Padre Pio and Modesty

St. Padre Pio insisted on..............

Modesty
Padre Pio on Women's Dress

from Prophet of the People,

by Dorothy M. Gaudiose, pp. 191-2



Padre Pio wouldn't tolerate low-necked dresses or short, tight skirts, and he forbade his spiritual daughters to wear transparent stockings. Each year his severity increased. He stubbornly dismissed them from his confessional, even before they set foot inside, if he judged them to be improperly dressed. On some mornings he drove away one after another, until he ended up hearing very few confessions. His brothers observed these drastic purges with a certain uneasiness and decided to fasten a sign on the church door;



"By Padre Pio's explicit wish, women must enter the confessional wearing skirts

AT LEAST 8 INCHES BELOW THE KNEE. IT IS FORBIDDEN TO BORROW LONGER DRESSES IN CHURCH AND TO WEAR THEM TO CONFESSION."
.St. Padre Pio must have had a keen awareness of the dangers of immodesty for our immortal souls, and the dangers of temptation for our neighbor. "May the fashions of the world not be the model for our attire, but rather the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints. The Canonization of Padre Pio gives us the opportunity to recall the severity of the Saint of San Giovanni Rotondo who put this poster on the door of his church:" *


"Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother

and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul."



~ Saint Padre Pio