Monday, April 13, 2020

Father Al: On Christ and Human Suffering

“Good Friday 2020" by Polish Jesuit Vyacheslav Okun (Krakow)
"Christ knows the meaning of pain, poverty, and deprivation not theoretically or speculatively but by personal experience. He drank to the dregs the cup of human suffering of every man. No man, no matter how deep his pain or how crushing his humiliation, can look up to Christ and say, 'You do not know what it is.' He does know what it is because he has experienced it himself." 
- Fr. Aloysius Schwartz, "Poverty: sign of our times", p.39
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Light shines over darkness,
Good triumphs over evil,
Truth prevails over falsehood,
Life overpowers death!
Now, we can only hope and pray
 that this Covid-19 pandemic
 would end the soonest.
This is our Easter prayer!
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Prayers and Gratitude to our brave and generous
frontliners who continue to fight the battle
to end this worldwide pandemic.
May our Risen Christ guide and protect all of you!

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