Devotions: the thought of Padre Pio today November 14th

26. The real reason why you can't always do your meditations well, I find it in this and I'm not mistaken.
You come to meditate with a certain kind of alteration, combined with a great anxiety, to find some object that can make your spirit happy and consoled; and this is enough to make you never find what you are looking for and do not place your mind in the truth you meditate.
My daughter, know that when one searches in a hurry and greedily for a lost thing, he will touch it with his hands, he will see it with his eyes a hundred times, and he will never notice it.
From this vain and useless anxiety, nothing can arise but a great tiredness of spirit and impossibility of mind, to stop on the object that keeps in mind; and from this, then, as from its own cause, a certain coldness and stupidity of the soul specifically in the affective part.
I know of no other remedy in this regard other than this: to get out of this anxiety, because it is one of the greatest traitors that true virtue and firm devotion can ever have; he pretends to warm up when he does well, but he does it only to cool down and makes us run to make us stumble.

27. I do not know how to pity you or forgive you that way of easily neglecting communion and holy meditation. Remember, my daughter, that health cannot be achieved except through prayer; that the battle is not won except through prayer. So the choice is yours.

28. Meanwhile, do not afflict yourself to the point of losing internal peace. Pray with perseverance, with confidence and with a calm and serene mind.

29. Not all of us are called by God to save souls and spread his glory through the high apostolate of preaching; and also know that this is not the one and only means of achieving these two great ideals. The soul can propagate the glory of God and work for the salvation of souls through a truly Christian life, praying incessantly to the Lord that "his kingdom come", that his most holy name "be sanctified", that "lead us not into temptation », that« free us from evil ».

Holy Joseph,
Sponse Mariae Virginis,
Pater putative Iesu,
now pro me!

1. - Father, what do you do?
- I'm doing the month of St. Joseph.

2. - Father, you love what I fear.
- I don't like suffering in itself; I ask God, I yearn for the fruits it gives me: it gives glory to God, it saves me the brothers of this exile, it frees souls from the fire of purgatory, and what more do I want?
- Father, what is suffering?
- Atonement.
- What is it for you?
- My daily bread, my delight!

3. On this earth everyone has his cross; but we must make sure that we are not the bad thief, but the good thief.

4. The Lord cannot give me a Cyrenean. I only have to do God's will and, if I like him, the rest doesn't count.

5. Pray calmly!

6. First of all, I want to tell you that Jesus needs those who groan with him for human impiety, and for this he leads you through the painful ways of which you keep my word in yours. But may his charity always be blessed, which knows how to mix the sweet with the bitter and convert the transitory penalties of life into an eternal reward.