Taking nothing is taking everything
23rd September, 2015: Remembering Padre Saint Pio
Ezra 9: 5-9; Lk 9: 1-6
The tendency of the world is to fill us with something so that we don't realise the emptiness within us that can be filled only with God. Or hearts are made for you, said St Augustine. Give me souls take away the rest, prayed Don Bosco in the footsteps of St. Francis de Sales. All these saints just as the saint that we have today, Padre Pio. ..throw a challenge at us: to accept the absolute space that God has in our life! We can't replace God with anything other than meaninglessness and despair in our life. May Padre Pio intercede for us that we may fill ourselves with God and this fill the world with God.