My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

togethe~unto good - to such as are called to be saints"
(Ronz. viii. 28).
"The sufferings of this life are not worthy to be compared
with the glory to come, that shall be revealed
in us " (Rom. viii. 18).
God is good, He loves us as a Father; and our 50srows
are blessings in disguise.
Sufferings afford opportunities for the practice of
many vlnues -of pahence, repentance, fortitude,
compassion, kindness, humility, courage, generosity -
virtues which develop greatness and nobility of soul.
Suffering is undoubtedly a source'of great merit and
happiness, when the sufferer 1s animated by a supernatural
motive - and especially the motive of love.
The grandest music of the human heart breaks forth in
the day of trial; the sweetest songs are sung in sorrow;
the best things in character are developed in the time of
affliction.
"Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught;
Oursweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
-SHELLEY.
Jesus said to His disciples: "My chalice indeed
you shZl drink" (Alalt. xx. 23). Commenting on
these words, Father GaUwey writes in "The Watches
of the Passion": "To His chosen ones, to those to
whom He afterward said: 'I will noL now call you smvanls,
but I have called you jriends,' the grand and
special promise that He makes is this, 'You shall, I
promise you, before you die, drink of My chalice.' To
His own blessed Mother, as they conversed together in
Nazareth, this, doubtless, wa's the assurance that He
often repeated in order to console her, that she should
be with Him to the end, and share His bitter chalice to
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