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Padre Pio's Mass... Actual preparation for the Holy Mass ... Part 1
Actual preparation for the Holy Mass
The Eucharist was the sentre of attraction ewhere all the moments of the day of Padre Pio used to converge. All hours of the day were an uninterrupted preparation and thanksgiving to Jesus in the Holy Sacrament. In waiting for the celebration of the Holy Mass, however, with a burning heart the Seraph of Gargano used to spenf the most silent hours of the night to prepare himself in a superhuman way for the Passion of Christ.
--Padre, after prayers when you retire to your cell in the evening, what do you do?
I continue to pray and to suffer.
--What do you do at night since you sleep so very little?
The will of God.
It is from the moment that Padre Pio, “doing the will of God”, starts to make his all Passion of Christ.
The agony in the garden, the trial before Pio ate, the way to Calvary, the Sacrifice of the Cross, are all entirely re-lived by the stigmatized priest of Gargano.
Henceforth we shall only hear the voice of Padre Pio. We shall give, with absolute faithfulness, both the questions as they were amade to Padre Pio and the answers as Padre Pio himself gave them.
The diligent of Francis ‒ it is well to say at once ‒ does not reveal one after the other all the moments of the Passion of Jesus in the order of celebration of the Mass. It is only a little treasure of very precious pearls that fall unknowingly perhaps, as he tries to secure them carefully in the secret coffer of his heart.
It is further noted that as for the answers, given in a restrained and at the same time hair-raising way for us, Padre Pio ‒ if we care to notice ‒ always chooses to answer in toned-down statements: the very candid crystal of his humility remains pure.
First of all he is asked:
--Padre, what is your Mass?
A sacred fix with the Passion of Jesus. My responsibility is unique in the world, he says between sobs.
--What should I read in your Holy Mass?
All Calvary.
A more detailed comparison between the Victim of the Gospel and the one of Gargano was inevitable.
--Padre, tell me all that you suffer in the Holy Mass.
All that Jesus has suffered in His Passion, inadequately, I also suffer, as far as possible for human being. And all this against all my un worthiness and thanks only to his goodness.
The Passion of Christ then is entirely re-lived, from the Last Supper to Calvary, by the Stigmatist of Gargano. There is no passage that the Gospel records of the Passion of Christ which is not also suffered by the Padre.
--Padre, how can we get to know your Passion?
By knowing all about the Passion of Christ; in the one suffered by Jesus you will also find the one I suffer.
It’s a matter now of going over, in order, the various moments of the Passion of the of God made man in order to contemplate them in Padre Pio. And Padre Pio begins the Passion of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
--Padre, do you agonize like Jesus in the garden?
Surely
--Does the angel also come to comfort you as he had comforted Jesus?
Yes.
--What kind of “fiat” do you utter?
To suffer and always to suffer for our brothers in exile and for His Divine Reign.
The shouting of the bribed Jews and foolish gestures of the imitable prosecutor to appease the murderous crowd, are jewels that the murderous crowd, are jewels that the Most Innocent jealousy preserves for very rare and exceptional occasions.
As in the civil trial of Christ, therefore, there just had to be an uproar around Padre Pio where the mob would cry incessantly against the just one.
--You have also said that they would cry “crucify him!” Who would cry?
The sons of man and the very favored ones.
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