“Our happiness lies in the cross; even Our Lord did not will to enter his glory except through suffering.” – St. Vincent de Paul – Lord, I’ll never fully understand the mystery of suffering. All I ask is that you keep giving me the grace to use it well as a means of growth in […]

All those things are nothing but exercises for your purgation, illumination, and perfection, and so that you can sympathize with those whom you see in similar dispositions. It is God’s plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptation of mind and body by which others can be tormented (II:152-153).