Habits In Hot Weather

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[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' timestamp='1310580705' post='2266989']
Vee--I know the rest of you learned this in kindergarten, but I still don't "get" how if you're too hot, or sick, or something bad happens (basically my life in a nutshell), you "offer it up" and it saves souls. What does "offering it up" mean? What do you say? And how does it save souls?

I know these are stupid questions, but they are serious. Anglicans don't do this, so I never heard of it before I came on Phatmass.

You're going to save LOTS AND LOTS of souls when you're in Texas with DS it's going to be SO hot. Plus, you can save souls by offering up just the fact that you're with DS.
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One of the effects of the Suffering and Death of Jesus is that human suffering, united to His, becomes redemptive (saving souls) since the salvation of souls was the absolute affect of the Suffering and Death of Jesus. Catholics do tend to call it "offering up" sufferings, meaning that whatever one may be suffering, one endures it as best one can and unites it to the Suffering and Death of Jesus ( or to The Cross).

This is a rather long article, but worth a read: "[i][b]The Law of The Cross[/b][/i]" [url="http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3294"]http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3294[/url]