“What the world needs is a voice that is right not when the world is right, but a voice that is right when the world is wrong.”

~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

For Reflection:

Am I willing to be a voice “crying out in the wilderness?” Why or why not?

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                 STRATEGY 4

A SHARED REALITY

As the words from Isaiah remind us, Jesus bore “our griefs and carried our sorrows” (53:4; emphasis added). Thus, He suffers with us in the midst of our suffering, travails with us in the midst of our travail, cries with us in the midst of our sorrows.  Jesus is Emmanuel — “God with us”–and no evil or suffering is exclusively ours.  It belongs to Him as well.  He suffers in us and with us, and thus ennobles our suffering, investing it with divine life and making it capable of bringing salvation.