Vatican City, Mar 4, 2022 / 13:00 pm
Pope Francis met with a cancer association at the Vatican on Friday and shared a reflection on how there is power and meaning in human suffering when it is united to Christ.
“If one becomes a sharer in the sufferings of Christ, this happens because Christ has opened his suffering to man, because he himself in his redemptive suffering has become, in a certain sense, a sharer in all human sufferings,” Pope Francis said, quoting St. John Paul II.
“Man, discovering through faith the redemptive suffering of Christ, also discovers in it his own sufferings; he rediscovers them, through faith, enriched with a new content and new meaning.”
The pope met with members of the Italian League for the Fight against Cancer on March 4 and pointed the group to St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter on redemptive suffering, Salvifici doloris.