Posts by Padre Pio Devotions

We all work for results. We do not perhaps recognize the aim of our strivings at success. But we want to see our work issue in results which will gratify us and bring commendation or notice to us. We can do this even in the pursuit of holiness. But to work for results is not…

I am on the road towards the Holy in which I am already rooted. I abide in that towards which I constantly journey. On the one hand, I have not yet reached the goal of my pilgrimage, which is God, but on the other hand, God is not really far from any one of us:…

For the Christian living in the world, real prayer is that which goes before action, and is its necessary concomitant. Human action is for God, what water is in baptism, and bread in the Eucharist; the material for divine operation. We cannot do without prayer, but it must be prolonged in action. I ought to…

Worldly people have not the Holy Spirit, or if they have, it is only for a moment . . . The noise of the world drives Him away. A Christian who is led by the Holy Spirit has no difficulty in leaving the goods of this world, to run after those of heaven; he knows…

God himself says: I have loved thee with an everlasting love . . . He is our Savior; that is something that must never be forgotten. And it is as our Savior, that he enters into partnership with us. In fact, it is by that very partnership that he saves us. He comes to us…

The study of inspired Scripture is the primary way to learn what our duty is in life. In it, we find not only instruction about conduct, but also accounts of the lives of blessed men and women. . . If we devote ourselves to imitating these saints, then no matter which virtue we may feel…

Being holy means living exactly as our Father in heaven wants us to live. You will say that it is difficult. It is. The ideal is a very high one. And yet it is also easy. It is within our reach. When a person becomes ill, there may be no appropriate medicine. But in supernatural…

Jesus, our Savior, true God and true Man, must be the ultimate end of all our devotions. He’s the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End of everything. In him alone dwells the entire fullness of the Divinity and the complete fullness of grace, virtue, and perfection. In him alone we’ve been blessed…

The holy exercise of prayer must be considered one of the chief foundations of Christian life and holiness, since the whole life of Jesus Christ was nothing but a perpetual prayer; which you must continue and express in your life. Neither the earth on which you live, the air you breathe, the bread that sustains…

Place your entire physical and spiritual welfare in God’s hands. Abandon to the fatherly concerns of his divine providence every care for your health, reputation, property, and business; for those near to you; for your past sins; for your soul’s progress in virtue and love of him; for your life, death and especially your salvation…