Sofrimento (tragédia, desgraça, catástrofe, tentação, tribulação, provação, tormento, penitência)
       SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre as razões do sofrimento (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
             Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta

 Os que aceitarem a sua cruz sem revolta contra Deus (os deficientes físicos de todo o tipo), terão uma recompensa por seu amor, e os abandonados da terra se tornarão os triunfantes no Céu

Jesus says: "The Church has applied to Mary, my blessed Mother, the praises which the spouse in the Song expresses for his beloved. And, in truth, no other creatures in the world have so much of a right to receive those praises for themselves, if we also set aside, and above all, the sensuality which celebrates physical beauty, great in Mary as well, for her exclusion from original sin had made Mary a perfect creature, like the first two created by the Father. And the first two, the sublime work of the Creator, had the physical beauty of the body created by the Father, in addition to the incorporeal beauty of the innocent soul.
"Physical ugliness came to man as one of the many consequences of sin. Sin did not wound only the spirit. It brought that wound to the flesh as well. From the spirit, which had lost Grace, came instincts against nature, the fruit of which has been the monstrosities of the race. If man had not known sin, he would not have known certain stimuli and would not have made degraded and accursed alliances which later, over the ages, have been a burden with the impress of ugliness upon the first, original beauty.
"And even when man did not go so far as to debase himself with certain sins, wickedness, taken to the point of delinquency, marked stigmata upon the faces of the evil and their descendants, stigmata which you are still studying today to repress delinquency.
^[...] "Physical ugliness is a sign of one’s own or of a remote union with Evil to such a point that, in the time of Moses — when for a whole set of reasons, which I explained to you one day,[In the dictation of July 9] it was necessary to use a severity and absolutism which I later modified with my doctrine of love — the deformed were excluded from the divine services ^{[the deformed could not work in the Temple]}. It was not to teach men to be lacking in charity towards the unfortunate that this law had been given by Justice. But it was to put a check on men’s animality, with the fear and terror that their sins against nature would generate deformed people excluded from divine service, the supreme aspiration of the children of Israel.
"Afterwards I, Eternal Wisdom, came, incarnated for you, and I modified the Law in the fire of my Charity and in the light of my Intelligence.
"Centuries and centuries had passed since the time of Moses, and, in spite of all the laws, man had fornicated with Evil, with Lust pushed towards monstrous aberrations, with Ferocity also taken to the point of masterworks of criminality. Upon the children of the children of these millions of sinners the stigmata of the distant sins of their forefathers were imprinted, while, under the sheath of unlovely flesh rendered deformed by physical defects and horrendous illnesses, there beat a heart more worthy of God than that of so many hearts of physically beautiful beings.
"And then I, the fruit of Love and the bearer of love among men, to teach you love, taught you to love the unfortunate; I called to Myself the lame, the blind, the lepers, and the mad, and I healed them when appropriate; I always loved them with a special love and taught you to love them that way.
"This also reflected a reason of lofty justice. Could I, who had come to redeem the deformities of the spirit and to love your deformed spirits to the point of holocaust, to give them back the beauty worthy of entering heaven, fail to love the physically deformed, whose deformity was a cross which by itself redeemed the spirit that was able to carry it?
"No. The Savior loved them and loves them — the unfortunates of the earth. And if He cannot work the miracle upon all of them of making their members, destined to perish, perfect — He cannot for reasons it is useless to explain to men — He can give his divine assurance of the possession of Heaven to all those mortified by an infirmity if they are able to suffer their trial of martyrdom without doubting the goodness of the Eternal One and without rebelling against their destiny by turning it into an accusation against God.
"Let them love Me because of pain, too. I will reward them for their love, and the forsaken of the earth will become the triumphant in Heaven.
"My Mother, the Blameless One, the All-Beautiful, the One Desired by God, the One Destined to be my Mother, possessed the harmonious integrity of her members, in which the fashioning thumb of God, who had created Her in his perfect likeness, was evident.

  Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta

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Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.