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Anecdotes from the Home for the Relief of Suffering Francesco Lotti was just a teenager when he met Padre Pio for the first time. After Francesco’s father had passed away,…

Padre Pio’s Hospital – The Home for the Relief of Suffering – Part II (Continued from Issue 78) On one occasion, a very wealthy man sent a telegram to Our…

Padre Pio’s Hospital – The Home for the Relief of Suffering In July 1916, Father Paolino of Casacalenda, the superior of Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo,…

Padre Pio’s Holy Death For many, death is a sorrowful event. For Padre Pio, it was like a release from prison or a long awaited journey home. His life was…

  Padre Pio’s Love for the Blessed Virgin Mary – Part 2 May Jesus always be the pilot of the little boat of your spirit. May Mary be the star…

Download Newsletter Issue 75 – Spring 2018 Padre Pio’s Love for the Blessed Virgin Mary One of the outstanding characteristics of Padre Pio’s profound spirituality was his deep and abiding…

Padre Pio: ”Saint and Mystic” Part IV Download Newsletter Issue 73 We should foster a social consciousness which will help us to meet the needs of our neighbors, and to…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Download Newsletter Issue 62 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. –…

Padre Pio – Director of Souls Download Newsletter Issue 61 Padre Pio, in his lifetime, reconciled innumerable souls back to God through the sacrament of confession. He was always in…

Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 60 Let us always strive more and more to love the Lord. This great truth of…

Padre Pio – A Priest of Extraordinary Gifts Download Newsletter Issue 59 Bilocation is the phenomenon in which a person is in one place at a given moment and is…

Father Denys Auvray Download Newsletter Issue 58 Prayer was the key to Padre Pio’s existence and the guarantee of his mission. Prayer was his daily activity. He also dedicated many…

Stories from the Early Years   Download Newsletter Issue 57 In July 1916, Father Paolino of Cascalenda, the superior of Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo, traveled…

Dreams of Padre Pio – Part III Download Newsletter Issue 56 There was once a Capuchin Brother at Our Lady of Grace monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo who was assigned…

Download Newsletter Issue 55 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…

Dreams of Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 54 Never let us put aside the thought of our ultimate aim. And what is this ultimate aim? To know God, principally, is…

Elide Bellomo Download Newsletter Issue 53 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…

Father William Lauriola Download Newsletter Issue 52 I attended Padre Pio’s Mass shortly after my ordination to the priesthood. It was a great school. It was of more benefit to…

Clarice Bruno Download Newsletter Issue 51 Clarice Bruno, was born in Chicago, Illinois into a devout Italian Catholic family. She attended Catholic schools throughout her youth and graduated from the…

Graces through Padre Pio’s Intercession Download Newsletter Issue 50 Diana Graves was an actress by profession who lived and worked in London, England. She suffered from emphysema and bronchiectasis. Both…

Padre Pio’s Love for the Angels Download Newsletter Issue 49 The word angel is derived from the ancient Greek word aggelos which means messenger. The angels are God’s instruments or…

Download Newsletter Issue 48 Padre Pio’s Prophetic Spirit Giovanna Boschi, had attended Padre Pio’s Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo for more than forty years. She also felt blessed that in…

Anecdotes of Padre Pio – Part II Download Newsletter Issue 47 You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your…

Anecdotes of Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 46 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord . . . I rise before dawn and cry for help; I…

Download Newsletter Issue 45 Stories from the War Years Teseo Isani was a military officer who was stationed in Verona, Italy during World War II. During that time, a friend…

Download Newsletter Issue 44   I feel all your troubles, as if they were my own. – St. Pio of Pietrelcina A Testimony by Fr. Louis Solcia, CRSP Fr. Louis…

A Hymn to Padre Pio Download Newsletter Issue 43 We recently heard that a man named Alex Quinn from Northern Ireland had received a very special grace through the intercession…

Padre Pio: A Remarkable Intercessor Download Newsletter Issue 42 In Heaven, everything will be spring as far as beauty is concerned, autumn as far as enjoyment is concerned, summer as…

Sister Pia of Jesus Crucified Download Newsletter Issue 41 Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that, here on earth, we are on a battlefield, and that in…

Download Newsletter Issue 40 Charity is the measure by which Our Lord judges all things. – St. Pio of Pietrelcina An Interview with Mario Bruschi In the summer of 1957,…

Download Newsletter Issue 38 The Testimony of Umberto (Bert) Longo Bert Longo contacted us a Padre Pio Devotions sharing his memories of Padre Pio with us. We were able to…

Download Newsletter Issue 37 Padre Pio – The Matchmaker We visited Ortrud and Dr. Germain Bianchi at their home in Somers, Connecticut and they spoke to us about their memories…

Download Newsletter Issue 36 I am ready for anything as long as Jesus is happy and will save the souls of my brothers, especially those he has entrusted to my…

Download Newsletter Issue 35 Father James DeVita, SDB We recently spoke to Fr. James DeVita, SDB of Florida and he shared his story of Padre Pio with us. Father James…

Download Newsletter Issue 34 “Be of good cheer; abandon yourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and let Him take care of everything.” – St. Pio of Pietrelcina A Soldier’s…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

Download Newsletter Issue 22 Padre Pio – The War Years “I think people remember this great man, Padre Pio because he was a great saint. He lived the life of a…

Download Newsletter Issue 21 Padre Pio imitated Jesus as the Crucified One out of love of what Our Divine Savior underwent for the sins of men. But Padre Pio also…

Download Newsletter Issue 20 Padre Pio and His Friends from Southern California A note from the editors: We interviewed each of the three  individuals whose testimonials appear in this issue…

Download Newsletter Issue 18, January-March 2004 “By his life given wholly to prayer and to listening to his brothers and sisters, Padre Pio, this humble Capuchin friar, astonished the world.”…

Padre Pio and World War II Padre Pio’s gift of prophecy reached to individuals, nations and the world. Carmelo Durante experienced it first hand as the following story shows: “During…

Download Newsletter Issue 16 Therefore, since we are surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every encumbrance. . .and let us run with endurance the race…

Download Newsletter Issue 15 “What fame he had. How many followers from around the world. Why? Was it because he was a philosopher, a scholar, or because he had means…

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Your decrees are my delight, they are my counselors. You are near, O Lord, and…

Download Newsletter Issue 13, October-December 2002 I do not count my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry…

Download Newsletter Issue 11 THE HEALING OF GEMMA DI GIORGI Among the many miracles of healing attributed to Padre Pio, some are so unusual and unique that they have been…

Download Newsletter Issue 8 Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation over the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad of it and rejoice…

An Encounter with Padre Pio as told by Alfredo Lapertina The year was 1950. I had always heard talk about the friar with the stigmata and I wanted to go…

PADRE PIO AND THE THIRD COMMANDMENT “Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day.” We should often reflect on the third commandment and the significance it held in the life of…

I turned every way, but there was no one to help me.I looked for one to sustain me, but could find no one.But then I remembered the mercies of the…