Padre Pio Bread...

kerash

So i've just been offerd some Padre Pio Bread, What I hear you ask, is this? Well IMO, its similar to the religious "chain-letters" that go around every now and again. This was a new one to me though.

Now I have no issue with Padre Pio or Religion, but I hate these, chain-letter style scams that prey on peoples fears, problems and beliefs and manipulate them into continuing this crap, I know someone who got it and was worried not to do it...

Basicially its a bread that, "brings blessings to every family who eats it" apparently and "on the 10th day, you must give it to other good people" but beware, "you cannot refuse the bread once it is given to you" (I am fcuked so)...

someone gives you a piece of dough and your supposed to follow 9 or 10 days of instructions. Such as, "Only use a wooden spoon" and
"must adapt and absorb to its surroundings and take in the atmosphere. This is what makes each batch so unique from family to family. "

Remember:
YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO MAKE THIS HEMIN BREAD ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIME.

So, who else thinks this is total bullsh1t and has anyone else heard of this and anyone know where it originates? AFAIK, it is NOT endorsed by the Vatican;)

AlmightyCushion

Email this thread to 100,000 people you really care about and your true love will appear at your front door naked, horny and drizzled in honey.

If you don't email this to 100,000 people, everyone you care about will get cancer and aids and loads of other stuff too.

Puck

As a devout Christian I can tell you I think this is total bull****.

mikeindublin

Puck wrote: »

As a devout Christian I can tell you I think this is total bull****.

I agree 100%. In fact, The Irish Catholic newspaper had an article a few weeks back warning people against this stuff.

GAAman

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Email this thread to 100,000 people you really care about and your true love will appear at your front door naked, horny and drizzled in honey.

If you don't email this to 100,000 people, everyone you care about will get cancer and aids and loads of other stuff too.

Oh dont be so skeptical, now if you will excuse me i have to go collect my spanish lottery winnings (which is strange as i have never been in spain) while giving my bank account details to the "Director of condumer affairs" in Nairobi AND i will be getting 20 million out of it!! Suckers

kerash

Your ment to divide the dough into 4 and give 3 pieces away to good people, It couldnt be healthy, considering all the people who have had their paws on the dough befor you, yuck!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Hole-y bread?

MrJoeSoap

Puck wrote: »

As a devout Christian I can tell you I think this is total bull****.

As a devout Atheist I can say that too.

Trojan911

As a non practising catholic, I have no belief whatsoever in any religion. I have come to believe that it is all hogwash.... But, hey, each to their own.

Mr. CooL ICE

As a devout member of the Church Of Lord Chessington, i am curious as to what it tastes like

kerash

LordChessington wrote: »

As a devout member of the Church Of Lord Chessington, i am curious as to what it tastes like

Some say a little Padre, others find a hint of Pio:D

Pelagius

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Auction web site eBay.ie has removed a listing from an Irish business man who was attempting to sell a relic of Padre Pio.

The item which was described as 'a first-class holy relic of the right-hand little finger bone of the blessed Padre Pio, recently acquired during his exhumation", had a reserve price of 50,000 pounds (U.S. $85,000). It also stated that the organ could be posted to a buyer in the Middle East, Asia, Europe or North America.

A spokeswoman for eBay said the advertisement, which had been running for a week with several bids, was pulled when the company was alerted to its presence yesterday morning. "Humans, the human body or any human body parts may not be listed on eBay or included as a gift, prize or in connection with a giveaway or charity," the company said in a statement. "The listing in question contravened these policies and was removed from the site."

Irish devotion to the Italian saint dates back to the 1950s when a Dublin woman, Mairead Doyle, began to organise pilgrimages to the San Giovanni friary. The pilgrimages gained popularity as more and more people were drawn to the enigmatic Italian cleric with the marks of the stigmata on his hands and feet. Irish popular devotion is said to rival that throughout Italy.

The body of the popular Italian saint, Padre Pio, had recently gone on display in a glass coffin in southern Italy after being exhumed in March on the 40th anniversary of his death. He was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2002. More than a million people are expected this year to see his body, which is said to be well-preserved. But there is reportedly no sign of the stigmata.

The monks who exhumed his body in March said it was in "surprisingly good condition", despite no special measures having been taken to preserve it when he was buried in 1968.
"We could clearly make out the beard. The top part of the skull is partly skeletal but the chin is perfect and the rest of the body is well preserved. The knees, hands and nails all clearly visible," said Archbishop Domenico D'Ambrosio, who led the service to exhume the body.

The head of the Vatican office dealing with sainthood, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, when contacted about the attempted sale, expressed his horror and revulsion, pointing out that Canon Law expressly forbids the sale of holy relics. "PadrePio is not only a corpse. Looking at his remains we remember all the good that he has done," the cardinal said.

Eileen Maguire, of the Irish office of St. Pio Da Pietrelchi in Dublin which is affiliated with the Capuchin friary, San Giovanni Rotondo, also expressed the organisation's disgust. "I don't know what is worse, the fact that someone managed to access and steal the remains while they were being prepared, or the fact that an Irish person is involved".

Jay D

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Email this thread to 100,000 people you really care about and your true love will appear at your front door naked, horny and drizzled in honey.

If you don't email this to 100,000 people, everyone you care about will get cancer and aids and loads of other stuff too.

**** that was going ok till the honey bit came in

Sherifu

I'll sell you some bread OP, it was once flour and stuff and then there was a miracle.

kerash

Sherifu wrote: »

I'll sell you some bread OP, it was once flour and stuff and then there was a miracle.

No thanks, i rejected the bread so i'm doomed now or something...D'oh!!
/sorry:o

Dennis the Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8XR7IoZ7A

Cullilingus

I don't see the problem.. I'd rather get free bread then a letter telling me my nads will fall off if I dont forward it to a hundred or so people

kerash

Cullilingus wrote: »

I don't see the problem.. I'd rather get free bread then a letter telling me my nads will fall off if I dont forward it to a hundred or so people

Well its actually a piece of dough you get, and you have to follow a set of instructions over 9 or 10 days, untill you pass on the dough to 3 more people and cook your own part. So it involves a good bit of effort:pac:

Caoimhín

I don't get it...
Wheres the pay off, how does one get money out of the befuddled bread maker?

Cullilingus

kerash wrote: »

Well its actually a piece of dough you get, and you have to follow a set of instructions over 9 or 10 days, untill you pass on the dough to 3 more people and cook your own part. So it involves a good bit of effort:pac:

oh.. Well, I never intended to do the passing on bit, but I liked the idea of getting free bread for no good reason. I'm a little dissapointed now.