If You’re Suffering Alone
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2023
- When we are confronted with suffering, either in the world at large or our very own, it can be very easy to feel isolated, abandoned and alone. We might find ourselves asking the question, "Does anyone care about my problems?"
Today, Sr. Alicia Torres offers us a beautiful meditation on the meaning of suffering and how the Lord accompanies each of us as we carry these crosses and burdens.
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I am a terminally ill person with no family because I lost them all they passed away . Suffering alone is my whole thing. Even my best friends have vanished or changed enough they are gone. It’s like God cleared out everything and everybody so I had only Him.
I pray for you Lisa, Jesus is always with you!!!
Dear Lisa
I'm so sorry you have to go through these hard times alone.
I so wish I could be with you in these really hard, lonely times.
I'll keep you in my prayers and I wish you strength and faith in Jesus, our Savior.
Sending you a warm hug from Belgium and praying that you may feel thé Lord's presence in your suffering.
I believe you have Jesus with you and some angels and saints.. you’re never alone God is always with us in time of our needs..God Bless🙏❤️
I'm so sorry. No one said life would be easy yet we are never prepared for your type of your misery. If it makes a diffence I am praying for you tonight. Please keep your faith. Christ will never abandon you. May God bless you.
God bless you. I will be your friend.
Suffering alone since 3 my whole life has been unstable chaotic lonely and jaded but since I gave my life to Christ at the age of 12 he has shown me things, brought me comfort love and family into my life. I have tried to take my life 8 times now but everytime, by God's grace I have life. Jesus is Lord. ❤
This woman seems like she has a heart of gold.
I am suffering right now and I needed to hear this.
I am sorry for your suffering! I will pray for you to be comforted and receive whatever you may need. Wishing you the peace of Christ!
You are NOT alone! I am also suffering (and had myself a pity-party with tears today). I accept this suffering as a blessing from the Lord. It has, indeed, brought me closer to Him. I am a better person because of my suffering. May God bless you and give you strength thru these trying times. 🙏🏻
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Jesus loves you.
I suffer with many mental problems and many times feel abandoned by Jesus, and feel lonely. All I really have is my cat why is my best friend but I don’t really have any friends I can see and my family is not a good family. Please pray for me. ThNks
Pray for me and for St Bernadette who suffered in silence, and all those lonely and alone with a broken heart.
I add myself to this, I'm in the same boat
@@Ellieangel777 and me as well.
❤ My testimony is one of faith. No matter what we are facing God will give us strength. As a single mother I’m overwhelmed at times because both of my children have autism. I started homeschooling them last year so my hours to work are limited. I keep faith in Jesus even as I struggle to pay rent and as I struggle to buy groceries. I want to give up yet God gives me strength. No matter our struggles God will never leave us. Jesus hear my prayers. ❤
Beautiful!
You are in my prayers ❤
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My wife suffered with MS for a number of years and was bedridden for the last 5 years of her life. She had bad days and bad moments, but she suffered well. She used it to go deeper with the Lord. She was a great example to all of our family and friends. People weren't sure what they would get when they visited. It was always a positive experience and she was an inspiration. She felt alone and abandoned at times, but God gave gher great consolations. She died in late 2021. We had 15 priests, our local Bishop and an absolutely packed house. I had the privilege of delivering her eulogy. I miss her every day, and I pray for her every day. But God is using her suffering and her witness for so many of us!
She was very, very blessed to have "Jesus with flesh"..you! I assure you for my prayers for her soul, all the souls alive who she touched and changed, and your broken heart. We can still know the truth, but feel the human pain.I feel it every day.I work with and against it, offer up as prayers for others, continue serving others, but you always have to then come home....to reminders. Love is SO healing, and she likely did so well along with first off God's grace, but also because of your love and support.Chronic illness is really worsened, and quickly...with out love. Prayers right now for her and you. +++AMDG+++
I haven’t had a bunch of people close to me, except a dear friend of mine. He passed away from cancer right before his 16th birthday, and that was over 20 years ago. I still cry to this day, and I give my sorrows up to Jesus.
Oh I'm sorry. I hope you find peace and closure
This woman fills me with so much joy, love, and openness to the Holy Spirit, I just want to watch her and listen to her 24 hours a day.
I pray that someday I can be just as happy and at peace as this nun appears to be.
I'm suffering from a incurable disease iv pushed my family and friends away as I can't handle how ill I am, lord could you surround me with your presence lord if you could spare some healing I would be eternally grateful I ask this in jesus mighty name Amen 🙏
I am a protestant Christian. My grandmother was a devout Catholic and you remind me so much of her although you are much younger. You just seems so patient, loving, kind, and full of wisdom. My grandmother was the same way. It really brings back memories of spending time with my grandmother. Thank you for the video sister.
So beautiful to hear sister Alicia speak of suffering! I knew sister before she entered the convent, it gave me great joy to see her still faithful to her vocation!!
My wife has a lot of health complications and is in pain 24/7 but she still goes about doing things. We have surrendered ourselves to Jesus and trust him fully. We thank the lord every morning we wake up
Praise the lord
Alleluia
Wow, this videos timing is crazy. Ive been suffering for awhile and finding it harder to go to the gym. And here i am in the gym watching this video in what id say is on of my lowest points
Thank you Sister for reminding us we are never alone in our suffering. Jesus is there with us in our time of suffering. We have the promise of joining Jesus one day in Heaven and that glory greater than any earthly suffering.
Im suffering a lot right now sister.I wish I had the same goodness and pureness that I use to have has a child😢and clearly you have that goodness and pureness too.God bless you sister❤✝️🙏🏻
That's so sad, in Ireland we wake our dead in the coffin at home, everyone attends and as kids we were used to seeing dead bodies, as we are encouraged to attend and pray. Death for me was a part of life, even so young. We probably seen more than most as I'm from Belfast and the conflict was full force when I was a child. The 3rd day the body is brought to Chapel for requiem Mass, even as a child I knew the dead went home to God. One Priest said to me, that's why the first 3 letters of Funeral are fun, there is no more suffering for them, it made sense as a child, and even more sense now. 🙏
This is such a healthy way to approach death.
That's beautiful! I'm italian Sicilian - we hop INTO the casket,. crying and screaming also;) Serious note, that really is beautiful and would be so with out our passion and emotion, but still better than not having it at all.I agree with you 100%.It is good for them, as long as their soul is going where they need to go, but the sadness is for the survivors behind - sometimes that life was the partner needed for very tangible, and intangible things - partnership, BUT then again, people had bigger (normal) size families then. Now? Sad state of affairs
I spent most of my time as a teenager struggling with loneliness, and when I was at my worst, that's when I found faith and Jesus Christ even though nothing predestined me for that (being born into an atheist family, not having any religious education etc), He was always there even when I didn't realize it, and now that I'm an adult I realize that I will never be alone again 🙏🏻
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Welcome home 😇♥️🙏
you're a lovely person. Thank you !
Amen!!!! As I sit here going through my first round of chemo, I hold tight to our Lord, because I known the pain Mary and Jesus felt, is nothing compared to my pain! I ask Mary to intervene for me, as she knows the pain of a mother, i want to be here for my two little kids! I ask Jesus Christ to give me strength as my struggles are nothing compared to what he went through for us! So in times when my journey is not too smooth, I offer just pain as a recognition of the pain Jesus lived for us! Always thankful that my pains are less than His, and thankful that I am growing in faith through these stormy days! Prayers for everyone!
Thank you Sister Alisia. Whether we feel their presence or not, Jesus and our Holy Mother are always with us. We’re so fortunate and thankful for Them.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Don’t forget Saint Joseph ❤
Same as your uncle only I was told my mother was dead when I was 16 and no-one had expected it. Psychologically speaking 3 years is the time for mourning such loss, I'm told, and indeed 3 years later I met a girl and realized I thirsted for love. I went to her looking for love and God took me to His mountain and showed me the source, Himself. I've struggled with the `invisible' God ever since as does everyone but this episode changed my life in this way. I know the truth. I know that Jesus lives and despite my scientific brain I just can't be swayed by atheism even though Ive tried to give atheism its due. I'm 62 now and that episode is still part of my present being. Its not yesterday but lives in the eternal present moment. I can see God's providence in my life now, looking back, and everyday I thank Him for just that, His providence in my life. I'm not rich or famous and I'm no saint but the older I get the more I see the struggle as St. Paul says is indeed the good fight.
`I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.'
Thank you, SIster for this Encouraging video!
God Bless, 🙏M.
Sister Alicia, thank you so much, your words touch my heart, you did the right pray, the Holy Spirit take over. God bless you Sister❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯
Blessed be God's word, thanks for preaching.
Lets remember to offer our sufferings for convertion of Sinners & for the souls in purgatory , gives more graces . A win, win 💜🙏
Thank you. I'm so alone.
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You are never alone
@@vanessab8504 please don't invalidate some one's feelings. While we are not alone because of Jesus,. we also need humans to be human again and not rely on FB posts, "checking on" on instagram, and being ANTI-social.I called 6people over the last week, not one called me back but they are posting online. Several of them, I saved their and their families' lives during the plandemic. Yes, we can feel, because yes, we are, lonely.
There was a point i started feeling lonely & was not Well connected to God but once i Got Well connected to God, am never alone coz i know He is with me & i get to experience His presence. Thank you Lord Jesus Christ for your faithfulness 🙏💜❤️🔥✝️
Thanks Sr Alicia. I am like Mother Mary and the Apostles right now. I am living my Easter Saturday- the waiting time that you were talking in the video. I feel lonely n it’s very hard to wait in silence n loneliness. But, I know that the Lord n my Angel are with me as well as my mum n sister. So, I pray for all ppl who are waiting for the Lord to do something in their life as we are suffering so much. May the Lord come. Come, Emmanuel, come!
Thank you so much😢
Landed myself bedridden from injury and I feel this in far too many places. Please, everyone reading this, reach out to those others, the least of these, and do unto them as you would the Lord. Those who are suffering. Please, the suffering lonely are in your parishes, in your backyard, and it only takes a few moments to let them know you care.
God be with you all always. Jesus I trust in you! Amen💕🙏🙏
The adoration chapel that I attend has a stained glass image of Jesus praying at The Garden fully knowing the suffering he is about to endure. I look at that image each time I pray about what is causing me to suffer and it humbles me to know that I may never have such time in my life and that what bothers me now could never even be a fraction of the pain that I find myself adoring.
Sr. Alecia gave a wonderful perspective of the Crucifix and the suffering tied to it. I think its easy to glance at Jesus's wounds especially on the depictions which conceal the gore that surround them. Its easy to not to recognize the pain that we witness at the foot of the Cross.
I can't wait to speak to her when I get the chance the next time I go to the Mission! I'd probably have to stand in line stretching around the convent!
Thank you.♡
Iam suffering alone.,. Thats y iam hearing this message though my pain n tribulation is nothing with God
Thank you sister for your words. It’s nice to be reminded
She looks so happy 🤩
I love listening to sister. She brings a smile to my heart. I always need to remind myself that it isn’t about me it is all about Jesus Christ and his passion.
I am praying for you all tonight and all the lost and lonely, sick and hurting 🙏
this is one of the best videos I have ever seen on this channel. God bless everyone who watches this video, wow
You're never alone with Yeshua. When you think you're alone and no one cares, Jesus is there to bring you out of the slump. When you put your life into his arms and follow in his ministry, you're saved.
Sometimes it really doesn't feel that way. Sometimes the silence is maddening. You pray for relief, and relief never comes. It can really hurt. Especially when the people around you don't understand.
Thank you dear sister
Sister Alicia, this was other worldly. The deep spiritual insights. It was other worldly..
Thank you, Sister. ♥️
Thank you, Sister Alisia. So many of us are suffering but also know we can turn to Jesus and Mary, I pray for those who don't realize this love.
Blessing of a meditation. Please have her do more!
This was so beautiful and what I needed to hear. Thank you.
God bless you. Your cross will deliver you into heaven.
I hope you are blessed with healing, of body, mind, soul, and spirit, may God grant you complete healing and peace and knowledge that you always have the Lord, and God has given us all a guardian angel who is with us to help us in all our way's. We can all ask the Lord to grant us the grace and intercession of the saint's, Holy Mother Mary is our mother also, we have our Mother with us, given to us at the foot of the cross, when Jesus gave Mary to the apostle John, she was given to all of us also, how great is our God. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you❤
She is such a beautiful person :)
Same thing happened to my favourite Uncle, and I couldn’t go to his funeral as well.😢
Thank you lord jesus
Dear Sister
I have serious health issues not resolved for 40 yrs
I felt separate from god even though I prayed till this year
I feel it will work out but don’t know what that means
Thank you for your video
I love Sister Alisia's video's. Please keep them up, so important to the world.
Thank you kind Sister for this great video
We are not worthy to be treated like our king yet he let's us suffer❤❤
Thank you for this wonderful message! God bless. 🙏
Thank you sister, may God be with you as we mourn at the foot of the cross where his blood sits. He is one stupendous God! ✝️🛐
Thank you sister ❤
Thank you for this video.
Thank you sister! Alisia it’s great that you are doing these videos you made feel better and I lost my father in 2007 because of liver cancer and it’s great to know that jesus is with us and we’re not alone it’s tough during the holidays
These always come at the perfect time. Thank you.
Thank you! That was the answer to a question I asked in prayer yesterday. 🙏
I am not Catholic, I'm not even baptized. I have always felt lost in faith, researching every religion I can to find a home and I'm always brought back to Catholicism. And this video here speaks so much as to why, the word, the faith, the "youre not alone". You dont get that from other religions. Thank you for the video and all of the content on this channel
I dont know why I am more lonely than ever. Friends die, they are ill, I have aged too,. So thanks any topic of loneliness I am listening. Theres an answer but what. Good Nigh God Bless
Love you sis, thank you.
Thank you!!!
That's very moving. 😥🙏
Good words.
Got tears in my eyes. Than you, sister! May God bless you
Thanks, ❤️🙏📿
Beautiful faith ❤
Thank you, sister
Its amazing how I needed it today and the video was posted two weeks ago on my birthday!
God is merciful❤
this topic is so relate to me rn, because I feel so hard to suffering alone, even I still don't get my spiritual teacher to lead me into God. I've already got rejected from my local priest to confess my sin.
That's my parish church in the background!! St. Agnes Church!
We are never alone it how we have to filter our feelings and present the sorrow to Our Lord. I also think of Our Lady and the sorrow she held within her and especially, at the Cross. When I think of their pain who am I not to ask for their heavenly Grace's to help me accept and release my pain through prayer.
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Sister I feel alone always all r there still alone
Pray for me 😢
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I can't relate to this sister's experience with God and Mother Mary at all.
Yes, the bible tells us that God is always with us. But when trouble or illnesses come, I can't help but feel it consume me whole. The pain, the loneliness, and not knowing when God will handle the situation for me...its all alot to handle, especially when I have noone around to give sound advise. At that point, I just can't with God and his painful plans.
Just know God doesn't cause those troubles or illnesses it's a part of life a part of being human most pain is caused by other humans death is natural and illnesses alot have to do with what they put in food and drinks so many chemicals that cause diseases not to mention in other everyday items
Oh my goodness is that the church of st Agnes In St. Paul MN
What I don’t get is why it’s my fault when God ignores me. How is it supposed to be a “relationship” when all the effort and expectation is on me? It’s especially frustrating that nobody will help me figure any of this out
Whatever I had given for many 😢
But I am alone 😢
You are never alone even when you feel like it Jesus is closer to you than you are to yourself go visit him in adoration in a catholic church that is what I started to do and I feel his presence most of the time when I am at home or out I don't
all suffering is temporary and will end someday, now 68 suffered with ulcerative colitis from age 20, it destroyed most of my life plans, and it lasted to age 56, then colon cancer hit, very rough ordeal, and now wear an ostomy device, my career as a librarian was ended, cost me over 500K in lost wages/benefits since retiring -- why this disease came to me so young I cannot know, did all my suffering have any value or meaning? I cannot answer that
I think saint paul was trying to say that the joys of heaven are so great that the suffering on earth is nothing compared to it.. He wasn't trying to Say that your suffering is nothing.. But he compare it to heaven where God is.. Anything is nothing compared to that.
Walk forward pointing at the ground
That is the most beautiful nun I’ve ever seen.
Thankyou Jesus for the gift of you.
God looks upon the heart, not on the exterior (1 Samuel 16:7)!
Sister, could you please advise me can I save souls and if I can how thank you
I was born for suffering.
I got a hair cut and it’s not the best, people get to best of me easily and it always makes me react with insult and in a negative way I just want to be at peace with god and people just get to me I need advice
Praying the litany of humility might be helpful
Geesass
Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
Luke 20:47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Wish I can borrow a little bit of your faith.
I think am loosing it.
Help add Aroh Ifechukwu(light of God)to your prayers.
I have never suffered. What does that say about me
Maybe you are lucky
Oh boy is that true
@@WillDogJones1 Literally most of my suffering is self-inflicted. I am blessed in many ways.
Maybe that's my issue. I don't count that type of stuff
@@WillDogJones1 I usually cause my own suffering.
I’m a struggling Catholic right now… I keep trying to watch videos like this, seeking help, but the smiles and the way they speak… it always feels so fake to me. It doesn’t feel genuine and doesn’t help. The tone feels like I’m being talked down to like a child, and the hollow smiles when discussing heavy or difficult things, feels really weird and out of place. It’s like they’re trying too hard to APPEAR peaceful, loving, and sweet, rather than just speaking and acting normally. Makes me nauseous…
In 2005 I had a few events that drew me into learning the truth. I started from scratch and remained Catholic. Eventually i was deeply involved in the faith. I literally experienced supernatural events on and off for years. I never felt alone, and always wondered what event would occur next.
I never thought this would end. In 2019, my faith was tested. I broke promises to God, listed to music that was detrimental, and mentally i felt similar to how i felt prior to 2005.
Im still struggling, but i feel like im making some strides at times.
That being said, i do think that some people are genuinely "in the spirit." I think it's possible that she is truly in that state of grace and joy, for no other reason but the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.
God bless, and i hope you find the path of truth.
I feel the same way. God Bless the sister, but due to my sufferings, I find a lot of these cheery online videos hard to relate to.