“ST. Teresa declared that our Lord sent most crosses to those whom He most especially loved. She had learned this doctrine from the very mouth of the Son of God, who had said to her, ‘My Father sends the heaviest trials to those whom He loves most.’ It is sufficient to know the facts of our holy faith to be thoroughly persuaded of this truth. Never was any one more beloved by the Eternal Father than the Divine Jesus; and never did any one suffer so much. Next to Jesus, the most holy Virgin surpasses all creatures in graces, and at the same time she surpasses them in sufferings. The measure of our happiness must therefore be taken from the measure of our crosses. Happy he who suffers; more happy he who suffers much; most happy he who is weighed down with all sorts of sufferings, whose daily food is the Cross, who spends his whole life thereon, after the pattern of our gracious Saviour and His holy Mother, and at last thereon expires.”
— Henri-Marie Boudon, The Holy Ways of the Cross [trans. Edwin Thompson Healey]
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