Friday, March 01, 2024

March 2, 2024, Third Saturday of Lent - Selected Reflections: The Power of Prayer.




Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, was an Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic. Padre Pio joined the Capuchins at fifteen and spent most of his religious life in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. While the Feast of Sr. Padre Pio falls on September 23, 2024, his devotion to prayer helps with a Lenten Reflection.




"Prayer is the best weapon we possess, the key that opens the heart of God" - St. Padre Pio




 Padre Pio was known for his deep love for the mass and his devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. He built a hospital to address physical and spiritual suffering.

Padre Pio had the miraculous gift of bilocation, being in two places at once. He received the stigmata after praying in church.


Saint Padre Pio had the gift of reading hearts in order to help penitent receive the fullness of God's mercy in the Sacrament of Penance, often hearing confessions 12 to 15 hours a day:  Customer care agents listening to mostly bad news eight hours per day easily become jaded and can become depressed if there's no relief valve. Call center burnout can lead to persistent feelings of negativity, anxiety and depression that culminate in low agent productivity and morale. Left unattended, it can snowball into physical conditions like headache, palpitation, panic attack and heart failure.

Saint John Paul II canonized Padre Pio on June 26, 2002.


St. Padre Pio joined the Capuchins at fifteen and spent most of his religious life in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. He was marked by stigmata in 1918,

He was the founder of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, a hospital built near the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo.

After his death, his devotion continued to spread among believers all over the world. He was beatified on 2 May 1999 and canonized on 16 June 2002 by Pope John Paul II. His relics are exposed in the sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, next to the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo.


More Selected Lenten Reflections

February 29, 2024, Thursday, the Second Week in Lent - Selected Reflections: Leap for Joy!

The only Leap Year Pope is Pope Paul III, born on Italy on February 29, 1468

February 28, 2024, Wednesday the Second Week in Lent - Selected Reflections: Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican


When my neighbor fails to kill my family, then calls me to visit him in prison. What do I do?


February 26, 2024, Monday of the Second Week in Lent - Selected Reflections

"The only time our Lord asked the apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for activity did he plead but for an hour of companionship." - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen


February 23 2024 Friday, First Week of Lent, Selected Lenten Reflections: Servant of God Julia Greely





February 22 2024 Thursday, First Week of Lent, Selected Lenten Reflections: Blessed Carlo Acutis Highway to Heaven

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