“Prayer is the basic prerequisite to service of the Church and the world. Every believer should always think of prayer as an essential and indispensable component of one’s vocation.”

-Pope John Paul II

For Reflection:

To what extent do I consider prayer to be “an essential and indispensable component” of my vocation? To what extent do I live it?

Padre Pio’s Spiritual Direction for Every Day 

Gianluigi Pasquale 
Pb 272 pgs
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Introduction, Page x
…as we live out our days in an authentic Christian way:  We become aware that “though our outer man is wasting away, our inner man is being renewed every day” (2 Corinthians 4:16). But this is precisely a secret, the one that Padre Pio called “the secret of the great King” (seeTobit 12:7). For a Christian–and not just a Franciscan–the secret coincides exactly with a Person:Jesus.