Author Topic: Assistant to Padre Pio in Cincinnati offering Latin Mass (Read 2457 times)

Elizabeth · « **on:** March 23, 2010, 10:05:45 PM »

Fr.Ermelindo DiCapua, OFM Cap. who was an assistant to Padre Pio for 3 years before he died, is doing a Lenten Mission at Old St. Mary's.

7:00 p.m. Latin Mass Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and 9:00 a.m. Sunday.

He's hearing confessions mid-day and giving talks during these days.

(513) 721-2988

Our family went to his talk tonight in our neighborhood, and he is a very humble, warm and loving priest.
:wine-drinking:

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2010, 11:53:06 PM »

I looked up on the Internet Old Saint Mary's in
Cincinnati, Ohio. I never been to Ohio, and at my
age perhaps never will.
O what a Beautiful Church, so lucky to survive the
gutting that happened to so many Catholic Churches
in the name of renewal, and vatican 2.
All they need is to remove that table in the
Sanctuary, and return the Mass to the High Altar.
I remembered when I use to be an Altar Boy at
Saint Dominic's in Washington,DC when the
changes where just beginning. The older
Priests would call that table that was placed in front
the High Altar, a Protestant Table.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2010, 06:53:57 AM »

Quote from: Elizabeth

Our family went to his talk tonight in our neighborhood, and he is a very humble, warm and loving priest.

Nice change, eh? I know that when I was at the seminary, whenever one of these old-school priests came to visit, the seminarians were all over him, trying to imbibe some of his spirit and his wisdom. These priests received their formation when things were relatively normal in the Church and we weren't in this siege or bunker mentality--the same one which leads to the formation of cult-like groups.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2010, 07:51:21 AM »

LOL, that's just exactly what I was going to say, "nice change"! My family just basked in the love. The Holy Spirit Center has an impressive collection of relics, The Twelve, St. Thomas Aquinus, Mary Magdelene, St. Gertrude the Great, St. Dymphna, True Cross, St. Peter, St. Francis, St. Joseph, Our Lady and others. Even Modernism cannot defeat the holy relics.

Although there were stampedes to the Bloody Mitten.

RomanCatholic1953, there are tons of gorgeous Catholic Churches here, and an extraordinary number of them have all-night adorations, and have preserved the High Altars. I remember I used to take the Metro and walk over to St. Dominic's because they had a good confessor.

Anyway, I hope a lot of people get to imbibe the old Capuchin's love for souls.

Alexandria · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2010, 01:47:46 PM »

I wish he would come to my neck of the woods, but no such luck.

Elizabeth, what a special gift and grace for you and Catherine to have met this priest. When you encounter things like this, does it make you want to go back to the novus ordo church? It does me, but then I remember that the times and the Church that formed Fr. Ermelindo are long gone, maybe never to return.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #5 on:** March 24, 2010, 11:08:30 PM »

Hmm, good question, Alexandria.

There were a couple of priests there, don't know what their affiliation was. One maybe was a seminarian? Anyway, he was on his knees praying there for about two hours. It was a beautiful example. The young ones are up and fighting for the Church these days. They are more informed because of books like GOODBYE, GOOD MEN, for example.

Cincinnati has a very strong Catholic presence, despite the harm done. The priest said that Americans are very devoted to Padre Pio and many of the military men visited him back in the WW2 era. He said that Padre Pio has a special affection for the USA because his father came here to earn money to pay for the seminary. Americans have been very generous in supporting the hospital.

Alexandria · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2010, 12:37:09 PM »

Elizabeth, did he say anything about being Padre Pio's spiritual child? I ask because I am under the impression that if you belong to the Blue Army, you are a spiritual child of Padre Pio.

Also, do you know if this was taped for future distribution?

What you wrote about the seminarian, it's things like that that stop me from being a card-carrying sedevacantist. I find not a little of that going on all over, even in the spiritual wasteland that I am in. It gives me pause, and I wonder if the Holy Ghost is working in His Church despite all the (let's call them what they are) heretics and neo-pagans.

Our Lord has no real need of men; He does quite nicely on His own. Deo gratias!

Elizabeth · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2010, 09:53:13 PM »

Hi Roman Catholic1953, the table in front of the high Altar was gone.

It's beautiful in there.