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“Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry” – Issue 63
Padre Pio: Director of Souls – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 63 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 in Rome (name withheld) who…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 62
Download Newsletter Issue 62(opens in new tab) 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 Padre Pio’s fame as a confessor drew immense crowds to the monastery of…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 61
Padre Pio – Director of Souls Download Newsletter Issue 61 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 confession to him. In…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 60
Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 60(opens in new tab) 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 limit…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 59
Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts Download Newsletter Issue 59(opens in new tab) Bilocation is the phenomenon in which a person is in one place at a given moment and is in another place at the same time. Although bilocation is indeed rare, instances of it in the lives of the saints are…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 58
Father Denys Auvray Download Newsletter Issue 58 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 own and which drew upon him the attention of…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 57
Stories from the Early Years Download Newsletter Issue 57 In July 1916, Father Paolino of Cascalenda, the superior of Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo, traveled to the Capuchin monastery of St. Anne in Foggia in order to preach for the feast of St. Anne. Padre Pio lived at St. Anne’s…
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I desire to love you, O my God, with a love that is patient, with a love that abandons itself wholly to you, with a love that acts, and most important of all, with a love that perseveres. Just as one who loves a creature thinks of him often, so let the lover of God…
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Today is the Feast Day of St. Pio of Pietrelcina O Lord, we ask for boundless confidence and trust in your Divine Mercy, and the courage to accept the crosses and sufferings which bring immense goodness to our souls and that of your Church. Help us to love you with a pure and contrite heart,…
Read MoreToday’s Reflection September 5
Lord, don’t give me riches, don’t give me a long or a short life, don’t give me powers on earth that make one drunk with power, don’t give me the madness of idolatry of the false idols of this world. Cleanse me, Lord. Cleanse my intentions and give me the true wisdom of discernment, so…
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