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.
Most people believe that once people gain their freedom from oppressors, they became free. History shows that's not necessarily true. Our oppressors are not outside us but within us--pride, fear, covetousness... These sinful vices keep people in bondage using chains that no amount of uprising can break.
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.