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  • airrowMtoChristianityBeware of Despair
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    3 months ago

    “Let not your heart be troubled” John 14:1

    “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice.” Phillipians 4:4

    An Act Of Hope (Catholic prayer)

    O my God, relying on Thy almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Thy grace, and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen

    St. Jude is the patron of hopeless cases (Catholicism)


  • airrowMtoChristianityGuard Also Your Heart
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    “By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16

    “But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.” Matthew 5:18


  • airrowMtoChristianityThe Fruit of Suffering
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    allegedly Padre Pio said something like “if people only knew the value of suffering, they would seek only to suffer”

    however people ought to seek to do God’s Will ultimately, whether God wants them to suffer or not

    Christ manifested His Love for mankind by suffering and dying out of a love for others: “Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

    Another comment talks about “pointless” suffering; arguably such a thing doesn’t exist. Such suffering is willed by God for some purpose: as an opportunity to express one’s love for others like Jesus, as a trial, as an effect of sin, and so on.

    Naturally many of the virtues are ordered often towards alleviating certain sufferings of others:

    The Good Samaritan helps the person who was suffering due to being harmed and stolen from (Luke 10:25–37). Parable of rich man and Lazarus is about the poor man Lazarus who suffers due to the greed of the rich man, and hence is rewarded with heaven for enduring sufferings (Luke 16:19–31). The book of Job recounts the sufferings of the trials that Job undergoes before being blessed by God for his endurance under difficulties.

    Many athletes suffer in their athletic pursuits and recite quotes like “no pain, no gain”.

    Hence: the value of enduring suffering as an expression of love and of doing good unto others