Amazing Document!

[BarbTherese]

I read this document in one sitting last night and with it my whole life fell into instant perspective and I saw for the first time a path ahead. I have always, until last night's read anyway, experienced my path as unfdolding gradually as the days passed and I had lost any sort of need to make sense of it all.

It is an amazing document to my mind. And I had the experience as if The Holy Father was addressing me personally - I could not put it down and when I had finished it, I wished I was just starting it. It will be a 'bedside favourite' (a text to which I regularly refer). One of the things that I really appreciated is that TheHoly Father would at times use a theologically accurate word, then there would be a comma and what the word meant was explained. I found it an outstandingly simple document to understand, rich in insight, explaining very complex subjects and a difficulty that is probably common with us all - understanding the why's of suffering.
Coming across the theology of The Permissive Will of God years ago was an eye opener for me and a resting place of Peace at times - and Salvifici Doloris has been the icing on the cake, putting it mildly in the terms of my own experience reading this Apostolic Letter.

[url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris_en.html"]http://www.vatican.v...doloris_en.html[/url]

APOSTOLIC LETTER
[b][i]SALVIFICI DOLORIS[/i][/b]
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
[b]JOHN PAUL II[/b]

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Beautiful