Devotion to Padre Pio: his thoughts today 6 July

6. Do not try to overcome your temptations because this effort would strengthen them; despise them and do not hold back on them; represent in your imaginations Jesus Christ crucified in your arms and on your breasts, and say kissing his side several times: Here is my hope, here is the living source of my happiness! I will hold you tight, O my Jesus, and I will not leave you until you have placed me in a safe place.

7. End it with these vain apprehensions. Remember that it is not sentiment that constitutes guilt but consent to such sentiments. Free will alone is capable of good or evil. But when the will groans under the tempter's test and does not want what is presented to it, not only is there no fault, but there is virtue.

8. Temptations do not dismay you; they are the proof of the soul that God wants to experience when he sees it in the forces necessary to sustain the fight and weave the wreath of glory with his own hands.
Up to now your life was in infancy; now the Lord wants to treat you as an adult. And since the tests of adult life are much higher than those of an infant, that is why you are initially disorganized; but the life of the soul will acquire its calm and your calm will return, it will not be late. Have a little more patience; everything will be for your best.

O Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who loved the Celestial Mother so much to receive daily graces and consolations, intercede for us with the Holy Virgin by placing our sins and cold prayers in His hands, so that as in Cana of Galilee, the Son say yes to the Mother and our name may be written in the Book of Life.

«May Mary be the star, that you may lighten the path, show you the sure way to go to the Heavenly Father; May it be an anchor, to which you must increasingly closely join in the time of trial ". Father Pio