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Novene e devozioni
Novene e devozioni
a poor friar who prays
One biographer wrote of the time that St. Francis of Assisi, the more a man of prayer, was the "prayer personified." For many brothers who have lived in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo, in addition to many others who have had the opportunity to attend, Padre Pio has been the living replica of the founder of the Franciscan family. Moreover, with the utmost humility, he said: "What you want from me all these people? I am only a poor friar who prays. "
Father Pellegrino Funicello, who was also a personal assistant to Padre Pio, told him a long time "spied" by day and night, a bit 'all over, until his death: "Well, I never caught loafing: not only prayed always, but when he thought he only prayed with a concentration that seemed in direct contact with the Divinity. In public, however, not to stand, shall conform to the style and pace of the community. " And what
considered vital prayer for his spiritual children documenting the testimony of Miss Clementina Belloni, "In a confession, Padre Pio accused me of stealing. Surprise, I denied. The father continued: "You stole the time our Lord." In fact, the day before I had failed the duty of prayer. " With Father Giacomo Piccirillo, who lingered to photograph it from different angles, he snapped: "Are you with this" Mastrillo "[referring to the camera, nda.1 in hand for more than a 'now and have not even said a Hail Mary."
Nothing could detract from Padre Pio a constant attitude of prayer. "As soon as I place myself to pray", he reveals himself in a letter dated 1913, "now I feel that the soul begins to gather in peace and quiet that they can not express with words. The senses are suspended, except for hearing, which sometimes is not suspended, but this effect usually does not bother me and I must confess that, even if I did it around the great noise, this can not harass the least. "
His prayer was actually a perennial, total immersion in the mystery of God Archbishop of Manfredonia, Andrea Cesarano, he had the chance to personally experience during a week of spiritual exercises spent in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. For eight nights in a row he got in several hours and went to look in the chapel: at any moment you will always Padre Pio in prayer and could not find out what hours sleep a little.
But even in the days of the novitiate, when they had not yet manifested its particular spiritual gifts, the fellow I admired the observed behavior. Father Leo from San Giovanni Rotondo testified that "at school he always knew the lesson, although the conviction that we had studied little. For I, janitor of the study, now with an excuse, now with another, often I entered his cell and found him almost always to pray, kneeling with her eyes red from crying. I could tell that he was a student of continuous prayer made of tears, because my eyes just look to see that the tears were ordinary thing. "
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