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The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out of love.
We’ve just passed through a long and, at times, trying holy season of Lent, rich with spiritual potential, but it can come at a cost. As challenging as this time can be, however, there’s almost a twinge of sadness as the season passes into the rearview mirror.
As we celebrate Sunday, let us remember to move forward in the spirit of Padre Pio—caring for and serving others so that they may come to know Christ.
If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
We don’t hear anything about Peter from the time he denies Jesus until he runs to the empty tomb. What was he doing for those three days?
For years, followers of Padre Pio waited for the Church to recognize what they felt they already knew—he was a saint.
Good Friday is the most holy of days: The Veneration of the Cross is stark and sorrowful, yet so full of pure adoration from ordinary people.
Padre Pio was investigated by the Vatican regarding his claims of the stigmata and many suggested that he was inflicting the wounds on himself.
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked the disciples to keep watch while he prayed. He came back to find them asleep. “Could you not watch for one hour?”
Though he did not eat very much, Padre Pio found great nourishment in receiving the Eucharist, just as we should.
