Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-February 27

GOD, in his compassion for us, does not generally reveal to us the trials that await us before the time when we are destined to endure them. Our kind Redeemer, even from the first instant of his life, had always present before him the desolate death that awaited him.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927