Padre Pio Blog

Since 1977, the Padre Pio Foundation of America has promoted the life and holiness of this extraordinary saint who sacrificed his life to relieve the pain and suffering of so many. Inspired by his outstanding example, we work to improve the lives of others throughout the world.  Your monthly gift keeps Padre Pio’s legacy alive […]

Last month the Padre Pio Foundation of America spoke with Father David Beaumont, a Capuchin missionary priest who joined the order at the age of 18. He told us stories of hunger, violence and the struggles of the people in Mexico that he works with on a daily basis. We reached out to the benefactors […]

We want to introduce you to someone very special. Father David Beaumont is a Capuchin missionary priest, who is walking in the footsteps of Padre Pio. Just like our favorite Saint, he felt a religious calling at a young age. He was an altar boy at 10 years old, entered the novitiate at 15 and […]

2020 has been a unique whirlwind of emotions for us all. As we strive to keep some sense of normalcy while the world is going through something that we as a society have never seen before, we are comforted by the fact that we have Padre Pio watching over us. #GivingTuesdayNow centers us and reminds […]

Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus “O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of [insert your intention.] Our Father*…Hail Mary**…Glory be […]

Prayer to Saint rocco O Great St. Rocco, deliver us, we beseech thee, from the scourges of God; through thy Intercessory, preserve our bodies from contagious diseases, and our souls from the contagion of sin. Obtain for us salubrious air; but, above all, purity of heart. Assist us to make good use of health, to […]