Newsletter Archives
Below are links to some of the past issues of the Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry quarterly newsletter. Many have a PDF (Acrobat) file attached, containing the entire issue that can be printed out in newsletter format. Newsletters as well as the prayers of Padre Pio are no longer sent out through the mail.
Newsletters From 2019
Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 78
Padre Pio’s Hospital – The Home for the Relief of Suffering In July 1916, Father Paolino of Casacalenda, the superior of Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo,…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 74
Pray, Hope, and Dont Worry Issue 74 Download Newsletter Issue 74 Winter 2018 Padre Pio True Friend and Guide I consider what writers say about the kingfishers, little…
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Download Newsletter Issue 75 – Spring 2018 Padre Pio’s Love for the Blessed Virgin Mary One of the outstanding characteristics of Padre Pio’s profound spirituality was his deep and abiding…
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Padre Pio’s Holy Death For many, death is a sorrowful event. For Padre Pio, it was like a release from prison or a long awaited journey home. His life was…
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Padre Pio’s Love for the Blessed Virgin Mary – Part 2 May Jesus always be the pilot of the little boat of your spirit. May Mary be the star…
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Padre Pio’s Hospital – The Home for the Relief of Suffering – Part II (Continued from Issue 78) On one occasion, a very wealthy man sent a telegram to Our…
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Anecdotes from the Home for the Relief of Suffering Francesco Lotti was just a teenager when he met Padre Pio for the first time. After Francesco’s father had passed away,…
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Padre Pio: ”Saint and Mystic” Part IV Download Newsletter Issue 73 – Autumn 2017 We should foster a social consciousness which will help us to meet the needs of our…
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Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 72 – Summer 2017 Whenever things go wrong, the first casualty is always hope. It is fragile, like…
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Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 71 – Spring 2017 Padre Pio had a human aspect. He appears like others in the civilian registers.…
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Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic Download Newsletter Issue 70 – Winter 2017 Being holy means living exactly as our Father in heaven wants us to live. You will say…
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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 69
Padre Pio and his Friend from Pietrelcina, Italy – Brother Modestino Fucci Download Newsletter Issue 69 – Autumn 2016 Modestino Fucci was born in Pietrelcina, Italy on April 17, 1917.…
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Padre Pio and his Friend from Donegal, Ireland – John McCaffery – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 68 July – September 2016 On John McCaffery’s many visits to San Giovanni…
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Padre Pio and his Friend from Donegal, Ireland –John McCaffery Download Newsletter Issue 67 April 2016 John McCaffery was a man of many talents and accomplishments. In different periods of…
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Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 66 January – March 2016 Prayer was the key to Padre Pio’s existence and the guarantee of his…
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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 65
Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 65 October – December 2015 In the life of holiness, there are moments of profound obscurity when one…
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Padre Pio – A Friend Forever Download Newsletter Issue 64 July – September 2015 We are hard pressed on every side yet not crushed; we are perplexed but not in…
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Padre Pio: Director of Souls – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 63 April – June 2015 In this issue of our ‘Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry’ newsletter, we have…
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In Padre Pio’s presence, one felt that nothing on this earth was of any importance except one thing, to be in the grace of God. – Kathleen Thornton Padre Pio…
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Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 61
Padre Pio – Director of Souls Download Newsletter Issue 61 October – December 2014 Padre Pio, in his lifetime, reconciled innumerable souls back to God through the sacrament of confession.…
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Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 60 July – September 2014 Let us always strive more and more to love the Lord.…
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Download Newsletter Issue 59 April – June 2014 Padre Pio had a human aspect. He appears like others in the civilian registers. He is a fellow countryman and a contemporary…
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Father Denys Auvray Download Newsletter Issue 58 January – March 2014 Prayer was the key to Padre Pio’s existence and the guarantee of his mission. Prayer was his daily activity.…
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Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 57
Stories from the Early Years Download Newsletter Issue 57 October – December 2013 In July 1916, Father Paolino of Cascalenda, the superior of Our Lady of Grace monastery in San…
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Dreams of Padre Pio – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 56, July-September 2013 There was once a Capuchin Brother at Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo who…
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Download Newsletter Issue 55, April-June 2013 Dreams of Padre Pio – Part II Lina Fiorellini met Padre Pio in 1919. At that time, Lina was employed by the Pontremoli family.…
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Dreams of Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 54, January-March 2013 Never let us put aside the thought of our ultimate aim. And what is this ultimate aim? To know God,…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 53
Elide Bellomo Download Newsletter Issue 53, October-December 2012 Today we live in an activist society. We do many things, but we pray little. Padre Pio’s watchword was this: prayer and…
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Father William Lauriola Download Newsletter Issue 52, July-September 2012 I attended Padre Pio’s Mass shortly after my ordination to the priesthood. It was a great school. It was of more…
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Clarice Bruno Download Newsletter Issue 51, April-June 2012 Clarice Bruno, was born in Chicago, Illinois into a devout Italian Catholic family. She attended Catholic schools throughout her youth and graduated…
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Graces through Padre Pio’s Intercession Download Newsletter Issue 50 January-March 2012 Diana Graves was an actress by profession who lived and worked in London, England. She suffered from emphysema and…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 49
Padre Pio’s Love for the Angels Download Newsletter Issue 49, October-December 2011 The word angel is derived from the ancient Greek word aggelos which means messenger. The angels are God’s…
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Download Newsletter Issue 48, July-September 2011 Padre Pio’s Prophetic Spirit Giovanna Boschi, had attended Padre Pio’s Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo for more than forty years. She also felt…
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Anecdotes of Padre Pio – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 47, April-June 2011 You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so…
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Anecdotes of Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 46, January-March 2011 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord . . . I rise before dawn and cry for…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 45
Download Newsletter Issue 45, October-December 2010 I am ready for everything, as long as Jesus is content to save the souls of my brothers, especially those he has entrusted to…
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Download Newsletter Issue 44, July-September 2010 I feel all your troubles, as if they were my own. – St. Pio of Pietrelcina A Testimony by Fr. Louis Solcia, CRSP…
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A Hymn to Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 43, April-June 2010 We recently heard that a man named Alex Quinn from Northern Ireland had received a very special grace…
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Padre Pio: A Remarkable Intercessor Download Newsletter Issue 42, January-March 2010 In Heaven, everything will be spring as far as beauty is concerned, autumn as far as enjoyment is concerned,…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 41
Sister Pia of Jesus Crucified Download Newsletter Issue 41, October-December 2009 Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that, here on earth, we are on a battlefield, and…
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Download Newsletter Issue 40, July-September 2009 Charity is the measure by which Our Lord judges all things. – St. Pio of Pietrelcina An Interview with Mario Bruschi In the summer…
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The Testimony of Gene Ricci Download Newsletter Issue 39, April-June 2009 Be cheerful and tranquilly rest in the arms of Jesus and mitigate your fears with the greatest confidence in…
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Download Newsletter Issue 38 The Testimony of Umberto (Bert) Longo Editor’s note: Initially, Bert Longo wrote to us at Padre Pio Devotions and shared a few facts of his…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 37
Download Newsletter Issue 37 Padre Pio – The Matchmaker We visited Ortrud and Dr. Germain Bianchi at their home in Somers, Connecticut and they spoke to us about their memories…
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Download Newsletter Issue 36, July-September 2008 I am ready for anything as long as Jesus is happy and will save the souls of my brothers, especially those he has entrusted…
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Download Newsletter Issue 35, April-June 2008 We recently spoke to Fr. James DeVita, SDB of Florida and he shared his story of Padre Pio with us. Father James DeVita,…
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Download Newsletter Issue 34, January-March 2008 “Be of good cheer; abandon yourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and let Him take care of everything.” – St. Pio of Pietrelcina…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 33
Download Newsletter Issue 33, October-December 2007 Padre Pio and His Friends from Long Island, New York We recently visited the Reali family at their home in Long Island, New York.…
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Download Newsletter Issue 32, July-September 2007 The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio – Part III A note from the editors: We recently visited Msgr. John Esseff where he resides in Scranton,…
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Download Newsletter Issue 31, April-June 2007 “I felt that Padre Pio had a direct line to heaven.” – Father Leo Fanning The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio – Part II A…
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Download Newsletter Issue 30, January-March 2007 Blessed Padre Pio, who on the altar elevated a never-ending prayer to Our Lord and gathered much spiritual fruit for himself and others, must…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 29
Download Newsletter Issue 29, October-December 2006 “Always be happily at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are in the service of an infinitely good Father, who comes down to…
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Download Newsletter Issue 28, July-September 2006 “Father Pio is a giant of sanctity. We wish to thank our Father who is in Heaven for having given rise in the Holy…
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“Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that…
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“With all my heart I bless the children, who are the specially chosen flowers of Jesus.” – St. Pio of Pietrelcina Testimony of Anna Maria D’Orazi Ten-year-old Anna Maria…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 25
Download Newsletter Issue 25, October-December 2005 “Padre Pio’s whole life can best be described as a Way of the Cross. He was fully aware that he had been chosen by…
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Download Newsletter Issue 24, July-September 2005 “I believe that Padre Pio received the grace and the burden not merely of renewing in a mystical manner the Sacrifice of the Cross…
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“Around Padre Pio, the supernatural became fused with the natural. One could not distinguish where one ended and the other began.” – Padre Eusebio Notte The Extraordinary Perfume of Padre…
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“I think people remember this great man, Padre Pio because he was a great saint. He lived the life of a saint. What he did during his life touches…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 21
Download Newsletter Issue 21, July-September 2004 Padre Pio imitated Jesus as the Crucified One out of love of what Our Divine Savior underwent for the sins of men. But Padre…
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Download Newsletter Issue 20, July-September 2004 I love my spiritual children as much as my own soul and even more. I have regenerated them through prayer and suffering. – St.…
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Download Newsletter Issue 19, April-June 2004 Brothers and sisters, we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were pleading through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled…
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Download Newsletter Issue 18, January-March 2004 “By his life given wholly to prayer and to listening to his brothers and sisters, Padre Pio, this humble Capuchin friar, astonished the world.”…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 17
“The war is a solemn moment for us all, but if we know how to live this moment with the pain and suffering that it necessarily brings, it will…
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Download Newsletter Issue 16, July-September 2003 Therefore, since we are surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every encumbrance. . .and let us run with endurance…
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Download Newsletter Issue 15, April-June 2003 “What fame he had. How many followers from around the world. Why? Was it because he was a philosopher, a scholar, or because he…
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Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Your decrees are my delight, they are my counselors. You are near, O Lord, and…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 13
Download Newsletter Issue 13, October-December 2002 I do not count my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry…
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Download Newsletter Issue 11, April-June 2002 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 8
Download Newsletter Issue 8, July 2001 Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation over the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad of it…
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An Encounter with Padre Pio as told by Alfredo Lapertina The year was 1950. I had always heard talk about the friar with the stigmata and I wanted to go…
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Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 5
PADRE PIO AND THE THIRD COMMANDMENT “Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day.” Exodus 20:8 We should often reflect on the third commandment and the significance it held in…
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I turned every way, but there was no one to help me.I looked for one to sustain me, but could find no one.But then I remembered the mercies…
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