The purpose of life is not a secret destiny that God hides until we decipher the correct signs. Every human person is created for communion with God, while each Christian is entrusted with particular abilities, opportunities, responsibilities, and graces through which that universal calling takes a personal form.
The Catholic Church teaches that the Son is the eternal Word and perfect Image of the Father, equal to Him in divinity and never created. The language of divine self-knowledge can help explain this eternal generation, but only when it is carefully distinguished from creation, change, and temporal becoming.
Catholicism neither worships pain nor pretends that tragedy can be explained by a simple formula. It contemplates human suffering in the light of creation, the Fall, the Cross of Christ, the communion of saints, and the promised resurrection of the body.
Grace does not erase human nature or replace it with something foreign. It heals the wounds caused by sin, restores the proper order of the human person, and elevates us beyond our natural powers into a real participation in the life of God.