Among so many news about cruel happenings lived by entire populations, uprooted from their own habitat and often undergoing unheard-of tortures, this month has brought us a reason to hope. The beatification of Father Pio of Pietralcina was not merely self-aimed.
The vast crowd the event has convoyed to the roman square is the clearest proof that to make great things it is not required a great power but many powers rising only from faith, a just great faith that cannot be stopped by the mean actions of the little earthly fights.
Padre Pio's life is an example for all, for the Catholics and for whom is not catholic, is the proof that a lot can be done even if spending life in a little remote monastery on a rocky promontory hard to reach. The real faith does not have any limit, neither that the misery of humanity deems as insurmountable.
I've had the luck to meet Father Pio some times and I attended the celebration of the holy Mass also privately; they are unforgettable experiences, marking life forever, unforgettable his scent, his good-natured roughness, whipping you inwards but helping you to grow.
That's why his beatification has been a joy and throughout the memory of his words and silences, a further recall to those values imposed by being Catholics. The presence at the celebration of political personages professedly atheist, employed maybe to gain more popularity, nevertheless make us hope. Who knows, God's ways are infinite, even that of Damascus was.

 

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