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Mark Levin
The Surprising Divide Within Jewish Community
"If you're not a faithful Jew if you don't really believe that and you just believe that it's an ethnicity then you fit in with the left -wing Democrat Party just as certain Catholics would or certain Protestants would or certain other people do and the reason is if you don't get real faith out of Judaism or real faith out of Catholicism or real faith out of Judaism then the faith you hold is the faith in government that in the Democrat Party and this is why Mises was talking everybody about talks like Marxists now you listen to the left whether they're Jews or otherwise they all sound like Marxists and so the secularization of the solely ethnic Jewish people as opposed to the Jewish people who are recognize themselves as both an ethnicity and a faith has led to a great divide within the which Jewish community is why you have a guy like Thomas Friedman over writing here in the United States in the New York Times trashing Netanyahu and his unity government over and over and over again for the right -wing extremist religious parties quote unquote you'll get that from the Democrat Party you'll get that from the American media you'll get that from the Biden administration these extremist religious Jews that's what they call them there's never an extremist Marxist whether they're Americans whatever their faith that no no no and here's the piece in Axios by Andrew Solynder little over a week ago scoop Jewish Democrats lead push for Gaza fuel shipments now why would Jewish Democrats be leading the fuel the
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Fresh update on "catholic" discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"The greater society reconfirms a belief that I have had for quite a number of years that very few religious people take their religion seriously. They think they do, but it doesn't shape their lives. It shapes their emotions, it shapes their faith, but it doesn't shape their lives. So here's a good example, another, because this is not by any means the first, Catholic Women's College will accept men who say they're women. St. Mary's in Indiana, and they're proud of themselves, it's quite remarkable. Do they have a scriptural or specifically Catholic basis to do this? No, but it doesn't matter. They don't answer to God, they don't answer to the Bible. They answer to public opinion. Public opinion in the education world is, there's no such thing as a man or a woman, you are what you say you are. There's no objective reality to male or female. We are by no means the first Catholic Women's College to adopt a policy with this scope. What does that mean with this scope? This is what the president of the, what is she, the president, yeah, right, Katie Conboy. In drafting the language for this update, I have relied on the guidance of the executive team and others to ensure that our message is not only in line with best practices for that it encompasses our commitment to operate as a Catholic Women's College, really. But that's, see, the first part of the message is really the message that what we're doing is in line with the best practices for today's college students. Even in the second part of the statement she doesn't say is in line with Catholic teaching. The announcement drew backlash from students, women's sports advocate Riley Gaines and others. This is the same St. Mary's that wouldn't allow a student-led TPUSA chapter because their messaging on biological sex, quote, does not align, unquote, with the college's mission. Gaines wrote on X, if I were an alum, I wouldn't give this school another dime. Riley Gaines is terrific. Claire Bertag, a junior at St. Mary's, told the Daily Signal she is concerned that women will be forced to share bathrooms and living quarters with men. Well, of course that will happen. It's already happened. The narcissist at Penn, Leah Thomas, walked naked in the women's locker room at Penn because he said he's a woman with his genitalia intact and in a saluting state. St. Mary's College is no longer Catholic, Bertag said. That's correct. It is no longer a women's institution. That is correct. This is fraudulent misrepresentation at best. Every student should be entitled to a refund for fraudulent misrepresentation. An attorney should file a class action lawsuit against the college. They have abandoned their faith and they've abandoned the women. That's correct. Earlier this year, two affiliated Catholic colleges in Minnesota, the College of St. Benedict for Women and St. John's University for Men, adopted a new policy allowing, quote, non-binary, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming individuals, yes, all three noted in scripture. Scripture is filled with references to the non-binary, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming. To enroll in a men's or a women's college based on the sex with which they identify. Okie doke. Wellesley College, of course, did that in 2017. One eight Prager 776, we move on upon return. I'm going to move on to something in Oakland, but first I want to take a call because this is so related to what I was speaking about. Matt in Chicago, hello. Hello, Dennis, how are you? Well thank you. Been listening to you for years and a big fan of PragerU. Thank you for both. Yeah, my youngest daughter was just accepted to St. Mary's in South Bend, Indiana about two weeks ago. And being a devout Catholic family, there's a reason why we wanted her to go to an all girls Catholic school. So go on. Well, I just heard your program. Oh, you didn't know about this. You didn't know about it until you heard it from me. Interesting. I just heard it from you, so we're very excited that she got accepted and she's currently online looking for possible roommates. I just heard you mention this and I didn't know if it was the same St. Mary's, but I'm assuming it is. It's the sister school of Notre Dame. And I got to tell you, I'm pretty floored because she could be... I don't blame you. I don't blame you. I'll tell you this. A roommate that's practically not her female. So I'm curious, are you debating whether she should go? I am. I'm going to make a couple of phone calls, but you know, and I got to tell you, we toured the campus, beautiful campus, you know, lovely people there. I was very impressed. Yeah. You know, even in the dorms, they have their own chapels in the dorms. And it's really seemed, from what I saw, conducive for not only studying, but for also maintaining your faith. Right. It shows you that the power... What's the point of an all-girls school if it's not all girls? Yes. That's right. Well, all it takes is a handful of parents to take their girls out or not allow them to begin to attend, which would be your... I'm not telling you to do this. I'm just saying if that happened, I don't believe that all of these people, all the trustees of this school really believe that it is in line with God's will with following Christ to have boys on girls teams at an all-girls school. I believe that they're weak. Weakness is the human condition. That is the norm. So they will bend just as college presidents bent when they wouldn't condemn Hamas. And then all of a sudden, alumni said, are you crazy? And then they said, oh, Hamas is evil. Hamas is terrorist. To be the head of a school in the United States of America in 98% of the cases, you must qualify as a weakling. Agreed. The truth is not hard to find if you're looking for it. Well, you know what? Yeah. So listen, call me. I'm very serious. I want to follow your case. So call me in a week and tell the screener I asked you to do so. You're the one with the daughter enrolling in St. Mary's in South Bend. Very curious to know what will happen. If religion doesn't give you courage, of what use is it? This is an honest, sincere question. Doesn't following God entail not following man? Who are they following when they do this? By the way, I would assume as well you don't have to be religious. If you're an atheist and just use reason, why would you allow men who say they're women to compete against women in women's sports? This is a rare instance where I don't even know why it's an advantage and I'm always arguing for God-based morality, but I'm not even sure that it's a big advantage here. Pure reason, independent of any faith in God or scripture, should suggest to a person who has the ability to use reason that it is wrong, that the entire purpose of women's sports is that men not compete against them, that the man says he's a woman is of no consequence. Zero. Nada. Isn't that just logic? You would think, obviously, that a religious school would be the first in this regard, to stand up for reason, not to mention their religion. How long is the montage from Oakland, Mr. McConnell? So can we squeeze it in before the break? Good. Okay. I want you to hear what happened in Oakland at the city council. They had a resolution condemning Hamas. Here are some of the speakers. There's not been beheadings of babies and raping. Israel murdered their own people on October 7th. Calling Hamas a terrorist organization is ridiculous, racist, and plays into genocidal propaganda that is flooding our media and that we should be doing everything possible to combat. I support the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, including through Hamas, the armed wing of the unified Palestinian resistance. As an Arab, asking with this context to condemn Hamas is very anti-Arab racist. The notion that this was a massacre of Jews is a fabricated narrative. Many of those killed on October 7th, including children, were killed by the IDF. An amendment condemning Hamas is bald propaganda meant to... Thank you. Your time is up. To hear them complain about Hamas violence is like listening to a wife beater complain when his wife finally stands up and fights back.
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LST10 The Complete Conversion Grace The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast - burst 1
"You bring that to the Lord. It's a victory in every single thing, isn't there? I mean, every straight, short, new, every moment you say yes to that. It's a victory and the victory is His. It's not even our victory, it's a victory of love. That's what she means by being a child. I can't do it. Here's this stairway up ahead of me. I'm just a little child. I'll get exhausted after two or three steps and have to give up. But there's an elevator and that's Jesus and His grace. All I have to do is turn to Him and all I have to do really, I mean, it's so, well, straight, short, and in this sense, new. It's new, not absolutely, but new in the sense that it's a re -presentation of the Gospel in a time where much of this had been lost. And in that sense, new in the sense that the Gospel is new. It's really just the essence of the Gospel. As John
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"Anything before 389? No. Top of the page. Do we not feel at this point that those beings whose ambiguous ecstasies had left us perplexed are all gathered around Alyosha? Is it not here that the great mystic current that runs through Dostoevsky's work receives its meaning? And then about two thirds down, the changing of the water into wine stands for the process by which the human being becomes divine. The transition from natural life to life according to the spirit. The ecstasy that followed in the garden was actually that. We do not know in what it consisted and neither Dostoevsky nor Alyosha himself could have described its substance. So once again, it's the new life, the new man, the ecstasy, which we can't describe, but it's a transformation. Middle page 390. The mysticism of the brothers Karamazov is the mysticism of the resurrection. It is eschatological and that's so important. It's not situated in the temporal powers in the here and now, even though we partake of it now, it is something that is of another world. And so we can all jump onto each other here because that was my next quote. The father read the mysticism of the brothers Karamazov is the mysticism of the resurrection. Then you Vivian continued. It is eschatological. And I actually highlighted also the third set that is out of the fourth gospel, but also that of the apocalypse. Again, this was just absolutely profound. I think the important thing here, I think what father said about the quote the previous page is that that which is inexplicable is not necessarily, it's not therefore unreal. And that's the point of the palace of glass, right? We can't explain something that it is therefore ipso facto and not a reality. No, on the contrary, there are things that happen, the most important things that happen, resurrection, not just in that mystery, resurrection in the soul, conversion. These are not things that can be explained in purely material terms. And to say that this therefore is not true is clearly nonsense. Yeah. It's the vanishing point off the page again, right? And this is what Christian hope, this is what Christian hope is about. Yeah. And the Lubbock has a characteristic of his writing that he often ends these chapters with something which really sums it up in a poetic way. He does it here, 391. First he quotes on the brothers Karmazov, Karmazov extend Kolya, is it true as religion says that we rise from the dead that we shall see each other again, all of us, you'll be sure we should rise again. We should see one another again, but we should joyfully recount all that has happened to us, replied Adasha, half laughing, half eager. Oh, how lovely that will be, said Kolya. And then to Lubbock, with his ingenious dialogue, this childish conversation, which is appended to Alyosha's ecstasy, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ends the brothers Karmazov, his last work completed in the year of his death. I mean, that really puts a- It's poetic because what he's really saying there is these are Dostoevsky's last words. This is Dostoevsky's final judgment upon life and his own work. Then that concludes the chapter. It's just a two page conclusion. I want to have someone read the first paragraph and the last, the last couple of sentences. Well, how about if I read the first paragraph and Vivian reads the last couple of sentences, then how about that? I like the first couple of sentences, three sentences of the conclusion, but I'll read the whole of that paragraph, which is, yeah, beautiful. Thus, all this body of work, this dreadful work, ends in a hymn of hope. The whole of it is a hymn of hope. That is its underlying meaning. Dostoevsky is the prophet of the other life. The truth he announces is not a discarnate truth, to use a word so often misused today. On the contrary, his realism is of the most vigorous type, but it bears no resemblance to a positivist truth. It is a truth that shocks. Yet, if it sets itself against any attempt on the part of man to establish eternal life in this world, its purpose is not to leave him weighed down by a miserable lot. It is to reclaim him from a path that leads nowhere. He is the prophet of unity, which presupposes a breach to be healed. The prophet of the resurrection, which presupposes the experience of death. That's so beautiful. Yeah. It is absolutely beautiful. He's such a beautiful writer, as well as a beautiful thinker. And what do you want me to read, Father? Nobody. At the bottom of 394, nobody had less indulgence for that impatience of limitations. To quote Stanislas Fumet, the only effect of which is to enslave us more harshly. But no one, perhaps, has given us so much hope that one day we may be free from them. So he's impatient with limitations. We don't like only limitations. We want to grow more. We want to be more. We want to have more wealth, more friends, and so on. We don't like to be limited, but that enslaves us. The only effect we wish is to enslave us because we can't get rid of our limitations in this life. But no one, perhaps, has given us so much hope that one day we will be free from them, but eschatologically. That's right. Good. I don't know what time we are, but I think it's time to quit. Well, we have a bit more time. And that's a climax. And I saw this is a postscript. It will be an anti-climax. But I wanted to ask a question. So after that brilliant first paragraph there, I just put three question marks in the margin. I just really want to pose the question to both of you because I don't know. Death, it has been said, is the only metaphysical experience. What on earth does Dlubac mean there? Well, it's only through death that we truly and completely pass out of this world. And so if you think about the mystical experiences of Dostoevsky's characters, including the epileptic fit, it's almost like a dress rehearsal for death. What the epileptic in that fit is experiencing is like an out-of-body, like you're dying. So I think Dostoevsky saw that, in fact, when you think about our own faith experience, our own faith journey, it's near-death experiences or coming up against the limits. If I go another step, I'm going to fall off this cliff or I'm rolling my car off of a road or I'm in a hospital dying or whatever it might be or childbirth, Saint Paul. Why does he say what he says about childbirth? It's a total surrender experience. Yeah, no, I actually agree with everything you just said, Vivian. But while you were speaking, I actually thought also, something which says that, is that death, of course, is the act of love, right? It's dying to ourselves. And there can be no metaphysical experience without that experience, right? So in that sense, we have to die to ourselves to have any metaphysical engagement at all. And I only thought about that while you were speaking. I just asked it because I didn't know the answer. The really key word in it all is surrender. When we die, that will be the ultimate act of surrender. And all through our life as Christians, we're invited to surrender over and over and over again, either through near-death experiences or missing the bullet by this, whatever. But when we die, that's going to be the ultimate. Now, drawing from that, Vivian, I think it's actually pretty simple. You can think physical and metaphysical. Physical means the physical world, right? That's all we experience. But death is the only metaphysical. That's the only point in which you actually really leave the physical. That's right. We can have intuitions of it. We have ecstasy and near-death. But that's a glimpse. That's right. Death is the passage from the physical to the after-post, higher than physical. That's right. And so our experience of limitations now, looked at in the light of Christian revelation, our experience of limitations is actually a gift. Because it's only when we're up against the limitation, whatever it might be, psychological or physical or whatever it might be, that we really are in that surrendering position vis-a-vis God. And this is why St. Paul can say, in weakness, God's strength is made manifest in me. Amen. The paradox, the great paradox. So we'll begin the next session with part four, mystical confrontations. Read the first chapter or so and have this question in mind. What is a section on mystical confrontations? What does it have to do with this book on Dostoevsky and the Gangesians? All right. Thanks, everybody. God bless you all.
The Mason Minute
After The Game (MM #4625)
"It was a rough weekend, went up to see my nephews play football in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Didn't tell them we were coming up, but surprised everybody and made the trip from Nashville. It didn't go their way. They lost. Wasn't one of the greatest games. But what amazed me was what happened after the game. They got beat something like 28 to 7, and their 7 points came in the last few minutes. But the one thing they were more upset about? They have a tradition of going out and praying after the game. And so the family and the fans come out and join them on the field and they pray. Well, they were the visiting team and they weren't allowed to do that. And the coach, while leaving the field, wasn't upset that they'd lost, wasn't upset that their season was over. He was upset that a school tradition wasn't allowed to happen because the Catholic school in Fort Wayne wouldn't allow them on the field. Now, of course, all their fans were on the field whooping and hollering because they were going to the state championship. But through all of that, all the coach cared about was that something that mattered to that family of coaches, players, and home families couldn't do what they'd done every single game of the year. He was upset about the game, but the family and the community much more important.
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"On 377? 377, yeah. So, hence the ambiguous nature of such states according to whether we just take them literally or see in them signs, that is to say, real symbols. This notion of ambiguity is one of the most important to bear in mind when interpreting Dostoevsky. It is not far removed from that of dualism. With this difference, however, that in dualism, as the name indicates, there are two clearly marked contrasting poles, whereas in ambiguity, the duality that already exists remains latent and not yet differentiated. I just want to quibble with that. I've got three question marks in the margin. If you look at, for instance, Saint Augustine's book on Christian doctrine, when he talks about signs, the purpose of signs is to point us towards the real and to allow us to talk about the real. It's a way of communicating the real to each other and to ourselves, first of all, and then to each other. So the reduction of the literal from the allegorical, shall we say, to either dualism, which is sort of schizophrenic, or ambiguity, which is sort of postmodern, both or either and make up your mind, I think is dangerous. I think that the purpose of words and the purpose of signs is to define and not to confuse, ultimately. And I think that's what Augustine says in Beethoven's Trina Christiana. But isn't this related to what you would call applicability, where something can be real and also a sign pointing beyond itself is something else, so that there's ambiguity or dualism there in the thing itself? I would say that a multiplicity of meanings is not dualism and nor is it relativism. In other words, if you look at a sunset and see both the physicality of it and also the beauty of God's presence and also the beauty in itself, you're not sort of dissolving meaning into disintegrating particles. As the postmoderns would say, what you're doing is giving a multifaceted dimension to the reality you're looking at, which comes from God. Yes, but if you look at the Lembas and the Lord of the Rings, it's real food, but it also points to the Eucharist. As you use an example, even within the literal meaning, the most powerful thing about Lembas is not the nourishing of the body, but the feeding of the will. So, even then, there's a power to Lembas, which is not purely nutritional in the physical sense, it's spiritual, and obviously, when it points beyond itself to the other life thread, there's not an ambiguity there, there's a deepening, that it's both, it's not either one or the other, or we don't really know, it's both, it's both Lembas and the Blessed Sacrament. That's one of the meanings of ambiguous, so maybe the word ambiguous is ambiguous, too. Well, I think it helps if we remember that this chapter is called The Experience of Eternity, and what Delupak, I think, is talking about is these experiences that people have where they're getting glimpses of eternity, perhaps. I mean, like, for example, when he uses epilepsy as an example for Dostoevsky's characters who are epileptic, and Dostoevsky himself, who was epileptic, these experiences seemed to open to something beyond, seemed to, and I use the word seemed to because there is a discernment that is needed to parse out, and sometimes we can't completely parse out what is a physical, I've got chemicals firing in my brain, literally, during an epileptic fit, these nervous synapses, whatever they're doing, there's something physical happening to the brain, and yet it's affecting the mind, which is not all physical, it's affecting the spirit, which is not physical, so there's room for ambiguity in that I think we need to be a better expression of these kinds of experiences, and I think that's kind of what Dostoevsky, I mean, Delupak is talking about, not is the Eucharist a sign and a symbol and also what it affects and all that, he's not talking about these kinds of things, I think he's more talking about, for lack of a better expression, mystical experience that human beings have. I agree, Vivian, that we have to distinguish between our subjective experience of something and the objective reality of a thing, but I do think the distinction is important, I mean, we mustn't lose the importance of that distinction. Give me one example, by the way, of what we're talking about here, going back to Tolkien, Tolkien says in his essay on fairy stories, nature is no doubt a life study and also a study for eternity for those so gifted. In other words, you can look at nature purely scientifically, purely materially, and that's good, but you can also look at it and see in it the presence of good, the presence of God, which is also good and perhaps better, and I don't think those things are, well, again, I think Father made a good point, there's more than one meaning to the word ambiguous and that's probably the problem, but you know, to me the word ambiguity is used so much in postmodernism, which we have to deal with all the time, that I'm always on the alert and on the defense against the use of the word. And then, you know, when de Lupac on 375, before your quote, you know, when he talks about, you know, the gate, this is in the bottom of the middle there, middle of the bottom, I don't know, you know, he, I'm assuming Dostoevsky, does not picture the spiritual world as a hidden substratum that, while of course impenetrable by the normal ordinary man, yields to the explorations of a being with better or different gifts, for him this spiritual world, this domain of eternity, is in a concrete sense the gospel, and the only way to enter it is by means referred to in the gospel metanoia or new birth. The gate of the kingdom is opened as well as guarded by the mystery of the cross. That's beautiful. Yeah, it is. Is that it for that section? Yes, which was titled dualisms and symbols. The next section is three, the new birth. Joseph? Well, I don't have any, well, I have something on 381, so it's going to be beat that. Well, on 380 in the middle there, the two scenes, because this is critical for the rest of this chapter, the two scenes, we now have to examine our purely Christian inspiration, and it's only in the light of these scenes that the passage is already analyzed to find their true exegesis and take on their opening image. He's saying that the two scenes, by which you must interpret everything else enough, are what? The first is Raskolnikov, and he wants, at the bottom of the page there, to read him a passage of the account of the raising of Lazarus, and then on page 381, that quote at the bottom there, then the miracle happened. But this is the beginning of another story, the story of progressive passion, one world to another. He came to know a new reality that is beyond his kin. So ends Crime and Punishment. So it's really a novel of redemption, Raskolnikov here. Yeah, I actually highlight, that's the passage of 381 I highlighted, and what I wrote at the bottom, again, coming back to Tolkien, as I invariably do, Eucatastrophe, because of course, right at the end there, Crime and Punishment is this sudden joyous turn, as you say, Father, of redemption. And it's just the beginning for Raskolnikov, right? This new birth. Right. Now he's going to have to walk away, right? You get reborn in order to do what? In order to live as the new man. Well, that doesn't just happen overnight. It takes now discipleship and purification. You have the crime, right? You have Raskolnikov's crime, the murder. You have the punishment, which is the rest of the novel, which bearing in mind the Eucatastrophic end is purgatorial, not infernal. And then you have what happens following the novel at the end of the novel. And I'm reminded here to Lewis now, the end of the last battle, right? This is the end of all the stories. But for them, it's the beginning of the real story. That's right. I found this interesting, page 382 in the middle. He, that is Dostoevsky, would not have written an analog to Tolsky's resurrection. A moral of that kind would have bored him. But actually something quite different was involved here. The discovery of a new reality, in quotes, the entry into a new world. That indeed interested him enormously. But that was untellable. So it's the point of intersection and the point of perspective again. What he's trying to get at, he can't tell. But he wants to point to it. It's the climax of the Paradiso, right? Where the greatest poet who ever lived, arguably, is lost for words, right? In the presence of the beatific vision. What can I now say? We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Fr. 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And when we're reading something in translation and we can't check the original because we are ignorant of the language, we do have to be able to trust authorities other than ourselves that this is a bona fide, good, reliable translation that doesn't tamper with the text for whatever ideological or other reasons. 384 new paragraph. The kingdom to which Raskolnikov gains access is a world of fellowship. In the name Raskolnikov, there is Rasko, which means schism, division. He's been cut off from his brother-men by his crime, and more especially by his pride in his theory, which led to that crime. So again, the new reality is communion, but it's not a communion of the order we're used to. It's something untenable beyond. I bet somewhere farther, I can't remember where, that that word there, that root word Raskolnikov is the same thing for Raskolnikov in English, has the same etymological root. I can't gain say that. And so, but pointed to this, that it takes this rebirth, conversion, and now this discipleship. So Dostoevsky, at the bottom of 384, he warns us that in themselves improvements, meaning these attempts to socially engineer society, right? These improvements can do nothing to solve the problem of man and of human fellowship. The most perfect of societies might be the most horrible of hells. You know, I'm just thinking now, for example, in China, where people are literally under 24-7 surveillance in order to keep them from doing wrong. And I mean, we're under 24 surveillance by the Holy Spirit. So we Christians ought to be, you know, more circumspect before we open our mouths or do something. Nevertheless, can you imagine this attempt to bring about perfect behavior on the part of citizens? What a hell this would be to know. Now, we here in this country could easily go in this direction. But what a hell this would be to be under the constant scrutiny of the members of your government bureaucracy. So would you rather be watched every moment of the day by our Lord Jesus Christ or by Big Brother? I mean, it's not a difficult choice, is it? Yeah.
The Mason Minute
After The Game (MM #4625)
"It was a rough weekend, went up to see my nephews play football in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Didn't tell them we were coming up, but surprised everybody and made the trip from Nashville. It didn't go their way. They lost. Wasn't one of the greatest games. But what amazed me was what happened after the game. They got beat something like 28 to 7, and their 7 points came in the last few minutes. But the one thing they were more upset about? They have a tradition of going out and praying after the game. And so the family and the fans come out and join them on the field and they pray. Well, they were the visiting team and they weren't allowed to do that. And the coach, while leaving the field, wasn't upset that they'd lost, wasn't upset that their season was over. He was upset that a school tradition wasn't allowed to happen because the Catholic school in Fort Wayne wouldn't allow them on the field. Now, of course, all their fans were on the field whooping and hollering because they were going to the state championship. But through all of that, all the coach cared about was that something that mattered to that family of coaches, players, and home families couldn't do what they'd done every single game of the year. He was upset about the game, but the family and the community much more important.
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"Chapter by chapter. Welcome to the Foreign Book Club. We discuss, I'll read you a good box, the drama of atheist humanism. Last session, we covered five pages. At this rate, it only takes 370 from 470, only 20 more weeks to do this. I think we will go further on though. Well, we are talking about a Russian novelist. Well, that's true. First of all, there's an erratum that Vivienne wants to correct. Yes, last time I said that Christianity came to Kiev in 899, it was actually 988. So yes. Right, it's basically at the turn of the millennium, you know, almost. So Joseph, we left on page 369, I think it was, quoting various things. That sounds about right, yes. Go ahead. Tell us where to go next. Well, if you want to fast forward, I had loads of things highlighted up until page 369, but I have nothing else until 377, so please leap in. Vivienne? Well, I love this next section, even though I don't have a lot underlined. The fact is, is that, yeah, I finally do, where de Lubac is dealing with this mystery of the person, you know, he says, in every man there's a mystery, on page 371. He echoes St. Paul, you know, I don't do the good I want to do, I do the bad I don't want to do, you know, in every man there is this struggle, and we sort of touched on that last time, and so it can look like a split personality that Dostoevsky has, but in fact, he's simply revealing all of the different traits within himself and within other people, and being actually painfully honest about the mess we really are, which is why he did not have any hope in progress in science and all these things, to fix man. Yeah, he was very much a weirdist in terms of his understanding of human anthropology. And that's like that, I think, is why his novels are so great, ultimately. And I absolutely love this metaphor on 374 about the vanishing point, you know, this trying to get a grip on the picture of the way things are, and in the, down toward the bottom, last of the first major paragraph on 374, the vanishing point is outside the picture, and yet strictly inherent in it, outside the field of psychology, and in the spirit. This idea of the vanishing point, if you've studied drawing, you know, you learn that everything in your picture, to have the proper perspective, all the lines are going toward a point, but that point is off the piece of paper. In fact, if you put it on the paper, let's say you put an X, your lines will be so tight it'll look obscene, what you've just drawn. The vanishing point actually has to be outside, and all the lines. So this image, I just, I thought, what a beautiful image, you know, we try to see ourselves, but the vantage point for looking at ourselves is off the paper. What gives you perspective is not in the picture. Yes, yes, there, thank you for putting it succinctly, what gives you perspective is not in the picture. I thought that was just a beautiful way of being humble about knowing ourselves. So then who does have the perspective? God has it. Joseph? You have something on 377? Yeah, if nobody has anything before that. I wanted to just question the paragraph, the only full paragraph on that page.
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After The Game (MM #4625)
"It was a rough weekend, went up to see my nephews play football in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Didn't tell them we were coming up, but surprised everybody and made the trip from Nashville. It didn't go their way. They lost. Wasn't one of the greatest games. But what amazed me was what happened after the game. They got beat something like 28 to 7, and their 7 points came in the last few minutes. But the one thing they were more upset about? They have a tradition of going out and praying after the game. And so the family and the fans come out and join them on the field and they pray. Well, they were the visiting team and they weren't allowed to do that. And the coach, while leaving the field, wasn't upset that they'd lost, wasn't upset that their season was over. He was upset that a school tradition wasn't allowed to happen because the Catholic school in Fort Wayne wouldn't allow them on the field. Now, of course, all their fans were on the field whooping and hollering because they were going to the state championship. But through all of that, all the coach cared about was that something that mattered to that family of coaches, players, and home families couldn't do what they'd done every single game of the year. He was upset about the game, but the family and the community much more important.
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Fresh update on "catholic" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Music playing yay it's my hero it's doggy rock star dr marty goldstein which forms magazine calls the miracle worker hello good morning miracle worker actually good afternoon i'm over here on the east coast oh i here's an ex -catholic girl confession i fed my great -parenties for years what i thought was a dog premium food i thought oh it's you know it hurt it was the best and i looked at the bag dr marty and said it meat meal is the first ingredient and i had no idea that that can be what how spoiled scraps supermarket stuff i mean to be who knows what that is right it's not real meat it is horrible stuff you know roadkill you know these stuff from these rendering incident uh... especially if you feel like a meat or chicken byproduct meal oh boy if you look at apco regulations which is the agency under the fda put down the regulations you know look at triggered byproduct meal online and apco and you won't see anything that looks like meat yeah and that late at the state here's the other love thing i about it i tried for a while that dog food the output in your freezer and you got to cut the bag open and it's like wet food and it is messy uh... yours i love it is pantry safe its shelf stable and again they just go crazy for the flavor of it yeah and it does but by please growing it we took out so much of the weight so you know getting it across the country with buried left expensive but when you take the water out you take out a major uh... fear of pathogen contamination because you need water for bacteria and organisms to grow if you go to doctor marty pets dot com slash miller you can or text miller to five eleven five eleven or if you want to shop in store how fun is that doctor marty i'm user store locator the big picture with edwin eisendrath saturday's at one p p m we don't know what the by the administration's time to ask americans about the economy they're clues she ask him what they've done foreign policy they're clueless why don't americans know what the president's doing i'm thinking
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After The Game (MM #4625)
"It was a rough weekend, went up to see my nephews play football in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Didn't tell them we were coming up, but surprised everybody and made the trip from Nashville. It didn't go their way. They lost. Wasn't one of the greatest games. But what amazed me was what happened after the game. They got beat something like 28 to 7, and their 7 points came in the last few minutes. But the one thing they were more upset about? They have a tradition of going out and praying after the game. And so the family and the fans come out and join them on the field and they pray. Well, they were the visiting team and they weren't allowed to do that. And the coach, while leaving the field, wasn't upset that they'd lost, wasn't upset that their season was over. He was upset that a school tradition wasn't allowed to happen because the Catholic school in Fort Wayne wouldn't allow them on the field. Now, of course, all their fans were on the field whooping and hollering because they were going to the state championship. But through all of that, all the coach cared about was that something that mattered to that family of coaches, players, and home families couldn't do what they'd done every single game of the year. He was upset about the game, but the family and the community much more important.
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Are you the lazy servant? Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff Discerning Hearts - burst 1
"Blocked him that he buried the talent? It was the fear. He said, and then our Lord comes back. He is a compassionate God. But he said, if it was fear that drove you to that, he doesn't take that as an excuse for not loving. And so today, I really believe, I believe what I think, I think that's really true, what you say. But I also believe that what really needs to be awakened is those who are in charge of the teaching, what the talents really are. I think what we fail to communicate is that the five talents are really love. The two talents are really love. Even the one talent is
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FJ2 Navigating Life, Death, and Ethical Dilemmas The Final Journey with Dr. Stephen Doran M.D. Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 2
"Simply the cessation of bodily function. I mean, that's maybe the sterile clinical definition of death. And from a practical perspective, it's when your heart stops beating and you stop breathing and your brain stops working and you're dead. That's the clinical definition of death. We believe as Catholics that we're an integrated body and soul, and that's how we are created. When we come into existence, we have this integrated body and soul. And so death is more than just the cessation of bodily function. Death is the separation of the soul from the body, which is this very unnatural state. That's not how we were created, and that's why death is so
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FJ1 Embarking on the Journey The Final Journey with Dr. Stephen Doran M.D. Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 1
"And they're confronted with a situation where their life will never be the same and their life may end. I mean, there's different areas of medicine have their own challenges, but there's a few neurosurgery being one of them where that's just what you do. And the problem is you don't wanna turn it into, well, I just do this, that's part of my daily routine, confronting death or disability and become cavalier about it. And I think that's the particular challenge, but also the particular thing I like about it especially is that the opportunity to be present with people at a very important time in their life, I mean, especially during death, a very holy time in their life, that's a really privileged place to be and I never ever wanna take that lightly and recognize that as hard as it can be, it's also a blessing and a privilege to be present with people during that
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Day 9 St. Gertrude the Great Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 1
"Day 9 For the grace of humility, on this final day of this novena, we turn our hearts to Saint Gertrude's profound example of holy poverty. Her life, rich in virtue and devotion, continues to be a beacon that leads us to the true riches found in Christ. In the glory of heaven, she now stands before God offering her prayers on our behalf. Let us humbly ask for the grace of humility so that we, too, may embrace the spiritual poverty that opens us to God's infinite grace. And with trusting hearts, we ask Saint Gertrude to intercede for the personal intention we've carried through this novena.
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A highlight from LST9 The Passion of St. Therese The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Discerning Hearts Podcast
"The asserting hearts .com in cooperation with the oblates of the Virgin Mary presents the letters of St. Therese of the suit with Father Timothy Gallagher Father Gallagher is a member of the oblates of the Virgin Mary a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola He is featured on several series found on the eternal word television network He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri founder of the oblates of the Virgin Mary as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life The letters of St. Therese of the suit with Father Timothy Gallagher, I'm your host Chris McGregor So this is May 9th of her final year she dies September 30th The symptoms are not yet at their worst. It's tuberculosis. It was tuberculosis that would take her life We've mentioned earlier from a very early age Therese, she had bronchitis every winter and she had whooping cough very often For several years the sisters had already noticed that her voice would get hoarse in the morning and in the evening Her cousin Marie who was the daughter of the pharmacist and whose letters are very helpful because she has a bit of the Doctor's eye and she describes more clearly than any of the others the symptoms Therese is undergoing as she's writing to family members and others They were worried. They could see that something was not right and a year earlier on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. She has that coughing up of blood Which almost incredibly was not taken as seriously as it should have been Now Therese herself to be fair in all of this Therese herself is in part if we can say this of a saint to blame because She minimized the symptoms she hid them as long as she could in fact when she had that bleeding She never said anything to her sister Pauline who only found out much later because she didn't want them worrying about herself and She struggled to keep up with the discipline and the the daily or Arrium and so forth of the monastery Carry out her tasks even at times just even to walk up the steps. She would almost have to stop at each step She would go through the day with fever and chills all of this has been going on but The symptoms will get to their worst in August where she has a month of excruciating pain But the tuberculosis is progressive and what it's doing is it's eating up the lungs and it's progressively getting harder and harder for her to breathe So a book by this Bishop whom I mentioned as perhaps the primary scholar of Therese He's not a dry academic he loves her and he writes well about her and with great knowledge This book is entitled the passion of Therese of this year, and it's by Bishop Guy Gaucher G -a -u -c -h -e -r And in one chapter in this book, he describes the symptoms that Therese undergoes with the tuberculosis So he entitles this section here from Therese words. I didn't expect to suffer like this. Oh Some of the remedies that were done and Therese bore them She knew they were going to be useless She's like her mother in this. Zelie never had much faith in the remedies The doctors would offer. Of course medicine was not at its present level at that time I'll only mention one of them which is just kind of hard for us to imagine It was called pointe de feu points of fire and what would happen was they thought to increase circulation to help the body a Needle would be heated to where it was red -hot and it would be applied to the skin of the person and Therese had this done several times up to 500 applications of these needles like this Now you can imagine the condition in which she would return to her her room or her infirmary the infirmary She bore all of these things, you know gives a whole new meaning to her expression about thousand little pinpricks. Oh My goodness, is that a possibility of something that I mean in that experience, I mean it gives it a whole new dimension, doesn't it? Well, it's really hard for us to imagine You know the kinds of things that end and diet foods that were just very difficult for her to eat and so forth You know it was and some other things I won't get into all the details But part of her martyrdom is really the only word for it Was the medical attention such as it was that she was given because she was also left without medical help At times when she desperately needed it and also morphine was available to sedate pain But the superior never allowed it now to be fair to the superior when she later herself She died of cancer a very painful death. She would not use it herself It was just considered something that nuns would not use, you know So it was not as though she was simply being cruel to Torres and although in effect it meant that Torres bore excruciating pain with no mitigation at all in these last months of her life But it was not necessarily out of bad will There were also other things involved There was a doctor who was the regular doctor for the Carmel and who was a friend of the superior and good man One of his sons was a priest But when he was away at times a family doctor that this actually was the husband that her cousin Jean married Could have come and helped but the superior just really didn't didn't want that So especially during that month of August when she went through the worst of her pain She had no medical attention during that time. Can I ask you this? I mean What would those sisters going through her blood sister is going through watching this? With this superior that didn't seem to be responsive. I It was terrible. In fact Surreptitiously on a few occasions they mixed a little morphine into drinks and things they did the best they could To try to help her in that situation. This was Torres of the child Jesus and of the holy face very much It's her passion. That's the title of this book that we're quoting So I'm just going to list the symptoms now these symptoms as I'm as I'm saying We're not yet at this stage in May when the letter that we're reading was written But they indicate throughout this time to res continued to respond to letters there was a seminarian Maurice Belair and The very nice book has been written on this by Bishop Patrick Ahern. That's Maurice resin Maurice the story of a love a seminarian who was really struggling Wrote to the Carmel asked if a sister could pray for him the prioress asked her as to do this So in this last year and a half or so of her life You have this handful of letters that he writes And then her response. It's always the same he respites rights discouraged by his failures He writes back to encourage him. God is calling you to be a saint. I know it you can do it But especially for this I'll just quote this one instance because his need was so great in the midst of these kinds of pains And with a trembling hand with the pencil Torres would write sometimes even lengthy responses to these people So that's when you read them on a page. It looks like they're nice Sedate letters that that was not the case All right to describe the symptoms of the tuberculosis So the bishop says fever and profuse sweating for six months So that does include this may that we're looking at Torres suffered from a fever which fluctuated Sometimes her back was burning like fire Sometimes she was perspiring so much. She became dehydrated Digestive troubles Torres suffered frequently from nausea often losing her meals even before she became bedridden The doctor prescribed milk for her. She had never liked it. She could not digest it She continued to take it forced it down knowing what would happen Respiratory troubles as the tuberculosis spread through the lungs Torres suffered pains first in her right shoulder and arms then in her left side the continual cough emaciation Strikingly when you look at the photos of Torres and this is typical from what I've read about this her face looks unchanged Her face looks healthy and all the photos that you see and in fact This was one reason why many of the sisters didn't really believe she was very ill to look at her She seemed fine So she didn't get a lot of sympathy from many in the Carmel as as she went through this But underneath the habit she was becoming a skeleton Normally the face of a person suffering from tuberculosis takes on certain characteristics, but Torres face remained almost the same Her voluminous Carmelite habit hid her thin thinness and her face was full Only her thin hands betrayed her That's all you could see through the habit and gave the lie to the healthy look and the emaciation itself caused various afflictions weakness powerlessness and distress People suffering from tuberculosis like this obviously would have deep emotional discouragement and depression and pain They did the prodigious remedies customary at the time but ridiculous today do anything to alleviate all this suffering Basically the answer to that is no that they really didn't do much Right, that's and of course add to this that Torres is in the heart of the spiritual darkness at this point Which is centered on? This sense powerful in her that heaven is not real that when we die everything is over and She is making more acts of faith as she'll say than ever in her life at this point She writes these lovely poems about eternal life the sisters comment on it and she says I am writing about what I wish to believe So she is this is a martyrdom, you know This is a passion that Torres is going through and that's the context of this letter that she's writing So this is the second Person this case already ordained a priest that she was asked to accompany spiritually and it was a father Adolph Rulong Who was destined for the missions in China where he actually spent 13 years? He stopped by the Carmel at one point can't say that he and Torres actually saw each other because the grill was in between Although they tried to work it so that Torres was the last one.
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Day 8 St. Gertrude the Great Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Gertrude the Great Day 8 For the grace of greater devotion to the Sacred Heart St. Gertrude had a great devotion to her beloved patron, St. John the Evangelist. With aid of his gospel and the action of the Holy Spirit, she deeply perceived the unceasing love of Jesus Christ for us, particularly his Sacred Heart, which is an enduring symbol of his divine love and mercy. St. Gertrude's insights laid the groundwork for the devotion that St. Margaret Mary Alicott would later be known for. In the spirit of St. Gertrude, may we present our heartfelt intentions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embracing his unfailing love. May she also intercede in the intention we bring to the novena. We now join with St. Gertrude the Great with the prayer she composed for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most precious blood of Thy divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. St. Gertrude the Great pray for us.
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Day 8 St. Gertrude the Great Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 1
"Day 8 For the grace of greater devotion to the Sacred Heart St. Gertrude had a great devotion to her beloved patron, St. John the Evangelist. With aid of his gospel and the action of the Holy Spirit, she deeply perceived the unceasing love of Jesus Christ for us, particularly his Sacred Heart, which is an enduring symbol of his divine love and mercy. St. Gertrude's insights laid the groundwork for the devotion that St. Margaret Mary Alicott would later be known for. In the spirit of St. Gertrude, may we present our heartfelt intentions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embracing his unfailing love. May she also intercede in the intention we bring to the novena.
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A highlight from Glass Half Empty & Half Full - The Perspicuity of Scripture
"Do you struggle with understanding the scriptures? Do you frequently hit roadblocks in your Bible reading? Do you struggle from even having a basic sense of satisfaction in your scripture reading? in your scripture reading? Sana, sana, colita, derana. If you're a Spanish speaker here today, you would know what I just said. Sana, sana, colita, derana. Lalo, could you translate those words as literal as possible for me in English? Yeah, as literal as possible in English. Or he'll heal frog bottom, is that another one? Yeah, he'll heal frog bottom. Now, if you weren't a Spanish speaker, you wouldn't know that what I just said is objectively clear in context. He'll heal frog bottom, literally translated in English, means nothing to a person who doesn't know Spanish. Even if they could translate Spanish to English. So, in reality, this is a phrase that we would often, or Spanish speakers would often tell children when they've, say, fallen on the floor and gotten injured, right? It's almost like as if it's a call to courage, like, you'll be okay. Another example in the English language is a stitch in time saves nine. I don't know if you guys have ever heard that. Have you guys ever heard that, a stitch in time saves nine? Okay, so no one before the 1980s, or sorry, no one after the 1980s. A stitch in time saves nine is an expression that basically means if I don't fix this stitch right now, the nine ones later are gonna fall apart, right? So, it's really a call to prudence and saying, well, I need to do this right now so that things don't get worse down the line. What I said in Spanish earlier, once again, is utterly and objectively clear. Utterly and objectively clear. It's a phrase with a particular meaning, and yet, as I said before, only a native Spanish speaker would understand. To everyone else, what I said was absolutely obscure. we're So, several weeks now into our doctrine of the Scriptures in our confession, and having recently just covered the sufficiency of Scripture, we now arrive at the question of perspicuity, perspicuity, perspicuity. We can say everything we want about the sufficiency of the Scriptures, the sufficiency of Scripture for faith and godliness, but if Scriptures don't have what we will go into later as perspicuity or a degree of transparency or clarity, we couldn't access its sacred truth. Or we would at least need to depend upon someone else to access its sacred truth, and that'll come a bit later. If you do have a copy of the Confession of Faith, feel free to turn there, and that will be in chapter one, paragraph seven. Chapter one, paragraph seven. But if you don't, just feel free to follow along as I read. All things in the Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all. Yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or another that not only the learned, but the unlearned in a due use of ordinary means may attain to a sufficient understanding of them. Now this doctrine here in our Confession deals with how clear the Scriptures are to the people of God. And that whole doctrine is called perspicuity. If you are paying close attention to this paragraph, and as I mentioned, this whole doctrine, not just part of it, but the whole, has to do with perspicuity, then you would realize that perspicuity or transparency or clarity takes into account two things. One, clarity, and two, obscurity. One, clarity, and two, obscurity. So if you've never heard of the word obscure or obscurity, it just means less clear or not as clear. So just as if you have a glass that's half filled with water, half it's simultaneously filled and half empty. So that old adage, are you a glass half full or half empty person? You can just go down the drain, right? A glass halfway filled is both half filled and half empty. Likewise, with the Scriptures and the clarity of the Scriptures, insofar as parts of it are extremely clear and parts of it are not as clear, the perspicuity of the Scriptures actually encompasses two things. Both clarity and obscurity. Very clear and also some parts not as clear. I have a few observations from our tradition, from Peter van Maastricht, I can never pronounce his name correctly, van Maastricht, Francis Turretin, and William Whittaker. But before I get there, just know that this doctrine of perspicuity is a major battle in the Reformation. 16th century Rome so emphasized the obscurity or lack of ease of understanding of the Scriptures that they argue that if you don't have the pope and the magisterium, you can't interpret the Scriptures because if you did, you're not skilled enough to do so and you would most likely fall into various forms of heresy. Now, understand that there is a sense in which that is not false. It is very easy for people who just pick up the Bible on their own and refuse any kind of accountability to a church or Christian doctrine or any kind of wisdom from the past to easily err on the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of Christ. It's so easy to do that. And I'm sure many of you may not have been previously accountable to a confession of faith before or a creed, and how often may you have discovered later on, oh, I said this in a certain way about God that was very wrong. It's very easy to do that. Okay, so let's come back to van Maastricht, Turretin, and Whittaker. Whittaker says this, perspicuity or obscurity, notice Whittaker didn't just assume that perspicuity is the same as clarity. He also thought of it in terms of hard to understand, obscurity. Perspicuity or obscurity is either internal or external. By internal, Whittaker means the heart of the interpreter. By external, he means the objective clarity of the scriptures. So if we go back to sana sana colita derana, right, sana sana colita derana is objectively clear. It's an objectively clear expression which calls someone to courage after having encountered a mini tragedy. But it may not be clear to everyone interpreting that because they may not know Spanish, or even if they knew how to translate words of Spanish to English, they still may not know how that particular idiom or expression or saying translates in English. More would have to be taught to them in order for them to understand that. So, in the same sense, the scriptures, the clarity of the scriptures are objectively and externally clear. But at the same time, it requires work and effort on the part of the one interpreting the scriptures to be able to assent or come to that clarity. What's very interesting is that this chapter in our confession doesn't even talk about the obscurity of the scriptures to non -believers. A small aside, it's very easy for us to communicate the gospel one time to a non -believer, send them off with a Bible and expect them to just read things on their own. In reality, we really should be thinking about evangelism more so in the context of the local church, bringing them to church to hear the ministry of the word of God in the presence of Christ. Why? Turton quotes 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3. He says this. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing whose minds the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. The scriptures were not meant to be clear to those who are perishing or even those necessarily yet who will be saved one day. It is nothing short of the ministry of the Holy Spirit that is a requirement for someone to receive the message of the gospel, commit it to their souls, and assent or believe outwardly the doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ. He goes as far as to say that ordinarily the ministry of the church, sermons, and commentaries are necessary. And despite all of this, he still wants the Christian to have the comfort of reading the scriptures. The Reformers understood just like with Roman Catholicism does. That there are difficulties in the scriptures, yet they came to a different conclusion. The conclusion that they came to was though there are difficulties and though a Christian should be interpreting the scriptures in the context of the local church, not to be expectant that the minister teaches them how to interpret the Bible in the sermon and they're supposed to do everything on their own afterwards. This is a conjoined effort. The doctrine or the expectations of interpreting the scriptures to our souls is very much a joint effort. You have the responsibility of hearing the word of Christ from the minister of the gospel to interpret and apply it to your conscience. He has the responsibility of aiding you and lifting you on Jacob's ladder. Our confession points to various scripture passages on this point. I'll just read to you two examples. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple and also the entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. Meaning, the scriptures have in themselves a light to be given to the Christian. We are expected to come to the scriptures as if they are a light to us, a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path. I've stated this before and I will state it once again. It is entirely possible for something to be written with sufficient clarity and yet, because the reader may lack the ability, he may not be able to fully understand it. And likewise, when speaking of the clarity of the scriptures, not everything is as equally clear. Not everything is as equally clear. I hope you're seeing where this lesson is going. Partly, it's a call to encouragement to receive the basic truths of the Christian faith from the scriptures with a willing and submissive attitude. But on the other part, it's a call to humility and to have very reasonable expectations of what you can accomplish apart from your local church. That is where things get very interesting for us. Roman Catholics have often, at least in the past, accused the Protestants on their doctrine of perspicuity, trying to portray the Protestants as those who believe that every part of the scriptures is so easy to understand that even a farmer can read every single part and understand it as in the same way that a trained and spiritual theologian can. This is not the view of the Reformers. It is not the view of the Reformers that without the ordinary means, which was referred to in our confession, that one may easily attain to the highest of the heights of the mysteries of sacred scripture. That is not the belief of the Reformers. For that matter, even our scriptures have something to say about that. Our confession alludes, let me go back a little bit, to 2 Peter 3 .16. Feel free to turn there if you like. 2 Peter 3 .16. I'm going to read from verse 14. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless. And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction as they do the rest of the scriptures. Some things in Paul are hard to understand for Peter. Now, this would be very interesting if Peter was, in fact, the first pope, and had very difficulty understanding the apostle Paul, and would proclaim the ability to be the vicar of Christ to the church, and to not have the ability to understand parts of Paul would be very problematic, to say the least. That being said, we cannot escape the reality that some parts of the scripture are hard to understand for people by design. By design. And we will get to that, as to why I say by design, in a little bit. Whitaker emphasizes a very balanced approach to understanding the degree to which we can understand the scriptures. He says this, the unlearned can have some fruit and utility in reading the scriptures. At the same time, he'll say this, not even one jot or tittle is clear without the internal light of the Holy Spirit. And in the interest of humility, he closes with this. A man must be impudent, who would say that he understood even any one book thoroughly, and the same hath ever been said of the opinion of all of us. Do you understand what he's saying there? It would be the height of arrogance for Whitaker for someone to say, I even fully understand one book of the Bible. The height of arrogance. And despite that, despite that strong language, Turton and Whitaker often appeal to the church fathers about the ways in which scripture can be understood, the scope of their understanding. I'll read this quote from Francis Turton. The fathers frequently acknowledge it, although they do not deny that the scriptures have their depths, which ought to excite the studious believers. Chrysostom says the scriptures are so proportioned that even the most ignorant can understand them if only they read them studiously. All necessary things are plain and straight and clear. Augustine says, in the clear declarations, the scriptures are to be found, all things pertaining to faith and practice. Irenaeus says the prophetic and evangelical scriptures are plain and unambiguous. Gregory, a pope, says the scriptures have in public nourishment for children as they serve in secret to strike the loftiest minds with wonder. Indeed, they are like a full and deep river in which the lamb may walk and the elephant may swim. I just find that fascinating. How Rome can simultaneously confess full continuity with the church fathers and not say that, at least in the essentials of the Christian faith, that a lay Christian cannot read and understand the script, I just find that so difficult to just wrestle with. Like, how can you say that you have a sense of continuity with the church fathers when the church fathers themselves say that, at least in the elemental and primary doctrines of the Christian faith, they are clearly propounded in the scriptures? You know what's interesting? The major debater in the Roman Catholic world during the Reformation was Cardinal Bellarmine. You've probably heard his name in the past, maybe even last week.
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A highlight from Who Are the Wise Virgins? Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff Discerning Hearts Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What's on your heart today, Monsignor? Today I was thinking very much about the end of the Church here, and God is going to present through the Church the final judgment, the end times. What does that mean? You know, in the epistle Paul, he wants to know, he wants to give them comfort as he teaches the Christians. What is going to happen on Judgment Day, on the final thing, not only for those here on earth who are going to remain, but for all those who came before, and all those who have died, that Jesus has come for the salvation of all mankind. But today, I really believe the Gospel was very much meant, yes, it is for the judgment of all mankind, but I would really think that today it was meant especially for leaders in the Church, for Charismatics, for those who are called to be leaders in the Church, especially for religious. And it addresses them in this way with regard to the final judgment. It's a magnificent teaching in the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel. This is before the teaching of the last judgment by Jesus in saying, I was hungry and he gave me to eat, I was thirsty and he gave me to drink, I was naked and sick and in prison. When did we do this for you, Lord? Whenever you did it to the least of these, you did it for me, emphasizing charity. But here he is talking about our relationship with God, which is much more important than what we do. And in the 25th chapter, in the first 13 verses, Jesus told his disciples this parable, The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when they were taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom is here, come out to meet him. So all of us in all of mankind are being awakened, and this is the time when it is time to meet the Lord at the end of time. Then those virgins got up, trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the wise ones replied, No, for there may not be enough for us and for you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves. While they went out to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in to the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, Lord, Lord, open the door for us. But he said in reply, this is very important words for each one of us to hear today, Amen. Then I say to you, I do not know you. Therefore stay awake, for you know not the day nor the hour. What is this about? Is this kind of a lack of charity on the part of this storytelling of the five whys? Why couldn't they have given their oil to the other five? Because it is the relationship with the bridegroom. What did the five have? What was the oil in the lamp? They had the relationship with the bridegroom. They knew the bridegroom and the bridegroom knew them. What about the five foolish? They didn't know him. The key to this is Matthew's same Gospel in the seventh chapter, beginning with the 21st verse. Not who everyone says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. The same words that they were saying, Lord, Lord, open the door, unlock it. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom. But only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, this is so important, Lord, did we not do great miracles in your name? Did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do great and mighty deeds in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly, I never knew you. Depart from me, you evil doers. It's not what we do. It's the relationship with the bridegroom.
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A highlight from Episode 72: A Catholic and Protestant talk about Purgatory and Indulgences
"Hey, welcome back to Let's Talk About It with Jackie and Megan. We like to talk about things that are messy, awkward, hard, or controversial, and create a space for healing. Hey guys, welcome back to Let's Talk About It with Jackie and Megan. Today we are doing another Protestant verse Catholic episode and we're going to be talking about purgatory and indulgences. Yeah, and before we start, we want to clarify that we will be talking about like the official doctrine because obviously like there could be a whole other topic like the history of abuses in this, especially in like the medieval era, but I think in order to have a good faith discussion, we have to actually go to like what is the actual doctrine, what is the official belief and custom, not ways it's been misused or abused. If you want to talk about a church history of like, oh different, like how this has like shifted and changed, like that would be like a whole other conversation. So we will just be talking about the actual doctrine and belief of purgatory Protestant Catholic perspectives, but going from what the Catholic position actually is, not what it maybe looked like at different points in history. Or how it was like being practiced in the church, which obviously we no longer, it is wrong and always has been wrong to sell indulgences. And I think there's been a lot of like yeah misunderstanding of what purgatory is, what it means, and then in turn what indulgences actually do. So we will get into that in this episode as well. And then Megan will also be responding for the more like Protestant view. So yeah, I guess I can start with, we'll start with purgatory. And what is the actual teaching of purgatory? So I think one of the most like misunderstood concepts of purgatory is that after you die, like purgatory is somewhere that you go where it's not decided yet. Like once you're in purgatory, maybe you could still go to heaven or hell and you need to like earn or like get better or clean yourself up or figure out what like what you want or I don't know before or God will judge like but it's a waiting period where you could end up in hell or you could end up in heaven. And that is not the teaching. I'm going to read officially from the catechism but purgatory is for those that are already saved. They are going to be going to heaven. They will not be damned to hell. They are found to be within friendship with God among the elect that will be going to heaven. And let me find the official church, church teaching. This is catechism number 1031. The church gives the name purgatory to the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. That's from the Council of Florence and the Council of Trent. The church formulated her doctrine of faith on purgatory, especially at the Council of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the church by reference to certain texts of scripture speaks of a cleansing fire. As for certain lesser faults we must believe that before the final judgment there is a purifying fire. He who is true says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age but certain others in age to come.
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"If you have your Bibles today would you turn with me to 1 Corinthians 1 26 through the end of the chapter and I was thinking today on heroes in honor of our Remembrance Day there are blessings to any country that will make the God of the Bible their God and abide by his truths as laid out in the Scriptures. These truths though initially sated by David towards Israel can apply to us as Gentiles as if we're obedient to them and Psalm 33 12 blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom we have chosen for his own inheritance and the truth is there are great blessings in being a child of God. I understand this if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior we are entered into the promises and blessings of Abraham and we will enter into that lineage so that's a blessing there. I was thinking of a hero, a hero is a man or a woman of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger or fortitude in suffering a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event hence a great or illustrious person. A little further on this a pastor and author recently wrote that our society has lost the meaning of the word hero he said that we think that if an athlete can put a ball through a hoop they're a hero. If a musician can play eight chords on a guitar they're considered a hero and if an actor can pretend to be something they are not they're considered a hero in Hollywood. This pastor wrote I remember watching a well -known journalist interview an actor about his recent movie which featured a politically troubled region of the world. The journalist asked the celebrity what he thought should be done about the political situation there the actor responded who cares what I think and went on to point out that he was an actor. This pastor said real heroes are people who actually do something sacrificial or courageous he points out that God does not seek out heroes to accomplish his purposes God isn't looking for a strong man or woman per se rather he's looking for someone whom he can be strong on behalf of. Amen end quotes there and that came by Jim Sandel but I think about some other heroes of the past. One of the heroes that rates highly in my mind is John Wycliffe. He continued his reforming attempts and particularly began the very significant step of translating and writing out the New Testament in English a radical step as it brought the Gospels close to the ordinary person who could not understand Latin and remove the church which would be the Catholic Church at that time as the interpreter having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common man English would have meant disaster to that church no longer would they control access to the scriptures if people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue the church's income and power would crumble they could not possibly continue to get away with self indulgences which is the forgiveness of sins or selling the release of loved ones from a church manufactured purgatory people would begin to challenge the church's authority if the church were exposed as frauds and thieves the contradictions between what God's Word said and what the priests taught would open the public's eye and the truth would set them free from the grip of fear that the institutional church held salvation through faith not works or donations would be understood the need for priests would vanish through the priesthood of all believers the veneration of church canonized saints and Mary would be called into question the availability of scriptures in English was the biggest threat imaginable to the wicked church neither side would give up without a fight end quotes John Jeffcoat English Bible history as he recounts the history of the Bible through the centuries now when we really consider the idea of a hero or a person to whom we characterize as a hero whether secular or sacred we think of men and women who've denied themselves for a greater cause this cause they saw worth fighting for much to their own detriment much to their own adversity and they may have thought with or without weapons those who go to war for the country do so out of duty and the heroes are not just those who died but those who have stood tall in the face of evil the Christian hero is the person who does not stand out in front of and herald their greatness or absorb the plazas of men rather it is the person who's faithful to Christ irrespective of the dangers they were called to encounter behind all of these feats these harrowing feats and these determinative there actions lies a person an ordinary person like you and I whose love for Christ I'm speaking of Christians as heroes particular Christians to whom Christ was preeminent in their life now may we not seek to be heroes may we just seek to be faithful until the day we breathe our last it is an attitude that has gained much applause respect of others of the heroes of the faith Hebrews chapter 11 we'll deal with that passage tonight here in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 26 for you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised that God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to not things that are why does he do this the no flesh and glory in his presence but of him are you in Christ Jesus who of God has made unto us wisdom and righteous and sanctification and redemption that according as it is written he that gloria let him glory in the Lord you think about the ones to whom Jesus decided to use as apostles tax fishermen collectors everyday citizens these were not of your upper elites now I understand there was Luke who wrote the book of Luke and he was a very intelligent man it was a doctor Paul an apostle was also very intelligent but overall God would use some fisherman with sometimes some very sour attitudes cranky attitudes he would use a tax collector who was hate noted as being a scoundrel in communities God would use these men to turn the world upside down they weren't some theological pinnacle of excellence the only pinnacle of excellence in their lives would be obedience to Christ but yet while Christ lived they forsook Christ at the moment he most needed them it's not about us it's about Christ you think about Revelation chapter 2 verse 10 as he tells the Church of Smyrna be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life first Peter chapter 5 verse 6 humble yourselves therefore into the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time and we still talk about those 12 apostles today Judas we obviously don't talk about in a positive light but we talk about the Apostles in a positive light men who hazard of their life for Jesus Christ and turn the world upside down and you and I might think I could never do anything great for God because it's not about you it's about the God that we worship I want to look at three qualities today of a true biblical hero it's an interesting study may we seek to be devoted not promoted and there are so often times in Christian up does in Christianity pandering a to elevate an individual it's not about elevating an individual it's about elevating Jesus Christ heroes who are heroes those on the battlefield are everyday men and women who answer the call to go to war they go to war they learn all that they need to they go to war and they perish sometimes but they're like every one of us same flesh and blood I trust today that we would seek as verse 31 says he that glory let him glory no Lord let's pray dear only father Lord I love you Lord Jesus I yield the state of thee God I pray that you'd work in my lips my thoughts to preach your word faithfully I pray that we would be found worthy more than pleasing to thee would help us to be an example to others behind us of faithful Christianity it doesn't matter how we started our life doesn't matter all the turmoil of what we've done in our lives but God may we be faithful found faithful into death Lord Jesus I yield this time to thee I thank you for being our gracious Savior in your name I pray amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
Day 7 St. Gertrude the Great Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 1
"Day 7, For the Grace of a Greater Love of the Holy Eucharist. St. Gertrude embraced the Mass as a profound encounter with Christ's redemptive suffering. Let us reflect on this prayer that she composed. Through this Mass, I offer you in reparation, loving Father, all the sufferings of your son, from his first cry in the manger to his last breath on the cross. In my humble state, I praise and adore your mercy. Amen. Let us ask St. Gertrude to intercede for us as we seek to unite our own joys and sorrows with a Eucharistic sacrifice. May this act of communion inspire us to live out each day in accordance with God's loving plan for our lives.
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"Conversation. <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> This episode <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> of the Catholic conversation <Speech_Music_Male> is brought to you <Speech_Music_Male> by the crowning glory <Speech_Music_Male> tea room, <Speech_Music_Male> divine food, <Speech_Music_Male> heavenly friendships. <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Music_Male> And welcome back to the Catholic <Speech_Music_Male> conversation. I am <Speech_Music_Male> Steve green director of kino <Speech_Music_Male> Kate institute <Speech_Music_Male> at the diocese of <Speech_Music_Male> Phoenix island the cradle <Speech_Male> Catholic in my lovely wife <Speech_Male> Becky, the convert. <Speech_Male> Well, it was a delightful <Speech_Male> conversation. <Speech_Male> Yes. 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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
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"So why is particularly needed on our day now? Because when you begin to see the church challenge as it was by modernity of the 20th century, right? I mean, it really started coming under attack. By the time that father Boyer is experiencing not only what's happening at the council, what's happening in our society in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, now he's approaching. This was even before actually it would be at a time when abortion would become such a predominant thing. And the disordered nature of relationship. I don't mean to go into a deep, deep dive into all of those problems, but we all have a sense of it, right? So the ship is kill train. It's out of sync. So what do we need to do? We need to go back and listen to Christ, get back to basics to find the silence to be able to find how he can guide us through it. That's what happened in the 1500s in Spain when the Protestant reformation came along and the church was dividing and splintering while other men were mapping the world. There were all these Spanish mystics like Teresa Avila nations of Loyola, so many others, they were mapping the interior life. And it was given form by Francis de sales, you know, a hundred years later. To try to get people to go back into that depth of prayer. In today's world right now, you two, your savvy enough you've heard it and it breaks our heart. There are more people leaving the Catholic Church now than are entering it in a very real way. And you think it's the millennials. When you look at the graphs, you think it's the millennials, but the boomers are leaving too. Why is that? They want something spiritual, but they don't want a religious.
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"You come to get involved? How did you first encounter him and this particular work? Sure, I was at a house that was founded for discernment in Rome just visiting friends that actually Pope Benedict and father fazio and cardinal schoneborn. I had established for young men and some women who were discerning what their what they were hoping to, what determined their call as it were. What their vocational call is. And when I was there, it just happened to be the time when one of the women who was mentioned in this book now, saying Elizabeth of the Trinity. She was being canonized on that date. And I was having staying at the Casa. The rector of the facility said there is a book here you might want to take a look at by father boy a and he handed me the copy of women mistakes. And I thought, wow, this is really something I had never seen this. And at that time, and I had gone on a print, so it wasn't as easy to get a hold of. And I was aware of Elizabeth of the Trinity. And of course, Teresa of Avila. And tries a little flower, but I saw the names on there that I didn't necessarily think were mystics. Theresa Benedict on the cross. And then there was a woman there had wick of Antwerp, and I went, well, this is really interesting. And so I started reading it, and that's how I came across the book. And I would have a conversation with father, not a too long after that, and I would say, why is this book out of print, and utter amazement set it is? Well, we've got to change that. So that's how I became affiliated with the project. And gladly so. So I actually would love for you before we even dive into the book and the women mystics for our listeners, just the term mystic, especially in today's day and age, your first reaction might be if you haven't had enough of the Catholic perspective and viewing it through the lens of Catholicism might sound very new agey. Because that term, of course, has been, as many gets hijacked and is sort of given its own definition and what it means. But so just let's start there. Let's define what we're talking about when we're saying mystics and talking about who these mystics are. What does it mean to be a mystic when we understand through Catholicism? Sure, Becky, that's a great question. You know, a lot of times when we think of mystics, we're thinking more of the extraordinary experiences in the Catholic tradition anyway, the ones that stand out, we think of maybe padre pio. Right. And of course, people like Catherine of Siena, some may even think that of maybe saint bernadette, who had extraordinary experience of our lady at lords. But in reality, in those cases, that's an action of the Holy Spirit working through them to communicate what would seem to be an extraordinary message, right? So I met action of the Holy Spirit, does take place inside of us. And why is that? Because we were, as the early church would tell us, we were initiated into the mysterium.
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"The grace of that confession that God was calling him to be a religious priest that he could not doubt then wherever throughout his life that in fact God was calling him to religious priesthood. So I think as you read that account, I think it's pretty clear that what the young Jorge bergoglio is describing is an experience of first mode discernment in which his vocation to religious priesthood is revealed to him. The three elements of a first mode discernment really seemed to be present. Now let's notice that if we focus on that first element of something that is shown, what specifically is shown to Jorge in that first mode discernment as he goes to confession. What is shown to him is that God is calling him to be a religious to be a religious priest. Specifically where Franciscan Dominican Jesuit, redemption, that is not shown to him in his first mode discernment, and in fact his clarity about his call specifically to be a Jesuit priest only came a few years later. Okay, and I'm focusing on that because it's going to be important in understanding first mode discernment well to see clearly what is shown to the person in the first mode discernment. Now let's take a look at a further experience and this is Gary. We'll just take this last experience of first mode discernment. And I want to include this one because all of the experiences we have shared thus far all take place with a certain drama, there's a powerful moment of grace of understanding suddenly the moment came when suddenly the clarity came and has stopped all questions or in a powerful lightning bolt that passes through her whole being and clarity is given in Gary we have, I'd say a less dramatic but equally powerful experience. So let's just look at this. I would find it hard to say exactly when my calling is a priest first became clear to me, so there's no one specific moment in this case. It was always there in a sense. It just wells up and is present to Gary. It was there as far back as I can remember thinking about my future. Certainly already when I was in grade school, which is a wonderful grace when God gives it. Faith was an important part of our family. Family life, and we were always active in the parish. Catholic school also helped. So the spiritual soil for a vocation was there. The ambience, the devout family, the parish, the Catholic school, all of this supports the
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
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"Of evangelista to show. We're going to look at. How negative and toxic thoughts contribute to our reality how we are co creators with god the difference between lower faith and higher faith and how to live in that higher face so that we can co create with god the reality that he wants for us and that we want for ourselves freedom from anxiety stay tuned welcome to the bible study evangelist show. I'm sonya covet. The bible study evangelista. And we're looking today at the nitty gritty of what is in my book just rest. Were looking at rest in thoughts today. And the basis for our discussion throughout the rest of the series is going to be hebrews chapters three and four chapter three seven through the end of the chapter and then the first part of chapter four of the book of hebrews. And i tell the story in just rest of how all of this teaching came to be. It was in a period of time where it was actually just before i came into the catholic church and there was a period of of activity. I'll say that. God sort of forced on me. I had always served in church for years. And i i loved it. I was tired. I wasn't burned out. And i felt i felt like i was even being punished because there came a time in my service in the church that i was unable to serve. Now this could happen to you if you have some sort of diagnosis or if you have an illness or something that makes you homebound or of course. The pandemic was was had some of that. That element where we were unable to do what we're used to doing. That's a kind of forced rest a physical rest and i remember when that happened. I was complaining to god. I felt like he was upset at me. Like he had sort of benched me you like in a game or sports event or something like he had benched me from from playing and i i felt I didn't know what to do about it..
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"catholic" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Discerning hearts and cooperation with the pro sanctity movement presents theresa monahan and the personal plan for holiness episode. Four eucharistic amazement when my mother was a little girl. She used to tell us that she did not know anything about jesus but later on in high school. She was invited to worship with their friends in their churches on sunday. Many were friends went to whatever church had the best preacher preaching that sunday but what she could not figure out was why her catholic france always went to the same church. Even though the preacher was pretty bad it soon occur that there was something more in the catholic church something so precious that it did not matter. The excellence of the preachers. The greatest music beauty or the church didn't matter the catholic church had the real and abiding presence of jesus his real body and his real blood. My mother has been a catholic for over sixty years now and i cannot remember ever purposely missy mass not even dating mass and she makes time every week for hours of adoration before the blessed sacrament in the last several years our holy father has been repeating over and over again in the documents letters and proclaiming. Two thousand four. Two thousand five the eucharist to gear that he desires that. We all rekindle our amazement for the eucharist. He says that the eucharist is the food of the saints and the source that will put his out into the deep of history with the enthusiasm of the new evangelization. There are many saints who illustrate this eucharistic amazement. Saint elizabeth ann seton who received great solace by bringing her sorrows to jesus in the blessed sacrament and speaking heart to heart with him. There saint john yanni who rose from sleep to spend hours before sunrise and prayer to the blessed sacrament for the conversion of the people of his parish saint reservoir su who is deeply touched by the fact that jesus was reserved in the blessed sacrament. Not only the for the church. As a whole but for each individual tarez wrote jesus there in the tabernacle expressly for you for you. Alone is burning with a desire to enter your heart. Take some time. Go to church and spent some time before the sacrament review with the eucharistic lord your relationship with him. Lay your head on his heart and pour out your desires to.
The Catholic Culture Podcast
"catholic" Discussed on The Catholic Culture Podcast
"And i don't mean that in like a with at implicitly critical of people who are like lasts spending less of their time on this but i think i think it's too easy to go on one side of the other where it's like on one side. It's not really so much a open community because it's like a performance series essentially and then on the other side of just like people fooling around and it's not really going to what what can be. Yeah it's a fun way to share our gifts is it's really fun and i think the added bonus is befriending all the people. Yeah that's when we get to me. Yeah yeah and my my friend James my co host on criteria. We talked on one of our recent episodes about his awesome performance at at art house to be A huge milestone for him. Yeah and that was our first live theater as we put on this Monologue yeah so so. That was really wonderful. Yes oh people who want to learn more about that. You can follow art house to be on instagram and keep up with the events and things And if you are somebody who just wants to see some art and meet some cool catholics in new york city you know. Please check that out or if you wanna participate the same So this this episode has been kind of like a showcase of local catholic artistic talent because it's being filmed by obviously my roommate. Chris uses him as a professional cinematographer. we've been talking about you know your work art house to be So i feel like to complete the picture. We should mention the The pants you're wearing so these pants are inspired by sacred vestments. Oh interesting yeah. Because there's this really cool ripple effect On the side and Yeah i was really lucky to be able to a model for let knee nyc which was co founded by our friend veronica myron and Olivia who is now a sister. Somewhere near here dominican dominican sister yet she went to my perish. Yeah yeah but it's It's wonderful again. I i love The effect that closed can have on the body and Of course in relation to dance but also you can A curate Year your look every day and yeah. It's yeah it's been wonderful to be able to know a catholic creator in the the clothing business. Yes i had somebody you know and i hear you know being on twitter for work. I hear occasionally you know young women asking about what are some good ethical.
Catholic Alpha Radical
"catholic" Discussed on Catholic Alpha Radical
"Eventually it will happen. Maybe not today or tomorrow or next week but eventually he will use he will use the up like a fork knife in a spoon and talked him away just like she tells her husband away. That's the thing about karma about the holy spirit about god. You tossed your husband away for another man. Guess what that man's going to do guess what's going to happen the same stuff. 'cause i'm telling you you take you with you. Why because your wife took herself with her when she left. I just said the man she is with is a home wrecker so he has no morals or since of honor duty our responsibility which is why your wife says she lets you the first place right. That's what so. I got wise right now with my dudes and they they go go to another do. That's exactly the way their husband. He's dale it don't know says he's doing the same way. She said her husband did. Her is crying z and the puck whole record will in the end. Do your wife just like she did you she will. He will look they. Don't tell you the grass is greener. The grass is never greener. The grass is never greener uae. Because that person that you so call broke up your marriage for broke off your broke. Your kid's heart for abandon your children screwed up your children's life for vega thought to they have faults too man they do they just they shop till you until with them for five years or ten years or fifteen years or twenty years. No one tells you that if you don't change you know relationship wherever work or rather will become great. This is why i was talking about earlier. You had to look at the mirror yourself. it change you i. Maybe your husband love you better. Maybe he'll see a more virtuous woman. No man marries a woman who he doesn't think is better than him. No man wears a woman that he doesn't that that that doesn't make him want to a better man. And if your husband married you that's what marriage you for. He did marry you for love. He realized he didn't really marry you for all the stuff you could give him. He married you because they're instinctively. He felt that you would make him what to be a better man. That's why you women who go sleep with a man and live with him and cohabitate with him and he's going to marry you he ain't gonna do it you know why because you waiting.
Catholic Alpha Radical
"catholic" Discussed on Catholic Alpha Radical
"That's why men of a baby since nineteen seventy two or seventy three have been aborted and killed because everybody wants to wants to do what they want to do. Interpret things how they want to interpret it and you don't have a thorny give jesus christ host this is whose church it is is christ. Church ain't show church and so when you understand that and you start to understand how this stuff works. There's a reason why the catholic church has exorcists because of the demonic. This is the reason why psychiatrists can't get demons out of people. This is the reason why psychiatrists can't come in a bliss. Your home exercise demons. How your house because the catholic church only the cast the demons. No it the satan knows it the diabolical know it. They know the natural order. They know it. And if you are some psychiatrists or you some protestant church. There's nothing your pastor can do for you when you are possessed or you are influenced by the demonic. There's nothing your protestant church preacher can do for you. Only the catholic church. Why because the demons. Don't respect mr. Billy joe bob preacher on the corner of twenty and capital. His the the light of the world christian church. The demons don't respect that church. They respect christ's church. Which is the catholic church. That's why the catholic church on knows that they have the authority. That's why they're the only ones that can exercise this stuff out. But you don't have to listen to me. I you know. I don't worry about it. I call a priest. Bless my house. I know what's up with you. Do whatever you do whatever your relationship staying and so what are we going to do right now. Is i want to read scripture. Matthew chapter nineteen verses one through nine. I want to read to you. What christ says on marriage and divorce now you pres a you back and you bishops in the catholic church that a sand divorce is okay..
Catholic Alpha Radical
"catholic" Discussed on Catholic Alpha Radical
"They're selfish they have all the power you to sit there and cry and fight and worst and why would be they. Don't care they are diabolical narcissist dude. The the demonic has completely overtaken them. They don't care about the american people they don't care about this country and that's the way it is and you'd better start getting over it because you're going to keep losing getting your but would until you do. Politicians do not care about you. They don't they really don't and the leaders in our church don't care about us either. If they did they sit up there and talk about divorce every week and how bad it is and how to the family society. They don't they don't because they're all scared to go into a banner to siberia somewhere the bishops they're beholding nobody's at the polk. He don't care either. That might be bad to say but he really don't you really don't care the bishops united states especially don't care they could give a rat's ass but about what you think don't care they had and those big buildings and they just let you do whatever you wanna do and they don't care why because they get they money they get your money. They get everything they get to have sex when they want to because nobody holds them accountable to nothing. They don't pray they don't go to adoration they barely wanna do. Mass man is time for us to realize man. The structure has crumble and the bishops. No it they all know it. And the reason only reason that's holding us you call a suckers if you want because we love jesus christ we do. We understand that we have a role that we have to play that we have to love. Christ we had to lower the pope the bishop and the respect that but mean we got the truth of how really is but you all know how it really is man. You know how it is. You don't need me to tell you. Just look outside your door look at all the sex scandals and does not hold it. Not just the catholic church. What about these school. These these public schools and catholic schools and these private schools and christian schools public schools and high schools are kids getting getting Getting molested and all that stuff. it's the same. it's all the same. None of them care you. You don't care about god so he just says. Hey i'll leave you to yourself and this is what you get in. The destruction of the family is the number one thing no divorce and contraception those two things. Right they're screwed the family up and all you are. There's no god are you think there's a guy but you know he just hanging he he. He don't care all you christians out there today in the catholic church. That don't really understand how this stuff works. That god is. Jesus is about suffering sacrifice not about easter fifty two weeks out of the year. You are on the road south and that's the truth. That's why our lives are crap that's countries all messed up in a sad. It's sad man is.
Catholic Alpha Radical
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Catholic Alpha Radical
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"Our group and an end to end to incite us to go into the building and why he and he came out on mouth. I mean he he. He even said to the cnn reporter. He said this is recorded. This is one of his videos that he that he sold the cnn. For thirty five thousand dollars. That's amazing as well. The actually has expensive because normally they only got a few hundred dollars when you contribute like that so this is actually upset. Some people from understand but He was talking to a cnn reporter. I think she's also pbs reporters. Well any credibility. Well it's funny about it was that they're they're they're inside the capitol building on video and he saying we did it. We did it and she saying yes we did it. We did it and still recording. Are you still recording. And he says he says. Don't worry i'll delete it later. But he never he never did he forgot it so it got posted people seen it so we know that they the media was in on it we also know at least some of the media was in on it and we also know that antifa was in the bottom line and then we're going to move on to the different motor question is the bottom latte is man is going to take maybe years to for the court to sort this out. Is that kind of what the feeling is in our in that part of the in that realm. You know it shouldn't take yours. You shouldn't take yours at all. There's there's video cameras inside the capitol building and we've seen some of the videos where people are walking around looking like normal tourists. I mean many of the people who got inside that capitol building who are normal trump supporters. Thought they weren't doing anything wrong because the police were just letting them in They didn't realize that you know that they were necessarily doing anything wrong. So they didn't they didn't break in through some some of these people just walked through through the front door and they've got video of the police standing aside and letting and just kinda ushering.
Catholic Alpha Radical
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"That's that's my kryptonite sweets acid of sex or ethnic of what food food here. Hey do you got together and say we're gonna abstain from from the embrace them sex too good. I remember i remember. You told me you did that one year and and you didn't tell your wife about it and she and she she was one what was going on with you. That's year me together and we're halfway through. I said well how's it going. Okay the deal was that we we wouldn't initiate sex with our wives right so but if they d it saying you can't just like you can't right so so so we didn't tell them as so you go. You did okay. And i didn't do too good man i didn't anyway. So you say athletes from selling. So i'm saying i'm abstaining from sweets try say from stay away from carbs. Bread love. love cake loved bread pasta and out on days where we have to when we have to. You know abstain from meat. So allow myself to eat pasta and those days and those days so So on fridays. If i you know i can eat pastas on those days but aside from that. I'm staying with from sweets and and carbs generally so yeah me i. I decided i'm going. I'm going fast and for two days a week so no food right asked yeah and i told i got i got. I had to tell mary because she cooks. And then. If i don't say she'll be asked me every week. Are you fast. I was like yes. Bela 'em so i have to remind her so I'm a trauma man. I'm sure it affects food. She makes to if you're not. Yeah so the next thing is so. What are you doing for studying the face man. You really books lately. Watch kind of broadcast. You watch it any by good. My wife and i've been watching Some taylor marshall and we've been watching catholic family news network. What else have been watching this one more. I can't think of the man of it. Bet she likes to watch. We watch we watch me. Wtn on occasion began world over. Mary's on the world overdue. Yeah yeah and you know what him..
Catholic Alpha Radical
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Catholic Alpha Radical
"catholic" Discussed on Catholic Alpha Radical
"Still plans. You know and stuff so But like i say really it. All stanford stadiums men. Their car is right. That derek carr for that into boy girl bridge. You know exactly ribeiro free. In fact i'll say some sort of funny will mean glennon was getting married my friend my girlfriend before it was betty innings betty so Berry scored showers high school district tranferred addicts. I gone to christmas addicts for two weeks and then i transferred short time. High school was getting married. We got married november. The fifth i believe of sixty six. If i'm not mistaken no no no sixty five. We got married november of nineteen sixty-five. If so well anyway. Judy she was going my sister jodie she was to addicts too so a glittering ready to get married we finally we go on get married and so what happened. Was betty my girlfriend. Betty was cheating. I hadn't seen her. I probably still dating her. I don't know. I don't remember that part. But anyway she was walking down. the street. Judy saw as judy ran up to bed. You know jerry is. We saw trying to get you shot. So anyway larry started started crying. Randolph street ran down the street. No and it was a you know. I told her i could gentler. That will led down the i could disturb. Ooh but anyway. That's what happens if so you know when you got free. I cannot focus when i was in going to school for in three hills. School thirty six. That was my first school. I went to went school forty-three and then very my hand last half year in high in doing high school the very last six months or so. That's eight like seventy being like that so in a name i was in love. Schoolboy forty three million jiang transferred to school sixty four southside culture shop. as why. why do you say that school forty three. He was a real as from a standpoint of learning intellectual thing a higher rate at school. It was just a really good school if you came out of school. Forty three and used as a test in the short reach to black piece. Everybody please use use up to test. Also but i got in. I had to take a test. I don't know why. I just never had the test to get into charlotte high school which is a high high academic school very and school. Forty three was a high academic junior high school. It was middle school junior high school and so what happened was when we moved on the south side we moved from sunset all the south side which mom and daddy. We're having some issues so things went down and financial situation change so we move on the south saturday night at six months when i was in a and that was a culture shock to me coach. A shop the stuff that they known at learning school sixty four. When i was three years earlier they was a total like they they they they were a lot of loose more loose. I got into girls of a lot and getting the girls out there. You probably got bore. I started you know 'cause you probably got it just lights out there you'll girls already having sex. It's a fourteen thirteen stuff like that and you know it was just a beautiful thing. My cousin lower she leaves at you okay with her. His family lived in barrington too so then were very first day got off school. Sixty four culture shock michael prayer. He wanna fight me very first day. We got the locker room. We wanna fight me gene doing nothing so affreux got it. Got to be lifelong friend before he died. His name was stanley call fox. He told he told ito might need to. Don't don't do that to him. Losses brother cousin rather la la la so stanley. Kim kept her from jumping. No 'cause i don't know if i have my back then i'll little for cooed. You also laid down here is led. He and i started working at the same job. Who came friends. Michael twenty points on years later. But it just i don't we had it was just a different part right. Get into school. You come right out to a park come out and stugotzs reservoir family park will years is to all it was a real close knit area up did for black people and so we will we say six months leeann embarrassing then was time to go to high school. We moved to Appear on a campus apartments and then we moved to the random apartments. And then that's when. I went to sharif for two weeks to satisfy two weeks. My mother told me mom saying well you too smart to grow to addicts because addicts used to be at one point. 'cause she used to be the number two rated high school in the united states black. Wow it was. You know the reason why because they had professors teaching there and the black professors can go to other schools. The white we let them teach soleil they taught at christmas addicts and so you get professors teaching young kids. You know they're going to say. I was very surprised. Was a number to raise highschool culinary thing to do in the united states one time then what happened was began to decline as integration. Really messed it. Up wrapping integration. Her black people help black people in my opinion. Because i used to go down the they had all.
Catholic Alpha Radical
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"Was a.
Catholic Alpha Radical
"catholic" Discussed on Catholic Alpha Radical
"Is episode twenty eight ban.