Posts by Padre Pio Devotions

Place all your hope in the heart of Jesus; it is a safe haven; for he who trusts in God is sheltered and protected by his mercy. To this firm hope, join the practice of virtue, and even in this life you will begin to taste the ineffable joys of Paradise. – St. Bernard of…

October 15 The Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila Let your desire be to see God; your fear, that you may lose him; your sorrow, that you are not having fruition of him; your joy, that he can bring you to himself. Thus you will live in great peace. – St. Teresa of Avila

It is a great advantage to have a room or a corner of a room . . . reserved for the discipline of solitude . . .There we dwell in the presence of the Lord. Although the discipline of solitude asks us to set aside time and space, what finally matters is that our hearts…

October 13 Feast of St. Edward the Confessor Edward grew up in innocence, delighting chiefly in assisting at Mass and in association with the clergy. In 1041, when Edward was forty years old, he was raised to the throne of England. The virtues of his earlier years – simplicity, gentleness, humility and charity, but above…

Consider God’s generosity toward you rather than your own unworthiness in his sight, and live in his strength, rather than in the thoughts of your own weakness. – St. Vincent de Paul

One of the most important things you can do to improve your spiritual life and your mental health is to fill your mind with uplifting thoughts. If you hold on to hurtful memories, they will only make you sick. You have a choice. You can reject them. Decide firmly that you will not let the…

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…

Jesus, friend of a lonely heart, you are my haven, you are my peace. You are my salvation. You are my serenity in moments of struggle and amidst an ocean of doubts. You are the bright ray that lights up the path of my life. You are everything to a lonely soul. You understand the…

To do things for God, to serve him – that will follow naturally from our love. It is possible to serve God by reminding ourselves that he is our Creator and we ought to do his will unquestioningly. Or we can serve him by reminding ourselves that he is our King and that any homage…

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…