PADRE PIO ON HOW TO CULTIVATE TRUE HUMILITY
The very insightful Dr. Tom Curran and I had a rich discussion on Padre Pio , and I shared Padre Pio's method for developing humility, which I included in Padre Pio and You . O nce Pio had a blunt conversation with another priest, a certain Padre Giovanni, whom Pio admonished, “Pride oozes from every pore of your body.” Giovanni was a natural-born leader and a gifted public speaker, but because he was such a great preacher, he was prone to arrogance. When Pio told Giovanni he was full of pride, Giovanni laughed, but he asked how Pio stayed humble. First Pio illuminated the true value of humility, “Humility is truth” and then he explained how he kept pride at bay: “I don’t know how the Lord made me, but I feel I should have to try much harder to make an act of pride than an act of humility. Because humility is truth and the truth is that I am nothing and all that is good in me is of God.” This line of Pio’s spoken to a fellow friar ought tell us that who we are all that is go...
