Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today September 14th

1. Pray a lot, always pray.

2. We too ask our dear Jesus for the humility, trust and faith of our dear Saint Clare; as we pray to Jesus fervently, let us abandon ourselves to him by detaching ourselves from this lying apparatus of the world where everything is madness and vanity, everything passes, only God remains to the soul if he has been able to love him well.

3. I am only a poor friar who prays.

4. Never go to bed without first examining your awareness of how you spent the day, and not before directing all your thoughts to God, followed by the offer and consecration of your person and all Christians. Also offer the glory of his divine majesty the rest you are about to take and never forget the guardian angel who is always with you.

5. Love the Ave Maria!

6. Mainly you must insist on the basis of Christian justice and on the foundation of goodness, on the virtue, that is, of which Jesus explicitly acts as a model, I mean: humility (Mt 11,29:XNUMX). Internal and external humility, but more internal than external, more felt than shown, deeper than visible.
Esteemed, my beloved daughter, who you really are: nothingness, misery, weakness, a source of perversity without limits or mitigating, capable of converting good into evil, of abandoning good for evil, of attributing good to you or justify yourself in evil and, for the sake of the same evil, to despise the highest Good.

7. I am sure that you wish to know which are the best abjections, and I tell you to be the ones we have not elected, or to be the ones who are least grateful to us or, to put it better, those to which we have no great inclination; and, to put it plainly, that of our vocation and profession. Who will grant me grace, my dearest daughters, that we love our abjection well? No one else can do it than the one who loved his so much that he wanted to die to keep it. And this is enough.

8. Father, how do you recite so many Rosaries?
- Pray, pray. Whoever prays a lot is saved and saved, and what more beautiful prayer and accept to the Virgin than she herself taught us.

9. The true humility of the heart is that felt and lived more than shown. We must always humble ourselves before God, but not with that false humility that leads to discouragement, generating despair and despair.
We must have a low concept of ourselves. Believe us inferior to all. Do not put your profit before that of others.

10. When you say the Rosary, say: "Saint Joseph, pray for us!"

11. If we have to be patient and endure the miseries of others, all the more we have to endure ourselves.
In your daily infidelities humiliated, humiliated, always humiliated. When Jesus sees you humiliated to the ground, he will stretch out your hand and think of himself to draw you to himself.

12. Let us pray, pray, pray!

13. What is happiness if not the possession of all sorts of good, which makes man completely satisfied? But is there ever anyone on this earth who is fully happy? Of course not. Man would have been such if he had remained faithful to his God. But since man is full of crimes, that is, full of sins, he can never be fully happy. Therefore happiness is found only in heaven: there is no danger of losing God, no suffering, no death, but eternal life with Jesus Christ.

14. Humility and charity go hand in hand. One glorifies and the other sanctifies.
Humility and purity of morals are wings that lift up to God and almost deify.

15. Every day the Rosary!

16. Humble yourself always and lovingly before God and men, because God speaks to those who keep his heart truly humble before him and enrich him with his gifts.

17. Let's look up first and then look at ourselves. The infinite distance between the blue and the abyss generates humility.