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APOSTOLIC LETTER - JOHN PAUL II SALVIFICI DOLORIS ON THE CHRISTIAN MEANING OF HUMAN SUFFERING READ Paragraphs #5 through #8 . . . LINK . . . Summery Notes: ·
Man
suffers in different ways, ways not always considered by medicine, not even
in its most advanced specializations. ·
The
distinction between physical suffering and moral suffering is based upon the
double dimension of the human being and indicates the bodily and spiritual
element as the immediate or direct subject of suffering. ·
Physical
suffering is present when "the body is hurting" in some way,
whereas moral suffering is "pain of the soul". ·
The
vastness and the many forms of moral suffering are certainly no less in
number than the forms of physical suffering … moral suffering seems as it
were less identified and less reachable by therapy. ·
In
the vocabulary of the Old Testament, suffering and evil are identified with
each other … thus the reality of suffering prompts the question about the
essence of evil: what is evil? ·
Man
suffers on account of evil, which is a certain lack, limitation or distortion
of good. We could say that man suffers because of a good in which he does not
share, from which in a certain sense he is cut off, or of which he has
deprived himself. ·
Considering
the world of suffering in its personal and at the same time collective
meaning … it happens, for example, in cases of natural disasters, epidemica, catastrophes,
upheavals and various social scourges.- · One thinks, finally, of war … the world which as never before has been transformed by progress through man's work and, at the same time, is as never before in danger because of man's mistakes and offences. For Reflection: ·
Consider
your own understanding of the difference between physical and emotional
(spiritual) suffering. ·
How
has your own or others moral failure caused you suffering? ·
Covid-19
is causing the world to suffer in our time, how is it affecting you? ·
How
is human failure adding to the suffering caused by Covid-19? |
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