Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today August 25th

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.

25. The world does not esteem us because children of God; let's console ourselves that, at least once in a while, it knows the truth and doesn't tell lies.

26. Be a lover and practicer of simplicity and humility, and do not care about the judgments of the world, because if this world had nothing to say against us, we would not be true servants of God.

27. Self-love, the son of pride, is more malicious than the mother herself.

28. Humility is truth, truth is humility.

29. God enriches the soul, which strips itself of everything.

30. By doing the will of others, we must make an account of doing the will of God, which is manifested to us in that of our superiors and our neighbor.

31. Always keep close to the holy Catholic Church, because she alone can give you true peace, because she alone has the sacramental Jesus, who is the true prince of peace.