How do you suffer well utilizing Catholic faith alone?

[Katherine438]

I’ve been going through periods of unbearable pain for over 20 years now … I look at it as a gift from God … I feel He is allowing me to do my purgatory here on this earth.

 

[Inbonum]

Every day unite pain, suffering, torture and else with pain, suffering and death of Jesus, and unite it with all Masses offered that day in whole world through hands of Blessed Virgin Mary to God for intentions example: poor souls in purgatory/sinners/ill/tortured/abandoned/dying/losted/ in pain and sufferings or for yourself/your conversion of heart/for deliverance/as reparation for your sins and of whole world.
You are not alone!

 

[mary15]

@Inbonum would you or anyone else like to write our an example of how to pray this way, by writing out an actual prayer example and posting that here?

I don’t understand what it means to unite with all masses…what is that?

Does it mean that you are praying that your prayers are heard by God along with all the other prayers being prayed at mass that day?

Why would you need to join your prayers with other prayers? Does God hear better or respond better when there is a massive outcry to Him by uniting all of our prayers?

 

[Inbonum]

@mary15 You just say at the start of every day:

Jesus, I unite all my pain/struggles/torture with Your pain, suffering and death on the cross and I unite it with all Masses that are offered today and I offer it to You Jesus through hands of Blessed Virgin Mary for… (intentions). Amen.

Because our prayers aren’t perfect and will never be but offering it with Blessed Virgin Mary is different, Mary is our advocate and She knows how our prayers could be better offered. She always prays for us if we ask Her to do it. When we offer something to God by Mary She offers it in more better and perfect way.
When we unite our pain with Jesus’s pain it becomes meaningful. Our sufferings is never in vain but our pain etc. can become useless if we don’t use it in right way, for example if we don’t accept it or we blame God for our pain, or if we protest against it. Our suffering alone is not enough to change anything but united with Jesus we “cooperate” with Jesus’s plan for us. When we unite our pain with Jesus we accept His will for us in our tribulations.
God always hears all our prayers in any form. Uniting with all Masses offered that day means also to accept and to offer it to God in more perfect and humble way. Our prayers become “stronger”, “better”, “more perfect”, when we offer something to God united with prayers of Church, Mass, we participate in unity with others and share graces of it through it.
I am speaking from advices I’ve been given.

 

[po18guy]

Easter Message from Cardinal Pell After His Imprisonment : We Redeem Our Suffering by Joining it to His Spirituality

see https://www.ncregister.com/daily-ne...pell-we-redeem-our-suffering-by-joining-it-to "I knew God was with me, but I didn’t know what He was up to, although I realised He has left all of us free. But with every blow it was a consolation to know I could offer it to God for some good purpose.”