Today’s Saint quote
Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you start at every little pain.
— St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
A very good thing for us to ponder, especially as Lent is coming up in about a month. People who ask, “why is their suffering in the world? Why does God permit it?” need look no farther than the Cross. If God sent His own Son to suffer and die, then how can we expect to be exempt from it? Suffering is a natural part of our spiritual growth. Some of us are called to more than others, but God knows what is best for each of us. And we have, in Jesus, a Savior who has “drunk to the dregs of human suffering” (as Fr. Benedict Groeschel writes in his Rosary: Light and Life ) and knows what we are feeling.
