Wednesday, September 23rd
St. Pio. 1887-1968

‘May Jesus comfort you in all your afflictions; may He sustain you in danger, watch over you always with His grace and indicate the safe path that leads to eternal salvation. And may He render you always dearer to His divine heart and always more worthy of Paradise’. Amen. (prayer of Padre Pio.)

‘The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain’. (saying of Padre Pio).

I save and lead and bless all who are in Me and I in them. Pray that the good purpose of the Father’s perfect will be done in you and in all you love and pray for. So will it be in you and in all continuing faithful in the Way that I may welcome both you and them with the words, ‘Is it not you? Yes, you are Our joy and glory’.
(1 Thessalonians 2:19)