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Bitching and whining might be a sin.

"...making heaven and christ our focus..." yes goyim. the focus of your life should be jewish fairy tales, and waiting for muh end times.

holy fuck, escape the hebrew matrix

Suffering, from a Catholic perspective, is containment of the Soul. It is why we Catholics Fast during Lent. The human soul left unchecked gravitates to that which is pleasurable, and that which is pleasurable draws us away from God. Suffering tames the desires of our souls, and draws us nearer to God.

From a Human perspective, we are not accustomed to the act of suffering, so it doesn't feel great to us. Those that practice regular fasting and abstinence, have trained their souls, and have a higher tolerance to suffering, and in the absence of the desire for things, are closer to God.

Suffering implies sub (under) bher (to carry)... https://www.etymonline.com/word/suffer hence being full of sin (sin-ful) when choosing to take on temptations to carry with one.


Being sad about implies taking on the suggested temptation "aboutism" aka about/abutan (by outside) which one then carries as sadness within one until one chooses to resist temptation by letting go.

Christians walk the path of Christ. Usually that means hardship, poverty humiliation and many types of distress. There is a line of thinking to create your own distressful situations in order to be closer to God. Fasting is an example though flogging, sleeping without comfort(blankets, mattress, pillow), poverty, wearing itchy clothing etc. is mostly out of fashion.
The joy is knowing that regardless of the circumstances or motivation, Christ will deliver believers into his kingdom and that is reason enough for abundant joy in your life. Sad is a feeling, suffering is often due to circumstance so it is important to make the distinction. Joan of arc gazed at the Eucharist as she was engulfed in flames- if only we all had this dedication to God.

A Christian can be sad and suffer. It is expected that he will sometimes be sad, and it is a guarantee that he will suffer because modeling the person of Christ is necessarily to suffer. You can't love your neighbor in the way you love yourself without suffering.

Some confusion arises because, historically, Catholic theologians used the term 'sadness' to refer to a deadly sin that amounts to what we would today call 'depression'. The sinful element of this is its tendency to submit to and identify with one's despair, succumbing to it and allowing oneself to be suppressed by it. Consider some of the symptoms we associate with depression. Isolation. Withdrawal from activities, people, and situations that used to bring us joy. Generally, a proclivity to escape and avoid the world.

That's the element that has to be avoided. We can have problems. We should not psychologically feed our problems all day. We can have sadness, but we should not dwell on our sadness.

More than anything, a Christian is expected to have HOPE and to demonstrate that hope by being resilient in the face of his struggles and his negative feelings. That said, this does not equate with suppressing them in counter-productive ways or ignorantly denying that they exist (or are real for you at a given moment). It does not mean never seeking help. We should have community and a support network to help and encourage us. If we are subsumed by a collective goal and we have a meaningful role in the community, we can usually resist a LOT. It's isolation that begins to cut the cord and worsen despair.

Anybody who has deep experience working with (or living with or caring for) people with mental illness knows well that these things have a tendency to "shrink" that person into a smaller and smaller ball of selfish impulses and strategies. It's ironic, because at the same time as these people evoke our highest sympathy, their condition causes them to become the most exploitative of those very sympathies. The people we often look at as the most significant victims will turn out to be some of the most selfish and mean-spirited people, while the people you might expect to be dicks, given your categorical system (e.g., if they're rich or high-achieving), turn out to be the most self-giving and charitable. This is the danger of succumbing to things like depression. It shrinks you into a ball of selfishness. The world seems so hostile that you are always an animal backed into a corner, and it disposes you not only to less relationships overall, but toward exploitative, co-dependent ones.

Suffering is a necessary step on the path to growth. With enough suffering, you may even grow enough to realize that the same jews who control both democrats and republicans, the same jews who control both capitalist central banks and communist central planners, also control both christianity and islam. I hope you suffer enough to figure that out.

Suffering is intrinsic to being a good Christian, it helps maintain the slave mentality.
The entire religion revolves around the kvetching of Rabbi jesus’ persecution complex, and you should honour and mimic this behaviour of the downtrodden.
Christianity was most popular in Rome amongst the outcasts, slaves, prostitutes, immigrants, basically anyone that was denied citizenry rights.

Your face is sinful

Just read Lamentations.

"He that loves Jesus Christ loves Sufferings."

"THIS earth is the place for meriting, and therefore it is a place for suffering. Our true country, where God has prepared for us repose in everlasting joy, is Paradise. We have but a short time to stay in this world; but in this short time we have many labors to undergo: Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. [Job, xiv. i.] We must suffer, and all must suffer; be they just, or be they sinners, each one must carry his cross. He that carries it with patience is saved; he that carries it with impatience is lost."

"Christ suffered for us (wrote St. Peter), leaving you an example, that you should follow His steps. [1 Pet. ii. 21.]"

"But whoever desires the crown of Paradise must needs combat and suffer: If we suffer, we shall also reign. [2 Tim. ii. 12."

"Listen how Jesus advises every one who would follow Him to take up and carry his cross: Let him take up his cross, and follow Me. [Luke. ix. 23.] But we must take it up and carry it, not by constraint and against our will, but with humility, patience, and love."

excerpts from St. Alphonsus, Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ
https://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/christ7-1.htm

Well, we should suffer well. If you haven't seen the movie Father Stu, it's worth a watch.

The best line is, "Suffering is the ultimate expression of God's love."

It can be hard to understand, but it is certainly true.

The Demiurge wants us to suffer to get back at the Monad because the Demiurge is a butthurt cunt because he isn’t the true perfect god.

Jesus wept.