Tag Archives: redemptive suffering
When Healing Hurts: How I Almost Lost My Faith.
I rejoice in a God who loves me. God humbles and challenges me through unanswered prayers for miraculous healing. Yet…
Offer It Up! The Sanctification of Suffering
This Lent, it's not too late to choose to offer some small, painful sacrifice to Christ. Unite it to His Passion and…
Reconciling the Home Front with Redemptive Suffering
Years ago, I got this twisted idea in my head that being home (with the kids) was akin to not being a contributing…
When Life Gets Old
Isabel, ninety years old, bed-ridden, unintelligible, unable to communicate, afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. This…
Redemptive Suffering: The Ultimate Act of Love
As we walked back into my homeroom classroom and my seventh graders marched in the door to their seats, they knew my…
Splendid Sundays: Catholics and the Rapture
Today’s Mass Readings, with a reflection below. Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 154 Reading…
Saints for Life
During this Respect Life month I started thinking about the saints and which ones I would most identify with the…
