Padre Pio Blog

“Reflect on what you write, because the Lord will ask you to account for it. Be careful, journalist! May the Lord grant you the satisfactions you desire in your career.” – Padre Pio

“Always and in everything let there be more uprightness of intention, more exactitude, more punctuality, more generosity in serving the Lord and then you will be as the Lord wants you.” – Padre Pio

“In order to aim at perfection it is necessary to do everything possible to please God, to try to avoid even the smallest fault, and to do everything else with more generosity.” – Padre Pio

Last month the Padre Pio Foundation of America spoke with Father David Beaumont, a Capuchin missionary priest who joined the order at the age of 18. He told us stories of hunger, violence and the struggles of the people in Mexico that he works with on a daily basis. We reached out to the benefactors […]

“One day a spiritual son asked him: Father, how can I increase my love? Reply: By doing your duty with exactitude and upright intentions and observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with constancy and perseverance, your love will grow.” – Padre Pio

“My children, to remain like this, unable to do my duty, is useless, it is better that I die!” – Padre Pio

“Duty before everything else, even before what is holy.” – Padre Pio