Main news for 26 June 2019

Several people think that the existence of sufferings and death makes the faith in Christ senseless (for the sake of justice, let’s note that not less people come to faith through the experience of suffering and death - somewhere there close).

How can we say that the Christ overcame the death, if we encounter almost every day with the death? What sense in the passions of Christ, if the sufferings of people were not abolished by it? The current passage points to such ideas: the most terrible in our sufferings is solitude; nobody can really share our suffering with us.

The care of relatives does not remove our internal pain, although it brings a certain consolation. But here through Christ, God Himself enters into the human suffering, fills it with His presence, and if we accept that by our faith in Christ, then our suffering is already not solitary, there is in it the suffering Christ.

He cares for us. In some sense, our sufferings are no more completely ours, but those of Christ, because Christ entered in these sufferings through our faith and care is to Him Jesus. So disappears then in this mutual care the main pain - solitude, pains that cannot be shared - and we can feel such consolation, which will be much more important for us, than suffering.