PADRE PIO ON CONFESSION AND UNWORTHY COMMUNION

 An English lady once came to Pio’s confessional, but he slid the door shut and sniped at her, “I have no time for you.” She persevered, and for twenty days she came back and was refused in the same severe way. On the twenty-first day, Padre Pio consented to hear her Confession, telling her she was a “poor, blind creature” and instructed her, “Instead of complaining of my severity, you should ask yourself how the Divine Compassion can receive you after so many years of sacrilege. Do you realise you have done a terrible thing? To keep up appearances of respectability, you have taken Communion for years at the side of your mother and husband in a state of mortal sin.”

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