Who is Luisa Piccarreta?

"Our Lord Jesus chose Luisa Piccarreta to share His Gift of Living in the Divine Will with us. As herald of this “sanctity of sanctities” revealed to her by Jesus, Luisa’s life was fully anchored in God’s Divine Will. This “little daughter of the Divine Will” of the 20th century will make known this profound spirituality amidst a succession of various epidemics, and two wars that mark the times of her life..."

Continue reading about Luisa's life on the website of
the Little Children of the Divine Will: Phillipines and  USA
lcdwphilusa.org

 

Father Bernardino Giuseppe Bucci, OFM knew Luisa personally. His aunt Rosaria cared for Luisa and made tombolo (bobbin-lace) with her. 
Read his beautiful memories of Luisa. →

Dawn of a Mystery  

This movie about Luisa's life and spirituality was made in 2005 for the closing of the diocesan process of beatification. 

 

Ten Minute Segment
of this same movie →


Luisa (to Jesus): "My Love, I am known by no one."
Jesus: "What? You are known by no one? All the Angels and Saints know you, each one of them, and they anxiously await your operating in my Will, like a divine note, and the most harmonious one, which flows over everything they have done in life, to give them greater splendor and contentment. All the purging souls know you, feeling upon themselves the continuous refreshment that the operating in my Will brings. The demons know you from the power of my Will that they feel in you. And if the earth does not know you for now, it will know you later. It happens, and I act with one who does by Will, just as I did with my Celestial Mother: I constituted her Queen of all, and I commanded all to recognize her and honor her as their Queen; and I commanded her to crush with her foot the head of the infernal dragon. So I do with those who live in my Will; everything is under their dominion, and there is no good which does not come from them."


The Book of Heaven, Volume 14: March 10, 1922


Luisa is the First One to Live in the Divine Will (Besides Jesus and Mary)

Book of Heaven, Volume 14: October 6, 1922
The first plane of the human acts changed into divine in the Divine Will was done by Jesus. Luisa is the first one to live
in the Divine Will.

I was praying when my always lovable Jesus came, and throwing His arms around my neck, told me: "My daughter, let us pray together, let us enter into the immense sea of my Will so that nothing may come from you which is not plunged in It. The thought, the word, the heartbeat, the work, the step - everything must take its place in my Will; and for each thing you do in It, you will take one more possession and acquire a greater right.

All human acts, according to the purpose of Creation, were to have life in my Volition and form in It their plane of all human acts changed into divine, with the mark of Supreme nobility, Sanctity and Wisdom. It was not Our Will that man withdraw from Us, but that he live with Us, growing in Our likeness and operating with Our own manners. This is why I wanted that all his acts be done in my Will - to give him the space in which to form his own little river within the
immense sea of my Will. I acted like a Father who possessed great lands and said to His son: ‘I give you possession of the center of my possessions, so that you may not go out of my boundaries and may grow in my riches, with my own nobility and with the greatness of my works, and so that all may recognize that you are my son.’ What would one say of him if he did not accept the great gift of his Father and went to foreign lands to live out of miseries, disennobling himself under slavery of cruel enemies? Such was man.

Now, this plane, this little river in my Volition - I want it from you. Let each one of your thoughts flow in It, so that, at the reflections of Our Intelligence, which is thought of each one, it may rise over each intelligence and give Us the homage of each thought in a divine manner. Let your words and works flow as well, so that, at the reflection of Our word  ‘FIAT’, which made all things and is word of each one, and at the reflections of the Sanctity of Our works, which is life and motion of all, they may rise and hover over all, giving Us the glory of each word and of each work, with Our own word ‘FIAT’ and with the very Sanctity of Our works. My daughter, if all that is human – be it even one thought - is not done in my Will, the human plane takes no possession, the little river is not formed, and my Will cannot descend upon the earth to make Itself known and to reign."

On hearing this, I said to Him: ‘My Love, Jesus, how is it possible that after so many centuries of life of the Church, which put out so many Saints - and many of them have astonished Heaven and earth with their virtues and with the wonders they performed - they did not operate fully in the Divine Will so as to form that plane You are talking about? Were You waiting just for me, the most unable, the most bad and ignorant one, in order to do this? It seems just
incredible!’ And Jesus: "Listen, my daughter, my Wisdom has means and ways which man ignores, such that he is obliged to lower his forehead and adore It in mute silence; and it is not up to him to dictate the laws to Me: whom I should choose and the appropriate time - which my Goodness disposes. Besides, first I had to form the Saints, who were to resemble Me and copy my Humanity in a more perfect way, as much as is possible for them; and this I have already done.

Now my Goodness wants to move further, and wants to give in greater excesses of love; and therefore I want them to enter into my
Humanity and copy what the soul of my Humanity did in the Divine Will. If the first ones cooperated with my redemption in order to save souls, to teach the Law, to cast away sin, being limited within the centuries in which they lived, the second ones will go beyond, copying what the soul of my Humanity did in the Divine Will. They will embrace all centuries, all creatures, and rising above all, will place in force the rights of Creation which are due to Me, and which concern all creatures, bringing all things to the prime origin of Creation and to the purpose for which Creation was delivered. Everything is ordered in Me: if I delivered Creation, It must return to Me ordered, just as It came out from my hands.

The first plane of the human acts changed into divine in my Will, has already been done by Me; I left it as though suspended, and the creature, except for my dear and inseparable Mama, knew nothing. This was necessary. If man did not know the way, the door, the rooms of my Humanity, how could he enter inside of Me and copy what I did? Now the time has come for the creature to enter into this plane and do also something of her own within Mine. What is the wonder if a have called you as the first one? Besides, it is so true that I have called you as the first, since to no other soul, though dear to Me, have I manifested the way to live in my Will, the effects of It, and the wonders and goods which the creature operating in the Supreme Volition receives. Check as many lives of Saints as you want, or books of doctrines: in none ofthem will you find the prodigies of my Volition operating in the creature and of the creature operating in It. At the most, you will find resignation, union of wills; but in not one of them will you find the Divine Will operating in her, and she in It. This means that the time had not come in which my Goodness was to call the creature to live in this sublime state. Even the way I make you pray cannot be found in anyone else. Therefore, be attentive. My Justice demands this, my Love is delirious; so my Wisdom disposes everything in order to obtain the intent. It is the rights, the Glory of Creation, that We want from you."


"Luisa is the herald of the Divine Will, the first soul born in a state of Original Sin that God has raised to the heights of holiness, the state of beatitude whilst on earth. He has given her possession of the Divine Will and immeasurable graces. She is the first. She wrote her diaries so that you could follow, but walking your own unique path along this route."

Derek Williams

"The profound testimony of Luisa Piccarreta...draws people to the deepest unity with [God]...This 'living in the Divine Will' is the actual way in which the Son Jesus lived on earth, bringing here with Him the life of Heaven... [Luisa] transformed her entire heart into a dwelling place for God alone."

Cardinal Jose' SaraivaMartins
In the preface to The Sun of My Will
Luisa's official biography from the Vatican

 It seems that Our Lord, who century after century increases the wonders of His Love more and more, wanted to make of this virgin with no education, whom He calls the littlest one that He found on earth, the instrument of a mission so sublime that no other can
be compared to it - that is, the triumph of the Divine Will upon the whole earth, in conformity with what is said in the ‘Our Father’: Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut in Coelo et in terra."

Saint Annibale M. di Francia

“The Eucharist was her only food, the bed her Cross, the 'Fiat' her motto.” 

Fr. Sergio Pellegrini,
Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Trani-Barletta