Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta “Little Daughter of the Divine Will”, “The Newborn of the Divine Will”, “The Sun of My Will”, “Luisa La Santa”, “the littlest of all”
V17 – 5.4.25 – ‘The Mission of My Will shall Conceal the Most Holy Trinity upon earth…there shall be Three Persons Who, because of Their Missions, shall be Distinct and Inseparable among Themselves: The Virgin, with Her Maternity which Conceals the Paternity of the Celestial Father and Encloses His Power in order to Fulfill Her Mission of Mother of the Eternal Word and Co-Redemptrix of mankind; My Humanity, for the Mission of Redeemer, which was Enclosed in the Divinity of the Word, without ever separating from the Father and from the Holy Spirit, in order to Manifest My Celestial Wisdom, Adding the Bond of becoming Inseparable from My Mama; and you Luisa, for the Mission of My Divine Will, as the Holy Spirit shall Display His Love in you, Manifesting to you His Secrets, the Prodigies of My Will, the Goods It Contains, in order to make happy those who shall give themselves to knowing how much Good this Supreme Will Contains, to Love It and to let It Reign in their midst, offering their souls to let It Dwell within their hearts, that It may be able to Form Its Life in them. And the Bond of Inseparability shall be added, between you, the Mother and the Eternal Word.”
Excerpts – Biographical Notes On Luisa By Fr. Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, O.F.M. – Throughout her life, Luisa was to be submissive to Priestly authority. This was to be one of the greatest sources of her suffering. Her daily need for the Priestly authority in order to return to her usual tasks was her deepest mortification…
Archbishop Giuseppe de’ Bianchi Dottula (December 22, 1848 – September 22,1892), delegated to Luisa a special Confessor, Fr. Michele De Benedictis, a splendid figure of a Priest, to whom she opened every nook and cranny of her soul. Fr. Michele, a prudent Priest with Holy ways, imposed limits on her suffering and instructed her to do nothing without his permission. Luisa was to live on the Divine Will alone.
In 1898 the new prelate, Archbishop Tommaso de Stefano (March 24, 1898 – May 13, 1906) delegated as her new Confessor Fr. Gennaro Di Gennaro, who carried out this task for twenty-four years. The new Confessor, glimpsing the marvels that the Lord was working in this soul, categorically ordered Luisa to put down in writing all that God’s Grace was working within her.
At the beginning of the century, our people were lucky enough to have Father (now Saint) Annibale Maria di Francia present in Puglia. He wanted to open in Trani male and female branches of his newly founded congregation. When he heard about Luisa Piccarreta, he paid her a visit and from that time these two souls were inseparably linked by their common aims. Other famous Priests also visited Luisa, such as, for example, Fr. Gennaro Braccali, the Jesuit, Fr. Eustachio Montemurro, who died in the odor of sanctity, and Fr. Ferdinando Cento, Apostolic Nuncio and Cardinal of Holy Mother Church. Father Annibale became Luisa extraordinary Confessor and edited her writings, that were little by little properly examined and approved by the ecclesiastical authorities.
Her day began at about 5:00 a.m., when the Priest came to the house to Bless her and to Celebrate Holy Mass. Either her Confessor officiated, or some delegate of his: a privileged granted by Pope Leo XIII and confirmed by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907.
Luisa died at the age of eighty-one years, ten months and nine days, on March 4, 1947… the same hour (5:00 a.m.) when every day the Priest’s Blessing had freed her from her state of rigidity. Archbishop Francesco Petronelli (May 25, 1939 – June 16, 1947) was Archbishop at the time.
Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia (1851 – 1927) – St. Annibale was the Extraordinary Confessor of Luisa Piccarreta for 17 years, Ecclesiastical Censor of her Writings, and Founder of the Rogationist Fathers, the Daughters of Divine Zeal and the Anthonian Orphanages.
“Know that I no longer occupy myself with almost anything of the other things of my Institutes, since I dedicated myself completely to the Great Work of the Divine Will.” – St. Annibale Maria di Francia
Jesus to Luisa – Vol. 20 – November 6, 1926 – “It is a Providential Act of the Supreme Will that wants him
[St. Annibale] as First Apostle of the Divine Fiat and Proclaimer of It.”
St. Annibale – “These are writings that must now be made known to the world. I believe they will produce Great Good. For as Sublime as this Science of the Divine Will is, so do these writings of Divine Dictation present it, clearly and limpidly. In my opinion, no human intellect would have been able to form them.”
Fr. Ludwig Beda, OSB – German Benedictine scholar (1871 – 1941)
Translated various writings of Luisa and devoted himself primarily to the teachings on the Divine Will.
“The Kingdom of the Divine Will keeps me busy day and night. It is the most important thing in my life, and I would like this Divine Will to be my own life… The deeper we penetrate into this Treatise [on the writings of Luisa], the more we discover the Divine, which absorbs us and penetrates us so gently and sweetly that to follow it and Live it is everything.”
Don Benedetto Calvi – The last Confessor of Luisa Piccarreta, who witnessed the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta in her last moments of life on earth (1886 – 1968)
As soon as Luisa Piccarreta died, Father Calvi devoted himself to collecting and organizing all the paperwork necessary to begin the Cause for her Beatification. Without Father Calvi’s foresight, much of the necessary paperwork for Luisa’s Cause would have been lost. Father Benedetto Calvi passed away in 1968. In 1994 the Beatification process began for Luisa.
“Luisa is no longer with us. She is in Heaven, surrounded by the Infinite Light of the Divine Will, Glorious and Triumphant in the Glory of the Saints.”
Archbishop Reginaldo Giuseppe Maria Addazi, O. P. of the Diocese of Corato (1899 – 1975)
Archbishop of Trani-Nazareth-Bisceglie, having granted permission for relic cards for Luisa, giving her title, “Servant of God”.
Under his episcopacy, on July 3, 1963 Luisa’s remains were definitively laid to rest in the Church Santa Maria Greca.
Archbishop Addazi called Luisa: ‘Herald of the Kingdom of the Divine Will’, ‘Angel of Reparation,’ ‘Victim of Love,’ ‘Your little daughter of the Divine Will.’
Rosaria Bucci – “faithful and silent confidant of Luisa for 40 years and first promoter” (1898 – 1978)
Luisa Prophesied to Rosaria: “You will be my witness.”
Rosaria was Aunt of Padre Bernardino Bucci – Member of the Ecclesiastical Diocesan Tribunal for the Cause of Luisa Piccarreta and Promoter of the Faith.
After Luisa’s death, Rosaria tirelessly promoted the beginning of the Cause of Luisa under the Spiritual Direction of St. Padre Pio: “Rosà, go ahead, go ahead for Luisa is Great and the world will be full of Luisa.” After the venerated Padre Pio’s death, Rosaria made known to Padre Bucci: “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’s Light.” Rosaria traveled, accompanied by her niece Gemma to spread the devotion to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. Travels included: to St. Padre Pio of San Giovanni Rotondo; to the lawyer Palermo who worked in a Vatican congregation; to the Holy Office of Cardinal Ottaviani (secretary of the Congregation) who heard her kindly and promised to take up the case; to Archbishop Monsignor Addazzi 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.” Further, she went to the Vicar General Monsignor Balducci of Salerno; to Monsignor Samarelli, Vicar General of the Diocese of Bari; and more.
Archbishop Carmelo Cassati, M.S.
Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie – Titolare of Nazareth (December 15, 1990 – November 13, 1999)
“Fifty years after her death, the writings of Luisa are more than alive in the souls who follow her, from one end of the earth to the other. Souls who draw from the crystal clear doctrine of the Divine Will, a lesson of Sanctity, that spreads its roots in the Will of God, as life in man, and as complete Fulfillment of the Prayer of the Our Father: ‘Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.’”
Cardinal Pietro Palazzini – Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (1912-2000)
When I [Fr. Bernardino Bucci] worked with Archbishop Giuseppe Carata of Trani to promote the start the diocesan cause of the Servant of God [Luisa Piccarreta], he sent me to have several meetings with Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, who at the time was Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the various meetings, as I had with Cardinal Palazzini, he confided to me that he learned about Luisa Piccarreta and her spirituality by his dear teacher and friend, Cardinal Cento. Cardinal Palazzini referred to her as “The dear Luisa”.
Cardinal Palazzini said: “The raising of the dear Luisa to the honors of the altar would a benefit for the whole Church, because of the novelty and depth of her message on the Divine Will, which is a doctrine that has always been accepted by the Church… The writings of Piccarreta are a brilliant deepening of the prayer of the “Our Father”, and in particular the sentence “Thy Will be done, as in Heaven, so on earth”. The entire spirituality of Luisa is focused on this prayer. One thing is certain: that the dear Luisa is totally submissive to the authority of the Priesthood, and you cannot think of Luisa as ever being outside of the Magisterium of the Church”.
Archbishop Giuseppe Carata – Archbishop of Trani-Nazareth-Bisceglie (1915 – 2003)
“During my many years of ministry in this Archdiocese I have seen Luisa loved, crucified, risen, and I know my days will not end until I see her exalted to the honor of the altar as, without any shadow of doubt, she deserves. The theology of her spirituality brings confusion to the intelligent, wonder and hope to the simple, and now brings a depth of understanding to the Church which, as I have always held, could very well be a new Heavens and a new earth for all the faithful.”
“Be gentle with our Luisa, for she is our pride and joy. Honor the Inheritance she has passed on to the world in her Writings. Pray for her intercession before the Trinity for your sanctification in God’s very own Spirit, for this is the reason why we were Created. It is a matter of Glory – given and shared which will Shepherd us through Eternity.”
In 1986, with canonical approval, Archbishop Giuseppe Carata began the “Association of the Divine Will”, now named “The Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta, Little Children of the Divine Will”. Archbishop Carata gave orders, at the request of Cardinal Palazzini, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints, for testimonies to be collected regarding the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta. On March 4, 1987, The Pious Association Luisa Piccarreta, Little Children of the Divine Will was canonically erected as a private association.
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri – Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, Titolare of Nazareth (1943 – 2017)
“We [also] pray to the Holy Trinity that her [Luisa Piccarreta] glorification in the role as Servant of God as proclaimed by the supreme authority of the Church, will make the idea of “living in the Will of God” well known to everybody; like Jesus said: ‘Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Father Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, OFM (June 15, 1935 – July 17, 2020) Member of the Ecclesiastical Diocesan Tribunal for the Cause of Luisa Piccarreta and Promoter of the Faith; Co-Founder of the Pious Association “Luisa Piccarreta – Little Children of the Divine Will” located in Corato, Italy.
Our Lady, Santa Maria Greca, Protectress of Corato, has shown a Great Light, as Padre Bucci passed on the eve of the Feast of Santa Maria Greca, (Church in which Luisa is buried, and place of second Miraculous Image from Heaven) with his Funeral Mass being offered in Bari on Her Feast day.
“He [Fr. Bucci] is in charge of diffusing the spirituality of the Divine Will according to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, in conformity with the oath of not diffusing truths contrary to the Catholic doctrine.” The Vicar General, Msgr. Savino Giannotti – Archdiocese Trani – Barletta – Bisceglie – Nazareth – July 30, 2003
“God calls one creature to be the first in this event, the first fruit of a New Era – His little daughter in the Divine Will, the newborn of the Divine Will: Luisa Piccarreta, called by all, with prophetic voice, ‘Luisa la Santa’.” – Padre Bernardino Bucci, O.F.M.
Additional quotes from Fr. Bucci:
“In the new millennium the world and the Church are going to focus on Luisa Piccarreta and the Divine Will.”
“Luisa is not just a Saint… She is The Saint.”
“Luisa’s doctrines are not from earth but from Heaven.” “You need to understand that Luisa wrote with the Light of the Church’s Authority.”
“Luisa is the Saint of the New Era.”
“Luisa is the Saint of the Holy Spirit.”
“We have three Eras. The Era of Creation, the Era of Redemption and the Era of Sanctification. Luisa is the Sanctity Era.”
“It would be as foolish for a lay person to stand at the Altar and say ‘this is my body’ as it would be for them to teach the Divine Will.”
“Jesus said the Divine Will is the Sacrament of Sacraments.” “All the world will become Catholic. Luisa is the starting point….always remember this.”
Sr. Assunta Marigliano – co-founder of the Association of the Divine Will and Promoter of the Cause of Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta (1933 – 2023)
“I offer You the love you bring, Three Divine Persons”: these are the final words of a prayer by Luisa Piccarreta that “accidentally” ended up in the hands of Sister Assunta. These words confirmed the love that Sister Assunta already felt for the Holy Trinity, conquering her further. Then Sister Assunta felt that the Holy Trinity was to become her true family. And the Association Little Children of the Divine Will is that family to which Sister Assunta wished to give rise, building its House on solid, unshakable foundations, on the model of the Trinitarian Family.
Archbishop Leonardo D’Ascenzo – of the Diocese of Corato (1961 – Present)
“What has been Gifted to the Servant of God [Luisa Piccarreta]…will bear the fruit of her “sighed Fiat”… with our own sighed Fiat…to submit thoroughly and unconditionally to the judgement of the Church concerning her writings. Luisa’s Fiat will bear fruit…The Fiat will Unite us, and also in a Universal way.”
Archbishop D’Ascenzo has called those souls reading the Book of Heaven “to strive to anchor the reading of these writings in the Doctrine of the Church and in a dignified conduct of life, making a balanced and respectful missionary proclamation spring from the Doctrine of the Divine Will, a proclamation which has been harmoniously inserted into the Pastoral activity of the local Churches.”
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