St. Pio's Counsels and Exhortations

[Denise]

This small booklet is a treasure. It is quite old now and published before Padre Pio was canonized. It belonged to my mother. I will post a snippet on a daily basis.

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[Denise]

The Love of God

You must speak to Jesus also with your heart, beside with the lips; indeed, in certain cases you must speak to Him only with the heart.

[Denise]

My daughter, may Jesus be always the center of our aspirations , sustain us with his grace, enlighten our mind and warm our hearts always with new love for Him. Behold, this is the synthesis of all my desire which I place assiduously before Jesus for you and for me. May Jesus in His infinite goodness listen to them and grant them.

[MarieT]

wonderful
thank you

its another 'nudge' for me to revisit an ebook i purchased years ago re Padre Pio's Spiritual Direction throughout the year: 365 daily commentary for the year -

life, busy-ness, studies have sure made me wish for more than 24 hours in a day but could we survive more?

God knows best

[Denise]

A pure soul is synonymous with a heart full of love for God.

[MarieT]

beautiful

[Denise]

The Heart of our Divine Master has no more amiable law than that of sweetness, humility, charity. Often place your confidence in Divine Providence and be assured that sooner heaven and earth shall pass away than that the Lord neglect to protect you.

[Denise]

Thank and sweetly kiss the hand of God that strikes you, because it is always the hand of the Father who strikes you because He loves you.

[Denise]

My past, O Lord, to Your Mercy; my present, to Your love; my future, to Your providence.

[Denise]

You must always have prudence and love. Prudence has the eyes. Love has the legs. Love which has the legs would like to run to God, but its impulse to rush toward Him is blind and at times might stumble, if it were not guided by prudence which has the eyes. When prudence sees that love could become unbridled, it loans its eyes to love. In this way, love restrains itself and, guided by prudence, acts as it should and not as it would like.

[Denise]

God loves man with an infinite love and when He punishes, He does so with reverence, almost fearing to hurt.

[Denise]

Always live under the eyes of the Good Shepherd and you will walk unharmed through evil pastures.

[Denise]

God can reject anything in a creature conceived in sin and which bears the indelible impression inherited from Adam. But, he absolutely cannot reject the sincere desire to love Him.

[Denise]

Are we sufficient of ourselves to form one holy desire without grace? Certainly not! Faith teaches us this. If in a soul there is nothing else but the longing to love its God, everything else is there already, because God is not present where there is no desire of His Love. Say to God: Do You want greater love from me? I have no more; give me more, therefore, and I will offer it to You.
Don't doubt. God will accept this offer.

[Denise]

Have you not for sometime loved the Lord? Do you not love Him now? Therefore: Do not fear! Even conceded that you had committed all the sins of the world, Jesus repeats to you: Many sins are forgiven you because you have loved much!