Saint Padre Pio
By Bob Lord and Penny Lord
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Account of the life of Saint Padre Pio who bore the wounds of Christ for 50 years. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to San Giovanni Rotondo, where Padre Pio lived and died and gathered the information contained here about his life and legacy. This ebook is a complete history of his life from his birth to his death.
Bob Lord
Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.
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Saint Padre Pio - Bob Lord
Saint Padre Pio
Bob and Penny Lord
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Saint Padre Pio
I will do much more after my death.
God is so good! He knows our needs before we do. Who realized at the turn of the century how the beliefs and traditions of our faith would be under so much attack for the next ninety years. Who suspected that we would need so desperately, a role model, someone we could point to, and tell the world, Ecce Homo, behold the man! He affirms our faith. The Eucharist and the Word, Our Lady, the Angels, our heritage in our brothers and sisters, the Saints, are truly rich gifts from Our Lord Jesus.
We are strengthened by the powerful men and women the Lord sends to help us in times of crisis, when we judge that everything, we have ever held dear in our Church, is falling apart around us. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is one of those men.
There are literally thousands of stories of Padre Pio, with regard to the many spiritual gifts he received. Many of these have been documented, while others have been woven out of a sincere love people have had for him. We will share some of the documented miraculous occurrences with you, and there are many, because they form a part of who this man was and is.
We once said that when Mother Church chooses to raise him to the Communion of Saints, the qualities of sanctity in Padre Pio would not be solely that he bore the stigmata for 50 years of his life, that he had the gift of bi-location, the fragrance of Heaven, or the many miracles attributed to him during his lifetime. The proclamation of his sainthood would come from the extraordinary spirituality he showed during his ministry, his enormous love for Our Lord Jesus in the Eucharist, his devotion to Mary and the Rosary, his willingness to take on the sins of the world during his eighteen-hour days in the confessional, his inspired writings, his spiritual counselling, his obedience to his superiors, most especially His Holiness, the Pope, and possibly more than anything, his lifelong commitment to his Sacrament, his priesthood. In short, his loyalty to the Body of Christ, the Mother of Christ, through the Vicar of Christ.
Writing about this powerful man in the Church, may be the most difficult task we have undertaken. We want to present to you the whole man, the man who has touched us, the man whom we love. The Cause for Padre Pio’s Beatification has been opened. It’s very important that none of us, out of some misdirected sense of love for Padre Pio, say or do anything that would prejudice his cause in any way.
We know that nothing is coincidental with the Lord. At best, occurrences that appear to be coincidental, can be termed Holy Coincidence.
And so we know in advance that it was God’s plan that Francesco Forgione, the future Padre Pio, be born so close to the Castle Gate of Pietrelcina. Also, in the same vicinity were the ruins of an ancient feudal church in honor of St. Michael the Archangel. He would need the protection of St. Michael and the Angels throughout his life. Very close to the place where Francesco was born is the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli (Our Lady of the Angels), where he was baptized, also not coincidentally. Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, is the home of the Portiuncola, the first church of St. Francis, after whom Padre Pio was named, and whose way of life he would embrace.
So you can see, right off the bat, how the Lord was working in Padre Pio’s life from before he was born. We really believe the Lord has had a plan for all of us from the beginning of time. Our job is to say Yes
to His plan. Researching the lives of the powerful men and women in our Church has been such a gift to us, in that we can see clearly, how the Lord has orchestrated the lives of those who have said Yes!
Undoubtedly, the enemy will attack, very often, from the most unsuspecting sources.