Submit Your Intentions: Three Holy Masses, 9/21-9/23

Dear Friend, 

On this Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I would like to reflect on what the great saint, Padre Pio, who endured daily suffering said about the cross: 

“The Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross. Although the weight seems intolerable, you are able to carry it because the Lord, in His love and mercy extends a hand to you and gives you strength.”

September 23 marks the Twenty-first Year that St. Padre Pio is honored as a saint on his Feast Day. Priests around the world have the option of offering a Memorial Holy Mass in honor of St. Pius (Padre Pio) of Pietrelcina - in thanksgiving for his life and for all those seeking his intercession. Saints in heaven are endlessly filled with joy at the beatific vision of God, with their glorified bodies – yet, they want to help souls with their earthly struggles.

That is exactly what St. Padre Pio wants to do for you and I, for he had said: "I will stand at the gates of Heaven and I will not enter until all of my spiritual children are with me." Ask St. Padre Pio in your heart to be his spiritual child, so he can speedily intercede for your needs before the throne of God - to ask for many graces (and even miracles) on your behalf, for he has been known to have a “heart of gold.”

You must do your part while praying to St. Padre Pio for these three days: practice the virtue of charity toward your neighbor, with acts of kindness, pray the Holy Rosary too, for Padre Pio had an immense devotion to Blessed Virgin Mary. Finally, place your hope and trust in God. In fact, he was quoted as saying: “Our Lady wishes to be served by praying the Blessed Rosary in order to give us graces and blessings.”

The life of St. Padre Pio was indeed extraordinary in many ways, with the gifts God gave him. Through the power of God, he was able to read people’s souls, bilocate and even levitate off the ground.

On Sept. 20, 1918, St. Padre Pio received the holy wounds of Christ, the stigmata on his hands, feet and sides, which bled for fifty years, and even had a shoulder wound that he kept secret.

He saw his suffering as an instrument to get closer to God. And God did indeed answer a multitude of prayers, bringing extraordinary miracles in the lives of countless people who came to him for spiritual help. 

Please join me in prayer during these three days invoking the intercession of St. Padre Pio, from September 21-23. Submit your intentions for the Three Holy Masses which will begin on Thursday, September 21.

Let us invoke St. Padre Pio, who is a mirror of the divine life and the helper of souls in doubt and darkness.

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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