Dear Roseann, Padre Pio said that “Be careful never to become discouraged when you are surrounded by difficulty of infirmity. If you are experiencing some weakness, God is not abandoning you, but offering you the opportunity to grow in humility and gratitude. First I offer a prayer for your emotional healing.
Dear Jesus I pray that I may experience calmness, tranquility and peace in all my emotions.
Help me to grow in faith and love. Protect me and obtain for me serenity of mind, body and spirit. I place my trust and confidence in you and I pray that your blessings of mercy, grace and gentle goodness will bring me happiness, health and well being now and always. Amen
The nest prayer if for your son and this is a prayer from St. Padre Pio for the healing of addiction:
“Merciful God, you created me in your own image and likeness. I trust you know me better than anyone else and that you understand me with all my strengths and all my weaknesses
You have truly walked beside me, even carried me, during the hardest times in my life. Only you can feel the pain in my heart and know the anguish of each despairing moment when, despite all my best resolutions, I have fallen prey to the disease of my addiction.
I ask now that you with your gentle, healing hands, you touch my life, bless me with your grace, and heal me. Give me your strength as I dedicate myself to the work of recovery.
Fill my heart with the hope confidence that you will cleanse me of this brokenness and free me to live and love as your restored and redeemed child in this world. Amen
Deacon Henry J. Medina