– Padre Pio, all for God -

From Padre Pio writtings:

I have worked and I intend to work; I have prayed and I intend to pray; I have kept watch and I intend to keep watch; I have wept and I intend always to weep for my brothers in exile. I know and understand that this is not much, but this is what I am able to do and all that I am capable of doing. (Letters I,San Giovanni Rotondo 23/10/1921, p.1389)

From Padre Pio writtings:

I feel latterly to an enormously increased extent at the apex of my spirit two apparently quite conflicting forces, namely, the desire to live in order to be of use to my brothers in exile and the desire to die in order to be united with my Spouse. These two desires torment my soul and deprive me of peace, not the deep interior peace which they only touch externally, so to speak, but that peace which I also find very necessary if I am to act with greater gentleness and fervour.  (Letters I, San Giovanni Rotondo 8/10/10920, p.1317)

From Padre Pio writtings:

I see myself placed in extreme desolation. I am alone in bearing everyone’s burdens and the thought of being unable to bring spiritual relief to those whom Jesus sends me, the thought of so many souls who foolishly try to justify their evil ways in defiance of Supreme Good afflicts and tortures me. It causes me to suffer agonies, wearies my mind and rends my heart. Dear God! What a sharp thorn has been driven into my heart!  (Letters I, San Giovanni Rotondo, 8/10/1920, p. 1317)

From Padre Pio writtings:

The virtues are to be kept as a person keeps a treasure which if not hidden from the sight of envious people, will be seized. The devil is always on the watch; he is the most envious of all he seeks to seize at once this treasure consisting of the virtues as soon as he recognizes it. This he does by having us attacked by this powerful enemy which is vainglory. (Letters I, Pietrelcina 2/08/1913, p.449)

Edited by Melchiorre of Pobladura and Alessandro of Ripabottoni.

English Version edited by Father Gerardo Di Flumeri O.F.M. Cap.

II Edition 1984

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