The saints, I suggest, are those most keenly aware of the absence of God from the world. Pain becomes a kind of anesthesia that blocks the saint's knowledge of the distance of God from the world. It is precisely when God seems nearest that the saints find themselves in anguish. Pain leaves us speechless and unable to think, these losses given by the saints as mute offerings toward the God whom they love. The final loss is, of course, death, and the deaths of the saints have played an enormous role in Catholic tradition and piety.
Death is the ultimate kenosis.
What I suggest is that Christians not envision resurrection as the restoration or even the initiation of a final wholeness. The body of Jesus, after all, still has holes in it. Those holes, like the holes in the body of a saint, articulate a longing for God.