Devotion to Padre Pio: his thoughts today 14 August

10. The Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross. This weight seems intolerable to you, but you carry it because the Lord in his love and mercy extends your hand and gives you strength.

11. I would prefer a thousand crosses, indeed each cross would be sweet and light to me, if I did not have this proof, that is, to always feel in the uncertainty of pleasing the Lord in my operations ... It is painful to live like this ...
I resign myself, but resignation, my fiat seems so cold, vain! ... What a mystery! Jesus must think about it alone.

12. Love Jesus; love him so much; but for this, he loves sacrifice more.

13. The good heart is always strong; he suffers, but hides his tears and consoles himself by sacrificing himself for his neighbor and for God.

14. Whoever begins to love must be ready to suffer.

15. Do not fear adversity because they put the soul at the foot of the cross and the cross puts it at the gates of heaven, where he will find the one who is the triumph of death, who will introduce it to the eternal gaudi.

16. If you suffer with resignation to his will you do not offend him but you love him. And your heart will have great comfort if you think that in the hour of pain Jesus himself suffers in you and for you. He did not abandon you when you ran away from him; why should he abandon you now that in the martyrdom of your soul you give him proofs of love?

17. Let us go up Calvary generously for the love of him who immolated himself for our love and we are patient, certain that we will fly to Tabor.

18. Keep yourselves strongly and constantly united to God, consecrating all your affections, all your troubles, all of yourself, patiently waiting for the return of the beautiful sun, when the groom will like to visit you with the test of aridity, desolations and blinds of spirit.

19. Pray to Saint Joseph!

20. Yes, I love the cross, the only cross; I love her because I always see her behind Jesus.

21. The true servants of God have increasingly valued adversity, as more in conformity with the path that our Head traveled, who worked our health by means of the cross and the oppressed.

22. The fate of the chosen souls is suffering; It is suffering endured in a Christian condition, a condition to which God, the author of every grace and every gift leading to health, has determined to give us glory.

23. Always be a lover of pain which, in addition to being the work of divine wisdom, reveals to us, even better, the work of his love.

24. Let nature also resent itself before suffering, for there is nothing more natural than sin in this; your will, with divine help, will always be superior and divine love will never fail in your spirit, if you do not neglect prayer.

25. I would like to fly to invite all creatures to love Jesus, to love Mary.

26. Jesus, Mary, Joseph.

27. Life is a Calvary; but it is better to go up happily. The crosses are the jewels of the Bridegroom and I am jealous of them. My sufferings are pleasant. I suffer only when I don't suffer.