Thought n° 58 Tuesday 27 February Meanwhile don’t be afflicted to the point of losing your interior peace. Pray with perseverance, trust, and a serene and calm mind. Padre Pio!

Thought n° 57 Monday 26 February As regards what you tell me you feel when meditating, you can be sure that the deceit is diabolic. Therefore, be careful and vigilant. Never fail to meditate as a result of this, otherwise you can be sure that you will be beaten later on in everything. Padre Pio!

Thought n° 56 Sunday 25 February I am absolutely unable to consider, in an indulgent manner, your neglecting Holy Communion, not to mention holy meditation. Remember that the only way to gain salvation is through prayer; you cannot win the battle without prayer. So the choice is up to you. Padre Pio!

Thought n° 55 Saturday 24 February He who does not meditate is like a person who never looks in the mirror and therefore does not bother to be tidy when he goes out, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and thinks of God, who is the mirror of his…

Thought n° 54 Friday 23 February But the true reason why you don’t succeed in meditating well is this, and I am not mistaken: you approach meditation with a certain, special alteration, coupled with the great anxiety to find some object which can console and content your spirit. And this is sufficient to see to…

Thought n° 53 Thursday 22 February I cannot at all believe and therefore dispense you from meditation for the sole reason that you feel you gain nothing from it. The holy gift of prayer, my good daughter, is in the right hand of the Saviour, and to the degree to which you are emptied of…

Thought n° 52 Wednesday 21 February Be patient in persevering in this holy exercise of meditation and be content with taking small steps, until you have the legs to run, or better still, wings to fly. Be content with obedience which is never a little thing for a soul which has chosen God as its…

Thought n° 51 Tuesday 20 February In order to imitate Jesus, we must reflect each day on the life of the One we intend to take as our model. From our reflection is born esteem for his acts and from esteem springs the desire and consolation of imitation. Padre Pio!

Thought n° 50 Monday 19 February The Christian soul never lets a day go by without meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ. Padre Pio!

Thought n° 49 Sunday 18 February Just as the bees sometimes fly great distances without hesitation to reach fields where they have a favourite flower bed and then, tired but satisfied and laden with pollen, return to the honeycomb to complete the fertile and silent work of transforming the nectar of flowers into nectar of…