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Download Newsletter Issue 33 Padre Pio and His Friends from Long Island, New York We recently visited the Reali family at their home in Long Island, New York. Their story of Padre Pio and his intercession in their lives was truly inspiring. Antoinette (Toni) Masone Reali was born in the small farming town of Pietrelcina…

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(opens in new tab) “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…

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…

“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   Padre Pio’s Way…

Download Newsletter Issue 24(opens in new tab) “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…