Season 3. Ep 66. Ask Me Anything #4

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This AMA episode answers the questions "How can we suffer joyfully?", "What is your favorite Liturgical Season?", and "What are our favorite workouts?"

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Question #1 - All of us suffer one way or another.  How can salvation come through suffering?  How can we practically suffer joyfully in light of faith?

“Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.” Rom 5: 3-5 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/romans/5

Should not take suffering lightly - avoid taking on unnecessary suffering - duty to relieve

“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,” Col 1: 24 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/colossians/1

The following quotes are from Pope St. John Paul II, Salvifici Doloris - https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

“Human suffering has reached its culmination in the Passion of Christ. And at the same time it has entered into a completely new dimension and a new order: it has been linked to love...to that love which creates good, drawing it out by means of suffering, just as the supreme good of the Redemption of the world was drawn from the Cross of Christ.” (18)

“Each one is also called to share in that suffering through which the Redemption was accomplished. He is called to share in that suffering through which all human suffering has also been redeemed. In bringing about the Redemption through suffering, Christ has also raised human suffering to the level of the Redemption. Thus each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.” (19)

“It is suffering, more than anything else, which clears the way for the grace which transforms human souls.” (27)

“Suffering, more than anything else, makes present in the history of humanity the powers of the Redemption. In that "cosmic" struggle between the spiritual powers of good and evil, spoken of in the Letter to the Ephesians, human sufferings, united to the redemptive suffering of Christ, constitute a special support for the powers of good, and open the way to the victory of these salvific powers.” (27)

Question #2 What is your favorite time of the liturgical year?

Question #3 What are your favorite workouts?

Bodyweight Exercise to Failure - https://www.burnfatnotsugar.com/Exercise.html

F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, & Faith) - https://f3nation.com