St. Pio's Counsels and Exhortations

[Denise]

When you do not succeed in meditating well, do not for this reason cease to do your duty. If there are many distractions do not lose heart. Make a meditation of patience; you will profit all the same.

[Denise]

Fix the time, the length of your meditation, and do not rise from your place until you have finished it even at the cost of being crucified.

[Denise]

While assisting at Holy Mass renew your faith. Have your mind elevated to the mystery that is happening before your eyes.

[Denise]

Go with your mind to Calvary and think and meditate on the Victim who offers Himself to divine justice, absorbing the price of your redemption.

[Denise]

If you want to assist at Mass with devotion and with fruit, think of the sorrowful Mother at the feet of Calvary.

[Denise]

Prayer is the best weapon we possess, the key that opens the heart of God.

[MarieT]

most powerful indeed
the Lord hears the cries of His people as the scriptures will attest

“… and I have heard the cries of my people. I have seen their suffering, and felt their pain. I want to pull them out from under their slave masters’ whips and bring them to a good, gentle land: a land of plenty.

Genesis 18:20-25
GOD continued, “The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I’m going down to see for myself,

[Denise]

He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into a mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of his soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.

[Denise]

The holy gift of prayer is placed in the right hand of the Savior. And in the measure in which you will be empty of yourself - that is the love of the body and your self-will - and will keep on rooting yourself in holy humility, the Lord will keep on communicating Himself to your heart.

[MarieT]

how beautiful - our prayer "placed in the Lord's hand"

[Denise]

Have patience in persevering in the holy exercise of meditation and be contented to begin with small steps till you have legs to run, and better, wings to fly. Be contented to be obedient, which is never a small thing for a soul which has chosen God for its portion, and be resigned to be, for the present, a little bee in the nest which will soon become a large bee capable of making honey.

[Denise]

When you have distractions, don't distract yourself still more by stopping to consider the why and the wherefore. Just as a traveler who misses his way returns to the right road as soon as he is aware of it, you should continue to meditate without stopping in the distractions which you had.

[Denise]

The most beautiful credo is that which comes from your lips in darkness, in sacrifice, in pain, in the supreme effort of an unbending will for good. It is this which, like a stroke of lightning, penetrates the darkness of the soul. It is this which, in the flash of the tempest, lifts you and leads you to God.

[Denise]

The prayers of the Saints in Heaven and of the just on earth are a perfume which never will be lost.

[Denise]

Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.