Pain and Suffering

[jasperg357]

What is the difference between pain and suffering? How exactly does someone offer their suffering up to the Lord?

 

[johnthebaptist2]

When every I,am in pain that really gets to me,I offer up to the Lord,for all the suffering he went threw for us on the Cross.
See the pain we go threw daily in our lives,is nothing compared to what Jesus did.He bear all he could, to prove his Love for us. Pain is little aches,suffering is something you can,t bear,and wish it would go away,but dosen,t.

 

[China123]

I say this prayer in the mornings for my morning offering and offer everything up to the Lord:

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.

And then during the day I just tell the Lord I am offering up this headache, this leg pain, this annoyance, etc. and ask for Him to unite this with his pain and surrering on the cross. My little pains are nothing in comparison but it makes me feel better to do this.

Pain may be a headache or some little pain. Suffering is maybe a long term illness or pain that does not subside. You can suffer emotionally too from many things like depression, grief, etc.

 

[ClearWater]

What is the difference between pain and suffering? How exactly does someone offer their suffering up to the Lord?

I thought pain is an experience, say, physical. You can be in pain but not necessary interpret it as suffering. Suffering, I thought, was more of a subjective way of experiencing pain.

We can experience pain and not necessarily suffer, I think, depending on our frame of mind. Some can be joyful, even, in pain.

 

[GEddie]

Pain is a matter of the body; suffering, of the mind, or psyche.

Pain occurs when the flesh, organs or vessels in our human bodies are damaged, strained, or ill. Suffering need not involve the human soma at all, but may result from interpersonal or mental effects in a perfectly sound body (but can also be physical).

There can even be physical pain without suffering; for example, the “growing pains” associated with the stretching limbs of youth.

So pain and suffering are really independent; you can undergo one or the other, or both. (It is rare in human life to have neither for any length of time).

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[Genesis315]

In my opinion, the best time to offer up one’s suffering is during the offertory at Mass. This is not just the time to offer your monetary offerings, but also your spiritual ones. Express your intention in prayer to unite your sufferings and all you are and have to Jesus’ sacrifice which will be made present on the altar.

 

[thistle]

What is the difference between pain and suffering? How exactly does someone offer their suffering up to the Lord?

Modern Catholic Dictionary:

PAIN. The experience of suffering. Pain can be physical, when the suffering is in the deprivation of some bodily want; or mental, when the mind is oppressed by uncertainty or doubt; or emotional, when the feelings are disturbed by anxiety and fear; or volitional, when desires are frustrated; or social, when a person is rejected or at least not accepted by others; and spiritual, when the soul is mysteriously tried by desolation and even a sense of abandonment by God. (Etym. Latin peona, punishment, penalty, pain.)

SUFFERING. The disagreeable experience of soul that comes with the presence of evil or the privation of some good. Although commonly synonymous with pain, suffering is rather the reaction to pain, and in this sense suffering is a decisive factor in Christian spirituality. Absolutely speaking, suffering is possible because we are creatures, but in the present order of Providence suffering is the result of sin having entered the world. Its purpose, however, is not only to expiate wrongdoing, but to enable the believer to offer God a sacrifice of praise of his divine right over creatures, to unite oneself with Christ in his sufferings as an expression of love, and in the process to become more like Christ, who, having joy set before him, chose the Cross, and thus “to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of His body, the Church” (I Colossians 1:24). (Etym. Latin sufferre, to sustain, to bear up: sub-, up from under + ferre, to bear.)