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
Um, you're the sola Scriptura person here -- show us a scriptural text that says it's not.
Why then do Calvinists reject and relegate the actual words and Revelation of Christ found in the Gospels in deference to St. Paul?
“”there is no evidence that they were a “love gift” from God and not Satan””
Padre Pio’s life imitates Christ in love,thus could not be from satan.Thus,the evidence is crystal clear Padre Pio is of Christ
RN-7””Lets look at that HE SAID””
Lets look at the many miracles Christ worked through him and what happened when Padre Pio prayed for people instead of quotes from your anti Christ website.
Some examples
http://www.basilica.org/pages/ebooks/Brother%20Lawrence%20Mary-The%20Miracles%20of%20Saint%20Padre%20Pio.pdf
With more than a thousand miraculous cures obtained through Padre Pio’s intercession,we can do no more than consider a few of them. There is the case of Gemma di Giorgio,
the little girl who was born blind, having no pupils in her eyes. After her visit with PadrPio, she miraculously gained her sight. The continuing miracle was that, although she
could now see, her eyes remained without pupils.
One Signora Massari had been stone deaf for twenty years. After asking for a curethrough the intercession of Padre Pio, she suddenly began to hear the priest chanting
during the Mass. As she left the church, she heard the bells tolling for the first time in two decades. Excitedly, she informed her companion of the cure. Two years later they visited San Giovanni, the home of Padre Pio, and relayed what had happened. Signora Massarihad perfect hearing from the day she heard the priest at Mass until the day she died.
In 1919, a priest brought his friend, a Jew named Lello Pegna, to visit Padre Pio. Pegnwas totally blind. The priest had evidently brought him to San Giovanni Rotondo in the hopes of a cure. Although Padre Pio was kind to Pegna, he said, “The Lord will not grant you the grace of physical sight unless you first receive sight for your soul. After you are baptized, then the Lord will give you your sight.” Some months later, a grateful, newly baptized Pegna returned. He explained that, against the wishes of his family, he was baptized into the Catholic Faith. Gradually, over several months, his sight was fully restored. He continued to keep in touch with the friary and, thirty years later, his sight remained perfect.
More dramatic were the events surrounding Giovanni Savino. He and his wife, Rosa, became devoted spiritual children of Padre Pio. In February, 1949, Giovanni was working on an addition to the friary at San Giovanni Rotondo — Padre Pio’s residence. One day, after Mass, Padre Pio blessed him as was customary, but suddenly embraced him exclaiming, “Courage, Giovanni, I’m praying to the Lord that you might not be killed.” Padre Pio repeated this unnerving warning for the next two days. The day following the third warning, February 15, Giovanni and another worker had placed a
charge of dynamite under a boulder. When the fuse failed to ignite the charge, Giovanni went over to see what the problem was. The dynamite blew up in his face, which was
badly mangled. His left eye was filled with “many foreign bodies” and his right eye was nothing but a “bloody pulp.” The doctors felt that they could save his left eye, but
determined that nothing could be done for the right one that had been destroyed Padre Pio asked everyone to pray for Savino. He exposed the Blessed Sacrament and prayed before It for three days. The friar was even heard to offer one of his eyes for the return of Giovanni’s sight “because he’s the father of a family.” On the morning of
February 25, Savino smelled a sweet fragrance (a frequent accompaniment to the action of Padre Pio’s intervention). He felt three slaps on his forehead and understood it to be
Padre Pio next to his bed. Later that morning the ophthalmologist came to examine his left eye — the one he felt he could save. Suddenly Savino exclaimed that he could see. When the doctor asked him to turn his head so that Giovanni could see him with his left eye, Giovanni exclaimed that it was his right eye he could see with. The doctor insisted that the right one had been totally destroyed and that he must be mistaken. However,
there was no mistake. Giovanni had completely regained the sight in his right eye,although it remained nothing but “a mess” until his death twenty-five years later at the
age of sixty. The left eye never recovered. Giovanni Savino literally saw without eyes.The ophthalmologist, who was an atheist at the time, converted to the Catholic Faith
“because,” he said, “this has happened right in front of me.”
A characteristic of many of the miraculous cures effected through Padre Pio’s intercession was that the damaged organ would remain damaged, but would begin to function perfectly after his intervention. In a sense, these cures became long term miracles — on-going testimonies to the Catholic Faith, God’s Particular Providence, and the veracity of Padre Pio’s message of prayer and suffering for the salvation of souls.
Only a sick or demonac person would call these miracles the work of the devil!