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:
Western
Culture
Order with Chaos
Spiritual
Growth
Chaos Seeking Order
Traditional
Liturgy
Divine Order Offered
to Restore Order
Spiritual
Combat
Resisting Absolute Chaos
Throughout the Month of August,
Padre Pio Press Cordially Invites Its Readership to Join in Saying:
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost.
Brethren, all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death? For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of […]
Consider well, brethren, what good things God gives to sinners – and then learn what he gives to his servants. To those sinners who blaspheme him every day, he gives the sky and the earth, he gives springs, fruit, health, children, wealth, bounty…
Nothing will be sweeter in heaven than to thank Christ for his Blood by which we have been saved… “How can I repay the Lord for all the good done for me (Ps. 116:12) for even as my memory recalls these things, my soul is not repulsed by them? I will love you, O Lord, and thank you, and profess your name, because you have taken from me these evil and reprehensible deeds of mine.
