Dear Fellow Parish Bulletin Reps; SPRING arrived today. April 2017 is the month of the Holy Eucharist. Special celebrations in April in our Catholic Church include Palm Sunday (4/9), Holy Thursday (4/13), Good Friday (4/14), Easter (4/16), Feast of Divine Mercy (4/23), Our Lady of Good Counsel (4/26), St. Catherine of Siena and Our Lady of the Valley (4/29), and St. Marie of the Incarnation (4/30/17).
From his own handwriting to his spiritual directors and the spiritual daughter, Cleonice Morcaldi, we know that Padre Pio experienced during Mass the Passion of Jesus, including the Agony in the Garden with the sweat of blood, the scourging, the crowning of thorns, the hostile crowds, the Via Crucis, Veronica, Simon of Cyrene, the Crucifixion, the seven words, the sipping of the gall, the death and deposition. “If men only appreciated the value of a holy Mass they would need traffic officers at church doors every day to keep the crowds in order.” ~ St. Padre Pio.
