Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today 21 October

21. I bless the good God of the holy sentiments who gives you his grace. You do well to never begin any work without first begging for divine help. This will obtain the grace of holy perseverance for you.

22. Before meditation, pray to Jesus, Our Lady and Saint Joseph.

23. Charity is the queen of virtues. Just as pearls are held together by thread, so are virtues from charity. And how, if the thread breaks, the pearls fall; thus, if charity is lost, the virtues are dispersed.

24. I suffer and suffer greatly; but thanks to the good Jesus I still feel a little strength; and what is the creature helped by Jesus not capable of?

25. Fight, daughter, when you are strong, if you want to have the prize of strong souls.

26. You must always have prudence and love. Prudence has eyes, love has legs. The love that has legs would like to run to God, but his impulse to rush towards him is blind, and sometimes he could stumble if he were not guided by the prudence he has in his eyes. Prudence, when he sees that love could be unbridled, lends his eyes.

27. Simplicity is a virtue, however up to a certain point. This must never be without prudence; cunning and shrewdness, on the other hand, are diabolical and do so much harm.

28. Vainglory is an enemy proper to the souls who consecrated themselves to the Lord and who gave themselves to the spiritual life; and therefore the moth of the soul that tends to perfection can rightly be called. It is called by the Saints woodworm of holiness.

29. Do not let your soul disturb the sad spectacle of human injustice; this too, in the economy of things, has its value. It is upon it that you will see the unfailing triumph of God's justice one day!

30. To entice us, the Lord gives us many graces and we believe we touch the sky with a finger. We do not know, however, that in order to grow we need hard bread: the crosses, the humiliations, the trials, the contradictions.

31. Strong and generous hearts are sorry only for great reasons, and even these reasons do not make them penetrate too deeply.

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.