Padre Pio's sentences and thoughts on the Madonna in May
1. When passing in front of an image of the Madonna we must say:
«I greet you, or Maria.
Say hi to Jesus
from me".
2. Listen, Mommy, I love you more than all the creatures of earth and sky ... after Jesus, of course ... but I love you.
3. Beautiful Mommy, dear Mommy, yes you are beautiful. If there was no faith, men would call you goddess. Your eyes are more shining than the sun; you are beautiful, Mommy, I glory in it, I love you. Deh! help me.
4. In May, say many Ave Maria!
5. My children, love the Ave Maria!
6. May Mary be the whole reason for your existence and guide yourself to the safe harbor of eternal health. May she be your sweet model and inspirer in the virtue of holy humility.
7. O Mary, very sweet mother of priests, mediator and dispenser of all graces, from the bottom of my heart I beg you, I beg you, I beg you to thank today, tomorrow, always Jesus, the blessed fruit of your womb.
8. My mother, I love you. Protect me!
9. Do not leave the altar without shedding tears of pain and love for Jesus, crucified for your eternal health.
Our Lady of Sorrows will keep you company and be of sweet inspiration to you.
10. Do not be so dedicated to Martha's activity as to forget Mary's silence or abandonment. May the Virgin, who conciliates both offices so well, be of sweet model and inspiration.
11. Maria inflate and perfume your soul with ever new virtues and place her maternal hand on your head.
Hold ever closer to the Celestial Mother, because it is the sea through which you reach the shores of eternal splendor in the kingdom of dawn.
12. Remember what happened in the heart of our heavenly Mother at the foot of the cross. She was petrified before the crucified Son for the exuberance of pain, but you cannot say that she was abandoned by it. Indeed when he loved her better then that he suffered and could not even cry?
13. We love Heavenly Mother! Let's give her our time!
14. Pray the Rosary! Always crown with you!
15. We too regenerated in holy baptism correspond to the grace of our vocation in imitation of our Immaculate Mother, applying ourselves unceasingly in the knowledge of God to always better know him, serve him and love him.
16. My mother, deep in me that love that burned in your heart for him, in me who, covered with miseries, admire in you the mystery of your Immaculate Conception, and that I ardently yearn for you to make my heart pure for it to love my and your God, pure the mind to rise to him and contemplate him, adore and serve him in spirit and truth, pure the body so that it will be his tabernacle less unworthy of possessing it, when he will deign to come in holy communion.
17. I would like to have such a strong voice to invite sinners from all over the world to love Our Lady. But since this is not in my power, I prayed, and I will pray my little angel to perform this office for me.
18. Sweet Heart of Mary,
be the salvation of my soul!
19. After the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven, Mary continually burned with the most lively desire to reunite with him. Without her divine Son, she seemed to be in the hardest exile.
Those years in which she had to be divided from him were for her the slowest and most painful martyrdom, martyrdom of love that consumed her slowly.
20. Jesus, who reigned in heaven with the most holy humanity that he had taken from the bowels of the Virgin, also wanted his Mother not only with the soul, but also well with the body to meet him and fully share his glory.
And this was quite right and proper. That body which had not even been a slave to the devil and sin for an instant was not to be even in corruption.
21. Try to conform always and in everything to the will of God in every event, and do not be afraid. This conformity is the sure way to reach heaven.
22. Father, teach me a shortcut to get to God.
- The shortcut is the Virgin.
23. Father, when saying the Rosary should I be careful of the Ave or the mystery?
- At the Ave, greet the Madonna in the mystery you contemplate.
Attention must be paid to the Ave, to the greeting you address to the Virgin in the mystery you contemplate. In all the mysteries she was present, to all she participated with love and pain.
24. Always carry it with you (the crown of the Rosary). Say at least five stakes every day.
25. Always carry it in your pocket; in times of need, hold it in your hand, and when you send to wash your dress, forget to remove your wallet, but don't forget the crown!
26. My daughter, always say the Rosary. With humility, with love, with calm.
27. Science, my son, however great, is always a poor thing; it is less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of divinity.
Other ways you have to keep. Clean your heart of all earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray! Thus you will surely find God, who will give you serenity and peace in this life and eternal bliss in that other.
28. Have you seen a fully ripened wheat field? You will be able to observe that some ears are tall and luxuriant; others, however, are folded on the ground. Try to take the high, the most vain, you will see that these are empty; if, on the other hand, you take the lowest, the most humble, these are full of beans. From this you can deduce that vanity is empty.
29. Oh God! make yourself felt more and more to my poor heart and complete in me the work you started. I internally hear a voice that assiduously tells me: Sanctify and sanctify. Well, my dearest, I want it, but I don't know where to start. Help me too; I know that Jesus loves you so much, and you deserve it. So speak to him for me, that he may give me the grace of being a less unworthy son of St. Francis, who can be an example to my brothers so that the fervor continues and grows ever more in me to make me a perfect cappuccino.
30. Therefore always be faithful to God in the observance of the promises made to him and do not take care of the motions of the insipients. Know that the saints have always mocked the world and the worldly and have put the world and its maxims underfoot.
31. Teach your children to pray!