Suffering | Ask Fr Francis

God created everything good, including Lucifer who became Satan. When God created the visible world, His primary goal was to share His love. And to do that, He must bestow freedom. And freedom He did give, to angels and humans.

When I find myself closed in by the misfortunes and sufferings around me, I usually find myself going through the following: I will first pray. Pray especially by telling God how scared, lost, or angry I am. Often I just sit there. I know the emotions will subside. I need to find God again in […]

Let’s begin with the Cross. Here is where we learn the lesson of sacrifice and offering. Jesus came among us. Jesus is God joining Himself to humanity. He became one of us to inseparably join His Divinity with our humanity, to live our life and to suffer our sufferings. He did so in order that we, in our humanity, may also be one with His Divinity.

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An atheist approached me and asked : “Why does God, who is so good, allow suffering? If God is all-powerful, why does He allow evil to exist and does not defeat Satan in the first place? “. How should I answer?

In the past two months, many unfortunate things happened to me. To name a few, my mom had an accident and she is in coma, my friend passed away, my neighbor damaged my washroom ceiling, and I developed some health problems. Is God sending me a message? What should I do?

I keep hearing Catholics say “to offer up your suffering”, or “uniting your suffering with Jesus on the cross”. Would you talk about what that means, and why you would do that? How can I learn more about it?