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been replaced by other symbols, please help us bring back the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.'
