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Padre Pio's Mass... Remote Preparation for the Holy Mass
REMOTE PREPARATION FOR THE HOLY MASS
During all the time Our Lord Jesus Christ lived on earth, - says the “Imitation” ‒ He was not for one single moment without cross or grief: the entire life of Christ was therefore but a cross and a martyrdom.
Contrary to the Old Testament, the sacrifice of the Lord is not an act, to a greater or lesser extent, but a state. Between the “Ecce venio” pronounced at the first instance of the Incarnation, and the “Consummatum est”, uttered at the Calvary, in one continuous and increasing oblation, is contained all the life of the Redeemer.
The state of victim of the Lord, however, reaches the sacrificial peak with the immolation at Calvary.
The Passion of Christ is the recapitulative moment of His redeeming love for us: the crucifixion is the visible sign of our sins that Jesus, in His body, carried on the wood of the Cross so that, by His wounds, we may live by His justice.
The life of the crucified priest of Gargano could not be lived unless in a complete, total, absolute victimal state.
--Padre, when do you suffer?
Always, my !
--Padre, have you always suffered?
Since the time I was in my mother’s womb!
--How much do you suffer, Padre?
As much as him who takes all humanity upon himself!
Padre Pio, encouraged by Jesus to keep going on the way of the Cross, sees, as in mirror, that his life is none other than a continuous martyrdom.
Jesus himself wants sufferings. The Lord in person begs for his pains, his tears, and with a voice of prayer and command at the same time, invites Padre Pio to ascribe his body to be lightened in the burdens.
Chosen against all unworthiness to help Jesus in the big affair of human salvation, Padre Pio has a burning desire to suffering: this herald of the Cross would regret, be it only for an hour, to be left without cross or, worse still, to be deprived of it by others.
Not only does he desire all his life, which he wants to live suffering to be strewn with crosses and persecutions, but he asks downright to be made participant of the same suffering of the Lord.
As with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, he is offered a chalice; Padre Pio accepts it without any reserve.
The election to victim, if it procures him from the part of heavenly Father the participation to the suffering of the only even physically, enables Padre Pio, after Jesus has fully explained to him the meaning of victim, to reach the “Consummatum est” to which every victim is destined.
The Stigmatist of Gargano is for Jesus “a supplementary humanity” or “an added humanity” ‒the apt expression is by Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity ‒in which the crucified man of Calvary can still suffer for the Glory of the Father, and is more effectively able to meet the needs of his Church.
In other words; Jesus renews in Padre Pio in a sovereignly expressive from all mystery of salvation.
At San Giovani Rotondo, the Passion of Christ, by virtue of symbiosis, is carried out again at the altar even physically; Padre Pio, effective visible sign of Christ, used to celebrate the Holy Mass as a mark representative of the stigmata of Our Lord.
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Philippine Center for St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Inc.
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