April 3: Point of arrival and of departure

April 3.  Everything is ready.  All the hearts are ready.  From Guarene arrived her niece Pina with her son Massimo and the official delegation including the Pastor Fr. Dario Saglietti, the Mayor Mrs. Carla Boffa, the assessor Emilio Cravanzola.  The others were also present: the members of the ecclesiastical tribunal headed by Msgr. Gianfranco Bella; the medical and legal team in the persons of Prof. Giovanni Arcudi and Prof. Silvestro Mauriello; the Postulator Fr. Antonio da Silva who was unable to hide his emotions.  There were representatives of the Pauline Family; a large group of Pious Disciples among whom were the novices, postulants and pre-postulants from various European countries; the technicians who prepared the urn…

There were various juridical and technical formalities to be completed but first everyone stopped for a moment of prayer.
Following the greeting by Sr. M. Regina Cesarato, Superior General, was the reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans (8: 28-39) with a sung refrain; the presentation of the Postulator, the reading of a letter of Mother Scholastica to the Founder dated April 3, 1947.  Then followed the prayer for the sanctity of the Pauline Family:

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
we praise and thank you
for the sanctity you raised up in the “admirable Pauline Family”.
We praise and thank you
for Blessed James Alberione,
for Blessed Timothy Giaccardo,
for the Venerable Canon Francesco Chiesa,
for Brother Andrea Borello, Maggiorino Vigolungo, Maestra Tecla Merlo
and today in a special way for the Servant of God Scholastica Rivata.
We entrust ourselves to their intercession that we may be enlightened
and sustained during this time that separates us until the day we too
will sing the eternal Alleluia in the light of Paradise.  Amen.

The tomb was then closed and the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Roman Vicariate placed the seals which guarantee security and manifest the care of the Church in guarding the mortal remains of the Servant of God to favor, according to ancient tradition, the veneration of the sacred relics of the Saints and Blesseds and the pilgrimage to their tombs (cf Sanctorum Mater, App. n. 1).  The same document (n. 9) states: “in order to render the relics of a Blessed or the mortal remains of a Servant of God more accessible to the devotion of the People of God, it may be opportune to transfer them definitively from one location to another (for example, from the cemetery to a church or chapel)”.  And this is what we are about to do.