Padre Pio's Christmases

Padre Pio loved and anticipated Christmas like a child, all year round, all his life--from his youth, when he would carve and shape the Holy Family Nativity figures, to his Army days during the First World War, when he was forced to outwit bureaucratic rules to be able to say Mass on Christmas morning, to the many Midnight Masses on the windblown Gargano mountain, when he seemed tp bring the newborn Infant Jesus to life before the townspeople. His Midnight Mass became a legend.The Crib was everything to Padre Pio. He holds it up to us in simple but luminous words. and once he points out some true meanings, we are there forever.We cannot look away..

Author: Jeanette Salerno
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/24/2015
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9781519416285
ISBN10: 1519416288
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic

About the Author
Jeanette Salerno has been a Padre Pio devotee since the early 1960s and had the grace of meeting the saint. Ever since then her life has been inside the Padre Pio Pull. She dabbled in public relations, and is a published novelist (Appassionata, 1984) who turned to writing about Padre Pio at the gentle persuasion of Fr. Joseph Pius Martin, the American who attended Padre Pio during Pio's last years of life. The result is numerous articles for THE VOICE OF PADRE PIO, and several forthcoming Padre Pio books crowding together at the finish line, including HE SHALL STAY, her memoir of a 34-year friendship between her family and Fr. Joseph Pius, and PADRE PIO AND CHILDREN, calling attention to the importance of children in Padre Pio's life -- and in God's Plan. . Many of the Christmas meditations and reflections in this small book are gathered from her lifetime collection of THE VOICE OF PADRE PIO and LA CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA, (the hospital Padre Pio built), a treasury of past writings by people who knew and witnessed Padre Pio, and Padre Pio himself, writings not readily available today, except through the archives of those periodicals. Jeanette Salerno's website is www.first.padrepiosworld.net Her blog: www.padrepiosworld2.blogspot.com

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