Todays Readings - http://usccb.org/bible/readings/121411.cfm
The spirit of Christianity is the spirit of the Cross. To attain to and
to live by pure love, we must live and die upon the Cross, or at least
in the spirit of the Cross. Jesus merited all the graces we receive by
suffering for us; and it is by suffering with him that we are best
prepared to be enriched with them. Hence afflictions are part of the
portion which, together with the hundred-fold of his consolations, he
has promised to his most beloved servants. His most holy and innocent
mother bore a large share in all his sufferings. His apostles and other
most faithful servants, in proportion to the high degree in which they
stood in his favour, drank of this cup. Those souls which he has raised
to the highest degree of familiarity in this life, he always prepared
for that grace by severe trials. But in the divine love they found a
recompense, which richly paid them for all its cost, this love being its
own present reward, as it is a fire which is its own fuel.
St. John of the Cross...Pray for us.
Jesus loves you!
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