Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today 25 October

1. Duty before anything else, even holy.

2. My children, being like this, without being able to perform one's duty, is useless; it is better that I die!

3. One day his son asked him: How can I, Father, increase love?
Answer: By doing one's duties with exactness and righteousness of intention, observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with perseverance and perseverance, you will grow in love.

4. My children, Mass and Rosary!

5. Daughter, to strive for perfection one must pay the greatest attention to act in everything to please God and try to avoid the smallest defects; do your duty and all the rest with more generosity.

6. Think about what you write, because the Lord will ask you for it. Be careful, journalist! The Lord give you the satisfactions you desire for your ministry.

7. You too - doctors - came into the world, as I came, with a mission to accomplish. Mind you: I speak of duties at a time when everyone talks about rights ... You have the mission of treating the sick; but if you don't bring love to the patient's bed, I don't think drugs are of much use ... Love cannot do without speech. How could you express it if not in words that lift the sick spiritually? ... Bring God to the sick; will be worth more than any other cure.

8. Be like little spiritual bees, who carry nothing but honey and wax in their hive. May your home be full of sweetness, peace, concord, humility and pity for your conversation.

9. Make Christian use of your money and your savings, and then so much misery will disappear and so many aching bodies and so many afflicted beings will find relief and comfort.

10. Not only do I not find fault that in returning to Casacalenda you return visits to your acquaintances, but I find it very necessary. Piety is useful for everything and adapts to everything, depending on the circumstances, less than what you call sin. Feel free to return the visits and you will also receive the obedience prize and the blessing of the Lord.

11. I see that all seasons of the year are found in your souls; that sometimes you feel the winter of many sterility, distractions, listlessness and boredom; now the dew of the month of May with the smell of the holy florets; now the heats of desire to please our divine Bridegroom. Therefore, there remains only the autumn of which you do not see much fruit; however, it is often necessary that at the time of beating the beans and pressing the grapes, there are larger collections than those promised to be reaped and harvested. You would like everything to be in spring and summer; but no, my beloved daughters, it must be this vicissitude both inside and outside.
In the sky everything will be of spring as for beauty, all of autumn as for enjoyment, all in summer as for love. There will be no winter; but here winter is necessary for the exercise of self-denial and of a thousand small but beautiful virtues which are exercised in the time of sterility.