– Crucified love  the ” Beloved ”

From Padre Pio writings:

I desire one thing from you in this regard, more than anything else: Your usual meditation should possibly be on the Life, Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ … You could also meditate on His public life, His most painful passion and death, the institution of Blessed Sacrament, on that precise evening when men were preparing the most atrocious suffering for him. You could also meditate on Jesus meditating in the Olive Grove whrn He perspired blood at the sight of the suffering which men were preparing for Him, and of the ingratitude of those who would not take advantage of His merits. Meditate on Jesus dragged and beaten in the tribunals; scourged and crowned with the cross; His climb up the hill of Calvary laden with the cross; His Crucifixion and finally, His death on the cross amidst a sea of anguish as His most afflicted Mother looked on. ( Letters III,65/66)

From Padre Pio writings:

I exhort you to love a God crucified amidst the darkness; stay a while with him. Tell him: ” It does me good to stay here. Let us make three booths (Mk 9:5), one for our Lord, one for our Lady and the other for Saint John. Make three crosses anyway, stay at the foot of that of the Son, or that of the Mother, or that of the most beloved disciple. You will be welcomed everywhere. ( Letters III,181)

From Padre Pio writings:

If the longing to love God seems to you not to be satisfied, or let us even say that it really is not satisfied; if it seems to you that you always desire without ever arriving at the possesion of perfect love, all this means that your soul must never say it has enough, it means that we cannot and must not stop on the path to divine love and holy perfection. St. Augustine says very aptly: Our heart is not at rest till it rests in the object of its love. ( St. Augustine, Confessions, Bk.I,1) . ( Letters II,424)

From Padre Pio writings:

… The Lord is with you, he suffers with you, groans with you and is pleased with you. Love, and do whatever you wish …Even if you were to have committed all the sins of this world … Jesus tells you: Your sinsm which are many, are forgiven, for you have loved much. ( Lk 7:47) But then, you will say to me, what is the reason for this trial of heavenly love. I have come into deep waters and the flood sweeps over me. (Ps 69 (68) :2) But the Prophet added to the Lord: Let not the flood sweep over me or the deep swallow me up!. ( Ps 69 (68) : 15) This is the trial of souls who are particularly loved by that Jesus who was pleased to experience all the fear of that moral tempest in the desert, the Garden and Calvary. Every soul that wants to be saved must undergo something of that mysterious storm, because every predestined soul must resemble Jesus. ( Letters III,218/219)

Letters II, III, edited by Melchiorre of Pobladura and Alessandro of Ripabottoni.

English version, second and third edition, years  2001,2002, edited by Father Gerardo Di Flumeri O.F.M. Cap.

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