#11192 Suffering: What Every Catholic Should Know - Mark Giszczak

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

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Questions Covered: 11:42 – How do we alleviate suffering since we can’t totally get rid of it? 23:51 – I’m a widow. It’s important to call out to God during suffering. 32:39 – I’m in my 80’s and in constant pain. My wife constantly takes care of me daily and has embraced suffering daily. 42:46 – How does suffering connect to the souls in purgatory? How can suffering bring us closer to God? 51:18 – Can you expound on your comment that suffering is related to evil? …

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0:00.0	I'm so glad we got another hour to do. We're so happy to welcome Professor from the
0:26.4	Augustine Institute. We always feel good when we get anyone from the Augustine Institute. Dr. Mark
0:33.5	Geesecheck is our guest, and we're going to talk a bit about suffering. Dr. Geesecheck,
0:38.4	in addition to being a professor, also has a blog that you can visit, catholicbiblestudent.com,
0:46.8	catholicbiblestudent.com. Dr. Mark Geesecheck, thanks very much for being here with us.
0:52.8	Hey, it's really great to be here, Si. Now, you got a book coming out on this, or is it out already?
0:57.7	It's coming out later this year, and right now, there's a CD and MP3 talk that's out on the same
1:02.7	topic. And where can people get those? So that's available at catholic.market, the Augustine
1:07.5	Institute store, and it's called Suffering, whatever catholic should know. Oh, very good,
1:12.6	and the book will be out later this year and then get it the same place. That's right. Okay.
1:17.0	catholic.market. Yes. All right. So, you know, the... Okay, we live in the age of progress,
1:26.6	the age of new things. Apple came out with their new headset, which means I will never have to
1:31.6	experience pain and suffering again. Apparently, I can just live on my couch in a world of
1:36.0	entertainments. But for some reason, all of this progress seems to be multiplying, not diminishing
1:42.8	our sufferings. We have quite a really overwhelming in many ways. Mental health crisis among the young,
1:50.9	we have a horrible addiction problems in our society. What does the catholic church have to say
1:59.1	about all of that suffering? Yeah. I mean, I think that we live in a world that is marked by
2:05.2	suffering. We talk about it even in the prayer to our lady, the Selva Regina, we talk about being in
2:10.9	the veil of tears. Yeah. Right. And I think that the church's approach to suffering is quite sober
2:18.2	in that it acknowledges the reality of suffering in this life. I mean, if you go into any catholic
2:23.6	church and you look up front, what do you see? You see a picture of a man hanging on a cross. Yeah.
2:28.6	And so there's something very kind of tactile and realistic about the catholic approach to
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