Send CathInfo's owner Matthew a gift from his Amazon wish list:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/25M2B8RERL1UO

« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 18

Author Topic: Padre Pio  (Read 48172 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline poche

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16730
  • Reputation: +1218/-4688
  • Gender: Male
Re: Padre Pio
« Reply #135 on: May 21, 2017, 11:58:45 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • A lady told this story: “In 1945, my mother brought me to St. Giovanni Rotondo to introduce me to Padre Pio personally and let me confess to him. There were somany people! Waiting for my turn, I thought about what I had to tell him; but when I knelt in front of him, my mind went blank. The dear Father immediately acknowledged my timidity and, he told me smiling: “Do you mind if I speak for you? “I nodded, with a sign of the head, and after in a moment, I was amazed. It didn’t seem possible! Padre Pio told me, word by word, what I would have told him. I kept calm, and mentally, I thanked him for having helped me to experience one of his gifts. I submitted to him the health of my soul and my body. He answered: “I will be your spiritual father forever!“ I left with an immense joy in my heart. While I was returning on the train and in the street, I smelled an intense perfume of flowers that I will never forget!

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #136 on: May 24, 2017, 11:48:38 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • A young man in Padova (Italy) approached Padre Pio for a benediction but the Father looked at him and told him: "Remove your communist partnership card from your wallet (it was  the time when the Russian communist regime was persecuting the Catholic Church) together with the photos of those bad women that you jealously preserve. Are you not ashamed by such photos? ". "Yes, I am" - said the guy. 
    "And since you have intention to do cleaning, remove also the pictures of the bad women in the drawer of the table at home."

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #137 on: May 31, 2017, 11:04:55 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • A certain lady knew very well Padre Pio. During a confession Padre Pio reproached her. The lady said: "I can't remember well which was the reason. When I went away from the confessional, I went to make the penitence but rather than to industriously question my conscience, I begged my protecting saints in heaven to leave me to understand what the Father wanted by me. 
    I continued so for several days. In the following confession Padre Pio told me: "You have gone around the World by complaining."  
    "But, Father, I have not complained about anything with anybody" - I said. 
    "Oh, really? Replied the Saint. 
    "For sure, Father". 
    And he said: "So, tell me, who have put the heaven upside-down with her requests? ".

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #138 on: June 05, 2017, 11:47:52 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Brother Pasquale said. One day leaving the Railway station in Foggia I took a bus to go to St. Giovanni Rotondo. While the bus was crossing the landscapes of Puglia, Brother Pasquale thought: "This spiritual life sometimes looks like we have to climb on the glasses!". 
    When he arrived at the convent and he entered the sacristy, he asked to confess with Padre Pio. 
    His turn arrived and he went in  beyond the curtain of the confessional for the confession. After having received the absolution, he was about to go out, but Padre Pio told him smiling: "…so, Does sometimes this spiritual life look like we have to climb on the glasses!?". 
    Brother Pasquale didn't say a word and he understood Padre Pio was a man of God.

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #139 on: June 10, 2017, 12:46:00 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Mr. Enzo said: "They had told me that you could ask something to Padre Pio even with your mind during the mass. I tried to do so. But at the end of the mass, after the Saint had finished the thanks, I went to talk to padre Pio and I told him: "Father, prays for my sister." 
    He said: "Have you already told it to me, haven’t you? ".
    Mrs. Lucietta said: "On 25, May it was Padre Pio’s birthday. After the mass, while he retired in the sacristy, Padre Pio should pass next to me. I told inside of my mind, "Please, Lord save him for long." 
    After few days, at the end of the confession I told him: "Best wishes, father, since I  have not been able to say to you on 25, May." 
    Padre Pio said: "You have already told me… ".

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #140 on: June 16, 2017, 05:05:01 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Mrs. Alma said: "Padre Pio was confessing the women and I was in the church three or four meters far from him. During the day I would not have had the possibility to speak to him. Then I said with the thought: "Father, send a benediction to me. I need it." 
    I had just ended to think my desire, when I saw that the Saint, moving outside and making a sign of cross. Then he kept on confessing.

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #141 on: June 19, 2017, 12:03:19 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • It was the second time that Teresa saw the Father. After the confession she went to the corridor of the convent to kiss his hand. When Padre Pio arrived, he didn't stop next to Teresa and he did not give her the hand. She could not touch Padre Pio so she was dissatisfied and she complained in her heart, without saying a word.
    Then the Saint went back and paternally gruff told her: "Please, kiss my hand otherwise I give to you a small slap on the face."

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #142 on: June 24, 2017, 12:05:05 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Mr. Joseph of St. Giovanni Rotondo had fixed his date of wedding and he went to the convent to inform Padre Pio. "Father I will get married on September, 12th. It is the day devoted to the holy name of Mary". - "No" - said the Saint - "You will get marry the 8th of September, devoted to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgo."  The young man was amazed about Padre Pio words. When he went home his mother told him: "Listen! Your cousin has established to get marry on September, 12th. As the guests in the majority are the same of ours, we have to change the date of your marriage; it suitable to do it on September the 8th." Joseph didn't say anything since Padre Pio had already informed him about the change.

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #143 on: June 30, 2017, 12:13:43 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • A Padre Pio’s spiritual daughter’s father went to St. Giovanni Rotondo. He was from Modena. It was the first time that the father of the girl went to the convent. As soon as he met with Padre Pio, the monk said: "You are Adriana's dad, is it true? ".

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #144 on: July 03, 2017, 01:00:27 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Father Atanasio Lonardo said: "We was in the choir for the prayers and the meditation of the evening. The superior of the convent gave the signal of the term of the common prayer. Padre Pio said: "Pray for our Provincial father that is in agony". We knew that  Father Bernard of Apicella was sick of bronchus-pneumonia, but we didn't know the serious state of the illness. We prayed a long. The day after, December 31st, 1937, we knew that he was dead.  After few months Padre Pio said he had entered Heaven.

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #145 on: July 08, 2017, 12:35:45 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Padre Pio knew what happened to pope Pio XII after his death. On October 9 th 1958, the same day when Pope Pio XII died in Castelgandolfo (Rome), sister Pascalina Lehnert wrote a letter to St. Giovanni Rotondo to a monk in order to know what was Padre Pio’s thoughts on Pope Pio XII.
    The monk who received the letter, asked Padre Pio about the death of the Pope. Padre Pio, with a face almost transfigured, said: “He is in Paradise”.
    The monk, did not want to believe and he asked again: “Have you seen him in Paradise?” and Padre Pio answered: “Yes, I have seen him in Paradise”.

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #146 on: July 15, 2017, 01:53:10 AM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • About this event Father Agostino of St. Marco in Lamis, annotated in his Diary on  November 18 th 1958: "Padre Pio was very sad for the death of Pope Pio XII. But Our Lord let him see the Pope in the glory of Paradise." 

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #147 on: July 20, 2017, 11:52:37 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Father Alberto D’Apolito met for first time with Padre Pio in 1917. He said: “I was a boy when I went to the convent together with my uncle to meet with Padre Pio. My Uncle was a monk and he was a friend of Padre Pio from their schooltime. We arrived at the convent and my uncle and Padre Pio greeted. Then, they started speaking to each other. Suddenly Padre Pio asked me: Do you want to become a Monk? I immediately answered: No, I don’t. I want to become a salesian priest and I want to go to Rome like some friends of mine. Padre Pio said: “I see” and he started speaking again with my uncle.
    The visit finished and we were going to leave the convent when Padre Pio gave his blessing and told the boy: “You will be a monk like your uncle”. It was true. After several years, that boy became monk.

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #148 on: July 28, 2017, 11:34:32 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Father Alessio Parente said: "I washed Padre Pio’s face and I helped him to go to bed. Then I rummaged in the pockets of the suit to take some medal that he always had in his pocket. I wanted to bring them with me in memory of Padre Pio. But I did not find anything in the pocket.
    The day after I went to greet him and help wake him up. At that point I was surprised since he put his hand in his pocket and he gave me some medal with photo by telling me: “Keep them always with you for my memory”. I did not tell him that I wanted to have some medals.

    Logged

    Offline poche

    • Hero Member
    • *****
    • Posts: 16730
    • Reputation: +1218/-4688
    • Gender: Male
    Re: Padre Pio
    « Reply #149 on: August 05, 2017, 11:28:34 PM »
  • Thanks!0
  • No Thanks!0
    • Padre Pio had the gift of Discernment.  He was able to recognize that a man was a priest or if objects had been blessed. The phenomenon of “discernment” was one among many of his gifts.

    http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/knowledge.htm
    Logged
    Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 18
    « previous next »