Horror of Suffering ~ Fr Ripperger

[@jakechilton1066]

The Catholic theology on suffering is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life. Its overwhelming. Picking up our crosses and following Him. It’s what everyone fights and avoids internally but when we look up to our Lord while he draws us in we grow and become better people.

[@janmartinez8544]

Father you have touched my heart through your videos. My life has changed dramatically...more prayer, more confession, more devote to all things Catholic!

[@almeggs3247]

Jan Martinez mine too but it started at mass two years ago this sept 16th

[@christianborgonovo2277]

al meggs . Up

[@xiomaraporta-blanco4892]

We are very blessed to have these smart , well formed and holy priests like Fr Ripperger teaching and taking care of the flock. Blessed are the good and faithful servants.🙏🙏🙏

[@sue-by7sh]

"The suffering passes, but that one has suffered well will never pass. It leaves a mark for all eternity." That's beautiful. Thank you Father.

[@peteroneil3639]

Suffer with Jesus now. And u will reign with Him in His Eternal Glory ! Amen !

[@howdydocowgirlcowgirl181]

peter oneil Ámen Alleluia ✝💗✝

[@mariateresa9965]

Amen🙏🙏🙏

[@daisyncope]

St. Clare 🌻

[@KMF3]

I see in listening to Father how far I am from sanctity. Wow pray for me.

[@Qarlo99]

I'm right behind you!

[@deborahkate1849]

I, as well, my friend... I pray for you... Please pray for me....

[@downfromkentuckeh]

Trust me, we all are.

[@evelyncarrasquillo2282]

You have plenty of company! Sad isn't it??

[@elizabethlangarica8467]

Praying

[@geo.ies93]

Levels in overcoming fear of suffering and reaching spiritual perfection: 1. Duties in life 2. Resignation to the cross/passive suffering 3. Voluntary mortification/active suffering 4. Preferring suffering over pleasure (saint level, takes time) 5. Offering oneself as a victim as expiation for the sins of the world (saint level, takes time and extraordinary grace)

[@dasan9178]

I always saw suffering as an enemy to be conquered, never a gift to be embraced. It has taken me a lifetime to realize how wrong I was. Never have I made a closer and better connection with Our Lord and his Holy Mother than in the midst of suffering. My suffering came from many sources. None that I looked for or wanted. None of it compared to the pain of watching my daughter die a year and a half ago. I wanted to die myself, and so easily could have. What hurt the most was feeling that no one understood. One day a friend commented that I DID know someone who had suffered far more, and gently reminded me of Our Lady and her Son. It hit me like a ton of bricks at first. How did I forget? Probably because I had left the faith many years before for what I thought was a good reason (finding out my son had been molested by “priests” at age 8). My friend’s reminder made me instantly realize how wrong I had been. The false priests were certainly wrong, but abandoning Our Lord (who had willingly given his life for mine) and Our Mother (who had suffered far more than I could comprehend watching Jesus die) was a much greater wrong. The more I focused on Jesus’ and Mary’s suffering instead of mine, the more my spirit was healed. With advanced arthritis and MS, I still have plenty of physical suffering, but my attitude about it is different. I’m learning what it means to pick up my cross and follow Jesus. Please don’t think any of this makes me special. Believe me...I’m as flawed as any human. The sole difference is having my eyes opened to the value of suffering. It’s NOT for nothing, but an opportunity to grow.

[@lizolson282]

Thank you for your testimony. I love to red others journey to God so I can improve mine. God bless you and your family.✝️🙏🤗

[@andrewangelopacheco9960]

St. Montfort said of the Cross, "The Cross fascinates me. Its weight terrifies me." I didn't know until now that fear of suffering was an obstacle between God and us. Thank you, Fr. Ripperger, for your sermons. I trust everything you say.

[@mana7412]

F. Ripperger never disappoints. The delivery is a blessing every time. Thank you father. I pray the Lord keeps you safe and protected from all malicious attacks. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

[@dasan9178]

When I was very young, I asked God for the gift of understanding. What he gave me was a lifetime of problems. I bemoaned my fate for years, thinking how different or better my life might have been had the problems not existed. It was only when I lost the one thing I couldn’t bear to lose, that I realized the gift I had been given...the beginnings of a close walk with Jesus. In losing everything that mattered to me in the world, I finally looked to God for my answers. I had asked for understanding thinking (expecting) in my childish mind that it would suddenly... magically... happen. I failed to understand how learning happens or the point of the gift I requested. Not building myself up, as I’d assumed, but growing in my understanding of God, his love and plan for my life. Our God is so amazing!

[@cindyc13579]

I so agree with you. I have learned more from Fr. Ripperger and others of his caliber in the last half 2021 than all of my whole life and many years as a daily mass person and learning from many "great Catholic" sources but not traditional later learned scholars or priests. What a difference TLM has been for my life this past 1.5 years and t h en discovering Fr. Ripperger & others like him.

[@johnmarkofianga9126]

Gustuzt

[@ServusDei74]

This isn’t a self-improvement seminar on how to get everything you want. It’s about giving EVERYTHING attached to this World away, and losing yourself, or the focus on yourself, for His purpose and to glorify Him. To bring others to the foot of the Cross. Not by our strength or understanding,but through His. I am weak, arrogant, and prideful, by myself. It is not possible for me to be “good” without the Cross. “I” can do nothing that is fruitful or worthy of doing, without Christ. It is only through the Holy Spirit, and the constant humbling and surrender to His will, that I can do anything good. Like the actor Jim Caviezel said when he was asked to play the role of Christ. He asked Jesus, “Lord, I don’t anyone to see me. I only want them to see you!” He suffered immensely for it. If you asked him, today, I bet he would tell you he still is… Christ is the point. There is no destination, as He is there from the start. I pray you will always seek Him, first. God bless you in the struggle. Blessed Mother, Our Lady Of Sorrows, pray for us!!

[@AveMaria-wu1rt]

As a aspirant in the Carmelite cloister for three months both of us novices want to mortify in food in the refectory..But we were put under obedience to not to do any mortification in the refectory to break our will which was more difficult than eating..and the humiliation of taking much food infront of other sisters was more mortifing than abstaining it ..and in the case of spiritual reading as Mother Prioress understand that i have an inclination to read the books of saints and all spiritual writings out of obedience was asked to me to read only the scriptures.. Obedience is better than any sacrifice and the submitting one's will to another is difficult

[@peteroneil3639]

Suffering Repels and Defeats the Demon !! Big time !!

[@KurtGodel432]

Suffering purifies us. Amen.

[@unassailable6138]

Yes, Fr. Godel. St Rose of Lima, pray for us.

[@OlgaMakou]

Thank you father this was so important to know.

[@darkslayer175]

God Bless you Fr Ripperger, your homilies are a true gift.

[@lucytania755]

Thank you father for helping us to grow spiritually. Will pray for you. 🙏

[@cindyc13579]

At 75, time is more valued than ever before...andvwidowed 18 mths ago. I have learned more from Fr. Ripperger and others of his caliber in the last half 2021 than all of my whole life and many years as a daily mass person and learning from many "great Catholic" sources but not traditional later learned scholars or priests. What a difference TLM has been for my life this past 1.5 years and t h en discovering Fr. Ripperger & others like him.

[@angiejackson9380]

Well said

[@mexicanlowcarb8286]

my Sou just dropped to see how, weak & far far from being, a Saint I am! Then I lifted my self, by saying yes, I’m far, because I’m trusting in my poorest self, but I said, Through Him, with Him and in Him, all is possible, even I can die, trying! Jesus I trust in you!

[@peteroneil3639]

Very good !! Padre Pio says that God wants us to Suffer with Jesus in the desert.. In the garden.. And on the cross !! He's been asked if his stigmata wounds were painful. He replies - well He didn't give them to me for decoration ! Jesus says - the more u come to love suffering.. The more pure your love for me will be !! Suffering is so powerful. It exalts the spirit above the flesh. A great.. very cleansing form of suffering is - intense fasting !! Blessed Mother says - everyone must fast on Wednesdays and Fridays -- water and bread only !! Except the sick... Padre Pio Was on a constant intense fast.. He barely ate enough to live on. - but be careful of this. Build up your strength to it. And u must receive Holy Communion as often as possible. Preferable daily ! -- and yes. U come to love the suffering more and more. Esp above being stuffed on food !! Fast. So God can fill u.

[@mariposalaza]

Thank you for this explanation. I will do better on Wed and Fri fasts, working to only bread and water in those days. Blessed be God!

[@lizolson282]

Yes thank you 😊. I need things spelled out in order for me to try doing them. ✝️🙏

[@Chris-yr8wb]

This guy's homilies are actually so good

[@sscot720]

He is an Exorcist

[@rageblanket2139]

@@sscot720 a legendary one

[@katyarn85]

I love this priest. His homilies are FULL of information. I learn so much

[@Lilyheart47]

It’s no longer we live, but Christ living in us.

[@NenetteHechanova-h4b]

How blessed I am hearing all your homilies Fr. Chad. Thank you. God Blessed you always 🙏 ❤️

[@melaniestovall7454]

Thank you Father No pain no gain

[@JoHnPaUL_09]

May God bless you always Father Chad Ripperger. 🙏

[@sebastianmerkle6757]

Funny thing: I was eating some candy when the line, "The more you satisfy your body, the more demanding it will become" hit. I took a look at the package, which had one Sweetart left, thought about it a moment, then threw the package away.

[@blankblank8292]

Bravo.

[@mov1ngforward]

Everything is Divine timing.

[@chrisowens6530]

Good for you.

[@sooraize]

Since long I was looking for a spiritual guidance. Really thank God that I came across this channel. Really worthy . Any sermons in recent days 2020.

[@AC-gj4ze]

Wow! Thank you for helping us understand our faith more deeply.

[@annemariem3953]

The three rings of marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffer-ring...😅

[@lawrencekeenan9234]

I thought only men believed that 😂

[@domburton]

Clever.

[@hannagonzales7263]

You must be filipino

[@michellesanjuan1898]

And worst is Boxing- ring. (Filipino here)

[@Kitiwake]

"Marriage is a duel to the death." GK Chesterton

[@tonyale749]

Father Chad Ripperger is so bright, the 1st time I listened to him, I got almost nothing. Years later and this is about the 5th time, I have finally got somewhere and understand what he is talking about. Just a tiny bit though.

[@reubenkeyz5131]

Thank you, Father. Really needed to hear this.

[@xiomaraporta-blanco4892]

Same here! Good thing we now now, and with good guidance like this and God’s grace we can start making a change and keep working for our salvation.🙏

[@evelyncarrasquillo2282]

My love for the cross could only be inspired by Jesus Christ! Viva Cristo Rey!

[@peteroneil3639]

Read St Faustinas Diary. She is constantly writing about her suffering. She loved it.

[@danacaro-herman3530]

@peter o'neill. Just responding to this after reading your comment about suffering and St. Faustina. I disagree with you, St Faustina knew that it was the only road to heaven. Yes, she accepted the suffering for the love of Our Savior, but she didn't love it. She bore it like Our Beautiful Holy Savior did. That's my belief after reading the diary. And she suffered so, so much.

[@chrishardy4609]

@@danacaro-herman3530 TB is no joke. Neither is, I imagine, Dark Night of the Spirit version of Dark night of the soul

[@whenpiratesattack]

@@danacaro-herman3530came here to say this out of arrogance and you said it out of humility. Lord help me even now.

[@MMC-jp1gl]

Stages of how to develop a love of suffering: 1) do your duty in your state in life 2) accept crosses passively 3) voluntary mortification 4) begin preferring suffering to pleasure 5) offering oneself as a victim soul God bless~

[@no42arak-st-floor44]

very uncommon explanation and "un-parrot" explanation. A total different view! Thank you father!

[@graceantony2592]

Same with St.Alphonsa, she also loved suffering for Jesus. She used to ask for more sufferings from God.

[@KMF3]

Grace Antony I know I hear this all the time about the Saints asking for more suffering and I just can't wrap my head around it. I want to be a saint and ask for more suffering but I just can't make myself do that. The sufferings that I do have I wouldn't wish on anybody. And I pray everyday to be rid of them. I just can't imagine asking for them.

[@matthewscopelite5303]

I've personally been "mopped-up" at least a time or two. Forgive me Lord, for I'm just not that quick sometimes, but could You please help me to get beyond the point in this life to where I'm not hurt when the adversary mocks my name. Thank you! Matt

[@josephjackson1956]

When you indulge in pleasure, you love the world and ignore God. When you indulge in suffering, you hate the world and learn to love God.

[@maricelachavezruiz620]

Thank you Father 🙏😇

[@michaelnovak9766]

Great sermon 🙂

[@provi628]

Father, thanks for your explanation of a victim soul, if we can only "suffer" the little things that we are attached to so badly that would be like going up a ladder of baby steps that could lead us to higher undertakings, especially to facing long-lasting health conditions that if it not were for the providence of God it would be devastating for any soul, not cemented in God, to suffer

[@TheEuphrosyne1216]

It would be good, though, if we were to clarify, that we don't delight in *others'* suffering, nor is it in any way praiseworthy for me as a Christian to stand back and allow my neighbor, especially one who is vulnerable and at-risk, to suffer, while I have it in my power to assist him to *relieve* his suffering, either materially, or by giving him our time - kind and affection attention. It is our own suffering that we should value; we ought to value the irremediable suffering of our neighbor only after we have moved heaven and earth to try to relieve him.

[@KarensLeger]

Help me Lord to suffer with you

[@AveCorMariam]

Some people have so much already, they can't accept anymore. God doesn't give us more suffering than we can handle..........+

[@douglaspearsall6632]

The more you take the more ability is given,

[@shwhitebuffalo9170]

GOD will never let us be tested beyond what we can bear. Remember Job, he did not know it was the Devil himself afflicting him. Satan took his means of living, his children, and physical health. GOD allowed the suffering to come upon Job because Satan questioned his integrity or motive for serving GOD. And so likewise, I embraced GOD's mercy, HIS gift of LIFE in that if HE gave it HE can take it. I went through unspeakable suffering and pain similiar to Job. Extensive and prolonged psychological and sexual torture, my ability to retain 'credit' and credibility, physical beatings and emotional abuse by family members because of it. Even here in the United States it happened, it was against the law but the authorities refused to prosecute my abuser and after being assaulted I was thrown in jail! And it happened again and again because of trying to grasp the reality of what was happening to me trying to make the rape by sanctification of marriage viable. When he was beating me he would yell at me to turn the other cheek, undoubtably the demonic spirit coupled with his own contempt for life.

[@Murlo.]

@@shwhitebuffalo9170 I hope and pray it is better for you now. 🙏

[@leontiamaria4630]

powerful

[@iiitrifle9895]

✝️

[@marcosgonzalez4525]

Some of us need to be stripped of the world before we can even begin to become holy

[@iiitrifle9895]

Amen! ✝️🇻🇦✝️

[@iiitrifle9895]

Amen! 🇻🇦✝️🇻🇦

[@cleo6205]

👍checking in

[@iiitrifle9895]

✝️✝️✝️

[@Navygrl58]

It's 2018 now and though this was posted 3 years ago it is no less profound. What are those of us Catholics to do who are in need of spiritual direction and yet there are no Spiritual Directors to be found anymore? When you do go to a priest or Religious you are usually confronted with those who are fashioned in the "New Church", easing up on the strict rules of the Church. It's very frustrating and leaves an empty feeling that as a Catholic it's becoming harder and harder to find someone to tell me what I need to know instead of what I want to hear. Any suggestions for those of us who desperately need spiritual direction but are left out in the cold?

[@KMF3]

diane sanzone I totally understand what you are going through in terms of finding a good spiritual director. It is very difficult to find one. Do you have a traditional Latin Mass close to you? If you do maybe go to that parish and ask one of the priests there if they would take you as a directee.

[@Navygrl58]

kari KF Thank you for your reply, but there are no Latin Masses in the immediate area, how I wish there were. I'll have to depend on good spiritual books and the lives of the Saints and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit I'll do my best, however, as human creatures I believe it is important to have that one on one contact which s spiritual director provides. I remember back in the day when all you had to do was knock on the door of the rectory or convent and had no problem with finding multiple opportunities for spiritual direction.....my, how times have changed.

[@KMF3]

I'm so sorry. I have to drive about 1.25 hours away for a Latin Mass.

[@KMF3]

If you are not able to find a TLM close by then look for a priest that is as conservative as possible. Get to know a few. What they think and believe, how they teach before asking anyone for spiritual direction.

[@stephenpaulwilson6496]

diane sanzone The Holy Spirit is the greatest advisor anyone can possibly have total trust is what is needed and your Faith will be unstoppable when you see the fruits start to appear. God bless i'm praying for you x

[@iiitrifle9895]

✝️✝️

[@bodyworkwithbella]

🙏

[@bruhidk3069]

Was asking God “please send whatever cross you want me to bear whenever you want” then I realized I have crazy allergies and maybe that’s what He wants me to suffer

[@sarahbaer1593]

It brings no benefits anyone that says it does has not suffered

[@ThePomponnette]

A famous French cardinal, named Veuillot, used to preach a lot about suffering. Then he had a cancer. A terrible, horribly painful one, that tortured him before he died. And you know what?... Before he died he asked repeatedly to priests he knew that they knock it of on the issue...

[@MariSol-tm7qt]

❤🙏

[@danr8332]

Does anyone know where I can find that picture of Mary and Jesus 10 seconds into the video?!? Its beautiful

[@whenpiratesattack]

Did you ever find it

[@ericj.m.j.5500]

Can we or are we uniting our cross with Our Lord at Mass? Viva Cristo Rey Ava Maria thank you

[@gabrielleg8794]

Make the flesh serve the soul ( can only be done with the Holy Spirit that is why it is so important to be in state of grâce) is already a suffering which is the mortification of the 5 carnal senses ( which prevent you from corruption) otherwise you become an easy proie for Satan seductions and temptations. It is how you walk the path of santification carrying our cross.

[@ServusDei74]

It’s not about “self” ANYTHING. This isn’t a self-improvement, Tony Robbin’s seminar. Following Christ is about wanting to suffer as He did, because of our love for Him, and His sacrifice for us. Mentally, physically, and spiritually. Being “ better people” so others think so or hold us in high regard, is the exact OPPOSITE, or completely antithetical to the point. It strikes me how arrogant and self absorbed many people are, myself at times also, who claim to be Catholics. They want to do “works” to be noticed. “Wow, Dave is so Holy! I want to be like Dave.” I want people to think I’m better than I am. I want a high standing in the Church, to be on every ministry, and pray more than anyone else. I want to parade Christ around like a new outfit or a new car. The point of the suffering isn’t to be a better person. It’s to be purer for God’s purpose, or to perfectly do His will. There is no finish line. I want to suffer until the end. I don’t want God to ever stop purifying me, or working on my conscience. I want to be humbled every second of every day! It isn’t a race, to me. It’s a never ending uphill battle, and struggle. If following Christ was easy, I don’t think I’d want it. Peace be upon you, and may God continue to burn you in His crucible. May the Holy Spirit convince all of us of our weaknesses and faults, and guide us to PERFECT humility and TRUE understanding. Would that Christ would see me as a “better” person. Teach me how to guide more who are lost, to you Lord!

[@ajayNemintane]

wow

[@TheDoriette]

Will you pls be my spiritual director? :)

[@mikeploszay1135]

In your book Dominion what role do Cardinals play in the authority and structure of the church? ✝️

[@happylittletrees5668]

The 26 thumbs down must be those Fr. is talking about.

[@johnlynch575]

Yes; Horror of Suffering, yes I see it. The FEAR and anxiety are very real. There is no escaping it. Alot LIKE a roller coaster, this butterfly. Heightened senses, yet normal ,natural miraculous with mitzvahs, and yes yes magical too. All to get HER; all 1, and then the multiples begin. One sees the numbers growing, fast as light. All Love, all love, ALL LOVE. ITS HER! AAHAH!i!;) I see a HUGE VaSt CATHEDRAL SOMEWHERE WEST MANY YEARS HENCE; MADE OF LIVING HUMANLY HUSBANDRY THAT IS GREAT REDWOODS WITH LIVING STONE ,FIRE AND WATER STRAIGHT FROM HEAVAN, ALL LIFE WELCOME THE SERPENT, THE MOUSE, THE RAT THE HAWK THE EAGLE THE DEER THE BUFFALO, MAN, AS PRIEST TO JESUS OF NAZARETH. A LIVING CATHEDRAL. A VISION THAT MAKES ME THINK OF DEATH , BUT LIFE, LIFE FOREVER IN FLESH OF ONE'S MOTHERS DAY. IF THAT IS EVIL; HOW CAN I LOVE GOOD? I TELL YOU, ALL YOU WHO ARE LISTENING; IN ALL SINCERITY, AND ALL TRUTHFUL INTEGRITY. THIS COMES FROM THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.

[@margaretflanagan8697]

Hi Father this is really wings true and the lady I know that I go to church with sometimes but now I'm trying to back off all together because I can't get her to understand that we have to suffer in this life to go to heaven and when you say something like that to her she starts doing all kinds of crazy things she's screams real loud or she sings real loud and start slapping things all over and I think what happened to me I have known her for quite a while and finally every time I'd be around her I'd start going through some bad stuff like somebody I finally realized she puts curses on people can you tell me anything about that because every time I look back in our history and I see her you know there I I feel like a curse husband placed on me so I feel like I'm suffering a lot a lot a lot but finally when I realized that I want to suffer for God sometimes when I'm going through a suffering it gets pretty hard now and then I don't think it's so easy but what if is like when you're being cursed and this happens to you and you're not you're not feeling good because bad things are happening after that what is the difference between a curse and suffering or can you give up both of them and hope to do do well by that because I have asked God to give me my cross and then sometimes I'm strong and sometimes I don't feel as strong cuz it seems like I'm just keep going on suffering so can you explain something about that to me thank you

[@terminallycatholic7157]

So is this to say that an drug addicts horror or avoidance of 'going without' their drug as the anticipated suffering, they have abandoned the way to perfection? Abandoning the way of perfection being synonymous with rejection and if they die in This state they're Damned?

[@iiitrifle9895]

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[@truecatholicchristian6341]

9:50 22:00

[@charlescrockett6410]

guess I'm flunking saint school............

[@iiitrifle9895]

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[@iiitrifle9895]

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[@Leo-nxt]

It's unfortunate, 1 out of 2 marriages fail.

[@christopherpavesi7245]

AMDG

[@cultist100]

Let me get this straight. All this suffering is from God. It isn't like this is a fallen world with evil and suffering that Christ opposes. Don't think of me as a sinner for making your children suffer, thank me because it's Christ's plan.

[@TheMostMuscularMexican]

10:00

[@cultist100]

And how is Christ so innocent when he created this piranha tank. Oh, yeah, he was surprised when Adam fell.

[@lizolson282]

Keep searching John, God is hearing you and will answer. I pray you have ears to hear Him when He does answer you. 🙏✝️🕊️🤗

[@marygraceharun8767]

Lolo

[@cultist100]

Suffering is bad people. I don't believe Christ wants you to suffer. I know the guy who does, and he isn't Christ. Sorry, but 9:40 "suffering is good because it produces spiritual perfection." Like how often do you see suffering doing that? This idea that the world we are in is a soul factory where we are perfected by suffering and trials almost makes sense if, like me, you have a pretty long and varied life with plenty of exposure to suffering, violence, horror, alcoholism, addiction, but I was lucky enough to be pretty tough and lucky the suffering was never so great as to put me into an early grave or mutilated in body or mind. As opposed to some poor kid raped and beaten to death by his dad when he is 6. My God is a God of love.

[@lucystephanieproperties]

I suggest offering your suffering to God for the conversion of sinners, for the souls in purgatory, etc., and then you'll know what it's abt.

[@tkd_3]

@@lucystephanieproperties Thanks🎯

[@cultist100]

I think he misses the mark. Most people who fall away from religion because of the suffering issue don't do it because horror our own suffering, but because of our horror and the USELESSNESS suffering of children and animals. And he is almost offensive when he "warns" us against wishing to suffer more because we aren't "worthy" of that much suffering. This in no way addresses the horrific, useless and pornographic suffering of innocents at the hands of sadists, ISIS, or the greatest serial killer, nature. Watch something that in no way deserves it suffer horrifically and slowly. There is NOTHING good that comes out of it. I agree that we have to be tempered by hardship-and I have been. I wasn't kidnapped, raped, sold to a pedophilia gang and then burned alive like 9 year old Christian and Yazidi girls in Syria. Why not address that kind of suffering, instead of hitting softballs. Some of this guys talks are good, this one is worthless.

[@douglaspearsall6632]

There is only useless suffering in your mind,no suffering is useless.

[@almeggs3247]

cultist100 Two years ago I would have agreed with your interpretation in the horror of suffering Now everything has changed for me thanks to my sainted sister who came back to me after dying I wasn’t worthy and only know that the simple key of understanding is to know without any doubt that death is a door to another existence Then everything fits perfectly Even in the death of children even in their suffering even in the beheadings. I understand now All these innocents really do go to a very happy loving and wonderful place I know now that what I received in such a way that I was convinced that in my sisters case she was in a very good place that she would not change for anything even returning to this “world”

[@KMF3]

cultist100 he did speak about your suffering. It sounds like you're bitter still about your suffering. You haven't embraced your cross. Certainly you've had a heavy cross. And you're suffering could gain you and others great Merit. Maybe it would benefit you to speak with a holy and wise spiritual director so that you could benefit from these crosses.

[@sscot720]

We are to offer up our suffering, God uses our suffering both to expiate both our sins, and the sins of others, continue to suffer well, and offer it up for others, and to pray for the souls both on earth and in Purgatory.. God will know how to use it, trust Him..

[@hydiebelzak9739]

I think all of you are good Catholics, but this cultist100 is well I guess you could say not a Catholic at all... please pray for this person. P.S. you might want to avoid looking at this person's around if you are concerned about scantily clad women.

[@cultist100]

I think you are all sick for thinking Christ wants this suffering. Christ is love. If you guys haven't figured it out there is a red team and a blue team. And I don't see any of you "suffering is great" types moving to countries where Christianity is horribly persecuted so you can take one for someone else. Most of you people won't speak up when somebody is abusing their kids. Oh, I forgot, it's because the suffering is GOOD for that kid, and Christ WANTS that kid to suffer. Man, you guys scare me. This really goes quickly into - why should I stop anyone from abusing or hurting innocents? I'm getting in way of Christ. This suffering is just great.

[@LadeeBugg81]

I know what you mean. I cannot bear the idea of people abusing their kids and thinking Christ wants that child to siffer as part of their mortification virtues or whatever. Abusing a child actually opens the diabolical into the child's life because then he will start getting into substance and other self inflicting habits as an adult. People don't realize this but I speak out against this a lot, even if I have to stand up against a man who thinks he has authority to hurt a child. I ask them, Would Jesus raise a whip to a child? Jesus didnt want to suffer, so why would he expect children to suffer as he did, but he chose to because he was already perfect and did it as a sacrifice for us. I was abused as a child in so many ways and into adulthood. I craved protection all my life and because of that, I have a tendency to give others what I didnt get. If people are not willing to stand up and sacrifice themselves for an innocent being and let them suffer, then they would not suffer for anyone but vainglory. Real sufferage carried well has a longterm pain many cannot endure.

[@Charliechorizo]

Thank you for the suffering I endured reading your passive aggressive nonsense.

[@Kitiwake]

@@Charliechorizo I have to agree.

[@michaelanderson4849]

Philosophical nonsense as per usual.

[@deniskorman1833]

Useless comment as per usual.

[@michaelanderson4849]

@@deniskorman1833 of course the fangirls of philosophy become triggered when one points out the weaknesses such as non-falsifiabilty. 🙄

[@deniskorman1833]

@@michaelanderson4849 And what do we do now. Replying to nonsense.

[@michaelanderson4849]

@@deniskorman1833 🤭

[@stephenpaulwilson6496]

Godly wisdom always confounds worldly wisdom, come ask jesus to clear your heart and step up to the plate x