Tag: suffering

Don’t Waste Your Cross this Easter

I didn’t want to interrupt Holy Week or Easter Sunday with personal news, but I have some pretty darn exciting news… I’m the newest apologist at Catholic Answers! To say that it’s a dream job is an understatement (admittedly, I’m not yet two weeks in, so many they’re going to surprise me with the terrible… Continue reading Don’t Waste Your Cross this Easter

The Virgin Mary, Suffering, and the School of the Cross

Michelangelo, Pieta (1499)

We, the Church, we are the Body of Christ. We say that all the time, but do we really believe that? If we do, then we need to know two things: (1) that Mary is our Mother, and (2) that our sorrows have meaning, they have a purpose.

Jesus didn’t say, “take up your Cross and throw it away,” but “take up your cross and follow me.” He doesn’t suffer and die so that we don’t have to suffer. He suffered and died so our sufferings have meaning.

More Numerous Than the Hairs of My Head? A Reflection on Sin and Its Consequences

I. King David Julia Margaret Cameron, Study of King David (1866). The photograph depicts Sir Henry Taylor as David In Psalm 40:11-12, King David confesses that his sins are greater than the number of hairs on his head, as he cries out to God for help: Do not thou, O Lord, withhold thy mercy from… Continue reading More Numerous Than the Hairs of My Head? A Reflection on Sin and Its Consequences

The Cross, the Church, and the Mystery of Suffering

On the most beautiful things about Catholicism is that it gives meaning to suffering in a way that no other system does. No system explains suffering as well as religion does, no world religion explains it as well as Christianity, and no Christian denomination explains it as well as the Catholic Church does. Within an… Continue reading The Cross, the Church, and the Mystery of Suffering