⁣SufferingWell

Do you know that as Jesus brought Salvation to this world through His Suffering, Death, and Resurrection, we are called to share in His sacrifice through the crosses we must bear?*

Each one of us is graced with the privilege of joining Jesus on a tiny sliver of His Cross by uniting our sufferings, sacrifices, and temptations with His own.**

Through His Divine Mercy, we are blessed each day with the opportunity to offer the Lord our hardships to alleviate the anguish and sorrow of others, drawing both them and ourselves so much closer to Him!

We invite you to learn more about this miraculous gift. Please view some videos, comment, and/or send us an email:

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*New American Bible, revised edition:

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me” (Jesus, Mt 16:24)

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His body, which is the church (Apostle Paul, Col 1:24)


**As expressed through the words of St. Paul the Apostle, St. Pope John Paul II, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Faustina, St. Padre Pio, et al.

God is merciful and he allows suffering, but why? In this Divine Mercy series episode with Fr. Chris Alar of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, we hear a story about a man whose five-year-old niece just died.He asked Fr. Chris and his brother the age-old question about suffering and God. Fr. Chris gave the rote, straight-out-of-seminary answer and it just made the man angrier. His brother gave the more truthful response, which emphasized how God never wills suffering but can always bring good out of it if we let him. “Your niece,” he told that man, “I guarantee you she is on God’s lap praying for you.”In our pride we think we have better answers. We think suffering is avoidable, and that God just has to will it to go away. But love is greater than suffering. In order to truly love, we have to have a choice. Unfortunately, our choices have resulted in great suffering in our own lives and those of others.Thankfully, God continues to love us even when we choose to not love him. In his unconditional love, he overpowers suffering and brings good out of even the worst of it. He wants to remove any obstacle between you and him. Sometimes that obstacle is your fear of suffering. Sometimes it’s your own comfort. When we accept our suffering and give it to Christ, it is sanctifying. In our suffering we have the power to release people from purgatory, to offer it up for the forgiveness of sins of others and ourselves. The Cross is the way to glory. Our own crosses are our own way to glory. In Christ’s suffering, he paved the way to the Resurrection so that all our trials can be united to his and he can bring us to the Resurrection as well. Through his cross, Christ sanctified us. Now he asks us to continue that mission and sanctify the world through our suffering.MORE FROM ASCENSIONAscension’s main website: http://ascensionpress.comAscension Media: https://media.ascensionpress.comThe Great Adventure Bible: https://ascensionpress.com/col....lections/featured/pr SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AscensionPress/Twitter: http://twitter.com/AscensionPressLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/compa....ny/ascension-pressIn http://www.instagram.com/catho....licfaithformation/Su https://www.youtube.com/c/asce....nsionpresentsAscensi SyncID:MB01NNLGUQKYFEZ