

How do you face suffering with faith?
How do you maintain a friendship with God when life gets hard? What do you do when, in your mid-fifties and at the height of your career, you are diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable brain cancer? That’s the question that confronted Ann Garrido, our guest on, “The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.”…

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“I love "Give Us this Day ." I felt like Jesus and others praying along with me helped me through my struggles.”
“I really related to her saying that Jesus said, "I'm sorry, I didn't plan this for you." I had a similar experience when I was dealing with deep depression and anxiety and chronic health issues that started in my 20s. I missed out on so muc…”
“I hope Fr James' next book could maybe deal with this subject of maintaining faith/friendship/etc. with God while suffering so much. I know it's a well-worn subject and probably written about by many other theologians and Catholics and so o…”
“I hope that I can maintain this faith when my difficult diagnosis arrives. Very remarkable woman or perhaps better stated she is a very well spoken woman who can share her thoughts. Many people are living joyously through suffering.”
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