Padre Pio's Prayer After Holy Communion

March 12, 1995
Brother John Raymond

	The first priest to have the five wounds of Our Lord (called the
 stigmata) was Padre Pio. Born in 1887, he received the invisible
 stigmata (pain without visible wounds) in 1915 at his home in
 Pietrelcina, southern Italy. Three years later, as a Capuchin, he
 received the visible stigmata at Our Lady of Grace monastery in San
 Giovanni Rotondo. He died in 1968.
	To say that Padre Pio was extraordinary would be an
 understatement. Many are the stories of his bilocations, healings,
 reading of souls (knowing the state of a person's soul before God)
 prophecies, ecstasies, etc.
	This Lent one should recall on this Servant of God's life of
 suffering and ask for his intercession.

Padre Pio's Prayer After Holy Communion

	Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so
 that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.
	Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength,
 that I may not fall so often.
	Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am
 without fervor.
	Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in
 darkness.
	Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
	Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
	Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and alway
 be in Your company.
	Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
	Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place
 of consolation for You, a nest of Love.
	Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming
 to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches.
 It is necessary to renew my strenth, so that I will not stop along
 the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death
 approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the
 cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of
 exile!
	Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need
 You.
	Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the
 bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which
 disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy
 of my heart.
	Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to
 remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and
 love.
	Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love,
 Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You
 and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.
	With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on
 earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.

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