Rev. Fr Alfonso Picone
Rector/Founder

Pia Ramadanovic
President

Armando Cerquozzi
Vice President

Qua Le
Treasurer

Theresa Petrone
Book Keeper

Rose Gresh
Secretary

Father Gian Domenico Flora
Vice Rector/Rosary

Emilio DeAngelis
Choir Director

Padre Pio Chapel at St. Margaret's Shrine
The Padre Pio chapel sits on a 10 acre spiritual oasis called Saint Margaret Shrine, 2539 Park Avenue, in the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Home to the shrine of St. Anthony of Padua, Our Lady of Fatima, Lourdes and Guadalupe, the Padre Pio chapel encapsulates the true essence and magnificence of this spiritual sanctuary.

The creation of a Chapel and Memorial in honor of St. Padre Pio came from our Rector, Alfonso Picone. He envisioned the sanctuary as a site for prayer and meditation and therefore wanted to bring to the predominantly Italian parish and area community their very own Padre Pio Chapel.

Overseeing the building of the chapel were the founders of the Padre Pio Society whose vision was realized on September 2006. The most striking feature of the chapel is its direct view of the newly erected outdoor Padre Pio Memorial. The Padre Pio chapel is opened daily to the public at 7:30 a.m. Visitors are welcomed to experience the beauty of this chapel and surrounding sanctuary. Intercession pray cards and candles are available in the chapel for personal prayer and meditation.

The chapel was built to give the community a solemn refuge to pray and in particular to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina who was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 16, 2002.


A Prayer to Padre Pio

Beloved Padre Pio, today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you.

They ask for cures and healings, earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace for body and mind. And because of your friendship with the Lord, he heals those you ask to be healed, and forgives those you forgive. Through your visible wounds of the Cross, which you bore for 50 years, you were chosen in our time to glorify the crucified Jesus.

 Because the Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it is the only true sign of salvation. As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, the perfume of sanctity.

Padre Pio, may the healings of the sick become the testimony that the Lord has invited you to join the holy company of Saints. In your kindness, please help me with my own special request: (mention here your petition, and make the sign of the Cross). Bless me and my loved ones.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.
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