#65 OF 70 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

 # 65 OF 70 -THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. AUG. 31 ,2020

 

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY- C. BERNARD RUFFIN

Chapter 31 - 'Just in Time for My Golden Jubilee'  p.363-366

 

    "The world situation deeply saddened the old man. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in November 1963, depressed him. His love and admiration for Americans had been extended to their Presidents. He had loved Franklin Roosevelt, and years before, when an American bad-mouthed the man in the White House, Pio had said, "Don't talk that way! Roosevelt is a great man! If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be coming out of this thing [World War II]." He expressed high regard for Truman ...

   

    The rampant materialism and immorality that Pio saw all about him drove Pio nearly to despair. He increasingly warned that television was destroying family life... He became increasingly negative about movies, insisting that "the devil is in the cinema." ... Padre Pio seemed to see a vision of the future that filled him with horror...

    What perhaps troubled the Capuchin the most were the changes within his own Church. He accepted humbly the directives of Vatican II. Like many elderly priests, he requested and received permission to continue to celebrate the old Tridentine Latin Mass because he feared that he could never learn and remember the new Mass,,,

 

    What saddened him immeasurably was the attitude of dissent and unbelief that seemed to pervade the Church. He was almost embittered by the protests and criticism leveled at the pope and at the Church by radical priests, nuns, and laity.  He was distressed at the decline in vocations, especially in the Capuchin order... Measurements -- "Mine? Do you want to make me another habit?" "No, I have to take measurements for trousers.One never knows... the Special General Chapter is in session. Maybe, they will order us to wear civilian dress... The humor was lost on the old man, who started to weep bitterly."Have you lost your senses?" he cried. "I have lived and will die with this blessed habit on..."

 

    As Padre Pio weakened physically, hell seemed to renew its physical attacks on him. The diabolical apparitions and assaults seemed to have ceased...From the mid-1960s, however, diabolical attacks seemed to have returned in full force. Padre Pio's eyes were now grown too dim to permit him to read much anymore.... Evenings he spend sitting in his arm chair, praying the rosary...

 

    He said, "Stay with me! The devils won't leave me alone for one minute!"So I stayed in his room all night... It would be easy to assume that the old man, weak and confused and over medicated was losing his marbles. Yet every one assigned to watch him was convinced that Padre Pio, despite his age was completely rational ... the victim of physical demonic assaults...

    It would be easy to assume that the old man , weak and confused and over-medicated, was "losing his marbles." Yet everyone assigned to watch him was convinced that Padre Pio, despite his age, was completely rational, and he was literally the victim of  physical demonic assaults. Why?...

 

    As Padre Eusebio went to ring a doctor, Padre Carmelo asked Padre Pio who had placed the pillow under his head. Weakly, Pio replied, "The Madonna." Early the next morning, July 6, the raving girl was in the square among the crowd waiting for the church door to open to admit them to Padre Pio's Mass. She screamed,"Last night I really hit that old man. You'll see if he come down to Mass." Nobody paid attention to her, but when the hour for Mass arrived and Padre Carmelo appeared to announce that Padre Pio was indisposed, the woman raged, "Did you hear? The old man will not come down to say Mass! I beat him up last night!" There's no way the girl could have gained entrance to Pio's room...

 

    Maria Pyle, who was not present but repeated what she had heard, insisted that the possessed woman had shrieked, "Pio, I have known you since your were small!"and that, when the exorcism was begun and when the priests asked the demon in the woman, "Where were you last night?" they were told, "I was upstairs to see the old man I hate so much because he is a source of faith. I would have done more, only the White Lady stopped me."...  George H. Kubeck