Our experiences with the saints

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I want to know what kind of experiences anyone on here has had with the saints?

It was Padre Pio who brought me back to the faith and i have a little story i want to tell.

I was praying in the shower on the morning of my brothers birthday ( he died almost 3 years ago). I was wondering if he was still in purgatory. I was also wondering about some healing that i needed. I asked padre pio to send me the smell of roses. later that day i was venerating some relics with another woman. after the woman touched these relics her hands smelled very strogly of roses. I started to cry a little bit and told her i had prayed for that in the morning. It was such a wonderful experience to know we are truly heard when we pray.

Padre Pio pray for us.
 
🙂 when I was on my way to the Church, St Therese sent me roses many times… often in pretty interesting/miraculous ways 🙂
 
Monica4316 said:
🙂 when I was on my way to the Church, St Therese sent me roses many times… often in pretty interesting/miraculous ways 🙂
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Me, too. When I was struggling on returning to the Church I was relying on her for guidance and there was a book in the parish library with a faded cover of her holding some peculiarly orange-shaded roses. I read the part about her sending roses.

I then received a card that week from a relative who never writes, who is the only remaining Catholic in my family , and it had the same peculiar orange colorred roses on the cover!
 
If I have told this story before, forgive me, old people do that.

When my kids were in Catholic school in Cleveland a non-Catholic neighbor, who was also a co-worker, wanted to place her child in the school as a safer alternative to public school. I told her she would be welcome, but warned her they would teach Catholic religion and morality, and that her child would come home with ideas that definitely contradicted the way this particular family was living and their beliefs, and she should be prepared for that.

The little girl did very well in school, and was entranced particularly about lives of the saints, especially St. Therese. She came home and told her mom all about the little way, and the roses of course which Therese promises those who pray for intercession. Her mother tried gently to explain that these were folk tales and that pray may be a nice thing to do, but not to expect to have prayers answered, yadda yadda.

The child insisted she would pray to St. Therese that a close family friend, who had helped raise her in the tough years when the mom struggled as a new single parent, would return from her home in another state. This was completely unlikely as the friendship had been broken in some way, the friend had a new job and so forth, and there was no longer any contact.

later that week, my daughter was given a rose by a customer on her paper route ( in December, ding) and without knowing anything about her friend’s prayer, put it on their doormat as a thank you for a ride to school. The little girl was ecstatic to find it and told her mom Therese had answered her prayer by sending a rose. The mother tried to let her down gently and explain why this prayer simply could not be answered, but the child persisted.

Later that evening, the long lost friend called and asked to come for a visit, which she did, the friendship was healed and she stayed with them for a while and settled in the neighborhood.

The little girl did become Catholic later, and her mother returned briefly to the practice of the Faith, but whether those conversions lasted I don’t know as we lost contact when we moved, but I am betting Therese will win out in the long run.
 
A couple of weeks ago I was having horrible nightmares. So one night I asked God to send Saint Michael the Archangel to my room so I could sleep better , well the moment I finished praying I felt very peaceful. I don’t have many nightmares night.
 
My friend and colleague has a special devotion to Padre Pio. She is going through a tough time right now and has asked for prayer. At a meeting a couple of weeks ago we both attended, she brought gifts for those present, Padre Pio medals–just medals, nothing that could retain a perfume or scent. When she opened the container the smell of roses was so strong people came over to see who had brought the flowers. We just looked at each other and teared up, since we have both been praying to him for help with her health issues. and yes several things happened in the next few days as signs things are beginning to resolve.

Now my question for you saint experts is this: do you think Therese and Pio are in cahoots?
 
puzzleannie said:
Now my question for you saint experts is this: do you think Therese and Pio are in cahoots?
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Lol!

Fragrant aromas of flowers often have been smelled around saints for many centuries. Mary was referred to as “Mystical Rose” long before St. Therese became “the Little Flower.”
Flowers are St. Therese’s special symbol, yet they don’t belong exclusively to her.

It certainly is possible, though, that St. Padre Pio and St. Therese are in cahoots! 😃 I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if they were both behind that experience.
 
My dad’s health had been declining since last Christmas. He had heart and kidney problems, eventually he was admitted to hospital on Saturday 16th January, last month. I prayed at the shrine of St. Rita in our local Augustinian church on Sunday the 17th, and begged her for a cure for my dad, and if a cure wasn’t to be that she would secure for him a happy death. Sadly a cure wasn’t to be, but my dad died peacefully in his sleep 2 days later, on Tuesday 19th January. He looked so peaceful when we arrived at the hospital an hour later - I’m happy that he is now in Heaven, and I miss him terribly. He was faithful to his Catholic Religion, and converted my Mom who was a Protestant very early in their marriage - they would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in March. My Mom has been faithful to her religion and has a deep relationship with Our Blessed Lady.
 
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My dad’s health had been declining since last Christmas. He had heart and kidney problems, eventually he was admitted to hospital on Saturday 16th January, last month. I prayed at the shrine of St. Rita in our local Augustinian church on Sunday the 17th, and begged her for a cure for my dad, and if a cure wasn’t to be that she would secure for him a happy death. Sadly a cure wasn’t to be, but my dad died peacefully in his sleep 2 days later, on Tuesday 19th January. He looked so peaceful when we arrived at the hospital an hour later - I’m happy that he is now in Heaven, and I miss him terribly. He was faithful to his Catholic Religion, and converted my Mom who was a Protestant very early in their marriage - they would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in March. My Mom has been faithful to her religion and has a deep relationship with Our Blessed Lady.
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Thank-you for sharing this story :).
 
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