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I read that Padre Pio prayed 36 Rosaries a day, and heard confessions up to 12 to 18 hours a day. How did he have time to eat? Did God keep him from collapsing?
There are lots of great books on Padre Pio. My favourite book was published in 2004 “The Holy Man on the Mountain” by Frank Regga.I read that Padre Pio prayed 36 Rosaries a day, and heard confessions up to 12 to 18 hours a day. How did he have time to eat? Did God keep him from collapsing?
I read in one biography that he had normally less than 2 hours of sleep every day. A normal day for him was a busy 19 hours.I read that Padre Pio prayed 36 Rosaries a day, and heard confessions up to 12 to 18 hours a day. How did he have time to eat? Did God keep him from collapsing?
St. Felix was a hermit who sustained on water, wheat, and the eucharist alone.As far as eating…I know Padre Pio suffered immensly, and likely at times he could not eat. Have you heard the stories of some of the saints who have subsisted on communion alone? (sorry, I can’t cite any direct references off the top of my head). A Protestant Pastor I know actually knows these stories and believes them, by the way. (still can’t figure out why he hasn’t come “home”)
Padre Pio is one of my favourites and my Rosary is the Padre Pio Rosary. However, I would think it unlikely he prayed 36 Rosaries each day. Even without the Luminous Mysteries there would be 15 decades to pray for each Rosary and that would take about 45 minutes. If you multiply that by 36 that totals 27 hours.I read that Padre Pio prayed 36 Rosaries a day, and heard confessions up to 12 to 18 hours a day. How did he have time to eat? Did God keep him from collapsing?
Dear friendsPadre Pio is one of my favourites and my Rosary is the Padre Pio Rosary. However, I would think it unlikely he prayed 36 Rosaries each day. Even without the Luminous Mysteries there would be 15 decades to pray for each Rosary and that would take about 45 minutes. If you multiply that by 36 that totals 27 hours.
I didn’t say it was impossible. I said it was unlikely.Dear friends
One thing that can be said with certainity is that time passes by with perception of it, that is some days pass quickly and it seems that the day has flown by and some days pass slowly and seem to go on forever.
When a person has been gifted with an exceptionally prayerful life it can appear as though their time has doubled, it’s a strange thing, but it does happen and I have seen on this board other posters mention this during the time I have been a member of this forum.
St Padre Pio is an extra-ordinary Saint with many supernatural gifts from God, therefore to my mind it does not seem an impossibility that God would utilise St Padre Pio’s time so that indeed this Saint would have been able to pray within a given day to the extent he did and still have time for it within a 24 hour period as well as serve God and his brothers and sisters.
Everything St Padre Pio did was by God’s grace, St Padre Pio being the instrument and servant of God and God performed these works in him.
It is humans who say it is impossible, but it is God who says, with Him, nothing is impossible.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa
Dear friendI didn’t say it was impossible. I said it was unlikely.
Who would know how many Rosaries Padre Pio prayed each day? Did someone sit beside him counting? It is simply speculation.
As I mentioned Padre Pio is one of my favourite saints and really was an extraordinary man. We know many extraordinary things about him without having speculate.
I don’t disagree with anything you have said. I simply asked how someone knows he prayed the Rosary 36 times each day. Padre Pio was a humble man and I don’t see him boasting to people how many times he prayed the Rosary. I am absolutely positive he prayed a lot and his devotion to our Blessed Mother is well known. I just feel it would be better to say he prayed the Rosary many times each day than trying to put a specific number on it! The number doesn’t add or take away anything from this great saint.Dear friend
We would know very little about St Padre Pio’s internal spiritual life at all unless he himself had told someone.
We know St Padre Pio had a deep devotion to our Blessed Virgin Mother Mary and we know he also held a deep devotion to her Most Holy Rosary, such a claim therefore doesn’t seem to be speculation.
His extra-ordinary grace of ministering in the confessional for the amount of hours he did could not have been sustained without prayer and God’s grace.
The speculation part comes really when people ask themselves… did he really do that? I believe he did all of these things and suffered as he did and I believe that because the Church has approved everything about him.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa