His Cross in Your Life

By Bertrand Weaver

Book Overview

Suffering is a fact of life for everyone. If severe suffering is a fact of life for you, then read this book--slowly and carefully. Its theme will be relevant until the end of time because until the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888992239
• ISBN13: 9781888992236
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Catholic Answers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Can be read and re-read in light of the Holy Spirit

I live with daily chronic pain from damaged nerves and this book taught me and reminds me that pain is a gift, a cross from the God who asks us to fill up with our suffering what He did not endure Himself. Based on sound Catholic theology, this book is a needed antidote to the silly philosophies of our day, those that teach that suffering is ignoble or purely a useless evil. One of the reviewers thinks Fr. Weaver lost momentum in the final chapters, but I think they are needed to keep focus on the One who suffered for us more than we can know on this side of the grave. Also, the chapter on Mary's suffering is really appropriate. She was fully human, a creature, not divine and human as Jesus was. But she is God's greatest creature. Why? She was almost hidden in Scripture and certainly laid no claim to earthly power or wealth. I think some of her greatness lay in her conformity of will to suffering. She was poor, she lost her Son for three days when He was only twelve; she lost her husband, St. Joseph, and so endured the mockery, torture and brutal death of her Son without the support of her husband, an eyewitness who had to will what God had ordained for Jesus from all eternity. Her chapter should maybe come at the beginning of the book, because she is a perfect model of grace under affliction. There is much to contemplate in this beautiful little book and it bears re-reading many times.

One of the best books I've ever read on suffering!

Fr. Weaver presents wonderful things to meditate on including: how to know if you are doing the will of God, what a spectacle it must been for the angelic hosts to gaze upon our Lord on the cross, how the Creator of the things of this world rejected the things of this world and many more. This is a must read!

Powerful message

His Cross in Your Life is a remarkable book. This book is about the role of suffering in our lives and how we should look to Jesus on the cross for hope and strength. I found the message of embracing our own cross and learning to suffer with Christ to be a powerful one; it is very relevant to today's world.

Reprinted for a Reason!

First printed in 1961, "His Cross in Your Life" is still as relevant today as it was back then. In his marvelous treatise, Father Bertrand Weaver relates the cross of Christ with nearly every part of life: times of sadness, times of joy, life expectancy, prayer, and even relationships. In nearly every chapter, Fr. Weaver finds an aspect of spirituality and/or humanity and then relates it to the cross. And, even though the pages dedicated to each chapter are few, they contain words that are loaded with information. By the end of the book, my understanding of the cross in many aspects of my own life was much greater; not just during suffering, but also during successes, failures, and the periods in between. To use Fr. Weaver's own example, Fr. Weaver's book is a mine with a wealth of information stashed within...the only work required to mine it is simply reading the book, which isn't much work given that it's easy to read, enjoyable, and only 112 pages long. And now, the downside. Starting in chapter 14, Fr. Weaver loses his momentum and spends more time describing the cross of Jesus and less time relating it the readers' crosses. This continues through chapters 15 and 16, with 17 being a very good chapter and 19 being a very good conclusion. However, in chapter 18 Fr. Weaver goes off topic and relates the cross to Mary's life. It's not a bad section, but it's out of place. I would rather have seen chapter 18 as an appendix. It's this loss of steam that keeps this book from being perfect. The prose, the logic, and the conclusions are all easy to follow, easy to read, and very wonderful. Like I said before: reprinted, and with good reason!

A beautiful book

A beautiful book for everyone, but especially if you are experiencing suffering right now. For you, this book is a retreat.