{"id":1806,"date":"2021-03-13T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2021-03-18T06:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:33:47","slug":"padre-pio-and-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/padre-pio-and-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Padre Pio and Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" data-attachment-id=\"1807\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/padre-pio-and-confession\/attachment\/34343e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34343e.jpg?fit=600%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,402\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"34343e\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34343e.jpg?fit=600%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34343e.jpg?resize=600%2C402\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34343e.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34343e.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Healing Grace of Sacramental Confession<br>\n   from Catholic Exchange<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An engineer with a serious knee condition once went to confession to Padre Pio merely out of curiosity, but not out of any religious desire to receive the sacrament. He was an intellectual, he told Padre Pio. He believed in God, but the idea of going to confession was rather too simplistic for him. He only wanted to meet the famous priest he had heard so much about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Padre Pio looked at the man silently for some time, and then scolded, \u201cSuppose you stop all this chatter and begin by telling me that it is now twenty years since your last confession and that, since the day when you were married, you have never again received the Blessed Sacrament.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Padre Pio had never met this man before, but he had received a prophetic word of knowledge about the state of his soul. The man was so taken by surprise, Clarice Bruno writes in her book Roads to Padre Pio, that he made a good confession. Later, walking home, he realized that he no longer needed to walk with a cane. His knee had been healed. Later, he became one of Padre Pio\u2019s most faithful spiritual sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catholic Exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicexchange.com\/healing-grace-sacramental-confession\">website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Healing Grace of Sacramental Confession from Catholic Exchange An engineer with a serious knee condition once went to confession to Padre Pio merely out of curiosity, but not out of any religious desire to receive the sacrament. He was an intellectual, he told Padre Pio. He believed in God, but the idea of going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints-and-blesseds","category-spiritual-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-t8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6880,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/padre-pio-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":0},"title":"Padre Pio","author":"monks4christ","date":"September 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIt would be easier for the world to exist without the sunthan without the Holy Mass\u201d \u201cKneel down and render the tribute of your presence and devotionto Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. 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