So the question is, do you struggle with bad habits?
And here is a message of hope, how Padre Pio, who's already nearing sanctity and what we
call perfection, still battling to overcome anger.
So do join us to see how he does this.
Hello friends, and welcome to this channel following Padre Pio, and here we have a series
of short stories on the life of our great Saint, Padre Pio, who was a Capuchin friar,
a mystic, a tremendous miracle worker.
Do stay tuned so that you can find out more about his life and see what his intercession
could do for you.
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Now we all know that keeping a calm temper can be a real challenge, and this does not
matter what one's state of life is.
We're going to see this example in Padre Pio's life.
So for us, of course, perhaps parents of small children, they know how difficult it is if
the child is just very upset to remain calm.
Or perhaps you're driving in your car and there's an incident of road rage and it threatens
you and your family.
How difficult it is to not get annoyed, to not become angry in this situation.
And as we said, this affects every vocation, every stage of every vocation in life.
Even Padre Pio had to work on this.
Was it easy for him, we can ask?
But we see him putting in so much effort to overcome these things.
So please do join us to see how encouraging this is, Padre Pio's approach to overcoming
his little bouts of annoyance, of anger, we could say.
So this is how a saint overcomes his vices, an inspiration to us all so that we don't
give up with trying to overcome our bad habits.
Now Padre Pio writes the following.
"My one regret is that without wanting to, or even noticing that I am doing this, it
happens sometimes that I raise my voice a little in matters touching correction."
He gets a little bit annoyed with people in the confessional, and he says, "I know this
is a reprehensible weakness, but I cannot avoid it," Padre Pio says.
"It happens without my even noticing it."
So we can imagine the repercussion on someone.
If he raises his voice, if he's angry with someone, it could really have a negative impact
in his life, and he takes this very seriously.
And then Padre Pio continues.
"And yet I pray, and I groan and I complain to our Lord about this.
And yet He has not yet answered me fully.
Even though I keep a vigilant lookout for this fault, I sometimes do what I loathe and
what I want to avoid doing."
That's a great saint.
What about the rest of us?
Where do we fall into this whole picture?
And then in another note to his spiritual director he writes the following.
"That fine lady, sweet temperedness."
So he's identified, he knows his vice, and now he's identified the corresponding virtue.
"Sweet temperedness seems to be doing a little better but I'm still not satisfied."
He sets his standards high.
Still not satisfied, always works at it.
"I don't want to lose heart, however.
I have made many promises."
So here we see his technique as well he's employing so we can all learn from this, Padre
Pio's technique to overcome his vice with the corresponding virtue.
"I have made many promises to Jesus and to Mary, my Father, and through their help, I
desire to practice this virtue and in exchange," so he makes a deal with them, "in exchange,
other than keeping up with the other promises I have made to them, I have promised to meditate,"
that's one thing he does, "faithfully on the same virtue."
So he meditates on the same virtue and also to talk to souls about it.
So he's putting his real focus on this, and this is his way of overcoming the vice with
the corresponding virtue.
Then Padre Pio continues, "You see Father that I am not indifferent to the practice
of this virtue.
And also help me with your prayers and the prayers of others."
And so we can see here this tremendous example of Padre Pio, how he grows little by little
spiritually in his life.
Something for all of us to emulate.
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