In a world shrouded in chaos, we turn to Padre Pio's timeless advice
for enduring these challenging times. Stay tuned to hear his words of wisdom.
Welcome back to our YouTube channel Following Padre Pio. If you are new to our channel, Padre
Pio was a Capuchin friar, mystic, and miracle worker whose intercession is still very powerful
and active today. We publish videos and shorts five days a week, so follow us to find out more
about the life of this fascinating saint. And you will be amazed at what Padre Pio can do for you,
a family member, or a friend! In our stories about Padre Pio,
we often talk about the amazing miracles he performed. Those are often cheerful
and inspiring. But let's not forget that he also taught us important lessons. Sometimes,
those lessons can be tough and challenging because they force us to confront ourselves.
Nevertheless, they are just as valuable as the miraculous stories about our beloved saint.
Today, let's take a moment to reflect on the time we live in and what Padre
Pio advised as the ultimate path to reach Heaven, regardless of the chaos around us.
Padre Pio, who already considered his time to be an era of weakening faith, once said, "In
these times of diminishing faith and the rise of godlessness, the surest way to safeguard ourselves
from the plague of evil is by strengthening ourselves with the nourishment of the Eucharist
food." One can only imagine what he would have to say about the times we live in today.
Now, throughout history, we've seen things happen in cycles, like the ebb and flow of tides. The
same goes for the Church. There are periods of renewal and restoration, but also periods
of moral decline and destruction. Right now, it feels like we are in one of those darker phases.
It's a time when both the Church and society are struggling. We witness the
rise of ideologies that directly contradict our faith, such as Satanism and a variety of belief
systems that go against what we hold dear. It's a confusing era, as Padre Pio aptly described it.
All the values he cherished life, faith, family, and peace are being undermined and slowly eroded.
Padre Pio passionately advocated for the protection of life at every stage, just
like Pope John Paul II, who emphasized that life must be safeguarded from conception until natural
death. But today, we face aggressive and militant ideologies that normalize practices like abortion
and euthanasia, as if the lives of the unborn and the elderly no longer matter. (It's disheartening
to see individuals prioritize their own pleasures and comforts over the most fundamental and
essential right the right to life.) We're also living in a time where
extramarital relationships have replaced the sacred institution of marriage.
Such lifestyles are even encouraged, while the sacramental bond of marriage, rooted in love and
fidelity until death, is pushed aside. Promiscuity and divorce are normalized, creating further
confusion in society and disrupting the family. We can recognize the consequences of good and evil
by looking at their fruits. The world today bears the fruits of turmoil and disarray.
(What I find particularly interesting is how Satan has managed to convince people
that saying 'Yes' to our passions and rejecting God-given rules is the ultimate freedom. However,
true freedom is not found in surrendering to our desires and lusts. On the contrary, it is through
this surrender that we become enslaved by sin. Jesus Himself stated, ...I say to you, everyone
who commits sin is a slave of sin (John 8:34). Real freedom is attained when we choose to obey
the One who created us, even if it means saying 'no' to comfort and pleasure.
It is in these moments that we experience genuine freedom in our lives.
In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul accurately describes a society that has chosen to ignore
God. He writes, For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to
him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened. They have become
filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant
and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding,
no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ) (Romans 1:28) So, what can we do to protect ourselves from the
evil that Padre Pio compared to a plague, which seems to be surrounding us more than ever?
Padre Pio offers us a timeless solution to nourish and strengthen ourselves with the Eucharist,
with the living presence of Christ Himself. (In addition to embracing the power of the
Eucharist in our lives, let's also strive to pray the Rosary daily. Padre Pio, a firm
believer in the power of the Rosary, considered it a powerful weapon against evil and a source
of spiritual strength. By praying the Rosary 5 decades daily, we can count on the intercession
of the Blessed Virgin Mary and seek her guidance and protection in these challenging times.
Indeed at Fatima, Our Lady, at every one of the 6 apparitions,
she specifically asked for the Rosary to be recited every day to bring peace to the world.
By following Padre Pio's example and embracing the power of the Eucharist and the Rosary,
we can fortify ourselves against the forces of evil and find solace and strength in our faith.)
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