suffering

virtues. virtue take practice and they can get better though life experience.
one way to grow in virtue is through suffering.
virtues are a good way of helping us to understand how suffering can help people to become better.
pope John Paul II wrote Salvifici Doloris to show that good things can come out of suffering
‘look to the revelation of divine.' → the only way that human beings can grasps the ‘why’ of suffering is to try and understand the depth of God’s love for human beings, which Jesus shows through his willingness to die on the cross.
if we try and bear our suffering patiently and offer it to God in prayer, God will be able to give us it to bring about good for others.
virtues can be seen as something that makes you stronger. For example, our instinct to keep ourselves safe has to be overcome in order to become more courageous.

suffering is a mystery and we shouldn’t question suffering or question why God sent it.
This is where their ambivalence come in. In the Ethics of the Fathers, it states ‘ It is not in our power to explain either the wellbeing of the wicked or the suffering of the righteous’