Padre Pio

What an incredible day!

The picture above shows the exhumed body of St. Padre Pio. The body is in a glass case so that pilgrims can venerate and pray for his intercession. It was very powerful to see him lying so peacefully!

I can not begin to express to you what an amazing day it has been today...filled with so many blessings.

I got to celebrate mass at the same altar that Padre Pio celebrated mass each and every day. It was so emotional!

Fr. Joe was concelebrating with me.

Here you can see how much it was snowing. All the snow actually turned out to be a blessing! We were able to stay in the crypt where St. Pio is for as long as we wanted... we were the only ones there.

There is so much snow. I hope my group can leave here tomorrow! I leave by taxi to Foggia and then by train to Rome... in Rome I will get on a flight to Split, Croatia.

Medj here I come.