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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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…