Therefore,
when we feel pain, when we suffer, when we die, let us turn to this, firmly
believing and certain that it is not we alone, but Christ and the church who
are in pain and are suffering and dying with us. Christ does not want us to be
alone on the road of death, from which all mortals shrink. Indeed, we set upon
the road of suffering and death accompanied by the entire church…All that
remains for us now is to pray that our eyes, that is, the eyes of our faith,
may be opened and that we may see the church around us.
