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Padre Pio – Saint and Mystic – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 72 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 saves our hope;…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 66 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…

Padre Pio – A Friend Forever – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 65 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 the monastery of…

Padre Pio – A Friend Forever Download Newsletter Issue 64 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 II as an airman…

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…