Padre Pio’s Spiritual Advice

Don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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	Padre Pio’s Spiritual Advice

Author: o. Pio,
Love One Another! 15/2010 → The Main Topic

“Do not ask why you are suffering; do not seek the answer (to this question), but go resolutely forward. Jesus will not allow any harm to come to you or allow you to perish, so long as you do not become engrossed in yourself and linger over your decisions. So, hold your head high! Though the world turn upside down, though darkness cover everything, and the world be ablaze and in chaos, nothing should fill your soul with anxiety, for God is with you and His strength will hold you up in battle…”

“Let us remember that suffering is the lot of chosen souls. We must bear it like Christians. God, the giver of every grace and gift leading to salvation, ordains it. It is the requirement, the condition of glory. And so, let us lift up our hearts and trust in God alone. Let us humble ourselves beneath the powerful hand of God. Let us accept in obedience to His will every suffering, to which He, the tender Father, wills to subject us, that He may exalt us in the hour of His visitation. May our one concern be to ‘love God and be pleasing to Him in all things,’ worrying about nothing, for we must know that God will always watch over and care for us, more than we could ever imagine it.”

Padre Pio da Pietrelcina; Epistolario, vols. 1-4, edited by Frs. Melchior da Pobladura & Alessandro da Ripabottoni, San Giovanni Rotondo, 1973-1974.

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The above article was published with permission from "Love One Another!" in June 2016.

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