Our sisters of Fortaleza recently launched the new book, A Cruz em Paulo (The Cross in St. Paul), by Sr. Agda França, fsp, whose reflections can help readers rethink their experiences with suffering and find meaning in it. Understanding the role of suffering in one’s life is a real challenge for Christians today.
Sr. Agda offers us the Apostle Paul as a guide on this journey: he met Christ at a time of crisis in his life–a moment when he literally “fell to the ground”–and his subsequent mission was crossed and re-crossed with suffering. Inspired by Paul’s faith and wholehearted acceptance of the will of God, we too are encouraged to contemplate the cross of Love planted in our hearts in various ways through suffering.
The encounter was enriched by an enlightening conference on the part of the author who, besides reaching the people who attended the event, also spoke to the hearts of many others unable to be present thanks to Radio Dom Bosco, which transmitted the book launch and conference on one of its missionary programs.