What was lacking in Christ's afflictions?

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Christ’s sacrifice was all sufficient to effect salvation. The remaining affliction that Paul refers to is the persecutions and afflictions suffered by those spreading the Gospel.
 
Christ’s suffering was His gift to us for our salvation. The only thing lacking is our acceptance of it. He cannot force Himself on us. So we must accept His love, but that also entails accepting our own sufferings as they come along. We can unite our sufferings to His and He will transform us, and raise us up on the last day!
 
What was lacking in Christ’s afflictions is our participation in His suffering. We are to offer our sufferings to Christ’s, join ours to His, which gives our suffering redemptive value.

The lack of Christ’s afflictions does not make His sacrifice less sufficient. But our completing that lack makes our suffering more purposeful.

I read an analogy that illustrates this pretty well. Take the example of a child helping his mother bake cookies. Mother is more than capable of baking cookies all by herself. But when the child helps, he really is helping to make the cookies.
 
There is actually only one thing that Jesus didn’t suffer. The guilt of His own sin. He never sinned. He carried all our sins. But He never suffered a personal guilt as we do. He never offended the Father. What a joy that would be!

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15
 
Trishie said:
There is actually only one thing that Jesus didn’t suffer. The guilt of His own sin. He never sinned. He carried all our sins. But He never suffered a personal guilt as we do. He never offended the Father. What a joy that would be!

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15
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I’ve never considered that and it is profound in it’s simplicity.You remain my favorite aussie always quite Catholic,the "quitest Catholic that I know.You really are one of God’s best friends.I can tell that you are madly in love with God and He is madly in love with you.(apologies to mother Theresa but I mean every word ofit)
 

Jesus Christ as true God and true man redeems the human family, while Mary as Coredemptrix participates with the Redeemer in his one perfect Sacrifice in a completely subordinate and dependent way. The key word here is “participation” in that which is exclusively true of Jesus Christ. The title “Coredemptrix” never puts Mary on a level of equality with our Lord; rather, it refers to Mary’s unique and intimate participation with her divine Son in the work of redemption. “Coredemptrix” is a Latin word; the prefix “co” in the title, “Coredemptrix,” derives from the Latin word “cum,” which means “with,” not “equal to.” Mary’s sufferings are efficacious towards the redemption of man because they are wholly rooted in the redemptive graces of Christ and are perfectly united to His redeeming will. Similarly, as Mediatrix, the Mother of Jesus does not “rival” Christ’s mediation but rather participates in the one mediation of Jesus Christ. Imagine water from a reservoir reaching the people through a system of aqueducts or channels. By analogy, Jesus is the infinite “reservoir” of all grace, which is distributed to us through Mary … as she gave birth to Jesus. Jesus, the one mediator, does not exclude secondary, subordinate mediators.​

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Here are helpfull verses about our mission of suffering as a means of conforming ourselves to Christ (Rom 8:17; Phil 3:10; 2 Cor 1:6).

There is more in (CCC 307, 618, 1508).
 
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