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This article discusses the relationship between melancholy and mystical longing from a religious perspective. The author comments on the works of Italian priest Romano Guardini, including "Apuntes para una autobiografía," in which he examines the Christian understanding of melancholy and suffering.

The book of Job is, undoubtedly, the literary work that has provoked more comments regarding the issue of suffering in human existence. However, the expressive richness with which men is described, and his relationship with evil, has not been delved in enough. This is why this research intends to reflect on the issue of human suffering in the book of Job, in accordance with the book's own vision, based on the classic Hebrew anthropology, and beginning with (1) some linguistic considerations regarding the description of the body in the expression of emotions in the Hebrew Bible; (2) a similar study on the book of Job and in part of its rich anthropological vocabulary in the description of the experiences of pain and suffering, especially according to the poem of chapter 3; and, lastly, (3) the scopes of the anthropological conception of the book of Job and its poetic expression in the entire book, with the objective of carefully establishing a bridge between the present and the past (Job and us), between the human figure of Job and out daily experience of suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the first book of Teresa de Cartagena, The Grove of the Infirm, which explores Teresa’s pain and loneliness through a number of dialectical techniques of self-knowledge, derived from the daily practices of sacramental confession. Moreover, these discursive processes improve her writing, relieving her sorrow and giving hope to those sufferers who are enduring similar pain. In this way she constructs a symbolic reality of peace based on the patriarchal tradition and, especially, on confessional techniques, a method destined to bestow harmony and self-knowledge on Catholic devotees. Therefore Teresa displays in her dialectical voice some dualities through these meditation strategies, whose nature is to confront the fear of sin through the virtue of faith, exploring her feelings and her self-consciousness. Henceforth she will expose herself to the reader in order to give an account of her pain and her achievements in introspection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the dawn of history, humans have tried to intuit its existence based on different worldviews. Depending on this worldview, they have interpreted the status as an inherent consequence of the existential principles adopted. The interpretation of suffering is not a topic unrelated to this reality. In relation to the development of a "theology of suffering", some has reacted and interpreted the action of God based on assumptions foreign to the Scriptures. This paper is a response to this problem. We propose, as a textual basis in search of biblical hermeneutic principles, the Pauline discourse of Romans 8. We will review the discursive use of the conjunction γάρ, which operates as a linguistic standard in the elucidation of theological content. From the conclusions drawn from discourse analysis, we will elaborate some theological proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A speech by Pope Benedict XVI is presented, delivered at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 15, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI reflects on the meaning of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and Christian suffering and offers words of encouragement for the Christian church in the Holy Land.

A prayer of Pope Benedict XVI is presented, spoken May 12, 2009, at the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) in Jerusalem, Israel, which addresses human suffering, faith in God and peace in the Middle East.