“You asked for suffering…You were, in effect, asking for love and light and knowledge of the truth. For suffering and sorrow increase in proportion to love.”  When love grows, so does sorrow … Endure courageously, then. 

     – From The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena 

For Reflection:

Do I offer my suffering for the souls in Purgatory or for the conversion of sinners?  As I receive the graces of love and light and knowledge of the truth am I enduring the sorrows courageously with humility and thanksgiving?