Perhaps it can be a sign of the challenge to personalize our own calling. Peter turns and sees the disciple Jesus loved and asks Jesus “What about him?” Jesus tells Peter, “Never you mind about him. It is very interesting what happens next. Later, after the death and resurrection of Christ, the risen Lord again invites Peter to “Follow me” (John 21:19). When Jesus first passes by the Sea of Galilee, he invites Peter, and his brother Andrew, “Come, follow me” (see Matt 4:18–19). The apostle Peter had to personalize his call to pick up the cross and follow Christ. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in his suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will to have accept his suffering as his task his single and unique task. In Man's Search for Meaning, a book based on his experience of imprisonment at Auschwitz and various subsidiary camps of Dachau, he writes, Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, spent three years in various concentration camps during World War II. What can make suffering more acute is when it is perceived that there is no meaning to it.
Third, much courage, generosity, forgiveness, hope, and sacrifice arise from the world's sufferings and evils.įinally, Christ's Paschal Mystery shows how God draws out of the depths of evil the victory of the Risen Christ and his transforming love. Second, moral evil and much of human suffering come from man's abuse of his freedom in sin. The answers, given by the same Catechism, are both comforting and enlightening:įirst, much evil in the world, especially physical evil, results from the kind of limited universe in which we live. The Catechism for Filipino Catholics poses a much-asked question “If God is ‘Father’ and ‘Almighty,’ why does He allow so much evil and suffering?” ( Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines 1997, n.
LITTLE MISFORTUNE SECRET ENDING FREE
In number fifteen it states:Īnd even though the victory over sin and death achieved by Christ in his Cross and Resurrection does not abolish temporal suffering from human life, nor free from suffering the whole historical dimension of human existence, it nevertheless throws a new light upon this dimension and upon every suffering: the light of salvation. He climbed into people’s eyes and became an exasperating expression.Pope Saint John Paul II wrote an apostolic letter called Salvifici doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering. The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune. So Small God laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away cheerfully. In the country that she came from, poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace, Worse Things kept happening. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered.
Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent. Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity.
That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough.
He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look meant. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. “But when they made love he was offended by her eyes.
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