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the cause of beatification to begin on November 20th, 1994, Day of
the Solemnity of Christ, it first had to undergo many difficulties.
The first difficulty was the sentence that the writings received in 1938. The history of the whole process from its beginning until now has been long and sad. It all begun with the following decree from the Supreme Congregation of the Holy See (13 de Julio de 1938):
A few days later, on September 11, the Vatican’s Newspaper, known as “The Roman Observatory” published an anonymous article, warning the public and denigrating Luisa along with her Writings. Luisa responds to the Church promptly and spontaneously with the following letter:
Here is what Our Lord himself tells Luisa in the last volume (September 18, 1938) in view of the sentence:
We must note that the same Supreme Congregation of the Holy See and SS Pio XI who condemned Luisa’s books in 1938, were also the same Congregation, under the Head of Cardinal Ratzinger and the approval from SS John Paul II that abolished the condemnation in 1966. The condemnation was as unexpected and inexplicable from a human point of view but from a divine, it could not be missing for it is not possible for a work of God not to be honored with the crown of persecution. Moreover, the persecution had to be proportional to the greatness of the mission. Many efforts were made to obtain information from the Supreme Congregation of the Holy See as to what they had considered contrary to sound faith and doctrine, in order to take it away from the books and continue publishing them. How gladly had they declared what was wrong in the Writings in order to justify the condemnation, but they could not do it because nothing was wrong! Otherwise, the honor of Bishops, Cardinals and Ecclesiastical authorities had been at stake including St. Hannibal Di Francia. In a letter from Luisa, she writes the following:
Many years passed by before everything was clear. As soon as Luisa Picarreta died, her last Confessor, Fr. Don Benedetto Calvi, devoted himself to collecting and organizing everything that was necessary to initiate the Cause for the Beatification. He must be very happy now that his efforts have proven fruitful. Certainly, without everything that he did, much of what we have today had been lost. Our Lord had disposed otherwise. Fr. Calvi did not start the Cause for the Beatification of Luisa for it was not easy to beatify someone who had been recently condemned although history is full of cases like these. We already mentioned one of the most recent ones, Sr. Faustina Kowalski, whose writings were also put in the Index of Forbidden Books. However, we do not consider it appropriate to cite other cases at this moment. Fr. Benedetto Calvi passed away
in 1968 and practically everything died with him. Rosario Bucci
was the only witness left to whom Luisa said, as Rosario later
testified, that someday she would be the first to give her testimony.
In 1974, the community “White Legionaries of Our Lady” that was established 4 years earlier arrived to Corato. This Community changed its name to the Sons of the Divine Will, with the approval of their Bishop, in order to continue reading the writings of Luisa Picarreta, which had completely transformed their spirituality. Founded in Frascati, nearby Rome, they asked their Bishop to allow them to move to Corato, where Luisa was born, in order to intensify their studies of Luisa’s writings and investigate the reasons why her Beatification Process had not yet started. This is how the members of this Community learned that the Holy See had put some of Luisa’s Writings on the Index of Forbidden Books. Not only were the books of Luisa condemned but also the Community was condemned. They were treated as the sons of a “condemned” person for many years and many places of the world. Nonetheless, knowing that there was nothing condemnable in such writings, they decided to investigate and make everything possible to begin the beatification process. The Bishop from the Dioceses of Trani, to which the City of Corato currently belongs to, authorized the Community members to gather all the information necessary to initiate the Beatification Process. This includes the elaboration of the document on the convenience of the Cause for the Beatification of Luisa Picarreta. The greatest obstacle was always the condemnation. In order to start the process it was necessary for the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith to grant their “Nihil Obstat”to the cause, but there seemed to be an obstacle and it was precisely the condemnation. Several years went by and the Community had to leave the Dioceses, leaving everything behind as if buried but “buried” in the same way a seed is planted in the ground in order to become fruitful in due time. God had also planted the seed of the Divine Will in the hearts of the Community Members and they constantly nourished it in silent by meditating on Luisa’s Writings, and praying for the abolishment of the condemnation. Obviously, the persecution continued, as they were still the sons of a condemned person! Years later, the Divine Providence had Fr. Hannibal Maria Di Francia beatified in 1991. In view of this, Mgr. Giuseppe Carata, Bishop of the Dioceses of Trani, said, “with the Beatification of Fr. Hannibal Di Francia, the Church has also approved his writings along with the Prefaces that he did for Luisa’s Writings.” Blessed Hannibal Di Francia (canonized on May 16, 2004) was the first person that published Luisa’s Writings and granted them his “Nihil Obstat.” [See: Luisa's writings] Nevertheless, they still needed to clarify everything and to abolish the condemnation. A few years went by and finally the Holy See abolished the condemnation on Holy Saturday, April 2, 1994, with the unanimous vote of the Cardinals and the different Roman Dicasteries, including the vote and approval of His Holiness Pope John Paul II. With this, they could proceed to begin the Beatification Process for Luisa Picarreta, officially. Everything was prepared and His Excellency Mons. Carmelo Cassati, Bishop of the Dioceses of Trani, began the Beatification Process with a Solemn Ceremony on November 20, 1994, Day of the Solemnity of Christ the King. On January 30, 1996, after 58 years of captivity the Writings of Luisa, which had been sequestered, were liberated. The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith authorized some of the members of the Tribunal for the Cause of Beatification of Luisa Picarreta to make copies of the original manuscripts, which were kept in the secret archive of the Vatican, to use them for her cause. In June 2005, the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of Beatification
for Luisa Picarreta concluded, as the Archdiocesis of Triani Bisceglie-
Barlette- Nazaret officially communicated it on June 4, 2005:
We hope that history will make justice to the Little Daughter of
the Divine Will, but most of all to Our Lord himself, whom, as
he expressed to Luisa, “It is to condemn me.” We know
that the best way to rehabilitate the Writings of Luisa completely
and therefore Our Lord himself is by living in the fullness of
the Kingdom of the Divine Will as Our Lord taught it to Luisa.
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