So whenever we’re suffering, no matter how bad the suffering is, or how long it lasts, we should never allow it to change our thinking or the way we interact with God and others.
We should be grateful that God gives us this bitter medicine in small doses, and that we never have to see the entirety of all of the crosses we’ll have to carry in the future.
Only someone who is full of grace could have the strength to see that and not be overwhelmed, as Mary did.
That’s why we should never worry about the future, because God only gives us enough grace to carry our crosses one day at a time.
The suffering of Jesus and Mary provides us with the perfect example of how to handle any amount of suffering with patience, humility, and love.
My goal is to strive to imitate that example every day of my life, knowing that God doesn’t expect me to carry the weight of all of my sins on my back, but to carry the crosses I am given with the same patience, humility, and love that Jesus and Mary carried their crosses with.
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his article has opened my eyes to the depths of Mary’s suffering in a completely new way. I think most Christians don’t have any idea how much she suffered. You always suffer more when you can see what you or a loved one will suffer in advance, and the longer you’re aware of it and have to wait, and the more details you know about it, the worse your suffering will be. That’s what Mary went through for 33 years.
I knew it was revealed to Mary that Jesus would die a horrible death when Simon told her a sword would pierce her heart, but I wasn’t sure if all of the details were revealed to her at that moment as well. This article makes it clear that Mary revealed to St Bridget that at that time, everything Jesus would suffer was made known to her so that she could suffer and be crucified with Him in spirit. This confirms what I learned from the revelations in The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which said that Mary loved Jesus so much that she asked God the Father to allow her to experience every bit of Jesus’s pains, sorrows, and agonies as He was experiencing them. I used to think that she only suffered when she first saw Him suffering at the hands of the Romans, but now I understand that in order to be the co-redeemer of the world with Him, she had to suffer exactly as He did, just through her own body. Her love united her to Him perfectly, so naturally she would feel it when He was in distress, just as she would share in His greatest joys.
“Mary with the greatest calmness received the announcement that her Son should die, and always peacefully submitted to it; but what grief must she continually have suffered, seeing this amiable Son always near her, hearing from Him words of eternal life, and witnessing His holy demeanour! Abraham suffered much during the three days he passed with his beloved Isaac, after knowing that he was to lose him. O God, not for three days, but for three and thirty years had Mary to endure a like sorrow! But do I say a like sorrow? It was as much greater as the Son of Mary was more lovely than the son of Abraham.
The Blessed Virgin herself revealed to Saint Bridget, that, while on earth, there was not an hour in which this grief did not pierce her soul: ‘As often,’ she continued, ‘as I looked at my Son, as often as I wrapped Him in His swaddling-clothes, as often as I saw His hands and feet, so often was my soul absorbed, so to say, in fresh grief; for I thought how He would be crucified”.
“Since, then, Jesus, our King, and His most holy Mother, did not refuse, for love of us, to suffer such cruel pains throughout their lives, it is reasonable that we, at least, should not complain if we have to suffer something.
Jesus, crucified, once appeared to Sister Magdalen Orsini, a Dominicaness, who had been long suffering under a great trial, and encouraged her to remain, by means of that affliction, with Him on the cross.
Sister Magdalen complainingly answered: ‘O Lord, Thou wast tortured on the cross only for three hours, and I have endured my pain for many years.’
The Redeemer then replied: ‘Ah, ignorant soul, what dost thou say? from the first moment of My conception I suffered in heart all that I afterwards endured dying on the cross.’
If, then, we also suffer and complain, let us imagine Jesus, and His Mother Mary, addressing the same words to ourselves”.
I need to remember this whenever I’m going through suffering that seems unbearable and as if it’ll never end.
I’ve often ignorantly compared my suffering to Jesus’s and had this exact same thought. Now I understand that Jesus knew His entire life all the suffering He’d have to endure. Every moment of it was in His mind.
That would explain why He never laughed. It’s hard to laugh when in the back of your mind you’re constantly remembering how you’ll be tortured and killed, how your supporters will be betray you, how you’ll be mocked, and how many souls will still reject you and end up going to Hell.
Every time He saw someone sin or suffer, it must’ve reminded Him of all of our sins, which He’d have to bear in order to save us, and of the nearly unbearable agony He’d have to experience, along with His passion and death. It must’ve been like going through your entire life with a giant storm cloud hanging over your head.
Even moments of joy and happiness would be bittersweet because they’d remind you that you couldn’t stay joyful and happy for long.
I don’t know if Jesus ever laughed or not, but even if He did, it wasn’t recorded a single time in the Bible, and I think that’s because He wanted us to recognize the gravity of His sacrifice for us.
If we were told that He laughed at certain things, it would distract from the sanctity and solemnity of the intense suffering He was undergoing at every moment of His life.
I think He wanted us to understand that even when He wasn’t suffering from external circumstances, He was still carrying a heavy cross that made every single thing He did in life much more painful than we could ever imagine.
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magine knowing from the moment of your birth that at age 33 you’d be betrayed by almost everyone you loved, tortured, and crucified. Not just that, but that you’d have to bear the worst possible temptations from the devil.
Even worse, imagine that you have an infinite love for mankind, and yet despite making this perfect sacrifice of your life for all mankind, it would all be for nothing for many souls, who would end up rejecting your grace and mercy and choosing to go to Hell instead. That must’ve been Jesus’s worst suffering.
I don’t think the fear of death and suffering that came from His human nature was the worst agony He experienced.
I think it was the knowledge that no matter how much He loved us, there would still be many of us who would reject that love.
I believe that cross He had to carry for His entire life was just as heavy as the actual cross He carried, and caused Him as much suffering as the agony in the garden of Gethsemane.
In fact, we could think of it as the agony of the garden extended over His entire life.
In both cases, He bore the weight of our sins and it was heavy on His shoulders, only in the garden it was all concentrated in a brief period of time, so it was more intense.
Now imagine going through all of this agony and not receiving any kind of consolation from God.
When we carry our crosses, we have the hope of receiving consolations from God, and when we ask for them, we sometimes receive them to strengthen our faith and make our crosses easier to carry.
But Jesus didn’t receive any such consolations. How do we know this? Because He revealed it to St Margaret of Cortona:
Now imagine going through all of this agony and not receiving any kind of consolation from God.
When we carry our crosses, we have the hope of receiving consolations from God, and when we ask for them, we sometimes receive them to strengthen our faith and make our crosses easier to carry.
But Jesus didn’t receive any such consolations. How do we know this? Because He revealed it to St Margaret of Cortona:
“The life of our loving Redeemer was all full of desolation, and bereft of every comfort.
The life of Jesus was that great ocean which was all bitter, without a single drop of sweetness or consolation:
For great as the sea is thy destruction:
This is what was revealed by our Lord to St. Margaret of Cortona, when he said to her that in his whole life he never experienced sensible consolation.”
(Taken from ‘The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ’ by St. Alphonsus) When you combine that with the weight of our sins hanging around His neck, and the looming threat of His passion and death on the horizon, we can start to get a more accurate sense of just how much Jesus suffered, and how much He hid from us out of humility. When we view the suffering of Jesus and Mary in this light, it adds to its significance, and helps us view our own suffering differently. We can take comfort in the fact that no matter how long we bear a certain cross, even if it’s for our entire life, God will give us the grace to bear it, just as Jesus and Mary did. But Jesus’s suffering was so much worse because He was perfect. When you’ve never had any vices because you perfectly lived out every virtue throughout your life, you understand sin infinitely better, and are thus hurt infinitely more when people sin against you. Likewise, when He had to bear those sins on a cross, they were infinitely heavier for Him than they are for us because His infinite goodness is the antithesis of the evil of sin. When you’re perfect, as Jesus is, the more evil something is, the more it wounds you because it subtracts from your glory to the degree that it’s evil.Since Jesus and Mary were sinless, they had to carry this enormously heavy cross on their backs their entire lives, but they didn’t allow it to make them anxious or angry. Instead, they willingly and eagerly carried it every step of the way. They had perfect inner peace despite this suffering because their wills were perfectly united with the Father’s, so they knew that this suffering was a part of His will, which is all they desired in life. Thus, there was no amount of suffering and no amount of time that they weren’t willing to bear that suffering in order to save and redeem us, out of love for us. Even though they never deserved such suffering, as we do, they never once complained about it or thought themselves above it, because they were perfectly meek and humble. So whenever we’re suffering, no matter how bad the suffering is, or how long it lasts, we should never allow it to change our thinking or the way we interact with God and others.
We should be grateful that God gives us this bitter medicine in small doses, and that we never have to see the entirety of all of the crosses we’ll have to carry in the future. Only someone who is full of grace could have the strength to see that and not be overwhelmed, as Mary did. That’s why we should never worry about the future, because God only gives us enough grace to carry our crosses one day at a time. The suffering of Jesus and Mary provides us with the perfect example of how to handle any amount of suffering with patience, humility, and love. My goal is to strive to imitate that example every day of my life, knowing that God doesn’t expect me to carry the weight of all of my sins on my back, but to carry the crosses I am given with the same patience, humility, and love that Jesus and Mary carried their crosses with.
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