The Meaning Hidden Behind Every Human Suffering: A Christian View Concerning the Mystery of the Cross

• Main Author: Maria Fagiolo
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press 2021-06-01
• Series: The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
• Subjects: suffering; pain; meaning; guilt; innocent; trial; penitence; redemption
• Online Access: http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/3883

The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate how each man could rise from a suffering circumstance, discovering in it an opportunity for inner conquest. This is the strong human potential as Homo Patiens. In this way it is possible to assert the opposite thesis concerning a deterministic view of human being. The main solution the paper offers in any given set of pain experience is Christian faith as the only way to discover the hidden meaning of suffering. The essay develops a Christian analysis about human pain and it takes in consideration, most of all, the reflections of Edith Stein and the Holy Pope st. John Paul II in view of deepening the saving philosophy proposed by the Mystery of the Cross.