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== Padre Pio == | == Padre Pio == | ||
[[Padre Pio]], the famous twentieth-century Capuchin monk who bore the stigmata for over 50 years, was one of the great confessors of the Catholic Church. He was born in 1887 and died in 1968. His great calling in life was to be a confessor. | [[Padre Pio]], the famous twentieth-century Capuchin monk who bore the stigmata for over 50 years, was one of the great confessors of the Catholic Church. He was born in 1887 and died in 1968. His great calling in life was to be a confessor. So many people from around the world flocked to his doorstep that they would have to take tickets and wait anywhere from one to ten days in order to have him hear their confession. | ||
Padre Pio had a keen sensitivity to the needs of each soul to whom he ministered. He was also known to have had the gifts of conversion, bilocation, discernment of spirits, prophetic insight and celestial perfume. | Padre Pio had a keen sensitivity to the needs of each soul to whom he ministered. He was also known to have had the gifts of conversion, bilocation, discernment of spirits, prophetic insight and celestial perfume. | ||
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<blockquote>Many said he could be gruff and irate, that he would at times snap shut the panel in the penitent’s face, that he could demolish a penitent with a searing phrase.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Many said he could be gruff and irate, that he would at times snap shut the panel in the penitent’s face, that he could demolish a penitent with a searing phrase.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>It is true. All things to all men. He recognized immediately insincerity, hypocrisy, or falsehood, and struck at it. But he was not out | <blockquote>It is true. All things to all men. He recognized immediately insincerity, hypocrisy, or falsehood, and struck at it. But he was not out of pique or vindictiveness. He loved souls too deeply for that. It was his way of netting his fish. Where he had been rough or angry the penitent would be found later to have returned to more correct or chastened dispositions, and would be received accordingly.<ref>John McCaffery, ''The Friar of San Giovanni: Tales of Padre Pio'' (Whitsable, Kent: Padre Pio Information Centre, 1985), pp. 68–69.</ref></blockquote> | ||
== The purpose of confession == | == The purpose of confession == | ||