Suffering: The Catholic Answer: The Cross of Christ and Its Meaning for You

Van Zeller, Hubert; Van Zeller, Dom Hubert

ISBN 10: 1928832520 / ISBN 13: 9781928832522

Published by Sophia Inst Pr, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suffering: The Catholic Answer: The Cross of Christ and Its Meaning for You
• Publisher: Sophia Inst Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1928832520
• ISBN 13: 9781928832522
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The greatest test of your faith won t come from Bible-quoting Protestants or polite young Mormons on bicycles! No, your greatest test will be whether you will trust God when you suffer, or whether you will, in the words of Job s wife, curse God and die.

In Suffering: The Catholic Answer, Dom Hubert van Zeller helps you prepare now for all your sufferings by enabling you to see them with the eyes of the Spirit.

Van Zeller, the wise author of Holiness for Housewives, maintains that you can understand the mystery of suffering only by means of the Passion of Christ. In this book, he explores the fourteen Stations of the Cross, plumbing the inner meanings of each in order to reveal why there has to be pain, and what you should do (and should not do) about it.

In his explorations of the Stations, van Zeller finds a great deal to help you in dark times. He reminds you that suffering, properly understood, cannot and should not extinguish happiness, and shows you how to accept your crosses with love. He reveals how you can learn from Christ Himself to turn your failures into victories, and to alleviate others suffering by imitating Mary s compassion.

Above all, van Zeller shows you that suffering has a purpose, and he uses Christ s Passion to sharpen your vision of life s meaning. With help from this perceptive book, you ll learn how not to grow disheartened or to give in to discouragement, but to see your crosses for what they are, and to bear them with perseverance.

About the Author

Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) lived a life of holy renunciation. He was born in Egypt when that nation was a British protectorate, and entered the Benedictine novitiate

at age nineteen. His soul thirsted for an austere way of life; at one point he even left the Benedictines to enter a strict Carthusian monastery. However, he soon returned to the Benedictines. A talented sculptor as well as a writer, his artworks adorn churches in Britain and the United States. He was a friend of the great Catholic writers Msgr. Ronald Knox and Evelyn Waugh, and is the author of Holiness: A Guide for Beginners, Holiness for Housewives, and Spirit of Penance, Path to God.