Luisa Piccaretta - question

[Tis_Bearself]

I have encountered some people in my area, including one priest, who are very big into Luisa Piccaretta. From what I have learned she was a bedridden Italian mystic who said she received spiritual revelations, many centered on the Will of God, and wrote them down at the request of her spiritual advisor. Luisa has an active sainthood cause but is still at the Servant of God stage. She is called the Little Daughter of the Divine Will.

It’s also my understanding that as of 2017, there was no authorized translation yet into English of her writings, which were written in some regional dialect, and the Vatican was still reviewing them to see if they were theologically correct and that in the meantime, any study or devotion associated with her work on the Will of God could only take place with permission of the local ordinary.

I see now that one local parish bulletin is advertising a study course at the church called “Introduction to the Will of God” based on her writings. I will charitably presume that whoever is putting this on got the necessary approval for it. I would like to know where he got the English translation of her writings to use and is it authorized. The Divine Will seems to be a pretty heavy subject and I’d expect such a course to be taught using Scripture, not the writings of some mystic who isn’t yet named “venerable” and whose works don’t seem to exist yet in a properly approved form in English.

Is anybody more knowledgeable on why we all of a sudden seem to be hearing more about Luisa Piccaretta and whether there has been progress with her cause or with an authorized English translation of her writings? I’m a bit dubious.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The priest in this case is a good guy and I’m sure he’s aware of it given that there is a bulletin announcement for it this week plus a large placard in the vestibule where one goes into Mass.

The more I think about it, the more I suspect this is the work of one local guy who gets a bit over-enthusiastic about Medjugorje and some other similar mystical things, and runs around to different parishes promoting them, and has spent a lot of time with this popular traveling priest who I know is a fan of this woman as said priest mentions her during his homilies. I suspect the people who come to this talk will be the same bunch who attend most of the other stuff promoted by this one guy. I will probably give it a miss. If I want to read about Luisa Piccaretta I will do so online.

It’s just a bit annoying that the websites for this woman make much of her special relationship with Padre Pio (who seems to have allegedly personally endorsed every 20th century mystic in Europe) and claim that the Vatican can’t move forward on her cause because some priest in Florida absconded with two volumes of her writings…she doesn’t even seem to have a coherent Wiki article about her because people keep disputing and taking down sections.

 

[adgloriam]

Hey @Tis_Bearself I just remembered we aren’t suppose to talk about private revelations that haven’t been approved here on CAF.

But from what little I’ve gathered the whole thing is shrouded in controversy.

[an ongoing process, at best…]

 

[Tis_Bearself]

We’re not supposed to talk about material from unapproved private revelations, so I have not posted any discussions of the material of Piccaretta’s supposed writings.

It’s okay to talk about stuff like status of approvals. We do that with Medj too.

Anyway, I appreciate the discussion as it just clarifies to me that I feel uncomfortable with this local push for Luisa Piccaretta right now. I think some folks are getting a little carried away, and I don’t wish to be getting into an argument with them about it. Until I see an English volume of her writings with a Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur in it, I’m just going to avoid it.