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Padre Pio was fully aware of his flaws. Often he would write to his spiritual adviser and others lamenting his lack of patience or acceptance of God’s will.
While things were not always as he wished, Padre Pio accepted what the Lord had asked of him.
Each of us has a special role to play in the life of the Church. Our task is to prayerfully discern what that role is.
To this day, Padre Pio is venerated for his holiness, simplicity, and poverty—three characteristics we can all try to emulate.
From a very young age, Padre Pio spoke of interactions he had with angels, as well as saints and demons. In fact, when he was a child, he often spoke of his guardian angel as his friend.
Padre Pio was a man who admired simplicity. He wholly lived the Franciscan spirit of poverty with detachment from self, possessions, and comforts.
We have all had moments in our lives when we feel as if God doesn’t see or hear us. Padre Pio was certainly no different.
Padre Pio underwent a lot of scrutiny during his life. But while he admitted despairing, he offered up the suffering because he knew it was God’s will.
God is the conductor of our orchestra and the many saints and holy people we encounter along the way serve as our instructors.
We cannot preach in the same way as Padre Pio did. But we can spread that same message through our own lives. In that sense, we are all preachers.
