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The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Sacraments - Is That What Is Pleasing God?

Aquinas says it's the love of Christ who is willing to endure even that pain for our sake. So God doesn't will the pain as such. Pain is an evil. But the love in a way is manifested in a paradoxically strange way through the willingness to endure that kind of suffering for us. It sounds like at the very least it can be an awareness of God's presence and the nature of God's love.

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