To Saint Pio de Pietrelcina

20. To Saint Pio de Pietrelcina Beloved Padre Pio, today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you. They ask for cures and healing, earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace of mind and body. And because of your friendship with the Lord, he heals those you ask to be healed, and forgives those you forgive. Through your visible wounds of the cross, which you bore for fifty years, you were chosen in our time to glorify the crucified Jesus, because the cross has, over the time, come to be replaced by other symbols. Please help us to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it as the only true sign of Salvation! As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and Side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but also your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet smelling flowers that surround your presence, the perfume of sanctity, O Dear Pio de Pietrelcina, may the healing of the sick be enough testimony to the fact that the Lord has invited you to join the holy company of his saints! In your kindness, please help me with my own special request (here mention your petition, and make the sign of the cross), Bless me and my loved ones, I plead! In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen,