The living Spirit and liturgical calendar

23 December 2021, The Tablet

We do not make enough of suffering, we do not rejoice in this coin that is given us to pay our debts and those of others.

We do not make enough of suffering, we do not rejoice in this coin that is given us to pay our debts and those of others. I should welcome my sick headaches, but usually I rebel, thinking how if I had been a bit more sensible I could have avoided it. But then often it cannot be avoided, it just descends on one. So it should be welcomed in those cases at least as an opportunity of quietly enduring without complaint and submitting and accepting the will of God. The sacrament of the present moment.

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