Fantastic Treatise on Suffering.

Courtesy of one of my Facebook friends, I was privileged to read this article on redemptive suffering. It is very well-written and worth reading (it is also very long. Hence, the link to it.) Suffering and its purpose have been on my mind a great deal lately, after watching two members of my family being slowly devoured by cancer recently. (Not to mention being out of work since March.) Between Fr. Chad Ripperger's class on Spiritual Theology (which I highly recommend! You can listen to it over at Sensus Traditionis) and this article, it becomes much clearer to my mind.