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Lesson 18: The Christian Understanding of Suffering
If we approach suffering with the correct attitude and understanding, it can bring us closer to God.
If we approach suffering with the correct attitude and understanding, it can bring us closer to God.
God allows even virtuous people to suffer because suffering can bring us closer to salvation.
Suffering is an opportunity to grow in our faith, to live more fully as the Lord lives, and to help in the salvation of others.
Original Sin is a wounded human nature transmitted to all the children of Adam and Eve, causing suffering and the tendency to sin even today.
The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick gives the recipient the grace to bear suffering when facing a grave illness.
The Church was born from the blood and water that poured out from Jesus’ side on the Cross.
The sin of Adam and Eve caused them to lose sanctifying grace, and Original Justice and Holiness, and brought sin, suffering, and death into the world.
Christs Death is a perfect act of redemptive love and suffering in Gods plan of Salvation.
In order to be a disciple of Jesus we must love Him as our Savior and imitate Him.
Having faith requires us to put our trust in another. Faith is an essential part of being human.
Through the Incarnation, God the Son became fully human while remaining fully divine.
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
Consecrated religious take solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience- known as the three evangelical counsels.
The Decalogue is God’s simple framework for how to love God and love your neighbor.
Humanity, suffering, and death become special and new because God became man in the Person of Jesus Christ and suffered for our redemption.