The movement of the human soul, and human society in general, from its fallen chaotic state towards divine order is at the heart of the Blog of Padre Pio Press. Writings, ponderings, and reflections on this movement of the soul are authored by Fr. Cliff Ermatinger and by the occasional Guest Contributor. The articles and recordings are relegated to the following areas:
Throughout the Month of April,
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Litany of the Most Blessed Sacrament
The Concept of Sin: Part II — A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
The Concept of Sin: A Seven-Headed Beast and Its Hideous Daughters
Part II — Concept of Sin in Antiquity and St. Thomas
A Message from Purgatory
Note: A soul in purgatory can do nothing to actively help her situation, and is not, by her own powers, making reparations. Instead, the soul waits upon God’s activity and His timing that the soul longingly desires have done to it. It is God who, alone, is repairing their worthless lives. To use a bad analogy, akin to a mechanic restoring a rusted-out broken-down truck. The longing of the soul for the obtainment of God is of greater suffering than the fires of purgation and increases in intensity the closer the soul is to complete purgation. It should not be understood that an “abandoned soul” is abandoned without […]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost –Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Brethren, Such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit quickens. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance which is made void: how shall not the […]