I took my time to listen to some of the homilies of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. And I can tell you they are wonderful and very inspiring.

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Unless there is a cross in our lives there will never be a resurrection.  The Christian law of life is we have to die in order to live.  Now, I do not mean and He didn't mean physically dying, He meant mortification, self-denial, the application of the cross in our lives.  So that unless we die to ourselves we cannot live with him.  We do not like the cross in our lives.  As a matter of fact, we'd like to escape it.  As I told you last night, that's the essence of the demonic, the escape from mortification, the Cross, and the penance. Unless the seed falling to the ground dies, it remains alone.  But if it dies, it comes forth unto life and bears fruit ten, twenty, and a hundredfold.  And this is the essence of Christianity. Remember Christianity is not easy.  That's the reason we have the interest in Oriental religions today.  Because, well, it gives us the joy of having a religion but it does not cost us very much. But Christianity costs something.  Grace is not cheap.  We just cannot walk through life into the kingdom of heaven.  Now what what do we do with crosses?  Well, we have to unite it with our Lord on the cross in order to use it to purchase our Eternal salvation.  That's how we use suffering.  I think the great tragedy of this world is the suffering that goes to waste. People suffer and they have no one whom they can love. Love does not kill pain but it diminishes it.

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