The wounds of Saint Pio and others are special forms of Grace from Christ that REVEAL extraordinary love expressed through the life of Saint Pio and others.
To say pio did not "seek " it is silly for he certainly wanted the publicity from it..
Showing you're ignorance on a topic you know little about again? Padre Pio was horrified by the attention,the Church did everything to keep what was happening with him quit as well until they could investigate,including keeping him in chambers.
He was a fake
I have seen all the stuff against Saint Pio(acid and all) and everything about his life is in Christ.
You're free to believe whatever you want
with him quit = with him quiet
...or to disbelieve, but anti-Catholics are not free to make authoritative pronouncements over what others choose to believe or disbelieve. They can express their opinions as opinions, but are in no way qualified to do anything else.
Belief is largely faith based and few have any any tangible proof. Those who criticize Catholics for trusting and accepting the opinions of the Pope and Church elders display incredible hubris when they then insist that we accept their unqualified opinions as the basis of belief.
Did Christ "show his real love for His Mother or Peter with them? How about John? Can you cite me a scripture that says bearing the wounds of Christ means God especially Loves you
There is none, the true is IF they were real (and there is evidence to the contrary) there is no evidence that they were a "love gift" from God and not Satan or a discipline of God to a worldly sinful man
Showing you're ignorance on a topic you know little about again? Padre Pio was horrified by the attention,the Church did everything to keep what was happening with him quit as well until they could investigate,including keeping him in chambers.
Lets look at that HE SAID he did not want the attention, and yet he always managed to show them in pictures, he would yell in his cell at night to get the other monks to come saying he was being attacked by the devil , He smelled of Tobacco and claimed that was a part of the "miracle"and he did noting to hide that
In 1923, Rome declared that nothing supernatural had been proven about the wounds. The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office decreed in Acta Apostolicae Sedis that “after due investigation” that nothing supernatural had been determined in relation to Pio and that the faithful must accept this (page 99, The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism).
I have seen all the stuff against Saint Pio(acid and all) and everything about his life is in Christ.
Faith in faith ..Protestants are mocked for believing we are saved by faith alone..yet many Catholics accept frauds like pio based on nothing but faith alone
I choose to place my faith solely in the one who was really pierced for my transgressions ..Jesus the Christ