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“Give me all the difficulties which you encounter, all the sufferings and the abandonment which you experience. Nothing comforts my Immaculate and Sorrowful heart more than a suffering which is offered to me out of love by my priest-sons.” (Message to Fr. Gobbi)
“All the difficulties that you encounter.” You don’t need to go looking for suffering, you will surely encounter it as you aim to live you’re life in full awareness of the will of God.
We often try to bypass our daily crosses by getting lost in our ‘distraction of choice’ in an attempt to numb it… sometimes this is even done without realizing it. We have laundry to do, which we tell ourselves we hate, so we find something else to completely occupy our mind and time… social media, television, snacking…whatever. You get the picture.
So you’re feeling abandoned and unloved and you think hitting up that bag of Doritos, or maybe that beer or cigar, or even perhaps the next relationship, will do it for you? It won’t…not long term anyway. Give it to Mother!!! Jesus’ Mother wants to be a mother to us too. She wants to take up all of our boo-boos, kiss them, and make them better.
By asking for our suffering, she’s not looking for us to live sad and depressed lives, quite the contrary. She wants to give us true Joy in return, the type of Joy that only comes from living in union with her Son!
Our Lady’s Chapel: Today’s Homily by Fr. Matthias
Gaudete in Domino(So much good stuff here, read it all thoroughly.)
Laetitiae Sanctae(On the Rosary)