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To: stfassisi
Redemptive suffering is the belief that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with the Passion of Jesus, can remit the just punishment for one's sins or for the sins of another. Like an indulgence, redemptive suffering does not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God’s grace, freely given through Christ, which cannot be earned. After one's sins are forgiven, the individual's suffering can reduce the penalty due for sin.

One has to wonder by Christ bothered if men could do it for themselves and others..He may have well stayed home

18 posted on 03/14/2010 6:38:09 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
One has to wonder by Christ bothered if men could do it for themselves and others..

It's Christ who allows His most humble and loving to JOIN in suffering

Only the spiritually blind and prideful can not understand this type of sacrificial love

Please stop posting me!

35 posted on 03/14/2010 8:14:24 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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