In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Beloved Padre Pio, Today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you.

They ask for cures and healings, earthly and spiritual blessings, and for peace for body and mind. Because of your friendship with the Lord, He heals those you ask to be healed, and forgives those you forgive. Through your visible wounds of the cross, which you bore for fifty years, you were chosen in our time to glorify the crucified Jesus.

Because the cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it is the only true sign of salvation. As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet, and side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but your smile and the invisible halo of sweet-smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, the perfume of sanctity. Padre Pio, the healings of the sick are the testimony that the Lord invited you to join the holy company of saints.

In your kindness, please help me with my own special request. We turn to you confidently, and you help us benignly, O St. Padre Pio. We trust in you, and we are sure that you will intercede for us the graces we need for the health of the soul and body.

Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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