Posts by Padre Pio Devotions

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight, will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God … More than all things, love silence. It is fruitful in a way that words cannot describe. In the beginning we have…

In his ‘Final Testament’ to his brothers, St. Francis of Assisi taught that part of conversion involves ‘leaving the world.’ He said, ‘I tarried for a little while, and then I finally left the world.’ Most of us are still tarrying. We haven’t left the world, and we don’t want to. We’ve partly embraced our…

Today is September 23 – The Feast Day of St. Pio of Pietrelcina  Prayer was the key to Padre Pio’s existence and the guarantee of his mission. Prayer was his daily activity. He also dedicated many hours of the night to prayer. It was the task which he felt was particularly his own and which…

We must try to be children who realize that the Lord is such a good Father, by loving us as his children, he has taken us into his house, in the middle of the world. . .Our Father in heaven pardons any offense when his child returns to him, when he repents and asks for…

The dry, weary earth of my heart cannot live without refreshing water. My longing is for the divine waters to flow gently over the parched earth of my life and bring healing and coolness. I thirst for the divine water that heals and cleanses and restores newness of life. . . .I think God wants…

In all trouble, you should seek God. . .God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this incident or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage, we find God.…

We need silence. We need to be alone or together looking for God in silence. There it is that we accumulate the inward power by which we act, by which we do the smallest duty and by which we suffer the severest hardships that befall us . . . Once I was asked by someone…

Little by little we are able to hear the still, small voice in the hurricane, the earthquake, or the fire. God is hidden in difficulties. If we can find him there, we will never lose him. Without difficulties, we do not know the power of God’s mercy and the incredible destiny he has for each…

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…

The farther I run away from the place where God dwells, the less I am able to hear the voice that calls me “the beloved,” and the less I hear that voice, the more entangled I become in the manipulations and the power games of the world. – Henri Nouwen