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Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cause of Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost dear ones, even now we are the sons of God, but that which we will be has not yet been revealed. We know then that when He will be manifested, we will be similar to Him because we will see Him as He is.\u201d<\/strong>
\nI John 3:2<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Solemnity of Christ the King, 20 November, 1994 in the Mother church of Corato, Mons. Carmelo Cassati, Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, having received the\u00a0Non Obstare\u00a0<\/a>issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, blessed the opening of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, secular third order Dominican. With the Archbishop himself as president of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, joined by enthusiastic faithful from southern Italy and around the world, Luisa began her triumphal journey toward the Honors of the Altar.<\/p>\n

On October 29, 2005, the conclusion of the Diocesan Phase of the\u00a0 Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta,\u00a0 was officially celebrated and transferred to the Vatican.<\/p>\n

\"L_CloseCauseMChrchCorato<\/a><\/p>\n

Closing of the Diocesan Phase\u00a0<\/strong>
\nof the\u00a0Cause of Beatification and Canonization
\nof the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta<\/strong>
\nOctober 29, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whoever has received particular\u00a0 graces attributed to the intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta is\u00a0requested to write to:<\/p>\n

Don. Savino Lattanzio
\nParrocchia S. Giacomo M.
\nCaso V. Amanuele, 139
\n70051 Barletta (BA)
\n0883\/517371<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us. For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope: Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.\u201d
\nRomans 8:18-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

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About the Congregation for the Causes of Saints<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the Constitution \u201cImmensa Aeterni Dei\u201d of January 22, 1588, Sixtus V created the Sacred Congregation of Rites and entrusted to it the task of regulating the exercise of divine worship and of dealing with the Causes of Saints.<\/p>\n

Paul VI, with the Apostolic Constitution \u201cSacra Rituum Congregatio\u201d of May 8, 1969, divided the Congregation of Rites, creating two congregations: one for Divine Worship and another for the Causes of Saints.<\/p>\n

With the same Apostolic Constitution of 1969, the new Congregation for the Causes of Saints took on its own structure with three distinct offices: the judiciary, that of the Promoter General of the Faith, and the historical-juridical, which was the continuation of the Historical Section created by Pius XI on February 6, 1930.<\/p>\n

The Apostolic Constitution \u201cDivinus Perfectionis Magister\u201d of January 25, 1983, and the respective \u201cNormae servandae in inquisitionibus ab episcopis faciendis in causis sanctorum\u201d of February 7, 1983, made possible both a profound reform in procedure for canonization causes and the restructuring of the congregation. It was given a College of Relators, assigned to take care of the preparation of the \u201cPositiones super vita et virtutibus (o super martyrio) of Servants of God.<\/p>\n

John Paul II, with the Apostolic Constitution \u201cPastor Bonus\u201d of June 28, 1988, changed the name to Congregation for the Causes of Saints.<\/p>\n

The pro-prefect of the congregation is Archbishop Alberto Bovone, nominated this past June 13; the secretary is Archbishop Edward Nowak and the under-secretary is Msgr. Michele Di Ruberto. In addition, there is a staff of 22 people. The congregation has 23 members \u2013 cardinals, archbishops and bishops \u2013 1 promoter of the faith (prelate theologian), 6 relators and 71 consultors.<\/p>\n

Joined to the dicastery is the \u201cStudy,\u201d instituted June 2, 1984, whose objective is the formation of postulators and those who collaborate with the congregation, as well as those who exercise the various assignments before the diocesan curia for the treatment of the causes of saints. The \u201cStudy\u201d also has the task of updating the \u201cIndex ac Status Causarum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The congregation prepares each year everything necessary for the pope to be able to set forth new examples of holiness. After approving results on miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues of various Servants of God, the Holy Father proceeds to a series of canonizations and beatifications.<\/p>\n

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LUISA PICCARRETA<\/strong>
\nSecular, Third Order Dominican<\/p>\n

Archdiocese of Trani \u2013 Barletta \u2013 Bisceglie
\nDiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal
\nArchepiscopal Curia
\nVia Beltrani, 9
\n70059 TRANI (Bari) Italy<\/p>\n

On December 18, 1997, Rev. Cosimo Reho, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, tendered his theological evaluation of the writing of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, to the Diocesan Tribunal responsible for her Cause of Beatification.<\/p>\n

Rev. Father Reho has determined that the writings of Luisa Piccarreta contained nothing contrary to Catholic faith or morals.<\/p>\n

His findings, therefore, concur with the findings of Rev. Antonio Resta, Rector of the Pontifical Theological Institute of Southern Italy, who submitted his report to the same Tribunal on June 2, 1997. He also found nothing in Luisa Piccarreta\u2019s writings contrary to Catholic faith or morals.<\/p>\n

These two independently commissioned theologians have arrived at the same conclusion of other esteemed theologians who have evaluated Luisa\u2019s writings at previous occasions during this century. It should be recalled that Blessed Hannibal Di Francia, who was\u00a0 Luisa\u2019s extraordinary confessor for 17 years, and was appointed by the Church to be the censor of her writings, also, found nothing contrary to Catholic faith or morals and granted the \u201cNihil Obstat\u201d to the first 19 of her Volumes in 1926, shortly before his death, Archbishop Joseph Leo granted the Imprimatur to those Volumes, also in 1926.<\/p>\n

The Official Theological review of Luisa\u2019s writings is now nearing completion.\u00a0 Any further theological evaluations will depend upon the judgment of the President\u00a0 of the Tribunal responsible for Luisa\u2019s Cause, Archbishop Carmelo Cassati, who, according to Church Protocol, is the only official judge in this matter.\u00a0\u00a0 Later, when all the necessary work has been completed in the diocese where Luisa lived, the Cause will be forwarded to the Vatican, whose offices, gave the appropriate permissions to Archbishop Cassatito open Luisa\u2019s Cause in 1994.<\/p>\n

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Luisa Piccarreta \u2013 Status of her Cause<\/strong><\/p>\n

For several years an incongruity has existed between the fame of holiness of Luisa Piccarreta, which includes the canonization of one of her spiritual sons, St. Annibale de Francia, and the establishment of a Cause for her own beatification, and the confusion and controversy surrounding her name and spirituality, especially in the United States. It has never seemed justified to attribute this confusion to the Servant of God, but rather to poor translations, rash interpretations of her writings, and a lack of theological competence by some who try to explain her writings. For this reason, EWTN has always urged Catholics to use great caution, until such time as clarity could be brought to the situation by ecclesiastical authority.<\/p>\n

Toward this end, EWTN contacted the Holy See and the new Archbishop of Trani, Italy, Giovanni Picchierri, where Luisa lived and died and where in 1994 the Diocesan phase of a Cause for her Beatification was opened. Until the Cause arrives at the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints for its Roman phase, the Archbishop is the competent ecclesiastical authority. This contact resulted in a letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the sending of the Promoter of the Faith, Father Bernardino Bucci, OFM Cap., to the United States, both to answer EWTN\u2019s questions and to meet with various groups who promote the spirituality of Luisa Piccarreta. His official capacity is certified by the Archdiocese in the Certificate he supplied. Deacon Bill Steltemeier and myself met with Fr. Bucci for several hours, during which time he answered our questions and provided the following important clarifications, many of them in writing (as documented below). I have summarized our meeting and the documents as follows:<\/p>\n

The Servant of God<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luisa Piccarreta lived a holy life of prayer and suffering, attested to by her contemporaries and with a fame of holiness to this day. She was always obedient and submissive to the Church in everything. This is precisely known, since from 1884 until her death in 1947 she was under the care of confessors appointed by her bishop. On this basis the Archbishop of Trani, with the permission of the Holy See, opened her Cause for Beatification in 1994. The investigation has confirmed these facts without any doubt. Any attribution of heterodoxy to her constitutes a grave injustice [Clarifications 1-6].<\/p>\n

On October 29, 2005, Archbishop Pichierri declared the diocesan process of the Cause for the Beatification of the Servant of God completed, and he committed the documentation to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.<\/p>\n

Her Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing under obedience, Luisa Piccarreta wrote two small texts Life of the Blessed Virgin and Hours of the Passion, and later produced 36 numbered manuscripts, in which she elaborated what she received in prayer about \u201cliving in the Divine Will.\u201d These texts were written in her region\u2019s Italian dialect, rather than in standard Italian, a factor which complicates accurate translation of the sense. A number of the early volumes were reviewed, and published, by Saint Annibale de Francia (+1927), in his capacity as confessor and diocesan censor. In 1938, however, this activity ended, when three of her works, annotated by another person, were put on the Index of Forbidden Books. The balance of her writings were taken into custody by the Holy Office (now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), where they remained sequestered until 1994.<\/p>\n

In that year, the Holy See authorized the Cause for the Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta, now designated Servant of God, by granting it the nihil obstat. Retaining the originals, the Congregation allowed the Postulation to photocopy the writings for study and the production of a critical edition, now in process. Some other copies of the writings, however, are in circulation, both from before 1938 and rep roduced and translated from the 1994 photocopies. These latter have neither the approval or the imprimatur of the Archbishop of Trani, who is the legal owner of Luisa\u2019s writings. While the Archdiocese has allowed some small publishers to exhaust their stocks of the first two books (Life of the Blessed Virgin and Hours of the Passion), in the future the Archdiocese alone will produce the authorized translations of the writings, based on the critical edition. The Postulation is not now granting, or encouraging, publication and promotion of the writings (except as noted above), so as not to create obstacles to the Cause. [Clarifications 7-9, 11, 14; Communique, Iannuzi letter]<\/p>\n

As for the status of the writings with the Holy See, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith affirmed the following in a letter to EWTN of 4 October 2003,<\/p>\n

The writings of Luisa Piccarreta have not been judged by this Dicastery: as such they enjoy neither the official approbation, nor the official condemnation, of this Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In fact, they are currently being studied, by reason of competence, by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, after this Servant of God, independently of the content of her writings, received the nihil obstat of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding her cause for beatification.<\/p>\n

As such, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith makes, at this time, no pronouncement on the writings in question.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that as of the close of the Diocesan phase of the Cause in October 2005, the typical edition of the writings had been prepared for delivery to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints which, together with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will review it. Only after review could the critical edition of the writings be publicly released. [Clarifications 2-3,7-8]<\/p>\n

Interpreting her Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Servant of God\u2019s writings should be interpreted according to the mind and teaching of the Church. Even if they are ultimately judged to be of supernatural origin, they necessarily correspond also to the mystic\u2019s own mentality, which was that of a simple pious person and not a theologian. In keeping with Catholic theology, this must be taken into account in judging what she wrote down of her mystical experiences. At this stage in the Process there is no definitive interpretation of her work. The Diocesan Process judged only her life and heroic virtues, and prepared the critical edition of the writings with commentary, for the review of the Holy See, which alone can give a definitive judgment and explanation.<\/p>\n

Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1998 the now retired Archbishop of Trani, Carmelo Cassati, ordered the suspension in the United States of Divine Will Conferences, because of the controversies noted earlier. While this suspension no longer applies, the following statements govern conferences in the U.S. and throughout the world.<\/p>\n

The current Archbishop can only directly authorize priests under his authority, such as Fr. Bucci, to speak on Luisa and her spirituality. However, priests who have a letter from their own Bishop permitting them to speak on Luisa, and who are conversant with both her writings and Catholic theology, can have their Bishop request a letter from the Archbishop of Trani which authorizes them to speak officially. They can then present the Archbishop\u2019s letter to the bishops of locales where they wish to give conferences.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop will only grant permission to speak publicly to priests, and then only about the life and virtues of the Servant of God. Lay persons will no longer be permitted to teach publicly, either about the spirituality of the Divine Will, or regarding her life and virtues. All conferences presented by priests without this letter, or by laity, would not represent the Postulation. So, while unable to regulate what local bishops might allow, the Postulation is discouraging Catholics from attending conferences given by individuals without a letter of authorization from the Archbishop of Trani, Italy. (Clarifications 14)<\/p>\n

Reading her Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the Postulation does not have the authority to prohibit the reading of Luisa\u2019s writings that are in circulation, no one is permitted to publish her Diary of 36 volumes. Exceptions have been made for the following writings of Luisa: The 24 Hours of the Passion, The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, and her Letters, as well as for the works of Padre Bernardino Bucci about Luisa. Prayer groups are encouraged to study these approved books until such time as the official typical edition is published in conformity with the doctrine of the Church and the approval of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. [Clarifications 8, 14]<\/p>\n

Prayer Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Postulation encourages prayer groups in the various dioceses of the world, in order to spread Luisa\u2019s fame of holiness. It especially desires that her great devotion to the Mother of God be imitated. It urges, whenever possible, that groups be conducted under the guidance of a prudent priest of proven orthodoxy. The supervision of prayer groups falls under the competence of each diocesan bishop.<\/p>\n

The Postulation also encourages prayer to Luisa, and the careful documentation and reporting of any favors received through the intercession of the Servant of God. However, in keeping with the norms of the Holy See, while there may be private prayer and veneration (i.e. outside the church setting), there must be no public veneration (cultus) of Luisa, as would be given to a blessed or saint (public liturgies or devotions, images in churches, etc.) . This would constitute a grave obstacle to the Cause, as it belongs to the Holy Father alone, with the Beatification of an individual, to permit public veneration. [Clarifications 10, 12-13]<\/p>\n

15 October 2003, revised 21 November 2005<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

L\u2019Osservatore Romano Sunday, September 4, 2005<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

APOSTLE OF SALVIFIC SUFFERING,
\nNOURISHED BY EUCHARISTIC SPIRITUALITY<\/p>\n

Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the Cause of beatification and canonization of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.<\/p>\n

Next October 29th (has already occured on October 29, 2005), at the main church of the Apulian city of Corato, Mons. Giovan Battista Pichierri, Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, will close the diocesan phase of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, a humble and hidden tertiary Dominican, in a bed for over sixty years.<\/p>\n

With much prudence and as much constancy\u2014beginning with the Dominican Archbishop Reginaldo Giuseppe Maria Addazi, who was followed by Archbishop Joseph Carata\u2014all the Diocesan Bishops, one after another, did everything in their power to rediscover and bring to light Luisa\u2019s exemplary life experience, while the believers persevered in their ever-increasing devotion toward such an excellent soul.<\/p>\n

REDISCOVERED AND REVALUED<\/p>\n

During these almost sixty years following her death, the Carthusian [i.e. the most careful and painstaking] research of the handwritten and the printed writings of Luisa has greatly intensified; many groups and private associations have risen, inspired by her spirituality and attracted by the many benefits received by reading the already published works.<\/p>\n

The Holy See gave the authorization to transfer the mortal remains of this Dominican Tertiary from the Corato\u2019s Cemetery to her parish church of Saint Maria Greca. In the repurchased building on Via Nazario Sauro, which was the residence of the Servant of God for so many years, there has been canonically established the Pious Association of the \u201cLittle Children of the Divine Will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through mysterious ways opened by Divine Providence, the figure and spirituality of the
\n\u201cDivine Will\u201d of Piccarreta have become discovered and appreciated also by a large number of believers in the Americas. In the fortunate linking of the steps of revaluation, the Archbishop Mons. Carmelo Cassati has obtained from the competent Roman Congregations, the nulla osta [approval] for the opening of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God, which took place on November 20, 1994 \u2014 the feast day of Christ the King. And now we have finally reached the conclusion of the first phase of the lengthy ascent to the honors of the altars.<\/p>\n

The memory of Luisa was never buried; and so also her humble and extraordinary teachings, the testimony of her evangelical existence, the spiritual edification that magnetizes the souls to follow her example, and the blessings that she continues to pour down from Heaven through her intercession.<\/p>\n

Three truly historical events have crowned the walk of affirmation of Luisa Piccarreta in these last years: the International Congresses held at San Jos\u00e9 of Costa Rica in December 1995, at Corato in October 2002, and, again in Corato, from the 27th to the 29th of October 2005. The International Congress of Costa Rica, which lasted eleven days, comprised five, teeming, daily presentations\u2014more appropriately \u201cmeditations\u201d centered on the Divine will as lived and taught by Luisa Piccarreta\u2014and they were accompanied by Eucharistic Celebrations and a steady adoration to the Holy Sacrament.<\/p>\n

The following data may underline the significance of that memorable Congess: several hundred attendees coming from sixteen American nations; representatives of Italy and India; various Bishops; about three hundred priests, one hundred and fifty seminarians, and many members of religious orders.<\/p>\n

TOWARD THE OCTOBER CONGRESS<\/p>\n

The 2002 Congress, held at the Oasis of Nazareth in Corato, with many participants coming from foreign countries, served to shed light on the status of the Cause. The upcoming International Congress, anticipated for next October, on the occasion of the closing of the diocesan phase of the Cause of Beatification of Luisa, will contribute to shed light on the salient aspects about the person, the spirituality, and the holiness of life of Piccarreta, in light of the testimonies and of the documents retrieved during these last years.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Cause, in 1994\u2014just after the opening of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal and the publishing of the Archbishop\u2019s edict for the collection of the names of witnesses to be interviewed, as well as of the writings of the Piccarreta\u2014crowds of believers came around the bed of the Servant of God to listen to her simple and illuminated lessons on the Divine Will, just as it had happened when she was alive.<\/p>\n

In fact, the first result of the process of beatification was the retrieval and the cataloguing of the diaries and publications of Luisa\u2019s works. In 1996, Archbishop Mons. Cassati, upon formal request to the then Card. Joseph Ratzinger, obtained from the ex Holy Office a photocopy of the thirty-four autographic notebooks of the Servant of God, which had been appropriated in 1938 by the aforesaid Congregation. He then appointed some reputed theologians to reexamine such writings and to judge the orthodoxy of the Luisa\u2019s writings, which were needed for the proper procedural acts.<\/p>\n

Since her death, the fire of these writings has almost blazed like wildfire, and the Tribunal has now been able to ascertain their great importance and scope\u2014a rich mine of spirituality! Also, the diffusion of her works, which have been translated in many languages, constitutes a devoted pilgrimage and a religious hearing of her simple, humble and effective word, proclaimed both with her life and with her writings.<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t believe, however, that the Servant of God was a graphomaniac or a person who wrote a lot to get attention. Rather, she was a person extremely reluctant to put in writing the fruits of the prolonged nighttime contemplations of her loving dialogues with her bridegroom, Jesus. She surrendered only for her spirit of obedience to her confessors\u2014to Don Gennaro De Gennaro, her first confessor, and then to St. Hannibal Maria Di Francia, her spiritual guide and promoter of the first publications.<\/p>\n

The Tribunal acquired a rich dossier of testimonies for its procedural actions, which were collected and recorded in the \u201970s, before the opening of formal Process, by Father Bernardino Joseph Bucci, on authorization of Archbishop Mons. Carata, so that they would not be lost, given the age of the testimonies de visu et ex auditu [by people\u2014now deceased\u2014who had personally known Luisa or had personally interviewed eye-witnesses.]<\/p>\n

Upon formally interviewing the above-mentioned, surviving witnesses\u2014who were all invited to give testimonies under oath\u2014a unanimous consent was reached regarding the holiness and heroic exercise of the theological and cardinal virtues of the Servant of God; and the secret is not violated if we affirm that their unanimous opinion is much more valid because it perfectly fits in the context of the unchanged and always growing plebiscite of devotion of the present faithful people.<\/p>\n

Through their answers, the members of the Tribunal, under the guidance of the Postulator of the Cause, Don Lattanzio, seemed to experience again the enthusiasm of the four days of exposition of Luisa\u2019s body at the triumphal funeral of that prophetic March 1947\u2014apotheosis and crowning of her terrestrial existence.<\/p>\n

A pale profile of the main characteristics of Luisa\u2019s persona, which remained impressed in the witnesses\u2019 memory, include the following: Luisa Piccarreta, by people\u2019s opinion, already enjoyed in life the appellative of \u201csaint\u201d and, as already mentioned, all called her and still call her \u201cLuisa the Saint.\u201d This opinion doesn\u2019t intend to anticipate the final judgment of the Holy Mother Church\u2014even if it remains an ardent desire!\u2014but it denotes only a judgment of the people, strongly struck by her simplicity, transparency and holiness.<\/p>\n

Never was there seen in her the desire for the sensational or extraordinary phenomena: her existence was conducted for over sixty years in sufferings, in union with the suffering Jesus, and in uniformity to the Will of God, to which she consecrated her life with a vow, as victim soul. She asked God not to leave visible marks on her body. Concerning the work she was able to do, she taught it to her students. She lived in poverty and absolute detachment from earthly things, in a state of continuous prayer.<\/p>\n

Among the everyday routine of her duties there was only one extraordinary phenomenon: the regime of her food intake and the nighttime bodily stiffening that she called \u201cmy usual state.\u201d* According to those who assisted her, Luisa ate very little, without suffering any damage to her health. There was only one thing that she could not do without: the Holy Eucharist.<\/p>\n

She recounts in her autobiography that since her teenage years: \u201d Communion became my predominant passion. In It I centralized all my affections. I was happy to hear Our Lord speaking; and it cost me very much to be deprived of It, when my family forced me to go with them to the farm house, leaving me many months without Mass and without Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n

CONVERSATIONS WITH HER BRIDEGROOM<\/p>\n

Her conversations with her Divine Bridegroom extended lengthily into the night, and they were accompanied by a stiffening of her limbs, from which she could be awakened only upon a call to obedience by the priest that went daily to her house to celebrate Holy Mass or to bring her Holy Communion.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day was spent between working and smiling at those who went to visit her for counsel and comfort. Don Benedict Calvi, her last confessor and inimitable promoter of her name and writings, said: \u201cHer bed turned into a marvelous desk from which, with wisdom and divine unction, she intimately changed many souls. More than few people left her little room visibly changed, surprised, touched, and\u2026 ready to purify themselves with a Holy Confession.\u201d<\/p>\n

To everybody she gave the example of a normal, daily, working, and consistent holiness, in the simplicity and humility of life, in her brief exhortations, in her striving for supernatural intentions, and in the perfection of her actions\u2014precisely the style of holiness that is currently looked for by the great majority of believers.<\/p>\n

The characterizing spirituality of her life, the words, and the writings of the Servant of God were mainly centered on \u201cdoing the Will of God\u201d, \u201cbeing the little daughter of the Divine Will\u201d and \u201cbeing the missionary of the Kingdom of God\u2019s Will,\u201d in light of the affirmation of Jesus: \u201cMy food is to do the Will of Him who sent me\u201d (John 4: 34), and in light of the famous prayer of the Dominican St. Albert the Great: \u201cLord, I would love to always be in your beloved Will.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhortations, the diaries, the books, the counsels were, therefore, given in light of the \u201cfiat voluntas tua,\u201d as Jesus did, taught, and told us to do in the \u201cOur Father\u201d prayer.<\/p>\n

This was her fulcrum, which explains the constant and heroic exercise of Luisa\u2019s virtues, especially her imperturbable serenity in the tests that she had to endure. During her life in fact, she was often seen visited, examined, observed, and questioned by ecclesiastical authorities, by superiors, by priests, and by religious of strong theological and ascetic culture; yet, she perfectly remained serene, and above all, humble and obedient to the Will of God, which was manifested to her through the Church and her ministers.<\/p>\n

And now it seems that this same august Divine Will is manifesting Itself in removing all the obstacles to the promotion and diffusion of a spirituality that is greatly needed for the salvation of humanity.<\/p>\n

As a teacher and missionary of the Divine Will, she promoted It not \u201cwith words of human wisdom\u201d, in an areopagus of wise men of the earth, but as a fruit of her great love for God, as a humble woman of the people, with a degree of culture barely elementary, and with an existence almost buried and \u201chidden with Christ in God\u201d(Col. 3: 3).<\/p>\n

SPIRIT OF OBEDIENCE<\/p>\n

There glows in the Servant of God her spirit and practice of obedience to the Holy Church. We have already mentioned her acts of obedience for her writings and for her daily exits from \u201cher usual state.\u201d Her full submission to the will of her ecclesiastical superiors has been considered the most radiant pearl of her soul. She herself\u2014it is worth noticing\u2014used to instill such feelings into the minds of the priests involved in her life. Therefore, she was always treated with great respect by all the archbishops of her diocese, by the local priests, and by the religious that visited her.<\/p>\n

Luisa remains in the sky as a luminary of this virtue, in an era which is not free of confrontations \u2014fruits of the \u201cnot serviam\u201d spirit [the refusal to obey, to submit] largely spread in the Church, family, nations, and social groups.<\/p>\n

A last touch for an almost complete spiritual profile of the Servant of God arises from the conclusions of the Process: she was an apostle of salvific suffering.<\/p>\n

Contemporary man, who trusts in the certainties of his scientific, technological, and social conquests, tries to flee from the mystery of the cross and from the pains of suffering. He in fact, interprets suffering as an annihilation of his dignity; he doesn\u2019t understand it, and he intends to eliminate it from history.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, with evangelical wisdom, Luisa Piccarreta presents the cross, in concrete and popular terms and with incisive examples, as a remedy and health for the world. In her opinion, the human crosses become a fertile suffering when they are united to the crucified Christ, and mystically immolated in the Eucharist; the cross then becomes a suffering full of love, a suffering willingly hidden and always in line and in tune to the Fiat pronounced in Nazareth and renewed on Calvary by the Most Holy Virgin Mary, to whom Luisa was very devoted.<\/p>\n

Therefore, not complaints, but only union with Christ victim, to atone for sins and to appease the justice of God on behalf of men: she reminds us that to the divine chalice, overflowing with the merits of Christ\u2019s suffering, we need to add the drops of man\u2019s suffering, in order to cooperate in the same Redemption.<\/p>\n

To all those who asked her to implore from God relief from the pains of life, she ever reminded them of the sublimating value of suffering, which she embraced in her Via Crucis to the Gethsemane up to the \u201cconsummatum est\u201d of March 7, 1947.<\/p>\n

We believe that we are not exaggerating if we affirm that Luisa Piccarreta became a creature that left indelible signs of her charisms, of her spiritual faculties, and of her developed apostolate. For mysterious dispositions of the Will of God, she now shines as a star in the firmament of Christ, whose light is reflected in the innumerable facets of her brothers and sisters united to her. The spirit of the virtues practiced by Luisa has remained on earth, and it is ever enlarging, notwithstanding so much time that has passed, becoming an example and a stimulus to follow her own way of holiness.<\/p>\n

May this humble lay woman\u2014both elderly and perpetually young in the freshness of her flesh, tortured by a long and inexplicable illness , always peaceful, serene, humble, and innocent\u2014intercede from Heaven for us wandering pilgrims, and obtain for us celestial protection.<\/p>\n

SABINO LATTANZIO
\nPostulator<\/p>\n

PIETRO CIRASELLI
\nDelegated Judge<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

WHAT IS NEEDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm Luisa with your prayers<\/p>\n

If we wish the Servant of God to continue, and even hasten,
\nher ascent to the glory of the altar, let us give her a chance to
\nperform first class miracles.<\/p>\n

Her holiness and the favors already granted should
\nimpregnate our supplications with unquenchable confidence. It is certainly
\npermissible to pray to her in our daily needs, but let us not be afraid to
\nimplore real miracles from her. Let us invoke her or have her invoked in cases
\nof fatal maladies, wherein science has to declare itself powerless. That is
\nwhen Luisa Piccarreta will be able to display the prodigious power of her
\nintercession.<\/p>\n

MAKE KNOWN THE FAVORS RECEIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the glory of God and of Luisa Piccarreta, kindly
\nwrite out the favors obtained, sign them, with two witnesses, if possible,
\nand send to:<\/p>\n

Postulation for the Cause<\/strong>
\nof Beatification Luisa Piccarreta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Palazzo Arcivescoville<\/strong><\/p>\n

70059 Trani (BA) Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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