Before revision: Accessed online July 21, 2022Michael Freze, 1993, Voices, Visions, and Apparitions, OSV Publishing Background Paul the Apostle may be an example, as he says in Colossians 1:24: "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church," (RSV; SCE) In the apostolic letter Salvifici doloris (1984), which deals with human suffering and redemption, Pope John Paul II noted that: "The Redeemer suffered in place of man and for man.
After revision: Accessed online July 21, 2022Michael Freze, 1993, Voices, Visions, and Apparitions, OSV Publishing Background Paul the Apostle may have considered himself an example, as he says in Colossians 1:24: "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church," (RSV; SCE) In the apostolic letter Salvifici doloris (1984), which deals with human suffering and redemption, Pope John Paul II noted that: "The Redeemer suffered in place of man and for man.