identifying connections the human reader might miss, while leaving the reflection and prayer to the human. All content is maintained at troopermimosa.com. Subscribe to follow along.