Father Carter Griffin joins Patrick to discuss Redemptive Suffering
- (5:48) When should we avoid suffering and when should we embrace suffering?
- How can Job and the Psalms teach us to suffer?
- (19:23) Lilly - I have a sister suffering from cancer, she is away from the Church. As a part of the Body of Christ, could I place her suffering during communion time, for her suffering to be meritorious.
(22:04) Break 1
- Mary - I've been offering suffering for my son and grandchildren, anything I could do. Grandchildren taken away from our son. She was given 80% custody, and now they're near 18 years old. My suffering has been watching our son go through this. Kids being turned against their father me.
- (26:38) How do we understand a God with suffering in our world?
- Lina - Praying for somebody and didn't think it was not working. I saw an older brother berating a little kid. I started praying for him for months. So felt like my prayers worked for the little kid as he was doing better.
- Addie - I suffered from post pulmonary embolism; I'm in my 20s and I get down from that suffering. When I was suffering a couple months ago, it's been hard for me to understand why this is happening.
(39:16) Break 2
- Jo - If you are suffering and pray and go to mass, but you don't say to God, 'I'm offering this up', does it still get offered.
- (43:11) Janet - How do we still pray for healing, and while we're praying, how to offer it up still? Sounds like a dichotomy?
- Cecilia - In Latino culture, people say that if you are suffering, you committed a grave sin. What could I say to someone who says that?
