Padre Pio's Spiritual Direction for Every Day

"Take concern to have your heart be more pleasing to our Master day by day." —Padre Pio in a letter to Antonietta Vona, January 2, 1918

Padre Pio is many different things to different people. This Italian saint, also known as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin, Catholic priest, friar, teacher, mystic, and maybe most famously, a stigmatist. In August of 1918, he began to bear the wounds of Christ that would come and go over a period of weeks and to this day cannot b...