Archbishop, Msgr. Giovan Battista Picchieri Official Letters

Mons. Giovanni Battista Pichierri ARCHBISHOP of Trani, Barletta, Bisceglie Titular Bishop of Nazareth Protocol No. 1106/06 SECRETARIAT OF THE CAUSE OF BEATIFICATION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD LUISA PICCARRETA Following the closing of the Preliminary Inquiry in the Beatification Process of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, and at which time the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints acquired the collected documentation, it is now necessary to create an operative Secretariat that will have the task of providing links, support and information to all those who are interested in the above Cause. Therefore, with this decree I establish the said Secretariat and invite the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Pious Association, as Petitioner in the Cause, to set up and be in charge of the Secretariat in the City of Corato, at the following address: Via San Vito 24, already a house of spirituality of the Divine Will. The Secretariat will have the following [seven] responsibilities: 1. Cooperate with the Office of the Postulator for what concerns the work for the Cause. 2. Assist the Archdiocese in the international correspondence with sister Dioceses and with the heads of the various “Divine Will” groups that exist in the world. 3. Create and manage an Archive of the Cause’s documents. 4. Collaborate with the “special team studying the writings of the Servant of God” in translating the typical and the critical editions of Luisa’s Writings, to be published by the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Pious Association, using a Printing House of their choice. 5. Write an “International Update of the Cause” to be inserted in the “Luisa la Santa” Review published by the Association. 6. Keep the official internet site of the Cause for Beatification up to date. 7. Help the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Pious Association in initiatives directed to collect funds in support of the Cause. The Secretariat’s staff will be as follows: - A Director in charge of supervising operations. He will be in charge of the Secretariat. The Director will be Rev. Father Sergio Pellegrini, currently the Association’s Spiritual Advisor. He will be supported by the President of the Pious Association or by someone appointed by the latter. - A Secretary in charge of the day-to-day operations. - Assistants for translations, copy-writing, printing, and communications media. The Secretariat will periodically submit a budget and a program to the Executive Board of the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Pious Association for approval. The Association will inform the Archdiocese of the Cause’s progress, and any initiatives to be undertaken in this regard will be assessed jointly. To pay for the expenses of the Secretariat, the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Pious Association will draw from a “Fund for the Cause” created for this purpose and sustained by the freely given donations of the faithful from all over the world and from revenue from publications. I have no doubt that this work will aid in the advancement of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, and I bless you with all my heart. Trani, April 2, 2006. THE ARCHDIOCESAN CHANCELLOR THE ARCHBISHOP (signature) (signature) Mons. Giuseppe Asciano Mons. Giovan Battista Pichierri

ARCHDIOCESE Trani - Barletta – Bisceglie – Nazareth 70059 TRANI – VIA BELTRANI, 9 – TEL.0883-583498 The Vicar General Trani, July 30, 2003 CERTIFICATE Fr. Bernardino Giuseppe BUCCI was born in Corato, on June 15, 1935; he was ordained a priest on March 14, 1964; he belongs to the Franciscan Order of the Capuchins; he has been the Pastor of the Parish Church of the Immacolata in Trinitapoli (Fg) since January 1, 1997. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical Diocesan Tribunal for the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, and since 1998 he has been a member of the Diocesan Commission for the same Cause. He has already published several booklets about the life of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, with the Imprimatur of the Archdiocese. He 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. In faith, THE VICAR GENERAL Msgr. Savino Giannotti

03/27/06 Mons. Giovanni Battista Pichierri ARCHBISHOP of TRANI - BARLETTA - BISCEGLIE TITOLARE of NAZARETH Prot. 29/06GBP Dearest brothers, In the meeting held at Corato last October on the occasion of the closing of the Cause of Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta, Providence had allowed many of you to participate, who for so many years worked in order to make known the great spiritual wealth and the gift that the Lord offers us in the life and in the writings of Luisa. At that gathering stood out the desire of meeting again in the next few months, in order to deepen the sense of fraternity that must be there between those who serve the Kingdom of the Divine Volition according to the spirituality of the Servant of God, keeping in mind the Pauline text 1, Cor. 1,10: "Therefore I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be completely unanimous in speaking, so that there are no divisions among you, but be in complete union of thought and intent." The meetings are profitable for various reasons: 1st. The life of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta is extraordinary, especially in the way of how she lived the spirituality of the Divine Will, of which she is an exemplary model. But not only her life gives proof of it, also her writings do. It is necessary, therefore, to understand them and to present them in the context of her life. We must therefore know how to present her spirituality taking into consideration the deeply human Christian and Ecclesiastical roots that sustain and accompany all her spiritual experience. 2nd. Such mystical experience, by itself very profound, Luisa sometimes had difficulty in manifesting in writing because of the limits of the human language and of her own personal, cultural, and historical limits. We cannot therefore teach or claim to apply to life, in a literal and radical way, all that one reads in her writings. We need a mature reflection in the context of the Catholic Faith and in the overall view of all her writings for however long she lived and wrote, so that our teaching be fruitful. Otherwise we run the risk of diffusing not a spirituality that helps to fully grow, but a spiritualism separated from the concrete life and from the ecclesiastical life, that easily becomes fanaticism. 3rd. All of you who have taken part in the meeting of October, certainly feel as one called and feel a duty shared with everyone in the Church, the spirituality lived by Luisa. Nevertheless, the experiences of these years says to us that the doctrine of the Divine Will has not always been presented in a respectful and correct way, according to the Doctrine and the Magisterium of the Church, placing in the mouth of Luisa statements that one does not find even implicitly in her writings. This causes trauma in consciences and even confusion and refusal in the people and among the Presbyteries and Bishops. Other times they distort certain essential themes or points of this spirituality, presenting them outside of the context and the totality of the writings. They make unauthorized deductions or conclusions; subjective thoughts are given as objective truth, or else they emphasis secondary aspects as if they were essential, in this way distorting the substance and diverting attention to less important things. From this is the need of seeing possible deformations, inaccurate interpretations, imprudent or inappropriate teachings, in order to correct them and to present everything in full conformity with the Doctrine of the Church. The meetings should help us to have a clear hierarchy of the truths that the Lord has given Luisa, so as to pass them on in order and with the suitable educational methods. 4th. The gatherings will help us to remember those essential points of our Faith, that we can never forget in presenting the Divine Will. If at times they become implied, ignoring them or diminishing their importance, it is because the writings of Luisa and the spirituality of the Divine Will are placed above, creating a kind of confrontation between both of them. Other times they are reinterpreted in the light of such doctrine, but not in a correct way. 5th. In each meeting we can examine some from among the most significant or essential aspects of the spirituality of the Divine Will, to make evident what possibly does not go well in the way it is presented and taught to the faithful, and arrive at practical conclusions for a more uniform and healthy diffusion of the writings of Luisa and of the spirituality that they contain. Therefore, by personal and restricted invitation, in the month of October, a gathering of thorough study will take place. (Detailed invitation will follow) The subject to be taken into consideration is: the Life of Luisa as life in the Divine Volition. From the analysis of the writings drawn from: - The Hours of the Passion; - The Queen of the Kingdom of the Divine Will; - Letters of Luisa and St. Annibale - The First 19 Volumes of the Diary; It will have the following question to argue: "What does to live in the Divine Volition mean?" The meeting will conclude with the preparation of a summary of the subjects dealt with, and proposal of a presentation of themes for the faithful. I thank each one in advance for your helpfulness, I cordially bless you, Trani, March 9, 2006 Giovan Battista Pichierri

"VICARIO GENERALE - CURIA di TRANI (Segreteria Generale)" 03/27/06 8:46 AM >>> ARCHDIOCESES TRANI - BARLETTA - BISCEGLIE AND NAZARETH 70059 TRANI - VIA BELTRANI n. 9 - Tel. 0883.494210 e-mail: vicariogenerale@arctrani.it The Vicar General Prot. N. 31/06VG LUISA PICCARRETA VERBALE-COMMUNIQUE On March 7, 2006 at 1030 a.m. at the headquarters of the Chancery of the Congregation of the Cause of the Saints in Vatican City, the containers were opened of the sealed documents concerning the final diocesan phase of the Cause of Beatification Sanctification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. Present were: Mons. Savino Giannotti, vicar general. Don Sabino Lattanzio, Don Sergio Pellegrini, P. Berardino Bucci, P. Pablo Martin, P. Carios Masseu, Sister Assunta Marigliano, Ms. Marianela Perez. The documents are stored at the same Chancery and are at the disposal of the Postulatrice Avv. Silvia Monica Correale. The Postulatrice of the Cause has appointed Don Sabino Lattanzio, Vice-Postulator. The appropriate instructions for method of work have been given. The Postulatrice will communicate to the Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie what she will have agreed with the undersecretary of the Congregation Mons. Michele Di Ruperto. The Postulatrice has accepted to be helped in the process by teamwork in studying and by the diocesan Secretary of the Cause of Luisa with headquarters in Corato. (see enclosure A) Archbishop His Excellency Mons. Pichierri has appointed P. Luigi BORRIELLO, (Professor of spirituality and mysticism, at the Pontificio Ateneo Teresianum in Rome), spiritual consultant and guide of teamwork and of studying. Proclaim that in October there will take place at Corato a conference of studying reserved only for the directly invited (see enclosure B) Proclaim, moreover, that only the Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie can give permission for the authorization to diffuse the writings or whatever else concerns the Servant of God. All those who talk about Luisa Piccarreta must have the il nulla osta of the Bishop of the place where there are groups of the Divine Will or where one is invited to guide groups of spirituality. Mons. Savino Giannotti