It has been a tough year for many people in so many ways. Many have experienced unemployment, others have lost their loved one, everyone has had some type of financial setback, and nobody has been untouched by the growing effects of economic recession in our country.
Suffering is real.
We live in a culture that says ease the pain with medication, distraction using entertainment, or any potential number of addictions. There is suffering here and there and everywhere. How do we make sense of suffering as Christians? How it can help us to still be on top of all things despite suffering here and there?
Most likely, there is this question that plagues every Christian culture in the world: What is the meaning of suffering? What is its purpose? How do we make sense of it?
Can we make sense of our Christian sufferings in order to be able to rediscover Catholicity in our lives? Is Catholicism, for us, a way of life designed by God to help each Christian person reach his or her full potential? Is holiness the goal of Christian life?
As most of us will say, this term- holiness is the goal of Christian life- has disappeared somewhere along the way from most Catholic’s vocabulary. Either because we thought it was an unattainable ideal or because we felt it lacked relevance in the modern context of our modern-day living.
God calls us all to holiness because God wants each of us to be all we can be and be the best in what we are and what we have. Holiness is to become the best-version-of-yourself way of life for all of us Christians in the midst of sufferings and ordeals in our societies.
God still loves all of us even if other people’s expectations and the expectations of the human society and culture agitate us on the question of who we are and who we should be. God will be more happy to let us discover that we are just perfectly imperfect.
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