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Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book I

BookBabyerschienen am01.07.2019
Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book I, written by Diane Allen and published by Padre Pio Press features 55 chapters and is a glimpse into the life and spirituality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who has often been called 'The greatest mystic of the 20th Century.' Forty individuals, all who either met Padre Pio personally or attended his Mass, were interviewed for this book. The author and her husband, Deacon Ron Allen, have traveled to many parts of the United States in order to record the personal testimonies of Padre Pio's friends from near and far. Other chapters in the book which examine Padre Pio's unique spirituality are titled, The Transverberation, The Extraordinary Perfume of Padre Pio, Padre Pio's Way of the Cross, Padre Pio's Love for the Virgin Mary, Answered Prayers, Padre Pio's Holy Death, and more.mehr

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KlappentextPray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book I, written by Diane Allen and published by Padre Pio Press features 55 chapters and is a glimpse into the life and spirituality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who has often been called 'The greatest mystic of the 20th Century.' Forty individuals, all who either met Padre Pio personally or attended his Mass, were interviewed for this book. The author and her husband, Deacon Ron Allen, have traveled to many parts of the United States in order to record the personal testimonies of Padre Pio's friends from near and far. Other chapters in the book which examine Padre Pio's unique spirituality are titled, The Transverberation, The Extraordinary Perfume of Padre Pio, Padre Pio's Way of the Cross, Padre Pio's Love for the Virgin Mary, Answered Prayers, Padre Pio's Holy Death, and more.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781543997804
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum01.07.2019
Seiten200 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse744
Artikel-Nr.10462240
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Genre9200

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When Jesus wants to make me happy, he fills my heart with that spirit which is all fire, and talks to me about his delights; but when he wants to be consoled, he tells me about his pains, and invites me in a manner that is both a request and a command, to offer my body to alleviate his suffering.

- St. Pio of Pietrelcina

CHAPTER 1

PADRE PIO S WAY OF THE CROSS

Padre Pio s life may be aptly described as a Way of the Cross. He lived the mystery of the Cross. Our Christian faith teaches us that suffering which is accepted and offered to God for the reparation of sin and for the salvation of souls, has an immense value. Even as a youth, Padre Pio understood the transcendent value of suffering. He once said, If humanity could realize the value of suffering, they would ask for nothing else.

On one occasion Padre Pio said to his spiritual director, Father Benedetto Nardella, My sufferings are more precious to me than gold. His sufferings were precious to him because he was able to see them in the light of God s will. He saw everything in the light of God s will.

The Lord permitted Francesco Forgione (Padre Pio) from his earliest years to suffer crosses, one after another. He was born in Pietrelcina, one of the poorest regions of southern Italy, on May 25, 1887. His parents, Grazio and Giuseppa Forgione, shared a life of poverty and hard manual labor on their tiny landholding. Three of Padre Pio s siblings died as infants. The Forgiones had to accept the long absence of Grazio as he traveled to America twice to live and work in order to support his family and to earn the needed money for Padre Pio s seminary education.

Throughout his life, Padre Pio suffered from a number of prolonged and debilitating illnesses. He was afflicted with severe headaches, dizziness, asthma, intestinal trouble, chest pains, pulmonary infections, back pain, bronchitis, respiratory illnesses, fevers, and more. When Padre Pio was asked on one occasion how long he had been suffering, he replied that he had been suffering from the time he was in his mother s womb.

The painful illnesses which weakened Padre Pio s body were nothing compared to the pain that he experienced in bearing the wounds of the stigmata in his hands, feet, and side. He also experienced the pain of Christ s Passion in the scourging, the crown of thorns, and the shoulder wound. Padre Pio wrote, The Heavenly Father has not ceased to allow me to share in the sufferings of his only begotten Son, even physically. These pains are so acute as to be absolutely indescribable and inconceivable. (Letters I)

Father Alessio Parente was often nearby in the mornings when Padre Pio changed the half-gloves that he always wore to cover the stigmata on his hands. Padre Alessio noticed that even the slightest touch to his hands caused him intense pain.

Many people who were close to Padre Pio observed that his walk was slow and dragging as though he was bent under a great weight. Professor Gerardo De Caro observed this and said:


One evening as I was standing by his cell, I saw Padre Pio return from the choir, walking with his shoulders bent over and with his chest almost touching his knees. His sandals shuffled across the ground as he dragged himself along like one carrying the cross. He must have been in great pain walking.

He rested his weight on the edges of his feet and his heels so as not to press on the wounds of his feet. I looked at him and he looked at me. Immediately, and with great effort he straightened himself. For an instant I saw him like Jesus under the cross. After confession, I said to him, Padre, you are like Jesus. And Padre Pio tried to reprove me.


Padre Pio was in great pain as he ascended the altar every morning to celebrate Mass. Padre Vincenzo of Casacalenda wrote about Padre Pio s Mass and said:


We remember him . . . his simple and absorbed deportment, yet he nevertheless appraised the difficulties of walking through the tightly packed crowd which only unwillingly made room for him to pass. His face showed no trace of splendor or of a supernatural power, but rather an expression of pain. . .One never wearied of looking at him. He was entirely suited to the mystery of the Passion which he seemed born specially to celebrate.


Father Alessio Parente described Padre Pio during the offertory of the Mass and said, He remained for a long time as if unable to move, his eyes full of tears, invariably fixed on the Crucifix, while he offered to the Heavenly Father, the bread and wine that were to become the Body and Blood of Jesus.

Like Father Alessio, Brother Modestino Fucci also observed Padre Pio s tears during the Mass. He saved five handkerchiefs that were used by Padre Pio while celebrating Mass, two of which he used to dry his tears and the other three to wipe the perspiration from his forehead. Brother Modestino saw that there was blood on all five of the handkerchiefs.

A Capuchin missionary priest once visited Padre Pio and asked him for advice. He told Padre Pio that he wanted to stay in Italy rather than return to the foreign missions but was not sure whether he should ask his superior for permission. Why do you want to stay in Italy? Padre Pio asked him. Because I have a pain in my shoulder which bothers me greatly, the missionary answered. My brother, Padre Pio replied, it will take a great deal for it to be like my pain. Go back to the missions immediately. The Capuchin followed his advice and returned to the foreign missions.

As word spread that Padre Pio had received the stigmata, crowds started flooding to San Giovanni Rotondo. Many priests, seeing the large numbers of people that flocked to Padre Pio s Mass, resented his popularity and publicly discredited him. Some of his bitter opponents sent letters of complaint to the Holy Office in Rome and spoke of him in harsh terms to the Holy Father. He was often slandered in the press. Many believed that his wounds were self-inflicted or caused by hysteria. Padre Pio never raised his voice to defend himself or respond in any way to his critics. A man once asked Padre Pio, Is the devil tormenting you? Padre Pio replied, No, but now the earthly persecutions are beginning.

Rome was informed about the extreme and often fanatical devotion that a number of overly zealous pilgrims exhibited toward Padre Pio. Some claimed to possess relics of Padre Pio which were being sold for a high price. The Holy Office in Rome wanted to discourage people from making pilgrimages to San Giovanni Rotondo but the crowds who attended Padre Pio s Mass kept increasing.

In 1922, the first restrictions from the Holy Office were put into place. Among other things, Padre Pio was forbidden to give the faithful a blessing. He was not allowed to speak of the stigmata or to show the wounds to anyone. He was forbidden to let anyone kiss his hand. His Mass was not to be said at any set hour but at varied times, in the hope that fewer people would attend. He was no longer allowed to answer any letters that were sent to him. He was ordered to cease all communication with Padre Benedetto, who had been his spiritual director for twelve years.

The order to cease communication with Padre Benedetto came as a terrible blow to Padre Pio. He depended on the excellent spiritual counsel of Padre Benedetto and was deeply hurt by this turn of events. Padre Benedetto understood him like no other and Padre Pio was able to open his heart easily to this wise and gifted priest. Padre Benedetto lived for twenty more years and the two priests were never to see or speak to each other again.

A number of years later, someone asked Padre Pio if he had a spiritual director. He answered, I had a spiritual director and it was Padre Benedetto, but since they took him away from me, I have had none. Padre Agostino Daniele replaced Padre Benedetto as Padre Pio s spiritual director. While he enjoyed a close, filial friendship with Padre Agostino and benefitted greatly from his spiritual counsel, Padre Pio indicated that Padre Benedetto was the only person who ever truly understood his soul.

While Rome had legitimate concerns about the excessive devotion of some of Padre Pio s admirers, the harsh interventions that ensued were hard to fathom and even harder to justify. In 1931, more severe restrictions from the Holy Office were announced. A decree was issued on June 12, 1931 that deprived Padre Pio of almost all of his priestly faculties. He was forbidden to say Mass in public. Instead, his Mass would be said behind closed doors, in an interior chapel of the monastery. He was no longer allowed to hear confessions or to receive visitors. He would be separated from those who needed his help and from those whom he wanted to help. When his superior brought him the news, he bowed his head and covered his eyes with his hands. He made no public statement about the decree.

This was a time of great sadness in Padre Pio s life. The enforced segregation, almost like solitary confinement, was a heavy cross. Padre Agostino visited Padre Pio shortly after the decree was announced. He wrote in his diary:


I found Padre Pio very low. As soon as we were in his cell together, he started to cry . . . I was very moved but I was able to check my emotions. Padre Pio told me that he felt this unexpected trial very deeply. I told him, Everything will work for God s glory and for the good of souls. But it is precisely for souls that I feel this trial, ...

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