April 7, 2009
April 7 – St. Pio Daily – Vainglory’s Concealed Assault
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “All vices predominate only over those who let themselves be defeated and dominated by them. But vainglory raises its head against the very same people who fight it…
April 9, 2009
April 9 – St. Pio Daily – The Shadow
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Jerome was right to compare vainglory to the shadow. In fact, the shadow follows the body wherever it goes; it even measures its steps. The body flees…
April 10, 2009
April 10 – St. Pio Daily – Vainglory’s Corruption
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us always be on our guard. Let us not let the enemy of vainglory penetrate into our minds and our hearts because once he enters, he makes…
April 14, 2009
April 11-14 – St. Pio Daily – Our Holiness is Not Ours
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices 11- “Let us continually ask God the grace of being preserved from the pestilent vice of vainglory, because “every perfect gift comes from on high and descends from…
April 15, 2009
April 15 – St. Pio Daily – Christ Warns Us of Vainglory
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Our Lord, always solicitous for our good, in order to preserve us from the great enemy of vainglory, warns us of it in various places in the Gospel.…
April 18, 2009
April 18 – St. Pio Daily – Vainglory Haunts the Devout
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us be careful of vainglory, which is the vice characteristic to devout people. It urges us, without our realizing it, to appear always better than the others,…
April 20, 2009
April 20 – St. Pio Daily – The War Within
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Paul experienced very severely within himself the rebellion of the senses and of the passions, for which he uttered this lament: ‘Therefore, I myself, with the mind…
April 21, 2009
April 21 – St. Pio Daily – The Consent of the Will
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “ ‘I find then a law’ says St. Paul ‘that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.’ To feel the stimulus of…
April 22, 2009
April 22 – St. Pio Daily – The Idol of Avarice
Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The most seducing passions that vent themselves in manifold actions are those of the sense which are (according to the apostle Paul) fornication, uncleanness, impurity, tainted concupiscence, and…