To Love and Be Loved: The Hidden Value of Suffering
"Does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes?" In Difficult Times We are undoubtedly in difficult times Italy is overwhelmed by number of cases and deaths due to COVID Now, news of this kind are perhaps coming much closer to home We hear the death of several doctors Perhaps we have some relatives or acquaintances who are in the frontlines or have gotten sick or are vulnerable We should also think about the daily wage earners or the homeless I don't have to explain much You can see it all over the social media We ourselves experience some difficulties during this time of quarantine We feel a bit restrained in our activities The question that comes now is: Why is this happening? Where is God in all of this? "It was not that this man sinned.. but that the works of God might be made manifest in him." Answer from the Gospel We could glimpse an answer from the Gospel from the 4th Sunday ...