My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

You know, it's thinking this week here in Minnesota, we've been celebrating a bunch of

saints days last week, the week before, this week, when it comes to St. Terez, when it

comes to Padre Pio, when it comes to like all the angels and stuff.

You know, last month and August, we celebrated St. John Viennier.

And I think of like the similus to those guys, Padre Pio with St. John Viennier, I just

think of like the remarkable lives.

And Padre Pio is just an example, you know, St. Pio, I think they call them St. Pius of

Pietro Sina.

This man's life was just marked with all of these miraculous things that had happened.

And sometimes when we hear about the saints, we just, we can focus on the miraculous stuff

that happened in their lives, like Padre Pio, by locating or Padre Pio, you know, his

prayers, like healing people, not even just immediately, he'd lay hands on people and

they'd be healed or he'd say a word and they'd be healed.

But he would just even pray for them.

He could have a letter and he'd pray for that person and they'd be healed like on the

other side of the Atlantic.

And just ridiculous, incredible.

Not only that, but Padre Pio, you know, had these mystical experiences with our crucified

Lord Jesus.

I mean, just where he had the spiritual and physical stigmata, the wounds of Christ in his

very body.

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