Padre Pio

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Your stories are beautiful and is rekindling the joy and security I used to feel when I was reading about Padre Pio and praying for his intercession every day years ago.

Does somebody have the “novena prayer to Padre Pio”?

I’m emotionally shattered … my dad just died, he was found dead last Sunday. He was a kind man who sought God but never could seem to find Him in a way that I could see.

I begged Dad while he was alive to try to add up all the facts about God and see that God is real and I also begged him to make previsions for us in the case of an emergency or his death. Now he is gone and I am living out the choices that he made!

I am from his first marriage and he had been reconciling with my mother for a number of years now but because it was never legal - civil remarriage - his ex-wife has hijacked the funeral, his will, the house, everything!

Will God bring good out of this?

In fact, he had money in the house that he was getting ready to send me for a deposit on the house that we are renting. The owner wants to sell after almost 5 years and was making it affordable to us, so my dad was going to send the down payment but now he has died and my mum, my wife and our 4 children (4 years of age and under) have to move and we have not found a place that is suitable and affordable and we are grieving his loss.

And I worry if he is in Jesus’ arms or not?!?!?!?
I am practically without any comfort, there is nowhere in the world I want to be, nothing I feel would be me happy again and yet like Padre Pio, I want to suffer for my sins and the sins of the world as our faith teaches but my world seems so small right now that I feel crushed in!

What do I do? Do I ask that this suffering be removed … no, not if it will help and yet what about quality of life?

Anybody?

Love,
Terry

Just the other day, I sent an e-mail to my cousin, who’s dad (my uncle) died suddenly two years ago. I told her (a Presbyterian) about Padre Pio, and the story of how someone interrupted him while praying, and apologized. Padre Pio said “It’s all right, I was just praying for the happy death of my father”. The other person said “But he’s been dead for 10 years already”, and Padre Pio said “Yes, but God is not bound by time.”

I told her this so she could start praying the rosary on behalf of her father, at the time of his death. So if you worry about your father, perhaps you can do the same.

One thing, however, is that I could not find any link to any story like this (the only link was someone reciting this anecdote on these very boards !!). If anyone can find a link, that would be great…

 

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Just the other day, I sent an e-mail to my cousin, who’s dad (my uncle) died suddenly two years ago. I told her (a Presbyterian) about Padre Pio, and the story of how someone interrupted him while praying, and apologized. Padre Pio said “It’s all right, I was just praying for the happy death of my father”. The other person said “But he’s been dead for 10 years already”, and Padre Pio said “Yes, but God is not bound by time.”

I told her this so she could start praying the rosary on behalf of her father, at the time of his death. So if you worry about your father, perhaps you can do the same.

One thing, however, is that I could not find any link to any story like this (the only link was someone reciting this anecdote on these very boards !!). If anyone can find a link, that would be great…

So I’m not crazy for praying about stuff that’s already happened.

Or maybe we’re both crazy, Pio and I.