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Value of Suffering in the Life of Christian Perfection
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"THE REAL PRESENCE
CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST
The Value of Suffering in the Life of Christian Perfection
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Why should we consider this subject? Although we will deal
with the subject academically, it is by no means an academic subject,
particularly in its relationship to the sanctity to which we all aspire.
Suffering by itself is not sanctifying. Many people who are suffering are not
necessarily profiting from their suffering.
Evidently, then, we should do something with and about the suffering to
profit from the experience. Hence the
importance of knowing what suffering is and how we can alchemize it from mere
pain to sanctity.
Moreover, the role of suffering in the spiritual life is
ultimately based on mysteries of our faith; and, as with so many mysteries, we
are likely to live with them without attempting to fathom them. That is a mistake. We can never fully comprehend their meaning; but suffering is
surely a mystery which needs to be better understood so that, as with other
mysteries, we may more effectively experience it. This is one mystery that we don’t merely read about.
There is such a thing as making the mistake of identifying
progress in virtue with the amount of suffering. This is very hard to disassociate, once people have made that
wrong identification. Certainly
suffering has much to do with sanctity, but it is not an arithmetic equation,
“Suffering equals sanctity”. A person
must not think, “The more suffering, the more holy I must be getting!” Maybe, but maybe not. In other words, those who suffer the most
are not necessarily more holy than those who suffer less. It is what we do with the suffering, not the
amount that we experience, that makes the difference.
There are three areas in our immediate scope of
coverage. First, to examine what
suffering is. Second, why there is
suffering in t"
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