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Padre Pio Healing Prayer. In The Name of The Father,   and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me.   I thank you for sending your Son, Our  Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to  

Save and to set me free. I trust in your power and   grace that sustain and restore me. Loving Father, touch me now with your   healing hands, for I believe that your will is for  me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit.  

Cover me with the most precious blood of  your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ from the   top of my head to the soles of my feet. Cast anything that should not be in me.   Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and  

Rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection   by the power of Jesus’ precious blood. Let the fire of your healing love pass   through my entire body to heal and make new any  diseased areas so that my body will function the  

Way you created it to function. Touch also my mind and my emotion,   even the deepest recesses of my heart. Saturate my entire being with your presence,   love, joy, and peace, and draw me ever  closer to you every moment of my life.  

And Father, fill me with your Holy Spirit and  empower me to do your works so that my life will   bring glory and honor to your holy name. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus   Christ. Amen.  

In The Name of The Father, and of The  Son, and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.   Who was Padre Pio? Born May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina,   Italy, as Francesco Forgione, Padre Pio devoted  himself to God at a very young age. Diaries from  

Francesco’s spiritual director note that Francesco  began to experience ecstasies and apparitions as   early as age 4 or 5. Francesco, however, didn’t  realize that these were extraordinary experiences;   he kept many of them to himself, thinking  they were ordinary. Through more and more  

Visions and encounters with the healing  work of God, Francesco’s trust in Him only   continued to grow, though his early life  was certainly not without struggle.   Ultimately, Francesco became a Capuchin Friar  in January 1903 at the age of 16. At this  

Beginning point of his religious life, Francesco  Forgione became Brother Pio of Pietrelcina.   After entering the Capuchins, Pio progressively  became sick and ill. His stomach refused food,   and he was only able to drink minimal amounts  of water. He left the monastery and moved back  

Home at the recommendation of his doctors, but  his health was still poor. With little hope of   improvement of his health, Pio most desired  to be ordained. Though he was quite young for   ordination, the bishop ordained Pio on August 10,  1910. At 23, Brother Pio became Father Pio, or in  

Italian, Padre Pio, as we know him today. Drafted during World War I, Pio discovered he   had tuberculosis. Discharged from serving,  Pio eventually moved to a different Capuchin   Monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo in 1917, where  he grew his ministry and lived until his death on   September 23, 1968. The Stigmata.  

In 1918, Europe was ravaged by World War I and the  Spanish flu. It was a year of suffering for Pio,   his community, and Europe. Amidst this suffering  of the world, one day in September, Padre Pio   said Mass at San Giovanni Rotondo. Afterward, he  received a miraculous vision: he saw someone with  

Christ’s crucifixion wounds. After the vision,  Pio realized he was physically dripping with   blood – he had received the stigmata. Stigmata  are the five wounds of Christ replicated in the   human body. Around 400 people, including St.  Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena,  

Have claimed to have received the stigmata. Upon receiving the stigmata, Pio tried to keep   it a secret, though word spread about  his reception of Christ’s wounds. This   led to much interest and controversy. In addition to the miracle of the stigmata  

That he experienced, God worked through Padre Pio  to perform hundreds and hundreds of miracles on   others throughout his lifetime – curing people  of all kinds of sicknesses. Pio even founded a   hospital near San Giovanni Rotondo called “Casa  Sollieve della Sofferenza,” or the “Home for the  

Relief of Suffering” in 1956. The hospital  still operates today and houses up to 1,000   patients. He also was known for his spiritual  counseling to those seeking reconciliation.   Pio passed away in 1968, was beatified in  1999, and soon canonized in 2002 by Pope,  

Now Saint, John Paul II. On the day of Pio’s canonization, Pope   Saint John Paul II delivered a beautiful homily  on Pio’s life and his inspiration to us in our   own journey with God. In his description of Pio’s  inspiring humility and piety, Pope Saint John Paul  

II guides us to three ways to emulate the saint  and reasons for us to seek his intercession:   to bear the yoke of Christ, to be a person  of prayer, and to love others mercifully.   “The evangelical image of the “yoke” recalls  the many trials that the humble Capuchin of San  

Giovanni Rotondo had to face. Today we contemplate  in him how gentle the “yoke” of Christ is,   and how truly light is his burden when it is  borne with faithful love. The life and mission   of Padre Pio prove that difficulties and sorrows,  if accepted out of love, are transformed into a  

Privileged way of holiness, which opens onto  the horizons of a greater good, known only to   the Lord.” – Pope Saint John Paul II. Drawing from the Gospel of Matthew,   Pope Saint John Paul II shared with us that Pio  carried his many burdens – sickness, the stigmata,  

Questioning from the Church – with love  for Christ. He found a way to draw near   to Christ in his suffering. As human beings  ourselves, we know how challenging this is,   and Pope Saint John Paul II recognized this. He  encouraged us to consider how faith can help us  

Make easy our yoke and lighten our burdens, though  this takes tremendous courage – courage that we   see in meditating on the life of Padre Pio. “In fact, the ultimate reason for the apostolic   effectiveness of Padre Pio, the profound root  of so much spiritual fruitfulness can be found  

In that intimate and constant union with God,  attested to by his long hours spent in prayer and   in the confessional. He loved to repeat, “I am a  poor Franciscan who prays” convinced that “prayer  

Is the best weapon we have, a key that opens  the heart of God.” – Pope Saint John Paul II.   In the homily, Pope Saint John Paul II shed  light on Pio’s humble spirit rooted in prayer.   Even throughout his life of suffering and  sickness, Padre Pio also famously said,  

“Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless.  God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”   Pio inspires us to draw closer to God in our  daily lives even through our challenges.   Pope Saint John Paul II’s Prayer  for Padre Pio’s Intercession.  

In The Name of The Father, and of The  Son, and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.   Teach us, we ask you, humility of heart so we may  be counted among the little ones of the Gospel,   to whom the Father promised to reveal  the mysteries of his Kingdom.  

Help us to pray without ceasing, certain that  God knows what we need even before we ask him.   Obtain for us the eyes of faith that  will be able to recognize right away   in the poor and suffering the face of Jesus. Sustain us in the hour of the combat and of the  

Trial and, if we fall, make us experience  the joy of the sacrament of forgiveness.   Grant us your tender devotion to Mary,  the Mother of Jesus and our Mother.   Accompany us on our earthly pilgrimage toward  the blessed homeland, where we hope to arrive  

In order to contemplate forever the glory of the  Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.   In The Name of The Father, and of The  Son, and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

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