Thank you so much for your interim English translation of the Second Reading for the Proper Office of St. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord. You shall receive a hundred times more and inherit eternal life. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.Īmen, I say to you, who have left all for my sake: So we may please you by this sacrifice of pardon and peace. In Saint Pio you have recreated the old man What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his deeds. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. Now, insofar as I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and has given himself up for me. I have been crucified with Christ yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me. Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,īrothers and sisters: Thanks to the law, I died to the law, so that I might live for God. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, So to come with joy to the glory of the Resurrection. Lord, you are my alloted portion and my cup.īy a singular grace you gave the holy priest, Pio, I wish that you deliver your spirit with Jesus on the cross and that you be able to say with him: All is accomplished! (Jn 19,30) When Jesus shows himself to you, thank him should he hide from you, thank him still. They are diabolic tricks that aim to bring you away from perfection, or at least to delay you along his way. All that does not come from the good spirit, but from the bad. (Pr 24,16).Īnd believe me, if I did not learn that you are also afflicted, I would be less happy, since I would think that the Lord decides to give you less pearls… Drive out like temptations doubts to the contrary… Drive out also the doubts that refer to your manner of living, namely, that you did not heed the divine calls and that you opposed the gentle invitations of your Husband. As we know from the Holy Scripture: the righteous man falls seven times a day. If this most benevolent Spouse hides himself in your heart, he does so, not as a punishment for your sin as you believe, but to further test your fidelity and your constancy and moreover, to cure some weakness that your eyes of feeble, failing flesh, do not see, of which no one is simply free. Thus, do not fear that God makes you fall into some evil or ruin! It should be enough for you to know that in all your life, you never offended the Lord whom you should approach more and more. Thus, do not doubt that all that happens to your soul has been willed by the Lord. As for me, I believe, that his grace will make itself manifest in you through the joy and wise movement of your heart. ![]() Why will mature people not praise these kind gestures that every father does? Open your heart to this celestial doctor of hearts and surrender yourself in all confidence to his very sacred hands for he treats you as someone whom he has chosen to follow Jesus closely, until the summit of martyrdom. Therefore, give thanks for the infinite tenderness of our Heavenly Father, who deals thus with your heart to save it. What are these blows of hammer and chisel? They are the shadows, my sister: the fears, temptations, afflictions, spiritual anxieties, and also the physical maladies. To reign with Christ in eternal glory, the heart must thus be cut with large blows of hammer and chisel in this way, as with stones, the divine architect prepares the hearts that it chooses. Thus our heavenly Father acts on the heart which he chooses and desires from all eternity, in his great wisdom and Providence, to build as an eternal dwelling place. ![]() ![]() When a contractor wants to build a house, he must first cut the stones, which will be used for construction this he does with blows of hammer and chisel. Each heart intended for eternal glory can be very well considered as one of these stones created for the eternal temple. And it can be seen to be true in this way. This is what the holy Catholic church, our tender Mother sings, as the hymn of the Office of the Dedication of a Church. The divine craftsman gets ready to prepare stones to build an eternal temple he cuts these stones by repeated blows of his hammer and carefully polishes them by removing any excess. Letter of Padre Pio to Raffaelina Cerase,
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