Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today 2 October

2. Walk with simplicity in the way of the Lord and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your faults but with a quiet hatred and not already annoying and restless; it is necessary to have patience with them and take advantage of them by means of a holy lowering. In the absence of such patience, my good daughters, your imperfections, instead of diminishing, grow more and more, since there is nothing that nourishes both our shortcomings as much as the restlessness and the concern to want to remove them.

3. Beware of anxieties and anxieties, because there is nothing that most hinders walking in perfection. Place, my daughter, gently your heart in the wounds of our Lord, but not by force of arms. Have great confidence in his mercy and goodness, that he will never abandon you, but do not let him embrace his holy cross for this.

4. Do not worry when you cannot meditate, cannot communicate and cannot attend to all devout practices. In this meantime, try to make up for it differently by keeping yourself united with our Lord with a loving will, with prayer prayers, with spiritual communion.

5. Dispel perplexities and anxieties once and for all and enjoy the sweetest pains of the Beloved in peace.

6. In the Rosary, Our Lady prays with us.

7. Love the Madonna. Recite the Rosary. Recite it well.

8. I really feel my heart crashing in feeling your sufferings, and I don't know what I would do to see you relieved. But why are you so upset? why do you crave? And away, my daughter, I have never seen you give so many jewels to Jesus as now. Never have I seen you so dear to Jesus as now. So what are you afraid of and trembling about? Your fear and trembling is similar to that of a child who is in his mother's arms. So yours is foolish and useless fear.

9. In particular, I have nothing to try again in you, apart from this somewhat bitter agitation in you, which does not make you taste all the sweetness of the cross. Make amends for this and continue to do as you have done up to now.

10. Then please do not worry about what I am going and I will be suffering, because suffering, however great it is, faced with the good that awaits us, is delightful for the soul.

11. As for your spirit, keep calm and entrust your whole self to Jesus more and more. Strive to conform yourself always and in all to the divine will, both in favorable and adverse things, and do not be solicitous for tomorrow.

12. Do not fear on your spirit: they are jokes, predilections and tests of the celestial Spouse, who wants to assimilate you to him. Jesus looks at the dispositions and the good wishes of your soul, which are excellent, and he accepts and rewards, and not your impossibility and incapacity. So don't worry.

13. Do not tire yourself around things that generate solicitude, disturbances and worries. Only one thing is necessary: ​​lift the spirit and love God.

14. You worry, my good daughter, to seek the highest Good. But, in truth, it is within you and it keeps you stretched out on the naked cross, breathing strength to sustain unsustainable martyrdom and love to love bitterly Love. So the fear of seeing him lost and disgusted without realizing it is as vain as he is close and close to you. The anxiety of the future is equally vain, since the present state is a crucifixion of love.

15. Poor unfortunate those souls who throw themselves into the whirlwind of worldly concerns; the more they love the world, the more their passions multiply, the more their desires ignite, the more incapable they find themselves in their plans; and here are the anxieties, the impatiences, the terrible shocks that break their hearts, which do not palpate with charity and holy love.