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Meaning and Suffering | Scripture Commentary
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Lee Benson discusses and provides scripture commentary for the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2024.
Reading selection for 5th Sunday Ordinary Time:
- (First Reading): Job 7:1-4, 6-7
- (Pslam): Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-7
- (Second Reading): 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23
- (Gospel): Mk 1:29-39
This episode discusses, explores and examines:
- The nature of hope and despair
- Despair as against man’s nature to desire fulfillment
- Viktor Frankl’s will to meaning
- Happiness as a by product of meaning, not an aim
- Finding purpose and meaning in suffering
- Saint John of the Cross on the necessity of suffering for union with God
- The need to suffer well in hope and faith
- Suffering as a source for humility
- God’s goodness, love, and power revealed in suffering
- How God’s goodness and love can co-exist even with the presence of suffering
- Suffering brings God to us
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