St. Pio's Counsels and Exhortations

[Denise]

You are trying to find the highest good, but in all truth, it is within you and holds you stretched out on the naked cross, instilling strength to sustain the insupportable martyrdom, and also to love bitterly. Say to our Sweetest Lord, and say it always: I want to live by dying because from death comes life which does not die and assists life to raise the dead.

[MarieT]

beautiful

[Denise]

Let us follow the advice of David: Raise your hands in the holy places during the night and bless the Lord. Yes children, let us bless Him always and let us pray that He will always be our guide, ship and our port.

[Denise]

If Jesus reveals Himself, thank Him; if He hides Himself thank Him also. All is a pleasantry of His love. May the merciful and compassionate Virgin continue to obtain for you from the ineffable goodness of the Lord the strength to endure to the end so many proofs of charity which He bestows on you. My wish for you is that you will come to expire on the Cross with Jesus and be able sweetly to exclaim in Him; "Consummatum est"!

[Denise]

Often kiss Jesus with affection and you will recompense Him for the sacrilegious kiss of the unfaithful Apostle, Judas.

[Denise]

CHARITY

The pivot of perfection is charity. He who lives in charity lives in God, because God is charity, as the Apostle says.

[Denise]

Charity which has not truth and justice for its foundation is faulty. He who offends against charity, offends the pupil of the eye of God.

[Denise]

To fail in charity is like wounding God in the pupil of His eye. What is more delicate than the pupil of the eye? To fail in charity is like failing against nature.

[Denise]

Try always to advance more in charity; enlarge your heart with confidence for the divine gifts which the Holy Spirit is anxious to pour into it.

[MarieT]

we must indeed

[Denise]

Always do a little work. The wise man praises the valiant woman. Her fingers, he says, worked the spindle. Your distaff is the sum of your desires. Spin a little therefore everyday; make your designs thread by thread till they are all used up and you shall infallibly see their completion. But see that you do not hurry because you might twist the thread with knots and you would entangle your spindle. Work, therefore, and though you keep on advancing slowly, you will nevertheless go a long way.

[Denise]

Charity is the queen of virtues. As the pearls are held together by the thread, thus the virtues by charity; and as the pearls fall when the thread breaks, thus the virtues are lost if charity diminishes.

[Denise]

Humility and charity are master chords, all others depend on them. The one is the lowest, the other the highest. The preservation of the entire edifice depends on the foundation and the roof. If the heart keeps itself directed in the exercise of these, no difficulty will be encountered in the others. These are the mothers of virtue, the others follow them as the chicks do their mother.

[Denise]

Resignation to God's Will

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

[Denise]

Lean on the Cross of Jesus as the Virgin did and you will not be deprived of comfort. Mary was as if paralyzed before her crucified Son, but one cannot say that she was abandoned by Him. Rather, how much more did she love Him when she suffered and could not even weep?