Devotion to Jesus: offering of our suffering

Offer of suffering

(Cardinal Angelo Comastri)

O Lord Jesus, on the bright day of Easter You showed the apostles the sign of the nails in Your hands and the wound in Your side.

We too, Divine crucified, carry the living signs of passion in our bodies.

In You, winner of pain with love, we believe that the Cross is grace: it is a gift and a power of salvation to push the world towards the celebration, towards the Easter of the children of God.

This is why today, embracing Mary our Mother and abandoning yourself to the breath of the Holy Spirit, with you, or Jesus, Savior of the world, we offer all our sufferings to the Father and ask Him, in Your Name and for Your Holy merits, to grant us the grace we need so much:

…. (Express the grace that you ask for)

PRECIOUSNESS OF SUFFERING

Suffering is a source of merit. It is a mystical currency, which we can use for ourselves and for others. When a soul offers its suffering to God for the benefit of others, it does not lose it, indeed it makes double gain, because it adds the merit of charity. The Saints understood the value of suffering and knew how to exploit it. The penalties that Providence reserves for us are therefore well used. - More souls are saved with suffering, offered to God with love, than with long sermons! - so wrote the Flower of Carmel Santa Teresina of Lisieux. How many souls Saint Teresa brought to God, suffering and loving, while spending the years in the solitude of a cloister.

SUFFER AND OFFER

Suffering is for everyone; makes us similar to Jesus Crucified. Blessed are the souls who, suffering, know how to treasure the great gift of suffering! It is the lift that leads to divine love. One must know how to live at the cross; suffering souls are the joy of Jesus and they are also his beloved ones, because they are made worthy to bring their lips close to the Chalice of Gethsemane. Suffering in itself is not enough; you have to offer. Those who suffer and do not offer, waste the pain.

Practice: Use all the sufferings, even the smallest ones, especially if of a spiritual nature, offering them to the Eternal Father in union with the sufferings of Jesus and the Virgin for the most obstinate sinners and for the dying of the day.

Cumshot: Jesus, Mary, give me strength in pain