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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 72
Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 72(opens in new tab) Whenever things go wrong, the first casualty is always hope. It is fragile, like rare cut glass. We can lose it so easily. St. Paul tells us that, for those who follow Christ, there is someone who protects and…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 71
Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 71 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…
Read MoreFr. Benedict Groeschel – The Stations of the Cross
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Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 70
Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic Download Newsletter Issue 70 Being holy means living exactly as our Father in heaven wants us to live. You will say that it is difficult. It is. The ideal is a very high one. And yet it is also easy. It is within our reach. When a person becomes…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 69
Padre Pio and his Friend from Pietrelcina, Italy – Brother Modestino Fucci Download Newsletter Issue 69 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, loved to share…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 68
Padre Pio and his Friend from Donegal, Ireland – John McCaffery – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 68 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 the major collaborators in…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 67
Padre Pio and his Friend from Donegal, Ireland –John McCaffery Download Newsletter Issue 67 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 farming,…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 66
Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 66(opens in new tab) 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 his…
Read More“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 65
Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 65(opens in new tab) 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 to…
Read MoreToday’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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