Into God's Loving Presence

Your Holy Guardian Angel

(Since next week is Christmas week, please accept this message as my gift to you for Christmas week, dear friend. I will write again to you after Christmas.)

You certainly have a holy Guardian Angel always near you and eager to help you. Just speak to him, tell him your needs, ask him always to help you--and he will! He is waiting for you to speak to him; he actually longs for you to communicate with him.

According to Saint Padre Pio, "Your angel is not like you are. Your angel is very obedient." (page 214 in Prophet of the People by Dorothy M. Guadiose who worked for Padre Pio for three years and who was my dear friend.)

A blessed Christmas to you, dear friend, and please return to my blog and Facebook page after Christmas for more wisdom from Saint Padre Pio!

Do Not Fear as Regards Your Soul

Saint Padre Pio reassures you, "Do not fear as regards your soul. Jesus is and will always be yours, and nobody will take Him from you. Isn't this sufficient for you? Assiduously study Jesus Christ and His divine doctrine, and follow His illustrious example, which He places before us as a model, in divine Scripture, and do not fear the roaring tempest, which is permitted by God as a countersign of His predilection for your soul." (Letters 3, p. 791)

Your Little Defects

Are you worried about your flaws and mistakes and weaknesses? Saint Padre Pio reassures you: "Don't worry about your little defects. They will pass or rather, if they don't, they will serve as an exercize in humility and mortification. Live tranquilly, my child, and do not fear because Jesus is with you. Continue to travel the path you have taken and never slow down." (Letters 3, page 351)

Are You Sick, Suffering, Poor?

Are you sick, are you suffering, are you poor? Do you feel alone in your troubles? Never fear; God is with you. In fact, Jesus suffers right along with you--within you. St. Padre Pio told the doctors and nurses who served at the huge hospital he had built in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, "Do everything out of love for Jesus Christ. Do it with love. Bring love. When you see the patient, look at Jesus Christ. In every sick person, see Jesus suffering. In the poor whom you love, you see Jesus twice, because Jesus was very poor." (A Padre Pio Profile, p. 35) If you are that sick person, that suffering person, that poor person, you are not alone. Jesus is with you, He is in you, and He will never stop loving you and helping you, no matter what!