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News Letter 12-15-2015 – Christmas Novena
Christmas Novena
The “Nine Excesses“ that led Jesus to incarnate Himself.
12/15/2015
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). With these words our thoughts immediately turn to Christmas that is coming and the desire to live, always with new emotions, the day when God made himself visible to man, in the likeness of a Child.
We know that the time of Advent is a time of grace to prepare ourselves spiritually to the Event, being careful to put the spotlight on the conception of the Holy Child, on His Incarnation.
“Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word” (Lk 1:38): This is the Fiat of Mary, “insignificant” woman in the eyes of her contemporaries, without which the Holy Trinity couldn’t make the Eternal Word descend upon earth and give rise to Redemption.
Mary, by possessing the Divine Will, had found grace before God and became the worthy dwelling to fulfill the miracle of the Incarnation: The Holy Trinity, by removing Justice and covering Themselves with the mantle of Mercy overflowed in her with love to form in her womb, through the encounter of the two Fiat, the creature would have to save humanity.
With a Novena of Holy Christmas (December 16 to 24), since the age of seventeen, Luisa prepared herself spiritually for the Feast of Holy Christmas, by contemplating and meditating on the excesses of love that led Jesus to incarnate Himself.
They are the first step towards the knowledge of the Kingdom of the Divine Will. They contain love and grace as they spring directly from the source of God’s love. They are the flames of His love that rise to create new love with which to conquer creatures.
Love, then, that renews and multiplies itself whenever new hearts are invested.
They are the treasure chest that contains all the merit of the Incarnation trough which Jesus comes to divinize man, to purify him. From His conception, taking all sins upon Himself, He comes to embody His Divinity on the Cross, starting His Way of the Cross, with the final triumph of Love !!
Every year Luisa remembered all phases of the mystery of the Incarnation, meditating and honoring the nine months that Jesus stood in the womb of Mary, in the following order that we briefly mention:
First Excess, Trinitarian Love: The angel announces to Mary that the Holy Trinity is sending upon earth the Son of Man who promptly obeys the Will of the Father and she, through the Holy Spirit, is the depository of this mystery and of goods that will spring.
Second Excess, Humble Love: A God so great and infinite who descends from Heaven and is restricted into the maternal womb. There He will stay for nine months, but His Divinity will remain imprisoned in His Humanity, for thirty three years, and then in the Eucharist.
Third Excess, Devouring Love: Flames of Love that rise to reach all generations, from the first to the last man. Seas (of Love) without boundary in which souls can swim freely.
Fourth Excess, Operative Love: Jesus, just newly “conceived”, takes upon Himself all souls and the burden (sins, ingratitude, passions) of each one of them. So, His Passion starts. His little head already feels the stings of the thorns that will surround his head and His immobility in the maternal womb anticipates His Crucifixion.
Fifth Excess, Lonely Love: God is forced to be alone, despite his several calls. He would like to speak to every soul to communicate and pour His love into her, but alas He is forced into silence. He descends from heaven to be in company of the creature but very few are those who welcome His coming and share His joys, His sorrows.
Sixth Excess, Repressed Love: Jesus, restricted in the prison and in the darkness of the maternal womb, can’t not show His love, His Light. All around is darkness and the sins of creatures add new darkness in which He is compelled to remain.
Seventh Excess, Supplicating Love: The ingratitude of man is the sharpest thorn for God, our Creator. However human obstinacy doesn’t stop His love from generating new excesses with imploring attitudes.
Eighth Excess, Begging Love: Even if God’s supplications don’t move the creature to love Him, He does not cease to have care of her and to conquer her, He passes on a greater excess and come to ask for a little love, to beg just as a poor man on the roadside.
Ninth Excess, Winner Love: Finally, Love will win. God remains faithful to Himself even at the cost of waiting for centuries. He will continue to dart through hearts with rays of sweetness and tenderness. He will conquer the creature and there will be the triumph of the Kingdom of His Divine Will.
Let us allow ourselves to be moved and taking advantage of this appropriate time, let us dispose ourselves to say with courage and faith our Yes, just like Mary with Her “Fiat” and Jesus with His “Here I am,” so that we can accomplish the project that our Heavenly Father has for each one in particular and for humanity in general, being always aware that we are all called to fulfill our Christian duty: to proclaim the Kingdom of God for the salvation of souls.
Mary, Virgin and Mother,
you who, moved by the Holy Spirit,
welcomed the word of life
in the depths of your humble faith:
as you gave yourself completely to the Eternal One,
help us to say our own “yes”
to the urgent call, as pressing as ever,
to proclaim the good news of Jesus.
(From Evangelii Gaudium of the Holy Father Francis)
FIAT!
December 8th – Mary Immaculate: Patroness of the United States
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Hour of Grace from 12 Noon to 1 PM
REQUEST OF BLESSED MOTHER FOR THE HOUR OF GRACE
1. Day and time of Hour of Grace – December 8th Feast of the Immaculate Conception – to be started at 12 noon and will continue until 1 PM (one full hour of prayer)
2. During this hour the person making the ‘Hour of Grace’ either at home or in the Church must put away all distractions (do not answer the telephone or answer any doors or do anything but totally concentrate on your union with God during this Special Hour of Grace)
3. Begin the Hour of Grace by praying three times the 51st Psalm with outstretched arms. Psalm 51 can be found below.
4. The rest of the Hour of Grace may be spent in silent communication with God meditating upon the Passion of Jesus saying the Holy Rosary, praising God in your own way or by using favorite prayers, singing hymns, meditating upon other Psalms, etc.
Paslm 51[50]
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your merciful love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned,
and done that which is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop,
and I shall be clean; wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones which you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
16 For you take no delight in sacrifice;
were I to give a burnt offering,
you would not be pleased.
17 The sacrifice acceptable to God a is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
“Luisa Piccarreta saved my life”
The miracle attributed to Luisa
11/26/2015
Here below the translation of the articles of CoratoLive.it (electronic journal of Corato) by Marianna Lotito and in La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (one of the most important newspapers in Southern Italy) by Giuseppe Cantatore on the miraculous healing of Mrs. Margarita Maria Chavez, attributed by herself to the intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta:
Testimony of Maria Margarita Chavez:
An element that could be important in the process of beatification of the Servant of God, known more in the world that in her hometown.
In Florida the first miracle attributed to Luisa Piccarreta. The canonical process started.
The testimony of Margarita: “Luisa Piccarreta saved my life”
Words of hope from Florida. Margarita experienced the intercession of Luisa for her recovery
According to American doctors, it is a miracle, the first that occurred through the intercession of Luisa Piccarreta.
Acute pneumonia combined with other complications had put the life of Maria Margarita Chavez in serious danger: according to the team that was treating her, she had less than 48 hours left to live. Then the inexplicable cure: “the Tuesday after Easter in 2007, they brought me a relic of Luisa and my lungs started to heal,” she herself recounted at the Conference on the “Divine Will” which was held in April in Corato. An element that could be important in the process of beatification of the Servant of God, known more in the world that in her hometown.
For this reason, Bishop Pichierri asked the association named after Luisa to begin the “canonical process” to “gather the first testimonies” before some of the main characters pass away. The main reference is the mother of Maria Margarita, who is now elderly.
“To respond to this invitation – confirms Sabino Lastella, president of the association Luisa Piccarreta – we worked to institute a due process in the diocese of residence of Chavez, and that is in Miami, Florida.”
In late May, the bishop of Miami, Mgr. Thomas Wenski, gave his approval, and “at this time we are contacting those who are part of the ecclesiastical tribunal,” added Lastella. The Interrogatories will be held: between December and January twelve witnesses should be heard. “Soon we will have a final schedule – Lastella continued – and at the conclusion of the work it is expected to take two days to meet and discuss in Miami, as the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa is still going on.”
Once all the documents, with all the seals of the Archbishop of Miami, have been prepared, they will be sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican through the postulation.
To understand what this entails in the cause of beatification. we turned to Dom Sergio Pellegrini, assistant ecclesiastic of the Little Children of the Divine Will. “Once the verification of the writings of Luisa (still in progress) has been completed, the Cause will begin, and it will be possible to develop the “Positio”, an annotated biography needed so that the venerability of Luisa is recognized.” Only then what science now calls a miracle “carry out its immediate effect in regard to the beatification” confirms Don Sergio.
To talk about a miracle recognized by the Church, the approval of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints is required. “The testimonies will be evaluated – explained Dom Sergio – and any further investigations that the congregation will want to make.”
The story of Margherita. Born in Cuba on May 18, 1959, she lives in Miami with her mother Dolores and her son Christopher. April 4, 2007 – during Holy Week, as she herself wished to point out – she was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Miami and in the care of doctor Mario Almeida who in 2006 had treated her bronchopneumonia found on her return from a trip to Italy. “I went to Italy to visit the places where Luisa lived and to meet Sister Assunta” said Margherita during the Conference.
On April 6, the medical case of the woman continued to get worse, the doctors decided to intubate her and do a lung biopsy . Connected to an artificial respirator, Margarita went into a coma after receiving the sacraments of confession and anointing of the sick.
On April 10, the Tuesday of the First Week of Easter, Father Cioffi put a relic of Luisa on the chest of Margherita, while around her they were reading the prayers and the writings of Luisa. The next day the first unexplained improvements were seen on x-ray: in a few days Margherita began to breathe on her own and could serenely face also the third kidney transplant.
Margarita remembers about her state of unconsciousness: “The Lord showed me the intrinsic evil of humanity. I was in a place of the elderly and the dying without being able to move, the workers took advantage of us, they gave sleeping pills to have no trouble. I still recall the images of a place where they were preparing the bodies of the dead people. As I was lying on a table, the Lord Jesus let me hear the illicit and malicious conversations of those who were around me. They put me in a coffin, leaving out an arm. The coffin was too small, my body would not fit. The pain I felt was very intense.
Then came a man, dressed in a white coat, and I began to ask Jesus to have mercy on me. The more I begged pity from the Lord, the more the man squeezed my hand. I remained like that for a long time: he would be hammering my arm, and kept trying to close the coffin with my arm hanging outside. This lasted a long time. The man kept telling me that if I stopped asking Jesus for mercy, he would leave me alone and would not torture me anymore, but I did not stop asking Jesus for mercy. Then, I found myself in front of our Lord Jesus Christ who told me, “Daughter, your sins are forgiven.” Immediately, I saw coming out of me, and I felt coming out of me, like a smoke, a breath, a black shadow. Then, my body felt very light. I felt clean.”
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno Wednesday, November 18, 2015
FROM MIAMI, UNITED STATES, THE TESTIMONY THAT WILL BE ASSESSED BY THE COURT OF LOCAL DIOCESE
“It’s me, miraculously healed by Luisa”
A 49 year old Cuban woman reveals the first miracle that could be attributed to Piccarreta.
CORATO. It was the spring of 2007 when the lungs of Maria Margarita Chavez, a 49 – year – old woman from Cuba, were going to succumb definitively under the blows of a severe pneumonia. The diagnosis of doctors was merciless: they gave her only a few days to live.
Then, there was the poor woman’s sudden recovery that cannot be explained even today by those who were treating her. So sudden, in fact, that Maria herself has attributed it to a miracle, through God’s servant Luisa Piccarreta, to whom she was and is very devoted.
“I was admitted to Hospital in Miami, United States, during Holy Week,” told the woman last April, when she came to Corato to participate, together with thousands of faithful, in the fourth international conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa “the Saint.” “My clinical condition – she explained – continued to aggravate more and more, to the point that my lungs were completely obstructed. I could hardly breathe, I was induced into a coma and was connected to a respirator – the Central American woman also remembered -. The doctors, who had lost all hope, said to my mother to begin preparations for the funeral. During my unconscious state, I had several spiritual experiences. It was then, on Tuesday of the First Week of Easter, that they brought a relic of Luisa and imposed it on my chest. The next morning, my lungs my lungs started to heal and in a short time, even after a kidney transplant, I have completely recovered. “
Today this moving testimony could become a crucial step in the process of beatification of the “Servant of God”. While the archdiocese is still busy producing the “typical and critical” edition of the many writings of Luisa, Bishop Giovan Battista Pichierri asked the association named after Piccarreta to start the canonical procedure to gather testimonies about this happening. “We started the procedure to institute a due process in the Diocese of Miami, Florida, where Maria Margarita Chavez lives” says Sabino Lastella, president of the association. Last May, the Bishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, granted his approval and in recent weeks the ecclesiastical authorities have been setting the Court that between December and January will hear 12 witnesses.
“At the conclusion of the work – Mr. Lastella adds – we will schedule some days of meeting in Miami, as the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa is still going on.” Once all the proceedings have been filled, the whole dossier, with the seals of the Archbishop of Miami, will be sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican. It will be this entity to establish whether the healing of Maria Margarita Chavez was a miracle or no. “
“The collected testimonies will be evaluated and, if necessary, any further investigations that the congregation will want to make.” – explained Dom Sergio Pellegrini, assistant ecclesiastic of the “Little Children of the Divine Will”. First the verification of the writings is to be completed, then the Cause will begin and it will be possible to develop the ” Positio”, an annotated biography needed so that the venerability of Luisa is recognized. Only then, concludes Don Sergio, what science now calls a miracle can carry out its immediate effect in regard to the beatification.
CoratoLive- Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
Telefono: 0808982221 | Email: info@luisapiccarretaofficial.org
Associazione Luisa Piccarreta – Piccoli Figli della
WHAT IS NEEDED:
Storm Luisa with your prayers
If we wish the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
to continue, and even hasten,
her ascent to the glory of the altar,
let us give Luisa a chance to perform first class miracles.
Luisa’s holiness and the favors already granted should impregnate our supplications
with unquenchable confidence.
It is certainly permissible to pray to Luisa in our daily needs,
but let us not be afraid to implore real miracles from her.
Let us invoke Luisa or have her invoked in cases of fatal maladies,
wherein science has to declare itself powerless.
That is when Luisa Piccarreta
will be able to display the prodigious power of her intercession.
MAKE KNOWN THE FAVORS RECEIVED
For the glory of God and of Luisa Piccarreta, kindly write out the favors obtained,
sign them, with two witnesses, if possible, and send to:
Postulation for the Cause of Beatification Luisa Piccarreta
Palazzo Arcivescoville
70059 Trani (BA) Italy
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40 day countdown to Christmas Day
Thanksgiving (Nov 26),
Advent begins (Nov 29),
the Immaculate Conception (Dec 8),
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec 12),
St John of the Cross (Dec 14, for all you Carmelite Fans),
then Our Lord’s Birthday (Dec 25)
followed by the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, the first drops of his innocent blood shed for humanity, on New Year’s Day!
Get Ready for the Christmas by praying the Christmas Novena!
The Most Powerful Prayers
Volume 11 – June 15, 1916
In the Divine Will everything is complete.
The Most Powerful Prayers over the Heart of Jesus, and those which move Him the Most, are to clothe oneself with all that He Himself did and suffered.
Continuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, He Transformed me completely in Him, and then He told me:
“Daughter, pour yourself into my Will to make complete reparations for Me.
My Love feels an irresistible need for them; after so many offenses of creatures, it wants one at least who, placing herself between Me and them, would give Me Complete Reparations, Love for all, and would snatch from Me Graces for all. But you can do this only in My Divine Will, in which you shall find Me and all creatures. Oh, with what yearnings am I waiting for you to enter into My Divine Will, to be able to find in you the Satisfactions and the Reparations of all! Only in My Divine Will shall you find all things in act, because I AM engine, actor and spectator of everything.” Now, while He was saying this, I poured myself into His Divine Will – but who can say what I saw? I was in contact with every thought of creature, the Life of which came from God; and I, in His Divine Will, multiplied myself in each thought, and with the Sanctity of His Divine Will I repaired everything, I had a ‘Thank You’ for all, a Love for all. Then I multiplied myself in the gazes, in the words and in everything else – but who can say what was happening? I lack the terms, and maybe the very angelic tongues would stammer; therefore I stop here.
So I spent the whole night with Jesus in His Will. Then I felt the Queen Mama near me, and She told me:
“My daughter, pray.” And I: ‘My Mama, let us pray together, for by myself I don’t know how to pray.’
And She added: “The Most Powerful Prayers over the Sacred Heart of my Son, and those which move Him the Most, are for
the creature to clothe herself with everything He Himself did and suffered,
since He gave everything as Gift to the creature.
Therefore, my daughter,
“Surround your head with the thorns of Jesus, bead your eyes with His tears, impregnate your tongue with His bitterness, clothe your soul with His Blood, adorn yourself with His wounds, pierce your hands and feet with His nails, and like another Christ present yourself before His Divine Majesty. This sight will move Him in such a way that He shall not be able to deny anything to the soul who is clothed with His own insignia. But – oh, how little do creatures know how to make use of the Gifts which my Son gave them! These were my prayers upon earth, and these are my prayers in Heaven.”
So, together we clothed ourselves with the Insignia of Jesus, and together we presented ourselves before the Divine Throne.
This moved all; the Angels made way for us and remained as though surprised.
I thanked Mama, and I found myself inside myself.
