Today we are going to be having a look at Who Was Padre Pio's Informant? So,
there was obviously someone who was passing on information to Padre Pio, but who could that be,
and it was a bit of a mystery.
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Just a reminder that this is Lent and during Lent we have a special theme of videos offer.
All you have to do to go to the theme of videos is click in the video description below and
you'll find a link there to the theme of videos. And today's story was given to us by a father,
a Padre Joseph Pius Martin, who is a member of Padre Pio's community for many, many years,
and he had the responsibility of assisting Padre Pio, so he would obviously see a lot
of other things that other brothers wouldn't see, little miracles they might not have been aware of.
And he tells us this story. There was a particular lady called Martha
and she had moved from Switzerland to San Giovanni Rotondo in order to be near to our great Saint.
And she was a fervent attendant at Padre Po's Masses and at his Thanksgivings through the day.
And then at the end of the day when he gave his final blessing Martha was always present
there. And the way that Padre Pio did this final blessing it was fairly simple, he was up in his
room upstairs and he would look out through the window at the people outside, and then
he would give a blessing. It was usually quite a crowd gathered there, many, many people. So,
he would give the blessing to the whole crowd. Well one day something happened, and Martha
had to go to Rome on this occasion so she could not be present at the final blessing.
And then Padre Pio went as usual to the window of his little room of his cell and he began to
give the blessing as he always did. There were a number of brothers who accompanied him there,
and one of them opened the window for him, and then Padre Pio began waving to the people below.
Then suddenly something a little unexpected, unusual happened because Padre Pio stopped
for absolutely no reason. He just stopped. And then it seemed to everyone there as if Padre
Pio was speaking or hearing from someone, it was like this conversation was going on.
The friars could not see who was there, who was present in this conversation. And then
immediately after this apparent conversation Padre Pio turned to the friar who had opened the window
and he said to him where is Martha tonight? And he was given the answer in return,
well she had to go to Rome. And then after that Padre Pio was satisfied and he continued
with the blessing exactly as he usually did. Well, the brothers and priests had seen this.
So now later when Martha returned one of the friars asked her, they were trying
to figure this all out, they asked her this, you sent your guardian angel here last night
for the blessing, didn't you? And so, in that case the guardian angel would be the informant.
And Martha appeared somewhat surprised about this. It seems she didn't really give an answer,
but Padre Martin says we understood that him and the friars understood that she had sent her
guardian angel. It's a conclusion they came to because it had been so obvious, he said to the
priests who accompanied Padre Pio at the blessing. And they obviously knew that Martha would not want
to lose her blessing so when it came to Padre Pio obviously speaking to someone that they
could not see they all concluded that it must have been, that she had sent her guardian angel.
And so, we conclude that it was Martha's guardian angel who brought this information to Padre Pio.
And Padre Pio said many times to many people just send your guardian angel to me,
if you're in a time of need or of help or prayer. So, we can all do that too. That's
the message we can take home from today's story. Please remember that for Lent, it is now Lent,
we have this special selection of videos which change each week for Lent,
so just click on the video description below, just go to the description of this video below,
click on the link, and it will take you through to the selection. You have to come back next week
to see the next selection of videos designed to help everyone make a slightly better Lent we hope.
Please do continue watching other videos.