Padre Pio wants to tell you this today December 18th. Thought and prayer

About your reading there is little to admire and almost nothing to build on. It is absolutely necessary for you to add to these readings that of the Holy Books (Holy Scripture), so recommended by all the holy fathers. And I cannot exempt you from these spiritual readings, too rewarding your perfection. It is convenient that you put away the prejudice you have (if you want to derive the much unexpected fruit from such readings) around the style and form with which these Books are exposed. Strive to do this and recommend it to the Lord. There is a serious deception in this and I cannot hide it from you.

O Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who have loved your spiritual children so much, many of whom he has won for Christ at the price of your blood, also grant us, who we have not known you personally, to consider us your spiritual children so that with your father protection, with your holy guide and with the strength that you will obtain for us from the Lord, we will be able, at the point of death, to meet you at the gates of Paradise awaiting our arrival.

«If it were possible, I would like to obtain from the Lord, one thing only: I would like if he said to me:« Go to Heaven », I would like to obtain this grace:« Lord, do not let me go to Heaven until the last of my children, the last of the people entrusted to my priestly care did not enter before me ». Father Pio