Comments on: Even More Pictures From The Padre Pio Celebration & Mass

By: Roz Cacciatore

Roz Cacciatore — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:22:54 +0000

Cardinal Sean:

I was truely impressed with your photos of the New Church of
Padre Pio. Although, I am very partial to the Old Church, having visited San Giovanni several times, I must admit that the time you spent in doing this certainly paid off. God Bless you.
Roz

By: Doris

Doris — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:01:35 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean,
How pleased I am with your blog! Thank you so much for taking the time to create it and add to it every week. Being from Fall River I miss your masses at the Chancery chapel and your overall guidance and direction. It’s wonderful to have this opportunity to hear you speak, again, through the written word. I’m still just exploring your time in Rome and San Giovanni Rotundo. In 2001, I was blessed with an opportunity to visit Padre Pio’s Home of 50 years. How wonderful it is to visit it again with your photos and words. Your photos of Vatican City brought me to places, and introduced me to churches I hadn’t seen in Rome. Even beyond the pictures, thank for sharing your stories, your faith, your spirituality and continuing to shepherd to your people, even beyond your archdiocese of Boston. It is so much appreciated. Take care of yourself, Cardianal.
God Bless, Doris

By: Jeannine Veraldi

Jeannine Veraldi — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:59:47 +0000

Dear Cardinal Sean, Wow! If I had become weak in my faith, my journey through your fascinating blog at St. Padre Pio’s Shrine and your Mass would have given me new life in God. thank you and it all was so beautiful. Memories came back to the two or three times I was there in San Giovani and prayed at the tomb of this most interesting mystic. Jeannine

By: mary grady

mary grady — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:42:25 +0000

Hi! Cardinal Sean,
Greeting’s from Attleboro, Ma. — Many thanks for sharing your trip to Rome and the new Padre Pio Church. The pic’s are beautiful!!! And so are you!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:50:59 +0000

Your Eminence,

What a wonderful blog…thank you so much for sharing your journey with all of us. What a great way to share your faith with your flock. I live in Indiana, but learned of your blog from the Rome Forum on TripAdvisor. I’m so glad that I did. It is a blessing to see someone of your stature in our Church really reaching out to the people in this way.

May God bless you and keep you today and always.

By: Thomas Coolberth

Thomas Coolberth — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:16:25 +0000

Writing on a strictly architectural level, I think the shrine is a modernist nightmare. Too bad for Saint Pio.

By: Sr. Anne

Sr. Anne — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:45:47 +0000

Your Eminence,
Great blog! So glad to see a churchman at your level take advantage of the possibilities of communication technology.
But please tell me you have technical help uploading all those photos! What a lot of work that is to upload and caption… (Or maybe you just have a fantastic program to work with?)

By: QuaVadis

QuaVadis — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:39:08 +0000

Most Revererend Eminence,

Having came upon your blog, I am delighted with the wonderful pictures that you have posted up with regards to your trip to the Shrine of Padre Pio and to Rome, however, a point of note, I find that the Cross above the Altar at the Padre Pio Shrine, a tad too modernistic for my taste, dnt you agree? Artistically, it does not add much to the pleasure of the eyes and I am confused by the significance of the structures which rather destroys the beauty of the shrine.

By: Florence Bianco SFO

Florence Bianco SFO — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:30:22 +0000

Truly magnificent, it was like I was really there with you, Thank you for sharing this, I in turn will share these with many.

By: Maj. Anthony Le

Maj. Anthony Le — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:47:35 +0000

Dear Cardinal O’Malley:

Thanks for keeping us close with you in this Holy journey. I am not a parishioner in your Archdiocese, but I got this news from Zenit, where I got accessed from the battle fields in Afganistan with the U.S. Army.

Thank you so much for sharing your trip to Rome with us, and especially with me, a soldier from a very far place of the continent.

Please keep your distant flocks and all the U.S. men and women in the Armed Forces in your daily prayer!

May God Bless and Take Great Care of You, Cardinal!

With respectfullness, Anthony Le

By: Father Mike Kuhn

Father Mike Kuhn — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:57:37 +0000

Cardinal Sean, thank you for sharing your trip. Please know that our prayers from Youth Apostles include you and your ministry in all our Masses. Fr. Mike p.s. even Ramonine could not have done better with the pictures.

By: JOhn Fulham

JOhn Fulham — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:40:29 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful posts! (And the almost equally wonderful pictures!) We all hope you will consider keeping up the blog after you get home. Its like having you in our living room…where you’ll always be a very welcome guest!

By: John McGonagle

John McGonagle — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:49:53 +0000

I found this very interesting. All of the pictures were good and almost make you feel like you are there. This is a great idea.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:01:30 +0000

That is the most beautiful pulpit I have ever seen. And the crucifix with Padre Pio is stunning.

Cardinal Se�n is one I have prayed for, though I am not from Boston, as he shoulders the burden of bringing order and peace back to the Boston Archdiocese. I’m grateful to him for sharing these details of his journey, as I believe he is a gentle soul who truly loves Christ and wishes only to do good.

May God be with him.