A storm has swirled of late around Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. Her Cause for canonization was reportedly “paused” earlier this year due to a private letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) to another bishop. The Korean bishops and a couple others issued negative statements against the Servant of God that were theologically weak. Then a rash of YouTube videos appeared from a priest calling the messages of Luisa, which bear some 19 Imprimaturs and Nihil Obstats, “pornographic” and “demonic.” His bizarre rants (more “toxic radical traditionalism“) played well into those who have not properly studied the messages of this Servant of God, which reveal as it were the “science” of the Divine Will. Moreover, it was a direct contradiction of the Church’s official position that remains in effect to this day:
I wish to address all those who claim that these writings contain doctrinal errors. This, to date, has never been endorsed by any pronouncement by the Holy See, nor personally by myself… these persons cause scandal to the faithful who are spiritually nourished by said writings, originating also suspicion of those of us who are zealous in the pursuit of the Cause. —Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri, November 12th, 2012; danieloconnor.files.wordpress.com
Nonetheless, I was personally accused of spreading “false” revelations, as were my colleagues. Professor Daniel O’Connor was disinvited from a conference we were to speak at in Vancouver, Canada earlier this year since he has written several books on the Divine Will, which form a central part of his message. (Later, I was also blocked from coming — but for a different reason: my public stance against the experimental COVID-19 gene therapies that have now injured and killed scores.)[1]cf. The Tolls
The sum toll of this flurry of strange developments led me to set aside the writings of Luisa for a time, which up until then were part of my daily spiritual reading. At the same time, many of us around the world, notably theologians and religious who have studied Luisa’s messages, understand that they bring a valuable light to the perennial prayer of the Our Father, which awaits its fulfillment:
Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private” revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 67
But this week, I sensed the Lord urging me to pick up the writings of Luisa again. What I read was a beautiful summary of the purpose of these revelations:
My Humanity came upon earth as though in the middle of times, in order to reunite the past, when the fullness of My Will reigned in man. In Creation everything was Its own, everywhere It had Its Kingdom, Its operating and Divine Life; and I enclosed within Me this fullness of My Divine Volition, and binding those in the present, first I made Myself the model in order to form the remedies that were needed, the helps and the teachings that were necessary in order to heal them; and then I bound the posterity to the fullness of that Divine Will that reigned in the first times of Creation. So, My coming upon earth was bond of reunion of times; it was remedy in order to form this bond, so that the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat might return into the midst of creatures; it was model made for all, so that, modeling themselves, they might be tied within the bonds formed by Me… —March 5, 1927, Volume 21
St. John Eudes puts it this way:
For the mysteries of Jesus are not yet completely perfected and fulfilled. They are complete, indeed, in the person of Jesus, but not in us, who are his members, nor in the Church, which is his mystical body. —St. John Eudes, treatise “On the Kingdom of Jesus”, Liturgy of the Hours, Vol IV, p 559
Jesus goes on to explain to Luisa that all of Creation, which came into being through His Divine Fiat, remains as a sign to us that the Kingdom of the Divine Will has yet to reign again to the ends of the earth:
By withdrawing from Our Will, Adam lost the possession of this Kingdom, because by doing his own will, he placed himself as though in a state of war against the Eternal Fiat… all this did not take away from his descendatns the rights to reconquer the Kingdom of My Will… as long as Creation exists, it is a matter of time, in order to find those who want to receive the Kingdom… My mere speaking about It is a sign that I want it to be possessed once again. —March 10, 1927, Volume 21
Otherwise, He says, what would be the use of imparting so many knowledges about the Divine Will if His Kingdom could not reign in us?
The Cause Resumes…
The peace that ensued that morning was a deep and welcome grace. It was as though the Lord was sealing within my own heart the veracity of His revelations to Luisa.
The next day, I awoke to the news that the Cause for Luisa’s canonization had been resumed by the Vatican. It was a surprise, given the growing anti-mystical zeitgeist. In a note published on the official website for Luisa Piccarreta on August 10, 2024 by the Postulator of the Cause, Msgr. Paolo Rizzi, it states:
The Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta has never been closed, but has always been pending at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, which had temporarily suspended its canonical process. In fact, the spirituality, thought, and writings of the Servant of God had been submitted to the study of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which in 2019 pointed out that the writings presented some ambiguities of a theological, Christological, and anthropological nature; ambiguities that, while not doctrinal errors in themselves, required further evaluation. Through the support of a theologian expert in mysticism, the Postulation’s clarifying responses to the aforementioned findings enabled the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to conclude that in the writings and thought of the Servant of God there are no statements that are blatantly in contrast with the doctrine of the Church. Thus in June 2024 the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the nihil obstat for the resumption of the Cause, which was formally notified by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to this Postulation on July 8, 2024. —cf. luisapiccarretaofficial.org; cf. Daniel O’Connors statement here
And this is no surprise. As we have repeatedly pointed out, Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta is probably one of the most approved mystics in the history of the Church (see On Luisa and Her Writings).
The war against truth is becoming more intense by the day. It will become harder and harder for the Faithful to discern what is true unless they are a people of deep prayer and discernment, begging God to grant true Wisdom in this hour.
I’m looking forward to sharing a new “now word” that has been on my heart these summer months, especially as our global masters appear intent on immersing the world into another “pandemic”…
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