Salvifici Doloris And Power Of The Powerless Analysis

After reading Salvifici Doloris and Power of the Powerless, my personal philosophy regarding the role of suffering is that it can generally be used as a tool to strengthen individuals or large groups of people through solidarity and empathy in the community; however, while suffering can bring solidarity, it can also break those undergoing the stress of suffering as well as people around the person in pain as they are shut out from the lives of the sufferer; moreover, the physical and spiritual suffering will most likely stem from the result of physical and/or moral misconduct, but that does not make the suffering bad because it is a consequence that results in the sufferer growing a reluctance to commit the same error again. Suffering requires

Patience is the key to understanding one’s suffering at the time of suffering because if you act irrationally, then you will suffer a greater consequence than the one you are experience now, and faith is the key to understanding suffering before you are afflicted with it because with faith, you realize whether or not you have committed a sin and probably of you receiving an adverse effect from the act.

If more people lived by the message of Power of the Powerless and Salvifici Doloris , there would be less angst directed towards and there would less people questioning the existence of God and why He does not punish evildoers or why suffering fell upon an individual. This is why I found the section pertaining to the Good Samaritan to be the most intriguing.

Is suffering necessary? Yes, whether as a focal point in a community or as part of an ultimatum. Can suffering lead to people to Christ? Yes, but it can also create angst towards God within the sufferer, which leads an increase in the divide between God and the sufferer. My philosophy on suffering has changed from “fire and brimstone without a purpose” to directed and conditional chaos that has always has a beneficial aspect as long as the sufferer is willing to find