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:
During the Month of June, Which is Devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Padre Pio Press Invites Its Readership to Join In Saying:
in the morning The Litany of Humility
The Litany of the Sacred Heart at night 
In Reparation for All the Ways He is Blasphemined,
Consolation for All The Times He is Ignored,
and Veneration for All that He Continues to Give to Us.
During the Month of June, Which is
Devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Padre Pio Press Invites Its Readership to Join In Saying:
in the morning
The Litany of Humility
:
and at night,
The Litany of the Sacred Heart
In Reparation for
All the Ways He is Blasphemed,
Consolation for All the Times
He is Ignored,
and Veneration for All that
He Continues to Give to Us.
Hope and Its Opposing Vices – A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
Hope and Its Opposing Vices
A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
The Release from Deception (detail, marble statue), Francesco Queirolo,1759
Outline of Talk
- St. Augustine: Sermon 21: 0:00-4:19
- A Time of Hope: 3:39-4:19
- St. John Henry Newman: We Believe Because We Love: 4:19-5:29
- The Degree of Charity Determines the Degree of Faith: 5:21-5:29
- In Between Charity and Faith Is Hope: 5:29-6:16
- Order of Events: 5:39-6:16
- CCC on Hope: 6:16-6:44
Sermon for a Nuptial Mass — Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle of St. Peter:
Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God: Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And […]
Quotes for Divine Mercy Sunday
Theotokos of the Passion Icon
During the night, the Mother of God visited me, holding the Infant Jesus in Her arms. My soul was filled with joy and I said, “Mary, my Mother, do You know how terribly I suffer?” And the Mother of God answered me, I know how much you suffer but do not be afraid. I share with you your suffering, and I shall always do so. She smiled warmly and disappeared.
St. Faustina, Notebook I, n. 25.
An Angel Comforting Jesus Before His Arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, Carl Bloch, 1873
Now if because of our sins also which were […]