Intention [please include your own also.]We pray for ourselves and women around the globe to experience and encourage others in the gift of Purity.
Padré Pio of Pietrelcina, humble father, you truly loved our Holy Mother Church. Ask God, the Lord of the Harvest, to send laborers into His vineyard. May He fill the world with many holy priests who are filled with the strength and inspiration that comes only from God. Intercede for us with the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother, that she may lead to unity all our brothers and sisters who call upon Jesus, the Christ, as Lord and Savior. May they find their unity in the one great family of God in Christ on earth, so that the Church may be a beacon of light and sure hope of salvation in the storm-tossed sea of life.
Always remain united to the Holy Catholic Church because only She can save you. Only She possesses Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Who is the true Prince of Peace. Outside the Church there is no salvation. The Church alone gives Baptism; the Forgiveness of sins; and the Body, Blood Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ that offer you eternal life; and all the other Sacraments that assist us in living a holy life.
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CLOSING PRAYER
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, spiritual father of countless souls who seek a deeper relationship with God in their lives, I thank God for the gift He has given His Church in you. You are the image for our modern world of His Crucified Son and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Through your resignation to the Father's Will in your life, often manifested through the decisions of the Church and your religious superiors, teach us humility that we may be among those humble souls to whom the Eternal Father, through His Incarnate Son Jesus, promised to reveal the mysteries of His Kingdom. Through your love and concern for those who suffer in mind and body, teach us to recognize with the eyes of Faith the Face of our Lord Jesus Christ Who makes Himself known in the poor and suffering. Through your resignation and trust in God during the painful struggles you were asked to bear, support and assist us in times of trouble and trial. Through that ministry of the confessional for which you were known and through which many returned to the Father's Love, encourage us to trust unlimitedly in the graces of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and to experience the joy of forgiveness in sincerely returning to the loving embrace of the Father would we succumb to temptation and fall into sin.
Through the faithfulness with which you bore the sacred marks of the Passion of our Savior on your body during your earthly journey, strengthen us by your example to bear in our hearts and accept in our lives the life-giving mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
Through that childlike confidence and love you fostered and encouraged for the Mother of all God's children, Mary ever Virgin, teach us filial love and devotion for and confident recourse, in the almighty intercession of Mary, the Mother of the Lord and our Heavenly Mother, that through her intercession we may more easily approach the Savior, though Whom the Father calls us to Himself.
Through the concern and commitment with which you attached yourself spiritually to all those who sought you as spiritual guide, accompany us at every moment on our earthly pilgrimage towards heaven. There we hope one day to contemplate the glory of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, our God Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
(Adapted and amplified form of the prayer composed by St. Pope John Paul II)
V. May I never boast of anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
R. Through it the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
V. You bore the Wounds of Christ on your body.
R. That we might learn the value of the Cross.
V. Pray for us St. Pio of Pietrelcina
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray: Almighty and eternal God, by a singular grace You allowed your priest, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, to participate in the mystery of the Cross of Your Son, and through His ministry, you revealed the marvels of Your Mercy. Grant that through his intercession we may remain wone with Christ in His Passion so as to joyfully attain the glory of the Resurrection. We ask this thorugh our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Padre Pio’s Sacred Heart Novena Prayer
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your Name, I ask the Father for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My Words will not pass away.” Encouraged by Your infallible Words I now ask for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for Whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: “St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.”
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