“God
never annihilates human beings but transforms them with his Spirit and
orientates them to serving his plan of salvation. Padre Pio retained his
own natural gifts and his own temperament, but he offered all things to
God, who was able to make free use of them to extend Christ's work: to
proclaim the Gospel, to forgive sins and to heal the sick in body and in
mind.
Like Jesus, Padre Pio
did not have to battle with earthly enemies, in radical combat, but
rather with the spirit of evil (cf. Eph 6: 12). The greatest "storms"
that threatened him were the assaults of the devil, from which he
defended himself with 'the armour of God'
Benedict XVI, San Giovanni Rotondo, 21 June 2009.
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