Aspicientes in Jesum : Keeping Our Eyes Fixed on Jesus

A perennial and salutary reminder from St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Feast Day September 23rd:

Hebrews XII: 1-3

[1] And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:
Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen :

[2] Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
aspicientes in auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Jesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.

[3] For think diligently upon him. that endured such opposition from sinners against himself; that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.
Recogitate enim eum qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem : ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.

St. Padre Pio, pray for us!