Today, we are going to have a look at how John Paul II wrote a letter to Padre Pio,
to our great Saint, asking for his prayers.
And Padre Pio responded not with a letter, but with a miracle.
Evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this channel following Padre Pio.
And here we have a series of short stories on the life of our great Saint Padre Pio,
a Capuchin friar, a mystic, a tremendous miracle worker.
Do stay tuned that you can find out more about his life and also to see what his intercession
could do for you.
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In the story today, and the year is 1947, and the newly ordained priest that is Father
Karol Wojtyla who became the future John Paul II, Saint john Paul II.
He visited Padre Pio because he wanted to meet this famous Capuchin.
And apparently it was a brief visit, but Wojtyla didn't forget this visit.
And so later on, he wrote a letter to Padre Pio asking for his prayers.
This letter was written, it was written in Latin, and in 1962.
And at this stage Wojtyla was now a Bishop in Poland.
And we take a little excerpt from the actual letter.
This comes from the book, The Making of the Pope of the Millennium.
Father Wojtyla writes, Reverend Father, it's to Padre Pio, I ask you to pray for this woman.
She's about 40 years old.
She is the mother of four daughters, and she spent five years in a concentration camp in
Germany during the war.
She certainly had her share of suffering.
And at present her life is now threatened by a tumor, by cancer.
And please ask God through your intercession and the intercession of the most Virgin Mary
to show mercy on this woman and on her family.
And John Paul II, apparently he never received a reply from Padre Pio but just a few days
later, instead he received a miracle for this lady.
And so Father Wojtyla wrote back now to Padre Pio, expressing his joy.
This is what he wrote.
Reverend Father, the woman from Krakow was healed instantly.
This happened on November the 21st, and this was before any surgical intervention.
He said, I give thanks to God and I thank you as well.
And so it is no surprise that after this most impressive miracle Saint John Paul II now
became a strong advocate for the cause of Padre Pio for his sanctification.
And ultimately this did culminate in the canonization of the Capuchin friar in 2002.
At the actual canonization process of Padre Pio, it ended with Saint John Paul II, given
this homily, a special prayer asking for his intercession.
And it's a very beautiful prayer, and one that asked Saint Padre Pio to help us in our
times of trial.
He says, Saint Pio, teach us to ask you humility of heart so that we may be counted among the
little ones of the Gospel to whom the Father promise to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom.
Help us to pray without ceasing, certain that God knows what we need even before we ask
him.
And obtain for us the eyes of faith that will enable us, that we will be able to recognize
right away in the poor and the suffering, the face of Jesus.
Sustain us in the hour of the combat and of trial.
If we fall, make us experience the joy of the sacrament of forgiveness.
And grant us your tender devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus and our mother.
And accompany us on our earthly pilgrimage towards the blessed homeland, where we hope
to arrive in order to contemplate forever the glory of the Father and of the Son of
the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
And so ends his prayer and the canonization of Saint Padre Pio.
Next time we're going to have a video which just takes a glance at this question, is Europe
falling away?
In certain countries, there are only 10% of people now believing God.
We're going to try and take some words of Padre Pio, words of encouragement from Padre
Pio for this situation.
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