The movement of the human soul, and human society in general, from its fallen chaotic state towards divine order is at the heart of the Blog of Padre Pio Press. Writings, ponderings, and reflections on this movement of the soul are authored by Fr. Cliff Ermatinger and by the occasional Guest Contributor. The articles and recordings are relegated to the following areas:
Throughout the Month of August,
Padre Pio Press Cordially Invites Its Readership to Join in Saying:
Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Pearl — A Medieval Poem
The Pearl
A Middle English Poem in Modern English in the Metre of the Original
Sophie Jewett, Translator
1908
THE PEARL
I
Pearl that the Prince full well might prize,
So surely set in shining gold!
No pearl of Orient with her vies;
To prove her peerless I make bold:
So round, so radiant to mine eyes,
smooth she seemed, so small to hold,
Among all jewels judges wise
Would count her best an hundred fold.
Alas! I lost […]
The Concept of Sin: Part IV — A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
The Concept of Sin: A Seven-Headed Beast and Its Hideous Daughters
Part IV — Deadly Sins and Their Ugly Daughters
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 14th Sunday After Pentecost
Brethren, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh: for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another; so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such […]