MARY, OUR MOTHER: FEAST OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

FEAST OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA

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September 23, 2008

(Gal 6:17) From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body.

ZENIT.ORG: The Secret Story of Padre Pio's Stigmata

VIDEO: (St) Padre Pio Mass

ON THE WEB: Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

EWTN: Padre Pio: His Mass

VIA CABIO-org@yahoogroups.com: Padre Pio's Prayer After Holy Communion

Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.

Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.

Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.

Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.

Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and alway be in Your company.

Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.

Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.

Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!

Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You.

Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.

Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.

Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.

With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.

Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 8- "On Freedom from Anger and on Meekness"

7. Some who are prone to anger are neglectful of the healing and cure of this passion. But these unhappy people do not give a thought to him who said: 'The moment of his anger is his fall.' (Eccl 1:22).

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Mary Vitamin for September 23rd

Topic: Our Lady's offering of her Son and the witness of Padre Pio

(September 23)

Quote:

"Sic Maria dilexit mundum ut Filium suum unigenitum daret"

Mary loved the world so much that she gave up her only Son.

Bl. Joseph Marello, Bits of Gold, (Guardian of the Redeemer Books), 32.

Meditation:

Father Stefano Manelli, FI

"The trials and painful struggles to which [Padre Pio] was subject on the one hand, and the contemplation of the Divine Mother of Sorrows on the other – with her soul pierced, co-crucified with her crucified Son and 'stone-like" on account of her sorrow at the foot of the Cross – led Padre Pio to write the most beautiful words on the Coredemptress and Queen of Martyrs:

'It seems to me that I can now grasp what the martyrdom of our most beloved Mother was […] Oh, if men would only fathom this martyrdom! Is there any one who can pity this, our dear Coredemptress? Who would deny her the beautiful title of the Queen of Marytrs?'"

Mary at the Foot of the Cross, V (Academy of the Immaculate: 2005), 502-3.

Resolution:

Padre Pio teaches through words and his very life lived with the stigmata the meaning of Our Lady's presence at the foot of the Cross. I will try to "fathom" the martyrdom of Our Lady by pausing before my image of Our Lady today and praying: Queen of Martyrs.

Marian Vow:

Father Stefano Manelli, FI

"It has also been written that 'Padre Pio penetrated [the mystery of] Mary's sorrows and participated therein, copied them and relived them; just as his soul was made a participant in the sufferings of the Passion, so too did he have the gift of participation in the sorrows of Mary.' It could not be otherwise, since there is an intimate and ineffable unity between the sufferings of Jesus and the sufferings of Mary, not only on the level of the flesh, but even more so on the level of the heart and of love…"

Mary at the Foot of the Cross, V (Academy of the Immaculate: 2005), 496.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

FEAST OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA

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