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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 67
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 his life he had worked as a writer, a university professor, a journalist, and a business man. In Donegal, Ireland, he tried his hand at…
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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 mission. Prayer was his daily activity. He also dedicated many hours of the night to prayer. It was the task which he felt was particularly…
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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 must be buried like the seed that falls to the ground to die. . .When many years ago, a poor sick friar, Padre Pio, came…
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To be a child of love, is to sacrifice oneself to the love of God for the conversion of sinners . . . If we had to pray hundreds of years in order to have a man brought back to the love of God, we would have reason enough to rejoice on account of it…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 64
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 despair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed. – 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ______________________________ Canadian-born Desmond Montague served the Allied cause during World War…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 63
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 included a number of impressive testimonies regarding Padre Pio’s gifts and abilities as a spiritual director par excellence. There was once a man who lived…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 62
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 – Director of Souls – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 62 January – March 2015 Padre Pio’s fame as a confessor drew immense crowds to…
Read MorePray, 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. He was always in great demand as a confessor. People were willing to wait many days and brave any inconvenience in order to make their…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 60
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. This great truth of loving God must not seem hard to us; on the contrary, we must consider ourselves honored, because the Lord God didn’t…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 59
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 of our own, born into a certain family, into a certain society, which gives him an identity card like any other citizen. But on the…
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