How to Suffer Well
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When you’re facing suffering, it’s very natural to ask why. However, if we suspend that question and instead ask ‘God, how can I love the most at this moment?’, you’ll get more answers than if you were to actually get the answer to your question. Today, Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle give tips on how to suffer well and weather the storms of difficulties.
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Tips from Mike and Dave on How to Suffer Well:
Remind yourself that everyone is fighting their own battle. Remembering that everyone is suffering in their own way can take your focus off yourself and shift your focus to others.
Have a reason for your suffering. Offering up suffering keeps your focus strong and your faith big.
Be bluntly honest with God. Bring your anger to the Lord and allow Him to change your heart.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. (Colossians 1:24)
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10)
Quote from C.S. Lewis
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
Quote from Fr. Jacques Philippe
What really hurts is not so much suffering itself as the fear of suffering. If welcomed trustingly and peacefully, suffering makes us grow. It matures and trains us, purifies us, teaches us to love unselfishly, makes us poor in heart, humble, gentle, and compassionate toward our neighbor. Fear of suffering, on the other hand, hardens us in self-protective, defensive attitudes, and often leads us to make irrational choices with disastrous consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | suffering is awful, but because of the cross, we can embrace it, and we can embrace it well, |
| 0:05.2 | and we can learn to suffer well. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, every day, you shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship. |
| 0:28.8 | My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today by my illustrious champion of a colleague, |
| 0:36.5 | Dave, One Punch Man Van Vickle. How you doing, Dave? one punch man Van Vickle. |
| 0:38.5 | How are you doing, Dave? |
| 0:39.1 | One punch man, Van Vickle. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:43.5 | Snowing outside, but I'm keeping strong. |
| 0:46.2 | I have my largest dumbbells inside the house with me and a rowing machine. |
| 0:51.2 | And that's how I'll hunker down for the next few months. |
| 0:54.7 | Is it a concept two rower? |
| 0:57.1 | It is. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | Oh, man. |
| 0:58.7 | I did that at CrossFit for the first time. |
| 1:00.7 | My buddy's like, hey, we're going to start off light. |
| 1:02.5 | I just want you to do a thousand meters in our, in our rotation. |
| 1:05.3 | A thousand meters will kill you. |
| 1:06.7 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:07.5 | So I start going. oh my gosh so i started going and i've never done it before in my life so my form is off all this |
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