Posts by Padre Pio Devotions

Only in God is man capable of living fully. Without God he is permanently sick. His sickness affects both his happiness and his capacity for happiness. . .In order to be capable of leading a full life, man must stand in a certain relationship to God and obey certain rules. And the capacity for true…

October 4 The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy; O Divine Master, grant…

October 3 Vigil of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi Moses was rescued from the river, and he had to flee from Pharaoh, that is to say, he was poor. The Lord gave him nothing other than a staff; no riches, just a staff with which to make his way in the desert. Later,…

I want to move courageously toward holiness. To be silent, to forget myself; to think of others and dedicate myself to them; to care for and accomplish nothing but God’s will; to be an apostle of the Sacred  Heart, and an adoring and atoning person; my eyes and my heart fixed on the tabernacle and…

October 1 The Feast Day of  St. Therese of Lisieux I will try to find a new way to heaven, quite short and direct. We live in an age of inventions. We need no longer climb laboriously up flights of stairs; in well-to-do houses there are lifts. And I was determined to find a lift…

One doesn’t need to be unhappy when life takes this or that joy away that one thought was indispensable. One doesn’t have to despair when this or that success fails to occur or when our plans are not realized. We become rich through giving, fulfilled through renunciation, joyous through sacrifice, loved through loving. When we…

We should attach no importance either to the events of this life or to material things; they are the dreams of a night spent at an inn, and will vanish as quickly as images seen in dreams, leaving no more traces than they do . . . We must see things as they are, in…

This very day, this moment in which our heart is crushed by weariness and our strength seems to have ebbed away, precisely now in the middle of all this trouble, we pray for the healing peace of God. . . But the waters of healing surge up within us.  God within us is like a…

I will live in the present moment and fill it with love. A straight line is made of millions of little points, one united with the other. My life, too, is made of millions of seconds and minutes united one with the other. If I arrange every single point perfectly, the line will be straight.…