#39 OF 45 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 39 OF 45 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOGGER. GEORGE KUBECK - SUN. JAN. 26, 2020

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD

 

Chapter 17 - The Miracle Worker  199- 205

"Despite disruptions, restrictions, and controversies, Padre Pio's ministries went on. Although he retained what his followers called a holy serenity, his heart was not made of stone, and he was at times deeply grieved. In December 1922, in the midst of the Gagliardi-Gemellia affair, he wrote bishop Costa: "At present I am passing through a period of continuous mortification.... Pray to the Lord that ....He might free me immediately from this harsh prison and from this body of death, calling me to Himself. I definitely cannot stand this any longer!"

 

Although the Holy Office forbade him to answer their letters, people from all over the world continued to write to Padre Pio, unburdening their hearts and asking for his prayers. The letters were not only from the humble but from the mighty as well. In March 1923, a letter arrived none other than King Alfonso XIII of Spain....

 

The case of Sister Teresa Salvadores is typical of many cures wrought through the prayers of Padre Pio, in which sufferers were relieved, for long periods of time, from the pain and incapacity of a disease that clinically  remained unchanged....

 

A similar occurrence was related to Charles Mortimer Carty, an American priest, by his friend, Monsignor Luigi D'Indico of Florence. On July 21, 1921, before Padre Pio was forbidden to show his stigmata, the monsignor was alone in his study, quite worried about sister in the same town who was gravely ill.Suddenly, as D'Indico later told Carty, he felt the sensation of having someone on his back. Turning, he saw a man in monk's attire who then vanished into thin air. Thinking he was losing his mind he went to the chaplain... The Chaplain dismissed the phenomena as a phenomenon as a hallucination brought on by anxiety and overwork.

 

After his talk with the chaplain, D'Indico decided to call on his sister. The sister who had been inb a deep coma, was now, to his happy amazement, conscious and quit lucid. She reported seeing a monk in her room at the very moment her brother was having his "hallucinations." Don't be afraid," the monk told her. "Tomorrow your fever will disappear and after a few days there will be no trace of your illness on your body. "Are you a saint?" asked the sick woman. "No," said the mysterious monk, "I am a creature who serves the Lord through His mercies." "Let me kiss your habit, Father," said the monsignor's sister. "Kiss the sign of the Passion," he said, & revealed hands exhibiting the stigmata...

 

Padre Alberto D'Apolito, when an altar boy of fourteen,witnessed an exorcism conducted by Padre Pio on a Sunday afternoon in May 1922: "After Vespers and Benediction...we returned to the sacristy, where we found a possessed woman, who upon seeing Padre Pio , began to scream and curse.

Padre Pio, impassive and serene , took the book in his hands and began the exorcisms among the screams, the curses, and the foul words of the possessed woman. Suddenly she came forth with a very loud scream and, by an invisible force, was raised in the air with a height of three feet. At that moment everyone began to run with fear. Padre Pio without getting upset, continued the exorcism with faith and energy, in a ruthless struggle with the devil, who, finally vanquished, freed the woman....

 

Padre Pio was troubled by his occasional outbursts of impatience. In June 1920, he had written to Padre Benedetto, "My only regret is that, involuntarily and unwittingly, I sometimes raise my voice when correcting people. I realize this is a shameful weakness, but how can I prevent it if it happens without my being aware of it? Although I pray and groan and complain to our Lord about it. He has not yet heard me fully. Moreover, in spite of my watchfulness, I sometimes do what I really detest and want to avoid." Benedetto had written back. "Don't be upset concerning those outbursts, although you should never be satisfied with them. If the Lord doesn't give you the grace of inexhaustible and continues gentleness, it is in order to leave you a means to practice holy humility." ...

George H. Kubeck