PADRE PIO: "RELIGIOUS LIFE IS MOUNT TABOR""

 Dr. Christine Bacon was reading my book and has done a spirited and impassioned short video on Padre Pio's counsels as regards the difference between marriage and religious life. Padre Pio said of religious life, "Religious life is Mount Tabor united with God in prayer and contemplation."

But Pio also said that, "Marriage is Calvary" and this has galvanized Christine because she does tremendous good work in helping husbands and wives stay together - and she does this by way of showing them the Way of the Cross. 

My source for the quotes from Padre Pio's conversations with Giovanni Rizzani is, Padre Alberto D'Apolito's Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Memories, Experiences, Testimonials, San Giovanni Rotondo, 2013, pages 369 - 406