![]() ![]() For instance, without Adolf Hitler’s horrendous actions, we would not have had the courageous actions of Maximillian Kolby, a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at Auschwitz, or Edith Stein, a Jewish nursing assistant who worked in an infectious diseases hospital, converted to Catholicism and died in Auschwitz. Bishop Barron uses the example of God’s permitting evil actions in order to bring about a greater good. Maybe not immediately, but in God’s good time. Out of everything negative that happens to us, something positive comes out of it. It brings to my mind the phrase we sometimes hear, “out of adversity comes greatness”. He said that God permits this for a greater good. ![]() In a recent interview Bishop Robert Barron, prelate of the Catholic Church serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and founder of The Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, spoke in a recent YouTube interview about the pandemic. As Psalm 91 says so well, we have security under God’s protection. Our hope is in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and He will bring us through this timely horror. As Catholics and Christians we are instilled, by God, with that five letter word FAITH which gives us that four letter word HOPE. Schuller, noted evangelist and motivational speaker said, “Tough times never last, tough people do”, and we are a “tough people” thanks to our faith. He never leaves us in hard times to wallow in a sea of loneliness and despair. ![]() We and all of humanity are now facing this global catastrophe but there is always the good news that God never leaves us alone. We are now facing dramatically, severely and historically tough times with this Coronavirus pandemic. What we can find in searching Scripture are the many things God does tell us about suffering, pain and hard times. We’ve heard these words almost all our lives from well-meaning friends to fine people and many think that it came from Biblical Scripture, but nowhere in Scripture are these exact words found. Written by Deacon Jack Franchi, Anna Maria College’s Campus Deacon ![]()
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