Suffering

by Hubert Van Zeller

142 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2002

About the author

Dom Hubert van Zeller lived a life of spiritual adventure and holy renunciation. He was born in Egypt when that nation was a British protectorate, and entered the Benedictine novitiate at age nineteen. His soul thirsted for an austere way of life; at one point he even left the Benedictines to enter a strict Carthusian monastery. However, he soon returned to the Benedictines. A talented sculptor as well as a writer, his artworks adorn churches in Britain and the United States. He was a friend of the great Catholic writers Msgr. Ronald Knox and Evelyn Waugh, and is the author of Holiness: A Guide for Beginners, Holiness for Housewives, and Spirit of Penance, Path to God.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was ok... a thesis on suffering from a Catholic perspective as this book states which is basically as our how we can make our sufferings relate to Christ's Passion. I can agree with about everything here but it was a little hard reading and probably could have been condensed a bit, yet it is short nevertheless. Written in 1961 it isn't in real modern everyday language yet not so scholarly that I couldn't understand it. The chapter titles about sum it up.