Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today November 18th

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.

18. If standing up depended on us, surely at the first breath we would fall into the hands of our healthy enemies. We always trust in divine piety and thus we will experience more and more how good the Lord is.

19. Rather, you must humble yourself before God instead of being discouraged if he reserves the sufferings of his Son for you and wants you to experience your weakness; you must raise to him the prayer of resignation and hope, when one falls due to fragility, and thank him for the many benefits with which he is enriching you.

20. Father, you are so good!
- I am not good, only Jesus is good. I don't know how this Saint Francis habit I wear doesn't run away from me! The last thug on earth is gold like me.

21. What can I do?
Everything comes from God. I am rich in one thing, in infinite misery.

22. After each mystery: Saint Joseph, pray for us!

23. How much malice there is in me!
- Stay in this belief too, humiliate yourself but don't get upset.

24. Be careful never to be discouraged from seeing yourself surrounded by spiritual infirmities. If God lets you fall into some weakness it is not to abandon you, but only to settle in humility and make you more attentive for the future.