Catholic Homilies By Fr Linus Clovis

Christ came into the world to save sinners. The manner in which He chose to do this which was by suffering, by dying for us. But His life didn’t end in death because His life is life, He rose from the dead. So, the Apostle tells us, since Christ suffered for us, He did so, leaving us an example, what do we need an example for? That we may follow in His steps. ‘Beloved Christ has suffered for us, leaving you an example that you may follow in His steps’. Yet when suffering comes our way, we complain and grumble. The reason of course is that we don’t look to Christ and so see the purpose to which God has put the suffering. Suffering is a consequence of sin, Adam’s sin primarily but ours also. It is something that is inescapable, but Christ in His goodness has shown us how we can use something as suffering to our own spiritual advantage. And so the Apostle continues, ‘Christ did no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.’ Everything He said was truth, in fact He declared Himself to be the Truth. A