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The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

099: Understanding Suffering through the Eyes of St. Paul

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9831 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

https://youtu.be/0xwGSThPczQ SCROLL DOWN FOR AUDIO ONLY It's impossible to read St. Paul's letters without coming across the topic of suffering. It's everywhere. And it's because the question of suffering is constantly nagging us. Why do we suffer? What does it mean? If God loves us, how come we suffer? Enter St. Paul. His teaching is absolutely essential to the understanding of suffering and how it can become beautifully redemptive through the Cross of Christ. So to unpack his amazing (very Catholic) teaching, I asked Dr. John Kincaid, an expert on St. Paul, to join me on the Art of Catholic. In this episode we discuss: The essence of the Catholic teaching on redemptive sufferingHow what I was taught as a Protestant about suffering didn't really understand St. PaulHow we can actually "rejoice" in our suffering along with St. Paul (Col. 1:24)Why it's okay to be weak (yep!)The incredible meaning behind Paul's discussion of "labor pains" in Galatians that will totally expand your view of redemptive suffering This is an incredibly eye-popping conversation and it's perfect timing for our liturgical time of the year, as well as what's going on in the world. God bless and enjoy! Matthew P.S. I was besieged with emails asking for more time to go through the FREE streaming of Catholic Mysticism & the Beautiful Life of Grace? So I've decided to leave it up a little longer! Join thousands of Catholics from all over the world and dive into what Christ calls the "one thing" necessary! CHECK IT OUT HERE! "Awesome study!" "These videos are SO POWERFUL..." "SERIOUSLY - THANK YOU!" "WOW!...SO DEEP AND BEAUTIFUL" "This is going to save a lot of people!"

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0:00.0

This is the art of Catholic.

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

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Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or naked nakedness, or peril, or sword.

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As it is written, for thy sake we are being killed

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all the day long.

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We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

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That's Romans 835 and 36.

0:38.0

I'm Matthew Leonard.

0:39.3

This is the art of Catholic.

0:41.3

Welcome to the show.

0:42.6

I've got a great guest for you guys today

0:44.6

on a very apropos topic for what's going Welcome to the show. I've got a great guest for you guys today on a very

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apropos topic for what's going on in the world. We are going to look at the topic of redemptive

0:50.1

suffering through the eyes of St. Paul and some pretty powerful stuff. In fact, part of the

0:54.9

discussion you're about to hear really blew me away and opened my eyes to something I had not

0:59.1

previously seen in St. Paul. Now before we get to the interview, I've got a couple of things to tell you. First of all, I have received email after email after email from people asking me to extend

1:09.8

the free streaming of Catholic mysticism in the beautiful life of grace.

1:13.5

It was supposed to end with Lent, but because of popular demand, I'm going to extend it

1:17.3

to the end of April, which means if you haven't seen any of it, you've got time. And trust me, it's unlike any other series you've ever gone through.

1:26.1

So check it out at next level, cathletecademy.com.

1:29.9

Dive into the interior life, be transformed.

1:32.8

Your movement into the spiritual life doesn't stop with the end of length.

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