This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Bitter Winter A magazine on religious liberty and human rights 05/02/2018 A+ | A- Father Bernardo Cervellera is the editor of AsiaNews the official press agency of the Roman Catholic Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) A former professor of History of Western Civilization at Peking University (Beida) he is widely regarded as the leading Catholic expert on China some media announced that an agreement between China and the Holy See was imminent no further news have been published and the optimism seems to have somewhat subsided The optimism transmitted to the media was part of a Vatican campaign aimed at persuading the Chinese side to sign the agreement AsiaNews recently reported disturbing news of a crackdown on Catholic underground churches in Henan Is this a phenomenon peculiar to Henan only Note that some of these measures were directed against churches of the Patriotic Association There are persecutions in Inner Mongolia too Our sources in China tell us that the government is testing the reaction of the Catholics in some provinces with the idea of applying later the same measures in the whole country the campaigns against the crosses in Zhejiang and the arrests and suspicious deaths of Catholic leaders in Shanxi the bishop of Shanghai for the underground church recognized by the Holy See The new regulations show that the regime regards the religions as dangerous and one reason is that they are growing rather than declining The regime is very much afraid that China can follow the path of the Soviet Union What are the main consequences of all this for Chinese Catholics including in the financial aspects—which are of great interest to the same Patriotic Association The former General Secretary of the China Taoist Association knew nothing about religion but was made by the CCP first into a Catholic and then a Taoist leader During the “sede vacante,” no new bishop can be designated in the Catholic Church Beijing “elected” new bishops in Shanghai and Xinxiang The United Front lamented that religions do not implement the new law on domestic propaganda quickly enough The Patriotic Catholic Church mobilized immediately Only two lines on the website of the Chinese Catholic Church about the Pope’s death they celebrated the 76th anniversary of the Communist victory in Nanjing CESNURVia Confienza 1910121 TorinoItalyinfo@bitterwinter.org Copyright © 2025 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors The ex-Major League infielder and coach will perform with his band, The Lunatic Fringe, Saturday at 1 p.m. at Grand Ole BBQ Flinn Springs in El Cajon (15505 Olde Hwy 80) Flannery played his entire 11-year major league career (1979-1989) in San Diego and served as manager Bruce Bochy’s third base coach with the Padres for seven years from 1996 to 2002 He also served as the San Francisco Giants third base coach under Bochy from 2007 to 2014 including during the team’s three World Series championship seasons Flannery retired from coaching in 2014 after the Giants won their third World Series championship in five years Flannery cites Kentucky hillsides and his Celtic roots among his primary musical influences His bluegrass ballads typically describe his travels and the characters he's met along the way "I'm a baseball man who's always played music," Flannery told ESPN in a 2010 interview Flannery is seen in this YouTube video performing "Hillbilly Rain" in a 2014 Brian Stow benefit at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley Stow is the Giants fan who suffered serious injuries during a 2011 attack at Dodgers Stadium Flannery was drafted by the San Diego Padres and played 11 seasons in the majors with the team from 1979 to 1989 "Tim is like a two-sport star with his music and baseball… And he can do it well," country music star Garth Brooks said of Flannery according to the band's official website Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. CA — The polls have closed across San Diego County and the state of California Voters not only weighed in on the hotly contested presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J Californians also cast votes in plenty of state races and San Diego County had its own local contests your ballot may have been chock full of local races Below are the real-time results for everything being voted on in San Diego County — national Scroll to the bottom for real-time San Diego County election results As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, the San Diego County Registrar of Voters found that of 1,983,767 registered voters in the county 49.2% cast their vote in the General Election There are still an estimated 590,000 ballots that need to be processed For full coverage of the election in California, click here. There are plenty of races to watch in San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Nora Vargas faces challenger and Chula Vista business owner Alejandro Galicia for the District 1 seat. District 1 includes Chula Vista as well as some San Diego neighborhoods and unincorporated communities Incumbent Joel Anderson faces challenger Gina Jacobs, a Port of San Diego official. District 2 includes El Cajon as well as some San Diego neighborhoods and more than three dozen unincorporated communities One-term incumbent, Terra Lawson-Remer, faces former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. District 3 stretches from the city of Carlsbad through the Silver Strand and is comprised of four municipalities — Coronado San Diego County's five Congressional districts are up for grabs this November with four Democrats and one Republican seeking to reclaim their seats which covers a large section of East County and some portions of southern Riverside County Republican incumbent Darrell Issa faces Democrat candidate Stephen Houlahan which covers North County and southern Orange County Democratic incumbent Mike Levin faces Republican candidate Matt Gunderson which covers the coastal areas of the city of San Diego and up north into San Marcos and Escondido Democratic incumbent Scott Peters and faces Republican challenger Peter Bono which includes central portions of San Diego and parts of East County including El Cajon Democratic incumbent Sara Jacobs faces Republican challenger Bill Wells Democratic incumbent Juan Vargas faces Republican challenger Justin Lee is facing Republican Bob Divine in the 39th Senate District race to replace Sen who is barred from running for reelection because of term limits The district spans North County into southern Orange County in the race to succeed Assemblymember Marie Waldron The district consists of Poway and a large portion of East and inland North County Republican Kristie Bruce-Lane is facing Democrat Darshana Patel is barred from running for reelection because of term limits and is running for San Diego City Attorney The district stretches from Carmel Mountain Ranch into San Marcos and Escondido is being challenged by Republican James Browne The district covers the coastal areas stretching from the border through Carlsbad Colin Parent is facing LaShae Sharp-Collins The district stretches from City Heights into East County The district covers southern San Diego County there are several statewide races to watch and 10 propositions to vote on A consequential contest to watch will be the race for the U.S Senate seat long-held by the late Dianne Feinstein voters will cast their ballot twice in this race They'll choose a candidate to finish out Feinstein's current term and again for the next term Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey are both vying for the seat a progressive favorite in the Golden State has served as a Democratic congressman here since 2000 representing the state's 30th Congressional District in Los Angeles County formerly an All-Star for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres advanced in March to the November ballot as a first-time political candidate Republicans have failed to advance a candidate in two of the last three U.S a rare feat for the GOP in blue California According to the latest poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, Schiff holds a 28 point-lead (63 percent to 35 percent) over Garvey. Schiff gained widespread name recognition for his role in Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Read more about that race here the state's most competitive contests for the U.S House seats in California are primarily in three regions — the Central Valley according to the Public Policy Institute of California's most recent election report Here's a brief breakdown of the candidates in each competitive area: it wouldn't be a major election in California if there were not a slew of proposed propositions on the ballot There are 10 statewide propositions on the ballot including two $10 billion bond measures for school construction and to address climate change There are also two amendments to the state constitution one which would repeal the unenforceable ban on same-sex marriage and another that would make it easier for bond measures to pass by lowering the voter threshold from the current supermajority needed to approve bond measures the most hot-button measure on the ballot is Proposition 36 which seeks to reverse some of the criminal justice reforms passed when voters approved Proposition 47 a decade ago it could significantly increase prison time for some drug and theft offenses that are currently misdemeanors Click here for Patch's in-depth reporting on all 10 propositions. 2012 at 4:49 pm PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}General Information Name : Mr John HammerstrandAge : 73Place of residence : Alpine Attended college : YesCollege : Frederick College Va.Degree : Bachelor of ScienceYear of graduation : 1963 Has served in the military: YesRank : Lieutenant CommanderDate when discharged from duty : 18 September 1984 Job titles held : REGISTERED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTEmployers : COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO Party affiliation : IndependentRunning for a: Local office Running for position: PADRE DAM MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT DIV.4; BOARD OF DIRECTORSIncumbent: NoPrevious elective offices : ALPINE PLANNING GROUP 1980-1988 Vice-Chairman.Unsuccessful bids for elective offices : Padre Dam Water Board- 2008 Assessor/Recorder/Clerk County of San Diego- 2002 Address 1739 Roble Grande RoadAlpineCa.91901-3024 The following was submitted by John Hammerstrand My continued duty/obligation is to ensure an abundant supply of safe drinking water Chemical contamination still exist in our drinking water supply Fluorosis risk to infants is alarming with nothing being done to alert the public at large No public notice to consumers-their babies whom exclusively consume infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated water Remember when LEAD was good for you from 1932 thru 1984 Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. 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Three films from the Taviani brothers receive a commendable Blu-ray debut on this three-disc set from Cohen Media Group Paolo and Vittorio Taviani devised what could be called “flashback cinema.” These films not only use flashbacks to frame their narratives but function as interrogations of cinema’s desire to consistently leap into the past These inclinations surely derive from a mixture of autobiographical detail and the influence of neorealism especially in Kaos’s need to make sense of an immediate past in order to rebuild an anonymous present but the Taviani brothers cannot be resigned to practitioners of a post-neorealist cinema because much of their visual sensibility derives from centuries of art history and 19th-century literature Their use of long shots in particular begs for comparisons to 18th-century landscape paintings like those of Francesco Guardi or Bernardo Bellotto though the Tavianis are adamantly pastoral in their depiction of Italian life these shots are so proliferate as to be commonplace but the alteration between open pastoral spaces and the tight framing of humans figures whether through doorways or within enclosed spaces The closest they come to depicting a city space occurs midway through The Night of the Shooting Stars during the waning days of German occupation in WWII congregate inside of a church in hopes of escaping capture The modestly sized church constitutes the largest structure of the film and is meant to offer a place of refuge for the displaced Italians the sanctuary can instantaneously become the burial ground the Tavianis treat technological progress with suspicion but herald individual edification away from larger structures of governmental order as the end goal of Western progress as Gavino (Fabrizio Forte) is snatched from the classroom by his rustic father (Omero Antonutti) and made to become a farmer or the burgeoning fascism of the early 20th century Padre Padrone doesn’t make such claims explicitly but once Gavino joins the military and starts to learn about linguistics and electrical science it’s clear that the further Gavino gets from his father’s grasp even if it’s still within the confines of an ideological institution If Padre Padrone’s foundational sentiment seems a little hoary the Tavianis counter it with an opening that justifies the film’s later developments who in voiceover claims to be a real-life figure to his “father,” who’s at the school to retrieve the young Gavino The instance challenges the film’s own construction of realistic space since events unfold through an impossible chronology in The Night of the Shooting Stars as opposing soldiers exchange gunshots in a wheat field As six-year-old Cecilia (Micol Guidelli) imagines it a few soldiers morph into a Roman army and kill a man with lances instead of bullets history is prone to imagination and subjective reasoning; in the former so much so that it affords the practitioner free reign to defy the physics or logistics of real world constraints As legend has it, the Taviani brothers saw Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan as teenagers in 1946 and decided immediately after that if they weren’t making films together within the next decade they would buy a pistol and kill themselves seems so perfect as to surely be apocryphal since it squares with their interest in time as a slipstream of simultaneous precision and illogic Three films from the Taviani brothers receive a commendable Blu-ray debut on this three-disc set from Cohen Media Group, which also features an essential two-hour interview with the filmmakers themselves. Clayton Dillard is a lecturer in cinema at San Francisco State University. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a626e359428ec70da4ebbcf97c5555a4" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Credit: Martine Perret (through the Sculpture by the Sea)Clean Up Australia DayEvery first weekend of March during the 'Clean Up Australia Day' thousands of people across Australia take part in cleaning the environment.The Filipino community in Sydney worked hand-in-hand to clean the area surrounding Rizal Park in Rooty Hill Credit: Supplied by Rod DingleFrom a simple idea of an 'average Australian bloke' cleaning his backyard what is now considered the "nation's largest community-based environmental event" Clean Up Australia Day was born.For the past decade members of the Filipino community in Sydney are taking part in the annual clean-up event.This year members of the Filipino Australian Movement for Empowerment (FAME) together with Knights of Rizal and other Filipino organisations affiliated with the Philippine Community Council of NSW have worked together in cleaning the surroundings of the Rizal Park in Rooty Hill RELATED CONTENTTrending Ngayon: 'Sydney Mardi Gras 'Trending Ngayon': Shakira collab with BZRP Perhaps it was how God answered the Padre's prayers The story began about 35 years ago when a young Austrian exchange student came to live with his host family in Connecticut The boy did well in school and then went on to become a Catholic priest in Austria He and his American host family remained close even after he was sent to minister to a poor village high in the Amazonian region of Ecuador One day a few years ago a member of the host family became urgently ill and was taken to see the family physician The physician shared with the family his upcoming plans to travel to the Caribbean with his wife The family shared with the physician their relationship with the priest and the urgent need for medical care in the Ecuadorian village The Caribbean trip became an Ecuadorian trip The Ecuadorian trip became an annual journey which transformed a small The parents in that host family are Marie and Frank Glowski The hospital is Clínica Misional "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe." The physician is Serle Epstein Dr. Epstein, who specializes in internal medicine and primary care, has been a medical volunteer for many years. He has worked as a medical preceptor in clinics for migrant workers and in clinics connected with free food kitchens. He has volunteered as a physician for the Special Olympics. He continues his love of both volunteering and his love of teaching by precepting monthly at the Fair Haven Free Clinic [now the Haven Free Clinic] in New Haven "I volunteer because I think it is the essence of being a healthcare provider I think you're doing your best for someone regardless of the finances and the politics You're role modeling for your children and your colleagues....It becomes part of your identity." the Clínica Misional "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" is special: from the way his expression changes when he talks about the people from the way he describes how the clinic has grown "I committed myself to this clinic knowing that it had no chance to succeed without a physician in the developed world using contacts to recruit [staff] and to equip [it]" the clinic began as the dream of Padre Nigsch the clinic had two rooms furnished as examining rooms a small pharmacy and the beginnings of an operating suite and dental rooms radiology and all specialty services were two hours away -- for those who could afford them Although parasitic infestations were common there are few mosquitoes in the Amazonian highlands saw patients and also sorted through boxes of donated materials -- much of it inappropriate or dysfunctional -- and began the task of drawing the modest clinic from the 19th century into the 21st Since 2001 there has been an almost steady stream of healthcare workers to the clinic there has been a family practice or internal medicine physician on site for all but two months in the last six years Healthcare practitioners at the clinic include nurses mobile health clinics were initiated by Dr Professor of Nursing at Washington State University School of Nursing Patients have been taught about their chronic illnesses and management of chronic illness is now part of healthcare in this region As patients continue to return to the "Clinical Misional," continuity of care is improving Epstein has made a strenuous effort to make this healthcare volunteer experience possible for practitioners of many specialties particularly those in primary care and internal medicine He knows firsthand the difficulties of leaving a private primary care practice to volunteer in a remote region the experience at Clinica Misional can be as short as one month Epstein hopes to have long-term volunteers he is pleased that Clinica Misional can offer a shorter volunteer experience while still providing quality care The clinic even provides a small family accommodation for volunteers in addition to comfortable single accommodation in a safe rural environment Epstein is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2005 Chapter Volunteerism and Community Service Award of the Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Physicians and the 2007 Madison Connecticut Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year he is Assistant Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at both the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing He was awarded the 2007 Yale University Internal Medicine Departmental Award as Teacher of the Year for Ambulatory Medicine Epstein is most proud of The Proclamation of Honored Guest Status given to him by the mayor and governing council of the Town of Guadalupe Epstein best summed up his philosophy when he said "The act of volunteerism becomes its own reward Although you are doing a good thing for people you take away more than you give....You're doing the essence of medical care....It really brings you back to why you became a physician." MSN is a freelance health and medical writer in Branford Angels in Medicine is a volunteer site dedicated to the humanitarians, heroes, angels, and bodhisattvas of medicine. The site features physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other healthcare workers and volunteers who reach people without the resources or opportunities for quality care, such as teens, the poor, the incarcerated, the elderly, or those living in poor or war-torn regions. Read their stories at www.medangel.org MENU Southern Leyte (MindaNews / 19 March) — — Endurance swimmer Ingemar “Pinoy Aquaman” Macarine did another first by crossing the 10.4 – kilometer stretch of the Canigao Channel from Limasawa to this town Sunday The 40-year-old triathlete lawyer from Surigao City crossed the historic island from the shores of San Bernardo village in the town of Limasawa and reached the shores of Tangkaan village in Padre Burgos town in Southern Leyte clocking four hours and 32 minutes several foreign divers joined him all the way to the shores for more than a kilometer swim Dozens of villagers of Tangkaan waited on the  shore to congratulate Macarine and have souvenir picture with the open water enthusiast Among those who witnessed the arrival of Macarine is 8-year old Jessnar Mullaneda who said Macarine endured the choppy waters and strong currents and a few jellyfish sting “Despite the rough condition of the seas this morning I made it to the shoreline of Padre Burgos because I’m in my best shape,” Macarine told MindaNews Macarine’s swim on Sunday was his 13th open water marathon swim and 25th open-water swim since December 31 2013 when he began crossing channels in and outside the country Macarine said he had to shift from freestyle to breaststroke due to the  choppy waters He added he drank more than two liters of water “It was very challenging because the water was pumping while the last four kilometers I had to swim against strong currents,” Macarine said Macarine could have made history if he crossed the English Channel from United Kingdom to France last August Padre Burgos mayor Helmenegildo Culpa was totally impressed by what Macarine did Everybody thought that this swim is impossible but due to Macarine’s strong determination the impossible has now become possible,” he said “No one ever dared swim that area because of the presence of sharks,” the mayor said Macarine embarked on this crossing as part of his lifetime advocacy for clean seas environmental tourism and climate change awareness they have a program a kilo of  thrown away plastic materials gathered by residents can be exchanged for a kilo of rice He recalled that during the launching of the program last year the community collected a total of 300 kilos of plastics for upcycling He said they share Macarine’s advocacy Limasawa is referred to as the site of the first Catholic mass in the Philippines officiated on Easter Sunday of March 31 1521 by Father Pedro de Valderrama under the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan is being contested as the first mass was reportedly held in Mazaua (Masao) No.: 082 297 4360 editor [at] mindanews [dot] com the people of Bologna gave a dignified and respectful burial to the artiste Lucio Dalla with the final applause resounding in the city’s most important and most symbolical square by opening the doors of the Basilica of St Petronius Bologna’s most famous and most majestic church has received Lucio Dalla as a true son who had “an intense dialogue with God” The rite of the funeral Mass was that of the traditional liturgy the only departure coming at the end of the Mass singer and photographer who was close to Dalla for many years – read the lyrics of his song Marco was with Dalla at Montreux the day he died As if to give expression to Dalla’s world of relationships and personal affections the funeral oration delivered by Marco distressed but also refreshed the atmosphere of the old basilica and was received with a tremendous round of applause true and authentic; an act that does not belong to any gender but to the most intimate human feelings resounding along the church’s nave and declaimed in front of God among the congregation inside the basilica without realising that for over 10 years he was Dalla’s silent and loving companion a way of life which Dalla had always jealously kept under wraps: his homosexuality With appalling incivility this journalist stated and revealed publicly that “Lucio Dalla was probably one of the most powerful examples of how being gay is dealt with in Italy Everything’s fine and they hold a funeral for you in a cathedral with the full blessing of the Church if you do not say you are gay this seems to be the symbol of how permissive we are – as long as you look the other way.” Apparently motivated by ideology and anticlericalism from various quarters we are now seeing a violent public reproach to Dalla – most untimely coming so soon after his death – on grounds of his homosexuality which he lived far removed from the gay culture ready at the slightest excuse to proclaim its sexual diversity with pride and even to claim a right to marriage Dalla kept his homosexuality private and never showed it we saw the launching of one of those fearsome attacks on the basic principles of humanity: respect for the person and for one’s circle of affection “close collaborator” and other ridiculous and embarrassing circumlocutions What is left after this inop­portune polemic is a loving relationship denied but not repudiated sheltering it from any gay revenge acknowledging his legal right Marco has been a faithful companion in a homosexual relationship which should be regularised according to the principle of mutual and recognised assistance A symbol for obtaining a civil right that is quite different from gay marriage as demanded by an international coming out please register for free or log in to your account The web server reported a bad gateway error Da Paolo Tessione - 29 Jolay 2019 BERNARDO NATAON'NY JESOSY NY TOERANA TAMIN'NY TOERANA MASINA NOSOKON'NY lanjan'ireo hazo fijaliana dia nangataka am-bavaka ny Tompontsika hoe inona ny fanaintainana lehibe indrindra tao anaty vatana nandritra ny Fialam-bavany Namaly izy hoe: “Nisy ratra teny an-tsoroko ary taolana telo hita ny hazo fijaliana: ity fery ity dia nanome fanaintainana sy fanaintainana lehibe kokoa noho ny hafa rehetra ary tsy fantatry ny olona Saingy asehonao amin'ny mpino kristiana mahatoky ary fantatrao fa misy fahasoavana angatahin'izy ireo amiko noho ity areti-mandoza ity ary ho an'izay rehetra tia azy dia hanome voninahitra ahy miaraka amin'ny Pater telo telo ny Ave ary telo an'i Gloria indray andro dia hamela ny helony aho ary tsy hotsarovako intsony ny olona ary tsy ho faty tampoka akory ary amin'ny fahafatesan'izy ireo dia hotsahin'n'ny Virjiny Sambatra izy ireo ary hanatanteraka fahasoavana sy famindram-po ilay Zanak'ondrin'Andriamanitra malemy fanahy indrindra mankalaza sy mankalaza ny Tany Masina Indrindra azonao izay noraisinao tao amin'ny Harato izay mitondra ny Lakroa mavesatra indrindra nandefitra ny fanaintainana lehibe tokoa; Miangavy anao aho amin'ny hatsaram-panahy sy ny fahamendrehana nolazaina fa Ilay Mpanapaka mamindra fo amiko amin'ny famelana ny fahotako rehetra mba hanampy ahy amin'ny fotoana hahafatesana ary hitarika ahy amin'ny fanjakanao Saint Pio an'i Pietrelcina dia iray amin'ireo pretra masina vitsivitsy izay nanana ny voninahitra hitondra ny famantarana hita maso sy azo tsapain-tanana momba ny Fitiavan'i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika eo amin'ny vatany ary nijaly koa ny fanaintainana mahatsiravina mitovy amin'ny ratra eo an-tsorony fanamafisana izay nambaran'i Jesosy tamin'i San Bernardo momba ny fery iray izay maharary sy tsy fantatra amin'ny masiny masina Ny fahitana hafahafa momba ny fanaintainan'ny soroka an-tsofin'i Padre Pio dia natsangana taorian'ny nahafatesany Nanohy nandinika tsara sy tamim-pitandremana tsara ny sombiny rehetra namboariko sy notehiriziko aho miaraka amin'ny fahatsapana fa mbola fahitana mampitolagaga hafa tokony ho nataoko dia tonga tamiko izany indray hariva izany tamin'ny 1947 i Padre Pio nilaza tamiko fa ny iray amin'ireo fanaintainany lehibe indrindra dia ny tsapany rehefa nanova ny lobaka .. Nieritreritra aho fa ny fanaintainana nateraka tamin'ilay Ray hajaina tamin'ny alalàn'ny aretina teo anilany rehefa nijery akaiky ny akanjo volon'ondry izay nampiasainy teo amin'ny haavon'ny fitrandrahana havanana toy ny ao amin'ny "shirt flagellation" misy fatin-drà Izy io dia famantarana miharihary amin'ny boribory mihetsika manodidina ny folo santimetatra ny savaivony Niparitaka ny hevitra fa ny fanaintainan'i Padre Pio dia azo avy amin'izany aretina mistery izany namaky vavaka iray ao amin'ny bokin'ny fahamendrehana aho ho fankalazana ilay ratra eo amin'ny soroky ny Tompontsika nosokafany taminy tamin'ny alàlan'ny hazofijaliana izay tamin'ny fahitana ireo taolana telo masina Raha ao Padre Pio miverina ny fanaintainan'ny Passion rehetra dia tsy azo esorina fa nositraniny ihany koa ny olona noho ny ratra Ny fijaliany tamin'ny fisaintsainana an'i Kristy nilanja kitay mavesatra ary mbola betsaka noho izany dia efa nitondra ratra iray hafa teo an-tsorony Ny fanaintainan'ny mistery sy ny fanaintainana ara-batana ny fandringanana ny epidermis sy ny subcutaneous dia nitranga teo amin'ny soroka Ny lanjan'ny kitay sy ny fikosoham-boto mahery vaika ho an'ny faritra malefaka dia niteraka ratra hozatra mihetsiketsika Ao amin'ny Padre Pio fa ny ratra ara-batana dia niteraka hematoma lalina ary fandatsahan-dra amin'ny tsatoka havanana amin'ny soroka havanana Ity misy halo-doko eo amin'ny lobaka manjombona miaraka amin'ny toerana maizimaizina rà afovoany Momba an'io fahitana io dia niresaka tamin'ny ray ambony kokoa aho izay nilaza tamiko hanoratra tatitra fohy izay nanampy an'i Padre Pio nandritra ny taona maro nanampy ny Ray hanova ny fehiloha volom-borona izay efa nitaingenany dia saika efa nahatsikaritra matetika ny famoretana boribory eo amin'ny sorony havanana ankehitriny izy nisy fanamafisana manan-danja tonga tamiko avy tamin'i Padre Pio tenany alohan'ny hatory dia nataoko taminy ilay vavaka fanaintainana tampoka sy maranitra teo amin'ny soroka no nanaitra ahy Toy ny hoe nisy olona nanongotra ny taolam-paty tamiko tamin'ny antsy Raha naharitra minitra vitsy kokoa izany fanaintainana izany dia heveriko fa ho faty aho Nandritra izany fotoana izany dia nahare feo nilaza tamiko aho hoe: "Koa nijaly aho!" Manitra manitra ahy ny menaka manitra ary nameno ny sela rehetra ananako Tsapako fa tototry ny fitiavana an’Andriamanitra ny foko Mbola mahatsapa fihetseham-po hafahafa aho: rehefa nisorana an'io fijaliana tsy zakaina io aho dia vao mainka maharary ahy izany ary koa efa nijaly ny saina sy ny satro-boninahitry ny tsilo dia nanampy an'i Jesosy esory ny hazofijaliantsika tsy mpanota mahantra no midera anao aho ary diniho ny aretina maharary indrindra amin'ny sorokao nosokafanao tamin'ny hazo fijaliana mavesatra nataonao ho ahy Misaotra anao noho ny fitiavanao be fanavotana aho ary manantena ny fahasoavana nampanantenainao an'ireo izay misaintsaina ny fitiavanao sy ny fery mahatsiravina amin'ny sorokao namporisihan'i anao hanontany izay tadiaviko mangataka aminao aho noho ny fanomezana ny Fanahy Masinao ho ahy ary ho an'ny fahasoavana (… mangataha ny fahasoavana irina); avelao ho an'ny voninahitrao sy ho soa indrindra ho anao ny zava-drehetra araka ny Fon'ny RAY