The Spirituality of Pain

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 February 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Why would an all-powerful and all-loving God allow his people to suffer so much? That's one of the oldest and most difficult theological questions. Our first reading from Job and our Gospel from Mark provide some fascinating answers.

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1:47.7	Peace be with you.
1:49.3	Friends, we read today from one of the most sacred texts in the Old Testament.
1:54.1	I'm talking about the book of Job.
1:57.1	Can I urge all of you to spend some serious, prayerful time with this great text?
2:01.7	I think it's one of the most important books in the Old Testament, because it's the profoundest Old Testament wrestling with the most difficult of theological problems.
2:13.8	The problem of pain.
2:16.7	Why should God, who is all good, all powerful, allow for so much suffering in His creation?
2:23.8	I don't know any theological problem, more difficult than that one.
2:27.8	I think I've rehearsed for you before John Stuart Mill's famous argument against God's existence.
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