“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 71

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. 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…

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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. The people of Pietrelcina were proud that their town was the birthplace of its most famous citizen, Padre Pio (Francesco Forgione). Modestino’s mother, Anna Fucci,…

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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 68

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 Rotondo, he met a number of people who were very close friends of Padre Pio. One was Dr. Guglielmo Sanguinetti. Dr. Sanguinetti was one of…

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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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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 66

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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“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 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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Today’s Reflection Sept. 9

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…

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“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…

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