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THE HEALING OF [the eyes of] GEMMA DI GIORGI [by St. Padre Pio] [Ecumenical]
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Posted on 04/02/2011 10:05:07 PM PDT by Salvation

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This Sunday's Gospel is the story of Jesus healing the man born blind. I thought this story would also be inspirational.
1 posted on 04/02/2011 10:05:13 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...

For now we see through a glass, darkly;
but then face to face; now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known."
- 1 Corinthians 13:12

Catholic Ping!

2 posted on 04/02/2011 10:07:35 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I’ve read this story several times. The intercession of Padre Pio is powerful.


3 posted on 04/02/2011 10:19:39 PM PDT by Antoninus (Fight the homosexual agenda. Support marriage -- www.nationformarriage.org)
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To: Antoninus

Truly an amazing story.


4 posted on 04/02/2011 10:22:46 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
Thanks for ping. I have personally had signal graces from this Saint. I smelled the fragrance he is noted for after prayers for his interession. Not all the time but when important message is seeked.

I just had an answer from prayer for My car title problem. It went on for months. I asked Padre Pio for Prayer to help with this problem. The sealed Padre Pio pic card and rosary next to Christ's picture fell off the wall. I thanked God. I got a call it was being sent to me. I then got it.

I get a kick out of the doctors. I remember my mother when my father had a stroke. The doctor came after tests to tell my mother that my father would never work again in this life.

Well, my mother was praying looked up and laughed. She told him are you now in the office of God. He was bewildered. She told him he has to he is the bread winner. With prayer my Father was back to work in a month. Despite the bewildered doctor. He lived another 20 years. Died in his sleep in the tv room chair in 1994.

Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!! AMEN!!

5 posted on 04/02/2011 11:20:30 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: All; Salvation
"I ask you to love the Calvary of God, crucified in the darkness; stay near to Him and rest assured that Jesus is within your hearts more than you are able to believe or imagine."

St. Pio of Pietrelcina

6 posted on 04/02/2011 11:28:18 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: Salvation
She had no pupils -- either before she was healed or after.

A medical doctor claimed it was impossible for her to see since she had no pupils...

7 posted on 04/02/2011 11:31:00 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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Scientists always wants to explain away the miracles, don’t they? LOL!


8 posted on 04/02/2011 11:33:42 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: johngrace

Your mom sounds like she had a will of iron and heart overflowing with prayer and love.


9 posted on 04/02/2011 11:34:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
In this case, the doctor was not trying to explain away the medical -- this case of supernatural healing was confusing to him. For him, he was trained that a person without pupils could not see.

He had trouble accepting the change in the vision of the child because he taught it was impossible.

I don't think he was trying to explain away the miracle.

He just was trained that if certain medical conditions were true, then the diagnosis must be...

At any rate, there was a similar case recently in Australia. The mother gave kangaroo care to her dead who had died premature. The baby had been declared legally dead.

The mother was holding the baby one last time. Then the baby started to breathe. The doctor thought it impossible since the baby was legally dead.

It is an interesting story.

It is not so much that medicine refuses to accept these things -- it is more a mathematician trying to accept 2 + 2 is 5 type of thing. It just does not make sense to him.

But God can suspend Natural Law...

10 posted on 04/02/2011 11:39:21 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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To: Salvation

Yes! Also knew her Savoir by intimate pray every day. She went to 9:00 o’clock Mass every day. Always had a bible to read.


11 posted on 04/02/2011 11:49:11 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: Salvation

“Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”

“Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.”

“Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?”

“The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat. “

“Fear not because God is with you.”

“Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.”

“Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: “Today, if you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart.” Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours. “

“Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!”

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.”


12 posted on 04/02/2011 11:54:10 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: Salvation

Having studied quite a bit on Padre Pio, I have always found this story to be one of the most fascinating. This is not something that happened long long ago, lost in the mists of memory and legend. Over the decades, many doctors examined Gemma. They were dumbfounded by her situation - having no pupils and yet able to see. There’s a lot of documentation on this case - lots of video, much medical testimony. Powerful stuff...


13 posted on 04/02/2011 11:56:38 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Salvation

Oh, my Jesus, give me the grace to see all that I should see.


14 posted on 04/03/2011 6:16:37 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Salvation
The future head of the Jesuits, Father Arrupe, was a medical student at Lourdes when he witnessed a miracle.

That miracle was the source of his vocation. At that point in his life, being a medical student, he understood science.

He understood, I am sure, how natural law was suspended by the miracle he saw.

Sometimes it is hard to accept the supernatural.

If you see a saint levitate [many instances could be named], you and I might accept it, but others would on in disbelief.

Of course, the famous story of Saint Joseph of Cupertino was that he forbidden from levitating until they needed some bells hung in the bell tower. Then he obeyed the orders of his superior... And he hung the bells through levitation -- just by praying.

If that would be shown live on TV today, people would ridicule as some sort of trick such as hidden wires...

15 posted on 04/03/2011 7:14:39 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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To: topher

True.


16 posted on 04/03/2011 8:12:27 AM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: Salvation

Thanks Salvation for posting this... I have been praying for my father’s healing for six years.


17 posted on 04/03/2011 10:03:14 AM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: johngrace; Salvation; karnage; topher

I came upon National Center for Padre Pio while I was traveling through PA for work a few years ago.I had no idea it existed and it is in a remote area in Barto PA(I’m sure the Lord led me there anyway).

They have all sorts of items from Saint Pio that was in San Giovanni Rotondo there in the museum and I was even able to hold one of the gloves he wore to cover his stigmata and bring it with me to pray in the Chapel.You could feel the power in holding this holy glove. I have had many prayers answered through Saint Pio’s intercession and have been back to the center 2 more times and will be back this year again.

The miracle behind the center is amazing

Here is the story and miracle...

History of The Centre for Padre Pio
http://www.padrepio.org/Centre/History.aspx

After being introduced to the life of Padre Pio through reading a book, Mrs. Vera Calandra traveled to San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy in 1968 to meet the priest “who worked miracles.” She brought two of her small children with her, one very sick little girl named Vera Marie.

Mrs. Calandra had two audiences with Padre Pio where he blessed her and her children, placing his sore wounded hands on their heads. Upon their return to Pennsylvania and yet another consultation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Calandras were informed that Vera Marie had made “great improvements” and that her prognosis seemed good. The doctors had removed Vera Marie’s bladder during one of the many operations she had undergone prior to her pilgrimage to Padre Pio. Their discovery upon her return was a “rudimentary bladder” growing in place of the one they had removed. A Miracle!

While still in Italy, Mrs. Calandra knew in her heart what she must do. She had made a silent promise to Almighty God that if her baby girl were to live, the whole world would know of the greatness of Padre Pio. With the permission of the Friars of San Giovanni Rotondo, Mrs. Calandra began spreading his name in her small community in Pennsylvania. She began a Holy Hour in her Church, which met every 1st Saturday of the month, attracting upwards of 200 faithful every Mass.

Locally, people began visiting the Calandra home to obtain photos and prayers to Padre Pio, which the Friars in San Giovanni Rotondo had now made available. Hometown visitors began sending what few items they were able to obtain from Mrs. Calandra to relatives out of state and thus, the correspondence and large volumes of mail began.

The requests for programs and lectures started pouring in. Mrs. Calandra found herself on airplane after airplane, accepting these speaking engagements and keeping her promise to Almighty God. With the help and support of her devoted husband, children and staff, Mrs. Calandra has spoken in over 1,000 churches, monasteries, seminaries, colleges, universities and convents all around the world; accepting invitations from as far away as Asia, as remote as the Native American Reservations in North Dakota, New Mexico and Montana, and as close to home as the family’s Parish.

The National Centre for Padre Pio has been recognized by the Holy See for its spiritual work. Mr. and Mrs. Calandra have had the blessed honor and opportunity to have countless audiences with the Holy Father and to attend many Masses in his private chapel.

In 1987, Mrs. Calandra received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award, an honor bestowed by the Pope for outstanding work with the Catholic Church. On Sunday, May 2, during the Beatification Ceremony of Padre Pio in Rome, Italy, Mrs. Calandra was given the great privilege of representing the United States of America and was asked to read the first reading at the Solemn Mass.

In their capacity as founders and staff at the National Centre, the Calandra family annually hosts, educates and ministers to tens of thousands of devotees who yearly visit the center in Barto, Pennsylvania. In addition to the daily duties at the National Centre, the Calandras arrange pilgrimages to San Giovanni, as well as travel worldwide, spreading the message of the life, wounds, words and works of Blessed Pio.


18 posted on 04/03/2011 4:07:52 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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Thanks for sharing your personal discovery of the Padre Pio Center in the USA.

I’m sure many people are not aware of it.


19 posted on 04/03/2011 6:33:30 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Thanks for sharing!! I will make that a pilgrimage!! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!

AMEN!!!

20 posted on 04/03/2011 8:33:36 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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