Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today November 7th

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.

12. I beg you, my dear children, for the love of God, do not fear God because he does not want to hurt anyone; love him very much because he wants to do you great good. Simply walk with confidence in your resolutions, and reject the reflections of spirit that you make over your evils as cruel temptations.

13. Be, my beloved daughters, all resigned in the hands of our Lord, giving him the rest of your years, and always beg him to use them to make use of them in that fate of life that he will most like. Do not worry your heart with vain promises of tranquility, taste and merits; but present to your divine Bridegroom your hearts, all empty of any other affection but not of his chaste love, and implore him to fill him purely and simply with the movements, desires and wills that are of his (love) so that your heart, as a mother of pearl, conceive only with the dew of heaven and not with the water of the world; and you will see that God will help you and that you will do much, both in choosing and in performing.

14. The Lord bless you and make the family's yoke less heavy. Always be good. Remember that marriage brings difficult duties that only divine grace can make easy. You always deserve this grace and the Lord will keep you until the third and fourth generation.

15. Be a deeply convinced soul in your family, smiling in the self-sacrifice and constant immolation of your whole self.

16. Nothing more nauseating than a woman, especially if she is a bride, light, frivolous and haughty.
The Christian bride must be a woman of firm pity towards God, an angel of peace in the family, dignified and pleasant towards others.