Tag: suffering
The Church is waiting at the tomb and weeps
The last day of Holy Week: a fruitful stillness before the breathtaking action of the night. Perhaps only the greatest Russian writers have succeeded in painting it as it is, a pause, a last moment of waiting, made holy by the Lord’s rest in the tomb. The Church is waiting at the tomb and weeps…. Read More ›
Jerusalem in Turmoil at Jesus’ Birth and Death
The children were shouting and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” This displeased the chief priests and the scribes, and they said to him, “Do you not hear what these are saying?” That means, “If these praises do not please you, make them keep silent.” At his birth and at his death, children were… Read More ›
Transformation
Until we have loved and until we have suffered, we all try to figure out life and death with our little monkey minds. But afterwards a Larger Source often opens up within us and we “think” and feel quite differently: “until knowing the love which is beyond all knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19), as Paul says. Thus… Read More ›
What is the Point of Suffering?
Lent is about the holiness that suffering can bring. It is about bringing good where hate has been. It is about the transformation of the base to the beautiful. But don’t be fooled: Lent is not about masochism. It is about being willing to suffer for something worth suffering for, as Jesus did, without allowing… Read More ›
Advent thought: Through Illness, Christ Speaks Words of Love
ROME, DEC. 13, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is affirming that the sick can live Advent in a deeper way, because illness is a similar time of waiting for God to transform suffering into hope and salvation. The Pope affirmed this today while visiting the sick and their caregivers at the Hospice Foundation of Rome, which… Read More ›
Our Salvation is in Reality
O strange and inconceivable thing! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again, but our imitation was but a figure, while our salvation is in reality. Christ was actually crucified, and actually buried, and truly rose again; and all these things have been vouchsafed to… Read More ›