{"id":880,"date":"2011-08-11T01:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2013-04-11T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T00:16:04","slug":"to-be-linked-with-the-pious-association-luisa-piccarreta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=880","title":{"rendered":"To be Linked with the Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Sister Assunta is President of the Pious Association<\/a>
\n“Luisa Piccarreta – Piccoli <\/em><\/strong>Figli del Divin Volere<\/em>“,
\nlocated in Corato, Italy,
\nand Promoter of the Cause of Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: The Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta<\/a>
\nLittle Children of the Divine Will in Corato, Italy
\nis in Italian
\nbut is translated into English by clicking on that flag
\nin the upper right section of that Site<\/p>\n

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

TO BE LINKED
\nWITH THE PIOUS ASSOCIATION LUISA PICCARRETA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

First and foremost the members of this Association <\/strong>must understand that this is God\u2019s work, not ours, and littleness on the part of each member is indispensable to this work.
\nIn order to be little one needs to be empty of oneself, and God will fill the soul with the Divine Will. This is the fundamental aspect that fills and strengthens the word: Association. <\/strong>It has as its principle of life the prayer of the “Our Father”, and as a specific focus “Your Will be done on earth as It is in Heaven.<\/strong>” (Matthew 6,10). This part of the Prayer of prayers constitutes the secret for the fulfillment and the completion of the Kingdom of God “on earth as It is in Heaven<\/strong>“,<\/p>\n

Entering and belonging to the family of the Association <\/strong>means being called to live a spirit of communion with God and with the brothers and sisters in<\/strong> Him. It is a call, It is a gift which starts from the unity of wills<\/strong>, for the accomplishment of this purpose: to
\nlive the Divine Will, according to the message that Jesus gave us though
\nLuisa.\u00a0 <\/strong>It is important to maintain a spirit of humility, in which each one feels smaller than the other, or rather, maintains a sense of nothingness<\/strong> before God and the creatures.\u00a0 The key to live this associative life<\/strong> is faith, pure, stable, disinterested, which leads to the possession of God; the humility which brings the awareness of our nothingness before God and before man.<\/p>\n

The great and common responsibility among all the associates is:<\/p>\n

-To live the spirituality of Luisa:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The model to imitate is our older sister Luisa Piccarreta, God\u2019s chosen one, chosen precisely for her smallness, to be messenger and bearer of the Gift of the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

Luisa will guide and sustain us as we walk in the Divine Fiat.<\/p>\n

We must always keep in mind that this is Luisa\u2019s Work; this is her Association, therefore it will walk in the shadow of her soul, small and hidden, a simple creature in customs and culture.\u00a0\u00a0 The Association will grow only in Luisa\u2019s wake with a gradual development depending entirely on the willingness of each member and their personal level of humility.<\/p>\n

In front of God, the HolyChurch and the Association, we have the obligation of dedicating ourselves with all our strength to follow Luisa, witnessing and living in her spirituality and not falling into the practice of devotion.<\/p>\n

– To be disposed to live this spirituality, always gradually and in its integrity<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Associative family is based upon the foundation of a great spirituality: the Divine Will. It is an Association which invites souls with varying degrees of age, spiritual maturity, cultures and personalities, including one\u2019s problems, weaknesses and limitations produced by the human will. We are inspired by the Divine Will to look at our life under It\u2019s Light, and begin a gradual growth towards conversion and perfection.<\/p>\n

Empty from your life and from the associative life you have with the Association every prejudice, because it is this that creates problems and discord.<\/p>\n

We should accept everything as from God\u2019s hands because everything He does is for the good of our souls.<\/p>\n

Those who work with constant commitment and sincerity of heart acquire a spirit of joyful charity and submission which, together with humility, form that vacuum within oneself, allowing God to fill it with His Sanctity: this means letting the Divine Will reign.<\/p>\n

-To make a commitment to know it well:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge will give life to the fruits of My Will\u2026\u201d <\/em>Vol 19 6-15-1926<\/p>\n

“Knowledge is the bearer of the Gift.”<\/em> Vol 19, 7-1-1921<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge prepares the way\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Vol 18, 12-25-1925<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge generates esteem and appreciation for My Truths\u2026\u201d <\/em>Vol 35, 9-12-1937<\/p>\n

To this gradual accumulation of knowledge we arrive at the reason for our Association. We exist to live in the Divine Will and divulge the knowledge of it. If we do not live what we intend to give to others, we lack the substance of our spiritual lives, and our jobs and our apostolate will be without fruit.<\/p>\n

– To read the writings of Luisa, only source of that knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Writings of Luisa should be for us our daily nourishment, second only to the Word of God. That is why it is so necessary to commit ourselves to know and understand it.<\/p>\n

The Kingdom of the Divine Will cannot be complete on earth without a growing spiritual association in the knowledge and the diffusion, ordered and compact<\/strong>, of the writings of Luisa.<\/p>\n

Only knowledge leads to possession.<\/p>\n

– To be disposed and opened more and more to the Light that transmits this great Gift of God, remaining always aware of our nothingness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Littleness purifies the spirit, freeing it and placing it inside the Heart of God the Father, because only to the little ones is it given to enter the Kingdom
\nof Heaven; and this, also being on earth, by growing in the Light of the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

The Association must be in a constant “re-birth” of spirit.\u00a0 In this family there is no room for ourselves, but only an intense interest in God\u2019s Kingdom and the triumph of His Most Holy ruling on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n

It is absolutely necessary that we put ourselves on the road to obedience, and let ourselves be guided by the Will of God. And this can be assured to us only by means of a priest. It is only with priestly guidance that we can bring about union with God and with our neighbor, union of the human will with the Divine, and create with Him constant communication.<\/p>\n

The divine life of the Divine Will requires a solid discernment and excludes every personal interpretation. It is a very delicate work, as all Work of the Holy Spirit is delicate and silent. It is just that these priests, chosen by God, assume the weight of the coordination and responsibility received by the Ecclesiastical authority to work towards
\nunity in God by fighting the division which the enemy seeks to create.<\/p>\n

It will be quite difficult for those who do not see the need or the place of the priest to be associated with us in Corato, because in that case the person would be blind to the example of Luisa (and Jesus said that Luisa would be the first and the others would be a copy of her), who remained tied to obedience all the years of her existence even in the smallest circumstances, and on both physical and spiritual levels, always in
\nsubmission to the priest who assisted her daily.<\/p>\n

Stay close to your personal spiritual director, and live in peace with your neighbor.<\/p>\n

Those who have opened their hearts to this Gift, kept by God in spite of human ingratitude, just need to cherish the desire of living it.<\/p>\n

Our miseries and limitations must not suffocate the so many graces the Lord wants to give. The darkness of our human will must not obscure the Light emanated by the Divine Will, and cannot stop the course of our self-offering.<\/p>\n

-To remain in the peace of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t\u00a0 you know that I am Spirit of Peace, and the first thing I recommend is that you do not disturb the peace of the heart?\u201d Volume 1<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026My Kingdom is a Kingdom of peace\u2026\u201d Volume 2, July 4, 1899<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAh yes, there is no true peace without obedience\u2026\u201d Volume 2, August 17, 1899<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeace, peace, do not want to disturb yourself.\u201d Volume 3, January1, 1900<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be at peace, let Me do\u2026\u201d Volume 3, February 23, 1900<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRemain inside of Me \u2013 only there will you find true peace and stable contentment, because nothing penetrates into Me which does not belong to peace and contentment.\u201d Volume 4, November 2, 1900<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeace puts all passions in their place\u2026\u201d Volume 5, May 11, 1903<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026only one who constitutes Me King of her heart enjoys peace and happiness\u2026\u201d Volume 5, October 12, 1903<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter, peaceful souls eat at My same table and drink at My cup, and the Divine Archer does nothing but dart through them continuously, and no dart is wasted\u2026.So, a peaceful soul is the delight and the amusement of God\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Volume 8, March 29, 1908<\/em><\/p>\n

-To be attentive to Jesus and to His Truths in the Most Holy Divine Will.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive so that nothing of My Being which flows within you may escape you, and that each one of your acts may be united with My Will\u2026\u201d
\nVolume 11, October 20, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive \u2013 your mission is great and fully Divine.\u201d
\nVolume 12, February 4, 1919<\/em><\/p>\n

Be attentive, and do not move from the point at which I call you and want you.\u201d
\nVolume 12, February 27, 1919<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive in practicing the virtues of My Heart, so as to let Me open the springs of My Graces.\u201d
\nVolume 12, June 27, 1919<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026these are My truths which I communicate to you. Be attentive in receiving them, and more attentive in communicating them, in order to give course to the light of My truths.\u201d Volume 12, September 25, 1920<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive; never go out of My Will, that you
\nmay receive all the fragrances of My Divinity\u2026\u201d
\nVolume 13, October 21, 1921<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive and let Me do, so that I may accomplish my great design \u2013 that the creature be animated by My Will.\u201d
\nVolume 13, October 27, 1921<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBe attentive, My daughter, My ray, because every time you enter into My Will and operate, it happens as when the Sun hits the glass:\u00a0 many suns are formed in it.\u201d Volume 13, November 12, 1921<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBe attentive, and in everything you do, think that it is an outpouring of your Jesus that comes to you.\u201d
\nVolume 13, December 27, 1921<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, be attentive, and do not prevent Me from extending the light of My truths.\u201d Volume 13, January 30, 1922<\/em><\/p>\n

As the members of this family grow and strengthen more and more the bond with the Will of God, just as between Father and son, so they also reinforce the tight relation of charity and union of wills among themselves.<\/p>\n

This happens in a real <\/strong>way for those who, disinterested <\/strong>and in pure faith, <\/strong>become members of this family, holding the certainity<\/strong> of having found the keys of the Kingdom, <\/strong>the precious stone<\/strong>:\u00a0 the Divine Will as life.<\/p>\n

The growing aspect of the Association<\/strong> is the constant “Yes”<\/strong> which takes life from the unity of wills. The spirit of service and charity must prevail, always keeping in mind the
\nsweetness of the service of Jesus with the apostles and all other souls.\u00a0 It is a simple path made of love and charity. Love has no limits but, only the desire to please the person who inspires to love.<\/p>\n

“The members of the Association, even though they live in their own states of life, in their own family, must feel themselves tied by a full and stable charity, founded upon the common spirituality of the Divine Will and dedicated to the apostolate which is inherent in the heart of the Association.”<\/em> (From the Statutes, art. no. 7)<\/p>\n

*We must find refuge in the Immaculate Heart of our Most Holy Mother, and we ask that She nourish us with the food of the Most Holy Will of God.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Letter from Archbishop Carata on a Retreat by the Association:<\/em><\/p>\n

November 12, 1997
\n\"\"<\/a>Dear friends,<\/p>\n

What a joy it is to have arrived at the best years of life and to
\nreflect on so many years of having lived in the land of the saints, as our
\nbeautiful Apulia is often called. One of my greatest joys has been able to work
\nso close with the Association which I co-founded in Corato, together with Sister
\nAssunta Marigliano, and to now see that, we are ever closer to having a new
\nsaint. For us here in Corato she will never be “Saint Luisa,” but will always be
\n“Luisa the saint.” As a seminarian in the late 1930\u2019s, our spiritual director
\nshared Luisa\u2019s Writings with us students on a daily basis, and we were awed that
\na soul so intimate with God resided in our very midst.<\/p>\n

During my many years of ministry in this Archdiocese I have seen
\nLuisa loved, crucified, risen, and I know my days will not end until I see her
\nexalted to the honor of the altar as, without any shadow of doubt, she deserves.
\nThe theology of her spirituality brings confusion to the intelligent, wonder and
\nhope to the simple, and now brings a depth of understanding to the Church which,
\nas I have always held, could very well be a new heavens and a new earth for all
\nthe faithful. The praises which I offer do not come from having served as rector
\nof our pontifical seminary for fifteen years, but from many years of meditating
\nour Lord\u2019s own prayer \u2013 let Your Will be done on earth as it is in
\nheaven!<\/em><\/p>\n

Be gentle with our Luisa, for she is our pride and joy. Honor the
\ninheritance she has passed on to the world in her Writings. Pray for her
\nintercession before the Trinity for your sanctification in God\u2019s very own
\nSpirit, for this is the reason why we were created. It is a matter of glory \u2013
\ngiven, and shared \u2013 which will shepherd us through eternity. “If you only knew
\nwhat it means not to live in the divine Fiat you would die rather than give life
\nto your own will.” These words, often spoken by our Lord to Luisa, have led me
\nthrough my own episcopacy, and now that I may rest in my aged reflections, I can
\nsee that it is a wine in which I greatly delight.<\/p>\n

God bless you all in your retreat. May you mature in love and
\nholiness in your days of friendship and rejoicing.<\/p>\n

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