Padre Pio - Saint Pio

Sainthood is filled with responsibility, but it is filled with much love also. I, Saint Pio, have come to speak with you about this ENDURING LOVE.

I am so happy – so proud – to be a part of this conscious transition into your divine personhood. Actually, I wanted to say, into your Divine Hood … is that not a joke in your English language, The Hood – the Divine Neighborhood?

My native tongue would have been Italian. So, if my grammar (and humor) at times loses its focus it is for that reason. But, flowery Italian phrases could never describe to you the Energy that I wish to communicate. I am here to tell you, now Life is about abandoning the old ways of interacting with one another … and embracing and exploring new ways. You do not have to travel the outer World for this to happen – you must travel the inner World. And therein lies the challenge.

My great joy was, and is, in finding ways to assist those individuals who seek access to their own Divinity. And, as I am reminding the one who is receiving my presence now (Nancy), she had a poem on her bedroom wall as a child. The one phrase she remembers from that poem over all these years is, “Happiness (Love) is a Life lived in harmony with high ideals.”

That is a message I gave to Nancy then, and it is a message I continue to give to all of you now.

How can I explain the inexplicable? This is the finish work – the varnish – you are applying to lifetimes of effort.

Each of you reading this – all of you – have spent lifetime after lifetime honing your craft, gaining your momentum for this final sprint to the finish line. That is the meaning of ENDURING LOVE – to return life after life, often into great pain and confusion, in order to vault all humanity and this Earth forward. That is ENDURING LOVE.

Look not to the angels for the true meaning of this Love, for it is written in the heart of each one of you. And, it is the angels who are learning this Love from you.

(Padre Pio continues ... from a Home Page, Soul Cast) The web of love is all encompassing and can assist you in your day-to-day living, especially now when many of your are feeling so low, lost, without the godhead to serve you. God’s love is something you can tap into anytime.

No, now don’t wince at this ease of use of my phrasing, this may seem trite but listen…

If we all now accept that you are God, or a piece of the Godhead (as I put it), how can one be separate from the Love of God…since it is you? I wish to speak about Love because it is needed now more than ever as you all begin to enter a new phase of being. As you begin to see the New energy (as you put it) take shape around you.

Love fills the soul and allows you to feel. Most of what we all will be talking about in the weeks to come is how to become that which you have all been talking about. Love seems to elude many of you right now. No, maybe not love as you feel it from or with others, but that deeper Love of the Self, the Godself. How to actually access that deep feeling of Love and know that you are loved? Not just by us here on this side…although that is true.

How can you access that deeper reservoir of love that is You? That is the challenge put before you at this time.

Go within….deep within. God’s love serves you only to the extent that you serve Yourself. God’s love is only accessed to the extent that you access Yourself and the Love that abides within.

There is a reservoir of depth awaiting those of you who wish to dive and swim the waters of Self and the Love of God. I am here to help. I know the Love of God…I knew suffering in my past life, but now I see you and can feel the explanation of why you suffer. It is not for want of something, it is because you cannot find the reservoir of Love that abides in each of you. You do not have to suffer to know the face of God. I can positively tell you that now. Just Be.

Go to the inner depths of stillness, enter the new states of being that rely on your inner knowingness - your inner passions and Love - to express. Find that Being and you will know Love.

Padre Pio’s Soul Exercise

Be at Peace … Love who you are.

Maybe there is a little more. As my friend Tobias loves to say, “Guilt, the most useless of human emotions!” Let go of guilt. In the moment you feel guilt, you may let it go.

Be at Peace … Love who you are. You need no more than this to find happiness in life.

A Story

My favorite story about Padre Pio comes from World War II. Padre Pio lived in an Italian monastery in a small village called San Giovanni Rotondo. Pio loved this village, and the people of San Giovanni Rotondo, in return, loved Pio dearly – so much so, that several attempts by the Catholic Church to have him forcibly reassigned met with near riots and widespread civil disobedience.

The townspeople felt they could defend themselves from the actions of the Catholic Church, but collateral damage from the German and American armies was another thing.

The villagers had approached Padre Pio with this very problem – how could they possibly halt the destruction of War? American bombing had already leveled much of Foggia, a town not far from San Giovanni Rotondo. Pio told them not to worry and assured them the village would be spared.

Unfortunately, a rumor reached the American Army that San Giovanni Rotondo was home to a German target with military value. The rumor was false but American military planners didn’t know this, and they scheduled a bombing run in August of 1944 with Army Air Corps pilots and planes stationed at Bari, Italy.

The story goes – verified by many of the American crewmen – that as the bombing group made its run on San Giovanni Rotondo, a monk in friar’s habit materialized in the sky and began to wave the squadron off. Repeatedly this aerial-born monk signaled them to “go back!”

If you have ever served in the military, you know that to disobey a mission order is a huge leap – especially during wartime. But, faced with what seemed to be a literal sign from God, the squadron leader ordered his bombing group to abort the mission and drop their ordnance in the Adriatic.

San Giovanni Rotondo was never bombed, and members of the squadron had a chance to meet with Padre Pio after the War. Padre Pio passed away in 1968 and the Catholic Church canonized him as Saint Pio in 2000. He liked to think of himself as an ordinary man. Yet, he proved, again and again, that deeper love truly can move mountains.

Nancy Note: I love Padre Pio - he is completely dedicated to helping anyone with a genuine desire for God and their Godself. I first met Padre Pio when I was sitting at home in 2003. I didn't know who he was, and it took several weeks to discover his identity. Two of the first four sessions we recorded with Padre Pio were erased, in that you could hear me talking from my personality, but every time Padre Pio came through me there was a complete absence of sound on the digital media even though we all had heard what he said in the room.

Padre Pio was a humble monk who passed away in 1968 and was canonized Saint Pio by the Catholic Church. He bore the 5 stigmata of Christ and lived a quiet life with many miracles in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy during the 20th Century.

Padre Pio (Saint Pio)

God is the great constant.

Yet, we know so little of our own Divinity ... and deeper Love.