Mary's Catholics

Don't complain if you suffer.  It is the prized and valued stone that is polished.   Does it hurt?  Allow yourself to be cut, gratefully, because God has taken you in His hands as if you were a diamond.  An ordinary pebble is not worked on like that.  - St. Josemaria Escriva      Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace.  The gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase.                                                                             -  St. Rose of Lima Do as the storekeeper does with his merchandise; make a profit on every article.  Suffer not the loss of the tiniest fragment of the true cross.  It may only be a sting of a fly or the point of a pin that annoys you, an ec...

I'm afraid of sufferings, I don't like them, yet I've been through a lot of them in my life.  I've been through pains, depressions, confusions, hopelessness and fears.  I also experienced being judged rashly by others.  But thank God, I survived all of them. I've been reflecting on suffering for many years.  I've been asking God so many questions about suffering.  At first, I thought God would give me all the answers in just one prayer, but I was wrong.  Instead of giving me all the answers right away, he chose to enlighten me little by little in many different ways: through books, different situations in life, the lives of other people, prayers and reflections.  He still continues to enlighten me until now.  I can feel that he's not finished with me yet. These are some of the things that I learned about suffering: Nobody is exempted from suffering, not even Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints. The cross which is the u...