Devotion to the plague on Jesus' shoulder and the secret of Padre Pio

REVELATION MADE IN S. BERNARDO DA GESU 'DELLA PIAGA AT THE SACRED SHOULDER OPENED BY THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS

Saint Bernard, Abbot of Chiaravalle, asked in prayer to Our Lord what the greatest pain had suffered in the body during his Passion. He was answered: “I had a wound on my shoulder, three fingers deep, and three bones discovered to carry the cross: this wound gave me greater pain and pain than all the others and is not known by men. But you reveal it to the Christian faithful and know that any grace they will ask of me by virtue of this plague will be granted to them; and to all those who for love of it will honor me with three Pater, three Ave and three Gloria a day I will forgive venial sins and I will no longer remember mortals and will not die of sudden death and on their deathbed will be visited by the Blessed Virgin and will achieve grace and mercy ”.

PRAYER TO THE SACRED SHOULDER

Most beloved Lord Jesus Christ, most gentle Lamb of God, I poor sinner, I adore and venerate Your Most Holy Plague you received on the Shoulder in carrying the very heavy Cross of Calvary, in which three Sacred Bones were discovered, tolerating immense pain in it; I beg you, by virtue and merits of said Plague, to have mercy on me by forgiving me all my sins, both mortal and venial, to assist me at the hour of death and to lead me into your blessed kingdom.

SAN PIO AND THE PLAZA OF THE SHOULDER

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was one of those very few holy priests who had the honor of carrying the visible and tangible signs of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ on his body, and he too suffered the same atrocious pains at the wound on his shoulder. , confirming what was revealed directly by Jesus to San Bernardo on the presence of a very painful and unknown wound to His Sacred Shoulder. A puzzling discovery regarding the shoulder pains suffered by Padre Pio was made after his death by a dear friend of the Father, as well as his spiritual son, Fra 'Modestino da Pietrelcina, who reported: "... After the death of Padre Pio, I continued to carefully and carefully explore every piece of his clothing that I arranged and stored, with the feeling that still some other puzzling discovery I should have made. I was not wrong! When it was the turn of the shirts, it occurred to me that one evening in 1947, in front of cell N0 5, Padre Pio confided to me that one of his greatest pains was what he felt when changing the shirt ... I thought that pain was it was caused to the venerable Father by the plague he had on his side. On February 4, 1971, however, I had to change my mind when, looking more carefully at a woolen shirt he used, I noticed above it, to my surprise, near the right collarbone, an indelible trace of blood. It did not seem to me, as in the "flagellation shirt" a stain of blood exudation. It was an evident sign of a circular bruising of about ten centimeters in diameter, at the beginning of the right shoulder, near the clavicle. The idea flashed that the pain complained of by Padre Pio could derive from that mysterious plague. I was shaken and perplexed. On the other hand, I had read a prayer in some book of piety in honor of the wound on the shoulder of Our Lord, opened to him by the wood of the Cross which, by discovering him three very sacred bones, had caused him immense pain. If in Padre Pio all the pains of the Passion were repeated, it could not be excluded that he had also suffered those caused by the wound on his shoulder. His suffering in contemplating Christ laden with heavy wood and even more, laden with our sins, had certainly brought yet another wound on his shoulder. Mystical pain and physical pain. By now, thanks to my medical friend, I had clear, or almost clear, ideas about it. In Jesus, bearing the cross, the destruction of the epidermis and subcutaneous had occurred on the shoulder. The weight of the wood and the rubbing of the very hard rigid element against the soft parts had produced a traumatic muscle injury, with "algic neuritic bone resentment". In Padre Pio that physical injury, generated by the mystical suffering, had caused a deep hematoma and a leakage of blood fluid on the right shoulder, with serous secretion. Here is a halo on the shirt blurred with the dark spot of absorbed blood in the center. Of this discovery I immediately spoke to the superior father who told me to write a short report. Even Father Pellegrino Funicelli, who for years had assisted Padre Pio, confided to me that, by helping the Father several times to change the woolen shirt he wore, he had almost always noticed a circular bruising on his now right shoulder now left shoulder. In addition to this, an important confirmation came to me from Padre Pio himself. In the evening, before falling asleep, I made this prayer to him, with great faith: "Dear Father, if you really had the wound on your shoulder, give it a sign". I fell asleep. But, exactly at five minutes past that night, while I was sleeping peacefully, a sudden, sharp pain in the shoulder made me wake up. It was as if someone had stripped the bone of my collarbone with a knife. If that pain had lasted a few more minutes, I think I would have died. At the same time I heard a voice saying to me: "So I suffered!". An intense perfume enveloped me and filled my whole cell. I felt my heart overflowing with love of God. I still felt a strange sensation: having been deprived of that unbearable suffering was even more painful for me. The body wanted to reject it but the soul, inexplicably, desired it. It was painful and sweet at the same time. By now I understood! Confused more than ever, I was sure that Padre Pio, in addition to the stigmata in the hands, feet and side, as well as having suffered the flagellation and the crowning of thorns, for years, the new Cyrene of all and for all, had helped Jesus to carry the cross of our miseries, of our sins, of our sins.

from "Novissimum Verbum" (Sept. Dec. 2002)

Prayer to ask for a grace

Most beloved my Lord Jesus Christ, gentle Lamb of God, I poor sinner I adore you and consider the most painful plague of your shoulder opened by the heavy cross that you carried for me. I thank you for your immense gift of love for redemption and I hope the graces that you promised to those who contemplate your passion and the atrocious wound of your shoulder. Jesus, my Savior, encouraged by You to ask for what I desire, I ask You for the gift of Your Holy Spirit for me, for all your Church, and for grace (… ask for the desired grace); let it be all for Your glory and my greatest good according to the FATHER'S Heart. Amen. three Pater, three Ave, three Gloria.