Category: Spiritual Gifts of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Spiritual Maxims of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Sayings and words of Faith Don’t ever be pleased with yourself because of some goodness that you might discover in yourself, because it all comes to you from God, and to Him must you give the honor and glory. Invoke your Guardian Angel who will enlighten you. God gave you your Guardian Angel...

The Holy Mass explained by Padre da Pietrelcina From the sign of the initial cross to the offertory it is necessary to meet Jesus in Gethsemane, we must follow Jesus in his agony, suffering before this “black tide” of sin. We must join him in the pain of seeing that the Word of the Father, which he had come to...

Padre Pio’s life was full of miracles, but the nature of the miracles was always divine. For this reason, Padre Pio invited people to thank God, the only source of miracles. It is very difficult to define the word “miracle”. Miracles could be considered expressions of the supernatural. Also, we can say that a miracle is a phenomenon in which...

Padre Pio da Pietrelcina: Confessor of souls. Padre Pio’s conformity to the Pascal Mystery of His Lord necessarily including the ministry of reconciliation ( 2 Cor 5:18-20), its fruit. Toward that end he dedicated many hours of the day to the confessional, both in the mornings and the afternoon. According to the practice common then he heard the confessions of...

Padre Pio da Pietrelcina: The Great Mission. The years passed in Pietrelcina prepared Francesco to receive with open arms the “great mission” that God had designed for him; accepting the consecrated life among the Capuchin, the novice Brother Pio fully felt the same mission which God the Father had entrusted to Jesus. Padre Pio said “I intimately feel a voice...

In a letter from Padre Pio to Padre Benedetto, dated 21 August 1918, Padre Pio writes of his experiences during the transverberation: While I was hearing the boys’ confessions on the evening of the 5th [August] I was suddenly terrorized by the sight of a celestial person who presented himself to my mind’s eye. He had in his hand a...

The Stigmata, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. On September 20, 1918, while hearing confessions, Padre Pio had his first occurrence of the stigmata: bodily marks, pain, and bleeding in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ. This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until the end of his life. The blood flowing from the stigmata smelled of perfume or flowers,...

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina: The bilocation. The phenomenon of bilocation is one of the most remarkable gifts attributed to Padre Pio. His appearances on various of the continents are attested by numerous eye witnesses, who either saw him or smelled the odors characteristically associated with his presence, described by some as roses and by others as tobacco. The phenomenon of...