If you act now you should have plenty of time to get your idol before Christmas.
http://www.ship-of-fools.com/gadgets/devotional/096.html
http://www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com/Home+Page/SPECIALTY/Dolls/ST+PADRE+PIO+DOLL.axd
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. (Ephesians 4:8-11)
Padre Pio: Powerful Saint or Prosthetic Fraud
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=52908441350
i had his biography, i need to reread it...he has watched over me and my family, and continues to do so, my prayers through him have always been answered...sometimes not the way i wanted, but nonetheless.
thank you God for Padre Pio
Do you have a picture of your parents in your house?
That’s how Catholics view a picture or icon — a picture of a friend.