Fr. Sam and Matt take a leap from Romans 8 into an entire discussion on the interplay between prayer and suffering. They discuss amongst other things: the role of good health in a good spiritual life, the pastoral necessity of good physical health, how everything needs to seen through Pope St. John Paul II's lens of "self-gift", the importance of being physically present to others and, naturally, transhumanism.

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suffering, prayer, Christian faith, adoption, Romans, body and spirit, transhumanism, health, self-discipline, mortality, health, ministry, physical presence, austerity, bodily care, spirit and flesh, physical health, decision-making, vocation, self-gift, theology of the body