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!!
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Because the Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us bring back the veneration of the wounds of Jesus Christ, for we acknowledge His Precious Blood as true a sign of salvation,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.'
-shared by Stella Sayang
2 comments:
In my opinion, i think the praise given to Padre is too much and equals the mount of blasphemy to God.
I would like to highlight a few things from the post which seemed anti-christ.
1. You mentioned
"People are still being cured through his intercession in ways that cannot be explained by medicine or science"
Have you wondered that even Satan works in those ways? Did not the Bible say that Jesus alone is the intercessor for all?
The simplest explanation in John 14:6
I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.
These words from the Bible itself states that to know God our Father, we only need to know Jesus to know God. Prayers offered to Jesus are prayers offered to God. Padre Pio is merely a man and who is to say his incorrupt body is God's miracle. God does not need to show miracles when it has to meaning. From dust we were created, to dust we return. Anything beyond the Bible's description is clearly, against God.
You also mentioned
Padre Pio is a powerful intercessor!!
Another verse 1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
If there was one intercessor that is so powerful, his name is Jesus. For there is one, not two. Therefore, the one is the one that risen from the dead and sits at the right hand of God.
2. You mentioned
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.
Are not prayers supposedly to be in the name of Christ alone for He is already a mediator to God? Why are you praying to the dead who cannot hear and listen? Offering prayers to Padre is as though offering prayers to another god. Remember God is a jealous God?
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God.
Even if you add the name Jesus at the back of the sentence as you did, it is redundant, because the subject of the prayer is to Padre Pio and not Jesus.
Do you not realised that Jesus dying once is enough to save us all from our sins? Does He need to do it again and again just to show us we are saved? Definitely not. The purpose of His coming is to remove us from our sins, because of His love. Why did He need to do so? Because He is justice as well. God cannot tolerate sin and all sin is punishable by death. But He loved us, thus Jesus died for us.
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved, it is a GIFT from God, not by works, so that no one may boast.
Grace here refers to the mercy and love from God. It is a free gift. Free! Not bought with works or good deeds, so that no one may boast.
We need not do anything anymore to be save, because Jesus has done so.
Romans 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart, then you are saved.
So often we think God sees us as a community and forget the importance of a personal relationship with God.
Think about it. Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus that is deep and meaningful? Or is He just a figure of speech.
Two thing you ought to know about God,
is that He does not need to show off on His miracles just to let people know He can.
is that miracles are a result of faith and is always meaningful.
Just take an example from the Bible and see if you can find Jesus performing miracles for the sake of performing for the public to see.
And take another example, of a blind man who has faith in Jesus that he was healed.
"Your faith has saved you"
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