What do I do with this? A Spirituality of Suffering

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1 What do I do with this? A Spirituality of Suffering October 30, 2014 David A. Lichter, D.Min. St Joan of Arc Catholic Church Saint Clair Shores, MI 48080

2 Introductory Remarks * Acknowledgements * Thank you * Assumptions

3 Approach to the Session Each of us faces the sufferings of life. * What do I make of it? * Where do I go with it? * Who s with me in this? * How I do I live with it? Spirituality Explore the mystery of suffering

4 Suffering What does the research indicate?

5 Suffering Clinical Descriptions of Suffering

6 Framing the Reflection * Three personal stories * Gnarled fingers * Go away giving * Sylvia

7 Spirituality It means what? Spirituality * 40 years * Prior Christian Literature * Eastern Religions

8 Framing the Reflection Spirituality * Spirit * Vision * Lifestyle * Experience

9 Framing the Reflection Cultivating - Double Dynamic Christian Spirituality is the cultivation of a lifestyle consistent with the presence of the Spirit of the Risen Christ within us and with our status as members of the body of Christ. (Richard O'Brien)

10 Spirituality Spirituality is a way human beings create meaning, something they are prone to do at times of existential reflection or of threatening crisis. They respond with the resources they have on hand, making sense if they can of events that seem arbitrary, hurtful, and meaningless. (James W. Green)

11 Spirituality The aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals: * Seek and express meaning and purpose and The way they experience their connectedness to: The moment * Self * Others * Nature * The significant or sacred Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: The Report of the Consensus Conference, JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, Volume 12, Number 10, 2009, ª Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: jpm

12 Prism of Meaning: Human Person Karl Rahner *Dependent This *Free Is *Subjective My *Transcendent Life

13 Prism for Meaning: Nature/Person Karl Rahner * Nature * Person * Passion

14 Touch Points of Suffering Human Experience Our Body * Why this undertow? * Why this human condition?

15 Touch Points of Human Suffering: Human Experience Our Psyche * Why these moods and meanderings?

16 Touch Points of Suffering: Human Experience Our Mind * Meaningful?

17 Touch Points of Suffering Human Experience Our Social Experience * Whom may I love absolutely? * Who loves me?

18 Touch Points of Suffering Human Experience Life's Drama * Is there an ultimate story within which my story fits?

19 Spiritual Distress Issues * Lack of meaning/ purpose * Hopelessness * Despair * Not being remembered * Guilt/shame * Lack of love, loneliness * Anger at God/Others * Abandonment by God/ Others * Feeling out of control * Spiritual suffering * Trust * Reconciliation * Grief/Loss * Gratitude (Puchalski 2002)

20 Reflection * Moment of quiet * Reflect on an experience of suffering? * How did it affect your vision/perspective on life/god? * What resources did you turn to?

21 Suffering Classical Approaches * Punishment * Plaintive * Pointless * Purposeful * Purification * Personal * Power Struggle * Participation

22 Suffering Classical Approaches Punishment What have I done? Whom did I offend?

23 Suffering Classical Approaches Plaintive *The plaintive cries of the people of Israel gave rise to the rich biblical tradition of the lament. Of all the categories of psalms within the Bible, the largest by far is the lament. (Ryan, 27)

24 Suffering Classical Approaches Pointless Beyond meaning Alienation

25 Suffering Classical Approaches Purposeful Atonement Ascribe reason Suffering Servant

26 Suffering Classical Approaches Purification Test of faithfulness Job Islam

27 Suffering Classical Approaches Personal Karmic consequences * Hinduism * Sikhism Aware of sources * Buddhism

28 Suffering Classical Approaches Power Struggle Cosmic battle Apocalyptic traditions

29 Suffering Classical Approaches Participation God passionately present Paschal Mystery -Redemptive Suffering Elie Wiesel, Night God present/ participating

30 Suffering Faith Perspectives: Catholic/Christian *

31 Reflection * Which reflects past experience? * How do you find yourself responding to these? * Which is missing?

32 Examining our being with others * Core Identity * Dependency/vulnerability * Freedom * Focus * Simplicity

33 Examining our being with others * Generosity/Hospitality * Resourcefulness * Count on Word * Contemplation * Hope

34 Final Reflections What gift to you has come through being with those in suffering?

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