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[Pookie Dupre']

By his passion and death on the cross Christ has given a new meaning to
suffering: It can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his
redemptive Passion.

REFLECTION::
Uniting ourselves to Christ is an exhilarating and costly adventure. The
glory and power of his divine nature can be ours, but only if we also
bear the weakness, pain, and suffering of his human life. And yet, in
Christ, even suffering is powerful and glorious.

PRAYER::
Jesus, help your people to imitate you more closely in all things.

[Pookie Dupre']

 
1505 ::

Moved by so much suffering Christ not only allows himself to be touched
by the sick, but he makes their miseries his own:
"He took our infirmities and bore our diseases."

But he did not heal all the sick. His healings were signs of the coming
of the Kingdom of God. They announced a more radical healing:

the victory over sin and death through his Passover.

On the cross Christ took upon himself the whole weight of evil and took
away the "sin of the world," of which illness is only a consequence. By
his passion and death on the cross Christ has given a new meaning to
suffering:

it can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his redemptive
Passion.