- “I am like a bird singing in a thicket of thorns.” - De Sales
“One of the similes used by St. Francis de Sales, which I love to repeat is: “I am like a bird singing in a thicket of thorns“; this must be an inspiration to me. So, I must say very little to anyone about the things that hurt me. Great discretion and forbearance in my judgments of people and situations: willingness to pray particularly for those who may cause me suffering, and in everything great kindness and endless patience, remembering that any other sentiment or mixture of sentiments…is contrary to the spirit of the Gospel and of evangelical perfection.”
- Blessed John XXIII
With Lent here, it is a time when Catholics should become immersed in meditation and prayer. ALL AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS! It is here that we can find the true meaning of what it means to suffer.
Pope John 11 once stated, “Suffering …..is present in order to unleash love. Our life is in the human person.”