Padre Pio - CurlyNikki

Sep 21

Your Testimony Pleases Jesus | My View from the Pilgrimage

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Daily Devotional: The Cure, My Life, Spiritual 4 Comments

Your Testimony Pleases Jesus While on our way to The Black Virgin of Foggia, my driver and guide, Michael, reminded me that the Word is important, both the word of the Gospel and the words we give one another. The words we give to someone can be comforting, reassuring, confirming. He said, 'testimony pleases Jesus'. That's the only reason I'm…

Sep 21

A Check-In from Home Base : A Journey of Prayer and Blessings

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Daily Devotional: The Cure, My Life, Spiritual 3 Comments

A Check-In from Home Base : A Journey of Prayer and Blessings I wanted to take a moment to share some beautiful experiences and prayers from my time away, and I’m so grateful to each of you for the prayer requests you’ve sent. Mom and I have been on this journey together—while I keep up with the requests on my…

Jul 25

Decoding the Divine Will: Journeying with St. Michael, Padre Pio, and Luisa Piccarreta

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Daily Devotional: The Cure, Featured, My Life, Spiritual 5 Comments

Decoding God’s Divine Will for your Life My in-room altar! Complete with your Rosaries! I’ll add them to the site once I return home! They will be taken to the Black Virgin (on a different mountain than the one I’m on), St. Michael’s cave (also a different mountain lol), and of course to Padre Pio’s body in the tomb beneath…

Sep 21

A Powerful Prayer Hack – “Send me your Guardian Angel”

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Daily Devotional: The Cure, My Life, Spiritual 12 Comments

A Prayer Hack : Delegation. Divine Intervention on the Path with Padre Pio “Please send me a companion so I can safely make it up the mountain for 6:30 am Mass (church service)." It wasn’t far, but the thought of trekking the steep, dark, and unfamiliar path made me hesitant, especially after arriving in town only a few hours earlier…

Oct 03

You can’t make this up! The Black Madonna of Foggia, Italy

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Daily Devotional: The Cure, My Life, Spiritual 9 Comments

BLACK MADONNA / BLACK VIRGIN of FOGGIA “I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.” - Song of Solomon Black Madonna of Foggia A week ago I came across a book I purchased last year about the Black Madonna (a Marian Mystery by Jean Hani). I never read it…