Are we religious and why...

I just thought to share this before heading out....we are born with a design in our hearts to worship SOMEONE. Revelation (OUT OF LOVE) has taken place in the Old Testament and the Incarnation, Crucifixion,Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ sealed the Salvation history....It is proclaimed and affirmed that the Salvation is within the reach of the Church that Christ founded upon the ROCK....yet many of us think and behave as this has never been brought about to Humanity.... except we keep one trait, we behave religiously ...but......think about it .....YES WE DO.....and YES WE CAN behave religiously (as to worship a higher power) because we are designed to worship...Now the question is who is the god each and every one of us worship and why...many worship sports,, some are so crazy about academia or arts, a lot worship power and sex, a lot love alcohol and drugs, many love their body, ego and pride, a lot of people are fond of food, hence we have gluttony, some fall into self-pity to the point of despair ... ..... Stop for a second and think: Who am I worshiping today and ....are these "high powers" the ones who would finally save my soul ....?

Happy Feast Day of St."Padre" Pio

Taken from EWTN.COM

Highlights Of His Life 25 May 1887. Born in Pietrelcina, Benevento, Italy of Grazio "Orazio" Mario Forgione (1860-1946) and Maria Giuseppa de Nunzio Forgione (1859-1929). Padre Pio's Family Home 26 May 1887. Baptized Francesco Forgione. 27 September 1899. Confirmation. 22 January 1903. Took the Habit of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (age 15), entering the novitiate and taking the name Pio. Until priestly ordination he would be called Fra. (Fratello/Br.) Pio. 22 January 1904. Made his First Profession of the Evangelical Counsels of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. 1907. After three years of temporary profession he pronounced his final vows. 10 August 1910. Ordained to the priesthood in the chapel of the Archbishop of Benevento. September 1910. Received the Stigmata visibly for a short time. He begged God to take them away. He confided it only to his spiritual director. November 1911. Supernatural phenomenon came to the attention of his superiors when he was observed in ecstasy. 5-7 August 1918. Transverberation of the heart (the phenomenon of the wounding of the heart indicating the union of love with God). 20 September 1918. Received the Visible Stigmata, which would last for 50 years, while praying after Mass in the choir loft of the (old) Church of Our Lady of Grace, next to the Friary. Our Lady of Grace 1919. Rumors that the Church would transfer the local saint began to agitate the populace of San Giovanni. 2 June 1922. Orders of the Holy Office (today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) began to restrict the public's access to Padre Pio. 1924-1931. Various statements of the Holy See deny the supernaturality of Padre Pio's phenomena. 9 June 1931 (Feast of Corpus Christi). Padre Pio ordered by the Holy See to desist from all activities except the celebration of the Mass, which was to be in private. Early 1933. Pope Pius XI orders the Holy Office to reverse its ban on the public celebration of Mass, saying "I have not been badly disposed toward Padre Pio, but I have been badly informed." 1934. Padre's Pio faculties are progressively restored. First the confessions of men are allowed (25 March 1934) and then of women. (12 May 1934). 23 September 1968. At 2:30 a.m. he died in his cell. As he had foretold he lived sickly but died healthy, with the stigmata healed. 26 September 1968. Buried in the crypt prepared for him in the Church of Our Lady of Grace. Back The Man  -  The Franciscan  -  The Priest  The Mystic  -  The Saint  -  Multimedia