suffering

Mother Angelica wrote about suffering: Excerpts from HEALING POWER OF SUFFERING 

I agree with Mother Angelica that we all suffer evil: death, sickness, pain, mental anguish, addictions, injustice, oppression, deprivations, natural disasters, etc. Life itself is suffering. 

Fr. James Gould, a friend of Mother Angelica's, pastor at St. John the Evangelist in Warrenton VA, and an excellent homilist, says that there's merit in "just showing up". With all of the pervasive evil in the world, I hope that Fr. Gould is right--that "just showing up" says that we believe in God and that we're sorry for our sins; and that, despite our sins, that we believe that God loves us. Jesus became man, suffered, died and arose from death. Jesus "paid" for our sins and He wants us to be with Him forever in heaven.