tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557948450443597092024-03-27T11:07:53.824-08:00Saintly QuotationsEncouragement and wisdom from the SaintsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-42167443052481239562023-01-29T21:38:00.000-09:002023-01-29T21:38:18.572-09:00Totus Tuus: Mary, Shaper of Saints<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LiVBYfxi-ao" width="320" youtube-src-id="LiVBYfxi-ao"></iframe></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comWisconsin, USA43.7844397 -88.787867826.6387766858853 -123.9441178 60.930102714114696 -53.6316178tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-47119862473030927672022-04-15T18:55:00.000-08:002022-04-16T01:06:38.553-08:00Litany of Humility<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_70570">Litany of Humility</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68186"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68187" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68186"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68187" style="color: red;">Hear me.</span></em></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the desire of being esteemed, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68189"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68190" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68189"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68190" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68191" />
</em>From the desire of being loved, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68192"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68193" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68194" />
</em>From the desire of being extolled, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68195"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68196" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68197" />
</em>From the desire of being honored, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68198"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68199" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68198"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68199" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68200" />
</em>From the desire of being praised, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68201"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68202" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68201"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68202" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68203" />
</em>From the desire of being preferred to others, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68204"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68205" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68204"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68205" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68206" />
</em>From the desire of being consulted, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68207"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68208" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68209" />
</em>From the desire of being approved, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68210"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68211" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68210"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68211" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68212" />
</em>From the fear of being humiliated, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68213"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68214" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68213"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68214" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68215" />
</em>From the fear of being despised, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68216"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68217" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68216"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68217" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68218" />
</em>From the fear of suffering rebukes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68219"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68220" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68221" />
</em>From the fear of being calumniated, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68222"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68223" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68222"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68223" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68224" />
</em>From the fear of being forgotten, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68225"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68226" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68225"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68226" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68227" />
</em>From the fear of being ridiculed, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68228"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68229" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68230" />
</em>From the fear of being wronged, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68231"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68232" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68231"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68232" style="color: red;">Deliver me, Jesus.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68233" />
</em>From the fear of being suspected, <span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68234" style="color: red;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68235"> </em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68234" style="color: red;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68235">Deliver me, Jesus.</em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That others may be loved more than I, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68237"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68238" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68237"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68238" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68239" />
</em>That others may be esteemed more than I, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68240"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68241" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68240"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68241" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68242" />
</em>That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68243"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68244" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68243"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68244" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68245" />
</em>That others may be chosen and I set aside, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68246"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68247" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68246"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68247" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68248" />
</em>That others may be praised and I unnoticed, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68249"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68250" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68249"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68250" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68251" />
</em>That others may be preferred to me in everything, <em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68252"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68253" style="color: red;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68252"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68253" style="color: red;">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</span><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68254" />
</em>That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, <span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68255" style="color: red;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68256"> </em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68255" style="color: red;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68256">Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68259"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Merry_del_Val" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68260" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">Servant of God Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val,</a><br clear="none" id="yiv0401807601yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521996634740_68261" />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comRome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy41.9027835 12.496365511.894017089739261 -22.6598845 71.911549910260732 47.652615499999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-85395526856443941512022-04-15T02:42:00.000-08:002022-04-16T01:04:18.217-08:00Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the Suffering: You Can Do the Most!<div style="text-align: center;">
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humanity, which led him to understand, to show compassion and bring
comfort, harmoniously combining tenderness and strength. He was moved by
the beauty of nature, he was sensitive to human suffering, he fought
evil and injustice. He faced the negative aspects of this experience
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certainty of a new world. In him, the human condition showed its face
redeemed and the deepest human aspirations found fulfillment.</span></span></div>
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people, victims of their own limits and errors, but to sustain their
efforts for total self-fulfillment. He opens the prospect of divine life
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For, as he does not not at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~St. Vincent de Paul</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSault Ste. Marie, MI , USA46.497711500000008 -84.347587618.187477663821163 -119.5038376 74.807945336178847 -49.1913376tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-3945620052630765092021-12-09T01:15:00.001-09:002021-12-09T01:15:58.472-09:00Pope Pius VIII<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The salvation of the people principally depends on good pastors. Nothing contributes more to the ruin of souls than impious, weak, or uninformed clerics."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Pope Pius XIII</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comApostle Islands, Wisconsin, USA47.0027301 -90.69083529999998926.650717879907404 -125.84708529999999 67.3547423200926 -55.534585299999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-6319860855539700642021-12-09T01:04:00.000-09:002021-12-09T01:04:12.372-09:00Trials and Tribulations<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUGEqUnO72xc3W3W5MgAle8_NAYjLadRZokFHEU2lMYvBHXFJvqQxtK_Eq5SmvI0T9pSjEearr0lSh9KsQTEngLv0zj2zMVkxyfsFr_EvFd_7RQi7wtqH63iCS9b5XhlrDYgl5CfO5juO-wd0CdbGm1gA_GVgpFaInSS3URWAf0RFD1TVT3YsIlD6L=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUGEqUnO72xc3W3W5MgAle8_NAYjLadRZokFHEU2lMYvBHXFJvqQxtK_Eq5SmvI0T9pSjEearr0lSh9KsQTEngLv0zj2zMVkxyfsFr_EvFd_7RQi7wtqH63iCS9b5XhlrDYgl5CfO5juO-wd0CdbGm1gA_GVgpFaInSS3URWAf0RFD1TVT3YsIlD6L=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. 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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Suffering for God is better than working miracles.</span></span></div>
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At this moment I would like to express the deep sympathy that I feel for each of you, and all my understanding for the sickness you carry in your body and your spirit; I would like to speak with you one by one to instill in you comfort and encouragement.</div>
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Your life as handicapped persons constitutes a great trial; it is a trial for you above all, but also for your parents, for those who love you, and for those who wonder why this infirmity?<br />
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The Lord does not ask us to close our eyes in the face of infirmity. It is very real, and we must have a clear knowledge of it. He asks us to look more deeply, to believe that in these suffering bodies beats not only human life with all its dignity and its rights but also, by virtue of baptism, the divine life, the marvelous life of the children of God.<b> If to the external eyes of men you appear weak and infirm, be</b><b>fore God you are great and luminous in your existence.</b></div>
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<b>In human society, powerful, cultivated people occupy the positions of authority and are more visible; in the Kingdom of God, on the other hand, the opposite happens - the first and the greatest, Jesus tells</b> <b>us, are the children, the weak, the poor, the suffering. The ways of God are disturbing to mankind. St. Paul says: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong."</b></div>
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This truth, which leaves us bewildered, becomes comprehensible if we look at the example of Jesus. Jesus was not content with revealing to us the mystery of suffering. He gave us the most convincing answer by taking our weaknesses upon himself, becoming the Man of sorrow who is acquainted with suffering.</div>
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When we ask God, then: Why must this innocent suffer? God in turn, asks us a question: Do you not see me in your brother who suffers? And what will you do for me and for him?</div>
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<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255794845044359709.post-13260789994322154262021-02-07T23:12:00.000-09:002021-02-07T23:12:26.276-09:00John Paul II: Your Suffering Elevates the World<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I call on you to entrust your anguish to God the Father and to Christ, through Mary; to ask of Him - more than resignation, and even more than courage for your struggle - <i>the grace of love and hope</i>. Look at the Cross of Christ with faith: although it is the instrument of immense suffering, it is above all the sign of immense love, and the open door to Resurrection, which is the ultimate response of the God of love to His chosen Son.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May you <i>offer</i> this handicap of yours together with Christ, and enter into redemption: for your salvation, for the progress of the whole Church, for the graces of conversion that our world needs! Remain faithful to <i>prayer</i>. Try to remain<i> open to others</i>, without turning in on yourselves. Others have a lot to gain from your experience as sick people and as believers. Often, your ordeal has enabled you to acquire an outlook on existence and what is truly valuable, and gain a new degree of patience, of courage, of solidarity, of serenity at the prospect of death - in contrast with the anxiety of those around you - and a mysterious union with God. To all this you can bear witness, making manifest the promise of Jesus: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Even in the silence of prayer, and confined to your bed, you are in communion with the whole world, in order to take part in redemption: your prayer and your offering elevate the world.</span></span></div>
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<span>If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing.</span> <br />
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<span>an image disclosed through transformation. This means</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8923">Courage, my soul,</span> <br id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8924" /><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8925">through prayer we can do all that is asked of us.</span> <br id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8926" /><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8927">The Heart of Jesus is there:</span> <br id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8928" /><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8929">let us knock.</span> <br id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8930" /><br id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8931" /><i id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8932"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8933">St. Bernadette Soubirou</span></i><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8934"><i id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8935"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8936">s</span></i></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8922" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8934"><i id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8935"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8936"> </span></i></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8922" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8934"><i id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8935"><span id="yiv1087884357yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522113671306_8936"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaopoFCtqsWz51SYbNoUUj9AqAi6jXLmafw6OH3WIFDYJ0rifyGTYE7Zz9bC0EEY9_NQH18FVS5g_dXqOSrLaMDDzVwUIQiMHe3XKmE8uPuGFcS9J8pnhMBB-zXkOaoOuVbT1Y7JvlVfE/s477/Bernadette_soubirous_1_publicdomain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaopoFCtqsWz51SYbNoUUj9AqAi6jXLmafw6OH3WIFDYJ0rifyGTYE7Zz9bC0EEY9_NQH18FVS5g_dXqOSrLaMDDzVwUIQiMHe3XKmE8uPuGFcS9J8pnhMBB-zXkOaoOuVbT1Y7JvlVfE/s320/Bernadette_soubirous_1_publicdomain.jpg" /></a></div><br /> </span></i></span></span></span></div>
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