Teach Me Your Suffering

The
best-selling author of The Catholic Guide to Depression delves into a
simple prayer that offers the paradoxical secret to happiness.

Christians who are undergoing great pain, whether physical
or mental, know to turn to God. In doing so, they typically ask that their
suffering be removed, or at least that it be explained. But that’s the wrong
approach, explains the renowned psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty. Instead, we should
ask Christ to teach us His suffering, where we encounter the depths of
His love and find liberation from our afflictions.

In this groundbreaking book of Christian spirituality,
Kheriaty takes readers into the heart of the simple prayer Doce me passionem
Tuam—“Teach me Your suffering.” Drawing from his own clinical experience,
the lives of the saints, and the insights of a modern mystic, he shows that by
shifting our focus from demanding answers for our pain to entering Christ’s own
agony, this prayer draws us into God’s love and offers authentic freedom.

Written for anyone who wishes not only to overcome suffering
but also to grow in his or her spiritual life, Teach Me Your Suffering’s
meditations on the Eucharist, the Holy Family, and Christ’s Passion will show
readers how and where God’s love is fully revealed—and how and where human
anguish finds meaning.