Christ Himself prayed in the garden for the chalice to be passed from Him, and He was then excruciatingly tortured and killed -- but His final prayer was "not my will, but thine." Without the Crucifixion, none of us could enter the Kingdom. It was the ultimate act of mercy, but it probably didn't appear that way to the apostles at the time.
Resignation to, working towards acceptance and even to the joyful embrace of God's plan regardless of how painful it is for us in a temporal sense is something we all have to discipline ourselves to move towards.
Wow, beautiful words — you must have a job. Want to trade places?
The theft of the Papacy from Cardinal Siri to the leftist John XXIII was the beginning of the end. Vatican II followed and the steady destruction followed. It continues today with this Marxist imposter in the Seat of St. Peter. It will not however end well for them.