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ST. PADRE PIO PRAYER GROUP NEWSLETTER
Spiritual Director:
Rev. Fr. Edward Janoch
Group Leader: Cindy Russo
SAVE THE DATE:
May 2 Padre Pio Prayer Group Gathering at beginning with Mass at 8:30 a.m. St. Barnabas Church, 9451 Brandywine Rd.,
May 7 Knight of Columbus Holy Hour 7 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church. Rosary & Benediction
On Sept. 20, 1918, after celebrating Mass, and praying in thanksgiving, Padre Pio was suddenly overtaken by powerful trembling. He saw Our Lord in his crucified form. He was lamenting the ingratitude of men, especially those consecrated to him and favored by him."
"Christ’s suffering was apparent as was his desire to join souls to His Passion. He invited him to let His pains enter into him, meditate on them and at the same time concern himself with the salvation of others. Following this, St. Pio said” I felt full of compassion for the Lord's pains and I asked him what I could do. I heard this voice: 'I will unite you with my Passion.' And after this the vision disappeared, I came back to myself, my reason returned and I saw these signs here from which blood flowed. ”The stigmata was not the result of a personal request, but came from an invitation of the Lord, who, lamenting the ingratitude of men, and consecrated persons in particular, conferred on Padre Pio a mission as the culmination of an interior mystical journey of preparation. The love of Jesus in the Eucharist was intimately connected with love for Mary. He wrote, “I feel that I am closely bound to the Son through the Mother, without seeing the chains that hold me fast … I am constantly dying and yet forever alive.” With the passage of time his love for Mary became more fervent. He loved to call her “Mammina” (“Little Mama”). Padre Pio showed his Marian devotion by his constant and uninterrupted recitation of the rosary. He always had the rosary in his bleeding hands since he considered it a powerful weapon. “This prayer, the rosary, is a summary of our faith; the basis of our hope; the outpouring of our charity, he said.” In the monastery he spent many hours in prayer before the statue of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and asked her intercession on behalf of those who had come to him for help.
March 25 Consecration to Mary 7pm St. Charles Borromeo Church 5891 Ridge Rd, Parma, Oh 44129
Divine Mercy Sunday Check your local church for services and times.
April 11
Thursdays Rosary & Prayers with the Blue Army at St. Barnabas Chapel 7 p.m.
We know in four weeks, Easter is celebrated and our Risen Lord brings us light, new life and nourishment through His sufferings. Concentrate on these last few weeks of Lent with prayer, fasting and sacrifice. Know that Our Lord will bless you with His love, His grace and His promise of everlasting life for eternity. Have you made any break through with this Lent so far? Have we made a break with all the stuff that take up so much of our time, all of the stuff that we think we need or think we have to have? For those who chose to do the Consecration 33 Days to Morning Glory, has it brought you closer to Jesus through Mary? Has it made you more compassionate, generous and kinder? Have you made more time for prayer? Have you gone to confession? All God wants of you is to try to do the best that you can. Our Father will reward us with gifts. MAY YOU CELEBREATE EASTER WITH ALL ITS SPLENDER AND GLORY
NO APRIL PADRE PIO MTG
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FR. ED!
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REFLECTIONS FROM OUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
LENT 365! aka “Sinners Anonymous” “If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!”
~St. Pio of Pietrelcina So how has your Lenten penances, sacrifices, and works of charity going? Difficult? Easy? “Don’t Ask?” “Just Right?” Well these 40 days are just the yearly refresher course on what we should be doing each and every day of our life. “Repent and believe in the Gospel” is not just a 40 days event. We “give up” our external Lenten practices of coffee, sweets, meat, television, internet, etc., to express our inner “giving up” of our sins of cursing and swearing, lying, cheating, gossiping, stealing, viewing/reading/owning immoral books/videos/magazines [these are not just pornography, but also trashy romantic books, gossip magazines, and many cable late night movies], adultery and fornication, abortion and sins against life, etc. If we cannot wait for Lent to be over so we can go back to our coffee, sweets, meat, television, internet, etc., then what does that say about our giving up our sins. Do we go back to sinning after Lent is over? No, that would be unthinkable, but we do not realize that Lent is 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year event. We do not stop in our quest to “Repent and believe in the Gospel” until our last breath has left our bodies. Lent begins at our baptism and ends at death. That is why children should do the external Lenten sacrifices to learn how to begin to turn away from their sins while adults do more works of charity and turn away from their sins. Most adults become frustrated after the third day of Lent because they cannot keep their external Lenten practices. They end up becoming discouraged and just stop. This just show us how weak our human nature really is and what does that say about any possibility for us to give up our sins. This brings to mind individuals who are in one of the many “Anonymous” groups that are available to help someone who has an addiction to something. They have to “repent and believe in their Higher Power” to get through each day of their life without partaking in their addiction. That is why we all, if we are honest with ourselves, are members of “Sinners Anonymous.” We are powerless over our sins; we need to rely on our “Higher Power” which is God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; we make an inventory of our sins and those who we have hurt from our sins; we tell some about our sins, that is the Sacrament of Penance; we have a sponsor, in our case a good friend, priest, or spiritual director, to help us on our daily journey to “Repent and believe in the Gospel;” and then work on ways to amend our life so that we learn to avoid our sins. Just as Alcoholics Anonymous was founded as a spiritual means to give up addiction to alcohol; “Sinners Anonymous” is also the spiritual means to give up our addiction to sins. Our program’s steps are not twelve steps but fourteen steps. They are the Fourteen Stations “steps” of the Cross. Jesus, Himself, has shown us how we are to take up our cross [sins] and follow Him. He has shown us how to daily die to our will and to do the Father’s Will. He took up His Cross out of love for us and we take up our cross out of love for Him. He is the “Higher Power” to help us “Repent and believe in the Gospel.” All we have to do is “just do it.” Something that is easier said than done. Jesus did it, so must we. We still have four weeks of Lent and Holy Week left before Easter. Our Spiritual Father, St. Pio had said: "If He asks us to carry the Cross, the Lord will help and give strength." St. Padre Pio will also help us to carry our cross and to helps us “to die to self and always live by Your most holy Word.” Easter will be here soon, but we first have to go through Holy Week. Yours in Christ, Fr. Edward J. Janoch Spiritual Director
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MEDJUGORJE
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On June 24, 1981, six children in the town of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia (today, Bosnia-‐Herzegovina), began to experience phenomena which they alleged to be apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This apparition had a message of peace for the world, as well as a call to conversion, prayer and fasting. It also entrusted to the children secret messages about events to be fulfilled in the future. These "secrets," confided individually to different visionaries, have not been revealed to the public. The apparitions themselves have continued almost daily since 1981, with some of the now young adults continuing to experience them regularly (those who have not yet received all the secrets intended for them) and others not. Originally they occurred on a hilltop near the town where a large Cross commemorating the Redemption exists. They have since occurred in many other places, including the parish church, St. James, and wherever the visionaries happen to be located at the time of the apparition. The news that Our Lady might be appearing immediately began to attract pilgrims to Medjugorje, first from the surrounding countryside, and then, despite the communist government of that day, from Europe and the whole world. These included clergy and theologians, as well as experts from the physical and medical sciences who testified to some kind of phenomenon taking place when the apparition was said to be occurring. The private judgment of these early visitors did much to bolster people's belief in the events at Medjugorje. In addition, some pilgrims reported seeing the sun spin and being able to look at it without pain or eye damage, others that their rosaries turned gold colored, still others that remarkable physical or spiritual/moral healings had taken place. All of these contributed to the fame of the alleged apparition.
Ecclesiastical Evaluation: Since the Medjugorje events had exceeded the scope of a local event, Cardinal Kuharic, President of the Yugoslavian Bishops Conference, announced in January 1987 that a
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national commission would be established to continue investigating. This decision had been communicated to the Holy See, which stated that it accepted the judgment of the diocesan commission under the authority of the local bishop but urged, as well, that the work be continued at the national level. In April 1991 the following declaration was made by the Bishops' Conference of the former Yugoslavia: The bishops, from the very beginning, have been following the events of Medjugorje through the Bishop of the diocese [Mostar], the Bishop's Commission and the Commission of the Bishops Conference of Yugoslavia on Medjugorje. The Director of the Holy See's Press Office, Dr. Joaquin Navarro-‐Valls, clarifies, stating, ‘You cannot say people cannot go there until it has been proven false. This has not been said, so anyone can go if they want.’
As the Vatican continues to study Medjugorje its followers wait patiently for guidance from the Church.
St. James Church, Medjugorje
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SUGGESTED SCRIPTURE READING AND MEDITATION
FOR MARCH AND APRIL
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Luke1:28-‐30
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Luke 1 :48
Do this in remembrance
of Me. 1 Corinthians11:24
When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He loved, he said unto His mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then He said to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. John 19 26-‐27
Christ is the mediator of a new Covenant, so that by means of His death, those who are called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15
Five First Saturday Devotion
Our Lady returned to Fatima on Dec.10, 1925 and gave the great promise that went with making the Five First Saturdays: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with intention of making reparation to Me.”
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REFLECT THE RISEN CHRIST!
Pope Francis carrying the Paschal Candle at the Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City
“Those who went to San Giovanni Rotondo to attend his Mass, to seek his counsel or to confess to him, saw in him a living image of Christ suffering and risen. The face of Padre Pio reflected the light of the Resurrection.”
From the Homily at the Beatification Mass for St. Pio of Pietrelcina by St. John Paul II, 2 May 1999 At the Easter Vigil, the most solemn of Masses for the Catholic Church, the Paschal Candle is brought into a darkened church. The only light is from the candle. We proclaim three times, in the darkness: Lumen Christi [Light of Christ] and then the darkened church begins to fill with light as the church glows with the light from the Paschal Candle to the candles held by each individual. This Lumen Christi is a reflection of our receiving the Light of Christ at our baptism. We were promised by our parents or by ourselves made the promise if we were baptized as an adult, to be enlightened by Christ through our life’s journey by being taught our faith through words and actions. Our lives were promised to become reflections of Christ in our world. We reflect both the Resurrection and the Death of Jesus: The Paschal Mystery. In a letter to his Spiritual Daughter, Raffaelina Cerase, Padre Pio writes in greeting: “May the Holy Spirit fill your soul with His most holy gifts and make you holy. May the risen Jesus make you, too, feel a spark of His holy love and reveal more and more to you the mysteries of the Cross. May the sorrowful Virgin obtain for you from her most holy Son true and sincere love of the cross and may your soul be inebriated with it. Amen.” (April 10, 1915) Easter is not Easter without Holy Week. Christ “showed himself the Priest, the Altar, and the Lamb of sacrifice.” (Preface V of Easter from The Roman Missal) The Victor had to first be the Victim. As Bishop Fulton Sheen said: “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.” All this is to help us to Rejoice in the Risen Lord. It is to help us find joy again in the midst of suffering, the carrying of our cross. If our world was always one filled with joy, we would begin to take it for granted and eventually we would lose its meaning. Suffering takes joy away, but it also makes us joyful again when the suffering is gone. As the fourth verse of the Lenten song Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days states: Abide with us that when this life
Of suffering is past, An Easter of unending joy We may attain at last.
The Joy of the Risen Christ is revealed through Jesus by stating that he is the Light of the world, a light that dispels the darkness. He overcomes sin and death. He enlightens us to follow the narrow path to Heaven. He fills us with His Wisdom, an enlightenment through knowledge of Him through His Bride, the Church. All this is done so that we may reflect the Risen Christ in our world and to those who live in the shadow of death. He guides us on the way to peace. Just as every day of our life is a Lent, at turning away from sin and believing the Gospel; we also are to reflect the Risen Christ dispelling the darkness of sin, every day of our life. This is only done through Christ. Reflect the Risen Christ! Fr. Edward J. Janoch Spiritual Director
REFLECTIONS FROM OUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
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THE PADRE PIO PRAYER GROUP OF THE CLEVELAND DIOCESE INVITES YOU TO A PILGRIMAGE
ON MAY 13TH~ THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA
TO
THE BASILICA AND SHRINES OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA & OUR LADY OF VICTORY
IN LACKAWANNA AND YOUNGSTOWN, NEW YORK
LAKEFRONT COACH WILL LEAVE FROM ST. BARNABAS PARKING LOT AT 7 A.M. 9451 Brandywine Rd., Northfield Center, OH 44067
A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, SNACKS, AND BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED ON THE BUS. INCLUDED WILL BE A WALKING TOUR, HOLY MASS, PRAYERS, GIFT SHOP AND LUNCH AT
OUR LADY OF FATIMA SHRINE AND BASILICA.
NEXT STOP AT OUR LADY OF VICTORY BASILICA AND SHRINE WITH TOUR AND VISIT TO BLESSED FR. BAKERS TOMB.
YOU WILL RETURN BY BY 8 PM. THE COST OF THE PILGRIMAGE IS $50.
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO CONTINUE OUR DEVOTION TO OUR BLESSED MOTHER!
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DIVINE MERCY In church history, when there is an upcoming serious challenge, God usually sends Mary, a Saint, or Jesus to inspire someone to convey to people what to do. Some examples are: St. Ignatius at the time of the Protestant Reformation, Our Lady of Guadalupe, when Mexico was conquered by Spain, our Lady of Fatima at the start of the World War I, and Saint Faustina for World War II and the Third Millennium. Pope John Paul being not afraid but rather full of trust in God, realized that he had a special role to play in the Fatima promises. He consecrated Russia and the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and down came communism in Europe and Russia. This was a great blessing from God. However, the world situation almost seems worse now then it was before communism fell. Our own country seems to be getting worse with moral erosion and the
conflict with secularists who try to dechristianize society. Fear is gripping the hearts of Americans due to world conflicts. Like St. John Paul we need to “be not afraid” and trust in God.
We can do this in two basic ways:
The first way is by heeding the Fatima message of prayer and penance. Fr. Andrew Apostoli of EWTN points out that. Sr. Lucy, one of the Fatima visionaries, said that there is still one unfilled condition before world peace could occur-‐ the first Saturday Devotion which is treated in another article in this newsletter.
The second way is by heeding the message of Divine Mercy. In the 1930’s, St. Faustina, a Polish nun, wrote a diary of some 600 pages called “Divine Mercy in My Soul” recording revelations she received from Jesus. If people do what Jesus recommends, we can obtain His mercy, individually and for our world. If not, there will have to be a judgment.
SOME ELEMENTS OF DIVINE MERCY ARE:
1. Ask for mercy-‐ “Souls that make an appeal to my mercy delight me to such souls. I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion”(diary 1146). “Beg for mercy for the whole world”(570). ”No soul that has called upon My mercy has ever been disappointed” (1541).
2. Be merciful to others-‐ “I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. If a soul does not exercise mercy in some way, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment”(1317).
3. Completely trust in Jesus-‐ “I have opened my heart as a living Fountain of Mercy. Let souls approach this sea of mercy with great trust” (1520). ”On the cross, the Fountain of My Mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls-‐no one have I excluded”(1182.) I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is the image with the signature, “Jesus I trust in You”(327). “The graces of mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is –trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive”(1578). “Trust involves a turning back to God, a real conversion of our whole lives to God, repenting of our sins and forgiving others. Trust involves a living faith; tell humankind to snuggle close to My merciful heart, and I will fill it with peace”(1074). A living trust in Jesus is the antidote to the fear that grips at the heart of so many people today.
4. Proclaiming mercy-‐ ”Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire life as a tender mother her infant. At the hour of death I will not be a Judge for them, but a Merciful Savior”(1075).
5. Confession-‐ tribunal of god’s mercy.” When you go to confession, to this Fountain of Mercy, the blood and water which came forth from the heart always flows down upon your soul”(1602). In the Tribunal of Mercy, the greatest miracles take place and are incessantly repeated”(1448). “Come with faith to the feet of My representative, the priest”(1448). I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest. I Myself act in your soul”(1602). Focus much more on Jesus than an individual priest.
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6. The image of Divine Mercy-‐ “I promise that the soul who will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over its enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory”(47,48). “The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water which makes the soul righteous. The red ray stands for My Blood, which is the life of souls. These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when my agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter”(299). “By means of this image, I will grant many graces” (742).
6. The feast of mercy on the Sunday after Easter is called, ‘Divine Mercy Sunday’. “On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment”(699). A holy hour on Divine Mercy Sunday is held at many churches at 3 p.m.
7. A Novena to the Divine Mercy begins on Good Friday and culminates on Mercy Sunday. “By this novena, I will grant every possible grace to souls”(796).
8. “The Chaplet”. The Chaplet or basic prayer of Divine Mercy is said using a Rosary. It begins with the Our Father, Hail Mary, Apostle’s Creed. On the large beads before each decade, the prayer is, “Eternal Father, I offer you the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement of our sins and those of the whole world.” On 10 small beads we say, “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” The concluding prayer is, “Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” Repeated 3 times.
9. The three o’clock hour. It is recommended, although not necessary, that the Chaplet be recited at 3 o’clock. The hour at which Jesus died for us. (if you can not recite at 3’oclock just meditate for a moment on Jesus’s divine mercy and mention your intentions). Try setting a reoccurring reminder on your phone for 3 p.m.
10. Mercy for dying-‐ Jesus said, “Pray as much as you can for the dying. By your entreaties, obtain for them in My mercy, because they have most need of trust, and have it the least”(1777). ”At the hour of their death, I defend as my own glory every soul that will say this Chaplet; or when others say it for a dying person, the indulgence (pardon) is the same”(811). There is a group of people who say the chaplet around the clock for the dying-‐-‐what a blessing they are!
11. Preparing for the second coming-‐ “Speak to the world about My second coming. Speak to the world about My mercy…..it is the end times. (The end times began with the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church). After it will come the day of justice”(848) “You will prepare the world for My final coming”(429). “Tell souls about this great mercy of mine, because of the awful day, the day of my justice, I am prolonging the time of mercy. (1588). I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of the sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation.”(1160). ”The one who refuses to pass through the door of
My mercy, must pass through My door of My justice”(1146). The exact time of the second coming is not definite. It could be tomorrow or many years. St. Faustina said “My mission will not come to an end upon my death. I will draw aside for you the veils of heaven to convince you of God’s goodness”(281).
St. Faustina and Padre Pio-- Pray for Us.
Jesus I Trust in You.
Help us to be “another Pope John Paul” being not afraid, but rather trusting in Jesus to bring about grace-filled positive changes in
ourselves and our world. Amen.
DIVINE MERCY (cont’d)
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~PRAYER FOR OUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
O Jesus, our great High Priest, Hear our humble prayers on behalf of your priest, Fr. Edward Janoch. Give him a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of his priestly life. In his loneliness, comfort him In his sorrows, strengthen him In his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show him that he is needed by the Church, he is needed by souls, he is needed for the work of redemption. O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination, and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs him so much. Be his comfort, be his joyand be his strenght. Amen
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FR. ED! THANK YOU FOR HELPING US GROW IN FAITH AND LOVE!
~There will not be an April meeting due to it being Holy Saturday.
As a suggestion we encourage you to attend on Divine Mercy Sunday Service, which is the Sunday after Easter, April 11th. Saint Barnabas will have a prayer service ay 3pm hosted by the Knights of Columbus. You may also check at your parish for the time of your parish service.
~Next meeting is May 2nd. We will have a May Crowning during mass for Mary. Blessings of the babies in the womb. All pregnant Moms are welcome as well as their families. A feast will follow. You may bring a appetizer, side dish or dessert to share. The guest speaker will be Bud McFarland from the Mary Foundation.
~ Fr. Larry Richards from EWTN will be present A Foundation of our Faith Mission at St. Barnabas Church, March 9th -‐12th. Come and experience Fr. Larry, who promises two things in this mission: you will never be bored and your life will be changed forever. Each night has a different theme: Monday -‐ Prayer; Tuesday -‐ Love of Others; Wednesday -‐ Confession and Thursday -‐ Benediction and Healing. Children’s Mission (ages 6 and up) and babysitting (ages 5 and under) each night. All are welcome.
~Rhoda Wise Shrine Mother Angelica's monastery, Our Lady of the Angels, in Hanceville, Alabama has transferred ownership of Rhoda Wise House and Grotto to Rhoda Wise Shrine, Inc., a locally owned 501c3 non-‐profit corporation formed to preserve Rhoda's legacy. Visiting hours remain the same -‐-‐-‐Monday through Friday from 10am-‐5pm for the house and everyday 8am-‐dusk for the grotto. Come for a visit! Strengthen your faith and help us grow!! And if you haven't seen it yet, check out our brand new website at www.rhodawise.com.
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Worry is useless! God is merciful and will hear our prayer.”
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