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  • Chapter 13: Joy in the Midst of Suffering

    Chapter 13: Joy in the Midst of Suffering
    2025/07/14
    Chapter 13 urges finding joy amid suffering by uniting our pain with Christ’s. The saints embraced trials as paths to deep intimacy with Him, offering their sufferings for others. We too can reject self-pity, pray for grace, and choose to rejoice in Christ’s promise of eternal happiness despite life’s hardships.








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  • Chapter 12: Meeting Christ in Temptation

    Chapter 12: Meeting Christ in Temptation
    2025/07/14
    This chapter teaches meeting Christ in temptation by imitating his courage in the wilderness. Saints like Catherine of Siena endured fierce, humiliating demonic assaults yet resisted through prayer, humility, and trust in God's grace. Temptations test and strengthen us, revealing our need for Christ, whose power is perfected in our weakness.








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  • Chapter 11: Meeting Christ in Physical Pain and Fatigue

    Chapter 11: Meeting Christ in Physical Pain and Fatigue
    2025/07/14
    This chapter teaches meeting Christ in physical pain and fatigue by uniting suffering with his Passion. Saints like Lidwina of Schiedam embraced agony for others’ salvation. Pain can sanctify when offered in love. Though we pray for healing, enduring trials patiently with Christ deepens faith, hope in heaven, and compassionate union.











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    30 分
  • Chapter 10: Meeting Christ in Confrontation with Error

    Chapter 10: Meeting Christ in Confrontation with Error
    2025/07/14
    This chapter explores meeting Christ while confronting error. Using St. Thomas More’s example, it urges defending truth firmly but charitably, hating falsehood yet loving those who err. Saints teach prayer, humility, patience, and trust in God’s victory over error. True zeal seeks conversion, not rage, offering suffering for opponents’ salvation.








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    28 分
  • Chapter 9: Meeting Christ in Persecution

    Chapter 9: Meeting Christ in Persecution
    2025/07/14
    This chapter shows meeting Christ in persecution—from ridicule to martyrdom. Saints like John of the Cross, Joan of Arc, Maximilian Kolbe, and Maria Goretti responded with love, forgiveness, courage, and prayer for enemies. True faith embraces suffering for Christ, trusting God’s mercy and seeking union with Him even in torment.






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  • Chapter 8: Meeting Christ in Marital Discord

    Chapter 8: Meeting Christ in Marital Discord
    2025/07/14
    This chapter explores meeting Christ amid marital discord—from abuse and betrayal to emotional abandonment. It highlights saints like Cornelia Connolly, Rita of Cascia, and Marguerite d’Youville, who chose either courageous resistance or patient forbearance. It urges discernment, prayer, and refuge in Christ’s love to navigate suffering, uphold dignity, and seek holiness.











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    24 分
  • Chapter 7: Meeting Christ in Loneliness and Loss

    Chapter 7: Meeting Christ in Loneliness and Loss
    2025/07/14
    This chapter explores meeting Christ in loneliness and loss—from isolation, grief over death, or spiritual separateness. It shares saints’ struggles, like Marie of the Incarnation’s painful separations and sacrifices, Augustine’s raw mourning, and others who found Christ in sorrow. It urges trust, prayer, surrender to God’s will, and hope of eternal reunion.








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  • Chapter 6: Meeting Christ in Interior Trials

    Chapter 6: Meeting Christ in Interior Trials
    2025/07/14
    This chapter explores meeting Christ in interior trials like spiritual dryness, boredom, yearning for God, remorse, and despair. St. Catherine of Genoa endured intense mystical suffering, teaching that love accepts annihilation in God. Saints show that even in aridity or scruples, trust in God’s mercy transforms pain into union with Christ.






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