Your cross

[Pittsburgh_Joe]

Didi:

I believe we bear many crosses through our lives. Sometimes they might seem rather insignificant, but any sacrifice or hardship offered through Jesus to the Father has redemptive value. Sometimes our crosses are heavy and difficult to carry. These times especially lead us to ask Jesus to help us carry them. We can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens us.

Thank you for your good postings. I noticed the quotation you use for your “signature,” and I like it. (“I would rather suffer with Him in this world than suffer without Him in the next.”) Would you kindly tell me who originated that quotation? Thanks a lot, Didi. God bless.

                                                    Pittsburgh Joe

P.s.: I know this is an absurdly loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog shot, but anyway, here goes: Are you the same Didi who was in the Third Order of Saint Francis (Secular Franciscan Order) in San Diego some 15 years ago? If so, thank you so much for being such a kind and gracious teacher in the S.F.O. I was one of your students way back then!

 

[Strider]

Edwin,
I disagree with you. Below is a post I made to a different thread.
Our cross isn’t *necessarily *somethinig we have to go looking for; it can be the situation God’s passive will places us in. It can very well be the way we handle that situation. Have you ever read anything buy Terese of Liseaux? Even washing dishes can bring graces if we aporoach the task with the proper attitude.
Of course, we can always come out of ourselves and look for tasks God wants us to do. Sometimes, though, he puts those tasks right in front of us.
I believe the secret is the attitude with which we approach whatever it is we must do; whether it’s our daily life, like Puzzleannie wrote, or looking for God’s task for us, as you aver.
It’s all attitude.
God bless​

Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother, have mercy on us.​

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=15751

It’s about time! I’ve seen threads on this board in which people complain about their personal conditions or the unfairness of the Church because she adheres to actual dogma set down by Christ ("What God has put together, let no man put asunder. Mk 10:9)).

I, too, have a disability, though not a congenital one. I explained on one of my posts some time back and don’t need to go into it again.

My point is that we, at least most of us, are Catholics. As Catholics, we don’t abort ANY baby, perfect or imperfect. As Catholics, we should have been taught, and should believe, that there is value in suffering.

I know beyond doubt that someone’s suffering brought my wife and me back to the Sacraments after 25 years away.

I thank God for my life every day. It’s not easy. I have difficulties and problems. Kage_ar has not only disability but pain from her many operations. She has more to offer than I, but every morning I offer my day, my difficulties to Christ for his use of any graces that may accrue to my willing acceptance of what his passive will has allowed me. But if I whine about any trouble I have, I give less. It keeps my self-pity under control.

Our troubles don’t have to be physical. We all have difficulties in life: emotional pain (the death of a child would be almost; almost intolerable). Other problems in life occur.

We’re Catholics! We don’t wallow in self-pity. We accept what is given us and offer the pain to Christ for the benefit of others, living or in purgatory.

We have two models. The pain Jesus suffered in the passion was intolerable, and no man but him could have tolerated it. Our Lady’s emotional agony during his passion was exquisite. The movie didn’t even come close, IMO.

So come on, folks! Handle pain, trouble, misfortune, unfairness and the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” like Catholics. Life isn’t fair. Use the unfairness and anguish for the benefit of others. Offer it up, and thank God for what you have.

Me? I don’t have a lot of money, but I’m incalculably wealthy in my family and my life. Thank you, God.

God bless

 

[Didi]

Pittsburgh Joe:

Thank you for your good postings. I noticed the quotation you use for your “signature,” and I like it. (“I would rather suffer with Him in this world than suffer without Him in the next.”) Would you kindly tell me who originated that quotation?
Are you the same Didi who was in the Third Order of Saint Francis (Secular Franciscan Order) in San Diego some 15 years ago?

Pittsburgh Joe –

Thanks for the kind words. I believe the quote came from St. Padre Pio, though I’m not 100% sure. I’ve read much about suffering in the last four years, so I sometimes get my saints and authors confused!

I have never lived in San Diego, but am so glad you had a wonderful teacher who touched your life! Be sure to say a prayer of thanksgiving for her!

God bless!

 

[edwinG]

Shoshana:

Christy,

Just a gentle reminder that God does not give us anything in life whether illness, joblessness,or any other trial in life. He allows it, which is totally different different approach. We must remember Job and how satan approached Him to malign Job. God allowed it and did not impose it on him. Job was tested in his steadfast love for God. And only by God’s grace, he triumphed. Sames goes for us…

Blessings,
Shoshana

HI,
Right on. The only thing that moves God’s hand is love. Now he has allowed these circumstances so that we can be near people he also loves so that we can help them. God works through us, we are His saints. We are missing out on all the benefits and blessings if after having been put in our work enviroment we just struggle manfully on. Your circumstances are your Phd in life, now use these gifts (what you call sufferings/circumstances) to do God’s work. That which God has allowed to happen to you, as God allowed to befall Job, is for God’s glory. He loves you, he knows you are unhappy and suffering in your circumstances, but you can overcome this and glorify God from this position, simply by doing what He has sent you to do, irrespective of your perceived value of that work, or how unglamourless you may think it is. He loves you, He knows what suffering is about, ask yourself why you are where you are, fully realizing that God loves you and wants you to be happy. Pick up your cross and be happy.
Christ be with youhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
walk in love
edwinG

 

[edwinG]

Strider:

Edwin,
I disagree with you. Below is a post I made to a different thread.
Our cross isn’t *necessarily *somethinig we have to go looking for; it can be the situation God’s passive will places us in. It can very well be the way we handle that situation. Have you ever read anything buy Terese of Liseaux? Even washing dishes can bring graces if we aporoach the task with the proper attitude.
Of course, we can always come out of ourselves and look for tasks God wants us to do. Sometimes, though, he puts those tasks right in front of us.
I believe the secret is the attitude with which we approach whatever it is we must do; whether it’s our daily life, like Puzzleannie wrote, or looking for God’s task for us, as you aver.
It’s all attitude.
God bless​

Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother, have mercy on us.​

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=15751

It’s about time! I’ve seen threads on this board in which people complain about their personal conditions or the unfairness of the Church because she adheres to actual dogma set down by Christ ("What God has put together, let no man put asunder. Mk 10:9)).

I, too, have a disability, though not a congenital one. I explained on one of my posts some time back and don’t need to go into it again.

My point is that we, at least most of us, are Catholics. As Catholics, we don’t abort ANY baby, perfect or imperfect. As Catholics, we should have been taught, and should believe, that there is value in suffering.

I know beyond doubt that someone’s suffering brought my wife and me back to the Sacraments after 25 years away.

I thank God for my life every day. It’s not easy. I have difficulties and problems. Kage_ar has not only disability but pain from her many operations. She has more to offer than I, but every morning I offer my day, my difficulties to Christ for his use of any graces that may accrue to my willing acceptance of what his passive will has allowed me. But if I whine about any trouble I have, I give less. It keeps my self-pity under control.

Our troubles don’t have to be physical. We all have difficulties in life: emotional pain (the death of a child would be almost; almost intolerable). Other problems in life occur.

We’re Catholics! We don’t wallow in self-pity. We accept what is given us and offer the pain to Christ for the benefit of others, living or in purgatory.

We have two models. The pain Jesus suffered in the passion was intolerable, and no man but him could have tolerated it. Our Lady’s emotional agony during his passion was exquisite. The movie didn’t even come close, IMO.

So come on, folks! Handle pain, trouble, misfortune, unfairness and the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” like Catholics. Life isn’t fair. Use the unfairness and anguish for the benefit of others. Offer it up, and thank God for what you have.

Me? I don’t have a lot of money, but I’m incalculably wealthy in my family and my life. Thank you, God.

God bless

Hi,
I dont disagree with you.
My love to you Striderhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
Christ be with you,
walk in love,
edwinG

 

[edwinG]

Hi,
Isaiah11:27
“It shall come to pass in that day
That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder
And his yoke from your neck
And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.”

Please note the ‘his’ and ‘your’ in the verse.
Do you think this is applicable?
We all are disciples of Christ.
Christ be with you
walk in love,
edwinGhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif

 

[mayra_hart]

insofar as man become sharer in christ suffering…to the extent he in his own way completes the suffering through which christ accomplished the redemption of the world.does this mean that the redemption achieved by christ is not complete? no. it only means that the redemption,accomplised through satisfactory love,remains always open to all love expressed in human suffering…

 

[Ter]

The thing is that many people who try to do big things to embrace their cross (i.e. give up everything/go & work in the slums) but does not cheerfully accept the little everyday crosses (i.e. not getting angry when some cuts accross you in traffic, not responding angrily when someone corrects you, accepting Gods will in all things, not looking for visible results of your evengelical efforts etc.) may not be as pleasing to God as someone who stays at home and cheerfully offers every moment of their life to God, trying to live as a perfect Christian in their home/work etc.

While the big cross seems very impressive it can often be something you choose to do and not what God wants, while ignoring the little crosses that God sends to perfect you in virtue. For Example someone might give up TV or Sweets for Lent whereas it would be better if they decided to avoid having arguments, making rash judgements about people etc.

 

[edwinG]

Ter:

The thing is that many people who try to do big things to embrace their cross (i.e. give up everything/go & work in the slums) but does not cheerfully accept the little everyday crosses (i.e. not getting angry when some cuts accross you in traffic, not responding angrily when someone corrects you, accepting Gods will in all things, not looking for visible results of your evengelical efforts etc.) may not be as pleasing to God as someone who stays at home and cheerfully offers every moment of their life to God, trying to live as a perfect Christian in their home/work etc.

While the big cross seems very impressive it can often be something you choose to do and not what God wants, while ignoring the little crosses that God sends to perfect you in virtue. For Example someone might give up TV or Sweets for Lent whereas it would be better if they decided to avoid having arguments, making rash judgements about people etc.

Hi,
I like what you say Ter and agree with you.
Christ be with you,
Walk in love
edwin.

 

[mayra_hart]

i also agree with you, Ter i guess sometimes we carry the crosses because we want to ,not because god wants us to carry it, the problem is how do we get rid of those crosses? maybe we need to carry them to learn something from live itself. or to growth. the odd thing about crosses is that sometimes we think ours is heavy an then we look back at other people crosses an we realize that ours is not as heavy as we thought. god bless you all.

 

[edwinG]

Hi,

Matthew11:25 “…I thank you Father , Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes”
If you have a Phd in a science is that a Phd in the Kindgom of God? And every Christen is in the Kingdom of God. Matthew 5:3 -11 ( the beatitudes) Rejoice all you who are highly qualified -you who have attained the highest level of training > You are the people with true insight and understanding, compassion, mercy, love and forgiveness.
Matthew11:28 "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. 11:30 for My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Matthew 25:31-46 lists basic work for Jesus. How do you find this work? Follow the Holy Spirit.

1. Each day ask to be filled
2. The Holy Spirit will lead you away from temptation.
3. The Holy Spirit will heal you every day. ( This does not mean heal any illness that has you in the enviroment Christ wants you. If He did you would leave). What he will do is heal you from new illnesses - you may notice a fever start( to build your faith) but it will go away. Daily He will heal you.
4. The Holy Spirit will lead you to your work each day. ( You may have everything go wrong and miss your bus- this is because Christ either doesn’t want you on your normal bus, maybe a temptation or a delay, or has work for you at the later time. Look, keep your mind open - a change in routine means action. You won’t be late for your work. He loves you, trust in Him. This work for Christ may be giving directions to someone who is lost. Then you realise that God so loves that lost person, He re-arranged your schedule just so you could help him. The Holy Spirit will give you the strength to do His work each and every time, just start first and the strength comes.
   No one is talking glamour. Our basic work is love- being Gods helper- God loves everyone and it is our job as God’s servants to be there for Him to give a glass of cold water, to give up your seat on a bus, to do all those little loving things that people of all walks of life recognise as acts of love.
   I live in a near Godless country, Thailand, and I can tell you that God loves these people.How beautiful is His hand as He directs me to help them. I cant speak Thai so these people don’t even know it is Him and His love which is helping them.
   The Holy Spirit will be with you every second of the day, have faith in His ability, be secure in Him to protect you from evil, entrust your life to Him. Do not depart from Holy Scripture. Peace, love and joy will flood your heart. Please, please, please, submit fully to His leading and receive your daily blessing.
   Christ be with you
   walk in lovehttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
   edwinG

 

[Antonio_B]

edwinG:

Hi,
How do you know what your cross is?
How can you pick it up and carry it if you don’t know what it is?
Is being a church going confessing christian the only cross for everyone?
Do you expect some enormous sign (Paul’s spot light ) if Christ has work for you?
Has your church said"Jesus wants you to do this work"?
Does your church read out a list of names and associated work in Christh each week?
Do you really believe that Christ has a plan for you, work for you so that you can help His eternal plan?
How many people do you personally know working to God’s plan.

Imagine a super keen little helper in the kitchen busting with desire to help mum with the household work. But at breakfast she peels potatoes which are not needed and cooks a roast, but is too tired to clean the dishes, she washes the bed linen on the same day the mum had changed it etc. There is a time for all things and when done at the right time results in a full benefit. How do you know the right time? Does your church tell you?http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
Walk in love
Christ be with you?
edwinG

Liberal leftist Dems are my cross!

Antonio