MSOpinion Padre Pio and Advent “As in the Gospel reading, the wise servant does not await for the Master to announce his coming but is always ready at any time for his arrival.” READ:
“As in the Gospel reading, the wise servant does not await for the Master to announce his coming but is always ready at any time for his arrival.”
The Scripture commands the disciples of Christ to always be vigilant—prepared—for you know not when the Messiah is coming.As in the Gospel reading, the wise servant does not await for the Master to announce his coming but is always ready at any time for his arrival.One such wise servant is Padre Pio, a perfect example of what total surrender to God’s will means.
Even in his tender years, Francesco had intimate encounters with the supernatural, when he experienced ecstasies and apparitions by age 4 or 5 which Francesco thought were common human experiences. One day in September 1918, Padre Pio received a miraculous vision: he saw someone with Christ’s crucifixion wounds.Stigmata are the five wounds of Christ replicated in the human body. Padre Pio tried to keep it a secret, but word spread about his reception of Christ’s wounds.
The latter extolled Pio’s willingness to embrace the yoke of Christ; how the saint carried his many burdens—sickness, the stigmata, questioning from the Church—with love for Christ. Pio also said: “Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions, you should only speak to Him with your heart.”