Jesus shows us an example of patience in this Sunday Gospel, when he is rejected by the people of his hometown of Nazareth.
Patience is the willingness to suffer hardship for the sake of a greater good -- willingness to suffer in order to grow in holiness, preserve the faith, gain heaven. Fortitude is the willingness to suffer to the point of dying for the faith - patience is willingness to suffer even when we must go on living (perhaps for many years) with that hardship.
True patience is to accept all suffering that God permits, trusting that God has a plan for our sanctification and salvation. We give some practical ideas of how to grow in this very important virtue.
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