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Today on this 800th anniversary year of St. Francis' death, I thought it would be important to look at St. Francis and see how Padre Pio perhaps became his best imitator, and both of them the best imitators of Jesus Christ, because that's what our life is about.

We need to imitate Christ Jesus in our lives.

That's the call we have through our baptism.

We are called to be all saints, imitators of Christ, especially as we understand the mystery of human suffering in the world, which always confronts all of us and confounds us many times.