Job – The Mystery of Suffering – December 5, 2026

Event Phone: 630-969-4141

Saturday, December 5, 2025 — 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

Location:  Carmelite Spiritual Center; 8419 Bailey Road; Darien, IL

Leaders:  Jack Moller and Fr. Bob Colaresi

A Program for ALL Men!

Why do bad things happen to good people!?!  An eternal question, especially when God is all-powerful.  Haven’t we all had times and experiences when God is all-powerful.  Haven’t we all had times and experiences when our world or significant part of our lives collapsed?  We’ve experienced disappointments, anger, depression, darkness, despair, hurt, grief, betrayal, denial, addictions, irritability, and abandonment.

The Book of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) addresses the issues of grief and lamentation.  It is a dramatic poem about the suffering of the innocent, grief and retribution.  Job suddenly loses his wealth, security, children, and health, and struggles with his friends over the meaning of pain in our lives.  “So why should I be happy about being born?”  he cries.

As good men trying to live good, healthy, holy and productive lives, Job has a lot to teach us.  Setbacks and suffering can shrink us if we stuff the inside as men often do.  The struggle can open us to trust the divine within and around us to strengthen and comfort us with peace through surrender.  Fr. Bob Colaresi and Jack Moller will lead us in a morning reflection on Job’s life and our lives, with Presentations, Reflection, Council, Prompts, Ritual, Snacks and Lamentation Prayer.

Please pre-register by December 1st.

Free will offering.