Christ has come to heal us; but in this life the treatment is necessarily painful 8. Listen, my brothers and sisters; it was necessary, you see, for the times to be irksome, to be hard. How would we cope, if such a wonderful comforter were not present? The human race was gravely ill, from Adam right up to the end. From the moment we are born here, ever since we were turned out of paradise, life29 is clearly an illness; but at the end this was going to become more serious, with a possibility of taking