People who are Hurting: Pray that God helps us understand people who are hurting so we can help them.

Have you ever had a friend who was sad? Did you tell them “I know how you feel”? It is never fun to be sad or hurting. Bad things happen to everyone, but we have a choice how we act when we are the ones suffering. We can get angry and feel sorry for ourselves, or we can learn from it. When we learn from our suffering — when we trust that God is taking care of us – we can begin to understand other people who are hurting.

This month we celebrate Christmas — the birth of Jesus, when God became a human being. Jesus chose to suffer and die to save us from our sins. When we suffer, we want to be like Jesus and suffer with love.

Pope Benedict asks us [...]

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