Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. My kids can sometimes say these three words, it's so hard. It's so hard. You know, they could say that about their homework or a certain class or a certain teacher.

It's so hard.

They might say that about a chore they're supposed to do.

Dad, you don't understand, it's so hard, it takes so long.

Or they might say that about their music lesson and the practice they have to do for that, or

maybe about a coach that's pushing

them really hard at their soccer practice it's so hard but I love that because I

know that when we do what's hard when we do what's difficult God can really bring a lot of good out of it in our souls and our

character and I think that's something that we adults can pay attention to here especially

in the season of Lent.

Because in Lent, we're meant to really be focusing on

those last days of Jesus' life, the last hours of his life,

his passion. And we think about all that he endured. It was so hard to go

through his agony in the garden, to be betrayed, to be rejected, to be mocked, to be

scourged, and to be crucified. It was really hard and yet God

used this really hard thing, the suffering of his son

to bring about the salvation of the world.

And God wants to do the same thing in our lives.

He wants to bring about a great good, a great transformation to bring us a greater level

of peace and joy and love in our lives if we're willing to do what's hard to face the difficult

and what I want to do in this week's podcast is really zoom in on a biblical passage that the Catholic

Church has drawn attention to recently in the

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