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Download Newsletter Issue 32 The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio – Part III A note from the editors: We recently visited Msgr. John Esseff where he resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He shared with us his story of meeting Padre Pio in 1959. Fr. John Esseff, while on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1959, decided to make…

Download Newsletter Issue 31 “I felt that Padre Pio had a direct line to heaven.”– Father Leo Fanning The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio – Part II A note from the editors: We met Father Leo Fanning almost accidentally. We were in Northern New Jersey and had stopped for morning Mass on our way to New…

Download Newsletter Issue 30 Blessed Padre Pio, who on the altar elevated a never-ending prayer to Our Lord and gathered much spiritual fruit for himself and others, must be an example of holiness to everyone, because all men are called to sanctity. – Cardinal Francis Arinze The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio – Part I We…

Download Newsletter Issue 29 “Always be happily at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are in the service of an infinitely good Father, who comes down to His creatures out of sheer goodness, to raise and transform them in Him, their Creator.” – St. Pio of Pietrelcina Clara and Dan Steele Two Lives Blessed…

Download Newsletter Issue 28 “Father Pio is a giant of sanctity. We wish to thank our Father who is in Heaven for having given rise in the Holy Church of God to a man of great faith, of that unshakable faith that moves mountains and creates gigantic good works in this century of struggles, fratricidal…

Download Newsletter Issue 27 Memories of Padre Pio Joe Peluso was an American soldier who was stationed in Italy during World War II.  One day he received a letter from his mother and she told him that there was a holy priest named Padre Pio living in Italy. She did not know what part of…

Download Newsletter Issue 26 “With all my heart I bless the children, who are the specially chosen flowers of Jesus.” – St. Pio of Pietrelcina Testimony of Anna Maria D’Orazi Ten-year-old Anna Maria D’Orazi and her mother made a trip to San Giovanni Rotondo in order to attend Padre Pio’s Mass. They planned to stay…

Download Newsletter Issue 25 “Padre Pio’s whole life can best be described as a Way of the Cross. He was fully aware that he had been chosen by God to be a collaborator in Christ’s redempive work and that this collaboration would not be achieved unless he shouldered the cross with Jesus.” – Mary Ingoldsby…

Download Newsletter Issue 24 “I believe that Padre Pio received the grace and the burden not merely of renewing in a mystical manner the Sacrifice of the Cross but of living over again, in his heart and in his body, the tragedy of the Passion.” – Most Rev. Mgr. Giuseppe Petralia, Bishop of Agriegento (Sicily)…

“Around Padre Pio, the supernatural became fused with the natural. One could not distinguish where one ended and the other began.” – Padre Eusebio Notte The Extraordinary Perfume of Padre Pio Padre Clemente da Postiglione, Capuchin, lived in the same friary with Padre Pio for many years. He wrote: On October 3, 1923, the vigil…