St. Paul Center Speaker Series
The Power and Purpose of Redemptive Suffering
Megan Hjelmstad | March 26, 2025
Register NowJoin us for the Spring 2025 St. Paul Center Speaker Series on March 26, featuring guest speaker Megan Hjelmstad!
Event Details
Try as we might to avoid suffering, it pursues us. But what if there was hidden value behind the pain? What if we could unlock incredible hope, purpose, and eternal mission in the midst of suffering? This talk reveals the true power of suffering with Christ, exploring practical ways to access greater peace, hope, and even joy–whatever we suffer.
Meet the Speaker
Megan Hjelmstad
Megan Hjelmstad is a wife, enthusiastic hockey mom, and Army Veteran living in Denver, CO. In her “spare” time she serves as a Catholic Writer, Speaker, and Mentor, helping women to embrace their God-given dignity and encounter the Lord more deeply in prayer. Megan is the author Offer it Up: Discovering the Power and Purpose of Suffering, a writer for SpiritualDirection.com, and a longtime team member of Blessed is She. Megan adores books, sleep, sunshine, and Colorado’s great outdoors almost as much as she adores Jesus in the Eucharist. Learn more at MeganHjelmstad.com.Featured Resources
What if the way to endure suffering is not to run from it, but to find deep healing through it?
In Offer It Up: Discovering the Power and Purpose of Redemptive Suffering, learn how God can repurpose your pain to become redemptive—benefitting not only your own soul, but others’ too.
Author Megan Hjelmstad draws from her experience with chronic illness to address the fear, grief, limitation, and needs that accompany suffering. Along the way, readers will be given practical tools to face any cross with purpose and peace.
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