Comments on: Processing suffering

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:07:13 +0000

Fantastic comment. Though I didn’t think to add the mysticism of the Cross and the Eucharist, and the fact that we truly must allow Christ to be these things, I couldn’t agree more. Thanks so much. Great thoughts from the Rabbi, as well.

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By: Priestly Goth

Priestly Goth — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:06:37 +0000

Thanks for this post. Though, I do wonder about our limits, and I know that even something like what you are seeking in this post while good and true can become a moralistic duty that is a weight that need not be there.
This type of mysticism I think it must be said is always a mysticism of the Cross, and a mysticism of the Eucharist. We can take the pain because God took it all already, and really is the one who is to take it in the end.
I would add to your professors advice something a Rabi told me while I was doing my hospital chaplaincy CPE and each day “Give it all back to God, because you can not hold on to all the pain and all the suffering.”
We can’t do it or when can only do it in the power of the Spirit of Christ, which means not trying to do this but allowing Christ to be all in all.