And in today's story, we're going to have a look at how Padre Pio received one of the
stigmas.
This is the chest wound and it is called the transverberation.
So it's a mystical phenomena in which an angel pierces the heart of Padre Pio.
So please do stay tuned to find out more.
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Now in today's story, we can see how an angel pierces the heart of Padre Pio.
And this is a very rare phenomena and only to the greatest saints in the church.
For instance, St. Teresa of Avila, she went through this transverberation.
St. John of the Cross was another one.
St. Therese of the Infant Jesus and Philip Neri.
And of course our great St. Padre Pio also experienced this phenomena.
Now the great mystic of the Carmelites and that is St. John of the Cross.
He describes this transverberation and there are his words from his writing.
"The soul is inflamed with the love of God."
And then the soul perceives that a seraph, that's some sort of an angel with a spear
or a sword approaches and pierces the soul, which is already burning like a coal or even
like a living flame.
And this scorches it in a sublime way.
And St. John of the Cross continues to tell us, and in this moment, in which the soul
is pierced with a sword or with a spear, the inner flame erupts with a vengeance and energy,
as if it is in a blazing furnace and the soul is wounded by this burning arrow, he tells
us, and it feels this wound, but he adds with the greatest delight.
The soul is seized with the great gentleness.
He tells us.
And within this, the Seraphim ignites a fire from those embers, which we're still holding
onto some weakness.
And yet the soul also feels the stabbing pains of this wound, the strength of the poison
of this pain in which this arrow is stabbing right into the hearts.
And it pierces, he said, they're in the most parts of the soul.
Although this sounds something tremendously good to us.
And so it is, yet, it is also accompanied with unknown, incredible sufferings.
And this expanding of the heart, of course only has meaning if the heart of that person
then ends up loving more.
If it loves as Christ loves after this experience.
In Padre Pio's case, the grace of this transverberation was bestowed.
It was given to Padre Pio.
It was offered to him in August of 1918.
And so this was even before Padre Pio received the visible signs of the wounds, the stigmata
on his hands and his feet.
So even before that, he received this transverberation.
And before we get into the actual details of the events, we must remember that this
grace is closely linked to the passion of our Lord, somehow sustain our Lord in his
act of redemption.
And in that same year, Padre Pio also received the wounds of the stigmata, although he had
received the pains of the stigmata sometime before in 1911.
And here is how the transverberation happened.
And it is the loving invitation of God to this chosen soul, offering him this opportunity
now that he can participate in the work of salvation.
That's as if they asked the question, "can you drink the cup that I must drink?"
And this is Padre Pio's answer.
And this description is written by Padre Pio himself from one of his letters.
"I was there, about to hear the confessions of the boys from the school.
When a heavenly being presented itself to the eyes of my understanding and this gripped
me with a terror, a horror."
Padre Pio said, in the hands of this angel was an object.
And it was in the form of a long Lance.
And from the very sharp tip of the Lance fire seemed to emanate, seemed to come out.
And he says, when I saw this immediately, the spiritual figure, this angel thrust the
sharp object right into my soul.
Padre Pio says I could hardly even cry out.
I felt like I was going to die.
So he asked the child to leave.
Couldn't hear his confession because he felt sick.
He no longer had the strength to continue.
And Padre Pio says [inaudible 00:06:00] him, continued without ceasing, without break until
the morning of the seventh.
And what I had to suffer in that time, I cannot describe.
Padre Pio says I saw my sides, my insides torn, destroyed, cutting pieces and everything
being set on fire by this iron Launce.
And he tells us since that time I have been mortally wounded.
I can feel in the very depths of my soul, a wound, which is always open that constantly
makes me suffer.
And he asked the question, is this not a new punishment for the divine justice?
So he's becoming part of our Lord's redemptive act, we could say.
Padre Agostino, who was his confessor.
He confirmed the truthfulness of this phenomena in which he describes in his diary, that Padre
Pio felt in his heart.
He had been physically torn open, and that blood actually flowed out and apparently part
of it came out through Padre Pio's mouth and part through the chest wound.
So it was a physical reality, something extremely painful.
And in another letter to Padre Benedetto, Padre Pio describes the pain as increasing
more and more.
And I feel as if I've been plunged, he says into a sea of fire, the wounds open in me
and bleed without ceasing.
And this alone, Padre Pio says was enough to have caused me a thousand deaths.
Do you not see that life for the soul?
You have wounded is now a real torment.
And these overwhelming pains inflicted on me by the wounds are always open, makes him
angry against his will.
And it drives me to delirium.
Padre Pio says that I do not even have the strength to bear.
In this way, Padre Pio had taken a step towards, we could say his own transfiguration like
the Apostle Paul tells us as he describes it.
It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me to the extent that the wounds
of Christ became visible on Padre Pio's body, but with tremendous suffering and tremendous
happiness as well.
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teller.
And it's about how someone visited the fortune teller and Padre Pio was not happy about this.
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