Why Does God Allow Suffering, Illness, Tragedy, etc.? - Explaining the Faith
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- Why Does God Allow Suffering? What is the meaning of suffering, sickness, tragedy, loss, and death? Why would a "merciful" God allow such things? Fr. Chris Alar answers these questions in a powerful way that will give you the strength to understand and persevere in the midst of such trials on this Episode of Explaining the Faith.
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Oh Fr. Chris, thank you! ❤❤❤
Father I’ve just come back to my faith. Sometimes your lessons make me uncomfortable, the things that I don’t understand. That happened today, but I listened to the whole talk. It was like the sun broke through the clouds. God Bless you & yours
Thank you Karen, yes our Lord knows that sometimes we are put out of our comfort zone but the truth is ultimately what is best for us. God bless
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Welcome back! It's in the discomfort that shakes us up. United in prayer :)
Oh,my. This is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard, the story of the man at White Castle. This helped me with my 34 day consecration to Jesus thru Mary. I couldn't understand how Mary could be in my heart, now I do. It also gives me words of comfort to share with my youngest daughter who lost her 3 month old son in his sleep. She is very close to converting, but her and her husband still hurt. Thank you.
Thank you so much for joining us God bless you
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Katherine, my sincere condolences on the loss of your grandson. May it bring you comfort knowing that he rests in the arms of our loving Father in Heaven. May our Savior console your daughter’s weary heart in a way as to be opened to conversion. God bless you and your family. 🙏
Thank you, Tanya. I converted just a year before I lost my parents. But what I learned, has made the deaths that followed so much easier to deal with. None of us have any bitterness. Sadness that we can touch them, but joy knowing they pray for us and we will see them again keeps us going and strong.
I. Love. Lord And. Tthe9
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Hi Father Chris i'm praying for your family!
Thank you Marie and God bless you
@@DivineMercy_OfficialMay i share a story about 9/11
Some people cried and lost their parents!
September 11, 2001 it happens!
Praying for them!
Just gave me goosebumps...
Lord God U are the Almighty you are so merciful....
Well when my dad passed away over a yr ago ...
I actually came back to my Lord God and asked for forgiveness and repenting of all my sins ...
I was so lost ...
So Christmas day I went to confession and never looked back ...
Thank U God for waking me up to come back to U ....
Love U MY JESUS ...
U ARE MY EVERYTHING...
PLEASE FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS IM BEGGING YOU LORD 🙏...
IM SORRY I HURT U LORD FROM MY SINS
Please pray for my sister with ALS
For your sister, in Jesus’ Mercy🙏
@@nml5802 Thank you
For your dear sister, and you also. 🙏❤️
Good morning everyone!
Strongly urging me to convert to Catholicism. I've watched many videos on suffering and evil in the world and it seemed many of the answers, particularly from protestants, traced back to free-will and respecting our freedom. That answer just didn't cut it for me.
I didn't understand how someone I know suffering from a painful degenerative disease had anything to do with their free will. This sermon is much more powerful than any superficial "free-will" or "part of the big plan" answer I was getting elsewhere.
Thank you, sincerely.
Thank you for watching and God bless you and prayers for you and your faith Journey
Good day For Chris. Watching from the Philippines. You are a blessing to all of us who believe in GOD. We are in the true church 🙏
You are such a blessing to the world in your vocation Fr Chris!❤
Fr Chris is a personified Christ reaching to us who loves us saving us from hell
We need this topic today, thank you Father Chris
Margie, by the looks of the comments during the premiere, I think you’re right!
Fr. Chris, I pray for you, your mom, father, and sister. God bless you & your family.
Thank you and God bless you
Thank you, Fr. Chris, for this beautiful talk on suffering. I already know & believe these truths but it brought tears to my eyes several places during the talk. O Happy Fault for sure that we can share in His divine nature. God bless you in your ministry.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, we love you, save souls. Have mercy on me, poor sinner… Jesus, I trust in you.
Another amazing talk! I lost my beautiful mother to covid this past March and my 14yo son was extremely close to his grandma and he has been so angry at God for taking his grandma. Before my mom passed, my son would say Divine Mercy every day, without any prompting and just had deep faith…Now he fights me on going to church and doesn’t pray anymore and is very rebellious, it’s been a tough few months. He finally broke down last night and told me that he’s angry at God. Hopefully he will watch this video with me and have a better understanding of why God allows some things to happen. Thank-you so much Father Chris, may God Bless you abundantly!🙏❤️🙏
Beautiful story about the man at White Castle.God bless him
Absolutely agree about redemptive suffering
My past suffering and crosses has got me very close to God
After coming to know about this I always offer my suffering whether big or small to save souls
I have also learned that when we trust the lord we see miracles happen
My wife had a minor heart attack and the scans showed that 70% of her arteries were blocked
The doctor told us that based on the angiogram result either open heart surgery or stents
We both prayed and asked Jesus to take control
The next day after the angiogram was done the doctor told us that it was a miracle and found no blockage in the arteries. Praise Jesus
The doctor told us that he is a catholic and he has not charged us for the procedure. Thank you Jesus
Alleluia alleluia alleluia
Thanks and God bless Fr Chris for today’s teaching
And thank you for sharing, God bless you
Praise God! 🙏❤️
Father Chris Alar thank you for the detailed insight and inspiration of the topic: Why Does God Allow Suffering, Illness, Tragedy etc. Evil attacks are terrible.
My sufferings are Gifts as I called them.
Thanks be to God.
Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ.
Lord Jesus Son of the Living God; Have Mercy on me, a sinner.
VITAL LESSONS For LIFE On Earth & LIFE After Death.
Thank you Fr. Chris. May GOD Bless & Keep you as our SoulSaving Shepherd💜
Thank you, Fr. Chris, for this episode on suffering. Honestly, your presentation and explanation inspires me to increase my love and gratitude to God. Why? I often trace back my life from childhood up to now. It’s so vivid in my memory that I was treated less than others. I was put down, humiliated, burdened with heavy works, gossiped, taken advantage of ,etc. I just didn’t understand why I was experiencing those kind of treatments. What made me survive and change are the memories of my father’s own sufferings that happened in his life, physically, emotionally and spiritually. His acceptance, resignation to God’s Will, his prayerful life, love and forgiveness taught me beautiful lessons on how to live. Jesus’ birth on the stable, His agony in the garden and His death on the cross are my special places of contemplation strengthen by His presence in the Holy Eucharist.
Thank you Ofelia for sharing that and your prayers are with you. God bless
Ofelia, I can definitely identify with your childhood memories of being looked down upon. Growing up, I never had any close friends and felt invisible. These experiences have given me the courage to reach out to those today in similar situations. I now have more faith-filled friends than I ever dreamt possible - some of whom I’ve met through this TH-cam channel. God always brings about a greater good. We must be patient and continue trusting in Him and His Divine Providence. God bless you!
@@tanyac.9005 Thank you Tanya and we journey together to our heavenly home where our eternal Father is waiting, we bring others with us. He loves all His children around the world. Happy Sunday!
They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…a cliche but it’s true. As a 30-year cancer survivor, I spread encouragement to others with cancer. We have 17 million survivors in America alone! ❤
@@DivineMercy_Official Praying for Ofelia and The Cabellero Family!
Iam praying 🙏 my FAMILY SO SAVE THEM FROM SIN, DEVIL AND HIS FOWLERS 👋 🙏 💔 😢 ❤
What an amazing talk father Chris..gives me a deeper insight to love and glorify God even more and strengthen my faith..and spread the goodness of charity ❤️ 💖 ♥️ ..
God bless your teaching and priestly ministry Fr Chris and God bless the Mercy of all Marian helpers 🙏
Much love and many prayers for you and those you love, Dear Friend.
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@@gerir8634 TY Geri your prayers mean a lot and you always remain in my daily prayers 💌🙏💌
Thank you Father Alar, you are a blessing and a great model for us, love it!!
FrChris,
Thank you for quoting Bishop Sheen.It’s very true what he
quoted.I am so reminded that
Our Lord says that if we only
listen to Him in our hearts we
would reach sanctity in no time.
God bless you O servant of God
you open my eyes to all that my
Lord is doing for me and the
whole world.God bless your
ministry and know that I’m
praying for you and all the
clergy and us poor sinners.
O Precious Blood of Jesus
Christ save us and the whole
world.Holy Mary Mother of
God spread the effect of thy
Flame of Love over all of
humanity now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
AMEN
Loved this as it is the best explanation I have heard, but it still hurts. Knowing satisfies the mind, but the heart still aches, and I await healing and I trust in Jesus, I believe his words, it is the best thing out there~
Thank you Fr. Chris for doing the Saturday your a teacher i know great job today. Praying for Pam and Mom and Dad at the Divine Mercy. God bless your ministry! 9/11 is a sad story! when people passed away!
Thank you Marie and God bless you
@@DivineMercy_Official Praying for Ukraine and Russia to end!
I know a beautiful young nun who has gone through terrible suffering: her response? “ I feel so loved”. God bless her and those who meet her.
Father, I hear these words over and over. Redemptive suffering and a greater good coming from it. My mother in law, 98 on hospice is in her final agony and suffering. Her suffering is egregious, and I'm not lying it's hard to watch as her caregiver. 😢 is she suffering for the sins of humanity? Anyway its God's Will at the end of the day. God bless, great talk. Thank you Father. 🙏🏻✝️
God bless you Fr Chris. I love the footprints in the sand.
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Hi Fr. Chris. Thank you for your talks and writings about redemptive suffering. It is a topic we all need to hear about. I hope you are having a good pilgrimage! 😇
Me as well! Praying for Fr Chris and the pilgrims traveling with him in France. May they all grow even closer to our merciful Lord and feel His loving presence in their midst.
Amen!
Thank you Fr. Chris for this powerful enlightenment on the most difficult & confusing subject ‼️ You are the GREATER GOOD 4 sooo many lives you touch‼️🙏❤🇺🇸 God Bless, strengthen, & protect you 🙏
Healing for the whole world 📿💐🌹Thank you Father Chris
suffering teaches humility, patience and obedience.
Father, I watched your talk about first fridays and saturdays today,I felt a calling to do that.Pls pray for mr for perseverance in doing that
That is awesome, thank you so much for joining us in this important work of mercy!
Thank you for your teaching Father Chris.
Without my sufferings I never would have learned so much about the Catholic Faith through our Mother Mary Immaculate Heart which bring me deeply closer to the Catholic faith our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Prayers of blessings and protection for you.
And thank you so much for sharing that God bless you and know you're in our prayers
This teaching has kept me believing in God.
I really enjoy listening to Father Chris.
Oh my gosh…speechless…best lesson so far. We have an amazing God❤️🙏🏻
Father Chris, thank you so much for this beautiful talk again.
The most cry 😭 in the movie was the crossifing of our Lourd Jesus .He was innocent going to Cross without any crime .Thank you Father Chris ,you are genuies Father 🙏we love to see you always ♥️
Thank you Marta and God bless you!
Thank you Jesus for all the pain and suffering
Thank you Fr. Chris for enlightening us of our sufferings.. 🙏🏻❣️
that Fulton Sheen quote, that happened to me. Praise God.
You always have beautiful teaching Father Chris ….God bless us with you.
Thank you Fr. This explains WHY Satan is SO ANGRY!
Fr Chris, of all the talks in your expanding repertoire, this is one of my favorites. I have pushed ‘rewind’ on this talk more than any other because it is the hardest to get through my thick head. IMO, in order to fully comprehend this complicated concept, one must first know and understand God and of His Infinite Mercy. To borrow a phrase coined by Lynn Anderson in the 70’s, God never promised us a rose garden. Rather, he told us to be not afraid, that He would be with us always and to Trust in Him. When one understands this foundation of our faith, I think everything else falls into place. We should pray for the lukewarm and for those who don’t yet know God, for through Him, we find true Joy.
Yes
Thank you Father for this talk.
Thank you Fr. Cris. So powerful
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Thank you Fr Chris 🙏
Jesus King of mercy Pray for Us And have mercy in allthe whole world Amen
I thank God for making me a paraplegic over 20 years ago to save my soul and the souls of others, whom I could have corrupted if I could still walk. Praise be to God!
God bless you TuanAnh.👆🛐🕯🙏❤
Prayers for you and God bless you
@@DivineMercy_Official 🙏 Thank you!
Wow! Such a powerful story, TuanAnh. God has truly touched your heart and, in the midst of tragedy, has brought about a greater good.
Wow. God bless you TuanAnh, may His joy be always in your heart - what a beautiful witness!
God's silence is deafening. Not that Im an atheist. But beginning to think, he's cruel
Loreto Publications sells a wonderful book on this topic entitled "Why Must I Suffer?"
We remember the one and a falf million Armenians who died in the Genocide. Now canonized saints!
Ty again! This was amazing. So appreciate this talk.
Thank you Father Chris.
This is a tough subject for me. I’ll need to watch this video over and over. I’m a nurse and deal with reviewing medical records for insurance company. The level of suffering that people endure: amputations, burns, deep decubitus ulcers, cancers, etc. It keeps me up at night…. I’ll keep praying! 🙏❤️🌹
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Foot prints in the sand!
I use this example to explain to people, who feel that God is not with them, and explain that at their worst point God was carrying them. Thank you and bless you Father Chris for helping us learn more about our religion and faith. I also like to think and talk about the mustard seed.
Hope is the anchor of the soul, don't ever lose it.
Thank you and God bless you for being such a good part of our Marian family!
Father, is it possible to do a talk about the importance of dad's living their Faith? Mom's are almost expected to be the teacher of the Faith. Dad's aren't. So when mom takes us to church, well, of course. But when dad lives his Faith , promotes going to Church, teaching devotions, etc.,it carries SO MUCH more weight. Dad is the head of the family, so if it's important to dad, there must be something to it. Dad's have no.idea.how.important.they.are. in the religious formation of their children!
Thank you Sharon. Yes I have done a couple homilies in depth on this subject when it comes to Ephesians 5 and wives being submissive to their husbands and husbands willing to serve and die for their wives.
God Bless you Fr.
There used to be a lady on my route who suffered from this same condition. Interestingly, she had the softest skin I have ever encountered!
Very good and reminding Words Fr. Chris , God Bless and more power to you and all the people who listen seriously to this explanations 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️🕊🕊🕊
Love your teachings, Father Chris! One insight about which you are likely unaware. According to Jesus’ teachings through Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, Adam and Eve did participate in the divine nature of God through the Gift of living in the Divine Will. Keep on teaching! You are very gifted in doing so! My family and I are praying for you and all of our priests. Thank you for all you do to advance God’s Kingdom! I am certain that Fr. Seraphim is smiling in Heaven. He spoke about Luisa and the Divine Will, with great love, at the Divine Mercy conference at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Monastery, Nova Scotia, Canada a few years ago. What a holy, wise, gentle soul! God bless you.
Fabulous video! Thank you...✝️✝️✝️❤️🙏🏻😃🕊
Thank youuu so much Fr for all Ive been hearing. Great and powerful speech ❤❤
Excellent video❤️
Thank you Fr Chris and team for providing these videos. God Bless from Australia 🙏🏼
And God bless our friends in Australia!
Wow! Another powerful sharing Fr. Chris. Thank you so much .. god bless u 🙏🏻
Thank you Fr Chris. This episode is one of the best I have ever heard explained. I so look forward to hearing from you. God bless you and your work. 🙏❤️
Thank you Mary and God bless you for taking the time to watch with us
Beautiful! 🌹🌹🌹🙏
Please pray for me. The bloodwork shows cancer , but the Drs cannot find where the cancer is located. St Luke help me!
Prayers for you 🙏
Praying for you, my friend. Praying for the doctors, that they find and cure this cancer. My Mom was just diagnosed with cancer, but thankfully it’s a small lesion and hasn’t spread. I hope you get some good news soon! 🙏🌹❤️
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Father, Alar, I want to tell you that when my mother went on her journey, I step back along the wall to give my sister her moment with her alone. I felt a presence in the room next to me as if I was being comforted. I did not feel that I was alone. I felt a presence of patience that was being given to my mother for to say her goodbyes to us. I went back to the bed for she was trying to get her hands out of the blanket to hug us both and I remove the blankets and received her undying love. My mother had Alzheimer's but in that moment she knew who we were her children. The presence stayed in the room standing back by the wall giving us our moment. I felt all this and still feel this exact feeling when I think about this time as if it is happen right now today. It was beautiful then and more beautiful today it always brings me comfort and I feel at peace. I later in my life and before that day had done and probably still do things that offend him but he is still present waiting on me. I can feel that, and I am trying to follow him and trying to please him and listen to what he is leading me to learn each day. He has that much faith in me and I am learning to have faith in him. God Bless the world that everyone will please look to him, our Queen Mother and God our Father in all that they want for us one day at a time. Just try and soon it will be a habit and then it will just be a way of life.
All glory to Jesus
God allowed suffering, but He is not responsible of it. Suffering is part of human being!
I just wish there was no suffering of infants, toddlers, and children from neglectful or abusive parents . Many souls go to hell because of coldness or cruelty from their parents, and they develop mental illness.
Thank you Liz but remember anybody who commits a sin because of mental illness would not have free will and thus would not be condemned for it. God bless
@@DivineMercy_Official thank you for that response.
Great reminder, Fr Chris! Sometimes I forget this important nugget.
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Just like. The absence of light is darkness
“How could a good God allow so much suffering”
Answer: because he IS… a good God!
Prayer for Inner Healing
Lord Jesus, You came to heal our wounded and troubled hearts. We beseech Thee; to heal the torments that causes anxiety in our hearts; we beg Thee, in a particular way, to heal all who are the cause of sin. We beseech Thee, to come into our lives and heal us of the psychological harms that struck us in our early years and from the injuries that they caused throughout our lives.
Lord Jesus, You know our burdens. We lay them all on your Good Shepherd’s Heart. We beseech Thee - by the merits of the great, open wound in Your heart - to heal the small wounds that are in ours. Heal the pain of our memories, so that nothing that has happened to us will cause us to remain in pain and anguish, filled with anxiety.
Heal, O Lord, all those wounds that have been the cause of all the evil that is rooted in our lives. We want to forgive all those who have offended us. Look to those inner sores that make us unable to forgive. You who came to forgive the afflicted of heart, please, heal our hearts.
Heal, O Lord Jesus, those intimate wounds that causes us physical illness. We offer our hearts to Thee. Accept them, O Lord, purify them and give us the sentiments of your Divine Heart. Help us to be meek and humble.
Heal us, O Lord, from the pain caused by the death of our loved ones, which is oppressing us. Grant us to regain peace and joy in the knowledge that You are the Resurrection and the Life. Make us authentic witnesses to Your Resurrection, Your victory over sin and death, Your living presence among us. Amen🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison!
Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison!
Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison!
White Castle logo on their building looks like the biretta hat of Catholicism.
Wonderful! Was this recorded recently?
Hi.
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Not all is free will especially children and animals abused in so many ways….I hope there wil be an explanation for this… hope we can resolve this answer
Father Chris can you please help me. What can I do ,,our priest before the mass he smoke even in public,I'm very sad,,to see him. After doing it,,the same hand touching the body of Christ ,can I make a letter to let him know our concern,,I'm so dismayed when ever I see them,both our priest ,thanks Father God bless ,thanks for your teachings,,May all priest know their mission to save souls,,,amen,,
I think the question could also be when can good things happen after suffering? I think this is such a tough and sensitive topic…..I understand our reward is in heaven, that’s the answer, I thought the world was ran by satan? If not please explain let’s have a topic on this and go deeper.
Big excuse for not struggling to bear the personal cross!!!
where is father alar? no new videos on explaining the faith?
Father please give a talk no Jesus as the bridegroom please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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does the psychological suffering counts?
Yes
Where would we find the night before teaching?
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Who sings this song?
Father Chris, do you have an email you can give us to reach out to you?
Yes, please send it to my assistant Peter at Peterjames@marian.org. God bless
Fr. Alar, God is a simple God. Please don't make it so difficult when it comes to forgiveness of sins or salvations.
Thank you, but it's not difficult. The Church's teaching that I gave has been this way for 2,000 years. God bless
everything is a test or a punishment [ our priest ] Lord suffered much much more...
How could God allow such evil? Nothing like putting God on the defendant's seat and exaulting ourselves...