Padre Pio's Words of Hope by Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti

Author:Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Meditation 78

Justification

Romans 5:1-2: “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand. . . .”1

But how can faith justify me, cleanse me of sin, fill me with peace?

Padre Pio’s assurance: “Let us pray to the Father of all light to enable us to penetrate more and more deeply into the mystery of our justification, how wretched sinners like ourselves have been led to salvation. Our justification is such an enormous miracle that sacred scripture compares it to the resurrection of our divine Master.2 . . . God revealed his power more fully in our justification than in creating heaven and earth from nothing.... In fact, since nonexistence is the lack of being, it has no power to resist God’s will, while the sinner as a being, and a free being, is capable of resisting all God’s wishes.”3

“Oh, if we could only perceive for a single instant that which still amazes the heavenly spirits, namely, the state to which God’s grace has raised us, to be nothing less than his own children, destined to reign with his Son for all eternity.”4

Lord, thank you for the faith and love with which you — in spite of my sinfulness — justify and save me. Don’t ever let me resist you again. Amen.

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