“ THE LIFE OF PADRE PIO: A

MODEL OF THE YOUTH IN THEIR

JOURNEY OF FAITH AND
DISCERNMENT ”
FATIMA CHURCH, TACLOBAN CITY
2:00 PM
HOW ARE THE YOUTH
TODAY?
 WHAT CAUSES SUCH
DISPOSITIONS OF THE
YOUTH?
UNNURTURED SPIRITUAL
LIFE !!!
 UNNURTURED SPIRITUAL LIFE

A GODLESS LIFE
 WHO OR WHAT IS MAN?

MAN IS COMPOSED OF BOTH BODY AND

SOUL
 WHY?
1. THE PRINCIPLES/DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH CONTRADICT
WITH THEIR IDEALS/BELIEFS

2. PROPAGANDA (ERRONEOUS PERSPECTIVE OF

RELIGION)
THE PRINCIPLES/DOCTRINES OF THE
CHURCH CONTRADICT WITH THEIR
IDEALS/BELIEFS

DEATH PENALTY
SAME SEX UNION
HOMOSEXUAL ACTIONS
PRE- MARITAL SEX/FORNICATION
CONTRACEPTION/ABORTION
ETC.
 MORAL TRUTHS

ETHICAL BELIEF THAT THERE ARE

ABSOLUTE STANDARDS OF RIGHT OR
WRONG, REGARDLESS OF THE CONTEXT
OF THE ACT.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF
MORALITY
• CONSEQUENTIALISM
• UTILITARIANISM
• CULTURAL RELATIVISM
• KANTIAN DEONTOLOGISM
• DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
• CHRISTIAN MORALITY
 PROPAGANDA
(ERRONEOUS PERSPECTIVE OF RELIGION)
 OBSERVABLE CONSEQUENCES OF
UNNURTURED SPIRITUAL LIFE

1. EXISTENTIAL CRISIS
2. HEDONISTIC MENTALITY AND DISPOSITION
3. MATERIALISTIC MENTALITY AND DISPOSITION
4. INDIVIDUALISTIC MENTALITY AND DISPOSITION
 EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

IS A MOMENT AT WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL

QUESTIONS IF HIS/HER LIFE HAS MEANING,
PURPOSE, OR VALUE.
 HEDONISTIC MENTALITY AND
DISPOSITION

A DISPOSITION TENDING TOWARDS

PURSUIT OF PLEASURE OR SENSUAL
SELF-INDULGENCE.
 MATERIALISTIC MENTALITY AND
DISPOSITION

A DISPOSITION WHICH CONSIDERS

MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AND PHYSICAL
COMFORT AS THE MOST VALUABLE
THINGS IN LIFE.
 INDIVIDUALISTIC MENTALITY AND
DISPOSITION

SELF – CENTERED DISPOSITION,

WHEREIN EVERY ACTION IS GOVERNED
BY PERSONAL GAIN.
 THE CHALLENGE

NURTURE OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE ! ! !

WHO IS PADRE PIO?
 BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
FRANCISCO FORGIONE WAS BORN ON MAY 25, 1887, TO A POOR FARMING FAMILY IN THE SMALL TOWN
OF PIETRELCINA, ITALY. FROM A YOUNG AGE LITTLE FRANCISCO WAS VERY PIOUS, AND HE EXPRESSED HIS
DESIRE TO BE A PRIEST VERY EARLY. IN 1903, AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN, FRANCISCO ENTERED THE NOVITIATE
FOR THE CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FRIARS, TAKING THE NAME PIO. HE WAS ORDAINED PADRE (FATHER) PIO
SEVEN YEARS LATER.
ONE DAY, WHILE PRAYING, ST. PADRE PIO EXPERIENCED A VISION OF THE WOUNDED CHRIST AND RECEIVED
THE STIGMATA.
BEFORE LONG, NEWS OF HIS STIGMATA HAD SPREAD. PADRE PIO BECAME WELL-KNOWN AND A GREAT
SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE: NOT ONLY IN ITALY, BUT AROUND THE WORLD.
HE WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS PIETY, HIS QUALITY OF PREACHING, HIS ABILITY TO READ SOULS, HIS ROLE AS
A CONFESSOR, HIS DEVOUTLY-SAID MASSES (WHICH, WHEN HE WAS IN ECSTASY, COULD BE UP TO THREE
HOURS LONG!) AND HIS ABILITY TO BILOCATE.
 IMPORTANT LESSONS
FROM PADRE PIO
1. LOVE THE HOLY EUCHARIST
2. LOVE AND SERVE OTHERS
3. EMBRACE PAIN AND REMAIN HOPEFUL
4. HUMILITY
5. BE CHEERFUL