Redemptive Suffering

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Hey!! I hope you all aren’t too melted by the summer heat to help me answer a question.

Okay, I was taught my whole life about the concept of redemptive suffering. I know what it is. I know that a person can accept and unite their own suffering (especially unwarranted) to that of the Passion of Jesus, in order to help another person reduce the penalty of their own sins. (Of if I’m wrong please correct me)

But what I don’t understand is how this is done. Do you say a certain prayer, or do you just say “I’m offering my suffering for X?”

Thanks for reading/answering! God bless!
 
I think about my pain or suffering and pray, “It is for You, Sacred Heart of Jesus, and for [intention; e.g., the conversion of sinners].”
 
Like you, I learned very early on about redemptive suffering but only started practicing it this year… I’m a procrastinator 😦

I usually say “I offer this (description of my pain, or sorrow, or tears), in union with your passion for (intention)”

Many times my pains are so insignificant such as just a twinge that they feel like they’d do no good, I tell Him how little my pain may do, but that I offer this insignificant discomfort up in union with His anyway because I know that He can perfect anything and make it more significant than it is.

I have started to have a devotion (is there such a thing?) to redemptive suffering in the past months. I’m no saint and run from pain anytime I see it coming, so no hairshirts for me, but when I do get something I can offer, I’m almost happy that I can offer something up! Wow, reading my sentence makes me sound a tad looney 😊
 
When a person is suffering they are in fact resembling Christ crucified. God withholds punishments out of regards of the one who is suffering. One is not a loafer when one is suffering though to others he or she may be. No you are more precious to God than most of you can ever imagine. The one who is suffering is actually pouring out more Graces from God than the one who is not suffering yet can pray. It is like this. A girl asks her father for 5 dollars to get some grapes. He gives it to her. Now she has an accident and will be in a hospital for a very long time. The father comes to see her and again the girl asks for 5 dollars worth of grapes. But the father out of pity for her grants her alot more and gives her 30 dollars worth of grapes. Same to those who suffer. God will grant incredible graces in the name of those who suffer. Remember St.John Chysostom’s words when he said that those who receive a miracle then you have become a debtor before God. But for those who suffer God is then in your debt. You owe Him in the first case and He owes you in the second case. Suffering has tremondous value and we should not waste it. I have a cousin who while been religeous had suffered tremondously for a number of years from cancer and so on. Through these sufferings she had a brother who returned back to the Faith and is now doing alot of work for God by telling the youth about his experiences and the dangers associated with drugs. Yet it was his sister who enabled God to grant these lifesaving Graces to her brother in response to her sufferings and tribulations. We are in a small way completing the redemption work of our Lord Jesus. We are making up what is incomplete. God designed it this way so that you may share in His Glory. It has pleased Him for you to do this for Him. Read the Diary of St.Maria Faustina to get a more perfect picture of redemptive suffering and how each person can be so close to God because of their own sufferings and how many people can come back to God because of your own sufferings been united with His Son’s. God Bless!
 
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When a person is suffering they are in fact resembling Christ crucified. God withholds punishments out of regards of the one who is suffering. One is not a loafer when one is suffering though to others he or she may be. No you are more precious to God than most of you can ever imagine. The one who is suffering is actually pouring out more Graces from God than the one who is not suffering yet can pray. It is like this. A girl asks her father for 5 dollars to get some grapes. He gives it to her. Now she has an accident and will be in a hospital for a very long time. The father comes to see her and again the girl asks for 5 dollars worth of grapes. But the father out of pity for her grants her alot more and gives her 30 dollars worth of grapes. Same to those who suffer. God will grant incredible graces in the name of those who suffer. Remember St.John Chysostom’s words when he said that those who receive a miracle then you have become a debtor before God. But for those who suffer God is then in your debt. You owe Him in the first case and He owes you in the second case. Suffering has tremondous value and we should not waste it. I have a cousin who while been religeous had suffered tremondously for a number of years from cancer and so on. Through these sufferings she had a brother who returned back to the Faith and is now doing alot of work for God by telling the youth about his experiences and the dangers associated with drugs. Yet it was his sister who enabled God to grant these lifesaving Graces to her brother in response to her sufferings and tribulations. We are in a small way completing the redemption work of our Lord Jesus. We are making up what is incomplete. God designed it this way so that you may share in His Glory. It has pleased Him for you to do this for Him. Read the Diary of St.Maria Faustina to get a more perfect picture of redemptive suffering and how each person can be so close to God because of their own sufferings and how many people can come back to God because of your own sufferings been united with His Son’s. God Bless!
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DavidKays said:
When a person is suffering they are in fact resembling Christ crucified. God withholds punishments out of regards of the one who is suffering. One is not a loafer when one is suffering though to others he or she may be. No you are more precious to God than most of you can ever imagine. The one who is suffering is actually pouring out more Graces from God than the one who is not suffering yet can pray. It is like this. A girl asks her father for 5 dollars to get some grapes. He gives it to her. Now she has an accident and will be in a hospital for a very long time. The father comes to see her and again the girl asks for 5 dollars worth of grapes. But the father out of pity for her grants her alot more and gives her 30 dollars worth of grapes. Same to those who suffer. God will grant incredible graces in the name of those who suffer. Remember St.John Chysostom’s words when he said that those who receive a miracle then you have become a debtor before God. But for those who suffer God is then in your debt. You owe Him in the first case and He owes you in the second case. Suffering has tremondous value and we should not waste it. I have a cousin who while been religeous had suffered tremondously for a number of years from cancer and so on. Through these sufferings she had a brother who returned back to the Faith and is now doing alot of work for God by telling the youth about his experiences and the dangers associated with drugs. Yet it was his sister who enabled God to grant these lifesaving Graces to her brother in response to her sufferings and tribulations. We are in a small way completing the redemption work of our Lord Jesus. We are making up what is incomplete. God designed it this way so that you may share in His Glory. It has pleased Him for you to do this for Him. Read the Diary of St.Maria Faustina to get a more perfect picture of redemptive suffering and how each person can be so close to God because of their own sufferings and how many people can come back to God because of your own sufferings been united with His Son’s. God Bless!
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👍 Very well said. I offer the pains I have with my illnesses as redemptive suffering for the expiation of sins for all of mankind, not just a few at a time. It is good to hear you want to offer these pains up for yourself and others. I am proud of your efforts. There is a thread in the prayer intentions that gives you the ability to do this. I hope thiis has helped

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magdelaine1173 said:
👍 Very well said. I offer the pains I have with my illnesses as redemptive suffering for the expiation of sins for all of mankind, not just a few at a time. It is good to hear you want to offer these pains up for yourself and others. I am proud of your efforts. There is a thread in the prayer intentions that gives you the ability to do this. I hope thiis has helped

Magdelaine1173
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Thank you Magdelaine and I will look up that thread. God Bless!
 
DavidKays said:
When a person is suffering they are in fact resembling Christ crucified. God withholds punishments out of regards of the one who is suffering. One is not a loafer when one is suffering though to others he or she may be. No you are more precious to God than most of you can ever imagine. The one who is suffering is actually pouring out more Graces from God than the one who is not suffering yet can pray. It is like this. A girl asks her father for 5 dollars to get some grapes. He gives it to her. Now she has an accident and will be in a hospital for a very long time. The father comes to see her and again the girl asks for 5 dollars worth of grapes. But the father out of pity for her grants her alot more and gives her 30 dollars worth of grapes. Same to those who suffer. God will grant incredible graces in the name of those who suffer. Remember St.John Chysostom’s words when he said that those who receive a miracle then you have become a debtor before God. But for those who suffer God is then in your debt. You owe Him in the first case and He owes you in the second case. Suffering has tremondous value and we should not waste it. I have a cousin who while been religeous had suffered tremondously for a number of years from cancer and so on. Through these sufferings she had a brother who returned back to the Faith and is now doing alot of work for God by telling the youth about his experiences and the dangers associated with drugs. Yet it was his sister who enabled God to grant these lifesaving Graces to her brother in response to her sufferings and tribulations. We are in a small way completing the redemption work of our Lord Jesus. We are making up what is incomplete. God designed it this way so that you may share in His Glory. It has pleased Him for you to do this for Him. Read the Diary of St.Maria Faustina to get a more perfect picture of redemptive suffering and how each person can be so close to God because of their own sufferings and how many people can come back to God because of your own sufferings been united with His Son’s. God Bless!
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Thank You for writing this; I needed to hear this as an important reminder.
Sometimes I feel this guilt inside for not carrying the Cross of my sufferings with Pancreatic cancer and the mental anguish of living with Post Traumatic Stress order caused by Gang-Rape and torture at gunpoint and witnessing many of my family members suffering terminal illnesses. But its true we should all embrace our sufferings in much the manner Jesus died and suffered for each of us individually because He loves us so dearly. There can never be an Easter without first going through a Good Friday in our lives. Lord forgive me when I fail.
 
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