August 30, 2026.
”From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things…, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. ‘Never, Lord!’ he said. ‘This shall never happen to you!’ Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men’.“ (Matthew 16, 21-23)
It should not be difficult to accept that God, the creator, is more intelligent than man, the creature. However, as soon as we do not understand something, we think that God does not exist, or does not pay attention to us or has made a mistake. We especially think this way when something makes us suffer, when the Cross comes to us in any of its thousand faces: illness, death, love or work problems.
We should try to have God’s intelligence that is we should imitate God, who did not choose the easy way, the way of success, of miracles, to solve all problems and redeem Mankind, but instead chose the way of the Cross.
Therefore every time that something big or small goes wrong in our lives, let us not curse our luck, nor consider ourselves unfortunate, but rather be aware that we have been granted a large treasure: to collaborate with Christ in redemption. And let us think that frequently after crises solutions have come and the latter would not have arrived if it had not been for the former. After the Cross, the Resurrection arrived.
Lastly, let us not forget that in that same cross, our cross; we can share God’s pain, present there in a mysterious but real way, as He said.
Intention: Offer to God each of your pains, accepting them without complaining, for the conversion of those who make man suffer. Do not lose hope of a better future.