Suffering: When Theology and Reality Clash

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I suppose not for the first, or the last, time, I’m thinking about suffering. It’s always been around me, and you, but sometimes, it presses closer to the people you love, which causes pain and a sense of powerlessness, and then to yourself, which can make you forget that suffering is the road to sanctity. It seems counterintuitive, but there it is. I have to hold fast. We have to hold fast. Christ joined us in our suffering to transform it. A paradox that only constant immersion in the faith can reveal and demonstrate. It ain’t easy, is it?

Published by djinnfromthebronx

Decades ago, I moved to Los Angeles, California where the weather was more fair, ready to be a lawyer for which I had trained, but hoping to become a writer or radio broadcaster in which I had dabbled in college. The law and a steady income were more practical, but the tug of pure creativity never diminished. Another tug--of the soul--brought me back to my Catholic faith. Time passed with its inexorable determination. An opportunity presented itself to combine my experience of my reversion to faith with my creative side--a podcast called "Ordinary Old Catholic Me".

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