Amy whispered that El Santuario emphasizes suffering and death as opposed to the resurrection, and it is true—a macabre Christ on the cross is marked with gaping wounds, and the Stations of the Cross are dark with violence in their depictions of Christ condemned. “Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered,” reads Hebrews 5:8. Believers, too, suffer, as 2 Corinthians 1:5 tells us that “for just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.” I never did become a Catholic, but in my illness I became hungry to understand
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