tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post1387137701781495697..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Embrace Your CrossAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-35301071480249210072007-02-08T18:38:00.000-06:002007-02-08T18:38:00.000-06:00Ray ~ Ah, that's right, St. Faustina is your patr...Ray ~ Ah, that's right, St. Faustina is your patroness! I loved her Diary, and I love the Divine Mercy chaplet. She's very close to my heart as well. Thanks for posting that. <BR/><BR/>Sanctus belle - So true! I don't think I've really experienced the "joy" of embracing the cross, but I have experienced God's mercy when I've cried out to him that the weight is too much...and the blessed relief when He sent assistance...then the peace of accepting the rest of it. Then again...maybe that WAS the joy you are referring to! Hmm...will need to pray about this to understand it. <BR/><BR/><BR/>jocelyne - I think you nailed it right there. Jesus was gentle, he was a healer, he was forgiving. But he also cracked the whip at the moneychangers, he wasn't afraid to call out to the Pharisees, he wasn't afraid to stand up for what was right. Jesus is not "warm and fuzzy" and his path is a hard road up to the crucifixion. In our relativisting world, that's a hard message to get out to people who are accustomed to seeking their own comfort. <BR/><BR/>(This, from a woman in a warm house, in fuzzy slippers, wrapped in a blanket, typing at a new computer with food warming in the oven and a glass of wine at the ready. My words are directed at me, too. I really need to work on mortification!)Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-42232758519884614602007-02-08T18:32:00.000-06:002007-02-08T18:32:00.000-06:00Thanks, everyone, for the comments. Good observati...Thanks, everyone, for the comments. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Good observation, Tiber. "Healed, good-looking, thin, and rich.". For myself...well, when I was a child, God healed me, and I think there were others since then. Good looking...well, I don't think so, but I'm not a troll, so, thank God for that!. Thin...I was for awhile, but I had to suffer greatly for it through anaerobic workouts, and didn't even realize I was THIN! Rich...I've given up on that one. <BR/><BR/>I think the Catholic understanding of the meaning of the cross to us and of course, the gifts you mentioned is far different. I have always been poor financially, yet I also realize that to many in the world, I am fabulously wealthy. And God has made me rich in spirit, and he has given me (and you) the wealth of Catholic teachings. Isn't God great!Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-40397514884218974122007-02-08T13:10:00.000-06:002007-02-08T13:10:00.000-06:00Sadly, many people are only interested in the warm...Sadly, many people are only interested in the warm, fuzzy Jesus who supposedly "didn't judge anybody". They like to ask "What would Jesus do?" but not so much "What did Jesus actually tell us to do?" <BR/><BR/>Bloody, suffering Jesus, telling us to take up our own individual crosses every day, makes comfortable people very uncomfortable.Jocelynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531287657923081098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-24245509671520067582007-02-08T12:37:00.000-06:002007-02-08T12:37:00.000-06:00Two thoughts:First, our Lord is closest to us when...Two thoughts:<BR/><BR/>First, our Lord is closest to us when we suffer.<BR/><BR/>Second, in the dregs of suffering, when we accept suffering, offering it to God in accordance with His will, there is a joy that surpasses all understanding that comes to the soul. This joy does not in the least diminish the suffering, but in God's mercy, the suffering does not diminish the joy!<BR/><BR/>When I've suffered more than I thought possible, yet accepting it to the best of my small ability, that joy comes. What a mysterious and merciful God we serve!Sanctus Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189142564821094716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-79317799416141833052007-02-08T08:35:00.000-06:002007-02-08T08:35:00.000-06:00From St Faustina's Diary for February 8:
True lov...From St Faustina's Diary for February 8:<br /><br />True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering, Jesus. I thank You for the little daily crosses, for opposition to my endeavors, for the hardships of communal life, for the misinterpretations of my intentions, for humiliations at the hands of others, for the harsh way in which we are treated, for false suspicions, for poor health and loss of strength, for self-denial, for dying to myself, for lack of recognition in everything, for the upsetting of all my plans.<br /><br />Thank You, Jesus, for interior sufferings, for dryness of spirit, for terrors, fears, and incertitudes, for the darkness and the deep interior night, for temptations and various ordeals, for torments too difficult to describe, especially for those which no one will understand, for the hour of death with its fierce struggle and all its bitterness.<br /><br />I thank You, Jesus, You who first drank the cup of bitterness before You gave it to me, in a much milder form. I put my lips to this cup of Your holy will. Let all be done according to Your good pleasure; let that which Your wisdom ordained before the ages be done to me. I want to drink the cup to its last drop, and seek not to know the reason why. In bitterness is my joy, in hopelessness is my trust. In You, O Lord, all is good, all is a gift of Your paternal Heart. I do not prefer consolations over bitterness or bitterness over consolations, but thank You, O Jesus, for everything! It is my delight to fix my gaze upon You, O incomprehensible God. . . .<br /><br />O Uncreated Beauty, whoever comes to know You once cannot love anything else. I can feel the bottomless abyss of my soul, and nothing will fill it but God Himself. I feel that I am drowned in Him like a single grain of sand in a bottomless ocean.<br /><br /><br />This from a professed nun in a convent.<br /><br />This from a woman with a second grade education.<br /><br />St Faustina, through the intercession of Our Lord, gave the world the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08332138030182107580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-76640239428800316872007-02-08T08:18:00.000-06:002007-02-08T08:18:00.000-06:00Thank you, Adoro!
A wonderful prelude to Lent.Thank you, Adoro!<br /><br />A wonderful prelude to Lent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08332138030182107580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-27092313030694028812007-02-08T07:25:00.000-06:002007-02-08T07:25:00.000-06:00I have heard it said, "There is no padding on the ...I have heard it said, "There is no padding on the Cross"<BR/><BR/>This is not a popular message for today's christians yet I have only started to scratch the surface of what it means in my own life.<BR/> Catholicism brings the cross, both His and ours, to the forefront of our lives, and as a evangelical, we often avoided the cross at all costs. (God wants me healed, thin, good looking and rich) I got only one of those!<BR/> God is so mercifulRuss Rentler, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00659833542780220795noreply@blogger.com