[oceanperch]

King Vanity and I have been lifting up others through our suffering in Prayers for many years.

We understand perfectly.

It gives us an important role and allows us to be part of the Catholic Church from afar.

All the Blessings are unknown to us.

Quite a few, we have ease in physical pain, no self pity, perseverance, the love of life and all that is unknown to us.

Next time you have trials or a bad flu try it, and it will put an end to your need to understanding what it all about, Alfie.

Think of the suffering Mary felt at the foot of the cross.
She took that heartache and lifted up others with what pained her heart.
St. Kolbe suffered most of his life with chronic illness and through lifting up others through his suffering enabled him to keep the presses rolling.

It is quite silly to debate this topic when each one of you can do this and there you will find the answer and be humbled and filled with the peace of the Holy Spirit.

It is an awesome gift to give to others whom you lift up.

[Kolokotronis]

"Think of the suffering Mary felt at the foot of the cross.
She took that heartache and lifted up others with what pained her heart."

My father-in-law, much loved and very old, died last year during Great Lent. During his last illness and after his death, my wife found great comfort in going three evenings a week to our Orthodox parish where as part of our Lenten cycle, the Akathist Hymn, praises to the Most Holy Mother of God, were chanted. She told me she got great comfort there chanting to Panagia because she knew that she had suffered so much at the foot of the Cross watching her Son die an agonizing death and that she understood her pain in watching her father die. She said it was as if she could share her grief with the Theotokos. That Great Lent brought my wife very, very close to the Blessed Virgin, through suffering.