INTRODUCTION
Padre Pio is a modern Roman Catholic Saint. Pope John Paul 11 canonized him on June 16, 2002. He is known as the “Healing Saint,” because so many miracles have been attributed to him. I can attest to the miracle of his sanctifying grace, which I have written about in my novel Healing with Padre Pio that was inspired by a series of monthly spiritual healing sessions that I had with a very gifted spiritual sensitive who channeled St. Padre Pio for me from the months of August 2010 to May 2011.
Of course, there will be those that doubt whether it was St. Padre Pio who came through in my sessions, but I know that this venerable Saint of Humility, as I came to call him, slew my vanity and gave me a spiritual healing, and I have no doubt that it was the humble Capuchin monk Francesco Forgione from Pietrelcina, Italy who became the “man of hope and prayer” and Ascended Master St. Padre Pio.
You see, I was a very angry Roman Catholic who left the Holy Mother Church, and I needed a Roman Catholic Saint to heal my anger at Christianity; that’s why my spiritual guide introduced me to St. Padre Pio, because only a Roman Catholic Saint who had suffered the wounds of Jesus Christ could understand the deep wounds that the Roman Catholic Church had inflicted upon my soul.
I was young when I left the Church. I could not suffer the claustrophobia of my faith and had to find the spiritual freedom that I hungered for; so I became a spiritual seeker. I found reincarnation, which introduced me to the perennial philosophy of life, known simply as the Way; and I pursued my studies of the Way wherever my search took me.
Strangely enough, the Way brought me right back to the teachings of Jesus, which I saw in a different light now; and I studied the Way of Christ for years until I found the spiritual path best suited to my new state of consciousness.
I lived my path for over thirty years, but I came to a spiritual impasse that I could not break through, and my spiritual guide saw fit to introduce me to Ascended Master St. Padre Pio through the spiritual sensitive who gave me a complimentary spiritual healing. I pursued my spiritual healing and wrote a novel called Healing with Padre Pio; and now I have written the Good Saint a series of letters that he would like me to share with you.
Bear in mind however, that I did not write these private letters from the perspective of a Roman Catholic to a Roman Catholic Saint, but as a former Roman Catholic who has realized his own spiritual view on life born of my life-long quest for answers to the questions: where do we come from? Who are we? And where are we going? And I wrote my letters not to a Roman Catholic Saint as such, but to an Ascended Spiritual Master who revealed to me that he has the consciousness of all knowing and all seeing.
When I asked him in my last spiritual healing session if he would like to work with me on another book, because I so enjoyed our relationship for my literary project Healing with Padre Pio, he replied, “Our work is not yet done, my son.”
Our “work” is bridging two diametrically opposed worldviews that impede the flow of the River of God, the way of Christian faith, and the way of gnosis: Christianity’s worldview that made Padre Pio an Ascended Spiritual Master by suffering la via di sofferenza—the dogmatic belief in one life and one savior; and the gnostic worldview of karma and reincarnation that awakened me to my true self, Soul.
I invite you to join me in my epistolary journey with Padre Pio, the venerable Saint of Humility who declared that he would serve man more from heaven than on earth; and as you travel with me on this journey of self-discovery, you will experience Padre Pio as I did, an “unsalted piece of macaroni” seasoned by the holy wounds of Jesus Christ and his unbounded love for God whose spiritual wisdom transcends Christianity and embraces the whole world. He is truly a wonderful traveling companion!
Next Sunday, October 23/11 Watch for Letter No. 1: At Your Behest
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