Part 2, Sign language study tools for the Compendium of the Catechism
Redemptive Suffering
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This morning, I was at a Mass where a deacon gave the homily. I am unclear whether he knew that today marks the World Day of the Sick.
The deacon spoke of Rabbi Harold Kushner's 1980s book "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People" and correctly noted that Kushner's ultimate answer was that God is NOT all powerful. The deacon also indicated that he himself struggles with the ideas of God's omnipotence. If he wasn't going to explain redemptive suffering, the deacon should have kept that to himself.
Years ago, Peter Kreeft published an excellent response to Kushner: "Making Sense of Suffering." Kreeft explains "redemptive sufferring" - Jesus invites us to unite our sufferings to His.
I don't understand how any cleric would be allowed to preach without understanding the magnificent news of redemptive suffering.
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Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two married adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, geography, history, Italian food, Saturday Night Fever, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
