Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio on August 18th

20. "Father, why do you weep when you receive Jesus in holy communion?". Answer: "If the Church emits the cry:" You did not disdain the Virgin's womb ", speaking of the incarnation of the Word in the womb of the Immaculate Conception, what will not be said of us miserable ?! But Jesus said to us: "Whoever does not eat my flesh and drink my blood will not have eternal life"; and then approach the holy communion with so much love and fear. The whole day is preparation and thanksgiving for holy communion. "

21. If you are not allowed to be able to stay in prayer, readings, etc. for a long time, then you must not be discouraged. As long as you have Jesus sacrament every morning, you must consider yourself very lucky.
During the day, when you are not allowed to do anything else, call Jesus, even in the midst of all your occupations, with a resigned groan of the soul and he will always come and remain united with the soul through his grace and his holy love.
Fly with the spirit before the tabernacle, when you cannot go there with your body, and there you release your ardent desires and speak and pray and embrace the Beloved of souls better than if it were given to you to receive it sacramentally.

22. Jesus alone can understand what pain it is for me when the painful scene of Calvary is prepared before me. It is equally incomprehensible that relief is given to Jesus not only by pitying him in his pains, but when he finds a soul who for his sake asks him not for consolation, but to be made a participant in his own pains.

23. Never get used to Mass.

24. Every holy mass, well listened to and with devotion, produces in our soul wonderful effects, abundant spiritual and material graces, which we ourselves do not know. For this purpose do not spend your money unnecessarily, sacrifice it and come up to listen to the Holy Mass.
The world could also be sunless, but it cannot be without Holy Mass.

25. On Sunday, Mass and Rosary!

26. In attending the Holy Mass renew your faith and meditate as a victim immolates itself for you to divine justice to appease it and make it propitious.
When you are well, you listen to the mass. When you're sick, and you can't attend it, you say mass.

27. In these times so sad of dead faith, of triumphant impiety, the safest way to keep ourselves free from the pestiferous disease that surrounds us is to fortify ourselves with this Eucharistic food. This cannot be easily obtained by those who live months and months without satiating themselves of the immaculate meats of the divine Lamb.

28. I point, because the bell calls and urges me; and I go to the press of the church, to the holy altar, where the sacred wine of the blood of that delicious and singular grape continuously drips, of which only a lucky few are allowed to get drunk. There - as you know, I cannot do otherwise - I will present you to the heavenly Father in the union of his Son, who, through whom and through whom I am all yours in the Lord.

29. Do you see how many contempt and how many sacrileges are committed by the children of men towards the sacrosanct humanity of his Son in the sacrament of Love? It is up to us, since from the goodness of the Lord we have been chosen in his Church, according to St. Peter, to "royal priesthood" (1Pt 2,9), it is up to us, I say, to defend the honor of this most gentle Lamb, always solicitous when it comes to patronizing the cause of souls, always silent when it is a question of one's own cause.

30. My Jesus, save everyone; I offer myself a victim for everyone; strengthen me, take this heart, fill it with your love and then command me what you want.