{"id":3511,"date":"2012-02-02T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=3511"},"modified":"2013-04-11T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T00:16:03","slug":"fr-bucci-first-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=3511","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Bucci – First Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

1st Conference Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, O.F.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

Translation by Iole C. Checcone, Ph.D.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Luisa Piccarreta; \u201cThe Person\u201d<\/p>\n

Luisa Piccarreta was born in Corato the 23rd of April, 1865 and died there in March, 1947.<\/p>\n

Her birth, childhood and youth are wrought with various unexplainable phenomena:<\/p>\n

. Interior dialogues before the Blessed Sacrament in the church of Santa Maria Greca.<\/p>\n

. Tower of desperation, where phenomena that border on the incredible take place:<\/p>\n

\u201cmysterious youth\u201d, diabolic temptations, the mulberry tree, the little bridges.<\/p>\n

. \u201cRigor Mortis\u201d, Fr. Loiodice, the lack of understanding of the clergy of Corato,<\/p>\n

intervention of the Archbishop, Giuseppe Bianchi Dottula.<\/p>\n

. The confessor Fr. Cataldo De Benedittis that puts her in the Third Dominican Order with<\/p>\n

the name of Sister Magdalene; he gives her permission to be permanently bed-ridden as<\/p>\n

victim of expiration for the sins of mankind.<\/p>\n

. Refusal of food, out of obedience she must eat once a day but immediately vomited<\/p>\n

everything.<\/p>\n

. Master of \u201ctombolo\u201d lace-making from which she supported herself and her family.<\/p>\n

Daily Life:<\/p>\n

Luisa, assisted at daily Mass celebrated in her little room by the confessor assigned to her by the<\/p>\n

Bishop or by some other priest who occasionally substituted for him.<\/p>\n

She received the Holy Eucharist daily and it was the only food she retained.<\/p>\n

After the celebration of the Mass she remained in silence for two hours giving thanks and at<\/p>\n

about 8 AM many girls came to her house to learn tombolo lace-making.<\/p>\n

Towards noon, they brought her food that the wealthy families of Corato sent her, (often my<\/p>\n

sister Gemma and I went to the Cimadomo house to pick up what they had prepared.<\/p>\n

Luisa ate very little because the food was generally consumed by her sister Angelina and by her<\/p>\n

parents, or by people who later took care of her.<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter, her sister or Fr. Bucci\u2019s aunt Rosaria would come in with a basin and Luisa<\/p>\n

brought up everything she had eaten — the little she had eaten — entirely and now it had not the<\/p>\n

odor of vomitus but a perfumed scent.<\/p>\n

After dinner, Luisa would retire to meditate and pray for about three hours. In the late afternoon<\/p>\n

several pious women, among whom were the sisters Cimadomo, and they began to pray the holy<\/p>\n

Rosary in its entirety, with meditations that Luisa had on the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

After everyone had left, Luisa would close herself in prayer. Her little room was closed and<\/p>\n

during this time she daily, in obedience to the directives of her confessor who had ordered her to<\/p>\n

write everything down without neglecting a single detail, she would write down that which<\/p>\n

occurred between herself and Our Lord.<\/p>\n

The following morning, at about 5 A. M., the caregiver would come into her room to make ready<\/p>\n

the altar for Mass while awaiting the arrival of her confessor. Luisa was always seated in her bed<\/p>\n

with her head tilted to the right, rigid and immobile as though in rigor mortis.<\/p>\n

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1st Conference Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, O.F.M.<\/p>\n

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The confessor approached her bed, made the sign of the cross over her body and she was revived<\/p>\n

and began her normal routine.<\/p>\n

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If per chance the confessor or any other priest did not come to make the sign of the cross over<\/p>\n

her body, she would remain in that rigid state for days.<\/p>\n

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She needed this priestly authority daily in order to take up her normal life.<\/p>\n

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For Piccarreta this total dependence on the authority of the priest was an enormous sacrifice and<\/p>\n

object of great humiliation, especially when the priests were not available.<\/p>\n

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The Servant of God repeatedly asked the Lord to be freed from this dependence on priestly<\/p>\n

authority so as not to burden them with such a daily commitment.<\/p>\n

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The Lord comforted her saying: \u201cthis is a great privilege that I give you, that of surrendering<\/p>\n

your entire life, your entire person, to priestly authority; I have given this privilege to only one<\/p>\n

other creature, to My Mother\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Luisa and the authority of the Church<\/p>\n

The life of the Servant of God can only be defined as: obedience.<\/p>\n

Luisa had to remain her entire life under the tutelage of priestly authority.<\/p>\n

One cannot conceive of Luisa Piccarreta except within the jurisdiction of priestly authority.<\/p>\n

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Even in her physical body, everything had to be given over to the authority of the Church.<\/p>\n

Luisa is totally in the hands of the Church that nourishes her and guides her life\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

Luisa is a Catholic woman; she loves the Church; she prays for the Church; she sacrifices herself<\/p>\n

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for the Church; and yields everything to the Church. This is the way she expressed herself:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the Church tells you that my life is a fraud and my writings are false, you must obey the<\/p>\n

Church and you must destroy everything; because the Church is the tender mother who loves us<\/p>\n

with a divine love. The teaching of the Church is the life of the believer\u201d; (from the notes of<\/p>\n

Rosaria Bucci).<\/p>\n

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All those who because of false interpretations of the message of the Servant of God express<\/p>\n

concepts that are not in line with the magisterium of the Church, are being prompted by Satan<\/p>\n

and not by the Spirit of God.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/p>\n

Translation by Iole C. Checcone, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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1st Conference Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, O.F.M.<\/p>\n

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Luisa and the personalities of her time<\/p>\n

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Luisa was in touch with priests who had a solid priestly formation;<\/p>\n

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One must not forget that Fr. Cataldo de Benedictis was the first priest to understand that in Luisa,<\/p>\n

he had before him a privileged soul and sought to guide her in her initial steps towards<\/p>\n

saintliness.<\/p>\n

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It was this priest that allowed Luisa to become the perennial victim of Divine Will keeping<\/p>\n

always to her bed for 64 continuous and uninterrupted years.<\/p>\n

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It was also he who prudently obliged her to eat once a day even if subsequently she brought<\/p>\n

everything back up.<\/p>\n

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The other personage to remember is the archbishop of Trani, Archbishop Giuseppe Bianchi<\/p>\n

Dottula, who suffered greatly in the upheavals that led to the unification of Italy.<\/p>\n

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The other priest to influence her life was Fr. Gennaro di Gennaro who in 1898 succeeded Fr.<\/p>\n

Cataldo de Benedictis as the confessor of the servant of God. He impressed upon her that out of<\/p>\n

obedience she was to write down everything that happened between Our Lord and the servant of<\/p>\n

God. Thus began the famous diaries that were terminated in 1938 when she received the order to<\/p>\n

no longer write.<\/p>\n

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From the diaries have come 36 volumes of the highest spirituality, all treating the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

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Another personage of vital importance was Saint Annibale Maria di Francia, who from 1910<\/p>\n

until 1927 became her spiritual advisor and approved her diaries;<\/p>\n

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St. Annibale approved, as delegate of Archbishop Giuseppe M. Leo, the first 19 diaries with the<\/p>\n

Church\u2019s imprimatur of the Archbishop of Trani.<\/p>\n

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Therefore the first 19 volumes should have the paternity of the Rogationist fathers.<\/p>\n

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A personage who stands out is His Eminence, Fernando Cento, one of her devout disciples. Since<\/p>\n

his youth he had frequented Luisa and Luisa foretold that he would one day become cardinal. In<\/p>\n

fact, having been elevated to the office of cardinal, he served as Apostolic Nunzio to various<\/p>\n

countries for Pope John Paul XXIII.<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Cento spoke often and everywhere about Piccarreta, so much so as to convince Cardinal<\/p>\n

Palazzini of her spirituality who would later become the first Prefect of the Sacred Congregation<\/p>\n

for the Causes of Saints to love and task an interest in Luisa Piccarreta. Cardinal Palazzini called<\/p>\n

her: \u201cdear Luisa\u201d.<\/p>\n

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One cannot forget her last confessor Fr. Benedetto Calvi, great pastoral figure, who ministered to<\/p>\n

Luisa for almost twenty years until her pious death.<\/p>\n

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3.<\/p>\n

Translation by Iole C. Checcone, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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1st Conference Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, O.F.M.<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

Translation by Iole C. Checcone, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

It will be this priest who becomes involved in the strict orders of the Holy See that struck<\/p>\n

Piccarreta. These regrettable events did not dissuade him because he was well aware of the<\/p>\n

treasure of holiness locked within the Servant of God and soon after her death with the<\/p>\n

authorization of the Archbishop Addazzi, disseminated the first prayer cards of Luisa with the<\/p>\n

title, Servant of God, conferred to her by the Archbishop.<\/p>\n

With Saint Padre Pio, she had personal contacts through the facilitator Federico Abbresc, great<\/p>\n

convert of S. Padre Pio who frequently visited the Servant of God and kept her in contact with<\/p>\n

the Saint.<\/p>\n

Piccarreta often told the people around her that Padre Pio was a holy priest according to the<\/p>\n

image of the heart of God, and many times sent Rosaria Bucci to Padre Pio. Nothing is known<\/p>\n

of the meetings that occurred.<\/p>\n

For his part, Saint Padre Pio invited people to pay a visit to Luisa \u201cthe Saint\u201d; this is the way he<\/p>\n

also referred to her.<\/p>\n

The people closest to her<\/p>\n

The people closest to the Servant of God were:<\/p>\n

. her parents, whom Luisa defined as \u201cangels of honesty and purity\u201d<\/p>\n

. her sister, Angelina, who remained single and was at her side until her death<\/p>\n

. the noble sisters Cimadomo<\/p>\n

. Miss Argues who transcribed her writings<\/p>\n

. Rosaria Bucci who since 1907 was always at her side and beeing her confidante to the<\/p>\n

end of Luisa\u2019s life<\/p>\n

. Her niece, Giuseppina, she too having chosen a single life<\/p>\n

And many other pious women who gathered in her house daily to pray and to deepen their<\/p>\n

spirituality in the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

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