Posts by Padre Pio Devotions

Lord, shed upon our darkened souls the brilliant light of your wisdom so that we may be enlightened and serve you with renewed purity. . .May your resurrection, Jesus, bring true greatness to our spiritual self and may your Sacraments be the mirror wherein we may know that self. Savior, your Divine plan for the…

Once the world held us by its delights. Now it is so full of disasters that the world itself is summoning us to God. Consider the emptiness of things which pass away with time.  Let the end of what is temporal show that what can pass away amounts to nothing.  Let the fall of things…

I have tried to live the gospel and to follow the monastic life each day. I have tried to spend time with God in thought and prayer and reading. God and I have been friends, I might even say,lovers. We live together. My life is in him and he is in my life. It is…

Let us imagine that we are a brush in the hand of an infinitely perfect artist. What must a brush do to make the painting turn out most beautiful? It must allow itself to be guided as perfectly as possible . . . When Eternal Wisdom, God, uses us as an instrument, then we shall…

Blessed is the soul who hears the Lord speaking within, who receives the word of consolation from his lips. Blessed are the ears that receive the echoes of the soft whisper of God, and pay no heed to the murmurings of this world. . . Blessed are they who search inward things, who try daily…

What does poverty of spirit mean? It is my awareness that I cannot save myself, that I am basically defenseless, that neither money nor power will spare me from suffering and death. . .Poverty of spirit is my awareness that I need God’s help and mercy more than I need anything else. Poverty of spirit…