Friday, September 23, 2016

Padre Pio, the people’s saint




Tribulation Times

September 23, 2016   

(Heb 12:1-2) And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

ALETEIAThe Unknown Miracles of Padre Pio, Saint with the Stigmata

AUGUST, 2016: Baby on life support for 25 days recovers after father puts Padre Pio relic on bed

THIS WEEKLarge crowds expected for veneration of St. Padre Pio relic

WATCH
Rare Footage of a Day in the Life of Padre Pio

SHORT VIDEOSt. Padre Pio HD

LINKClose encounters with Padre Pio in the Confessional

Padre Pio spent most of his day hearing confessions.
From 1918 to 1923 he heard confessions fifteen to nineteen hours a day.
During the 40's and 50's about eight hours a day.
In 1962, 83.035 women and 19.837 men  registered for confession with Padre Pio: an average of about 273 per day.
In 1967 Padre Pio confessed about 15.000 women and 10.000 men. An average of 70 people per day.

Padre Pio's own words about confession

"It is a tremendous responsibility to sit in the tribunal of the confessional."

"God runs after the most stubborn souls. They cost him too much to abandon them."

After a day of confessions:  "Oh the souls! if you knew how much they cost!"        

"The sight of so many souls who wish to justify their evil ways pains me, exhausts my brain, and tears at my heart."

"Before reproaching a soul, I suffer it first. But it is not I who act, but He who is in me and above me."

"Sin to confession to sin without repentance is a deception of conscience; in essence a sacrilege."

"Among you I am your brother, on the Altar I am your victim, in the confessional I am your judge."

"Confession is the purification of the soul."

"Confession should be made no later than every eight days."

"Do not dwell on sins that have been already confessed. Jesus has forgiven them."

"Place a tombstone on the confessed sins, just as the Lord has done."

"I want to help Jesus in the tremendous task of man's salvation".

"The mercy of God, my son, is infinitely greater than your malice"

BRIEF BIOPadre Pio, the people’s saint
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 7- "On Joy-Making Mourning"
22. Let your very dress urge you to the work of mourning, because all who lament the dead are dressed in black. If you do not mourn, mourn for this cause. And if you mourn, lament still more that, by your sins, you have brought yourself down from a state free of labours to one of labours.

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