“Suffering can be of value. It tells me that, given the amount of suffering/passion in the world, it gains currency, and becomes valuable currency, through the Passion of Christ. When St. Paul says he fills up in his body what is lacking to the sufferings of Christ, he is saying he is putting more money in the bank to give added credit value to all the suffering/passion going on in the world. The Passion is a letter of certification that all the suffering going on in the world is constantly accumulating value for an eventual transaction that will enrich us.”

Fr. Sebastian MacDonald, CP, 3.19.08


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