I completely forgot to mention it during our session of The Journey, and I didn't get a chance to post about it because of my class. I'm heading home today - just in time, too, as it's getting colder here!
St. Padre Pio is a 20th century saint, and as it happens my grandparents had a special devotion to him, even while he was still alive. Of course he wasn't St. Pio then, just Padre Pio. He was a franciscan friar and priest who was blessed with many charismatic gifts and mystical powers (like bilocation) and he had the stigmata - the wounds of Christ - which never healed.
His story is too big to even scratch the surface here, and I suspect many of you already know him, or know who he is, but he's worth an internet search if you don't know who he is. I'll try to post more later.
I'm looking forward to getting back to my regular rhythm of life. I guess I'm now old enough to get excited about the mundane!
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
I hope to have another installment of THE JOURNEY up this Saturday - here's the text for the rest of the chapter - I didn't bother with the colored text since this is all from the Gospel of John.
