St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
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St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is an inspiration and a wonderful intercessor. His life is truly remarkable.
EWTN has a wonderful website on the life of St. Pio
Prayer to obtain the Glorification
of St. Pio
O Jesus, full of grace and charity, victim for sinners, so impelled by love for us that you willed to die on the cross, I humbly beseech you to glorify in heaven and on earth the Servant of God, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who generously participated in your sufferings, who loved you so much and labored so faithfully for the glory of your heavenly Father and for the good of souls.With confidence I beseech you to grant me, through his intercession, the grace of ......... which I ardently desire. Imprimatur - Glory be to the Father.....(three times).
Personal Meditation
Our Admission to Heaven is by the Sign of the Cross
Dear Lord, my Father
Let me dwell on the amazing truth that you love me. Let me ponder on this overwhelming revelation. Let me understand that because you love me as a Father loves a child, you constantly invite me to share the joy of your eternal kingdom.
May I always hear your call, Father; and let me accept the fact that my brief span of life on this earth is your gift of freedom. It is a time to choose the ultimate destiny of my soul, that invisible jewel linked in your glorious chain of eternity.
How carelessly I treat your divine gift of life. How seldom do I invite you to enter my soul to let it warm itself in the bright light of your love. Instead, I leave it to agonize under a dark mantle of indifference.
It has been thus, Father, throughout the ages. And because your children turned a deaf ear to your call, because we thought your commands were inhuman, you sent us your most precious gift of all, your only son, Jesus. He came to show us that your laws were not those of a tyrannical Father, but guidelines that culminate in but a single request: To Love. To love you, Father, and to love all of humanity because all of us share the right to your divine legacy.
And Jesus came and dwelt among us. And because he desired our souls as a gift offering to you, Father, he gave his life for the love of us.
Jesus could have died in a thousand different ways. But he chose to be nailed to a wooden cross; He chose a cross as a symbol for our eternal salvation: The cross to identify the children of God; the cross to brandish as a token of love and a shield to overcome all evil.
Lord, throughout the centuries, you have tried to waken us from our indolent state by showing us that the Cross is the sign of our redemption, and that is only through the crucified Jesus that we can enter your kingdom. You have shown it in visions to warriors and saints, to emperor as well to the hermit. And most of all, you have shown it in the wounds visibly imprinted as living stigmatas on many of your sons and daughters. Among the bearers you chose Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Theresa of Avila, and in our own time, a humble Capuchin, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
Through these saintly messengers you are telling us, Father, to take the holy cross and make it the real symbol of our alliance with Christ. For it is true that the cross has disappeared or has been replaced by banners and flags and other artifacts that are perhaps pleasing to the eye but not to the soul. And when the cross is absent, the forces of evil take over and reign in your stead.
You are reminding us once again through Padre Pio to take the cross and return it to its rightful place as the Blazon of Christianity.
Let it be so, Father. Let me wear the Cross as a follower of your Son, Jesus Christ. Let it remind me of your constant love and become the divine symbol of my redemption, indelibly marking me with the sign of charity, joy and peace, so that I may be counted among your children for all eternity.
-Padre Pio Foundation of America
Effacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(This novena prover was recited every day by St. Pio for all those who asked his prayers. The faithful are invited to recite it daily, so as to be spiritually united with the prayer of St. Pio)
I. "...Knock and it will be open to you"
I, O, my Jesus, you have said, "Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I know, I seek and ask for the grace of...
Our Father....Hail Mary...Glory Be to the Father...Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
II. O my Jesus, you have said, truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, He will give it to you." Behold in your name I ask the Father for the grace of...
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father, Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
III. O My Jesus, you have said, Truly I Say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away. Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of...
Our Father...Hail Mary...Glory be to the Father, Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all of my trust in you.
O Sacred Heart of Heart of Jesus for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity of us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen, and add St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.
(Information provided by Padre Pio Foundation of America)
St. Pio's Prayer After Holy Communion
Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.
Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.
Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and always be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.
Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!
Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You.
Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.
Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.
Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.
With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.
The Maker of Our Inside
What are these continual laments of your soul, those holy and most delicate desires which frequently seem to make you faint? I mean to say, those desires to belong entirely to Jesus, to please him in everything? What is that continual desire to see God's kingdom extended, that ceaseless longing to be set free from the bonds of this body in order to fly away to the bosom of the heavenly Father and be transformed into Him?
Tell me, are not all the impulses perhaps the effects of that charity which Jesus has poured into your heart and which constitutes the happiness of the regions of the blessed? Is it perhaps, within the power of wretched mortals like us to formulate similar desires? Certainly not. The human spirit without the flame of divine love tends to reach the level of the beast, while on the other hand, charity, the love of God, raises it up so high that it can reach even to the throne of God.
Give thanks without ever growing weary for the liberality of such a good Father and ask him to increase holy charity more and more in your heart.
-St. Pio of Pietrelcina
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