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Even in our sickness Christ loves us and calls us to trust him and offer up our sufferings in union with Him

Christ's love of the Father is like fire meeting fire, in which we share and are purified

Christ's love of the Father is like fire meeting fire, in which we share and are purified

It was love that drove Christ to come down to us in fragile flesh, born of a woman

It was love that drove Christ to come down to us in fragile flesh, born of a woman

It was love that drove Christ to come down to us in fragile flesh, born of a woman

On the Cross Jesus loved His fellow men and women with His divine love and offered an infinite reparation for their offences

For love of us, Christ gave Himself up for us, to pay our debt

Christ is tender and kind when we turn to Him

At the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we have 'fire from Heaven', as the fire of Christ's infinite love blazes before the Father.

Christ's love for the Father, in its fiery delight, soars from the altar in our church, to the infinite heights of Heaven.

Christ's expression of love ascends from the altar; yet the same love was expressed before time began, and will continue eternally.

Christ prayed to the Father, in His earthly life: prayer from one Divine Person to another, equal in majesty. The reciprocal love blazing out between them is the Holy Spirit: a torrent of love so fiery and radiant that no sinful creature could have borne the sight. Only in Heaven can we see it, in its fullness.

Christ offers comfort to everyone; but if we refuse to draw close to Him we cannot receive his help

Christ rushed to see Abraham in the underworld. Christ had a special love for Abraham, who had believed what God said to him and even obeyed him by leaving his own country.

If we follow Christ, and trust in His guidance, we shall have a safe journey. There is no better guide than our Saviour, who loves each of us dearly, and knows all our weaknesses and fears.

Even as we pray to Christ, offering our lives in His service and praying for help in our need, we can be certain that He is holding us, and all our concerns, close to His heart. Indeed, He is holding us in existence; and all that concerns us - life, family, work, friends, prayer, struggles, church - is of concern to Him too.

We can no more know what it is 'like' at the heart of the Godhead than we can know what it is 'like' at the centre of an exploding star in the heavens. But we do know some things which are certain, because God has revealed them, through His Son. First, He is Love: like a fire of love. Secondly, we need to be pure if we hope to enter God and be joyful rather than tormented.

Christ is our Creator, with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Because of His sincere love for us, we can be sure that whenever He has seen someone suffer - especially the martyrs - it has almost broken His heart to see it, though it has been necessary as part of the victory over evil.

Christ our Saviour is touched to heart - deeply touched - by all the suffering He sees. Every person who suffers, even those whose sufferings were caused by their own fault, can be certain of Christ's sympathy and compassion. Even when people are not healed, they should believe that Christ can bring good out of evil.