Lifting up ones suffering

[Montie_Claunch]

I have heard of “Lifting up ones sufferings” for someone (that is having trouble, is in purgatory or whatever). But, noone ever said how. Do you do this a head of time? or when it’s happening? Is there a prayer that goes with it? Thanks and God bless.

 

[NotWorthy]

When you suffer any type of pain, during your daily prayers and meditations, just tell God you’d like to “offer up my (whatever ails you) for (whoever you want to pray for)”.

Notworthy

 

[LilyM]

The easiest way is simply to make a morning offering like this one first thing waking up, substitute your own intentions for the ones mentioned if need be, then you’re covered for the day:

The Morning Offering:

O Jesus,
through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I offer You my prayers, works,
joys and sufferings
of this day for all the intentions
of Your Sacred Heart,
in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
throughout the world,
in reparation for my sins,
for the intentions of all my relatives and friends,
and in particular
for the intentions of the Holy Father.
Amen.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

I think of it as acknowledging that God is in charge, and that whatever suffering I’m enduring it’s for a reason that may or may not become plain to me in the future.

To see suffering as the “labor pains” involved in growth and new life, one can intellectually – if not experientially – become convinced that this suffering is actually medicine for my soul, as much as it seems to the contrary.

Also it means to quit fighting the misery, I think. Instead of figuring your way out of suffering, accept it for the time as God’s will and look beyond it toward what you can do. It seems strange but once I accept a limitation and find a way to do something useful while working around it, the limitation itself is often abated.

Alan

 

[AquinasXVI]

Hey Montie!

As a foundation of offering up our sacrifices is the life of Christ.

At this time of Lent, we can say our intentions for whatever we are about to endure and imagine that we are beside Christ in the desert, in Gethsemane, in the Passion…for these events are eternal we can enter into them and offer to Christ whatever we are suffering. Our unity with him then comes into a new dimension…personal and apostolic. We feel a little of the suffering he suffered and we are ‘helping’ in the work of salvation. We do this physically in a mystical union with him.

hope this helps a bit.

in XT.