Beloved Padre Pio, today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you in Jesus' name. They ask for cures and healings, earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace for body and mind. And because of your friendship with the Lord, he heals those you ask to be healed, and forgives those you ask be forgiven in Jesus' name..
Through your visible wounds of the Crucified Jesus, which you bore for 50 years, you were chosen in our time to glorify the crucified Jesus. Because the Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us bring back the veneration of the wounds of Jesus Christ, for we acknowledge His Precious Blood as true a sign of salvation, cleansing and purifcation.
As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and side, like beloved Jesus Christ, we not only remember the blood He shed as you also shed in pain, along with your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, certainly the Scent of The Lord, symbolic as the perfume of sanctity.
Padre Pio, may the healings of the sick become the testimony that the Lord has invited you to join the holy company of Saints. In your kindness, please help me with my own special request: (mention here your petition, and make the sign of the Cross).
Bless me and my loved ones.. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
In Memoriam J.S.
The following quotes of Padre Pio tell how he looked after and loved his spiritual family:
'I love my Spiritual Children as much as my own soul and even more.' 'Once I take a soul on, I also take on their entire family as my spiritual children.'
'To my Spiritual Children, my prayers for you will never be lacking.' 'If one of my spiritual children ever goes astray, I shall leave my flock and seek him out.'
Special St Pio Stories
Written by Kevin Lee
Saturday, 19 September 2009 03:28
Once again God's Providential timing.... a friend of mine... Noreen...for the last two years had been telling me about her nephew Michael's daughter Carson's healing through St. Pio at John Hopkins Hospital....
if you want to spend a few beautiful minutes with our beloved Pio:
Last Updated on Saturday, 19 September 2009 03:35
Padre Pio lying in State
Written by Kevin Lee
Saturday, 19 September 2009 02:39
Padre Pio lying incorrupt in a glass tomb after being exhumed 40 years after his death on 23 September 1968. We had the honour of visiting his tomb in October 2008.
Padre Pio Biography
Written by Kevin Lee
Sunday, 09 August 2009 06:30
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN MYSTIC AND STIGMATIC
Feast: September 23
Feast Day: September 23
Born: May 25, 1887, Pietrelcina, Italy
Died: September 23, 1968, San Giovanni Rotondo
Canonized: June 16, 2002, Rome, Italy by Pope John Paul II
Major Shrine: San Giovanni Rotondo
Like the Apostle Paul, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina placed at the centre of his life and apostolic work the Cross of his Lord as his strength, his wisdom and his glory. Inflamed by love of Jesus Christ, he became like him in the sacrifice of himself for the salvation of the world. In his following and imitation of the crucified Christ he was so generous and perfect that he could have said: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20). And the treasures of grace which God had granted him so lavishly he unceasingly passed on through his ministry, serving the men and women who came to him in ever greater numbers, and bringing to birth an immense host of spiritual sons and daughters.
Many people believe St. Pio was the greatest man of the 20th century. On September 23rd 1968, a few weeks before Richard Nixon would be elected president of the United States, while the world was listening to the latest Beatles album, a man died in a small town in eastern Italy.
He was born poor; he died poor. Many people mourned. Not just in Italy, but around the world. He was a man loved by God. He was a man who was given many supernatural gifts.
This 81 year old man, was a priest. The only priest in the nearly 2000 year history of the Catholic Church to bear the stigmata - physical wounds like those suffered by Jesus Christ. He had those painful wounds for a full 50 years. He was also believed to be the instrument of many miracles over the course of his long ministry. The stories of his life are legendary: of his ability to read the souls of those who went to him for confession, so that he could recite their sins even before they opened their mouths. Of his gift of bilocation - the ability to be in two places at the same time. Of the healing's that took place after his prayers to God. Of the magnificent hospital he built with the money people sent to him. And, most important of all, of his love for God.
In May of 1987, on the 100th anniversary of St. Pio's birth, Pope John Paul II, said: "How lively was his sense of justice and mercy, his compassion for those who suffered, and how concretely he committed himself to helping them. I wish to thank the Lord with you for having given us dear Padre Pio, for having given him to our generation in this very tormented century. In his love for God and for his brethren, he is a sign of great hope."
On Sunday, June 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Padre Pio a saint: St. Pio of Pietrelcina.
Padre Pio
Padre Pio lying incorrupt in a glass tomb after being exhumed 40 years after his death on 23 September 1968. We had the honour of visiting his tomb in October 2008.
Feast Day:
Many people believe St. Pio was the greatest man of the 20th century. On September 23rd 1968, a few weeks before Richard Nixon would be elected president of the United States, while the world was listening to the latest Beatles album, a man died in a small town in eastern Italy. 
