The Lives of the Saints and Suffering

Bob and Penny wrote about Catholic Saints in the Church of yesterday and today, and shared them in a way that can be understood by all.

They wrote about these Saints in their simple and engaging style, which has placed them among the most popular Catholic writers of the day.
These Catholic Saints suffered rejection by their peers, discrimination because of sex, and how they rose above all of it to 
become movers and shakers of the world.  

There is a common thread, which gave them the strength to go on when others would have backed down - their devotion to the Holy Eucharist and Mother Mary and an unbending commitment to their vows,

most especially that of obedience. 

and acceptance of their Crosses and suffering!

Mother Angelica wrote this about Saints and Suffering.

"If there is any subject that needs to be addressed in  this day and age, it's suffering!  That is precisely why this particular book is so necessary.  Many of us shirk from suffering and run from the Cross.  In the face of suffering, how many of us can muster up the courage and faith to proclaim with Saint Andrew, the Apostle, "O Good Cross, made beautiful by the Body of the Lord: long have I desired you, ardently have I loved you, unceasingly have I sought you out; and now you are ready for my eager soul.  Receive me from among men and restore me to my Master - so that by means of you He may receive me, who by means of You dying redeemed me"?

To the obstinate and irreligious, suffering is a cruel mystery.  But to those sincerely striving for union with God, suffering is a cove

Open by Steve Bailey