“The fine line between proper devotion and fanaticism is not difficult to cross.” Vittorio Messori, Foreword to Francesco Castelli, Padre Pio Under Investigation, [Italy, 2008], 2011, xxi. Still, approach that line.
“We priests are the butchers of Jesus during the Mass, while all of Paradise descends on the altar.” Padre Pio, in Fr. Tarcisio of Cervinara, Padre Pio’s Mass, 45.