“Love crosses. The cross is a source of true happiness” (KW 968). Saint Maximilian encourages us to love crosses. They are a fount of happiness, in as much as in sorrow we are able to experience the Lord’s faithful and consoling presence; He is near to those who invoke Him in suffering and trial. This is a marvelous and tangible expression of his infinite mercy. Some time before his death he wrote: “Crosses are necessary everywhere. Even the Immaculata lived on this earth with crosses, and Jesus did not choose another way. They shouldn’t discourage us at all, but on the contrary, the more an instrument is miserable, the more fit to show the Immaculata’s goodness and power. Saint Paul doesn’t hesitate affirming he glories in his weaknesses, so Christ may manifest His power through them.”
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