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PROFILE
OF BRUNELLA PAVONE
The gift of grace
is a treasure that God has entrusted and that he wants to see it
increase and bear fruit.
Jesus chose us to
be no ornamental but fruitful plants.
When it happens
that we meet him, Jesus do not let us live idle, but he heals and
shape us; on our part we cannot but love him and to love Jesus means
to love all our brothers and sisters especially those less
fortunate, the small ones, those persecuted, the sick, the weak.
Jesus loves with a ceaseless love.
As wife and mother
of two nice children, an architect, I wanted give my life a precise
sense, a profound containt, a spiritual dimension that as Franciscan
I trusted in God’s hands.
In humility I am
listening his word that enters my heart. Jesus works for us and
whatever seems incomprehensible and difficult, it becomes easy and
clear.
It enables us to
detach from false idols as success, power, disordered affections,
prejudices.
On my part, I can
testify that I found so much serenity in praying, so much peace and
joy. St Augustine says "Lord you have created us for you and
our heart is restless until it is not resting in you. By following
the teaching and the example of Padre Pio, I tried to get rid myself
of so many vanities, and many useless things that were an obstacle
on my way to and my advancement toward God.
I treasured the
teaching of the Blessed Padre to Graziella Pannullo spiritual
daughter: ‘Let us detach ourselves from this false apparatus of
the world where everything is a folly and vanity, everything goes by
and God only remains in our soul if we have known how to love him.
Jesus is sweetness.
St Bernardine used to say that if Jesus is preached to the world he
nourishes it, if meditated by the soul he heals it, if invoked in
the adversity, he cures it. For me it is important to pray and to
serve Jesus. I understood that my love could not be confined to the
pleasures of the family life, but it should be spread to others also.
I felt myself like the bud of a plant that wants to receive light
and to give light: in fact Jesus told, ‘Who follows me does not
walk in the dark.’ Every Christian must repeat with St. Paul: ‘I
forget the past and looking ahead to the future, I run toward the
end without no turning around and back.
Jesus calls everybody to pray. But many do not have the time for praying God.
Others affirm that it is not necessary to pray. These people do not
seem understand that the prayer is like the vital lymph and a
testimony of love.
Seven years ago,
with this in mind, I started a group of prayer that became soon big.
The participants recite the Rosary, twice a week, attend the Holy
Hour of Adoration the 23 of each month. In this
gathering of love our souls are enriched spiritually, a substitution
of the worldly worries, the spirit is moved to search eternal values,
the heart is at peace and the future appears like a vision rich of
harmony and contentment.
Father Pio saw
himself as ‘a poor friar of prayer’ and I am grateful to him
because , through the prayer, he makes me understand that Jesus is
sweetness, mercy, forgiveness, serenity, joy. I am been stricken by
his paternal and maternal guidance and his unspeakable sweetness. He,
the loving father, is my teacher of life, the companion of my
journey, the confident to who I trust whatever I have to choose.
He knows that my
life is an unconditioned choice and he may count on me for anything.
I have answered to
his invitation like Zaccheus to the divine Teacher’s: ‘Come down
quickly’. Like Zaccheus who rushed to the Jesus call, moved by the
joy of the invitation of Jesus and welcoming him in his house. My
story is something similar. Only few years ago I had no experience
whatsoever in the field of music, as I have now, and I see this a
great gift of Padre Pio. One day while I was absorbed in prayer to
Padre Pio, all at once I had the inspiration to compose singing
texts and melodies that a music teacher later translated into
musical script and became the songs that now I am performing
publicly: hymns of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. I have no
presumption of becoming a singer of hit parade and I am sure that I
do not expect neither success nor money. The only my desire is to
communicate my joy and my happiness. Believe me: Happiness is Jesus.
Brunella Pavone.
Responsible person of the Prayer Group ‘Padre Pio’ del Santo
Rosario
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On
my way to S. Giovanni Rotondo
