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discipleship, leadership, redemptive suffering and mary

Discipleship is very dear to the heart of Jesus. Jesus' plan is to call us to follow and imitate Him. Before Jesus ascended, He commanded us to make disciples of all nations (Mt 28:19). Leadership is about knowing who to follow and how to lead. God Himself didn't create suffering, but He allows it for greater purposes. Jesus removes much unnecessary suffering through healings and miracles, but those sufferings He allows we can offer redemptively on behalf of His body (see Col 1:24). It is our joy and privilege to suffer redemptively (Phil 1:29). In "True Devotion to Mary," St. Louis de Montfort says, "Mary is altogether relative to God. She only exists with reference to God. She is the echo of God that says nothing, repeats nothing, but God. If you say 'Mary' she says 'God.'”