# 49 OF 80 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 49 OF 80 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT..COM - WED. MAY 27,2020

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD RUFFIN

CHAPTER 23 - PADRE PIO AND THE GI's --  p. 259 - 261

Preface:

    "If Christians Don't Personally Engage in Politics, It's All over for America." By the Virginia Patriot Robert Marshal. +++ "Justice is Truth in Action." The Truth needs to be Promulgated. One Truth was Published on Memorial Day Titled, "Understanding the Mindset of the Leftist CINOP." Let it be Published not under my Name but under Anonymous.

  Millions of Catholic Pro-Life Americans have had Some of those Thoughts on their Mind for Years. Anonymous Calls for the Distribution of this Letter after Mass outside of Catholic Churches or on their Car Windows; Beginning June 13th and 14th. Corpus Christi Sunday, and Starting in California.  Create a Catholic Faith Tea Party of one or two or three. [Do not pass out at your church.]

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Message from the Padre Pio Book: "...Carrigan felt "the rough scales of the blood crystals" and experienced a pleasant aroma, which he thought must have been associated with some sort of medication. After that Padre Pio greeted each of the soldiers and allowed all of them to kiss his hand. (the normal manner of greeting an Italian priest).

Carrigan was so moved by the experience that more than thirty years later he could say, "Since I met Padre Pio ... I can truthfully say I have had no doubts .. regarding Christ's being .. the Savior of the world.

...Thus, for the next year and a half, Carrigan brought many soldiers to see Padre Pio... According to Carrigan, Padre Pio seemed to know exactly one English word: "Okay."... Despite the language barrier, Carrigan knew personally of hundreds of men who received "reconfirmation of their faith" through their encounters with Padre Pio. Others underwent outright conversions...

Padre Pio, according to Carrigan, was not the stereotype of a mystic but rather the sort of man "you would have gone fishing with." Carrigan saw no evidence whatsoever of mystical charisms. He made his confession to Padre Pio and found it "As normal as apple pie." However, he noted that although Padre Pio seemed to speak little English, he nonetheless seemed to understand the Americans when they spoke to him.

Padre Pio told the Red Cross official, "I need very little of the world's goods: a cover for my body, enough food  to survive, and a little rest, and that's enough." Carrigan saw for himself that Padre's physical needs were indeed minimal. At the midday meal Pio never ate a complete serving of food. In the evening, in his room, he sipped wine and fruit juice (he especially loved pineapple juice), but took no solid food. Sleeping across from his room, Carrigan observed that Padre Pio seldom seemed to remain in bed longer than four hours a night...

Avignon's reactions to Padre Pio's Mass were much the same as Carrigan's: The Mass lasted almost two hours. It was a Mass that I could not describe. It was so beautiful. The room was filled with a perfume that came Padre Pio's wounds... As I knelt next to the altar I could clearly see the suffering Padre Pio was going through from the pain in his wounds.

His feet and hands would jerk as if great pain was shooting through his body. He made painful expressions all through the Mass, Never noticing anyone in the church. I had the sense that he was physically here but spiritually ... with Christ at the foot of the cross. At times he wept with tears running down his face, as if he were watching Christ being nailed to the cross. He was living the Passion of Our Lord. When he raised his hands I could clearly see the painful-looking wounds on his hands ... The only words that came forth from my mouth as I knelt watching a living Saint celebrate the Holy Mass were, 'My Lord and My God!" ....  George H. Kubeck