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La Bonne Souffrance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

H. E. G. Rope
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If there is one truth which comes home to a convert with special force it is this, aut pati aut mori, we must either suffer or perish. Every spiritual writer and every convert must often echo the great truth, ‘no cross, no crown.’ Per crucem ad lucem, la bonne souffrance, durch Leiden Freude—it runs through the tongues of Christendom. Our Blessed Lady thus spoke to St. Bridget ‘To alleviate the first of your troubles. I offer you three subjects of consolation : firstly, the necessity of suffering, imposed upon all who dwell upon earth. Consider that the animals, who, when they die, become extinct, are themselves subject to great sufferings, but your soul will live for ever.’

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Blackfriars , Volume 4 , Issue 42 , September 1923, pp. 1101 - 1104
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Copyright © 1923 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 The Revelations of St. Bridget, Bk. I, Ch. xi (Eng. Trans., 1873, p. 20).

Regarding the destiny of animals, Our Blessed Lord said to St. Bridget: ‘For this reason, objects purely spiritual appear to you only in corporal forms; angels and blessed souls under those of living men, and demons under the forms of animals and other creatures; but having only an, appearance of life, for animals become extinct when they die, and even the life of devils is a perpetual death’ (Ibid., Bk. II, Ch. v, p. 69).

2 Menander, quoted in Aristophanis Comoediae (Paris, Didot, 1860) p. 10, at the end of the volume.

3 Vie de Beethoven, par Romain Rollarid, ed. 1913, p. 81.

4 London: Hurst and Clarke, 1827, p. 136.

5 ‘Et fortasse laboriosum non est homini relinquere sua; sed valde laboriosum est relinquere semetipsum.’—St. Gregory, Hom. 32 in Evang..

6 Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, bk. I, ch. I, Wks. Engr. transl. (Clark, Edinburgh, 1874), Vol. XII, PP. 237–8.

7 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (Oxford: Parker, 1893), Vol. VI, p. 141.