IJM Pascendi

This homily was a true gift from God. Father Angelo, you have a gift, I think, of reading God’s heart and then expressing it so clearly for the rest of us. What a blessing and we thank you for your faithfulness and courage to pick up YOUR cross day in and day out to serve all of us.

Thank you.
In Jesus through Mary,
Jen

My question above needs no reply…”The Agony in the Garden”. Jesus Himself (greater than any Saint) is the one Who asks the Father to allow the chalice to pass by Jesus…”Saying, Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me, but yet not my will, but thine be done.” Luke 22:42 (Douay-Rheims Bible)

God is so Good! 🙂

Your homily was encouraging for those of us who experience suffering today.
I was reflecting on the characters in the Bible who had some type of affliciton (or whose family member suffered) and asked God to have pity on them. Jesus is pleased with their faith and heals the illness or disability. But I cannot recount any of them being called Saints in the Church. I move on in my reflection to the Saints of the Church who did experience some type of obvious (documented) suffering, (ie. St.Padre Pio, St. Bernadette, St Francis of Assisi…). None of them, to my knowledge ask Our Lord for healing; they have embraced their suffering and offered it up to God for the salvation of souls.
So here is my question…if we ask Our Lord to remove a particular cross do we lose any degree of sanctity, or any place in heaven, for having wished with faith that our cross be taken away? Is asking for mercy less supernatural than to just embrace the chosen cross until God desires to remove it?
And to your knowledge, are there any Saints who had afflictions that were cured because they asked God, like the Canaanite woman in the Old Testament?