Please do read this linked article first before proceeding. I vouch it will affect you more deeply than anything I could ever write.
It is during intense personal and physical pain that most of us forget not only God but also in anyone other than ourselves. Faced with various personal trauma, most of us believe we are staring into hearts of darkness — there arise what we fancifully call existential angst. In short, we give up not contemplating mind boggling, world shifting ideas but rather the little whimpers that we imagine our private lives to be. We give too much credence to the many voices inside us. We have invented intelligent names for these: the layered consciousness, this and that mental mechanisms, so on and so forth. But this life, right here and now, with all our personal flaws is beautiful. It has meaning. It has a purpose. And is worth living. The Catholic Church today has declared a frail, perpetually ill South-Indian girl a Saint of the Universal Church. She is a model for those of us who are called to quiet-suffering: whether you are a victim of domestic violence or that ill-fated student who every time fails her exam. St. Alphonsa is there for you. You are precious in the sight of God in spite of your feelings of low self-esteem and the insults heaped on you.
she is a passion of flower…..she inspired me in her life style
Comment by shijophilip — October 14, 2009 @ 9:51 am
The life-story of St. Alphonsa, if we understand correctly, will uplift us from the sufferings from the complex modern day’s livings. To keep our moral up, we should know the life stories of different siants and sages,e.g. Buddha, Paramhansa Ramakrishna, Jesus, Mother Teresa,so on and so forth.St Alphonsa accepted sufferings cheerfully, with the passionate love of God.The life story of this St. helps us to grow in divine virtues in the midst of so many disturbances of modern life.
Comment by M. C. Mandal — October 20, 2009 @ 8:04 pm