Tuesday, May 7 : Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio”

Please remain calm and be resigned in everything. Jesus is with you and he is pleased with you. I never cease to importune the divine heart on your behalf, so that it fills you with even more graces to support and fight the good fight. Do not doubt it, victory will come and will be yours without a doubt. Do not strive to seek God outside yourself, he is with you, he is in your search. I urge you, during this trial, to act in accordance with divine will and to imitate Isaac in the hands of Abraham, to hope with them against all hope. Do not be afraid, my dear father, and believe me, I who spoke to you from Jesus. Courage, then, my dear father. Jesus is with you and victory will surely come to you. (…) Isn’t spring more beautiful and more surprising when winter is harsh and tumultuous? Please my good father, forget your fears and let the divine doctor also act like a surgeon. Live peacefully as far as your mind is concerned. Continue to offer the Lord the sacrifice of your life and all that you bear, and Jesus will continue to reign over your heart, as the true sovereign that he is. And to make yourself ever more worthy of the glory of the blessed, offer to God everything you bear a hundred times and more per day. Keep yourself linked to him by a loving will.

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