Surrender Novena

Father Pio once said to Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo (1882–1970): "All of Heaven is in your soul." His name "Dolindo" means "pain," and his life was truly marked by great suffering. He endured it as a child, a young man, a seminarian, and a priest. Throughout his life he bore one humiliation after another to such an extent that the prophetic words of a certain bishop were fulfilled in him: "You will be martyrs, not martyrs of blood, but of the heart." In his immense suffering, Dolindo became a child who entrusted himself more and more to the heavenly Father.

"I am a poor nothing! My strength is in prayer, my guide is the will of God, by which I let myself be led by the hand. My certainty on this uneven path is the Heavenly Mother Mary." These words full of trust were rewarded by God with an extraordinary intimacy, through which he spoke to the spirit of this humble priest. Read the following words, which Jesus gives us for the trials of each one of us, as if Jesus were speaking them to you alone. When it seems to you that the Lord is sleeping in the boat, approach him in the midst of the storm with complete trust and surrender of everything to him, knowing that he himself will surely help you.

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