Thursday of the Second Week of Easter
Today is the optional memorial of St. Louis de Montfort, a great apostle of Our Lady! He said “Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer… Turn everything to profit.”
In our first reading, the apostles knew how to turn their sufferings into profit. We hear St. Peter say after the Sanhedrin told them strictly not to teach about Jesus, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.”
When we follow God’s will through our superiors, spouses, loved ones, or whoever is faithful, then we are truly close to God. In our sufferings and trials, God is close to us because we resemble His Son on the cross.
Reflection by Br. Maximilian Burkhart, OSB
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