I have been assigned the task of drafting an article about the intensity of these days when you are watching us from heaven, but I purposely choose to go off track, because now the real theme will be written by you, my beloved Father.
We share the interview given by the Vicar of the Institute, Don Raffaele Gramegna, to Padre Pio TV in memory of our beloved Father.
In the certainty of the blessed Resurrection, I announce that today, 14 January 2025 at 04.37, the love of the Heavenly Father called our beloved Father Founder, Msgr Pierino Galeone, to celebrate the Heavenly Liturgy.
On Saturday, September 7, 2024, the end-of-summer retreat was held at Casa San Paolo in Martina Franca (TA), a wonderful opportunity to come together and restart after the summer break. This is how Gigi and Patrizia, the respective leaders of the Taranto and San Giorgio Ionico communities, envisioned it. The chosen theme: Holiness in the Family, a focus on "Sanctifying oneself to Sanctify others," which was a central topic of the recent Spiritual Exercises in San Giovanni Rotondo.
Walking and running are bodily exercises, whereas spiritual exercises are called “the ways of disposing the soul to rid itself of all disordered affections and, once eliminated, to seek and find the divine will” in one's life for the salvation of the soul. So wrote St. Ignatius of Loyola and this is precisely what happened from August 21-25 during the spiritual exercises of the Servants of Suffering Associates held at St. John Rotondo.
