Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today November 12th

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.