“Jesus is not just your Exemplar as the model to the canvas, He is not like oil on your baptismal water but like a blood transfusion in your veins.  He does not send your pain; He sends it to Himself as the mother tastes the bitter draught before passing it to childish lips.  So long as you think of Christ outside your aches, as the book of consolation that you read, or the healing medicine on the shelf, you will never be a part of the saving Cross.  Those whose pains are like moisture are absorbed into the world’s redemption.  We all weep that Jesus had no inn, but today, does not Jesus weep because so few give Him neither inn nor Cross?”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lenten & Easter Inspirations)