Padre Pio Novena

A novena in honor of Padre Pio will be held at 7:00PM every Thursday evening beginning July 28, 2022 and concluding on Thursday, September 22, 2022 with a closing Mass at 6:30PM followed by an outdoor procession into O’Connell Hall for the Padre Pio Novena Festive Dinner.  The dates, locations, and times for the novena evenings are:

• July 28, 2022 - St. Frances Cabrini Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. David Schmidt)
• August 4, 2022 - St. John the Baptist Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. Pio Adamonis, OSB)
• August 11, 2022 - St. Titus Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. Mingwei Li)
• August 18, 2022 - Our Lady of Fatima Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. Nathanial Polinski, OSB)
• August 25, 2022 - St. Frances Cabrini Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. John Paul Heiser, OSB)
• September 1, 2022 - St. John the Baptist Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. Cassian Edwards, OSB)
• September 8, 2022 - St. Titus Church at 7:00PM  (w Fr. Mark Thomas)
• September 15, 2022 - Our Lady of Fatima Church at 7:00PM (w Fr. John Lynam)
• September 22, 2022 - St. Frances Cabrini Church at 6:30PM (w Bishop Waltersheid)

The dinner on September 22nd is $35 per person and will include the following:

• Italian Beef Braciole
• Strozzapreti
• Campania Field Greens Salad
• Gelato
• Chianti

To make reservations for the dinner, please call 724.775.3940 no later than Thursday, September 15, 2022. For payment, checks should be made out to Mary, Queen of Saints Parish and dropped off or mailed to SJB Pastoral Center, 1501 Virginia Avenue, Monaca, PA, 15061.


“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”  — Padre Pio
 

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Please note that beginning on Thursday, July 28, 2022 and for the duration of our parish’s Padre Pio Novena (which concludes on September 22, 2022), there will be no Thursday evening 7:00PM Mass offered at St. John the Baptist Church, Monaca.  Mass on those Thursdays will be said at 8:30AM.
 

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Francesco Forgione, OFM Cap., known as Padre Pio as well as St. Pius of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic.

• Born - May 25. 1887
• Took Franciscan habit and name Fra Pio - January 22, 1903
• Ordained - August 1910
• Stigmata - September 20, 1918
• Died -  September 23, 1968
• Beatified - May 2, 1999
• Canonized by JP II - June 16, 2002
• Feast Day - September 23rd