{"id":1619,"date":"2024-09-22T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2024-08-12T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T21:27:27","slug":"volume-7-september-23-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"9\/23 Feast Day of St. Pio of Pietrelcina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the Feast Day of St. Pio of Pietrelcina<\/strong><\/p>\n

More Information on the Web can be viewed here<\/strong><\/a>
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St. Pio of Pietrelcina
\nand the Servant of God,
\nLuisa Piccarreta the Little Daughter of the Divine Will<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blessed Padre Pio, Luisa Piccarreta and Rosaria Bucci
\n( from “A Collection of Memories of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
\nby Fr. Bucci”)<\/em><\/p>\n

Luisa Piccarreta and Blessed Padre Pio of Pietrelcina knew one another for some time without ever having met, for Luisa was always confined to the bed where she sat, while Padre Pio was enclosed in the friary of the Capuchin Fathers of San Giovanni Rotondo.
\nOne question naturally arises, how did they come to know one another? This is difficult to discover, yet one thing is certain, that the two did know and esteem one another.
\nMy aunt recounts how Luisa would speak with respect and veneration of the blessed father, describing him as a “true man of God”, who still had great suffering to face for the good of souls.
\nIn about 1930, a well-known figure arrived at Luisa\u2019s house, sent personally by Padre Pio. He was Federico Abresch, a convert of Padre Pio. Federico spoke at length with Luisa. What they said we are not given to know; but one thing is certain. Federico Abresch became an apostle of the Divine Will and regularly visited Luisa, with whom he always had long conversations.
\nWhen his little son received his first communion from Padre Pio\u2019s hands, he was also immediately taken to see Luisa who, according to the story, foretold that he would become a priest.
\nThe small boy of that time is now a priest and works at the Congregation for Bishops in Rome; he is known by the name of Mgr. Pio Abresch.
\nWhen Luisa was condemned by the Holy Office and her works put on the Index, Padre Pio sent her this message though Federico Abresch: “Dear Luisa, saints serve for the good of souls, but their suffering knows no bounds”. At that time Padre Pio was also in very great difficulties.
\nBlessed Padre Pio sent many people to Luisa Piccarreta and would say to the people of Corato who went to San Giovanni Rotondo: “What have you come here for? You have Luisa, go to her”.
\nPadre Pio recommended to certain of his faithful (including Federico Abresch) that they open a spirituality center at San Giovanni Rotondo, inspired by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.
\nMiss Adriana Pallotti (a spiritual daughter of Padre Pio) is currently an heir to Padre Pio\u2019s wishes. She has opened a House of the Divine Will at San Giovanni Rotondo, keeping alive the torch lit by Padre Pio with Federico Abresch. Miss Adriana Pallotti says that it was Blessed Padre Pio who encouraged her to spread Luisa Piccarreta\u2019s spirituality in San Giovanni Rotondo and to help disseminate the Divine Will throughout the world, as Padre Pio desired.
\nAunt Rosaria went regularly to San Giovanni Rotondo, especially after Luisa\u2019s death. Padre Pio knew her very well, and when Luisa was still alive he would ask Aunt Rosaria when he saw her: “Rosa\u2019, how is Luisa?”.
\nAunt Rosaria would answer him: “She is well!”.
\nAfter Luisa\u2019s death, Aunt Rosaria increased her visits to San Giovanni Rotondo, in order to receive enlightenment and advice from Padre Pio.
\nAunt Rosaria was the one lamp that stayed alight to resolve Luisa Piccarreta\u2019s case regarding the sentence of the Holy Office, visiting various ecclesiastical figures and, in addition, confronting the Congregation of the Holy Office. Once she managed \u2013 it is not known how \u2013 to enter the office of the Cardinal Prefect, Ottaviani, who heard her kindly and promised to take up the case.
\nIndeed, a few days later, Aunt Rosaria was summoned by Archbishop Addazi of Trani, who said to her: “Miss Rosaria, I do not know whether to reprimand you or to admire you for your courage. You have faced the guard dog of the Church, the great defender of the faith, without being bitten”.
\nThe conclusion was that permission was obtained to move Luisa\u2019s body from the cemetery to the Church of Santa Maria Greca.
\nLuisa said to my aunt: “You will be my witness” and one day Padre Pio told her point-blank in his Benevento dialect: “Rosa\u2019, va nanz, va nanz ca Luisa i\u00e8 gran e u munn sar\u00e0 chin di Luisa” (Rosaria, go ahead, go ahead for Luisa is great and the world will be full of Luisa). My aunt often recounted this episode, but things were not going well: everything indicated that Luisa would soon be forgotten.
\nAfter the venerated Padre Pio\u2019s death, my aunt said one day: “Padre Pio prophesied that Luisa would be known throughout the world”. And she repeated the phrase Padre Pio had said in his dialect.
\nI answered that there would be no easy solution to the case of Luisa Piccarreta Indeed nothing further was said of it in Corato either, and Padre Pio\u2019s words could have been considered merely a comforting remark. But Aunt Rosaria retorted: “No! During my confession Padre Pio told me that Luisa is not a human factor, she is a work of God and he himself will make her emerge. The world will be astounded at her greatness; not many years will pass before this happens. The new millennium will see Luisa\u2019s light”.
\nI was silent at this assertion and my aunt asked me: “But do you believe in Luisa?”.
\nI answered her that I did.
\nThen she said to me: “Come to my house in a few days\u2019 time, because I have something very important to tell you”.
\nIt was during the 70s and Padre Pio had been dead for a several
\nyears.<\/p>\n

Aunt Rosaria\u2019s secret<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1975, on 2 February to be exact \u2013 I remember it was a
\nvery chilly day \u2013 my aunt summoned me to her house. She was very old and was
\nbeginning to have problems with her sight, due to diabetes. My nephew and niece,
\nVincenzo and Sara,<\/strong> went to her house to keep her company.<\/p>\n

That day, I found her sitting at the window as she recited the
\nRosary.<\/p>\n

I sat down next to her, and having greeted her, asked her what
\nit was she wanted to tell me that was so important.<\/p>\n

She looked at me and said: “What I am going to tell you now
\nis of the utmost importance. Try to use it well and I urge you to meditate on
\nthe miracles of the Lord who gave us Luisa, a precious creature in God\u2019s eyes
\nand an instrument of his mercy. You would find it hard to discover such a
\nprecious, great soul. Luisa goes beyond herself, and you can only contemplate
\nher fully in God\u2019s mystery. Mary was the One who brought redemption into the
\nworld with her <\/em>Fiat, which is why the Lord enriched her in such a
\nwonderful way that she became a creature who was raised to the dignity of Mother
\nof God.<\/strong> Mary is the Mother of God, and no other creature will ever equal
\nher in greatness and power; after God it is she alone who expresses the Lord\u2019s
\nmarvels to the world. After Our Lady comes Luisa, who brings the world the third
\n<\/em>Fiat, the <\/em>Fiat of Sanctification<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

She said this quietly, marking her words well, convinced of
\nwhat she was asserting. I was overwhelmed by these assertions.<\/p>\n

“That is why Luisa was always nailed to her bed and every
\nday offered to the Divine Majesty as a victim of expiation to God\u2019s Most Holy
\nWill<\/em>“, she continued. “God was pleased with this creature and so
\njealously guarded her that he removed her from human beings, entrusting her only
\nto his Church, so that she could preserve her and humanly forge her with
\ninfinite penances and misunderstandings. My Luisa knew no human consolations but
\nonly divine ones; her body was continually suspended between heaven and earth,
\nand her earthly life was a continuous contradiction in comparison with normal
\nhuman lives. Even in her body, she had to belong entirely to God<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

She then confided to me: “One day the Lord said to Luisa:
\n\u2018all those who have seen and known you will be saved<\/em>\u2019”.<\/p>\n

“Dear Peppino, this is an extraordinary gift of God and it
\nhas remained shrouded in silence because Luisa did not want knowledge of it
\nbroadcast, or she would have become the object of curiosity or veneration which,
\nshe said, she did not deserve. Except that one day her confessor told me that I
\ncould speak of it and spread it with discretion.<\/strong> Now I have told you, in
\nthe hope that you may be able to make good use of it<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

That day I was left enchanted by the language used by Aunt
\nRosaria, who expressed theological concepts perfectly, and even in a poetic
\nvein.<\/p>\n

By accident, the notes I had made were lost and I have limited
\nmyself to writing what I remember.<\/p>\n

Her death, almost unexpected, gave me no time to ask her
\nfurther questions, which would have provided a clear explanation of what she had
\ntold me.<\/p>\n

Aunt Rosaria died in 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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