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!