29th Sunday in Ordinary Time - B. "One who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin."
Rarely a month, sometimes only a week, goes by, and you get the question. "Why did God do ... to me?" It could be someone suffering from advanced cancer, or going through a divorce, or remembering the death of her daughter from a drunk driver, or just a 90 year old who wants to die. How do you answer that? I have no better answer than anyone else in Christianity's history.
What I do have is a response: Jesus has been there before. He lived, he understands our joys and pains and griefs, he suffered horribly and he died. And we respond to the question not with answers but with accompanying the hurt one through their pain, as a servant and as a friend.
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