On Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of October the community of Associates in Ireland held it monthly retreat at our Padre Pio Prayer centre located in the west of Ireland a few kilometres from Ireland's International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine.
Between Saturday 20 and Tuesday 23 September 2025, the Community of Associates organised the Triduum and the feast in honour of St Pio at the Immacolata Parish in Maglie. For the first time, all the parish associations and the Secular Franciscan Order of Maglie collaborated with the Servants of Suffering.
As a missionary team, we had the privilege of spending unforgettable days in London from September 18th to 21st, meeting many people in the parishes of Sacred Heart Church in Teddington, Our Lady of Sorrows in Twickenham, St. Joseph’s in Malden, and St. Matthew’s in Northwood.
'Now you are sorrowful, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you' (Jn 16:22–23).
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.
