Salvifici Doloris: Table of Contents
- § 1
…the salvific meaning of suffering.
- § 2
…particularly essential to the nature of man.
- § 3
…the Church has to try to meet man in a special way on the path of his suffering.
- § 4
For in suffering is contained the greatness of a specific mystery.
- § 5
Suffering is something which is still wider than sickness, more complex and at the same time still more deeply rooted in humanity itself.
- § 6
Sacred Scripture is a great book about suffering.
- § 7
…man suffers because of a good in which he does not share, from which in a certain sense he is cut off…
- § 8
…we cannot think of this period except in terms of an incomparable accumulation of sufferings, even to the possible self-destruction of humanity.
- § 9
…there inevitably arises the question: Why?
- § 10
In the book of Job the question has found its most vivid expression.
- § 11
…the answer to the question about the meaning of suffering is not to be unreservedly linked to the moral order…
- § 12
Thus in the sufferings inflicted by God upon the Chosen People there is included an invitation of His mercy,…
- § 13
Love is also the fullest source of the answer to the question of the meaning of suffering.
- § 14
The only-begotten Son was given to humanity primarily to protect man against this definitive evil and against definitive suffering.
- § 15
…He “gives” this Son, that He may strike at the very roots of human evil and thus draw close in a salvific way to the whole world of suffering in which man shares.
- § 16
…Christ drew close above all to the world of human suffering through the fact of having taken this suffering upon His very self.
- § 17
His suffering has human dimensions; it also has unique in the history of humanity a depth and intensity which, while being human, can also be an incomparable depth and intensity of suffering,…
- § 18
Human suffering has reached its culmination in the passion of Christ.
- § 19
…each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
- § 20
If one becomes a sharer in the sufferings of Christ, this happens because Christ has opened His suffering to man, because He Himself in His redemptive suffering has become, in a certain sense, a sharer in all human sufferings.
- § 21
…to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God.
- § 22
…an invitation to manifest the moral greatness of man, his spiritual maturity.
- § 23
…the virtue of perseverance…unleashes hope,…
- § 25
…a special call to courage and fortitude, sustained by the eloquence of the resurrection.
- § 26
…the salvific meaning of suffering descends to man’s level and becomes, in a sense, the individual’s personal response.
- § 27
It is suffering, more than anything else, which clears the way for the grace which transforms human souls.
- § 28
…one who brings help in suffering, whatever its nature may be.
- § 29
…the human heart, human compassion, human love or human initiative,…
- § 30
At one and the same time Christ has taught man to do good by his suffering and to do good to those who suffer.
- § 31
…the meaning of suffering, which is truly supernatural and at the same time human.
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