That Your Joy May Be Full

In the Gospel today Christ tells his disciples and by virtue us that in this world we will have trouble and tribulation and that in Him we 'may' have peace. One is definitive and the other is contingent on us. One will come upon us inevitably and the other will not. So then let us press into God begging Him and pleading Him for His mercies. For Christ is the only true joy giver, who alone is able to comfort us and support us in all our tribulations and adversities. For He alone has overcome the world.