Suffering is redemptive when united to the suffering Christ
The Lord calls us to pick up our cross daily and follow Him. He leads us inevitably to Golgotha...But, we know that our suffering is redemptive when united to His, as the Pope reminded hospitalized children following today's General Audience:
Jesus’ cross helps us understand suffering, Pope tells young hospital patients
Vatican City, Oct. 26, 2005 (CNA) - Following today’s General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict addressed a group of children from the "Citta di Speranza" (City of Hope) hospital in Padua, Italy, telling them encouragingly, that, Christ’s cross “helps us to understand the true meaning of suffering and pain.”
The Pope told the young people that, "As we heard during the catechesis, the cross of Christ brings us to understand the true meaning of suffering and pain. Unite yourselves spiritually to the Crucified Christ, and abandon yourselves in the hands of Mary, constantly invoking her in the Rosary."
According to the Vatican, the hospital came into being in 1994 with the dual aim of building a new department of pediatric onco-hematology, which was inaugurated two years later, and to support research into childhood cancer.
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 8:23 PM
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