Padre Pio - The Scent of Roses

Author: Colm Keane
Publisher: Capel Island Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Along with Mother Teresa and John Paul II, Padre Pio is one of the most beloved and inspirational figures for both Catholics and people of belief throughout the world. Now, in Padre Pio - The Scent of Roses, award-winning journalist Colm Keane, brings accounts of the saint's wonderful influence up to date. Using first-hand accounts of healing and recovery from illness, and through the stories of miracles and cures attributed to Padre Pio, this book provides new insights into the power and reach of the saint, who for fifty years bore the five wounds of Christ. The author retells personal stories of recovery from various cancers (including tumours and leukaemia), heart problems, depression, arthritis and multiple sclerosis and remarkable revivals from brain injuries, infections, accidents, kidney failure, blood clots and problems in childbirth. Colm Keane's writing on life, death and spirituality has touched readers in profound ways over many years and many of his books have been number one bestsellers. His latest, Padre Pio - The Scent of Roses is a deeply spiritual book on a much loved and revered saint.

The Little Flower - St Therese of Lisieux

Author: Colm Keane
Publisher: Capel Island Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
St. Thérèse’s suffering as a nun, the bullying she experienced at school, and details of her tragic death from tuberculosis aged 24 are revealed in this groundbreaking book. You will read about her many miracles, including cures from cancer, arthritis and infertility. The Little Flower’s blueprint for a good and fulfilling life – her “little way” – is explained. Everybody is important, she said. Every little deed matters. Her philosophy is as relevant today as it ever was. This powerful and inspiring book gives you an intimate insight to one of Ireland’s favourite saints whose relics created a national sensation during their visit in 2001. Reviews “A great book,” RTE Radio 1 “Fascinating,” LMFM “A beautiful book,” Africa magazine “A compelling read,” The Connaught Telegraph “The Little Flower comes across as a very modern, millennial, feminist type of woman,” Brendan O’Connor, Sunday Independent

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran

Author: Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description

Padre Pio

Author: Colm Keane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845962852
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Padre Pio was a stigmatic, mystic and wonder-worker, and he is arguably Ireland's favourite saint. Compiled by award-winning journalist Colm Keane, this remarkable collection of stories is crammed full of miracles and cures attributed to Padre Pio's intercession. There are accounts of scientifically inexplicable recoveries from cancer, heart disease and brain damage, along with revivals from blood clots, strokes, multiple sclerosis and life-threatening viral infections. Also featured are visions, apparitions and supernormal coincidences. Elsewhere in the book, early Irish pilgrims speak of trail-blazing journeys to San Giovanni Rotondo in the 1950s and '60s, while visits by devotees to Padre Pio's beatification in 1999 and his canonisation in 2002 are vividly recounted. Using personal testimonies, Padre Pio: The Irish Connection documents the widespread influence of this complex and intriguing Italian saint, who bore the wounds of Christ for half a century until his death in 1968.

Expressions of Religion

Author: Eugenia Roussou
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911106
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
This volume brings together experts in ethnology, anthropology, folklore, sociology and history of art, in order to discuss the varieties or religious expression through ritual performance, empirical ethnographic analysis and sensory modes of perception. The primary goal of the book is to re-centralize the importance of expressing religion through performance, art and the senses, and to approach performative action as religion in a variety of sociocultural, historical, political and spiritual contexts. The authors in this volume examine, in distinct yet convergent ways, how religion is creatively expressed, ritually performed and sensorially experienced at present and/or in the past. The significance of this book lies exactly on the richness and diversity of expressions of religion that are presented here, and on the multi-disciplinary dialogue that is generated among diverse theoretical, analytical and methodological approaches.

We'll Meet Again

Author: Colm Keane
Publisher: Capel Island Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
We do not die alone - that's the remarkable conclusion of We'll Meet Again, an extraordinary new book by Colm Keane examining deathbed visions. The book recounts how dead parents, children, brothers, sisters and close friends are among those who return to meet us as we die. Well-known religious figures appear less frequently, while beautiful landscapes are observed by those who are passing away. Featuring a riveting collection of 70 real-life stories from all corners of Ireland, north and south, We'll Meet Again also hears from those left behind who describe after death visitations and other strange occurrences. The latest scientific evidence is examined. We'll Meet Again, written by award-winning journalist Colm Keane, is the first Irish book on this intriguing phenomenon and one of the most challenging studies ever compiled on this fascinating theme.

The Village of Bernadette: Lourdes - Stories, Miracles and Cures

Author: Colm Keane
Publisher: Capel Island Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
St. Bernadette’s impoverished childhood, her work as a shepherdess, visions of Our Lady, harsh treatment as a nun, and tragic death at the age of 35 are recalled in this groundbreaking book. Numerous Irish miracles and cures at Lourdes are recollected. Recoveries from cancer, epilepsy, lung problems, skin disease, pain, paralysis and physical disability are included. John F. Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Brendan Behan and Seamus Heaney are among the millions who have visited the shrine. You can read their stories, along with those of other Irish pilgrims. Using first-hand testimony, this moving and inspirational book brings you up-close to the wonders of Lourdes in a way you have never experienced before. Reviews 'Riveting story of St. Bernadette and why the Pyrenean town is a place of pilgrimage and peace’ -RTĖ Radio 1 'A deeply felt, warmly sympathetic and humane book' - The Irish Catholic 'Terrific read'’ - Belfast Telegraph 'A book that will make you believe in miracles’ - C103 'Brings readers close up to the many wonders of Lourdes' - Shannonside FM

Padre Pio: Heavenly Facts and Words of Wisdom

Author: G. Caccioppoli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520913568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Padre Pio is a masterpiece of God's love for us.With Padre Pio the extraordinary was ordinary, the uncommon was common, thesupernatural was natural, the unthinkable was routine, and the unpredictable was norm.It cannot be imagined a more complete, lasting, unwavering selflessness in a human being.From birth to death every day of his life was consumed by the love and imitation of Godthrough Jesus, consumed by the love and help for the suffering humanity of his brothers andsisters on earth, consumed by the love and suffrage of the souls in Purgatory to shorten andmitigate their pain, consumed by the love and obedience at any price to the Roman CatholicChurch.God lavished on him his gifts with an abundance that has no equal.And Padre Pio made good use of them, with healings, resurrections, levitations, prophecy,reading the hearts, speaking in tongues, reading unknown languages, spreading a scent offlowers, multiplying food in times of need, permanent visible presence of the GuardianAngel, frequent visitations with heavenly Beings, seeing the souls from Purgatory, knowingin details the status of the deceased, preventing bodily harm in bilocation, preventing caraccidents in bilocation, preventing destruction of things in bilocation, healing in bilocation,assisting in bilocation dying people for a peaceful trespassing.He did those things while ingesting minimal food, taking minimal sleep, having constantheadaches, enduring a lifelong chronic bronchitis frequently diagnosed as pulmonarytubercolosis, going through bouts of extremely high fevers and profuse nightly sweating.Padre Pio's distinguishing characteristics were kindness, joy, serenity, humility,modesty, piety, attitude of forgiveness, perfect obedience to all ecclesiasticalauthorities,He relived the Passion of Christ through thousands of Masses.By raising his right wounded hand He absolved millions of sins.He walked millions of painful steps on his wounded feet.His fingers went through millions of rosaries. His lips uttered billions of "Ave Maria".His body went through billions of seconds in pain for the wounds.Each and every one of His trillions of heartbeats was a grandiose symphony for the Glory ofGod.163Now He is in Heaven immersed in the joy of the beatific vision.In Paradise he continues to work for us, pray for us, intercede for us, distributing all kinds ofgraces for the asking.The only thing he doesn't do anymore is suffering.Thank you God for having given us Padre Pio.

Hope and Suffering

Author: Gretchen Krueger
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429187
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Gretchen Krueger's poignant narrative explores how doctors, families, and the public interpreted the experience of childhood cancer from the 1930s through the 1970s. Pairing the transformation of childhood cancer from killer to curable disease with the personal experiences of young patients and their families, Krueger illuminates the twin realities of hope and suffering. In this social history, each decade follows a family whose experience touches on key themes: possible causes, means and timing of detection, the search for curative treatment, the merit of alternative treatments, the decisions to pursue or halt therapy, the side effects of treatment, death and dying—and cure. Recounting the complex and sometimes contentious interactions among the families of children with cancer, medical researchers, physicians, advocacy organizations, the media, and policy makers, Krueger reveals that personal odyssey and clinical challenge are the simultaneous realities of childhood cancer. This engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer.

Cries from the Heart

Author: Johann Christoph Arnold
Publisher: The Plough Publishing House
ISBN: 1570755140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Cries from the Heart offers an honest look into the lives of real men and women whose adversities were overcome through turning and listening to God, even if their problems worked out in the way they least expected. Ranging from the unusual to the ordinary, these stories may challenge you, but they'll comfort you as well, by reminding you that you're never truly alone, and that even the worst anguish can be overcome by the healing power of inner peace.