The Cross That You Personally Carry

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Have you ever thought about “ your cross “ that you bare ?
How do you carry - your particular cross ?
It does seem the more spiritually fit - the person is, the cooler they are.

Someone told me we need to nail ourselves on the cross ( he’s not Catholic )
How can you pick up your cross and follow Christ AND be nailed to it too - ?
 
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Every day we carry our cross. I don’t think about it much but I just try to do the Lord’s will.
 
Where Jesus mentions carrying our cross, he was speaking of enduring persecution for the sake of the gospel. In that sense, you don’t normally have to go looking for crosses to bear. All you have to do is proclaim Christ as our savior and they will come find you.
 
By being willing to face adversity and oppression. Judgement and ridicule. Imprisonment and death. Because I know this is who I am and I know who I serve… and hopefully when all seems lost and no help is in sight I know he is still watching and I hope to be pleasing to him more than to fellow man or the world
 
I never heard that it’s about facing adversity - and enduring persecutions !
This is an eye opener for me -
So many people say “ it’s my cross that I must bare “
And it’s sometimes said in a off handed manner -
I can see now how all believers - do - or should - carry the cross - it’s inevitable!
 
Oh yes, and overtime I’ve come more and more to see that many of my crosses are rooted in my own sins. Loneliness for one thing but then it can be due to envy of other’s company, etc
 
The Faith (or lack thereof) of those we love.

This seems a particularly difficult cross to bear because it cannot be remedied by God. Free will prevails. Therefore we can pray for help towards conversion, but we cannot pray for conversion.

It’s the one thing God does not have a cure for.
 
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St. Faustina had a vision of souls and some were nailed, and some carried them and the ones that resembled Jesus the most is suffering would be more like Him in His glory. This is consistent with St; Paul’s writing on sufferings.
 
St. Monica was able to procure her son salvation through her unceasing prayers.
 
No, I disagree. It is our personal crosses that we bare, sometimes that we created ourselves. Others, like my wife, carry the cross of endless physical pain, pain that just happened to her, but we both go to the same place to deal with it - Our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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Yes I have, and I thank the Lord that He helps me deal with it as it this point there is nothing I can do about it. To be honest, mine was pretty much of my own making.
 
One of my crosses seems to be waiting, having to try and wait patiently ,over years and years …and in doing that trying to live in the moment rather than always be looking forward to the future.It can be very challenging accepting and trusting.
 
I don’t carry my crosses well.
I whine and resist and cry to the heavens.
But then other times I can be very serene about it all.

I’m a work in progress
 
I have OCD and have never carried my cross well, but I think I’ve just recently accepted that it’s not going to disappear and knowing that we all have our crosses, and Jesus said we WILL have trials and tribulations gives me a sort of comfort. I guess it’s just knowing it’s a guaranteed part of life and that I’m not the only one going through stuff.
 
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Everybody is carrying our own cross whether it is burden, fear, doubt, temptation, regrets and etc. We all had to remember that God will carry our cross as well while we are on our journey through life
 
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No, I disagree. It is our personal crosses that we bare, sometimes that we created ourselves. Others, like my wife, carry the cross of endless physical pain, pain that just happened to her, but we both go to the same place to deal with it - Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Tell you what, go back and read through each of the three passages where Jesus talks about carrying our cross, and demonstrate exegetically if Jesus is talking about personal struggles or if he is speaking about suffering for the gospel. I think when you read through what occurred immediately before the quote and the read the passage it’s meaning will be pretty clear.
 
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I don’t carry my crosses well.
I whine and resist and cry to the heavens.
But then other times I can be very serene about it all.

I’m a work in progress
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I definitely feel like this at the moment. I’m not bearing mine well at all…
 
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Odilon:
No, I disagree. It is our personal crosses that we bare, sometimes that we created ourselves. Others, like my wife, carry the cross of endless physical pain, pain that just happened to her, but we both go to the same place to deal with it - Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Tell you what, go back and read through each of the three passages where Jesus talks about carrying our cross, and demonstrate exegetically if Jesus is talking about personal struggles or if he is speaking about suffering for the gospel. I think when you read through what occurred immediately before the quote and the read the passage it’s meaning will be pretty clear.
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One is definitely carrying one’s cross when suffering literal persecution for the faith – no doubt – and blessed be God, their reward will be great in heaven!

But the Catholic Church does not teach that this is the sole meaning of this admonition by Our Lord.

In fact, there are many Saints throughout our history who refer to acceptance of life’s pains and sorrows, of joining our suffering with that of Christ, of surrendering our will to the will of the Father as the cross which each believer must bear.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to acts of penance as taking up one’s cross:

1435 Conversion is accomplished in daily life by gestures of reconciliation, concern for the poor, the exercise and defense of justice and right, by the admission of faults to one’s brethren, fraternal correction, revision of life, examination of conscience, spiritual direction, acceptance of suffering, endurance of persecution for the sake of righteousness. Taking up one’s cross each day and following Jesus is the surest way of penance.

If actual persecution were the only way of carrying one’s cross, most of us would be in trouble – because Jesus also says that if you don’t do this, you aren’t worthy of Him. 😱

Yeah, I have to hear occasional barbs against my faith, and because I live my faith, but nobody in the US is throwing people into jail for going to mass on Sunday, or taking our children away from us for teaching them the faith, or depriving us of our homes and possessions because of our baptism.

Carrying our cross has a much, much deeper and broader meaning than enduring physical persecution.
 
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

On my way into work I heard the popular phrase - Jesus died for you -
I was thinking more that he was more tortured to death -
An old guy at church said it was amazing Jesus could carry his cross at all -
Usually, according to him, most men, who were whipped and lashed that many times -
would not be able to stand - for days and days - out of sheer exhaustion and pain -
So Jesus was physically strong -
 
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