What Was Jesus' Greatest Suffering? The Secret Revealed to a 12th-C. Saint

Thoughts on the Passion of Jesus – Blessed Abbot Marmion - Catholic Family News

PDF Buttonby Blessed Abbot MarmionAll is perfect in the sacrifice of Jesus: the love that inspires it, and the liberty with which He accomplishes it. Perfect, too, in the gift offered: Christ offers Himself: Semetipsum tradidit.Christ offered the whole of Himself; His soul and body were bruised and broken by suffering; there is no suffering that Jesus has not known. If we read the Gospel attentively, we see that the sufferings of Jesus were orde…

What Was Jesus' Greatest Suffering? The Secret Revealed to a 12th-C. Saint

What was Jesus’ greatest suffering?The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ are central to the Christian faith because it is the means of our salvation, and we are called to imitate Him in it.As a result, Christians have developed (or mystically received) all sorts of ways to meditate on those incredible events. There’s the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, and of course, the crucifixes we hang everywhere.One interesting but little-known devotion …