#11132 Suffering with Jesus - Simone Rizkallah

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

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Questions Covered: 09:18 – During the period we’re suffering with Christ, he reveals beautiful things to us. He has revealed to me a small prayer. 13:54 – Suffering is what drew me towards the Catholic faith and away from Protestantism. 16:18 – My wife and I separated for about 3.5 years and there was a lot of suffering involved. I was the cause of it. I went to confession. I look at it as the 3.5 years was a sort of penance as I went through a lot of growth in that time. We got back together after that time. 21:39 – I had an experience about 13 years ago where my finger was partially amputated. I decided to offer up my suffering for my husband who wasn’t Catholic. He came into the Church 2 years later. Is this an example of redemptive suffering? 33:35 – How can I get a hold of Salvifici Doloris by JPII? 36:17 – My wife and I went through a large disagreement on adopting. I was considering moving out when I came across St. Teresa of Calcutta’s teaching on suffering that changed my whole outlook. 45:08 – In Psalms it says, “You are the potter, we are the clay.” I think that’s what our entire lives are and that sometimes he’s going to use suffering for that. 51:10 – My family has shared some suffering and miracles have come out of it. Resources Mentioned: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html …

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0:00.0	Well, I'll come back to Kathy Cancer's live. I am sci-kella to your host as promised, Simone
0:21.8	Riscala here with us Miss Riz. And we're going to talk about suffering because last time Simone
0:26.6	was on, excuse me, Baker Pardon. We talked about the apostolic exhortation on the Christian
0:35.1	meaning of suffering in Latin, watch this, Sebavichi Dolores from Pope John Paul II. And it
0:46.2	really got an extraordinary response. I mean, people like you, Simone, people love talking
0:52.2	with you, but I think also the topic is quite timely and helpful to people. There's a lot of
0:57.1	suffering in the world. Simone Riscala, of course, is with Endow Ministries, where she's the
1:02.4	director of program development, and she will tell you about Endow. Simone, thanks for being here
1:08.4	with us. Thank you, Sai. So excited. It's strange to say I'm so excited to talk about suffering again,
1:13.7	but I am. That is actually strange to say, but I'm grateful that you're here to do it. So
1:22.2	this document, Sebavichi Dolores, is this one of the documents you study in Endow, which is,
1:29.4	I mean, Endow is four people to study the documents of the church. Yeah, we do have an eight to
1:35.7	twelve week study on Sebavichi Dolores. And I've also taught this course a couple times the Avala
1:41.4	Institute. And it's a pleasure to accompany, to accompany people as they grapple with that
1:49.1	question of suffering, which John Paul II said is a, is a hint towards man's transcendence and
1:56.0	his dignity, the fact that we not only suffer, but we also are conscious of the fact that we are
2:01.6	suffering. Yeah. Well, first of all, I didn't know you were connected with the Avala Institute.
2:06.6	We had Dan Stephanie Berkin here the other day, and it was wonderful to get to do programs with them.
2:12.8	And, and so let's just real quick, just let people know what Endow is. And then we'll talk
2:18.8	a little bit specifically about this document, more about Sebavichi Dolores, and then take any calls
2:24.1	from anybody who would like to talk about the Christian meaning of suffering. So it tells about
2:28.2	Endow first of all. Yeah, so Endow is a Catholic women's apostolate. And like Si said, we call
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