By Fr. Francesco D. Colacelli

Another “significant day” has  passed which can now be consigned to the history books on Padre Pio.  The spotlights have been switched off, the TV cameras of the major Italian broadcasting channels have  moved on  in search of other scoops, and the countless daily papers and magazines are now in quest of  other stories.

So what happens now in San Giovanni Rotondo  after the transfer of Padre Pio’s  body from the  shrine of Our Lady of Grace to the  crypt of the new church dedicated to him?

Padre Pio continues as  before his mission to intercede for the spiritual health of mankind  always more disorientated by the false ideals of the world.

He  continues to invite his spiritual children to come, an invitation that he left them, almost  like a last testament, when they asked him shortly before he died what they would do when he was no longer here: “I will be here with you even   more than before. Come to my tomb. Before to speak to...