Pope approves barring gay seminarians

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Padre Pio
A City on a Mountain
By Pascal P. Parente. S.T.D.,Ph.D.,J.C.B
page 50

In one of his spiritual exhortaions, Padre Pio had this to say about the virtue of obedience:
"Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue, there is no good; where there is no good, there is no love; where there is no love, there is no God; and where there is no God, there is no Paradise.

Guided by such wisdom, it was not difficult for him to be resigned to the Will of God as manifested in the command received from his ecclesiastical superiors. With obedience he had God and retained the living hope of never-ending bliss; what did he care if everything else was taken from him?
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YinYangMom:
Right.
Do you have a question about that sentence?

It’s basically saying he was not concerned with earthly rules/constraints. With his eyes set on the Lord nothing else mattered except to serve Him and he recognized the heirarchy of the Church as established by Christ to be the instrument of God so he obeyed without regret, without feeling deprived, or wronged in any way - how could he if he places no emphasis on accommodations and personal rights (I mean, a true servant of the Lord has no personal rights as there is no person really, only God’s handiwork).
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Right on!
 
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otm:
Me neither, and it is not for lack of respect for the Pope that I say that.

What some people cannot seem to understand is that the Pope does not personally micro manage the Church, and isn’t likely to start.
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