As humans, we instinctively run from, not toward, suffering. But embracing the cross with Jesus enables us to accept our weaknesses, and to move beyond them into eternal life, as Randy Kraft — a seminarian at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania — shares with Inside CatholicPhilly.com.

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