Let us keep Padre Bucci in our prayers

May he rest in Peace…Amen.

Father Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci was born in Corato on 15 June 1935.

In 1955, he entered the Novitiate of the Capuchin Friars at Alessano, in the Province of Lecce and completed his philosophical studies at the Studentate in Scorrano. On 14 March 1964, in the Capuchin church of Triggiano, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Nicodemo of Bari.

He was sent to the International College in Rome to specialize in Missionary Theology. When he returned to his Province, he was appointed Spiritual Director of the Seraphic Seminary of Scorrano. He studied for a licentiate and a doctorate, taking the course at the Ecumenical Faculty of St. Nicholas of Bari; where at the same time, in 1972, he acquired a degree in Literature.

As co-founder of the Association of the Divine Will, he spent many years as the spiritual adviser of the Association which was canonically erected in Corato on March 4, 1987. He was a member of the Tribunal for the Cause for Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarretta, which was opened on the Feast of Christ the King, 1994, in the main church of Corato by Archbishop Carmello Cassati.

GREATEST GLORY PADRE BUCCI CAN RECEIVE FROM THE EARTH

V19 – 6.21.26
This morning, having received Holy Communion, I received It as usual in the Most Holy Will of God, offering It to my Dear Saint Aloysius (Fr. Bucci) – not only the Communion, but all the Goods contained in the Most Holy Will of God, for his accidental Glory.  Now, while doing this, I saw that all the Goods contained in the Supreme Volition, like many Rays of Light, Rays of Beauty and of Multiple Colors, Inundated the Dear Saint (Fr. Bucci)  , giving him an Infinite Glory. 

V26 – 6.27.29
Having received Holy Communion, I was offering It for the Glory of Saint Aloysius (Fr. Bucci) , and I offered, as a Present for him, everything that Our Lord had done in His Divine Will with His Mind, with His Words, Works and Steps, for the accidental Glory of Saint Aloysius (Fr. Bucci) on his Feast Day.  Now, while I was doing this, my Sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, a More Beautiful Present you could not give to Dear Saint Aloysius (Fr. Bucci) on the Day of his Feast.  As you were offering your Communion and all My Acts Done in My Divine Will, So Many Suns were Formed for as Many Acts as I Did in It while being on earth; and these Suns Invested Saint Aloysius (Fr. Bucci) , in Such a Way that he Received So Much accidental Glory from the earth, that he could not Receive More.  Only the Offerings of Acts Done in My Divine Will have the Virtue of Forming their Suns, because, containing the Fullness of Light, it is no wonder that It Converts into Suns the human acts Done in It.”

FIAT!!!

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Model of Fidelity Against Religious Persecution

  “Today the Church needs saints. This calls for our combating our attachment to comforts that lead us to choose a comfortable and insignificant mediocrity. Each one of us has the possibility to be a saint, and the way to holiness is prayer. Holiness is, for each of us, a simple duty.” St. Mother Teresa

The true American heroes are not sport or entertainment figures, but Catholic saints. We should turn our “lonely eyes” to them and follow their good examples, virtues and works. They are our true friends and are alive in heaven with God. They are models of holiness for us. They can help us just like friends on earth by their prayerful intercession on our behalf. They give us courage and hope.

July 14 is the feast of one of our saints of the states, St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Let our nation turn its lonely eyes to her for courage and hope. Pope Benedict XVI canonized her at St. Peter’s square in Vatican City October 21, 2012.

The blood of the martyrs is often the water that sprouts the seed of the Catholic faith. The blood of the only martyrs of the United States, Saints Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and Jean de la Lande, watered the seed of the faith in the Mohawk Village at Auriesville, New York. Kateri Tekakwitha was born there in 1656, ten years after they were martyred there.

Kateri’s Baptism

Kateri lived in the Mohawk Village with her uncle, the chief of the Turtle Clan, after her parents died from smallpox when she was four. The smallpox left her disfigured with impaired vision. “Tekakwitha” in Mohawk means “one who puts things in order” or “one who feels her way”, because Kateri had to feel her way with her poor eyesight in the darkened lodges. She often stayed in the Longhouse because the sunlight hurt her eyes.

She fell in love with Jesus and decided to remain a virgin. Virginity was unheard of amongst the Indians and they pressured her to marry and to work on Sunday, but she refused to do so. When they connived to have her lodge visited by a young warrior in the hopes of their union, she turned him out. Then the Indians treated her as a slave and put her to work for the village.

In 1666, the French attacked and burned down Kateri’s village. The Mohawks built a new village on the north side of the Mohawk River at Fonda (Caughnawaga), New York. Here Kateri first  heard of the Catholic faith from Father Jacques de Lamberville, a French Jesuit, who occasionally visited her village at St. Peter’s Mission. He baptized her on April 18, 1676 and she took the name Catherine that the Mohawks pronounced “Kateri”.

The other Mohawks persecuted her for her faith. They mocked her devotion to Our Lady and her recitation of the Rosary. Kateri was not deterred, but to avoid the persecution she escaped in 1677 with some companions from the village to Canada. She trekked north through New York and paddled Lake Champlain to Sault Saint-Louis, a Christian Indian Mission near Montreal on the St. Lawrence River. Her journey took over two weeks, traveling by foot and canoe about three hundred miles through woods, rivers, swamps and lakes.

 The Lily of the Mohawks 

At the Mission, Kateri lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices and care for the sick and aged. Her day at the Mission began at 4 a.m. each morning in church where she remained for several hours of prayer and Masses. She helped the sick and the poor. She formed a group called the Slavery of the Blessed Virgin and they fasted and endured exposure to the cold in the woods as acts of penance. On March 25, 1679, Kateri was permitted to make a vow of perpetual virginity.

Kateri was a half-blind, pockmarked orphan Indian maiden. She was little more than a slave in her own clan, but in God’s eyes she was His pure daughter and a model for her race. Many Indians followed her good example and converted. Kateri received the Eucharist with the greatest devotion. Father Pierre Cholenec, who prepared her for her First Communion said, “Only God knows what passed between Himself and His dear Spouse.”

Kateri attended daily Masses at 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. and visited the Blessed Sacrament five times daily, after her daily visitations to the sick and the poor. During her own last sickness, she dragged herself to Mass until she could no longer walk. She died at the age of 24 on April 17, 1680 in the presence of Father Cholenec and all of her pox marks disappeared. He said that at the time of her death Kateri’s face “… so disfigured and so swarthy in life, suddenly changed about fifteen minutes after her death, and in an instant became so beautiful and so fair that just as soon as I saw it (I was praying by her side) I let out a yell, I was so astonished.”

Two hundred and ninety three years later on the very same date, April 17, 1973, young Peter McCauley’s hearing was spontaneously restored through Kateri’s intercession. This was the miracle that led to her beatification by Pope John Paul II on June 22, 1980.

Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri on October 21, 2012. He called St. Kateri the “protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint” and he entrusted to her “the renewal of the faith in the First Nations and in all of North America.”

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, who is of American Indian descent, said, “I think many young people today are embarrassed about embracing the Catholic faith because they live in a secular culture that’s hostile toward religious experience. St. Kateri also grew up in a place where there was great hostility toward Christianity, but she resisted all efforts to turn her away from her faith, so in some ways she would be a model of fidelity in the face of persecution on religious freedom grounds.”

Kateri’s Feast Day is July 14. Because of her purity, she is known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.”

From:  https://www.rosamysticaofamerica.org/our-story.html

Prayer for The United States of America
Composed by His Excellency
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Almighty and Eternal God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: graciously
turn your gaze to us who invoke You with confidence.

Bless us, citizens of the United States of America; grant peace and
prosperity to our Nation; illuminate those who govern us so that they may
commit themselves to the common good, in respect for Your holy Law.
Protect those who, defending the inviolable principles of the Natural Law
and Your Commandments, must face the repeated assaults of the Enemy
of the human race.

Keep in the hearts of Your children courage for the truth, love for virtue
and perseverance in the midst of trials.
Make our families grow in the example that Our Lord has given us, together
with His Most Holy Mother and Saint Joseph in the home of Nazareth;
give to our fathers and mothers the gift of Strength, to educate wisely the
children with which you have blessed them.

Give courage to those who, in spiritual combat, fight the good fight as
soldiers of Christ against the furious forces of the children of darkness.
Keep each one of us, O Lord, in your Most Sacred Heart, and above all
He whom Your Providence has placed at the head of our Nation.

Bless the President of the United States of America, so that aware of his
responsibility and his duties, he may be a knight of justice, a defender of
the oppressed, a firm bulwark against Your enemies, and a proud
supporter of the children of light.

Place the United States of America and the whole world under the mantle
of the Queen of Victories, our Unconquered Leader in battle, the
Immaculate Conception. It is thanks to her, and through your Mercy, that
the hymn of praise rises to you, O Lord, from the children whom you have
redeemed in the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

JUNE 27, 2020

Lord JESUS, by faith in Your Merits, I now take Your Precious Blood and sprinkle It over myself and my family right from the crown of my head to the very soles of my feet. I claim total and complete protection for my life and my family. Lord JESUS, keep me free today from evil, sin, temptation, Satan’s attacks and afflictions, fear of darkness, fear of man, sickness, diseases, doubts, anger, all calamities and from all that is not of Thy Kingdom.

Fill me Lord JESUS with the Gift of Your Holy SPIRIT and grant me the Gift of Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding and Discernment so that I will live today in Your Glory by doing that which is right.

I Praise You, Jesus

I Thank You, Jesus

I Love You, Jesus

I Adore You, Jesus

Holy Spirit, You make me see everything, and show me the way to reach my ideals, You Who gives me the Divine Gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me, and You Who are in all instances of my life with me, I in this short dialogue want to thank You for everything an affirm once more that I never want to be separated from You no matter how great the material desire may be. I want to be with You and my loved ones in Your Perpetual Glory.

(MENTION YOUR REQUEST)

Thank you, Holy Spirit for Your Love towards me and my loved ones.

AMEN

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7/2/2020

Since July 3, 1963, the mortal remains of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta have been kept in the Church of St. Maria Greca in Corato. After her death on March 4, 1947 and her solemn funeral on March 7, 1947, her body was placed at the cemetery of Corato in the chapel of her last official confessor, don Benedetto Calvi, parish priest of the Church Santa Maria Greca.

Don Benedetto, as spiritual assistant accompanied Luisa for 21 years, learning from her the truths of the Divine Will. He made every effort to Keep Luisa’s memory, so much so that he immediately asked the competent authorities to move her remains to the Church-Sanctuary of Santa Maria Greca.   This privilege was granted to him only in 1963. So on July 3, the body of Luisa was exhumed and moved. Everything was done in a very simple way according to Luisa’s lifestyle: simplicity, poverty and smallness.

Luisa’s mortal remains were collected in an urn “covered inside with finest silk cloths, into a crystal box, all locked in the urn to contain the bones of Luisa the Saint”. (Statement by on Benedetto Calvi) and buried inside the Church Santa Maria Greca.

Since April 23, 2019, with the consent of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and Archbishop Leonardo D’Ascenzo, the tomb of the Little Daughter of the Divine Will has a new location. It is located to the left of the high altar, in the center of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, which has been restored for this occasion

This new location makes it possible to pray with greater recollection, allowing pilgrims, who come from many parts of the world, to stop next to the tomb to receive light, strength, protection and to write a message or prayer on the visitors’ register. Luisa continues, in fact, to represent both for the city of Corato and for those who come from afar a bright lighthouse that shows everyone the path of the Sanctity of the Divine Will.

 Fiat!

Our Lady of Consolation

Starting in the 2nd century, Catholics venerated Mary as Our Lady of Consolation, one of Her earliest Titles of Honor. The Title of “Our Lady of Consolation“, or “Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted”, comes from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum.^[1] It is found in the Litany of Loreto.

V33 – 6.6.35  – “Now, while He was saying this, my Dear Jesus Showed me, with facts, how the Sovereign Queen Descended from Heaven with an Unspeakable Majesty, and a Tenderness Fully Maternal; and She went Around in the midst of creatures, throughout all nations, and She Marked Her dear children and those who were not to be touched by the scourges.  Whomever My Celestial Mama Touched, the scourges had no power to touch those creatures.  Sweet Jesus gave to His Mama the Right to Bring to Safety whomever She Pleased.  How moving it was to see the Celestial Empress Going Around to all places of the world, taking creatures in Her Maternal Hands, Holding them Close to Her Breast, Hiding them under Her Mantle, so that no evil could harm those whom Her Maternal Goodness Kept in Her Custody, Sheltered and Defended.  Oh! if all could see with how Much Love and Tenderness the Celestial Queen Performed this Office, they would cry of consolation and would love She Who So Much Loves us.” 

Our Lady of All Consolation

May you be blessed, O Mother of Christ Jesus, our Lord — Mother of Mercy, and Lady of all consolation, who console us in all our tribulations. May the holy name of your glory be blessed, praised, and exalted until the end of time. O, Door of paradise! O, Handmaid of the grace and servant of the Holy Ghost! O, Mistress of all wisdom and divine contemplation! O, best teacher of the poverty and humility of Christ! You are more noble than the patriarchs in faith and patience, more preceptive than the prophets in knowledge and insight, higher than the apostles in perfection and sanctity. You surpassed all martyrs in enduring suffering for Christ and excelled all the Saints in works of virtue. In purity you surpassed all other virgins, and the angels and archangels you excelled in the abundance of your grace. You are more radiant than the cherubim in splendor of wisdom and more illustrious than the seraphim in ardor and love! Truly, you transcend all other created beings in wisdom, sanctity, and grace, and none there is who rivals you.

~ St. Ildephonsus of Toledo

FIAT!!! 

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

V19 – 6.26.26 –  “She let not one act escape Her that creatures Owed their Creator; and enclosing all in Her Maternal Heart, She Loved all and each one in a Universal Way.  So, in Her We Found All Our Glory – She denied nothing to Us; She gave Us not only that which She was supposed to Give Us Directly, but also that which the other creatures denied to Us.  And to Act as a Magnanimous and Most Loving Mother, Who Pours Her Own Self Out For Her children, She Generated everyone in Her Sorrowful Heart.”

MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Letter #20 of Luisa to Federico Abresch: 

“Don’t you know that Redemption is Preparation for the Kingdom of the Divine Will? And the Sacred Heart of Jesus is nothing other than the Immense Reign of His Will. It is not the Heart that Dominates; it is the Divine Will that Dominates His Divine Heart.”