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Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 60
Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 60 July – September 2014 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…
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Download Newsletter Issue 59 April – June 2014 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 other citizen. But on the…
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Father Denys Auvray Download Newsletter Issue 58 January – March 2014 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…
Read MorePray, Hope, and Don’t Worry – Issue 57
Stories from the Early Years Download Newsletter Issue 57 October – December 2013 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…
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Dreams of Padre Pio – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 56, July-September 2013 There was once a Capuchin Brother at Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo who was assigned to help Padre Pio with many of his daily tasks. The Brother had a great devotion to Padre Pio and performed his work…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 53
Elide Bellomo Download Newsletter Issue 53, October-December 2012 Today we live in an activist society. We do many things, but we pray little. Padre Pio’s watchword was this: prayer and suffering. On these two foundations, Padre Pio built everything. And not only did he build materially, as in the Home for the Relief of Suffering,…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 55
Download Newsletter Issue 55, April-June 2013 Dreams of Padre Pio – Part II Lina Fiorellini met Padre Pio in 1919. At that time, Lina was employed by the Pontremoli family. Lina thought very highly of the family and felt blessed that she could work for them. She spoke to Padre Pio and asked him to…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 54
Dreams of Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 54, January-March 2013 Never let us put aside the thought of our ultimate aim. And what is this ultimate aim? To know God, principally, is why he conceived our days, our years. Therefore, let us try never to forget this ultimate aim, for everything depends on it. And…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 52
Father William Lauriola Download Newsletter Issue 52, July-September 2012 I attended Padre Pio’s Mass shortly after my ordination to the priesthood. It was a great school. It was of more benefit to me than all that I had studied in my years of theology. – Father Luigi Pasani From the editors: We visited Father William…
Read MorePray, Hope and Don’t Worry – Issue 51
Clarice Bruno Download Newsletter Issue 51, April-June 2012 Clarice Bruno, was born in Chicago, Illinois into a devout Italian Catholic family. She attended Catholic schools throughout her youth and graduated from the fine Catholic institution, Rosemont College, in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Clarice, for the most part, took her Catholic faith for granted. She doubted many of…
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