“I beseech you wholeheartedly not to waste time in thinking about the past. If it was used well, let us give glory to God; if badly, let us detest it and confide it to the goodness of the heavenly Father —letter to a fellow priest called to serve in  World War I, February 9, 1916

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One of the songs from the popular Disney movie Frozen contains the words, “I’m never going back. The past is in the past.” Padre Pio would proba-bly agree with those lyrics. For him, dwelling on things that we can no longer control or change is not worth our time—especially when we can begin again each time we partake in the Ssacrament of Penance. After all, why would we want to look backward when we can focus on the joys Christ has given us today and the hope of what lies ahead?
Praying with Padre Pio
St. Pio, help us keep from looking behind at what has been and instead turn our gaze toward the future and what is yet to come.