Only through suffering, through the Passion, can we advance along the road to sanctity and divine union. There is no other way but the way of the Cross.
The easiest thing about faith is confessing it before adoring fans that you believe. The most difficult part is the total giving of your life and future to the will of God, fully surrendering to it wherever it may take you whether or not you may have chosen that road or destiny should you had your will followed.
the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, "The greatest tragedy on earth is not that there is so many sufferings but rather the greatest tragedy is that there is so much WASTED suffering."
ReplyDeleteWasted because it is not offered to the Lord. It is not sanctified, It can not be a salvific suffering.
Thanks, Romeo, for dropping by.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, many suffering have been wasted because people consider it a curse to ran away from instead of a grace for sanctification of self and of others.