August 8, 2009
Aug 8 – St. Pio Daily – Dry Food’s Better than the Rest
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “You will greatly encounter the pleasure of God, and mine as well, by not omitting your spiritual exercises on account of the aridity and interior languor that…
August 9, 2009
Aug 9 – St. Pio Daily – God is Still Present
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “The darkness that encircles the heaven of your souls are light, and you do well to say that you do not see anything, and that you find…
August 10, 2009
Aug 10 – St. Pio Daily – Gems for the Soul
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “The trials to which the Lord is subjecting you and will subject you are all signs of the Divine predilection and gems for your soul. The winter…
August 12, 2009
Aug 11,12 – St. Pio Daily – Gold Tried in Fire
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity 11- “Moses, that great leader of the people of God, found the Lord in the darkness of Sinai. The Hebrew people saw it in the form of…
August 13, 2009
Aug 13 – St. Pio Daily – A True Agony
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “You are not alone in your trial, which is a true agony, but well accompanied: otherwise, how could you want that which the soul flees from, and…
August 14, 2009
Aug 14 – St. Pio Daily – Patience Possesses The Soul
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “It is not at all true that you, in this state of aridity and desolation of spirit, to which the most loving Savior has subjected you, offend…
August 17, 2009
Aug 15,16,17 – St. Pio Daily – A Sacrificed Heart
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity 15- “Be certain that when you find yourself in aridity of spirit, Jesus has not excluded you from the enjoyment of His sweetness: He has only hidden…
August 18, 2009
Aug 18 – St. Pio Daily – Fiat!
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “You see yourself abandoned, and I assure you that Jesus holds you tighter than ever to His Divine Heart. Our Lord also lamented on the Cross of…
August 19, 2009
Aug 19 – St. Pio Daily – The Soul’s King
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “Do not be amazed at your distractions and spiritual aridity; that springs up in you, partially from your senses and partially from your heart, which is not…
August 19, 2009
St. Bernard: Think of Mary…
One Minute Meditations St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Doctor of the Church Feast Day is August 20th + In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her…
August 24, 2009
Aug 23, 24 – St. Pio Daily – Continued Resignation
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity 23- “Sickness, lumps in the throat, caresses, holy flames, temptations, aridity and desolation are traits of the ineffable charity of God. And when the evil one wants…
August 25, 2009
Aug 25 – St. Pio Daily – High Night
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “There are certain moments in which there gathers over the heaven of my soul clouds so obscure and so dark, that it does not allow me even…
August 27, 2009
Aug 26,27 – St. Pio Daily – Rotting in Suffering
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity 26- “Aridity is a trial of fire, wholly different, however, from the fire of this base world. Between these two fires, though, there is this similarity, that…
August 28, 2009
Aug 28 – St. Pio Daily – Bend Your Shoulders Willingly
Ave Maria!-- August's Theme: Spiritual Aridity “It is God Who permits that your heart be in aridity and darkness; therefore, it is not harshness but sweetness. Do not be discouraged in the way…