As we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Fr Bernardino reflects on the reality of very real suffering in our lives, as we truly die to ourselves to become like the seed, on our own way of the cross.

Fr Bernardino is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal at St Patrick's Friary, Limerick, Ireland.

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