- Lift up your heart -

From Padre Pio writtings:

Those souls who throw themselves into the whirlpool of worldly preoccupations are poor and unfortunate. The more they love the world, the more their passions multiply, the more their desires are lit, the more they find themselves incapable of carrying out their projects, and thus they are uneasy, impatient, affected by that shock that breaks their hearts; those hearts which do not beat with charity and holy love. Let us pray for these unfortunate and miserable souls, that Jesus may forgive them and draw them to himself in his infinite mercy. (Letter III,p.1105)

From Padre Pio writtings:

You who have received many gifts and graces from Jesus, continue to increase always in the life of virtue, and your piety and zeal will recall those who are far from the right path, and thus you will praise the Lord along with our common father, Saint Francis, in all the works of the creation, obtainig copious reward on earth and in heaven. (Letters III,p.1105)

From Padre Pio writtings:

May your way of life be totally heavenly; we are bound to this as Christians and also as children of the Seraphic Father, Saint Francis. In imitation of this Seraphic Father let us love Jesus in the Passion more than anything else. Let us often meditate on the suffering of the God – Man and then it will not be long before the great desire to suffer more for love of Jesus is awakened in us. (Letters III,p.69)

From Padre Pio writtings:

And our Seraphic Father understood well that without love for the cross, one cannot make much progress in the ways of Christian perfection. Therefore he continually carried, sculpted in his soul, the Passion, Death and the whole mortal life of the Son of God made Man. The fruit of such assiduous meditation was the generating in his heart of love for suffering without limit, so that often enraptured in loving ecstasy, he would exclaim: ” The good that awaits me is so great that all suffering is my delight “. (Letters III,p.69)

From Padre Pio writtings:

Keep your spirit always raised on high; may your heart always be turned towards the heavenly Homeland and do not take your gaze from there except in order to check where you are walking, so as to avoid making a mistake, and once again to see the road on which you are to travel in order to get to Jesus. (Letters III,p.68)

Edited by Melchiorre of Pobladura and Alessandro of Ripabottoni

Edited by Father Gerardo Di Flumeri, O.F.M. Cap.

2nd Edition 2001

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