"As the coronavirus persists throughout the world, loneliness and quarantines continue to be a very real part of our lives. We can learn something about dealing with isolation from today's saint, Padre Pio.
"Born May 25, 1887 in the small village of Pietrelcina as Francesco Forgione, he entered the novitiate of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin at age 15. He would later explain that it was his observations of a mendicant Capuchin roaming the hills of Benevento in search of alms that first inspired him to enter the Franciscans.
"A period of challenges for the young Pio
began in 1910. In August, Pio was ordained to the priesthood in a
simple but solemn ceremony in Benevento. In the midst of this he was
fighting stomach and eating ailments, so severe at times that he was
ordered to leave the friary to seek treatment and convalescence. But it
was the miraculous stigmata, which appeared shortly after Pio's
ordination, that would plunge his life into chaos"
In a recent commentary, Brother Louis Bethea, O.P., reflected on a period of physical and spiritual solitude in the life of Padre Pio, an experience that can offer "light for our own day."
To access Br. Linus' complete reflection, please visit:
Dominicana: A Man for Our Time: St. Padre Pio (23 SEP 20)
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