Episode Twenty Six: Padre Pio
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Twenty Six: Padre Pio
In this episode, Kiley explains the meaning of almsgiving and how we can care for people in need and we'll listen to the story of Padre Pio.
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| 0:00.0 | Lend with the Saints from the Mary Baggers Episode 26 Padre Pio I'm Hello everyone. |
| 0:29.0 | Today, I want to tell you about Padre Pio, |
| 0:31.9 | and the time Jesus took care of him in a miraculous way. |
| 0:35.5 | During Lent, the church invites us to draw closer to Jesus by doing |
| 0:39.4 | three things, praying, fasting, and almsgiving. We've spoken about prayer and fasting. But what is |
| 0:47.9 | alms giving? What does it mean to give alms? The word alms comes from the Greek word for mercy or pity. Alms are merciful |
| 0:58.7 | acts of giving to those in need. We can give alms by giving our money or food or even giving |
| 1:05.1 | our time and talents to the needy around us. St. Padre Pio experienced how Jesus wants us to take care of the needy in a personal and |
| 1:15.4 | miraculous way. |
| 1:24.7 | Padre Pio was a capuchin friar in Italy. |
| 1:28.6 | His country was at war and needed more men to be soldiers. |
| 1:32.8 | So Pio was forced to join the army as a medic, even though he was a friar. |
| 1:38.3 | Pio offered up his work as a medic as a sacrifice for peace and his fellow soldiers. |
| 1:48.1 | But then, Pio got very sick. He had no other choice but to go home to get better. On his way home, he missed his train. He was cold and weak |
| 1:56.5 | from sickness. He needed a friend to help him. Let's listen to how Jesus himself came to take care of |
| 2:03.9 | Pio at the train station that day. Imagine the young Padre Pio sitting alone in an Italian train station, |
| 2:11.5 | far from home. His body is burning up with a terrible fever. His head is aching. |
| 2:20.6 | He feels just rotten, and he has no one there to help him. |
| 2:27.2 | Oh. |
| 2:30.5 | My friend, why are you out here in the cold? |
| 2:34.0 | I've been discharged from military service. I was on the way home and missed my connection, |
| 2:38.0 | waiting for the next train. |
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