Devotion to the Saints: the thoughts of Padre Pio in this month of November

1. Duty before anything else, even holy.

2. My children, being like this, without being able to perform one's duty, is useless; it is better that I die!

3. One day his son asked him: How can I, Father, increase love?
Answer: By doing one's duties with exactness and righteousness of intention, observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with perseverance and perseverance, you will grow in love.

4. My children, Mass and Rosary!

5. Daughter, to strive for perfection one must pay the greatest attention to act in everything to please God and try to avoid the smallest defects; do your duty and all the rest with more generosity.

6. Think about what you write, because the Lord will ask you for it. Be careful, journalist! The Lord give you the satisfactions you desire for your ministry.

7. You too - doctors - came into the world, as I came, with a mission to accomplish. Mind you: I speak of duties at a time when everyone talks about rights ... You have the mission of treating the sick; but if you don't bring love to the patient's bed, I don't think drugs are of much use ... Love cannot do without speech. How could you express it if not in words that lift the sick spiritually? ... Bring God to the sick; will be worth more than any other cure.

8. Be like little spiritual bees, who carry nothing but honey and wax in their hive. May your home be full of sweetness, peace, concord, humility and pity for your conversation.

9. Make Christian use of your money and your savings, and then so much misery will disappear and so many aching bodies and so many afflicted beings will find relief and comfort.

10. Not only do I not find fault that in returning to Casacalenda you return visits to your acquaintances, but I find it very necessary. Piety is useful for everything and adapts to everything, depending on the circumstances, less than what you call sin. Feel free to return the visits and you will also receive the obedience prize and the blessing of the Lord.

11. I see that all seasons of the year are found in your souls; that sometimes you feel the winter of many sterility, distractions, listlessness and boredom; now the dew of the month of May with the smell of the holy florets; now the heats of desire to please our divine Bridegroom. Therefore, there remains only the autumn of which you do not see much fruit; however, it is often necessary that at the time of beating the beans and pressing the grapes, there are larger collections than those promised to be reaped and harvested. You would like everything to be in spring and summer; but no, my beloved daughters, it must be this vicissitude both inside and outside.
In the sky everything will be of spring as for beauty, all of autumn as for enjoyment, all in summer as for love. There will be no winter; but here winter is necessary for the exercise of self-denial and of a thousand small but beautiful virtues which are exercised in the time of sterility.

12. I beg you, my dear children, for the love of God, do not fear God because he does not want to hurt anyone; love him very much because he wants to do you great good. Simply walk with confidence in your resolutions, and reject the reflections of spirit that you make over your evils as cruel temptations.

13. Be, my beloved daughters, all resigned in the hands of our Lord, giving him the rest of your years, and always beg him to use them to make use of them in that fate of life that he will most like. Do not worry your heart with vain promises of tranquility, taste and merits; but present to your divine Bridegroom your hearts, all empty of any other affection but not of his chaste love, and implore him to fill him purely and simply with the movements, desires and wills that are of his (love) so that your heart, as a mother of pearl, conceive only with the dew of heaven and not with the water of the world; and you will see that God will help you and that you will do much, both in choosing and in performing.

14. The Lord bless you and make the family's yoke less heavy. Always be good. Remember that marriage brings difficult duties that only divine grace can make easy. You always deserve this grace and the Lord will keep you until the third and fourth generation.

15. Be a deeply convinced soul in your family, smiling in the self-sacrifice and constant immolation of your whole self.

16. Nothing more nauseating than a woman, especially if she is a bride, light, frivolous and haughty.
The Christian bride must be a woman of firm pity towards God, an angel of peace in the family, dignified and pleasant towards others.

17. God gave me my poor sister and God took it from me. Blessed be his holy name. In these exclamations and in this resignation I find the sufficient strength not to succumb under the weight of pain. To this resignation in the divine will I also urge you and you will find, like me, the relief of pain.

18. May the blessing of God be your escort, support and guide! Start a Christian family if you want some peace in this life. The Lord give you children and then the grace to direct them on the way to heaven.

19. Courage, courage, children are not nails!

20. Comfort then, good lady, comfort yourselves, since the hand of the Lord to support you has not been shortened. Oh! yes, he is the Father of all, but in a most singular way he is for the unhappy, and in a much more singular way he is for you who are a widow, and a widow mother.

21. Throw in God only your every concern, since he takes great care of you and of those three little angels of children with whom he wanted you to be adorned. These children will be there for their conduct, comfort and consolation throughout their lives. Always be solicitous for their education, not so much scientific as moral. Everything is close to your heart and have it dearer than the pupil of your eye. By educating the mind, through good studies, make sure that the education of the heart and of our holy religion should always be coupled; the one without this, my good lady, gives a mortal wound to the human heart.

22. Why evil in the world?
«It is good to hear ... There is a mother who is embroidering. Her son, seated on a low stool, sees her work; but upside down. He sees the knots of the embroidery, the confused threads ... And he says: "Mommy can you know what you are doing? Is your job so unclear ?! "
Then mom lowers the chassis, and shows the good part of the job. Each color is in its place and the variety of threads is composed in the harmony of the design.
Here, we see the reverse side of the embroidery. We are sitting on the low stool ».

23. I hate sin! Fortunate our country, if it, mother of law, wanted to perfect its laws and customs in this sense in the light of honesty and Christian principles.

24. The Lord shows and calls; but you don't want to see and respond, because you like your interests.
It also happens, at times, by the fact that the voice has always been heard, that it is no longer heard; but the Lord illuminates and calls. They are the men who put themselves in the position of not being able to hear anymore.

25. There are such sublime joys and such profound pains that the word could hardly express. Silence is the last device of the soul, in ineffable happiness as in supreme pressure.

26. It is better to tame with sufferings, which Jesus will like to send you.
Jesus, who cannot suffer for long to keep you in affliction, will come to solicit and comfort you by instilling new spirit into your spirit.

27. All human conceptions, wherever they come from, have the good and the bad, one must know how to assimilate and take all the good and offer it to God, and eliminate the bad.

28. Ah! That it is a great grace, my good daughter, to begin to serve this good God while the flourishing of age makes us susceptible to any impression! Oh !, how the gift is appreciated, when the flowers are offered with the first fruits of the tree.
And what could ever keep you from making a total offer of yourself to the good God by deciding once and for all to kick the world, the devil and the flesh, what our godparents did so resolutely for us baptism? Doesn't the Lord deserve this sacrifice from you?

29. In these days (of the novena of the Immaculate Conception), let us pray more!

30. Remember that God is in us when we are in a state of grace, and outside, so to speak, when we are in a state of sin; but his angel never abandons us ...
He is our most sincere and confident friend when we are not wrong to sadden him with our misconduct.