What Cross are You Carrying Today, Dear Friend?

What is the cross you are carrying today, my dear friend? Please do not carry it alone. It makes you feel lonely, I know, when your cross is so heavy, and perhaps you've carried it for a long time now, which adds to your pain, but Saint Padre Pio offers you his blessing as he smiles on you from Heaven, and he says the following to you, just as he said it to another spiritual child of his:

"May the grace of the divine Spirit comfort your soul with that consolation which can come from God alone. May Jesus make you ever dearer to Him and ever more like Him on the path of suffering. May Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, enable you to undertand all that is contained in the great secret of suffering borne with a Christian spirit. May she obtain for you all the strength you require to climb the summit of Calvary loaded with your own cross. Great strength is needed, unfortunately, to follow this path, but take heart, for the Savior will never leave you alone or without His help. Let us make haste, then, to join and mingle with all those pious and faithful souls who follow the divine Master. Let us hasten, I say, and not remain far behind this holy company. Let us always be united with them and never lose sight of them." (Letters 2, pages 487-488)

Yes, dear friend, take heart, as Saint Padre Pio said, and know that your Savior will never leave you alone or without His help.