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Yes, Christianity is good news because it sheds light even on the pain which, more or less, always accompanies us during our life. Christianity helps us to react to pain in a positive way.
Indeed no one can understand pain, but everybody feels it, especially when it affects yourself or someone you love. Everybody tries to avoid it. And this is right. When St. John of the Cross had an opportunity to escape from prison, he escaped !
But sometimes pain comes upon us and we cannot avoid it - an illness, a boy knocked down by a car, the death of someone we love, the breakdown of a marriage, an injustice at work, a calumny against you.....
The Lord wants to give us the grace to understand one thing: suffering. If we know how to tackle it, it can mature us. If we rebel against it, it will simply create more tension causing us to suffer more.....Pick up your cross, the Master used to say...
The Christian suffers but he remains calm. He suffers, but he knows that this pain is stripping him of his stupid pride and making him small.
And so, he begins to look around him and, maybe for the first time, he begins to appreciate and feel compassion.
This is what Christians believe.....this is what we can all believe.
Fr. Pius Sammut
God is a Feast
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