The sorrow of love
By uniting our unavoidable pains and sorrows to the passion of Christ, we transform earthly suffering into a redemptive, sweet expression of mature Christian love.
Fr. Roy Cimagala
Columnist · At the Core
May 21, 2026
3 min read
There is a quiet conviction in the Christian tradition that love and sorrow are not opposites — they belong to one another.
To love at all is to carry the weight of the beloved, and that weight will, in time, become heavy. The mature believer does not flee this weight; rather, they offer it.
When united with the passion of Christ, even our smallest griefs take on a strange sweetness. They become a form of prayer.
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