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INTRODUCTORY PRAYER - TO RECITE
EACH DAY
Come to me as Father and friend, Jesus, and do not leave me
alone;
Lord, abide with me!
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I am just a pilgrim wandering in a world enveloped by darkness;
bestow on me your light and your grace.
Lord, abide with me!
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In this precious moment, embrace me;
let this union between us last forever.
Lord, abide with me!
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Accompany me along life's journey; I need your presence.
Without you I become faint and fall.
Lord, abide with me!
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Evening is coming and I am racing like a river towards
the deep sea of death.
Lord, abide with me!
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Be my strength in sorrow and in happiness,
whilst I live and until I die within your embrace.
Lord, abide with me! |
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The First Day |
The Second Day |
The Third Day |
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• 0 glorious and holy Padre Pio, we
are at your feet, turn your gaze to us. We are devoted to
you; we admire your life and follow your teachings, and have
experienced the power of your intercession. While you lived
in this world, multitudes of people arrived every day in San
Giovanni Rotondo to recognise and behold your credence, to
receive pardon through your word, to hear your teachings and
to invoke your intercession. With this same love and conscious
of the glorious power of your prayers before God, we are prostrate
at your feet.
• Pray for us. We entrust ourselves to you, certain
that you will obtain for us from God the graces of which we
are in need. We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- That the Lord grants to the world and to the Church responsible,
faithful leadership.
Let us pray.
- That every family be healthy in body and spirit.
Let us pray.
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• O glorious Padre Pio, from infancy
you offered yourself to God as an instrument of reparation.
With your impoverished family you began to grow in age, wisdom
and goodness. Your father, dreaming of a better tomorrow,
left for Argentina and you, who said, "My father
went far away frrom his wife and children in order to provide
all of us with something to eat", recognised the
courage of this gesture. Your mother undertook the task of
providing for the family by working in the fields so that
nothing would be lacking.
We have your testimony that you left us to serve as a lesson:
"From early childhood we worked with
commitment... We worked for our daily bead... Our affection
devolved on our parents... With them we siruggled in the great
battle of life... "
• May the Lord grant to us sons and daughters: dedication
to good works, devoutness, and a close relationship with our
families. This we ask through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that we be a family, for the children, school and church.
Let us pray.
- So that the children grow to love and respect their parents.
Let us pray.
- So that the family loves and honours God, for the family
that prays together remains united.
Let us pray. |
• 0 holy Padre Pio, you flourished in
a profoundly religious family. One day your father called
you close to himself and asked a momentous question: "My
son, would it not appeal to you to become a friar or a priest?"
• From reading interviews of children on the subject
of their future, we see that they do not even consider the
possibility of a consecrated life. When asked what they want
to be when grown up, they want to become members of the armed
forces, doctors, fashion
designers or teachers, and life as a Religious is not in their
plans. Why? Still the greatest honour for a family is to have
a son that God has chosen to be a Religious or a priest. We
ask you to safeguard the Church so that numerous vocations
are born and that there will be many holy Religious. We ask
this in the name of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that all the services that we lend are expressions of
faith in the Gospel.
Let us pray.
- So that we know to remain near our poor and needy brothers.
Let us pray.
- So that our lives are an expression of Evangelical service
in words and deeds.
Let us pray.
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The Fourth Day |
The Fifth Day |
The Sixth Day |
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• 0 holy Padre Pio, in the friary you began a new life,
the results of which you already knew, as you yourself said:
"I was only 16years old but 1 knew what I must become
to We on the h of a Religious... I had to dedicate myself
in order to even better the call of my voluntary commitment
and to become competent in philosophy and theology. It was
a communal life that demanded a strong spiritual enrichment...":
No one mislead you. Your mother, when you left for the friary,
said: "Knowingly you have come along to the door
of your new house... Now, with your Brothers, return to the
work as always. Remember me in your prayers and never forget
that, above all you are a son of God and St. Francis. How
much is asked, but you do not merit grief from your own loved
ones, if that does not give you joy to have found the true
way of life... ". Thus began your life as a Religious.
• Instil in the Church a generous spirit capable of
leaving all to follow Christ. We ask this in the name of Christ
our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that all priests are felt to be witnesses of the faith
as a resource to the people.
Let us pray.
- So that all priests remain in communion with the Pope and
the Bishops.
Let us Pray.
- So that we profit those present every moment, with the testimony
of our fraternal life.
Let us pray.
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• 0 holy Padre Pio, your life was simple and far from
easy. You were tried by suffering and temptations and the
pain rendered your heart like a pruned grapevine. Never did
you desire that your suffering become visible exteriorly and
you preferred to suffer in silence. To be seen wounded was
not important because you knew that it was God who wounded
you; you have learned well that to accept suffering does not
mean neither to be sorry, neither to love suffering but rather
to accept that it therefore humbles one, as the earth accepts
rain from the heavens that penetrates to its depths. In this
way you coped, Padre Pio, and were able to hide your suffering
with the roses of serene acceptance.
• Teach us to have an authentic Christian attitude toward
suffering so that its purifying and evangelistic action can
be completed in us. We ask this in the name of Christ our
Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that we understand suffering in a Christian context.
Let us pray.
- So that we accept in the spirit of faith our illnesses and
those of our brothers.
Let us pray.
- So that we know to value our suffering as an instrument
of purification and evangelisation.
Let us pray.
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• 0 holy Padre Pio, from childhood you offered yourself
as a victim for others. God accepted your aspiration, and
at San Giovanni Rotondo, you became "another Christ"
suffering. Of your interior struggles you said: "Who
will be able to discover the interior martydom that I suffer?
A single memory of those inner battles makes my blood run
cold in my veins. I heard the voice that called me to obey
you, 0 God, but your enemies tyranise me, wrench my bones
and contort my entrails...". One day, on your body,
appeared the stigmata. You desired to be a victim for all,
for those that you knew and for those that you didn't know,
for the just and the unjust. From the time of your discharge
from military
service you had become aware of much evil in the world, and
you offered yourself for the Church and you asked God that
He discharge on you His punishments for these evils as necessary
propitiation: you wanted to bear the punishment for the sins
of others.
• Grant to us from God the ability to accept sufferings
and to make them an offering of love. We ask this in the name
of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that our sufferings become the portal to a union with
Christ.
Let us pray.
- So that God will help us comprehend the efficacious power
of accepting our crosses.
Let us pray.
- So that God will teach us how to accept and offer our sufferings
to Him.
Let us pray. |
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The Seventh Day |
The Eighth Day |
The Ninth Day |
• 0 holy Padre Pio, man of faith and prayer,
the multitudes of yesterday and today have come and continue
to come to you: Why? They see a man of God, a man of great faith,
a man become prayer, a man of suffering, one crucified without
a cross... and they remain mute, contemplating your passing
hours and hours on end in the choir loft, before the crucified
Lord and at the feet of Our Lady of Grace. Who are you to those
who come to you, you were asked one day, and you replied: "Among
you 1 am a human being, on the Altar a victim, and in the Confessional
a judge". Your Mass was something magnificent! The
people crowded close around the Altar, saw you transfigured
by love and suffering, and believed! The intensity of the ardour,
with all proclaiming that you lived the Passion of Christ and
that you were immolated with Him, was marvellous. Pope Paul
VI recognised you with these words: "Look at the renown
and the world wide following he has brought together around
himself! Why? Because he celebrated Mass with humility heard
confessions from morning to evening, and was a man of God".
• Most dear Padre Pio, intercede for us before God, that
we may live our faith as you lived yours, that Mass may become
the source and the summit of our ardour and that our life passes
into a constant, living communion with Him. We ask this in the
name of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that the Holy Mass and the Eucharist may be the source
and the summit of our faith.
Let us pray.
- So that, following your example, we live in constant communion
with God.
Let us pray.
- So that we accept unsparingly the adversities that are placed
before us as a test of our faith.
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• 0 holy Padre Pio, for Christians suffering
is a necessary test of faith. God chose you to be a victim and
you became a sacificial lamb as an offering for love. You offered
yourself to God so that others may have life everlasting. Concern
for the well being of others is a hallmark of Christian life.
You bear your love to bring among men the presence of God, and
thus profess your devotion to Him: "We must love others
because they are visible images of God and to love them as God
loves them... if God has willingly overwhebned us with gifts,
we cannot lock them up in a trunk without forsaking the good
fruits that they must produce". Your love of God and
humanity moved you to suffer with those who are suffering. It
was impossible to eliminate suffering but you saw that you could
bring relief and felt obligated to do something. Thus the great
work to alleviate suffering was brought into being - The Home
for the Relief of Suffering - your hospital!
• We want to learn from you this sensibility. Never must
we pass indifferently by our suffering brothers. We ask this
in the name of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that the elderly and the sick receive from us the affection
that they deserve.
Let us pray.
- So that we manifest our love of God with works of charity
towards our fellow man.
Let us pray.
- So that we know how to awaken hope in the sick and that our
hearts are always full of good will towards those who are suffering.
Let us pray.
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• 0 holy Padre Pio, crucified without the
cross, our existence, marked by the preternatural, was humanly
inexplicable. Your whole life was one of total dedication to
God and your fellow man and, like Christ, always doing good.
The crowds rushed to you, to your Mass, to your Confessional,
for your blessing, to your devotional practises... and returned
home comforted and content. Today you continue to be our defender
before the throne of God and, every year, millions of people
visit your tomb seeking grace or giving thanks for miracles
obtained through your intercession.
• Dear Padre Pio, with great trust we turn to you to beg
your intercession and to seek refuge. Pray for us; obtain from
God the graces we need. We ask this in the name of Christ our
Lord.
Amen.
• Intentions:
- So that we be good witnesses of the faith for the world.
Let us pray.
- So that we pass on to future generations our way of life loving
God and the Church.
Let us pray.
- So that, in this proud age so preoccupied in possessing more
and more, we serve as witnesses to a higher value, as was Saint
Pio of Pietrelcina.
Let us pray.
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PRAYER TO SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA
Padre Pio,
teach us too, we pray,
humility, that we may be counted
among the humble of heart
in the Gospel to whom
the Father promised to reveal
the mysteries of His kingdom.
Obtain for us an expression
of faith capable of recognising Jesus
in the faces of the poor and suffering.
Sustain us during our times of trial
and struggle and, should we fall,
let us experience the Joy
of forgiveness in the Sacrament
of Reconciliation.
Teach us tender devotion towards Mary,
Mother of Christ and our Mother.
Accompany us on our earthly pilgrimage
towards the blessed Homeland,
where we, too, hope to arrive
to contemplate eternally
the glory of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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