When we have striven to alleviate or overcome our suffering, when like Christ we have prayed “that the cup pass us by”, and yet suffering remains, then we must walk “the royal road” of the Cross. Christ’s answer to our question “why?” is above all a call, a vocation. Christ does not give us an abstract answer, but he says, “Follow me!” He offers us the opportunity through suffering to take part in his own work of saving the world. And when we do take up our cross, then generally the salvific meaning of suffering is revealed to us. It is then that in our sufferings we find inner peace and spiritual joy. Pope John Paul II  in The Wisdom of John Paul II (Routledge, 2002) So at the Last Supper Jesus sat at table with the disciples in