“While there are many layers to the story, both personal and communal, it is clear that God often allows great injustice and suffering, only to produce great glory and healing on account of it.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“It would be years before the Lord delivered me from the oppression I suffered during that season in my life. God tested me, certainly, but then He delivered me.” – Christine Hanus
The role Job played in the salvation of his friends may be interpreted as prefiguring both the Church and Christ. The friends, according to St.
“Yes, suffering is painful; it is a fearsome grace of God but it is a grace.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“It would be nice if we didn’t have to suffer, but isn’t that the story of life? Viewed in the light of grace—through the lens of the crucifix—the Father allows evil because it allows things to happen that wouldn’t have been otherwise possible.” – Fr. John Burns
It was July 2, 1945, at eight o’clock in the evening. It was time to lock the doors of the shrine for the night, and
“Far from meaningless, all our struggles and all our little deaths serve a greater purpose, in union with Jesus’ death and Resurrection.” – Kimberly Andrich
“This offering up of suffering is ultimately a reminder to the demons of their defeat on the Cross.” – Monsignor Stephen Rossetti
“Jesus does not want his Church to be a place of mere survival, but God’s own hospital in which we experience healing, redemption, restoration, and total transformation.” – Fr. Derek Sakowski
“For John Paul II, the beginning and the end were similar in that they were defined by difficulty and trial. In the midst of so much hardship and pain, he was looked upon as a beacon of hope.” – Thomas Griffin
