In his fifty years in this ancient Capuchin Monastery, always in prayer, bearing great suffering in body as well as in mind, he learned to value and use whatever God gave him. He taught people how to bear their suffering and convert it to grace. We can spiritualize all our suffering. Inspired by the spirit to use our suffering spirituality becomes an experience of grace and God's work becomes our own. This he did by designing ways of healing the body and teaching Christian acceptance of pain and using it as prayer.
Spirituality is the result of something.
It is the result of God's love in action. And Padre Pio knew how to activate God's love.