– The power of the Holy Spirit and Mary -
From Padre Pio writtings:
What a joy it is to serve Jesus in the desert without manna, water, or any other consolation, except that of being led by him and suffering for him! May the most holy Virgin be born in our hearts, to bring us her blessings. ( Letters III, 487)
From Padre Pio writtings:
Let us invariably unite with this dear Mother. With her, close to Jesus, let us go out from Jerusalem, the symbol and figure of Jewish obduracy, of the world which rejects and denies Jesus Christ and from which Jesus Christ declared himself to be separated when he said: ” I am not of this world ” (Jn 8:23). ( Letters I, 673)
From Padre Pio writtings:
I pray continually for your growth in the spiritual life, I promise you that on your feastday I will send up my feeble peas to God’s throne with greater confidence and filial abandonment, imploring Him and doing gentle violence to His divine Heart so that He may grant me the grace of increasing heavenly wisdom in your soul … The fact of having been chosen, having been elected among innumerable others and knowing that without any merit on our part, this choice, this election was decided by God from all eternity, before the foundation of the world (Jn 17:24; Eph 1:4), for the sole reason that we might be His in time and in eternity, is such a great and at the same time such an enchanting mystery that the soul, even though it understands so little of all this, cannot but melt away with love. ( Letters II, 211/212)
From Padre Pio writtings:
Jesus and Mary continue to act as parents to me. Oh, my dear Father, who could put into writing the consolations which this heavenly Mother makes me feel during this month! I continually feel a burning heart enclosed in this frozen body of mine. ( Letters I, 321)
Edited by Melchiorre of Pobladura and Alessandro of Ripabottoni.
English Version edited by Father Gerardo Di Flumeri O.F.M. Cap. – Letters I, III, 2nd edition; Letters II, Third edition -
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