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Seeing Through the Eyes of Padre Pio—What is the Purpose of my Life?
This morning’s family service was brought to us by the New York Hearts Center. Our brothers Wallace and Raphael were twinkling with mirth and vibrating with purpose as they worked beautifully together to present stories of Padre Pio with musings and wisdom of their own. Along with invocations, prayers and songs each shared his own personal thoughts on “Really, what is my life’s purpose?"
Padre Pio’s true life story was filled with examples of his desire to be in constant touch with the Creator. Many of us know that he experienced the stigmata for many years, but it is not so well known that he would listen to confessions all day, sometimes as long as 19 hours without much rest or food. His desire for purity was so great that he would give the Rosary many times each day even while he was engaged in talking and laughing with people and the other activities of the day. He was devoted to the Blessed Mother and her Immaculate Heart. He would say, “She is the Mother of All Mothers.” And he would advise, “Love the Madonna and pray the Rosary.”
While this devoted friar lived a life whose purpose was to be constantly in tune with the Creator through Jesus, Mary, Archangel Michael and the many angels, he also firmly believed, “When I die, my true mission will begin.” And as his life drew to a close, he renewed his Franciscan vows, and though he barely had strength to move, he said Mass on September 22nd. The next day as he took his last breath, his lips moved with the names of “Jesu, Maria….”
Padre Pio has truly begun his mission now and we are blessed to hear from him as the Ascended Master Padre Pio. Through our Messenger who loved this saint dearly and wrote some beautiful songs in his honor over the last few years, he has shared the stream of his heart with us many times. Having received the well-conceived presentation in the first part of the family service, we were given a new perspective that enabled many of us to hear the words of Padre Pio given June 30th at Freedom ’07 almost as if we had never heard them before. Some highlights of that HeartStream are summarized here below.
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Padre Pio on June 30, 2007 in Bozeman, Montana
Our Purpose for Being on Earth: to be God, God, God
Telling us that his mission has continued beyond the limits of the Catholic Church, Padre Pio has “joined the company of saints East and West.” His awareness of the nature of truth that is found in all cultures, peoples and religions has also expanded, “for the virtuous ones are here and there scattered across the globe. Our purpose in coming to earth is to grace sentient beings with the manifestation of God’s awareness of himself as each of us. The ascended masters honor all paths through this Hearts Center movement—whether we bring our love into the world “through counseling, teaching, serving in the kitchens of the world or in simply emanating love-wisdom’s fires in silence.”
The Key to Our Divinity
It is up to each of us to determine what our world will look like tomorrow,“...by intention, by devotion and by the very present reality of the light from [our] Source that [we] are becoming.” The glory of God is that although “the masters speak with one voice. . .that voice may have many aspects, many nuances, many characteristics in its representation. How you express that which wells up within you as the fervor of the fiery spirit that you are will determine the course of civilization and of whether this world will truly become a solar world of radiance or whether it will not.”
He spoke of the requirement for the students of the ascended masters to know the importance of every word of the missives of the masters. We need to “…take these words to heart to become them through full assimilation and then to go forth to fulfill all. By your awareness of the Presence of God within you, you light a world, and you light the pathway for divine spirits to be within this earth each day.”
An Angel on Our Shoulder
We communed together listening to the beautiful song “I Have an Angel on My Shoulder” by Charlie Thweatt. Padre Pio said if we choose to allow the angels to be where we are, we can have more than one angel on each shoulder, for the purpose of shouldering more of the density of this world for the ascended host as well as for the bearing of the burdens of our brothers and sisters in all nations.
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