Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer? | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on January 29th, 2024, at The Ohio State University.

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About the Speaker:

Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She has been active in her religious community’s teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and assists with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation, serving as Associate Professor of Theology at Aquinas College. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, her favorite projects have been serving as editor-in-chief of her Congregation’s book, Praying as a Family, directing a television series of the same title with EWTN, co-directing the documentary Undivided Heart, and serving as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events,
0:21.7	visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:25.8	All right, good evening, anyone.
0:27.1	Thank you so much for coming and being here.
0:29.6	And so tonight's topic is suffering
0:31.9	and the narrative of redemption.
0:34.2	What I'd like to do is to take you through
0:35.5	the mystery of suffering with a series of stories that help us to look at the various aspects of the mystery of suffering.
0:42.3	But I hope you don't mind if we start with a prayer. I guess I know.
0:45.3	In the name of the Father and the Son of Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:49.3	Lord Jesus, Heavenly Father, Holy Spirit, we praise you, we bless you, we thank you for this day, and for bringing
0:54.3	us here together to contemplate this beautiful mystery that shines forth in your son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:03.0	We bring to you our intentions, each other's intentions, as we say together, our Father, who
1:08.4	are to heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done
1:13.6	on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses
1:20.6	as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
1:28.3	Amen.
1:29.3	All you angels and saints, pray for us.
1:32.3	St. Cecilia.
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