40 years after his death, PADRE PIO looks like this
Padre Pio, a humble Capuchin priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy , was blessed by
God in many wonderful and mysterious ways. The most dramatic was the stigmata.
Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years! Among his other gifts were perfume, bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of souls, and miraculous cures. People are still being cured through his intercession in ways that cannot be explained by medicine or science. More important, if less spectacular, are the spiritual healings that take place in all parts of the world! Padre Pio is a powerful intercessor!!
Padre Pio’s incorrupt body!
To see him resting so peacefully it’s hard to believe that he died 40 years ago!
A Prayer to 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 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Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us bring back the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.’
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