“This is why St Peter affirms that “it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil” (v. 17); this does not mean that it is good to suffer, but that when we suffer for good, we are in communion with the Lord, Who accept-ed to suffer and to be put on the cross for our salvation. So when, in the smallest or the largest situations of our life, we too accept su-ffering for good, it is as if we sprinkled the seeds of resurrection, the seeds of life around us, and made the light of Easter shine in the dark.”

General Audience
in St Peter’s Square,
on April 5, 2017