Suffering

SUFFERING

BASIC R.C. BELIEF From DEVOTIONS FOR THE HOLY SOULS, Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, Imp. Colmanus a Doneraile, page 20. “The Sacred Heart adddressed the two disciples on the way to Emmaus in the words: `Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into His glory?’ Neither can we enter into His glory without suffering.”

Ibid., page 24. “He that refuses here the thorns of penance and mortification, shall hereafter have the thorns of torments and the worm that never dies. This is an infallible truth.”

CATHOLIC JOURNALS From LEAVES, Mar/Apr 1979. Article by Rev. Anthony Kirschner, CMM (Marianhill Father). “A woman named Marie writes to us `with a sad and heavy heart.’ Her mother, a cancer victim, has just been taken to the hospital for the fifth time.

“To some, Marie’s mother’s suffering is wasted. But Marie’s mother uses it to buy mercy from God.”