Do not be afraid.
Blue Book #1
No commentary from me is required. I’m just posting the various readings I encountered today and how they all embraced a single topic… embracing the cross! 🙏
What can a person do who tries to love God tremendously? Everything, from turning the lights off, to refraining from changing clothes every five minutes, to being indifferent to food, to going where God calls you. Once I know God’s will I am going to try to do it perfectly. My heart swells and I say, “This also, Lord, for love of you.’ ” I know verv well its redemptive value.
Grace in Every Season
Suffering which comes to us from God is best; and that comes to us through our circumstances, our surroundings, ourselves, and those we live with: these come from God, being permitted by Him. They are the warp and woof of our spiritual life.
People forget to sanctify the daily little crosses of life; they must be big and marked with a red cross, that we may recognize they come from God. But we can’t get away from these little crosses and mortifications, they are woven into our life – a clear sign they come from God. -Fr. Daniel Considine, 1950’s
He made the one who leads them to their salvation perfect through suffering.
From Todays First Reading