~ by Father Ron Camarda

I truly ask for Padre Pio’s intercession when I am at Mass alone in my home. He was exiled many times…and yet even though it was done without much love, it turned out to be his greatest gift and strength.

About Padre Pio

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!!

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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 healing, 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 Because the Cross has been
replaced by other symbols, please help us bring back the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 purification.

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 healing 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.

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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.’

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‘Once I take a soul on, I also take on their entire family as my spiritual children.’

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‘To my Spiritual Children, my prayers for you will never be lacking.’

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‘If one of my spiritual children ever goes astray, I shall leave my flock and seek him out.’

God Bless us all…St. Pio Pray for us,

Padre Pio’s incorrupt body! No deterioration, it is as though he is sleeping.
To see him resting so peacefully it’s hard to believe that he died 40 years ago!

Love, joy, peace,

Father Ron Moses+

www.tearinthedesert.com

Father Ron Camarda is a retired Naval Chaplain and author of “Tear in the Desert,” a powerful book containing his memoirs of life and death at the Battle for Fallujah. Father Ron appears on EWTN and recently won the Silver Medal from the Military Writers Society of America.