up to now

up to now no reaction from the Congregation

4th/Oct/2011 the signatures sent off by german mail

yesterday 4th/Oct/2011 the mail package was sent off by German Mail (deutsche Post) to the Vatican

Petition closed 30.Sept.2011

The Petition closed on 30th/Sept/2011.
The Mail to the Vatican (congregation) is ready. We will bring it to the Post office tomorrow (04th/Oct/2011).

We hope that the Vatican will get it before the festivities in Florence beginning on 12th/oct/2011 concerning Maria Valtorta.
In contrary to the displayed count of 587 Signatures on the change.org website: When I downloaded the signatures, they were just 535 signatures.


On this blog I will report any reaction we get from the vatican, but this may take some time... So stay tune!

Feierlichkeiten zum 50. Todestag von Maria Valtorta

Florenz, Mittwoch, 12. Oktober

Capella del Capitolo am Großen Kreuzgang der Basilika Ss Annunziata, wo sich das Grabmal von Maria Valtorta befindet:

11h00 - Heilige Messe in englischer Sprache mit Rev. Edgar Rueda LC, der eine Gruppe australischer Pilger begleitet

15h30 - Heilige Messe der Valtorta-Gemeinschaft von Florenz

16h45 - Rosenkranzgebet, wird von Radio Maria übertragen

Florenz, Samstag, 15. Oktober

Zusammenkunft im Refettorio duecentesco der Basilika Ss Annunziata (Eingang Via Cesare Battisti 6):

14h30 - Eröffnung der Zusammenkunft. Begrüßung durch den Prior des Konvents.

14h45 - 1. Vortrag: Maria Valtorta, eine Mystikerin aus der Familie der Servi di S. Maria

               Referent Dr P. Giuseppe M. Galassi o.s.m.

15h15 - 2. Vortrag: Die Passion unseres Herrn Jesus Christus im Werk Maria Valtortas

      Referent Dr Don Carmelo Mezzasalma

15h45 - Verschiedene Referenten, vorgestellt von Dr Emilio Pisani

17h00 - in der Basilika der Santissima Annunziata:

      Eucharistiefeier

      mit einem Erzbischof/ apostolischen Nuntius, der am Grab Maria Valtortas seine Verehrung ausdrücken wird      

     

Florence, Wednesday 12 October 2011

Cappella del Capitolo of the Great Cloister, Basilica Ss. Annunziata, where the tomb of Maria Valtorta is located:

11h00 - Holy Mass in English with Rev. Edgar Rueda LC, who accompanies an Australian pilgrimage group

15h30 - Holy Mass of the Valtorta Community in Florence

16h45 - Recitiation of the Holy Rosary, transmitted by Radio Maria

Florence, Saturday 15 October 2011

Meeting in the Refettorio duecentesco, Basilica Ss. Annunziata (entrance at Via Cesare Battista 6):

14h30 - Opening of the meeting. Welcome by the prior of the convent.

14h45 - 1st Lecture: Maria Valtorta, a mystic from the family of the Servi di S. Maria

               Speaker Dr P. Giuseppe M. Galassi o.s.m.

15h15 - 2nd Lecture: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ in the work of Maria Valtorta

  Speaker Dr Don Carmelo Mezzasalma

15h45 - Various speakers, presented by Dr. Emilio Pisani

17h00 - in the Basilica of the Ss Annunziata

  Eucharistic concelebration with an archbishop/ apostolic nuncio, who will express his devotion at Mary Valtorta's grave

up to 30th of September 2011, then I will close the petition

Right after September 30th, i will send the petition letter with the signatures to the congregation in Rome, so that the congregation will get the letter before October 12th, the 50. anniverary of the passing of Maria Valtorta.
We hope that there will be up to one thousand (1000) signatures then, accompanying our petition letter.

Austrian Catholic Community Forum kath.net deletes Posting

Some of our signers tried to put a posting about the petition and the festivities concerning the Holy Mass in Florence on 12th of October 2011 (50th anniversary of death of Maria Valtorta) on the kath.net community forum.
This is one of the biggest german speaking catholic network on the internet.

Immediately after posting, the posting was deleted by the Forum moderator by the name of Gandalf. It seems that they are opposed to any ideas about Maria Valtorta, although there are lots of Postings about Medjugorje on kath.net.

Here you can see a sreenshot of the deleting message of June 27, 2011

It says: The posting <Maria Valtorta> of Evalyne (today, 16:42) was deleted by user Gandalf (today 17:36)

400 Signature line crossed on Saturday June 4th

There is a slow, but steady flow of signatures. I am hopeful, that this will keep on like that!

Unrighteous petitions on change.org

A signer of the petition from the U.S. objected, that there are unrighteous and sinful petitions running on change.org. That is correct.

I started out with the petition on the care2 Website (http://www.care2.com). They care about environmental things mostly. (Which is also a kind of bias, by the way). There the support and the software didn't work correct, so I went to change.org. There the support was working right and the software was much straightforward.

When I went to change.org, I saw that there are these <strange> petitions on their site. So I hesitated for some moments, but then I thought, there will be no clean world, we don't live in  airless space, the church is also not clean, so why not put the petition there. Maybe some of the signers of other petitions on change.org get attentive on our petition and get curious about Maria Valtorta.

So I started the petition on change.org on April 26,2011.

With some work we could transfer the petition to some other petition site, but there (on the new petition site) the same things might happen. And I haven't found yet a good, clean petition site.

I am interested what you think about this matter, please comment!

French Polynesia, Cote d'Ivoir, Hongkong

The signers of the petition come from all parts of this planet. That means <The POEM of the Man-God" is read all over this world. I just list some countries out of the list of the signers: USA, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Equador, Canada, United Kingdom, Philippines, New Zealand, Mexico, Malta, Netherlands, Belgique, French Polynesia, Hongkong, Japan, Brazil,....
Especially Australia and the USA are coming up strong!
It seems that the Arabic countries haven't heard much of Maria Valtorta.

300 signatures line crossed

Today we crossed the 300 signatures line. The pace of signature flow is low in the moment, but steady! So supportes of this petition, look for ways in forums, facebook, twitter, emails, websites to put a link to this Maria Valtorta petition.
here is the petition link again:
http://www.change.org/petitions/congregation-actively-promote-the-work-of-maria-valtorta

Google Site Ranking with keyword 'Valtorta'

Today the  petition site at change.org was ranking about Number 50 (on page 5) in google, when you look for <valtorta> as keyword.
Our goal is to bring the petition site up on page 1, that means under the first 10 sites.
One idea to accomplish that, is that all signers also put a comment on the petition site. This will help the google site ranking.
A comment can also be given by people who already have signed the petition days ago.
Also, when the petition Site gets a lot of links from other websites, its ranking will go up. So you can ask webmasters of other catholic sites, if they mention the petition on their page and put a link to the petition site!
So all of this can be helpful to climb the letter.

Here is the direkt link to the comments on the petition site.

new steam to the petition

Hi
what can we do to give this petition new steam?
all interested people should somehow include the dissemination of this Work of Maria Valtorta in her prayers.
All interested people should try to find 2 or 3 other people to sign the petition.
Find them in your neighbourhood, with your friends, in your parish, via internet, but find them.
Maybe you have still other ideas. Great!
Write them in a comment to this posting!

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Display your signature publicly

Dear Signers, please make sure, that the knob <Display my signature publicly> is turned on, otherwise your signature will not appear in the final list of signatures (attached to the petition letter) and has no value then.

Concerning Country: People from Outside the U.S., klick on <Outside the U.S.> and a list of countries will appear in the State <Select> field. There klick on your Country.

On Display on the Maria Valtorta petitionSite (change.org) will only be your name, Town and Country (not your email adress).

On the final list (petition to the Congregation) there will be your name, town, zipcode, country.

This is only an image of the signing form

starting the day with 200 signatures

we sent emails to all Kinds of catholic organisations
www.kath.net
www.radiomaria.at
www.radiomaria.it
www.radiohoreb.de
www.gloria.tv

Sent eMails to Brasil, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, US, Poland, Switzerland and other countries.
Made entries into different catholic forums
and continue the work to spread the petition all over the world.

Many signers are coming from the US. It seems there are a lot of M. Valtorta readers in the West! Right now signers from Australia are coming in (12:59 CET), I think this is about midnight down under.

Signature count on change.org

I asked change.org for clarification, because today the signatures weren't updated correctly (for the first time!).
For a long time the signature count was on 183 today, then 2 persons must have signed (there was also a new comment to the petition at the same time), because the count was going up to 185, but the list of signatures stayed the same (So person 184 and 185 didn't show up).


I got an answer from change.org: (04. May 11): <The missing counts are the people, who don't want their name to show up on the list. They have unchecked the box that states "Allow my signature to be seen publicly".>


Probably these signers won't show up in the final report or letter to the Congregation, we can only mention them as hidden signers. We have to find out on this matter.
(I totally forgot about thee hidden signers, excuse me).

Screwdriver in the shop

Looking for Websites which may support our petition I came across a lot of superficial statements about Maria Valtorta, from people, who haven't really read the POEM, have not read the quaderni, don't know about the wondrous development and timing of the dictations and visions. That's a pity.
They get stuck with the screwdriver in Joseph's shop, mentionend in the POEM, and state that screws were invented centuries much later. 
This seems be a good test for the seriousness of the POEM.
Some <friends> of Maria Valtorta in these forums apologize for Maria Valtorta, that she was a simple women and couldn't differentiate the different tools...
Maria Valtorta doesn't need the apologizing and she wasn't a dumb women, she was well educated and had an extraordinary precise perception.
You probably know the Research paper of David J. Webster, where he states:
<The Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum (5th century BC) is the alleged inventor of the screw. Screws came into common use around the 1st century BC. These were the wooden screws that were used in wine presses, olive oil presses and for

pressing clothes.>
More on Archytas of Tarentum and his invention of the screw here.
More in general of the invention and use of screws here.

3. day of petition, 100 signatures

it's gaining momentum!
people from all over the place:
australia, guatemala, spain, south africa, Czech Republic, Canada, USA, France, Italy, austria,.....

malayalam

The Website of Centro Editoriale Valtortiano tells us:
Malayalam
<It is a Southern Indian dialect. The translator has worked on and is now in the process of completing the eighth volume; availing himself of our authorization, he has thus far published the first seven volumes in India, where he diffuses them.>

If we can get these readers of Southern India to sign the petition...

This night I mailed to Archbishop Soosa Pakiam (India), who was involved in  the project of translating the Valtorta books into malayalam. Here you find a letter of Archbishop Soosa Pakium concerning Maria Valtorta.

So if any of the readers of this BLOG has connections to South India, go right ahead!

First day of Petition

we had about 30 signatures
better than nothing, but far from our goal of 100 signatures/day.
We must have at least 50 Signatures / day to come near our goal.
A good figure would be 100 signatures per day.


So help/pray for that petition to become a success!
On the Oct 12th 2011 ist the 50th anniversary of the passing away of Maria Valtorta.
That day would be a good date for handing over the 10.000 signatures to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.


Up to then much networking has to be done from our side to spread the petition
and watch out, on every corner is lurking some obstacle!

French Site has the petition on top

French Maria Valtorta Web Site has the petition on top
http://www.maria-valtorta.org/

Startschwierigkeiten

zunächst hatten wir die Petition bei care2.com. Es gab aber dort laufend Schwierigkeiten: Unterschriften wurden nicht angezeigt, text konnte nicht richtig upgedated werden.


heute haben wir die ganze Petition nach change.org/ umgesiedelt, das ging innerhalb von 30 min. Dort läuft alles ohne Probleme, der ganze Website ist professionell und klar aufgebaut. Wir sind froh, dort gelandet zu sein.


Nun geht es an die Unterschriften!

Über diesen Blog

In these days the internet petition to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the dissemination of the Work of Maria Valtorta starts. This Blog is from the Sponsor of the petition and wants to accompany the petition.That means, here is space for comments concerning the petition. We also will inform the readers about new sponsors of the campaign.

We are all thrilled about starting the petition and hope that we will get at least 10.000 signatures for our common campaign. We know of so many enthusiastic readers of the Valtorta books who wonder, what the position of the vatican is to these books. With this campaign we want to find out.


The text of the petition was finalized with the help of:
Madeleine Wasser, Geographer
Helga Schneid, Natural Health Professional
Beatrice Faber, Hotel service specialist


Update: Petition ist heute Abend 27.04.11 an Netz gegangen
Petition published this evening April 27.2011