It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.