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Suffering and Sanctity
"My children must take heart in remembering the lives of my saints who endured all manner of trials for the love of Me and my most holy Church. Indeed, it must be this way in order for you to truly follow in My footsteps. Carrying the cross is meant to be difficult in order for it to bear much fruit. The degree of your suffering will indicate the degree of the sanctity you are attaining through grace..."
Apostolate of Holy Motherhood, The Riehle Foundation, Ohio, 1991, p64
posted by Holly at 11:01 PM
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We shy away from pain. We hide from things that scare us. We pretend things aren't happening to avoid confronting something which hurts us.
Sometimes, we hide from our duties too, because they scare us... we don't know if we will continue on with them, or if we will fail. So out of fear, we never begin. Many women experience this in relation to a mother's rule... better not to try, they say.
Understandable.
But we have many fears which must be renounced. Renounced, not run from...
And we must take heart.
Suffering is not meaningles. It is ripe with meaning and grace. Transformed by Christ to be a vehicle of grace. And united with him in suffering, we become united in spirit with him. Suffering promotes spiritual union with Christ, as we console him on the cross, and he consoles us.
We forge ahead, ladies! Renouncing fears and placing ourselves at the service of God Himself, women of prayer for the world, and women of service to our families and those God places in our paths. That the path is difficult is no indication to shy away...
Let us pick up our crosses, in fidelity and fortitude.
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