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'One day, while I was hearing confessions, a man came to the confessional where I was. He was tall, handsome, dressed with some refinement and he was kind and polite. He started to confess his sins, which were of every kind: against God, against man and against the morals. All the sins were obnoxious! I was disoriented, in fact for all the sins that he told me, but I responded to him with God’s Word, the example of the Church, and the morals of the Saints.   But the enigmatic penitent answered me word for word, justifying his sins, always with extreme ability and politeness.  He excused all the sinful actions, making them sound quite normal and natural, even comprehensible on the human level.. He continued this way with the sins that were gruesome against God, Our Lady, the Saints, always using disrespectful round-about argumentation. He kept this up even with with the foulest of sins that could be conjured in the mind of a most sinful man.  The answers that he gave me with such skilled subtlety and malice surprised me. I wondered: who is he? What world does he come from? And I tried to look at him in order to read something on his face. At the same time I concentrated on every word he spoke, trying to discover any clue to his identity.. But suddenly; through a vivid, radiant and internal light I clearly recognized who he was. With a sound and imperial tone I told him: "Say long live Jesus, long live Mary!" As soon as I pronounced these sweet and powerful names, Satan instantly disappeared in a trickle of fire, leaving behind him an unbearable stench.'

St. Padre Pio

I'm going to give this to my son to read. He did an about turn on his choice of patron saint. First he told me St. Bosco, then a few days back he said he had made up his mind and his patron saint was going to be Padre Pio. ???  I think it is the Saint that chooses the Catechumen, rather than the other way round , otherwise why the sudden change of mind for no obvious reason ?  Even my 8 yr old who first was thinking of St. Agnes, changed her mind all of a sudden and said she wanted St. Teresa of Jesus.  :D
My teenager was absolutely not interested and I chose St. Teresa of Avila for her.  St. Teresa of Avila pray for this girl!!

St. Teresa of Jesus, pray for us, and for our children!

By the great love of God which gave you so many gifts, may those we pray for here on earth too, gain the priceless helps of God.

Amen. Amen.

Prayers Patricia!