The Cross That You Personally Carry

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Yes, but what did the apostles teach? Clearly there are other passages of scripture that address the issue of suffering in the Christian life, but when you are speaking of carrying your cross, what did Christ teach and what did the apostles proclaim? I defer to that rather than reading what I want into the passage.
 
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Christ told us quite clearly that every day–no exceptions–we are to take up our cross and follow Him. So everyday in the morning offering we can accept all those things He sends us each day. Sometimes all the little annoyances and irritations can be even more hurtful than “big” sufferings.
I was complaining about something to my physician, a very wise woman, and she said, “you know, everyone has something.” God gives the right kind of suffering to each of us to use for our salvation and that of others. Everyone has some suffering, even those people who seem to have none.
 
Yes, but what did the apostles teach? Clearly there are other passages of scripture that address the issue of suffering in the Christian life, but when you are speaking of carrying your cross, what did Christ teach and what did the apostles proclaim? I defer to that rather than reading what I want into the passage.
Do you experience daily persecution?

And this isn’t “reading what I want into the passage” – this is what the Church teachers. I defer to the authority of the teaching and Tradition of the Church, not some stranger’s attempt at literal interpretation of scripture.
 
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Then I realized this is a different topic.

I carry my crosses in life and think of Jesus carrying His for me.

Keeps mine in perspective.
 
I believe anything, be it pain, disrespect, the pain of our children’s unbelief, aging, loneliness,even doing housework can be a cross in our lives. I have learned to offer my crosses to Jesus for the souls of my family, the souls in purgatory and for those I know who are suffering. For some, even praying can be a cross.
For me, at times my marriage is a painful cross but like St Monica, I offer this cross to Jesus for the conversion and soul of my husband.
One of my favorite prayers is “O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
 
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 - ?
Humbleness, a little bit of stoicism, keeping a sense of wonder and breathing in God’s creation each day along with a good sense of humor goes a long way,

I tell you what…
 
When we pray for someone’s conversion, we are not praying that God would forcibly turn or convert them, but that their own wills, enlightened by grace, would choose to convert to God, as all eventually will.
O almighty and eternal God, who savest all, and wouldst have none to perish; look down on those souls that are seduced by the deceits of the devil; that the hearts of all those who err, laying aside all heretical malice, may repent and return to the unity of the truth. A Good Friday Collect
For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will. (Philippians 2:13)
And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. But every one in his own order. (1 Cor. 15:22-23a)
 
When I read what you wrote it struck a deep chord.

When I was young I had a strong sense that I had a destiny, I didn’t know what it was but it never left me. So I tried to excel at all sorts of things, constantly battling against a world who did not recognise me as special in any way. It was painful and sometimes humiliating. I earned a living and gradually over time I became used to the idea that perhaps I was wrong, and eventually I stopped battling and came to terms with living an ordinary life. When the subject of Destiny arose I found myself saying that I finally knew what my destiny had been, it was to learn to wait. But as I’ve said I also learnt other important things one of which was humility and a sense of how ordinary I am.
Since realising that I am nothing but dust and ashes I have felt real spiritual progress which I now realise should have been my ambition all along!
 
Bernadette Thank God for our beautiful catholic understanding of the Cross!
 
Also Sacrifice for the Family and Best friends, Suffering for the sake of our Lord Jesus and Pain from fear and traumas are my The cross that I carried as well
 
We are ‘nailed to it’ by our common humanity. We all suffer, but must carry on. That is our Cross – enduring the suffering of this life, with Jesus and His Church in mind. Christ chose to suffer, in leading us, and especially in dying for us. Much of life is suffering. When we carry our Crosses, silently, patiently, working all the while for Christ, we imitate our Lord.
 
All I can say is some saints and Our Lady help me carry my own cross.
 
Many live as enemies of the Cross, St. Paul says
in Philippians 3, the cross represents to us the
sufferings we must go thru for the sake of the
Kingdom of God, “we live by the Spirit” Rom. 8

MY cross is my Vision for a Church for the Poor,
my prayers for friends, acquaintances and enemies,
and my fasting and alms-giving sacrificing my
creaturely comforts so that I may be worthy of
the promises of Christ.(Blessed Mother Mary,
pray for us!).
 
I see no precedent for actively “nailing” oneself to their own cross. Our Lord was quite clear that we have to take up our cross - which leads to Calvary - and bear it behind Him. The nailing strikes me as man-made theology.

Our crosses, as with the form of the cross itself, have several aspects, several facets. Since our imperfections are multi-faceted, I suppose that this is proper. Yet, I embrace that cross as it has been carefully designed for me.

Rather than burden, it is more accurately perceived as a blessing, since it is beneficial to look beyond the present drudgery, focusing always on the promised reward.

In any event, I have consistently been awarded the grace necessary to bear my cross, even if not always in silence.
 
Maybe we could remember to pray for one another at mass for strength and perseverance in carrying our personal cross :pray:t2:
 
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