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Padre Pio's Mass.... Actual preparation for the Holy Mass... Part II
Actual preparation for the Holy Mass
(Part II )
A shirt worn during the night by Padre Pio is all stained with spots of blood. It is a most exceptional document that shows in an impressive way the hard flagellation by Padre Pio during the night.
--How was Jesus reduced after the flagellation?
The prophet says: “He was one big wound; He became leprous”.
--Are you then also one entire wound from head to foot?
And isn’t that the glory of it all? And if there were no place for more wounds on my body, I would add wounds on the very wounds.
--My God, this is too much! You are, my dear Padre, your own executioner!
Do not fear, but rejoice. I do not desire to suffer for suffering’s sake, no, but for the fruits which it gives. It gives glory to God and it saves my brethren, what more can I wish for?
--Padre, when you are scourged during the night are you alone or is there someone with you?
The Holy virgin is with me; all Paradise is present.
There is also bandage with which Padre Pio used to wipe the blood that came out his head. It is treaked with blood: another very precious document of the crown of thorns, sublime diadem, given by Jesus to Padre Pio.
--Jesus willed that you also suffer the crown of thorns.
Otherwise the immolation would not be complete.
--which sins did God expiate with the crowning of thorns?
All sins. In particular those of thought, not excluding the vain and useless ones.
--Padre, are the thorns placed on your forehead or all round your head?
All around the head.
--Padre, I think that your crown is not made up of thirty, but of three hundred thorns.
You get impressed for a mere zero! And beside, isn’t thirty contained in three hundred?
And all this not just for a determined lapse of time. Padre Pio was explicit:
--Padre, is it true that during the Mass you suffer the torment of the crowning with thorns?
And need you doubt it?
--During all the Mass?
And also prior to the Mass and after. The diadem is ever present.
The Padre could not make it from his cell to the altar. Physically, he could not stand on his feet; he always needed to lean against the arm of a fellow brother on his way.
The rosary beads in hand, visible spiritual support of Mary, after stopping with eyes full of tears before the picture of the immaculate which hung on the stairs, Padre Pio would go to the sacristy.
Pale and exhausted, after putting on the sacred vestments, he would go to the altar.
--Padre, do you also suffer what Jesus suffered on the way of the Cross?
I do suffer it, but I’m far from equaling that which the Divine Master suffered!
--Who acts as your Cyrenian and as your Veronica?
Jesus Himself.
After going through the way of the cross ‒ or better still; the way of Paradise ‒ the Padre would reach Calvary to sacrifice himself to Jesus. The eyes of the crowds would gaze ecstatically at this very singular minister of Christ, trying to penetrate the mystery of the celebration of that interminable Mass. Each could, more or less, according to the way one was bestowed by the Holy Spirit, catch a glimpse of the Crucifix of Golgothe in the Stigmatist of Gargano, made a visible and effective sign of Him at the altar.
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