Padre Pio knew the sins of men

Padre Pio invited to Confession, asking to have recourse to it at the latest, once a week. He said: "A room, however closed it may be, needs dusting at least once a week."

In this Padre Pio was very demanding, he demanded a real conversion and did not give in to those who went to the confessional for the sole curiosity of seeing the friar "Saint".

A confrere said: "One day Padre Pio denied absolution to a penitent and then said to him:" If you go to confession from another, go to hell you and the other who gives you absolution ", as if to say , without purpose of changing life, the sacrament is profaned and whoever does it makes himself guilty before God.

In fact, Padre Pio often treated the faithful with "apparent harshness" but it is equally true that the spiritual upheaval that that "reproach" caused the souls of penitents was transformed into an inner strength to return to Padre Pio, contrite, to receive their definitive absolution .

A gentleman, between 1954 and 1955 went to confession to Padre Pio, in San Giovanni Rotondo. When the accusation of sins ended, Padre Pio asked: "Do you have anything else?" and he replied, "No father." The father repeated the question: "Do you have anything else?" "No father". For the third time, Padre Pio asked him: "Do you have anything else?". The hurricane broke out after repeated denial. With the voice of the Holy Spirit, Padre Pio shouted: "Go away! Get out! Because you have not repented of your sins! ".

The man was also petrified by the shame he felt in front of so many people. Then he tried to say something ... but Padre Pio continued: "Shut up, talkative, you've talked enough; now i want to talk. Is it true or not that you go to the ballrooms? " - "Yes father" - "And don't you know that dancing is an invitation to sin?". Amazed, I didn't know what to say: in my wallet I had a ballroom member card. I promised to amend myself and after so long he acquitted me.