Comments on: (Sacred) Heart of the World – 2 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-2/ asylum for your refugee soul Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:50:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: gabrielle http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3529 gabrielle Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:22:39 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1661#comment-3529 Oh my goodness, Pia - I will certainly pray for Lia. It is one thing to try to unite our sufferings to the Lord's, for we all have/will have suffering, but to thank Him for them is another thing entirely, isn't it, especially in the midst of intense pain. She sounds like a beautiful person, someone who has reached a perfect or near-perfect state of abandonment, where all in life is One. Oh my goodness, Pia – I will certainly pray for Lia. It is one thing to try to unite our sufferings to the Lord’s, for we all have/will have suffering, but to thank Him for them is another thing entirely, isn’t it, especially in the midst of intense pain. She sounds like a beautiful person, someone who has reached a perfect or near-perfect state of abandonment, where all in life is One.
]]> By: Pia http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3520 Pia Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:58:51 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1661#comment-3520 Well,I was at a loss for words tonight when, while chatting with an Italian friend, she told me that the doctors have finally figured out what's ailing her after years of searching for a diagnosis. All auto-immune issues, all at the same time..Behchet's, connectivitis, fibromyalgia, some kind of intestinal issue and a few other things, plus, get this, maybe lymphoma. And when I said I was going to have a few words with God tonight, (because hey, ok...one gets sick, maybe even critically ill, but to have so many things at once), she said, If you talk to HIm, thank Him for me. And she meant it. I'm going to copy your comment and ask her "Is this what you mean?" In the meantime, dear Gab, please add her to her prayers (Lia). She's become very dear to me (I met her thru my blog and she's one of the 2 people who helped me back in March, when I was upset about a certain post I'd put up at my blog. And guess what. In the midst of our discussions about that, she mentioned that she wasn't feeling well again and our talks made her decide to go to the doctor's (she suspected MS). Now she thanks me because I was a blundering idiot...God sure does work in mysterious ways! Well,I was at a loss for words tonight when, while chatting with an Italian friend, she told me that the doctors have finally figured out what’s ailing her after years of searching for a diagnosis. All auto-immune issues, all at the same time..Behchet’s, connectivitis, fibromyalgia, some kind of intestinal issue and a few other things, plus, get this, maybe lymphoma. And when I said I was going to have a few words with God tonight, (because hey, ok…one gets sick, maybe even critically ill, but to have so many things at once), she said, If you talk to HIm, thank Him for me. And she meant it.
I’m going to copy your comment and ask her “Is this what you mean?” In the meantime, dear Gab, please add her to her prayers (Lia). She’s become very dear to me (I met her thru my blog and she’s one of the 2 people who helped me back in March, when I was upset about a certain post I’d put up at my blog. And guess what. In the midst of our discussions about that, she mentioned that she wasn’t feeling well again and our talks made her decide to go to the doctor’s (she suspected MS). Now she thanks me because I was a blundering idiot…God sure does work in mysterious ways!
]]> By: gabrielle http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3518 gabrielle Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:10:28 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1661#comment-3518 Well, I think many people have "broken their heads" over that one, Pia, if you go by the number of explanations they've all come up with over the years! What I find truly beautiful about von B.'s explanation here is that when we are united to Christ in suffering, it's not our suffering anymore, it's His suffering, in us. Just like anything good we do is really Christ doing it from within us, so too anything we suffer and unite to Him is really His suffering within us. We are told by the Church that through baptism we become priests, prophets and kings, and I think von B. is trying to show us that through uniting ourselves to Christ's suffering we also become like little paschal lambs. As more and more people consciously do this, the more the lack will be filled, and could it be that when this lack is completely filled we will see the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary... Well, I think many people have “broken their heads” over that one, Pia, if you go by the number of explanations they’ve all come up with over the years!

What I find truly beautiful about von B.’s explanation here is that when we are united to Christ in suffering, it’s not our suffering anymore, it’s His suffering, in us. Just like anything good we do is really Christ doing it from within us, so too anything we suffer and unite to Him is really His suffering within us. We are told by the Church that through baptism we become priests, prophets and kings, and I think von B. is trying to show us that through uniting ourselves to Christ’s suffering we also become like little paschal lambs. As more and more people consciously do this, the more the lack will be filled, and could it be that when this lack is completely filled we will see the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary…

]]> By: Pia http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3513 Pia Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:46:11 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1661#comment-3513 "And to complete in your own body what is still lacking to my sufferings" I've always broken my head trying to understand this, I mean, if Jesus's sacrifice was perfect, what could possibly be missing? And here is this amazing, simple response. WOW. “And to complete in your own body what is still lacking to my sufferings”

I’ve always broken my head trying to understand this, I mean, if Jesus’s sacrifice was perfect, what could possibly be missing? And here is this amazing, simple response. WOW.

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