Padre Pio Prayer
(Power Healing)
Padre Pio Prayer (Power Healing)
Padre Pio prayer is popular among believers as Padre Pio is notable not for his wisdom or even his teachings but for the man he was and the intercessor he continues to be.
Padre Pio gave himself to Christ as a spiritual victim for the souls of sinners. With sweetness, humility, and good cheer, he brought everyone who encountered him closer to Christ.
So let’s dive into this guide and get to know the saint behind St Padre Pio prayer!
Who was Padre Pio?
St Padre Pio is an example to us of what radical trust in God’s love for us looks like, despite the suffering he endured and battles he faced throughout his life.
Childhood And Vocation
Padre Pio (birth name, Francesco Forgione) was born to a farming family in the small town of Pietrelcina, Italy on May 25, 1887.
Although the Forgiones were poor in material goods, they were certainly rich in their faith life and in the love of God.
Padre Pio devoted himself to God at a very young age. He was an altar server and his family and town were very religious, so they were supportive when, by the age of 5, he announced he wanted to enter religious life.
Ecstasies And Apparitions
Padre Pio began to experience ecstasies and apparitions as early as age 4 or 5.
He, however, didn’t realize that these were extraordinary experiences and he kept many of them to himself, thinking they were ordinary.
Through more and more visions and encounters with the healing work of God, Padre Pio’s trust in Him only continued to grow, though his early life was certainly not without struggle.
Ultimately, Padre Pio became a Capuchin Friar in January 1903 at the age of 16. At this beginning point of his religious life, Francesco Forgione became Brother Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio).
Ordination
After entering the Capuchins, Pio progressively became sick and ill. His stomach refused food, and he was only able to drink minimal amounts of water. He left the monastery and moved back home at the recommendation of his doctors, but his health was still poor.
With little hope of improvement of his health, Pio most desired to be ordained. Though he was quite young for ordination, the bishop ordained Pio on August 10, 1910. At 23, Brother Pio became Father Pio, or in Italian, Padre Pio, as we know him today.
Drafted during World War I, Pio discovered he had tuberculosis. Discharged from serving, Pio eventually moved to a different Capuchin Monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo in 1917, where he grew his ministry and lived until his death.
First Stigmatized Priest
In 1918, Europe was ravaged by World War I and the Spanish flu. It was a year of suffering for Pio, his community, and Europe. Amidst this suffering of the world, one day in September, Padre Pio said Mass at San Giovanni Rotondo.
Then Pio felt pains after Mass and experienced bleeding from his hands, feet, and side, while receiving a miraculous vision: he saw someone with Christ’s crucifixion wounds.
After the vision, Pio realized he was physically dripping with blood – he had received the stigmata. There was a smell of roses, and despite the wounds continually bleeding, they never became infected and they appeared perfectly round.
Stigmata are the five wounds of Christ replicated in the human body. Around 400 people, including St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, have claimed to have received the stigmata.
Upon receiving the stigmata, Pio tried to keep it a secret, though word spread about his reception of Christ’s wounds.
Medical professionals and awed believers soon flocked to Pio to see the wounds themselves and try to prove or disprove their authenticity. Because of this, he was not permitted to publicly celebrate Mass for a time to avoid the attention.
Soon, though, with confirmation the stigmata had not been faked, he had so many visitors that he would hear confessions for 10 hours a day. People reported him knowing details of their lives without them divulging the information, and also reported levitation and miracles.
Padre Pio was thirty-one years old and became the first stigmatized priest in the history of the Church. With resignation and serenity, he bore the painful wounds in his hands, feet, and side for fifty years.
Canonization
In addition to the miracle of the stigmata that he experienced, God worked through Padre Pio to perform hundreds and hundreds of miracles on others throughout his lifetime – curing people of all kinds of sicknesses.
Padre Pio even founded a hospital near San Giovanni Rotondo called “Casa Sollieve della Sofferenza,” or the “Home for the Relief of Suffering” in 1956. The hospital still operates today and houses up to 1,000 patients. He also was known for his spiritual counselling to those seeking reconciliation.
Pio passed away in 1968, was beatified in 1999, and soon canonized in 2002 by Pope, now Saint, John Paul II.
We celebrate the Feast Day of Padre Pio on the anniversary of his death, September 23rd.
Padre Pio is also the patron of: Stress, seasonal depression, teenagers, Civil defence volunteers
Man Of Prayer
Padre Pio is understood above all else as a man of prayer. People who met him understood immediately that they were in contact with a Christlike figure.
Before he was thirty years old he had already reached the summit of the spiritual life known as the “unitive way” of transforming union with God. He prayed almost continuously. His prayers were usually very simple.
He loved to pray the Rosary and recommended it to others. To someone who asked him what legacy he wished to leave to his spiritual children, his brief reply was, “My child, the Rosary.”
Those who attended his Mass and saw his union with the divine felt as though they had witnessed in person Christ’s Passion on the Cross. During his lifetime, Padre Pio brought vast numbers back to devotion to Christ, and, as he himself foretold, in death he has been able to do still more.
St Padre Pio Prayer
Padre Pio famously said, “Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”
He inspires us to draw closer to God in our daily lives even through our challenges. Have patience and persevere in the holy act of praying.
Lean on these prayers to place your trust in His comfort and everlasting peace amidst your struggle and suffering.
A Simple Prayer (Written By Padre Pio In 1918)
Stay with me, Lord,
for you are my light
and without you I am in darkness..
Stay With Me, Lord
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 always be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, for 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, 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, Jesus,
I do not ask for divine consolation,
because I do not merit it,
but the gift of Your Presence,
oh yes, I ask this of You!
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.
Padre Pio Healing Prayer
Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me.
I thank you for sending your Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
to the world to save
and to set me free.
I trust in your power and grace
that sustain and restore me.
Loving Father, touch me now with your healing hands,
for I believe that your will is for me
to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit.
Cover me with the most precious blood of your Son,
our Lord, Jesus Christ from the top of my head
to the soles of my feet.
Cast anything that should not be in me.
Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells.
Open any blocked arteries or veins
and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas.
Remove all inflammation
and cleanse any infection
by the power of Jesus’ precious blood.
Let the fire of your healing love
pass through my entire body to heal
and make new any diseased areas so that my body
will function the way you created it to function.
Touch also my mind and my emotion,
even the deepest recesses of my heart.
Saturate my entire being with your presence,
love, joy, and peace, and draw me ever closer
to you every moment of my life.
And Father, fill me with your Holy Spirit
and empower me to do your works
so that my life will bring glory
and honour to your holy name.
I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Padre Pio Prayer (Power Healing) Summary
Padre Pio did not pray with his mind, but with his heart, in complete devotion. He believed wholeheartedly that God could be accessed through prayer. As he used to say, “In books we seek God, in prayer we find him” (cited on the Vatican web site).
Perhaps the Padre Pio prayer can light a path for our own prayers. We can emulate the saint: to bear the yoke of Christ, to be a person of prayer, and to love others mercifully. Say a St Padre Pio prayer today and seek his intercession and healing.
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