Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today 20 October

20. Always be cheerfully at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are at the service of an infinitely good Father, who by tenderness alone descends to his creature, to elevate it and transform it into him its creator.
And flee the sadness, because it enters the hearts that are attached to the things of the world.

21. We must not be discouraged, because if there is a continuous effort to improve in the soul, in the end the Lord rewards her by making all the virtues bloom in her suddenly as in a flower garden.

22. The Rosary and the Eucharist are two wonderful gifts.

23. Savio praises the strong woman: "His fingers, he says, handle the spindle" (Prv 31,19).
I will gladly tell you something above these words. Your knees are the accumulation of your desires; spin, therefore, every day a little, pull your designs wire by wire until the execution and you will infallibly come to the head; but warn not to hurry, because you would twist the thread with knots and cheat your spindle. Walk, therefore, always and, although you will go slowly forward, you will make a great journey.

24. Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that true virtue and firm devotion can ever have; it pretends to warm up to the good to operate, but it does not do so, only to cool down, and makes us run only to make us stumble; and for this reason one must beware of it on every occasion, particularly in prayer; and in order to do it better, it will be good to remember that the graces and tastes of prayer are not waters of the earth but of the sky, and that therefore all our efforts are not enough to make them fall, although it is necessary to arrange oneself with great diligence yes, always humble and calm: you must keep your heart open to the sky, and wait for the heavenly dew beyond.

25. We keep what the divine Master says well carved in our mind: in our patience we will possess our soul.

26. Do not lose courage if you have to work hard and collect little (...).
If you thought how much a single soul costs Jesus, you would not complain.

27. The spirit of God is a spirit of peace, and even in the most serious shortcomings it makes us feel a peaceful, humble, confident pain, and this depends precisely on his mercy.
The spirit of the devil, on the other hand, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in the same pain, almost anger against ourselves, while instead we must use the first charity precisely towards ourselves.
So if some thoughts agitate you, think that this agitation never comes from God, who gives you tranquility, being a spirit of peace, but from the devil.

28. The struggle that precedes the good work that is intended to be done is like the antiphon that precedes the solemn psalm to be sung.

29. The momentum of being in eternal peace is good, it is holy; but we must moderate it with the complete resignation to the divine wills: it is better to do the divine will on earth than to enjoy paradise. "To suffer and not to die" was the motto of Saint Teresa. Purgatory is sweet when you are sorry for God's sake.

30. Patience is more perfect as it is less mixed with concern and disturbance. If the good Lord wants to prolong the hour of testing, do not want to complain and investigate why, but always keep in mind this that the children of Israel traveled forty years in the desert before setting foot in the promised land.