All These People : Padre Pio. SEPTEMBER 23, - ST. PIO (1887-1968) www.apostleshipofprayer.org Padre Pio is one of the greatest and best known saints of modern time. He was a Capuchin Franciscan whose …More
All These People : Padre Pio.
SEPTEMBER 23, - ST. PIO (1887-1968)
www.apostleshipofprayer.org
Padre Pio is one of the greatest and best known saints of modern time. He was a Capuchin Franciscan whose deep devotion to the sufferings of Jesus led to his receiving the mystical gift of the stigmata. May this good and holy man intercede with us now for the Holy Father’s intentions. Last June Pope Benedict visited his shrine and said the following:
Some Saints have lived Jesus' experience intensely and personally. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is one such. A simple man, of humble origin, whom "Christ made... his own" (Phil 3: 12) as the Apostle Paul wrote of himself to make him a chosen instrument of the eternal power of his Cross: a power of love for souls, of forgiveness and of reconciliation, of spiritual fatherhood, of effective solidarity with the suffering. The stigmata that marked his Body closely united him with the Crucified and Risen One. A genuine follower of St Francis of Assisi, like the Poverello he made St Paul's experience his own, as he described it in his Letters: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2: 20); or: "death is at work in us, but life in you" (2 Cor 4: 12). This does not mean alienation, the loss of one's personality: God never annihilates human beings but transforms them with his Spirit and orientates them to serving his plan of salvation. Padre Pio retained his own natural gifts and his own temperament, but he offered all things to God, who was able to make free use of them to extend Christ's work: to proclaim the Gospel, to forgive sins and to heal the sick in body and in mind.
Like Jesus, Padre Pio did not have to battle with earthly enemies, in radical combat, but rather with the spirit of evil (cf. Eph 6: 12). The greatest "storms" that threatened him were the assaults of the devil, from which he defended himself with "the armor of God", with "the shield of faith" and with the "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph 6: 11, 16, 17). By staying united with Jesus, he always focused on the depth of the human drama, and for this reason offered himself up as well as his many sufferings and could expend himself for the healing and relief of the sick, a privileged sign of God's mercy, of his Kingdom which comes, indeed, which is already in the world, of the victory of love and life over sin and death.
SEPTEMBER 23, - ST. PIO (1887-1968)
www.apostleshipofprayer.org
Padre Pio is one of the greatest and best known saints of modern time. He was a Capuchin Franciscan whose deep devotion to the sufferings of Jesus led to his receiving the mystical gift of the stigmata. May this good and holy man intercede with us now for the Holy Father’s intentions. Last June Pope Benedict visited his shrine and said the following:
Some Saints have lived Jesus' experience intensely and personally. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is one such. A simple man, of humble origin, whom "Christ made... his own" (Phil 3: 12) as the Apostle Paul wrote of himself to make him a chosen instrument of the eternal power of his Cross: a power of love for souls, of forgiveness and of reconciliation, of spiritual fatherhood, of effective solidarity with the suffering. The stigmata that marked his Body closely united him with the Crucified and Risen One. A genuine follower of St Francis of Assisi, like the Poverello he made St Paul's experience his own, as he described it in his Letters: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2: 20); or: "death is at work in us, but life in you" (2 Cor 4: 12). This does not mean alienation, the loss of one's personality: God never annihilates human beings but transforms them with his Spirit and orientates them to serving his plan of salvation. Padre Pio retained his own natural gifts and his own temperament, but he offered all things to God, who was able to make free use of them to extend Christ's work: to proclaim the Gospel, to forgive sins and to heal the sick in body and in mind.
Like Jesus, Padre Pio did not have to battle with earthly enemies, in radical combat, but rather with the spirit of evil (cf. Eph 6: 12). The greatest "storms" that threatened him were the assaults of the devil, from which he defended himself with "the armor of God", with "the shield of faith" and with the "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph 6: 11, 16, 17). By staying united with Jesus, he always focused on the depth of the human drama, and for this reason offered himself up as well as his many sufferings and could expend himself for the healing and relief of the sick, a privileged sign of God's mercy, of his Kingdom which comes, indeed, which is already in the world, of the victory of love and life over sin and death.
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A PRAYER TO SAINT PADRE PIO
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.
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 forgive.
Through your visible …More
A PRAYER TO SAINT PADRE PIO
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.
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 forgive.
Through your visible wounds of the Cross, 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 to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it is the only true sign of salvation.
As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, 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 your intention here, and then 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.