Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today November 20th

16. After the Glory, we pray to Saint Joseph.

17. Let us go up Calvary generously for the love of him who immolated himself for our love and we are patient, certain that we will fly to Tabor.

18. Keep yourselves strongly and constantly united to God, consecrating all your affections, all your troubles, all of yourself, patiently waiting for the return of the beautiful sun, when the groom will like to visit you with the test of aridity, desolations and blinds of spirit.

19. Pray to Saint Joseph!

20. Yes, I love the cross, the only cross; I love her because I always see her behind Jesus.

21. The true servants of God have increasingly valued adversity, as more in conformity with the path that our Head traveled, who worked our health by means of the cross and the oppressed.

22. The fate of the chosen souls is suffering; It is suffering endured in a Christian condition, a condition to which God, the author of every grace and every gift leading to health, has determined to give us glory.

23. Always be a lover of pain which, in addition to being the work of divine wisdom, reveals to us, even better, the work of his love.

24. Let nature also resent itself before suffering, for there is nothing more natural than sin in this; your will, with divine help, will always be superior and divine love will never fail in your spirit, if you do not neglect prayer.

25. I would like to fly to invite all creatures to love Jesus, to love Mary.

26. Jesus, Mary, Joseph.

27. Life is a Calvary; but it is better to go up happily. The crosses are the jewels of the Bridegroom and I am jealous of them. My sufferings are pleasant. I suffer only when I don't suffer.

28. The suffering of physical and moral evils is the most worthy offer you can make to the one who saved us by suffering.

29. I enjoy immensely in feeling that the Lord is always prodigal of his caresses with your soul. I know you are suffering, but isn't suffering a sure sign that God loves you? I know you suffer, but isn't this suffering the hallmark of every soul that has chosen a God and a crucified God for its portion and inheritance? I know that your spirit is always wrapped in the darkness of trial, but it is enough for you, my good daughter, to know that Jesus is with you and in you.