Meaning and Suffering | Scripture Commentary

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Lee Benson discusses and provides scripture commentary for the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2024.

Reading selection for 5th Sunday Ordinary Time:

- (First Reading): Job 7:1-4, 6-7

- (Pslam): Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-7

- (Second Reading): 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23

- (Gospel): Mk 1:29-39

This episode discusses, explores and examines:

• The nature of hope and despair
• Despair as against man’s nature to desire fulfillment
• Viktor Frankl’s will to meaning
• Happiness as a by product of meaning, not an aim
• Finding purpose and meaning in suffering
• Saint John of the Cross on the necessity of suffering for union with God
• The need to suffer well in hope and faith
• Suffering as a source for humility
• God’s goodness, love, and power revealed in suffering
• How God’s goodness and love can co-exist even with the presence of suffering
• Suffering brings God to us

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