The title of today's talk is Do Not Misuse Your Guardian Angel.
Here we are going to be looking at two stories about our guardian angels.
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Now here today, we're going to be looking at two stories about guardian angels.
In the first story, the faithful devotee makes good use of her heavenly friend.
However, in the second story, the devotee was more moved by self-love and self-pity,
and so she misuses her guardian angel.
Now, both accounts demonstrate to us a good lesson about the importance of our protectors
and intercessor who never leaves our side.
That's our guardian angels.
Guardian angels are always our faithful friends and willing to help us.
The first story.
Rippa Bertoni recalled that in 1923, now Padre Pio had been forbidden from maintaining contact
with the outside world.
So how were people going to get past this and be able to communicate with Padre Pio?
So they conveyed.
They expressed their concern to Padre Pio.
"Father, how are we now to communicate with you?"
Padre Pio's response: "Send me all your demands through your guardian angel."
Well, the devotee whose name was Ventrila, she followed these instructions of Padre Pio
exactly.
As she herself recalls this story.
"One morning, I was a little late to go to Padre Pio's Mass," and he celebrated Mass
very early in those days.
So she said to a guardian angel, "My angel, see where Padre Pio is and tell him to wait
a little bit.
As a sign that he has responded to this request, remove or hide," it's not quite clear, "his
skull cap," that little cap that the Capuchins wear.
Indeed, that day, without anyone knowing why, Padre Pio was delayed going up to the altar.
So she said she was able to arrive just when he was climbing up the stairs to the altar
just in time.
Well, after Mass, she went through to the sacristy and she could see that Padre Pio
was somewhat preoccupied there.
He was turning various things over and opening drawers, obviously looking for something.
And so Ventrila says, "I asked him what he was looking for."
He replied that it was his skull cap.
At that instant, he found it tucked away in his hood.
So what a coincidence.
Then smiling, she says, "I explained to him the request I'd given to my guardian angel.
With that, the priest looked at me," she said, "very expressively, as if to say, 'Now you
finally believe.'"
In the second story, and this is about Racquilina Rousseau.
She also ended up believing entirely in the insistence of her guardian angel.
One day, she went up to the monastery.
From her home to the monastery was about two kilometers, quite a walk.
She wanted to discuss with Padre Pio certain matters of her soul, things that were distressing
her.
She arrived there and the friar, however...
So Padre Pio had given orders that he could not or did not want to meet with her.
At this, the woman returned home deeply offended.
So she angrily demanded of her guardian angel, "Go, my angel, go and tell Padre Pio that
I am resentful and that he and the religious in the monastery were so inconsiderate to
me, and tell him how bitter I am.
Tell him how tomorrow I'm not going to hear Mass, and I'm not going to receive communion."
And she said, "Hurry, my angel and tell him that."
So was the angel going to listen to this or not?
Well, let's find out.
Racquilina herself reveals the outcome.
Shortly after she had said this to her angel, "Someone came to see me from the convent,"
she says, from the monastery, with this message from Padre Pio: "Tell Racquilina that she
will not receive communion tomorrow."
At this, she says, "I was petrified."
So Padre Pio was fully aware of what had been said.
But it didn't end there.
The next morning Racquilina went to the monastery and while she was waiting at the entrance
to the church, she heard Padre Pio say to her, "So then, you use your guardian angel
as if he were just some sort of little servant.
You send him to me in that way?
With those demands to tell me a lot of tantrums."
Racquilina just, she had no answer.
So she said, "So he told you everything?"
"Yes, yes," the friar confirmed.
"He came and he told me everything.
Your angel is not disobedient or angry like you."
So, she learned her lesson that way.
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