The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this is precisely because of his mercy. Leggi tutto »
” Sempre così .”
Caro Padre Pio, è la tua grande promessa. La ritrovo nel più profondo del mio spirito. La grido con tutta la mia voce: “Sempre così!”. Per me sei il dono dell’amore di Dio ed io lo ringrazierò eternamente insieme a te.
Sempre così
- O Padre del mio spirito,
ora ricorro a te
e torna in me la pace.
Come farò allorché
tu non sarai più qui? -
Let us keep well in mind what the divine Master said: in our patience we will possess our souls.
(ADFP,560)
– Dio si nasconde all’anima -
Dagli scritti di Padre Pio:
Non temere di nulla… che niuna cosa ti rimuoverà da Dio. Non ti perdere d’animo per il buio in cui trovasi il più delle volte immerso il tuo spirito. Ricordati che Gesù mai è così strettamente unito a te, quanto lo è in questo stato d’animo.(Ep.IV,418) Leggi tutto »
Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can ever have. It pretends to warm us to do good works, but doesn’t and we grow cold; it makes us run only to make us trip. One must be careful of this on all occasions particularly at prayer. And to better succeed it would be well to remember that graces and the consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth, but of Hesaven, and that therefore all our efforts are not sufficient to make them fall, even though it is necessary to prepare oneself with great diligence, but always humbly and tranquilly; one must keep one’s heart turned to Heaven and wait from there the heavenly dew.
( Padre Pio Archives,Capuchin friary,San Giovanni Rotondo)
Proverbs praises the strong woman:”She puts her hands to the distaff”, we are told, and I willingly say a few words to you on this matter: Your distaff is the accumulation of your desires. Therefore spin a little every day, thread by thread weave your design until it is finished and you will infallibly succeed. But be careful not to hurry, because you will tangle the thread with knots and confuse the spindle. Therefore, advance always, and even if you progress at a slow pace, you will still travel far.
( Letters III,p.568)
