«Father, I would like to do something for the sick…» «Why do you want to do this?» «So that so much suffering won’t go to waste», I answered without ever having thought it before. «Do you know what to expect?» He asked me staring at me, as if he was almost examining my true intentions…
After coming out of his cell, I met an acquaintance in the square who, without me having mentioned to him at all about the encounter I had a few minutes beforehand, said to me: «You know, last year, at the end of my Confession, Padre Pio said to me: Do something for the sick, don’t let so much suffering go to waste! »