Plead with Padre Pio in this time of coronavirus

SUPPLICA IN SAN PIO DA PIETRELCINA

in time of "coronavirus"

O glorious Padre Pio,

when you set up Prayer Groups you "joined us at Casa Sollievo, as advanced positions of this Citadel of charity", and you assured us that our vocation is to be "nurseries of faith and hotbeds of love, in which Christ himself is here I'm".

In this time of pandemic it becomes impossible to gather physically as Prayer Groups, but each of us knows that we are a person of prayer in communion with many others and knows many of their names and faces. In this tragic or glorious time, P. Pio, make us feel that we are truly united in one large Group which embraces the whole world and which makes itself the voice of all the Citadels of charity who struggle, suffer and pay with their professionalism to defeat the evil of the coronavirus.

O glorious Padre Pio, mediate our prayer to the Crucified Christ, from whom you were constituted Cyrene of humanity.

Through your mediation we want to intercede:

· For people affected by the virus and for those who have left this world for this scourge: "injured and fallen" of a war that has come suddenly and without being declared;

· For the families of the deceased and the sick, marked in the most dear and apprehensive bonds: "unarmed victims" of an enemy who has come to modify affections and relationships like a thief;

· For those forced into isolation in quarantine: experience of "house arrest", not because of a fault committed, but touched by an incomprehensible event, perhaps infected while performing their professional duty;

· For family doctors and first aid workers: in the "trenches", with little safety and, sometimes, without means to fight an invisible enemy;

· For doctors, nurses, health workers and workers, all from hospital wards: "battlefields" without hours, shifts and with forces that seem to decrease;

· For those responsible for civil life, rulers and administrators: leaders in calamitous times, obliged to take decisions that appear bitter and unpopular;

· For the world of economy, for workers, workers and entrepreneurs of all categories, who see their business weakened and fear for the resistance of their businesses: it will be up to them to rebuild at the end of this "war"; that creativity and a sense of the common good are strengthened in them;

· For the forgotten: the elderly and people who live alone, beggars and homeless, all categories that have remained "excluded" from social circles, which were already at fault and weak towards them;

· For the last who no longer appear in journalistic and television information: emigrants, refugees, those who risk their lives by crossing "our sea" on boats: all these still exist, as before, and continue their Calvary;

· For each one of us, who lives this time with a wounded heart, but knows that especially in a situation like this it must be even more a breeding ground for faith and a hotbed of love.

Help us, glorious Padre Pio, to intercede for all these people: I am the flesh of Christ, I am the Eucharist, which we cannot receive in these days; I am the living Eucharist, made a weak and suffering person ... on their face the Face of the Son of God shines, the sweet Jesus Crucified and Risen.

Amen!

The text of the Supplication taken from the official source of Padre Pio padrepio.it and written by the archbishop Father Franco Moscone