Padre Pio - Sacramentals

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Hello friends

I read this very good article via this link, forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=761514

about Padre Pio’s glove and healing of a brain dead women. I did not want to take over a good thread with this question, why does it take a glove or some other item of a saint or religious to cure someone? Why isn’t prayer enough? The waters of Lourdes comes to mind as well… what is so special about the water? Why not just ask God for a miracle and ask Padre Pio to pray for that miracle, why the need for this glove? Wasn’t the smell of the roses enough to know the persons prayers were being answered? When a non-Catholic reads this is would seem to them magic hocus pocus nonsense.

Do you recall the Televangelist Robert Tilton and his prayer hanky he would lay on notes from viewers for answers to their prayers. I thought it was silly but this miracle of Padre Pio reminds me a bit of this. Can someone provide some great wisdom to help me understand.

Thank you

Mike

P.S. I am searching for the why we do things and lately I have been questioning a lot about my faith in order to understand it fully.
 
We don’t know, I don’t think. The Lord works as He wills. All I know is that sacramentals were here from the beginning of the Church.🙂
 
The same happened before they beatified Saint Kateri. It was a peace of her bone and a young boy whom was affected by the flesh eating bacteria, came back to health.

I am not an expert but maybe this is a sign that the church need as a complete proof the the soul is in heaven and he or she can be beatified. So God would give this grace as a proof.

Some receive miraculous healing from going to the tomb of a Saint.

Intervention by Padre Pio has been reported just with prayer.

It would be interesting to read others reply.

All the best!
 
I don’t think it actually takes a relic or another sacramental for healing. The healing will occur in response to a person’s prayer if the Lord wills it. Having said that, I do believe that sacramentals can help us to have faith and/or to experience the presence of the Holy Spirit. I have noticed that the simple act of picking up my rosary will put me in a prayerful state, and I often hold it during any type of prayer–not just the rosary. It makes me think about the Lord, and sometimes I feel so much love and peace when I hold it, much the same as when I am in the adoration chapel. I am sure that sounds a little goofy, but that is what happens.

You might look at CCC 1667-1679 for the church explanation of sacramentals…
 
michaelmas said:
Hello friends

I read this very good article via this link, forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=761514

about Padre Pio’s glove and healing of a brain dead women. I did not want to take over a good thread with this question, why does it take a glove or some other item of a saint or religious to cure someone? Why isn’t prayer enough? The waters of Lourdes comes to mind as well… what is so special about the water? Why not just ask God for a miracle and ask Padre Pio to pray for that miracle, why the need for this glove? Wasn’t the smell of the roses enough to know the persons prayers were being answered? When a non-Catholic reads this is would seem to them magic hocus pocus nonsense.

Do you recall the Televangelist Robert Tilton and his prayer hanky he would lay on notes from viewers for answers to their prayers. I thought it was silly but this miracle of Padre Pio reminds me a bit of this. Can someone provide some great wisdom to help me understand.

Thank you

Mike

P.S. I am searching for the why we do things and lately I have been questioning a lot about my faith in order to understand it fully.
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In Acts 19:11,12 it says, “Meanwhile, God worked extraordinary miracles at the hands of Paul. When handkerchiefs or cloths which had touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases were cured and evil spirits departed from them.”

When God wants to put a spotlight on a saint he allows relics of saints to heal people. It is the intercession of the saint, and the faith of the person using the relic that God is responding to. In the scripture I quoted above, God desired others to know that Paul was a special messenger of His truth, and so miracles were wrought through him.
 
Although the relics I have in my possession haven’t worked any visible miracles in my life. But whenever I look at the relics whenever I’m down or spiritually dry I feel comforted and have the desire to pray. Maybe it’s because of the saints intercession in heaven 🙂

God will choose to work miracles by his will and through His saints in heaven as a mean to show that His saints are glorified in heaven. And remember that the saints are living members of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit and which are destined to be raised and glorified by Him unto life eternal. It means the earthly remains of the saints are dwelling place of the Holy Spirit
 
Ive never had a prayer I directed through Padre Pio, to our Lord Jesus, denied.
 
I think that God gives us public current reminders of His love in the present day to communicate with us who have a tendency to forget. God is faithful and constant and that is why if He promised to assist us via Lourdes, then this will always be a place anyone can go to receive His blessings. The miracles wrought by God via Padre Pio’s glove, i think are Gods way of showing us that our life is in Him who was crucified and that we all belong to His body which continues to live today. We become less ourselves and more Christ.
 
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I think that God gives us public current reminders of His love in the present day to communicate with us who have a tendency to forget. God is faithful and constant and that is why if He promised to assist us via Lourdes, then this will always be a place anyone can go to receive His blessings. The miracles wrought by God via Padre Pio’s glove, i think are Gods way of showing us that our life is in Him who was crucified and that we all belong to His body which continues to live today. We become less ourselves and more Christ.
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Well said! 🙂
 
Very good responses and I appreciate the Biblical reference in Acts. I never put that together and thank you all for your comments. It will help me explain this to my non-Catholic friends and my family.
 
Because we are not angelic spirits contained in a vessel of flesh, we are incarnate spirits with our body and soul together. So saint’s reliics matter and also we respond better to God when our senses our employed in reaching Him, hence sacraments and sacramentals. We value the body and ours will resurrect one day like Jesus.
 
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