The Pious Universal Union for the Children of the Divine Will Official Newsletter for “The Pious Universal Union for Children of the Divine Will –USA” Come Supreme Will, down to reign in Your Kingdom on earth and in our hearts! ROGATE! FIAT ! “May the Divine Will always be blessed!” Newsletter No. 130 – March 4 A.D. 2013 “Now I die more content, because the Divine Volition consoled me more than usual with your presence in these lasts instants of my life. Now I see a long, beautiful and wide Road, illuminated by infinite and shining Suns... Oh, yes, I recognize them! They are the Suns of my acts done in the Divine Will. This is the road which I now must follow. It is the way prepared for me by the Divine Volition, it is the road of my triumph, it is the road of my glory, to connect me in the immense happiness of the Divine Will. It is my road, it is the road which I will reserve for you, dear Father; it is the road which I will reserve for all those souls who will want to live in the Divine Will.” 1 The Holy Death of Luisa Piccarreta By Padre Bernardino Bucci At the news of Luisa’s death which occurred on March 4 A.D. 1947, it seemed that the people of Corato paused to live a unique and extraordinary event. Their Luisa, their Saint, was no more. And like a river in full spate they poured into Luisa’s house to look at her and express their affection to her, for so many years esteemed and beloved by all. On the day of her funeral official mourning was declared in the town. Luisa’s body remained exposed for public veneration (with the permission of the health service’s doctor) to satisfy the thousands of people of Corato and the surrounding area who poured into the house day and night. It was necessary to have recourse to the police to control the flow of people. Everyone was under the impression that Luisa had fallen asleep and was not dead. In fact, her body, laid on the bed, did not undergo rigor mortis. It was possible to raise her hands, move her head in all directions, bend her fingers without forcing them, and raise and bend her arms. Her eyelids could be lifted and one could see her shining eyes, undimmed by death: everyone – strangers, priests, ecclesiastical and civil figures – wanted to see this unique and marvelous case. A great many skeptics left the mortuary chamber shocked, crying and renewed. Luisa seemed alive, as if a placid and serene sleep had stopped her for an instant. Everyone was convinced that she wasn’t dead, and some said: "Call the bishop and you will see that by making the sign of the cross he will awaken her; isn’t Luisa a daughter of obedience?". This hope expressed the love they all felt for the Servant of God. But a council of doctors, summoned by the religious, civil and health authorities, declared after a careful examination that beloved Luisa really was dead. As long as she remained exposed for public veneration, she gave no sign of corruption nor did her body emanate any odors of putrefaction. Like a queen, she remained sitting on her bed. It proved impossible to lay her out, so that a special "p" shaped coffin had to be built for her, the front and sides of glass so that everyone could see her for the last time. Luisa the Saint, who for about 70 years had always remained sitting up in bed without ever leaving her room, passed among the immense lines of people, borne on the shoulders of a numerous group of sisters of all orders and surrounded by an unspecified number of priests and religious. Her funeral was celebrated by the entire chapter in the main church, with the participation of all the confraternities of Corato…I visited Luisa’s body several times during the four days that she remained exposed, touching her several times and taking some of the flowers that were constantly placed upon her feet and legs, which I have guarded jealously for many years among my books. Many were given to the sick who were healed when they touched them and were able to attend her funeral. As the coffin passed, the bed-ridden were carried to the doors of their houses and many, it was said, received special graces. Luisa was buried in the Calvi family chapel. On July 3 A.D. 1963, her mortal remains were returned to Corato, to rest permanently in the parish Church of Santa Maria Greca. 2 Luisa in the serenity of sister death The special coffin, designed with front and side windows The coffin carried by the faithful of the Servant of God All the townspeople of Corato bid their last farewell to Luisa "the Saint". The Sisters of the Divine Zeal surround the coffin 3 Luisa la Santa and the Popes Luisa born in Corato in the Province of Bari, Italy on April 23 A.D. 1865 and died there in the odor of sanctity on March 4A.D. 1947. Luisa’s life spanned the reign of six Popes of the Catholic Church and the reign of six more since her passage into Heaven. NOTE: The reign of each Pope corresponds to a different phase of Luisa’s mission of the Divine Will Popes of Luisa’s time on earth 1. Ven. Pius IX (1846-78) - “Luisa the Hidden Life” 2. Leo XIII (1878-1903) – “Luisa the Victim Bride of Jesus” 3. St. Pius X (1903-14) – “Luisa the Divine Mirror” 4. Benedict XV (1914-22) – “Luisa the New Office” 5. Pius XI (1922-39) – “Luisa the Persecution” 6. Pius XII (1939-58) – “Luisa the Solitude” Popes of Luisa’s time in Heaven 1. John XXIII (1958-63) – “Luisa the Redeemed” 2. Paul VI (1963-78) – “Luisa the Renewal” 3. John Paul I (1978) – “Luisa the Cause” 4. John Paul II (1978 - 2005) “Luisa the Diocesan Cause” 5. Benedict XVI (2005 -2013) “Luisa the Roman Cause” 6. Unknown (2013- 20XX) – “Luisa the Saint?” 4 Luisa’s “Hidden Life” of 13 years from her birth on April 23 A.D. 1865 until A.D. 1878 her first vision of Jesus carrying the Cross Ven. Pius IX (1846-78) His insignia was the Cross, his Motto: Crux de Cruce On 8 Dec A.D. 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin as a dogma of the Church. He also fostered the devotion to the Sacred Heart. On 23 Sept. A.D. 1856, extended this feast to the whole world with the rite of a double major. Book of Heaven - Volume 1 One morning – it was the day of the Exaltation of the Cross – my sweet Jesus transported me to the holy sites; and first, He told me many things about the virtue of the cross. I don’t remember all, but just a few things: “My beloved, do you want to be beautiful? The cross will give you the most beautiful features that can possibly be found, both in Heaven and on earth; so much so, as to enamor God, who contains all beauties within Himself.” Letter of Luisa Piccarreta to Federico Abresch from Bologna Don’t you know that Redemption is preparation for the Kingdom of the Divine Will? And the Sacred Heart of Jesus is nothing other than the immense Reign of His Will... Highlights: In the year 1846, June 21, Pope Pius IX started his Papal Reign. On 8 Dec., 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin as a dogma of the Church. He also fostered the devotion to the Sacred Heart. On 23 Sept.A.D. 1856, extended this feast to the whole world with the rite of a double major. In his Encyclical "Quanta Cura" of 8 Dec., A.D. 1864, he condemned sixteen propositions touching on errors of the age. This Encyclical was accompanied by the famous "Syllabus errorum", a table of eighty previously censured propositions bearing on pantheism, naturalism, rationalism, indifferentism, socialism, communism, freemasonry, and the various kinds of religious liberalism. Luisa was born the following year April 23A.D. 1865. On 29 June A.D. 1869, he issued the Bull "Æterni Patris", convoking the First Vatican Council which he opened in the presence of 700 bishops on 8 Dec. A.D. 1879. During its fourth solemn session, on 18 July A.D. 1870, the papal infallibility was made a dogma of the Church. At his instance the Catholic world was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on 16 June, A.D. 1875. In 1871 he celebrated his twenty-fifth, in 1876 his thirtieth, anniversary as pope, and in 1877 his golden episcopal jubilee. His tomb is in the church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura. The so-called diocesan process of his beatification was begun on 11 February, A.D. 1907. SAINT MALACHY PROPHECY - Crux de cruce. Cross from a cross. PIUS IX. 1846-1878. During his pontificate, the House of Savoy, whose coat of arms is a white cross on a red background, reunited Italy and stripped the pope of his territorial possessions. Pope Pius XII, commenting on the beatification process of Pius IX, used the words per crucem ad lucem (through the cross to light). Pius IX was finally beatified by Pope John Paul II in A.D. 2000. 5 The 25 year period of Luisa’s life where Luisa becomes “Victim, Bride of Jesus” Leo XIII (1878-1903) Motto "Lumen in caelo" (Sunshine in heaven) Luisa begins writing under obedience and completes 1st volume on her life up to the point where she was given the obedience to start writing.