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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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Is there such a thing as good suffering? On this Good Friday, Jeff Cavins discusses the real meaning of suffering and why it is important to expect suffering in life. He explains the different types of suffering and how we can suffer well so that we may be true followers of Christ.
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“Suffering is almost inseparable from man’s earthly existence.” -St. John Paul II
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and |
0:05.4 | evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples. |
0:17.0 | This is show 368, good suffering and Friday. Welcome to the show my friend. What a privilege it is for me to be with you on |
0:28.4 | Good Friday and I have a lot of information ready to give you about Good Friday, but specifically the whole |
0:36.3 | topic of suffering. |
0:39.2 | And right when you bring up that topic of suffering, people sometimes think, think well I don't know if I want to |
0:43.8 | talk about that but I'll tell you what if you can get a hold of the meaning of |
0:48.4 | suffering the purpose of suffering in in your life it will revolutionize not only Good Friday but it'll |
0:56.3 | revolutionize your life. This is something I gotta tell you I feel so strongly |
1:01.2 | about this this idea of understanding |
1:04.8 | Redemptive suffering was something that I did not have for so long |
1:09.9 | in my life and I was 12 years a pastor outside of the Catholic Church and I could not make |
1:16.8 | sense out of the suffering. It was only when I came back to the Catholic Church that everything came into focus. |
1:25.0 | And I want to help you in understanding a little bit of that today. |
1:29.8 | And if you can, take some notes, maybe you want to go to church and think before you go a |
1:35.8 | little bit about Good Friday and the meaning of it and the meaning of suffering |
1:40.3 | because you know what I know that I know you've gone through different kinds of |
1:44.7 | suffering whether it's physical suffering or the suffering of the heart which we're |
1:48.8 | going to discuss here in just in a moment and one of the things that makes a person lonely is when they feel like they |
1:56.2 | are alone in their suffering and nobody understands what they are going through. |
2:01.1 | I've been there. |
2:02.4 | I have really been there with some intense |
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