Take Your Troubles to Saint Padre Pio and He Will Take Them to Jesus for You

Take your troubles to Saint Padre Pio, and he will take them to Jesus for you.

"A good lady from the village of San Giovanni Rotondo [in Italy where St. Padre Pio lived on a mountain in a Capuchin monastery] had a husband who was ill. So she went to the monastery. The only trouble was, how could she see Padre Pio? [Millions of people from all over the world flocked to San Giovanni during Pio's life to see him, to receive his blessing, to confess to him, to receive a miracle from God through St. Padre Pio.] In order to see him in the confessional, it was necessary to wait your turn; at least three days! During the Mass the poor lady was agitated. She went from right to left and left to right, crying and telling Our Lady of Grace of her great suffering; asking through the intercession of Our Lady's faithful servant Padre Pio for her husband's cure. She did this also during other people's confessions while she awaited her turn.

"Finally she succeeded in slipping into the famous corridor where you can catch a glimpse of Padre Pio. As soon as he saw her, he looked at her severely and said, 'Woman of little faith; when will you stop bombarding my head and buzzing into my ear? [He had the gift of reading minds and hearts, and often people's guardian angels would deliver the people's prayers and messages to him for the people, as must have happened in the case of this woman.] Do you think I'm deaf? You have already told me your problem five times: to the right, to the left, from in front and from behind. I understood! I understood!' And then with a smile he added, 'Go home quickly, everything is fine.' And in reality, her husband had recovered!

"In this cheerful incident, Padre Pio simply wished to teach the good lady a lesson that she would not forget for the rest of her life. And that lesson was that her prayers are always heard. I hope each one of us will remember this little incident when we have any doubts at all in this regard, about our own prayers being heard."

(Pages 157-158 in Father Alessio Parente's PADRE PIO, OUR GOOD SAMARITAN. Fr. Alessio was one of St. Pio's "bodyguards" and devoted friends during the Saint's last years. I consider Fr. Alessio to be a Saint too.)