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Further, there are numerous cases of persons who travel long distances, arrive at Lourdes, and witness other persons who are suffering much more than they are and have greater need of being cured. Seeing this, they ask Our Lady to cure those persons instead of themselves. That is, a person voluntarily accepts his suffering for the advantage of another. In my opinion, this is also a miracle. It is the renunciation of one’s own self love for the love of God and neighbor. For a person to renounce human egotism is perhaps a greater miracle than the cures of sicknesses and the conversions.

Great point in a great article!

3 posted on 02/11/2005 5:29:26 PM PST by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

4 posted on 02/11/2005 5:40:32 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)

**I agree with Cardinal Segura that suffering – be it physical or moral – is the sign of the elect soul.**

Then we can all stand among the elect, because we are all suffering at one time or another in our lives.

5 posted on 02/11/2005 5:42:12 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)

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