The value of suffering

[DaveBj]

How do I explain how we Catholics find value in suffering by offering it up? I need Scriptures references because I am trying to explain this to a non-Catholic.

 

[Steven_Merten]

Hello Dave,

NAB 1PE 1:6

There is cause for rejoicing here. You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your faith, which is more precious than the passing splendor of fire-tried gold, may by its genuineness lead to praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.

 

[Todd_Easton]

This might help…

Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Salvifici Doloris).

 

[thistle]

DaveBj:

How do I explain how we Catholics find value in suffering by offering it up? I need Scriptures references because I am trying to explain this to a non-Catholic.

www.scripturecatholic.com/suffering.html

 

[DaveBj]

DaveBj:

How do I explain how we Catholics find value in suffering by offering it up? I need Scriptures references because I am trying to explain this to a non-Catholic.

I’m going to have to speak to my wife about posting under my login.



DaveBj

 

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

For those wanting to find value in suffering, read this meditiation on “suffering in holiness”.

 

[DaveBj]

Bumped so SU can find it.