The Passion of Christ

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Why is it that most Saints have laid such emphasis on the sufferings that we have to endure in this life? Perhaps our sufferings are so important, even though we want to avoid them?

There is a prayer of Saint Teresa of Avila that I think of.

“What did you possess my God other than pain, sorrow and dishonor? So that at the end your only help lay in the trunk of a tree as you drank the bitter cup of death. And so my God if we truly seek to be your children of adoption and not renounce your inheritance, we must not flee from suffering. The sign of your family is your five wounds.”
 
When suffering is unavoidable, we profit if we endure it with love for Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Suffering helps us to configure us to Christ. Even while people are suffering, if they suffer with love, they experience deep joy along with the suffering.
 
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