March to Easter
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Before the world, suffering is a reproach, but before Me it is an infinite honor.
Suffering is an extinguisher of My wrath, and an obtainer of My favor. Suffering makes a man in My sight worthy of love, for the sufferer is like Me. Suffering is a hidden treasure which no one can make good; and though a man might kneel before Me a hundred years to beg a friendly suffering, he nevertheless would not earn it. Suffering changes an earthly man into a heavenly man. Suffering brings with it the estrangement of the world, but confers, instead, My intimate familiarity. It lessens delight and increases grace.
He to whom I am to show Myself a friend, must be wholly disclaimed and abandoned by the world. Suffering is the surest way, the nearest way, and the shortest way. He who rightly knows how profitable suffering is, ought to receive it as a gift worthy of God.”
— From CHAPTER XIII. “On The Immeasurable Dignity of Temporal Suffering” in
A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom by Blessed Henry Suso

https://www.catholictreasury.info/books/eternal_wisdom/ew14.php
(Better link for source of the quote):
https://ccel.org/ccel/suso/wisdom/wisdom.iv.xiii.html