Posted on 9/25/2010, 7:10:21 AM by Salvation
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Phooey — that was all left aligned...sorry, folks. Certainly showed up centered, didn’t it?
St Paul: 'Far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ' (Gal 6:14). Treasure in your heart the crucified Jesus Christ and all the crosses of the world will seem like roses.
Bump.
Actually it laid out quite nicely. Thanks for posting this.
Agreed. The sentences are a good reading length.
Thanks for posting this Salvation!
Well done, Salvation. It does indeed look good.
Thanks for posting :)
pio ping
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“Certainly showed up centered, didn’t it?”
No problem. Pasted it into Word and hit it with my “Format” macro.
I have questions.
Padre Pio wrote, “God is our Father; and what do you have to fear as the daughter (or son?) of such a father whose providence would not let a hair of your head be harmed?”
The thing is, God *does* allow us to be harmed—martyred, even. Stoned. Crucified upside down. Burned at the stake. Slain in Nazi death camps. Starved to death by Stalin. Murdered by Satan-worshipping terrorists. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Can this, then, be a correctly understood tenet of Christianity? Or do I have it wrong?
Padre Pio wrote, “The third maxim is that you must observe what the divine Master teaches his disciples: ‘What do you lack?’ The disciples answered that they lacked nothing. When you were troubled even at the time when you unfortunately did not feel much confidence in God, tell me, were you never oppressed by anxiety? You will answer, ‘No.’ So, I will reply, ‘Why do you not have the strength to overcome all the other trials?’ ”
Does this mean that the disciples said they were never oppressed by anxiety, or was it contemporaries of Padre Pio?
God hears all prayers, but sometimes the answer is “no.” A man cannot presume upon God for the necessities of life, as though He were some spiritual ATM.
Surely it must be very difficult for an ordinary person not to feel anxieties about temporal matters, when he knows that God in His wisdom might allow something that seems pretty terrible to mortal man.
Thank you for posting this! “Patience paves the way...”
**The thing is, God *does* allow us to be harmed**
Isn’t this talking about the spiritually faithful not be harmed?
“Isn’t this talking about the spiritually faithful not be harmed?”
Isn’t a martyred saint spiritually faithful?
These were just sent to me by my pastor — all 15 of them! He promised to send them to me and here they are!
SPIRITUAL MAXIMS OF PADRE PIO
Posted on September 23, 2010 by achristianpilgrim
SPIRITUAL MAXIMS OF PADRE PIO
[1] “Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds Him.”
[2] “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.”
[3] “Whoever does not meditate is like someone who never looks in the mirror before going out, doesn’t bother to see if he’s today, and may go out dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his mind to God, who is the mirror of his soul, seeks to know his fault, tries to correct them, moderates his impulses, and puts his conscience in order.”
[4] “If we are calm and persevering, we shall find not only ourselves, but our souls, and with that, God Himself.”
[5] “The demon has only one door by which to enter into our soul: the will; there are no secret doors. No sin is a sin if not committed with the will. When there is no action of the will, there is no sin, but only human weakness.”
[6] “God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything.”
[7] “In the spiritual life one must always go on pushing ahead and never go backwards; if not, the same thing happens as to a boat which when it loses headway gets blown backwards with the wind.”
[8] “It is not a loss of patience if one asks Jesus to take away pain, when this becomes insupportable to us and beyond our strength, nor does one lose the merit of the suffering which is offered, by asking this of God.”
[9] “A good heart is always strong, it suffers, but with tears it is consoled by sacrificing itself for its neighbor and for God.”
[10] “Love and fear must go united together, fear without love becomes cowardice. Love without fear becomes presumption. When there is love without fear, love runs without prudence and without restraint, without taking care where it is going.”
[11] “Where there is no obedience there is no virtue, where there is no virtue there is no good, where there is no good there is no love, where there is no love, there is no God, and where there is no god there is no Paradise.”
[12] “Time spent in honor of God and for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.”
[13] “Keep well dug into your minds the words of Our Lord: In patience you will possess your soul.”
[14] “Pray that God will console you when you feel the burden of the Cross, for in doing so you are in no way acting against the will of God, but you are placing yourself beside the Son of God who asked His Father during the Agony in the Garden to send Him some relief. But if He is not willing to give it be ready to pronounce the same ‘Fiat,’ ‘So be it,’ that Jesus did.”
[15] “Those strong and generous in heart do not complain except for a strong reason, and even then it does not affect them intimately.”
Thank you. Bump
“(3) Whoever does not meditate is like someone who never looks in the mirror before going out, doesn’t bother to see if he’s (??) today,”
Isn’t there a word missing there?
Amen!
Well when you Thank him for that send my thanks as well.
It was very well written to the point and easily understood.
And 100% authentic in truth.
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