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Mary's graciousness, I learned, stemmed from her silence, and suffering, and longing to do God's will.

The prayer of Jesus in the Mass is like a tent that shelters and protects us in the desert of daily struggles and temptations

At the Consecration, I saw His Precious Blood pouring from His wounded side

He said: "This is how much I love you", and showed what he had undergone to save my life, like a prisoner captured and tortured in a war.

Christ taught me how to reach out to the true sanctuary within the soul, where even pain is forgotten, at His greeting.

By the Father's will, foreknowledge, plan, consent and justice, Christ suffered and died, and leaped up to His Father, drawing us in His wake.

By the Father's will, foreknowledge, plan, consent and justice, Christ suffered and died, and leaped up to His Father, drawing us in His wake.

Through contrition, repentance, penance, darkness and suffering we are purified and prepared for Heaven

Heartache, humiliation and helplessness were the worst of Christ's sufferings; how few bear such sufferings for His sake.

Our earthly sufferings, Christ explained, are like 'whole body splints' by which we can be moulded into new persons: through Divine Love.

The prayers of the sick and suffering are like engines deep within the heart of a great ship, which is the Catholic Church.

Departed souls who have been faithful yet who now undergo purification, are yet at peace, suffering gladly, to be worthy of God.

Keep in mind two things about Christ; in His body, He suffered and died for you; Risen and alive now, He longs to guide and feed you.

Christ spoke with great courage, to His apostles, holding the cup of His Blood, and already seeing His 'pit' of suffering.

Wonderful things can happen in the life of grace, no matter how restricted our life. Every trial, if accepted, gives glory to God.

The best mediator for men in trouble is another man. The very best is the God-man, Jesus Christ: He surpasses all others by His Divine Love, combined with His human cry from the depths of the pit which is human estrangement and suffering.

We can offer up our sufferings in union with Jesus in His Passion, to comfort Him, and to help other souls. Every suffering in our lives can be offered up, united with Jesus in that same type of suffering in His own life: our fear united to His in Gethsemane; our being misunderstood, with Jesus deserted by His Apostles; our grief, with Jesus weeping for Lazarus; our fear of evil forces, with Jesus being tempted by Satan.

This is what we see in a tender-hearted gaze: sadness, love and grief for another in need, which call from us practical help and gentle consolation.

This is what we see in a tender-hearted gaze: sadness, love and grief for another in need, which call from us practical help and gentle consolation.

Those who stay closest to the suffering Christ - then and now - by patiently bearing sufferings, are His greatest friends.