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A true treasure of spiritual insights, this little booklet contains
the remarkable meditations on the Agony of Jesus in the Garden of
Gethsemane by Blessed Padre Pio, the stigmatist priest. One of his
few writings, the booklet also includes many pictures of Blessed
Padre Pio from throughout his ministry. Padre Pio\'s beautiful and
descriptive manner of writing provide a wonderful spiritual insight
into that last night of Jesus\' human life.
Excerpt:
" \"Jesus has returned to His place of prayer, and another picture,
more terrible than the first, presents itself to Him. All our sins
with their entire ugliness parade before Him in every detail. He
must clothe Himself with this entire unclean mass of human
corruption and present Himself before the sanctity of His Father,
to expiate everything with individual pains, to render Him all that
glory of which they have robbed Him, to cleanse that human cesspool
in which man wallows with contemptible indifference."
"And all this does not make Him retreat. As a raging sea this mass
inundates Him, enfolds Him, oppresses Him. Behold Him before His
Father the God of Justice, facing the full penalty of divine
justice. He, the essence of purity, sanctity by nature, in contact
with sin, indeed, as if He Himself had become a sinner Who can
fathom the disgust that He feels in His innermost spirit? The
horror He feels? The nausea, the contempt He senses so vividly? And
having taken all upon Himself, nothing excepted, He is crushed by
this immense weight, oppressed, thrown down, prostrated. Exhausted,
He groans beneath the weight of Divine Justice, before His Father,
Who has permitted His Son to offer Himself as a Victim for sin, as
one accursed.\""
The "Meditation Prayer on Mary Immaculate" is one of Padre Pio's
few published writings, penned before he was forbidden by the
Church to publish or to engage in correspondence--this for fear a
cult would arise around him. Here we encounter a profound spiritual
penetration into the mystery of Mary's unique and sublime role in
our salvation. Though brief, it can be read over and over with
great benefit since it is -just as the title suggests--both a
meditation and a prayer on the meaning of Mary. This booklet also
contains a brief sketch of Padre Pio's life and numerous edifying
pictures of this saintly stigmatist.
The world was startled in 2007 by revelations that Mother Teresa of
Calcutta's spiritual life was full of serious doubts and personal
suffering for nearly 50 years. The other great saint of the last
half century - Padre Pio - offers similar revelations of his own in
this enlightening collection of short excerpts from his letters.
Many books have been written on the life and works of Padre Pio,
but "Words of Light "is not a book about what others think or say
about him. Here, he speaks for himself. If you are interested in
the complexities and challenges of contemporary faith, you will
benefit from these short teachings, counsels, and recollections
culled from some of Padre Pio's most personal writings.
"In these letters I quickly discovered the same states of soul that
were described by the great mystics. Padre Pio's own 'dark night'
was in no way inferior to that described by John of the Cross, and
equally the 'living flame' of his love for God dazzles the reader
and allows them to catch a glimpse of another world."
- Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, from the Introduction
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