PADRE PIO TELLS HOW HE EXPERIENCES THE DIVINE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

TARCISIO of CERVINARA interviews PADRE PIO
From The Voice of Padre Pio Vol XXII Summer 1992
The priest lends his voice, his hands but above all his heart to Christ, the Supreme Priest. Making the sacrificial dispositions of the Lord his own, longing to climb on the Cross and to die in torment, the priest becomes at the altar a visible and expressive sign of the Passion of Christ, while for him Jesus makes present sacramentally the Sacrifice of Calvary. Padre Pio, carrying continuously in his body the sufferings of the dying Jesus, lived in his flesh a life that was a visible sign of the life he lives in the faith. It was no longer he who lived, but the Lord who lived in him so fully as to be actually nailed physically with Christ on the Cross ... The life of the Crucified of Gargano could not be lived if not in a complete, total and absolute state of victim.
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