According to St. Alphonso of Liguori, this world is a place of suffering and whatever experience of happiness is only a reflection of eternal happiness that is going to embrace us for ever in Heaven! It is that our condition of sinfulness holds us to this experience of pain!

However, for whomever believes in Heaven, understanding this affirmation is the best news that we could receive. For whomever knows the way, knows that all experience of pain and of death are things so passing as the sign that you are expressing now! The secret is to focus on the certain place.

Ricard Sá

translated from Portuguese