Intercessory Suffering

v. 26 – The Spirit Itself intercedes in our favor with ineffable groanings.

Groaning = Intercession

In the Birth stanza the groanings are pains of childbirth. In the Intercession stanza the groanings are intercessions.

We are born, which is to say we become sons, when we image Christ and embrace the same intercessory suffering with which he saved the world.

In what ways does our finite, hylemorphic condition limit our capacity for intercessory suffering? We have to suffer smart, because the scope of our powers to suffer for others is pathetically limited. How does this change in death, after we pass from the wayfarer state?