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Let's Talk About It
A highlight from Episode 66: A Catholic and Protestant Discuss Our Lady of the Miraculous MedalIncorruptible Bodies?!
"Hey, welcome back to Let's Talk About It with Jackie and Megan. Or 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. Today we're going to talk about dead bodies. Really exciting. Also, Megan and I are in our big earring era, I guess, this episode. She was wearing big earrings, so I had to put on big earrings, obviously. So, copycat. Yeah, I am a copycat. I'm going to grab my coffee. It's down here. Yeah, well today we're going to talk about dead bodies, incorruptible saints. Very specific dead bodies. I will not lie to all of you. This is not some in -depth research. I did do some research, but mostly we're talking about this because I saw a body that's incorruptible. In Paris, when I went to Paris. So, I could tell a little bit about that story. Megan, just what's your initial thoughts on when you hear me say there's incorruptible saints? I just want to know because I know my initial thoughts, even as a Catholic. So, I think I've always been uncomfortable, but I don't because I was like talking to John last night about it as I was just thinking about it, the topic. I was like, I don't know why. I think it's more of just a visceral like, oh, it's a dead body. Because even relics that are body parts give me kind of the same heebie -jee feeling. Oh, we have this foot or we have this bone is always kind of felt weird to me. Less so than icons or relics that are objects or items. So, I think, yeah, just like very like knee -jerk. I'm like, oh, yeah. I mean, that's fair. I don't really have, I mean, I think that relics are weird for sure, but I've never had a knee -jerk reaction to them because I always think it's cool because it's usually saints that I, especially the really old saints. Recently, there's a tour going around of a bone from Saint Jude who was from like the time of Jesus, which it's like, okay, that's really cool that there's a bone from someone that was around the time of Jesus there. And I just always think that's super cool, even though it's super weird. And we're not talking about relics in this episode. So maybe next time when we talk about relics, I'll talk more about this story. I'll say this too. I'll say this too. It is not, this isn't me being like, ew, Catholics. When I have that reaction, like I have that reaction in museums. Like this is a very personal Meghan thing. Like when I see mummies, I'm like, oh my gosh. I know a lot of people don't feel that way. So that's not a statement. Like, ew, Catholics, this is gross. I mean, it's weird. Just being like totally straight up honest. That's how I have a reaction towards any, even like, I feel like it's circulating now those images of like people who were like mummify. I don't even know the right word from like Pompeii. I've been seeing that go around TikTok and like people are like, oh my gosh, this is so cool. And I'm like, ew, I don't want to see it. So that's just me. I know I sent me, I could tell Meghan, cause I sent you the picture of Saint Jude's bone. You immediately were just like, ew. And usually Meghan's not that way about Catholic stuff or doesn't react that way. So I just thought that was really funny. Yeah. It's really not a dig on you. It's my own weird heebie -jeebies. Yeah. I'm just not a spooky girl. I know. Well, Halloween's coming up, Meghan. So better get ready for it. Which is funny because, was it two years ago that we went to St. John Cancus during All Saints Eve? Mm -hmm. And they had a whole bunch of relics. And that was my first time. Well, I guess I saw relics in Greece when I was there, but that was like a lot. It was a lot. They had a lot on display. So I was like, what? There's like a hand or something. It was like, why is this? What is happening? Yeah, there's definitely some spooky ones.
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"The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart is really the work, and what I really believe God in a very special way has called us to do, to enthrone Jesus in the hearts of every human being, to enthrone Jesus in every family, and specifically since the family is one of the most battered institutions in the world today, that this family can come together and He promises so much to the families. So the purpose of these videos and the purpose of our coming together is to present Jesus as the head of every family, and He wants to be, He desires to be, and He is calling to be and wanting to become the head of a father and a mother and a family. If there's a single parent or a widow or whatever your family unit is, the desire of God and His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit through Mary's Immaculate Heart is being offered to us. Why the heart of Jesus? It's because what has been failed to be communicated by the Father in our day. When God the Father appeared to humankind, how did He appear? He appeared as fire. He appeared to Moses as fire. God is fire. Who are you? I am God. You are standing on holy ground. God, fire? God is love. It was very much revealed to us through St. John especially, that revelation of John. God is love. The greatest definition ever given for God is God is love, and when He appeared and came in our flesh into the world and His name is Jesus. So much so did He want to come in the first century, in the second and the third, fourth and fifth, and when it came, and so many people were just not getting the message. Every person who is listening, God loves you so much that He gave you His Son. The Son of God is the revelation of God's love, and when He came to you, He came and He showed His love by dying on the cross. When we see the cross, so many people again, God's love, I'm going to be crucified like Jesus, and that's what's going to happen. No, the cross is not suffering. The cross is love. So much did He love us, He's telling us, I would die for you. That's what love is. Love is laying down His entire life for us because the failure to communicate through the cross, through the teaching, so many people. I remember I used to go to Mass, and when I was a little boy, very few people went to communion because they somehow was reverent. You had to be perfect, and so what did the devil do? The devil so insinuated himself as God is so holy you can't approach Him. Then after a while, some people now just come to communion and they aren't aware of who they're receiving, and they may be very much in sin, but they still don't know how much God loves them. We just don't seem to get it right. We don't see the awesome love that we're receiving, or this awesome fear that we may have. Anyway, what did God do in the 17th century? He came to a woman. Her name was Margaret Mary. If you look at the image of the Sacred Heart, and I have one in every room of my home, I am inviting you. That's the purpose, to look at the image of the Sacred Heart. We become so familiar with it, but what was the revelation of the Sacred Heart? It's totally and completely love. Jesus came to Margaret Mary, and He said to her how much He loved us, and how He wanted her to tell the people about the love of His Sacred Heart. How did He appear to her? Look at the image. This is what happened. He not only rolled back His robe, but He actually rolled back His flesh. Can you imagine that? You're standing with Jesus, and He's standing there, and He wants to show you how much He loves you, and He rolls back the flesh on His side.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from POA4 Extraordinary Activity Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, we've talked about the ordinary act. We do need to touch upon the extraordinary demonic activity. Well, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, that Hollywood likes to glorify. It's extraordinary in that it really isn't as common as just temptation, which is common to every man, woman, and child. By extraordinary activity, we're talking about a destructive work that's more powerful and that manifests itself not only in our thought realm, but also in the physical realm. Most observers of demonic tactics agree that there's certain activities that occur. They often use different labels for them, and so I allow for that in my book. I have a certain terminology. There are others who would use a different terminology. The kind of a whole series of levels of activity, each one a little more serious than the last, that kind of finds its worst form in possession, which is what most people in the world, when they think about demons, that's what they think about. But the first is called infestation. It's demonic activity that's connected to a particular location or an object. So if there's a house, for instance, that's infested, and people often think it's, you know, they call it ghost or something, but it's actually demonic activity. But folks, witnesses in an infested house, may see physical objects moving on their own or seemingly on their own, levitating, flying through the air, disappearing and reappearing in other places. They may smell offensive odors, often like sulfur. They may hear noises they can't explain, like crashes or laughter or screaming. So when people talk about, you know, a haunted house, often that's what we're talking about, something where there's a demonic association with that building or that location. The next level then is what I would call oppression. It describes demonic attacks on a victim's exterior life. So it may be influences on their bodily health, influences on their finances, on their work situation, on their family relations and other social relations. In some severe cases, it may even include physical assaults, invisible blows to the body, a push out of bed or downstairs, mysterious scratches appearing on the skin. I've seen all of these before. A number of saints throughout the ages have spoken about enduring this kind of thing. So St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Ante, Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a few of those. Next, then would be obsession. That refers to a more severe and relentless form of the struggle in the victim's interior life. It's a wrestling with disturbing thoughts planted by the enemy, but to a degree, not just temptation. So it's an inner torment that can be suffered while you're awake or in nightmares, becomes so intense that the sufferer may seem to be going insane to themselves and to others. There may be visual and auditory hallucinations, persistent temptations to suicide. We have to note that symptoms like this may well have physical causes and mental causes rather than spiritual ones. That's why the church is always careful and insists that those who experience these kinds of afflictions should first approach medical professionals for help before just, instead of just concluding that they're under attack from evil spirits. But then the most serious is possession, the one that's most dangerous and most rare form of extraordinary demonic activity. It involves periodic episodes in which an evil spirit controls the body of the victim, though the victim is usually not aware of what's taking place during that control. And we have several accounts of that in the Gospels, as we've talked about before. So the demon -possessed person may engage in bizarre bodily contortions that would normally be impossible. The body may levitate or act with superhuman strength. The victim may groan, hiss, make animal sounds. An alien voice may speak through the possessed person, sometimes without even the use of their vocal cords. Often they reveal knowledge of hidden things. Are they talking a language unknown to the victim and the victim's never studied? And at the same time, as in cases of infestation, often disturbing and even violent physical phenomena may take place in the victim's presence. And then finally, the victim of demon possession exhibits an extreme, sometimes violent, sense of to revulsion holy things, like the name of Mary and the name of Jesus, to the rites of the church, to a consecrated host, to sacred relics, to sacramental, such as holy water. So that would be the most serious thing. And I always like to make the point that a demon can never possess someone in the sense of owning that person, because all human beings, no matter what they've been through or what they've done, all human beings belong to God. They are his personal possession. Well, we speak of cases of demonic possession in which the enemy has basically become a usurper occupying the human body that was created to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit instead. Now one of the reasons why we are going over again this particular part of our conversation is to know the battle. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to be the Navy SEALs that are called to go out there and engage in, OK, now we know what it is, so we're going to go out and deal with it. It's important, as you said, at certain levels that, yes, medical professionals absolutely have to be working in relationship with a person afflicted. In many cases now, Paul, isn't it true that in dioceses around the United States, as well as around the world, that if there are those who feel that they are encountering this, that they can go to the Chancery or maybe even to the local parish, and they will be able to work together to help bring that person once again to wholeness? Yes, and that's so important. If you're at the place where your sense is that it's beyond the ordinary and these other things, you find a priest that you're confident in and you trust, and lay it before them. If you have to go to several priests, but go and give them a chance to help you figure out if it may be something else than what you're thinking. They can make references, refer you to medical professionals who can help you to kind of rule those things out, and the church won't allow you to go through something of a major exorcism without having kind of ruled out the other things. But the church is there, resources are there to help you. Our Lord Jesus, who cast out demons very easily, has given his authority to them, and powers don't always come out with just a word because they're complex situations that involve kind of healing that has to go on in the soul, and sometimes a renunciation of certain things before it can all happen, but completely. If you have a trained exorcist, they'll know what to do. So the church has that help, and go to the church for sure while I'm meeting more and more folks who, you know, are, well, I hear there's this spiritual healer, you know, and often it's someone who's not even of a Christian background, but some kind of New Agey thing. Either you don't want to go that direction because folks who don't have the authority that Christ gave to, you know, leaders of his church, they can just get you into worse trouble than ever. Yeah, you can look at the Scriptures for an example, the one that jumps in my mind is Saul, King Saul, when he chose to go to an oracle because he was feeling, can we say, maybe oppressed or something like that, I'm not trying to diagnose this situation, but to the point where he went to the oracle to summon up Samuel, and it ended up leading to not only her madness, but to his. Well, it's just a very dangerous thing. Like I said, you know, in the book of Acts, you know, the other example where you have the seven sons of Seva who fancied themselves exorcists, and they see St. Paul casting out you out in the name of Paul or Jesus or whatever name they used, and the thing just looks at them and you can just hear the smirk and the words, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but who are you? And then jumps on them, you know, but especially folks, you know, kind of occult healers and that kind of thing. There's certain cultures that, you know, just have a tradition of this, it's extremely dangerous. Sometimes, you know, people accuse Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and in this case, it's almost like that, that they're not really casting them out, but by, they themselves can be demonically influenced in a way that will, you know, if there's actually a demonic power that's somehow oppressing someone, and they go to one of these healers who's actually demonically connected, yeah, that person can appeal to the demon, lay off of them for a while, and they'll seem to think, you know, they'll look like maybe they've been healed or helped. It's the wrong way to go about it because it's not the authority of Jesus that's overcoming the thing. It's just, you know, orders from a higher demon, so to speak. You have to be really careful. And I think it needs to be said, too, here, and I hope you agree, Paul, that as we spoke about the ordinary activity, that of temptation that is done, that even in this extraordinary activity, demonic activity, that trained exorcists will say that there, it usually begins with an entry point, you know, a demonic entry point. There's a point in which it's not necessarily where the guy's just walking down the street and all of a sudden, boom, this happens to him. I'm not going to say that it can happen that way, but most of the time, the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because there is some type of activity, whether it was an assault as a child or it's something that the person agreed to participate in, it might be a violent act that was perpetrated. There's usually some moment or a series of moments where this activity enters into the person's life and then it manifests itself into a greater situation. And that's when those who are trained in this area are able to untie those knots to get to those layers. Am I presenting that properly? Yeah, I think so. I'm certainly no expert in exorcism and I've never trained and I'm not a priest, so I couldn't be an exorcist, but I hear the same thing from those who are trained that often there is some particular point of access. And again, it's not necessarily that the person makes a choice to do something, but something could be done to them or they could even just move into a house that is infested for whatever reason because there's some earlier resident called some of the powers and into there by what they did, maybe the Ouija board or something, who knows. And that's why you do need some trained folks because it's not just so simple as snap my fingers, the devil's gone. There are certain kind of principles that seems to be of demonic activity like that that an exorcist is trained to look at, to understand and to begin to, as you say, untie the knot because these things usually are complicated knots because you still need the will of the victim to cooperate with what's going on. There needs to be some part of them that is saying, I want to be free of this and I will do what I need to to be free of this. And if it means renouncing what I did, you know, by going to that channel or going to the Ouija board or whatever, or if it means forgiving this person who did this to me or as a part of it, or if it means forgiving myself, making reparation in something, some demonstration that my will is to do the will of God and to be free, you know, always gets to me that one time, I don't want to read too much in it, but in the gospel where there's a man who's been ill all his life, he's lame all his life and Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to be healed? And that's always struck me that sometimes that's a question he has to ask us through the priest, through the counselor, through the exorcist that we go that far, do you want to be healed? Because it's going to require some cooperation on your part.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Special Encore The Canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff
"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 was this glorious pilgrimage like? I would say what brought us there, there were 16 of us who left to go there, and the ones who you would meet along the way, that each of them were loved by Mother Teresa. That's the way I would describe, each one of them had a personal experience of the enduring love that touched them. I certainly had to be there. It was like something that, as a pilgrim, I felt called to be at this celebration. And I felt God wanted me to be there, therefore he would provide. And he provided for me to get there to the vehicle of these 16 people that I went with. And it was just a very caring young priest who, Father Mike was our leader of the group, and I was kind of the senior citizen, I was the oldest member of the group. The streets of Rome, as you know, are really architectural hazards. Someone who doesn't see, I could easily fall anyplace and break a hip or whatever, but I was really cared for. And there was a young girl, a woman that I met, and she was in a wheelchair, and she kind of summed it up for me when she said, Mother Teresa touched me when I was 16. And she said she just came in the crowd and touched me, and she touched me on my head. And it was like an unforgettable touch from this woman who was such an instrument, just reminded me of Jesus going through the world, and everyone that he touched remembered that touch. And so it was with me. I experienced the love and being loved by her so that she was this instrument of love in the world. There were millions and millions who saw that by television or heard it by radio in so many parts of the world. So really, wouldn't you say that maybe a billion people were touched through this instrument of God's love, because she followed what God asked her to do, and in some way experienced being loved by God as the poorest of the poor, because that's what she considered herself, that he loved her and touched her with that love. And then she began to touch one by one by one. That was her way of looking at it. We arrived together as a group on September the 1st, and we went by van to Newark, New Jersey, where we all got on a plane, and we got to know each other's names, because not everybody, there were married people, there were priests, there were single people who were on that, just getting to know each other. And then we all had different parts on the plane going over, arrived and gathered together in a group, and there was a van to meet us, to take us to our hotel. We still stayed in a little hotel called Hotel De Petrus, which was about a 20 -minute subway ride from the Vatican. That evening, I went by subway to St. John Lateran, where I heard confessions, and it was so beautiful. I heard, because of my languages, I heard confessions in English, Spanish, Italian. And who comes along but walking right in front of me is Marty McDermott that I had met in Beirut. And he and I just kind of hooked together. He was there. And again, the love, it was there in Beirut that I met the sisters, it was there that I met Mother Teresa, so we just kind of laughed as two old men. He was an aging Jesuit that they kind of wanted to get out of Beirut to bring him home to their northeastern province in New York, but he stayed there, he remained there. I think he's from Hartford, Connecticut. And we just chatted while all of the sisters that we had known through the years come pouring out at the end of the celebration there, and I just saw Sister Joy and all the sisters that I had known through the years, Missionaries of Charity. And then we hopped on a subway and came home, and I got home maybe around midnight. That was our first day. And so it was a beautiful time. On the third day, we were there September the 3rd, and more confessions, and St. Mary Major was again a beautiful church, and confessions. And then the fourth day was a canonization. And Mother has always just loved Our Lady. On the cover of the celebrated Mass was Our Blessed Mother. And if you notice her hand always pointing, Mary is such a direct link to Jesus. Her whole life pointing, you say Mary, she says Jesus. And Mother then is on September the 5th. She was beatified by John Paul II, 2002. And I was there, and when her picture went up as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and John Paul, that's the day I consecrated myself to Our Lady. All her life Mother Teresa had said, you should consecrate yourself to Mary. Oh, Mother, I have the Sacred Heart. That's where she was pointing. She wanted me to be with the Sacred Heart. No, but the best way to do it is through her. Oh, no, thank you very much. But the Pope, he told us to us, no, no. So I resisted. But when I saw those two up there, the aging, elder John Paul II, such a powerful, powerful instrument of God. And this little less than five foot woman, such a powerful instrument. I thought, what do you need to follow that? So that's the day I consecrated myself to Mary. And here she is. They really captured her look. And it was on the second missalette that we had on the following day on September the 5th, which is her feast day. So on the 4th, we had the canonization mass. The incident that was most, I sat with a couple of sisters on the way home in the airport. And one of them said it was such a powerful experience, but I have to say I couldn't get by the heat. I just couldn't get by the heat. It was 98 degrees. It was hot and a beating, beating heat down on the whole place. All I could recall during the mass with that intense heat was the time when I was at the chapter meeting in Calcutta, where it was 100 degrees heat and 100 percent humidity. And it was so stifling. And Mother would not allow a fan. They were begging her, let us get a fan. No, we have to live like the poor. What is the authenticity of our sacrifice? If we could have a fan? No. And we need a microphone. We can't hear. No. But get one for Monseigneur. So I had a microphone for the presentations and I had a fan when I was giving my presentations. She turned it off for the whole community. And I'll never forget this nun who was at that celebration. With this intense heat, every time there was the slightest breeze, she just thanked God for the breeze. She was an American nun and she was communicating to me how we are not used to that Indian heat nor the humidity. And I noticed that at the mass, her massive canonization. But everyone had to wait for that slight breeze. And that I was so aware of that every once in a while, when you thought you were going to pass out, there was a breeze. Everyone was reminded, though, of just how poor we are and how lacking in control of the events of life. And that total dependence. So she gave us all a marvelous lesson. And anyone who had been there, if they were there, including the Pope, that intense heat was down on a million people who were there. And everyone came through that and endured it. So Mother Teresa was very active during that canonization. It streamlined it, so it made it very simple, which is really what I think she wanted. Don't have the focus on me. But as the mass itself, the focus was all on God. It was the glory and the praise and the honor of God. Thank you, Lord, for the slightest breeze. Thank you, Lord, for just being here. And I found myself thanking God. And I was there. The other thing I noticed in her gathering us, there was a multiracial, the whites were far outnumbered at this mass. Not only because of the Indian priests, the African priests, the Asian priests, the Koreans, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, South Africa, and all of the world was really... ...that we are just one family. And the main, I think, lesson that I learned is dependence on God and that we are all very, very poor and the poorest of the poor. The opening day, the day before we got there, the Missionaries of Charity had in the Olympic Stadium, which they were able to get, a thousand of the poorest of the poor from their houses in Rome that they served the poor. They invited them all to come and have a feast. And they actually had this huge feast and banquet for the poorest of the poor because this was what it was all about. If Mother was going to have the celebration, the first ones to have the feast was the poorest of the poor, and she invited them to the table. And all of them were invited to come to the celebration, so they all had tickets to the event. You could see different ones as they were coming were obviously the poorest of the poor, meeting all of us, the poorest of the poor who were coming. So the universality and multiracial was what I felt was very outstanding for me on the day. Sounds a lot like Pentecost. Yeah, and the language just didn't seem to, it was like both hearing confessions and the celebration itself. And of course we had the Latin and all of us joined in were able to participate with the Latin and the singing. And again that language, that unity of our worshipping and glorifying God in that mass. Some lady was wheeling us onto the plane when we were at the Newark Airport, and she was a young girl, a young black girl, and I said we were going to be going to Mother Teresa's canonization. Well she had never heard of Mother Teresa, she was 20 years old. Oh, she said, what are you going to have, a party? I said yeah, and what is the mass but a party that God wanted? So he gets this heavenly banquet together, and that's why I was so happy when you see all these priests going out and bringing the Eucharist to every single one that was there. That was the day celebration, and I think there was a big difference then with the celebration on the 5th. And again, we can't celebrate it, but it was much more intimate. Maybe there must have been, maybe 300 ,000 there. How do you get just intimate? So there was this smaller crowd, and the priests and the participation was still so joyous and so beautiful. The day there was a cloud coverage, so that the heat wasn't as intense, so it was cooler, it was more refreshing, it was more relaxed. And at the end, one of the priests stood up, the sisters came in. The greatest gift I always felt that Mother has given us is her community. And these sisters coming in from all over the world were certainly well represented there, and lines and lines of missionaries of charity coming in. There were also the brothers, and there were also the missionaries of charity fathers. And one of the fathers got up at the end and he said, Today is a day of thanksgiving, and we are just so filled with thankfulness that God has recognized our foundress as a saint, and that we are able to participate in this canonization. And we rejoice, and you can just see St. Teresa of Calcutta in heaven with all the poorest of the poor, and us, poorest of the poor, having experienced being touched by her. And we are now celebrating, because she has touched our lives. And she always said, Unless you have experienced the thirst God has for you as the poorest of the poor, you'll never be able to know the thirst he has for the poorest of the poor. So that having had that experience of that love that God has for me through her, that that tasting of that is an enduring bond that you experience, and it just endures in it, it lasts. The love of God is enduring. The love that Mother Teresa gave, that touch that tapped that girl on the head when she was 16, that love lasts. It's an everlasting love. It's tasting the divine love. And it's the thirst that God has for us as people, so that when we pass that on, and if we were a million there, and the millions and millions that saw it on television are able to receive it and to pass it on, it was a great joy in heaven, and a great celebration on earth, and it was time for a party. The possibility of someone coming into a crowd like that and throwing some bombs, it was like the furthest thought, I believe, that peace and love is contagious. It has a power that's overcoming hatred and violence, and the way to bring this about is through that divine love. This is the force and the power that I believe is really necessary in the world today. So it was a great experience. You know, it's really striking, Monsignor, that the endurance of those who came, those who had to endure suffering during the celebration, because I watched it all cozy on my couch at 3 in the morning, back here in Omaha with my puppy and my coffee, and that was really nice, but you could see how hot it was. You could just see how people were just baking under the sun, and yet that enduring that suffering is essentially a message of her life. For all weekend, the build -up was not just on EWTN and other Catholic outlets, but it was on secular news broadcasts, CNN, Fox, all of these different news outlets were covering this great gathering. And so as you're watching these people, literally suffering with joy through the mass, it was almost like a major witness. And there's something really unique when that happens, isn't there, Monsignor, that if you can endure it, if you can enter into it like she did, there's grace somehow, even for the participants. I know you're just a couple days out of this, but for you, I mean, can you describe that now? It intensifies your interior self. You become very aware that I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able, and that's the word, endure this, whatever that be, this stress, this heat, this cross, however you want to call it. Each one has to go in there because that's where you're drawn to, and that is the center of the inner self. And that's where your dependency comes, and that's where you experience the God on whom you have to depend. So what gives you the endurance is the dependence. It stays, and it remains, and it burns, and whatever it is, you cannot last through it, and it just keeps coming on in a way, just when you think, it's going to let up. No. And then it comes just at the right time, a kind of a breeze, where it comes from, and the refreshment. And then you're drawing something in from this power, and I would call it the spirit. The spirit is now bringing you into the inner rest that's going on, is only had by those who are willing to endure. I don't know how others would describe that, but that's how I was experiencing it. As you were speaking about that, that endurance, I think that's the suffering of love, isn't it? I mean, at its very, very heart. And I know that's one of the, you had spoken so poignantly that for many who heard your reflection prior to leaving, and you were seeking a particular grace, that entering into the Immaculate Heart of Mary, even more deeply into the Sacred Heart, and I don't want to put more words on it than what you were hoping for, because sometimes even the grace we think we're going for is smaller than the one that God wants to give us. So how would you describe your experience for those who have been eagerly waiting? Well, did it happen for them? Did you receive what you were hoping for? More, more than I ever had anticipated. That which I wanted, I received, but much more abundantly. There was more. It's so difficult to describe, because you have to use the same words. But the words don't carry the meaning that the inner self has that you want to convey. That life in the inner self, that enduring bond of love. Like, excuse me, you're supposed to look ragged and tired and beleaguered for an 88 -year -old man who, you know, has traveled around the world, and I have not seen you look so buoyant and glowing and energized. I mean, this is just, it's a joy to behold you. Yeah, yeah. And I feel that way. I feel my cup runneth over. You know, they use that expression, but it's just like brimming over, full and I. I just don't know how else to express it. So if you see it, that's wonderful. And if you hear it, that's wonderful. But I'm experiencing it. And so whatever I wanted out of this, I received with a hundredfold. You're like a beautiful monstrance right now that's sitting on top of an altar with a whole bunch of light shining. And I know you're just a vessel. You're just a monstrance. But what's making everybody, it's just breathtaking is how Christ is radiating out of you right now. What I was experiencing was that inner heart of Mary. And what's the inner heart of Mary? Completely empty. Completely empty. So that every single moment you can receive whatever that is that's coming. I think that's really what I'm experiencing. The emptiness of Mary's heart. So that she has none of her own cares, but those of everyone around her. You know, everyone was caring. I felt being cared for. But it was like the kind of being cared for so that I too could experience how to care for others. Well now you got me crying. Oh my gosh. Now I'm a big weepy mess. Well Monsignor, you know, I usually ask you if you have a final thought, but I just can't even believe that there could be a finality to this experience. What are you feeling right now in this moment? The thing that I'm really kind of filled with is Mary's spirit. It's always crying out. Magnificat. Magnificat. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. Along with hundreds of other spiritual formation programs, visit discerning hearts .com. Or you can find it within the free discerning hearts app. This has been a production of discerning hearts. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. We hope that if this has been helpful for you that you will first pray for our mission, which is to offer rock solid and authentic spiritual formation freely to souls around the world. And if you feel us worthy, consider a charitable donation, which is fully tax deductible to help support our efforts. 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"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners -supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax -deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener -supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit DiscerningHearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. DiscerningHearts .com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I'm delighted to be joined by Father Thomas Murrow, who has an STL in moral theology from the Dominican House of Studies and received his doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. Father Murrow has appeared as a guest on numerous Catholic media platforms and is the author of Overcoming Sinful Anger, How to Master Your Emotions and Bring Peace to Your Life, and Overcoming Sinful Thoughts, How to Realign Your Thinking and Defeat Harmful Ideas. With Father Thomas Murrow, we go inside the pages of Straight to Heaven, A Practical Guide for Growing in Holiness, published by Sophia Institute Press. Father Murrow, thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure. My pleasure. It was such a delight to get a copy of the book. I just love your writing. You have been on the forefront of evangelization and teaching the Catholic faith for so long. This is such a great book, and we need it today, Straight to Heaven, A Practical Guide for Growing in Holiness. Thank you so much. You're most welcome. It's so important, don't you think, that not only to grow in holiness, but to know why we're growing in holiness, where we're going, what's the goal? And you set that out right in the very beginning, don't you? This is how I motivated kids in school when I taught in the school, is to teach them about heaven, hell, and purgatory, and once I taught them about that, they listened the whole year. For many people in today's culture anyway, we all believe in heaven, that there's going to be a heaven, we're not so sure about hell, and for many of us, we have no idea what purgatory is. That's right. When you talk about heaven, which I kind of like, you start right off the bat about what it's going to be like. What are some of those basics that you would want to communicate to someone about why heaven's worth it? So our Lord speaks of a heaven like finding a buried treasure, and it's worth selling all you have in order to have it, and it's also like a marriage with God, and we don't talk about that enough, I don't think, the fact that it's going to be like a beautiful marriage with a beautiful spouse who is so good and so holy, and it makes us so happy. St. Therese said, I formed such a lofty idea of heaven that at times I wonder what God will do in my death to surprise me, because your hope is so great. So John of the Cross wrote beautifully about the marriage in heaven. He's a wonderful romantic, and St. Therese of Abla wrote that the Lord appeared to her in 1572, and said, from now on you will be my bride, till now you are not married to this, but from now on, not only will you offer my honor as that of your Creator and King of God, but as my true bride. So there's plenty of evidence in scripture that we'll be married to God. Isaiah 62, you shall be called my delight, the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married, or as a young man marries a virgin, shall your God marry you? As his bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. So there's plenty of evidence in scripture that we're going to be married to God, but I don't think people talk enough about that, that he wants us in this intimate relationship, which is so beautiful and so delightful that we forget that, because perhaps we priests don't talk enough about it. I was really struck when I was reading your book, Father, that in this imagery of the divine marriage and having that connection to heaven, I can't think of anything more wonderful than to be in union in love, because as St. John says, God is love. And so in that divine marriage, it's the sharing of love, and then in itself, wouldn't that be the best place to be for all of eternity? Absolutely, absolutely. And the nice thing about heaven is that there's no time there. Everything is compressed into the present, so everything's happening at once. You don't have to wait for anything. You don't have to eat anything. You don't have to retail anything. Everything is right there, and everything is happening at once, but a lot of things are happening. It's not to say that they're not happening, they're happening in an instant. St. Paul told us, no eye has seen, no ear has heard. It's hard for us to fathom it, isn't it? Yeah, I think we come up with our own ideas. Sometimes we think from our own vantage point that if I go to heaven, I'll have the riches. I'll have the nicest house. I'll have the nicest car. Everything will be happy, and it's so much deeper than surface items, isn't it? Absolutely, that's true. I mean, we'll have all these things in a sense, but we'll have something better. We'll have beautiful, beautiful relationships with wonderful, wonderful people, and especially God. Yes, we want heaven in a very real way, but we don't really want to discuss hell, do we? The reality of that is a real possibility if that's what we're going to choose. That's right. People, they have a tendency to shy away from that, whereas that's very strongly mentioned in the scripture. And that's where we get in trouble when we forget about scripture and we start coming up with our own ideas. You can't get around that. It is mentioned by our Blessed Lord, isn't it? Yeah, between 25 and 30 times in sacred scripture. He does mention heaven about 170 times, so the emphasis on the positive, but it does not leave out the negative. That's, I think, so confusing for some, because when we talk about the negative, it's a loving warning, isn't it? Because ultimately, isn't it true, Father, that if we end up in hell, we've chosen that. Everything has kind of set our hearts towards that. Yes, yes. And in a sense, we choose hell because we choose the riches that God has offered us in being with Him forever. And so the problem is, the reason there's a hell is because we have freedom. And freedom is a good thing, but it's not an absolute good. It's an instrumental good. We can use it for the wrong thing. And so if we use it for the wrong thing, we get in trouble. We use our freedom to not love God and not love our neighbor, well then we have to suffer the consequences. But the only way that there can be a hell is because there's freedom and we have a choice and we have to make the right choices. It's a reality that I'm glad you brought forward the doctors of the church, whether it be Bernard of Clairvaux or Teresa of Avila. And you have an extensive quote from St. Francis de Sales. These are extraordinary saints who give us a very important warning. Absolutely, absolutely. St. Francis de Sales has a whole chapter in the introduction to the devout life on hell. And Ignatius of Loyola also have a large section in his spiritual exercises about hell. You brought up the word suffering. Whatever the great mystery of it is that suffering is an element in all this, even here on earth, we suffer here on earth, don't we? Yeah. Can't get around it. Yeah. And the solution to that is the crucifix. Jesus suffered because of sin. And St. Peter said, Christ suffered for you and left you an example that you should follow in his steps. So we have to share in that redemptive work, not merely to the extent that Jesus did, but to some extent, yeah, we have to help make up for sins of the world. Maybe not our sins, but maybe our sins too. But all the sins of the world have to be made up because God is so good, he's committed to justice. He is. And I think that's one of the reasons, isn't it, that not only the justice, but also his great mercy, that we would have the opportunity and what is still very much a dogma of the church is purgatory, the existence of that existence and where Christ helps us to heal. But it also involves the suffering because of the choices that we made here on earth. Yes. Jesus' atonement, we have to make atonement. Jesus took on most of the atonement and said, we have a relatively small amount to make up in purgatory, which is very, very arduous. And people that say they just want to go to purgatory are really very mistaken because it's not the kind of place you want to go to. It's painful, the section that you have of Thomas Aquinas' teaching on that. Even now in our own lifetime, haven't you experienced this, Father, particularly with penitence that you've might have spoken to, where they're a realization of the pain that you caused another or the experience of pain that because of other people's choices on the soul, it causes emotionally such an agony. Imagine that when you don't even have the body to in the senses, that is just sheer, the soul coming to an awareness of the pain that it's inflicted on others.
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"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners -supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax -deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener -supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit DiscerningHearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. DiscerningHearts .com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I'm delighted to be joined by Father Thomas Murrow, who has an STL in moral theology from the Dominican House of Studies and received his doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. Father Murrow has appeared as a guest on numerous Catholic media platforms and is the author of Overcoming Sinful Anger, How to Master Your Emotions and Bring Peace to Your Life, and Overcoming Sinful Thoughts, How to Realign Your Thinking and Defeat Harmful Ideas. With Father Thomas Murrow, we go inside the pages of Straight to Heaven, A Practical Guide for Growing in Holiness, published by Sophia Institute Press. Father Murrow, thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure. My pleasure. It was such a delight to get a copy of the book. I just love your writing. You have been on the forefront of evangelization and teaching the Catholic faith for so long. This is such a great book, and we need it today, Straight to Heaven, A Practical Guide for Growing in Holiness. Thank you so much. You're most welcome. It's so important, don't you think, that not only to grow in holiness, but to know why we're growing in holiness, where we're going, what's the goal? And you set that out right in the very beginning, don't you? This is how I motivated kids in school when I taught in the school, is to teach them about heaven, hell, and purgatory, and once I taught them about that, they listened the whole year. For many people in today's culture anyway, we all believe in heaven, that there's going to be a heaven, we're not so sure about hell, and for many of us, we have no idea what purgatory is. That's right. When you talk about heaven, which I kind of like, you start right off the bat about what it's going to be like. What are some of those basics that you would want to communicate to someone about why heaven's worth it? So our Lord speaks of a heaven like finding a buried treasure, and it's worth selling all you have in order to have it, and it's also like a marriage with God, and we don't talk about that enough, I don't think, the fact that it's going to be like a beautiful marriage with a beautiful spouse who is so good and so holy, and it makes us so happy. St. Therese said, I formed such a lofty idea of heaven that at times I wonder what God will do in my death to surprise me, because your hope is so great. So John of the Cross wrote beautifully about the marriage in heaven. He's a wonderful romantic, and St. Therese of Abla wrote that the Lord appeared to her in 1572, and said, from now on you will be my bride, till now you are not married to this, but from now on, not only will you offer my honor as that of your Creator and King of God, but as my true bride. So there's plenty of evidence in scripture that we'll be married to God. Isaiah 62, you shall be called my delight, the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married, or as a young man marries a virgin, shall your God marry you? As his bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. So there's plenty of evidence in scripture that we're going to be married to God, but I don't think people talk enough about that, that he wants us in this intimate relationship, which is so beautiful and so delightful that we forget that, because perhaps we priests don't talk enough about it. I was really struck when I was reading your book, Father, that in this imagery of the divine marriage and having that connection to heaven, I can't think of anything more wonderful than to be in union in love, because as St. John says, God is love. And so in that divine marriage, it's the sharing of love, and then in itself, wouldn't that be the best place to be for all of eternity? Absolutely, absolutely. And the nice thing about heaven is that there's no time there. Everything is compressed into the present, so everything's happening at once. You don't have to wait for anything. You don't have to eat anything. You don't have to retail anything. Everything is right there, and everything is happening at once, but a lot of things are happening. It's not to say that they're not happening, they're happening in an instant. St. Paul told us, no eye has seen, no ear has heard. It's hard for us to fathom it, isn't it? Yeah, I think we come up with our own ideas. Sometimes we think from our own vantage point that if I go to heaven, I'll have the riches. I'll have the nicest house. I'll have the nicest car. Everything will be happy, and it's so much deeper than surface items, isn't it? Absolutely, that's true. I mean, we'll have all these things in a sense, but we'll have something better. We'll have beautiful, beautiful relationships with wonderful, wonderful people, and especially God. Yes, we want heaven in a very real way, but we don't really want to discuss hell, do we? The reality of that is a real possibility if that's what we're going to choose. That's right. People, they have a tendency to shy away from that, whereas that's very strongly mentioned in the scripture. And that's where we get in trouble when we forget about scripture and we start coming up with our own ideas. You can't get around that. It is mentioned by our Blessed Lord, isn't it? Yeah, between 25 and 30 times in sacred scripture. He does mention heaven about 170 times, so the emphasis on the positive, but it does not leave out the negative. That's, I think, so confusing for some, because when we talk about the negative, it's a loving warning, isn't it? Because ultimately, isn't it true, Father, that if we end up in hell, we've chosen that. Everything has kind of set our hearts towards that. Yes, yes. And in a sense, we choose hell because we choose the riches that God has offered us in being with Him forever. And so the problem is, the reason there's a hell is because we have freedom. And freedom is a good thing, but it's not an absolute good. It's an instrumental good. We can use it for the wrong thing. And so if we use it for the wrong thing, we get in trouble. We use our freedom to not love God and not love our neighbor, well then we have to suffer the consequences. But the only way that there can be a hell is because there's freedom and we have a choice and we have to make the right choices. It's a reality that I'm glad you brought forward the doctors of the church, whether it be Bernard of Clairvaux or Teresa of Avila. And you have an extensive quote from St. Francis de Sales. These are extraordinary saints who give us a very important warning. Absolutely, absolutely. St. Francis de Sales has a whole chapter in the introduction to the devout life on hell. And Ignatius of Loyola also have a large section in his spiritual exercises about hell. You brought up the word suffering. Whatever the great mystery of it is that suffering is an element in all this, even here on earth, we suffer here on earth, don't we? Yeah. Can't get around it. Yeah. And the solution to that is the crucifix. Jesus suffered because of sin. And St. Peter said, Christ suffered for you and left you an example that you should follow in his steps. So we have to share in that redemptive work, not merely to the extent that Jesus did, but to some extent, yeah, we have to help make up for sins of the world. Maybe not our sins, but maybe our sins too. But all the sins of the world have to be made up because God is so good, he's committed to justice. He is. And I think that's one of the reasons, isn't it, that not only the justice, but also his great mercy, that we would have the opportunity and what is still very much a dogma of the church is purgatory, the existence of that existence and where Christ helps us to heal. But it also involves the suffering because of the choices that we made here on earth. Yes. Jesus' atonement, we have to make atonement. Jesus took on most of the atonement and said, we have a relatively small amount to make up in purgatory, which is very, very arduous. And people that say they just want to go to purgatory are really very mistaken because it's not the kind of place you want to go to. It's painful, the section that you have of Thomas Aquinas' teaching on that. Even now in our own lifetime, haven't you experienced this, Father, particularly with penitence that you've might have spoken to, where they're a realization of the pain that you caused another or the experience of pain that because of other people's choices on the soul, it causes emotionally such an agony. Imagine that when you don't even have the body to in the senses, that is just sheer, the soul coming to an awareness of the pain that it's inflicted on others.
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"Guys, I'm really happy to welcome to the podcast a new guest, doctor Thomas D Williams, he's the author of an excellent book that I just read. It's called the coming Christian persecution. He's also the Rome bureau chief for Breitbart News. He's taught at the center for ethics and culture at the university of Notre-Dame. He teaches theology at St. John's university is written a bunch of books, he's also got so many other credentials. He speaks multiple languages. He's a wine sommelier. I don't even know where to start with your with your bio here. Doctor Williams, but welcome and thanks for joining me. Your book is unbelievably. Well, it's both timeless and it's timely. I've just been talking on the podcast about this latest grotesque incident, mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school, and it seems very interesting because in the book you talk about how there is a kind of widespread public denial of the anti Christian bigotry behind these kinds of actions and we're seeing it in the media coverage. The media coverage is I think I just saw a headline in Reuters, former student shoots up Christian school. That's it. No reference to the motive, no reference to the transgender perpetrator or domestic terrorist. So clearly some of the stuff you're talking about in the book and you cover history, you cover the rest of the world, but it's all too relevant to what's happening right now in the west and specifically in the United States. Well, unfortunately, you're exactly right the next. This is what we're seeing on a daily or weekly basis. And it's happening all over the place. It is only really deniable to those who are choosing to be blind to it because it is growing at an accelerated pace. Tucker Carlson last night on Fox News, the title for his segment on this was the trans movement is targeting Christians. And he made a very, you know, a very cogent case for the fact that this is something that we're seeing. There have been a number of these incidents this is not the first. And it's also part of the rhetoric that they're using, the Christians really are looked upon as the enemies
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"BP sports. Coaches on the move in college basketball. Rick Pitino is headed back to the Big Apple. Patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting a 6 year deal, bettina was guided 5 different schools to the NCAA tournament. And former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently stepped down, takes over at South Florida. And the NBA, Philadelphia, honored its 1983 NBA championship sixers team. It was the Chicago Bulls doing the celebrating one O 9 one O 5 over the sixers in double overtime and New York got 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough though, has been a soda topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. In the NHL, Dylan Ferguson, 48 saves for Ottawa and the Sens defeat Pittsburgh two to one. Women's NCAA tournament, another number one drops as top seed Indiana got beat by 9th seed Miami. Japan over Mexico 6 to 5 of the world baseball classic that sends them at the tonight's championship game against defending champ the United States. AP sports
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"Leapy sports. I'm sure freedom coaches on the move in college basketball, Rick Pitino has headed back to the Big Apple, patina will leave his coaching job at iona to take over at St. John's getting his 6 year deal. Former Notre-Dame coach Mike bray, who recently resigned, takes over at South Florida. In the NBA, Philadelphia celebrated its 40th anniversary of the 1983 NBA title, but it was all Chicago Bulls in the second overtime. The bulls went at one O 9 one O 5 or the sixers. Bull centered Nikola vucevic says the team showed a lot of fight for a big win. This year, no matter what was going on, we always kept coming back and fighting back. We had light up and downs, let it tough bosses, a lot of things were we could have just kind of quit and gave up. But we keep battling, obviously, there's still a lot to play. Memphis rallied late to beat Dallas one 12 to one O 8. It was the New York Knicks getting 57 points from Julius Randle, not enough, though, has Minnesota topped the Knicks one 40 to one 34. We gave him confidence in a team like that that can really score the ball. He gave them confidence early. They're going to stick around. Utah beats Sacramento, Memphis over Dallas as the gris rallied late. Charlotte over Indiana and Golden State snapped an 11 game road losing streak in downing Houston. NHL, Florida defeated Detroit 5 to two Alexander barkov set the Florida franchise record for most career points. Dylan Ferguson had himself a game in the nets for the sins as Ottawa defeated Pittsburgh two to one Ferguson had 48 saves. It's still sinking in to be honest. My big focus tonight was just go out there and be me. Don't try to be anyone I'm not. And just stay in the moment. Colorado shout out to Chicago 5 nothing. It was Los Angeles blowing out Calgary and it was Edmonton defeating San Jose in overtime. Women's NCAA tournament another number one drops as Indiana got beat by 19 Miami. World baseball classic Japan over Mexico 6 to 5, Japan faces defending champion United States in tonight's championship round. Shek Freeman, AP sports
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"St. John's took topsy in 6th ranked marquette so over time with the golden eagles pulled as 72 70 when, then 11th ranked Yukon, held off the grits of Providence team in the second game 73 66. The evening session featured tenth seed depaul versus second C and 15th ranked Xavier, the blue demon shot the lights at a 61% pace, making coach Sean Miller a little nervous. We were tentative for a lot of the first half and when the ball keeps going in, it can sometimes strip you of your confidence. The musketeers caught up with two minutes left and came out with an 89 to 84 win. Finally defending champion Villanova squared off with 24th ranked creighton, so Blue Jays led from end to end winning 87 to 74. Matt mankiewicz New York
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"6 ranked marquette survived a wild finish in a 96 94 win over St. John's. The red storm erased most of the ten point deficit in the final 21 seconds and had a chance to tie, but Omar Stanley missed the second of two free throws with 2.4 seconds left. Cam Jones scored 23 points and the golden eagles 11th win in 12 games. Tyler Cole added 18 points at ten assists to help the big east regular season champs improve to 17 and three in the conference. Dylan a day Wu su scored a career high 25 for St. John's. I'm Dave ferry.
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Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
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"Pope America Benedict is still in a stable condition after experiencing a health decline and was able to take part in a private mass in his room according to Vatican officials. The Vatican provided an update on the retired pontiff's health, saying he was able to rest well for a second night. Meanwhile, faithful have gathered in churches in Rome to pray for the 95 year old Pope emeritus, sister Mary kamani, a medical doctor, did not go home to sleep after a night shift. So that God will accompany him. He needs all of us at this time. Guna Reeves from Belgium attended a mass at the tomb of St. John Paul the second. This
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"st john" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"It's actually, first of all, they're more inclined to actually do it than because there's kind of more of a motivation or people are afraid that maybe that coupon code is only good for so long or whatever. So it gives the motivation to go through your link versus someone else a 100%. I like that. Let me wrap up this episode. So many different takeaways. We talked about three things go back and listen to it if you want to hear them again. We talked about three things that you could do if you wanted to be a frugal preneur. And we also talked about three big takeaways of starting a new podcast. One of the big ones that I put in caps was implementation. You got to implement it. If you're going to learn it, do it. Because just learning it is never going to make you any money. And we got that info from Sarah today. Just good stuff. She also talked about paying attention to your audience. She talked about ways that she got creatively got pat Flynn on her podcast. Go back and listen to it if you want to hear that again. We talked about creative way that she got Mike McAuliffe's on her podcast. She talked about how CPM versus reaching out directly, how you can make more money and have it more relevant to your audience. She talked about podcast swaps and I think it was pod Booker or pod match. They both do similar things. We'll make sure those links are in the show notes for you and one of them is going to be affiliate. I just want you to know I'm going to disclose disclose disclose, but I believe in both of those. We use both of those. That's how I'm Sarah and I met, which is important for you to recognize. She's getting exposure on our show. And I'm going to be on her show today we're going to record the reciprocal interview as well. So that was a really cool thing. She said, we didn't really pinpoint it so much while listening, but that podcast swap was a really smart thing that she was sharing with you that you can do to grow your audience. She talked about other ways of growing an audience. She talked about other ways of monetizing a show. And as we talked about affiliates, my two big takeaways, one is it's got to be something that you use and believe in. Like don't just do it for the payout because there's a big payout or whatever. You've got to keep your integrity intact. It's not all about money, make it something that you use and or believe in. And then she mentioned something else that was a really cool takeaway right at the end. A coupon code. Reach out to them and ask them if they can create you a special affiliate link that saves your person money. So it's their website dot com slash your name. Or something like that.
The Podcast On Podcasting
"st john" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"It is. Yeah, Castro. All right, I'm going to definitely look it up. Sarah, we've gone a little bit over time. And I want to ask you, can you still tell us more of these advertising things? Like, is there anything else that you have tried and has worked? And what comes from your book, the 27 ways to do this? Yeah, so I'm going to do bus proud ads because that's pretty affordable. Audrey IO, it's kind of similar to bus sprout where you can have your own little thing inserted into someone else's podcast. And basically, people set their own rates there. I've done one ad that way. I think it was like 20 bucks. So there's a few different platforms you can use for that. Or the different podcast player apps, there's several different ones. Most of them are out of my price range. The Castro one, it's 99 bucks for 7 days, one 99 for 15 days, and three 9 9 for 30 days. But I just did the 7 day, and it says, since I haven't pulled up, I might as well tell you, it says, for example, for the $99 7 day promo, you can expect to get 15,020 thousand impressions, like people seeing it. 66 to a 115 taps and 15 to 50 subscriptions. But I got 25,573 impressions, a 150. Can you do it for me this way? 'cause I'm so dyslexic and ADV. And I'm chasing squirrels all the time. Could you say they said this thing, but I got this thing and then go to the next one and say they said this, but I got this. Okay. I heard all of the first info and now I can't remember it wasn't your turn. Oh yeah. That makes sense. Okay, so they said 15 to 20,000 impressions, I got 25,000. So 5000 more than they said. They said 66 to a 115 taps, I got one O four taps. So right in the middle, on the high end. On the high end. And then 15 to 50 subscriptions and I got 29. So right in the middle. I guess right in the middle. Yeah. Cool. Cool. And that was with something IO. No, that was Castro. That was Castro Castro. And was that your $20? Or was that your $99 for that? That was $99. That's pretty cool. And so for 99 bucks, you got 29 subscribers, was it? Yeah. 99 bucks. So for every three ish bucks, you get a subscriber, I'm trying to do some math here. I'm trying to do some math here.
The Podcast On Podcasting
"st john" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"Recently released a course. How many books do you have? Four, holy cow, Sarah. That wasn't in your bio? Oh, maybe I need to update my bio then. Four books? Yeah, yeah. All right, give us a quick about these books, and then we'll keep talking about monetizing real quick. Okay. So the first book was frugal, and that's where the podcast it came from as well. And that was about the different types of online business models and how to run them affordably. The second book was author preneur, which is about self publishing, because I had self published and still do all my books. The third book was podcast preneur. So it was basically a preneur trilogy, which wasn't my goal or intent. It just kind of how it worked out. And then that's about like podcasting basics, how to start a podcast, stuff like that. And then my most recent book that came out in August is 27 ways to market and monetize a podcast. And that's kind of more, I wouldn't say beginner. That's more like intermediate. Like someone who already has a podcast and they're looking at a market monetize it. So yeah, those are the four books, and usually I give those away for free, at least the ebook version. As my lead magnet basically and to grow my email list, and then the podcast production agency is kind of my main focus now as far as monetizing it on the product and service side. You can also monetize through sponsorships, I don't recommend going the normal route of that, where it's like the CPM model. Unless you're getting tens of thousands of downloads, the way I did it was I actually just reached out to companies directly that I thought made sense for my audience. Because I didn't want like mattress commercials. And reach out directly. This is brilliant stuff. I mean, I'm genuine, reach out directly. This is so good. I'm going to definitely get back to that. So you mentioned you didn't want mattress companies.
The Podcast On Podcasting
"st john" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"I don't recommend going the normal route of that, where it's like the CPM model. Unless you're getting tens of thousands of downloads, the way I did it was I actually just reached out to companies directly that I thought made sense for my audience. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard, and their show ends up costing the money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up podcaster? It's your host anime Adams and I'm stoked because we've got somebody on the podcast who's got well over a hundred episodes. I think when I looked, it was like 167 episodes. So she's been really pushing hard and I know that you're probably listening and thinking, man, I want to get some more episodes out. I only have two. I only have 40. And she's got over a hundred. So we're going to learn a couple of things from her. We're going to talk a little bit about how she monetizes her podcast. And we're going to talk about some marketing. How does she grow her podcast as well? She has a company that supports podcasters that started in around 2022. And we will also find out a little bit about some of the things that she's learned along the way. Basically because she serves a lot of people like you. And so let's get started with Sarah St. John from the frugal printer. Is that what it's called? The frugal printer. Yep, frugal. And then I have a tagline building a business on a bootstrap budget. Well, let's talk about, man, there's so many places that we can go. I want to start with, let's just talk about your company. The newest company, because I know you did drop shipping and things like that before launching this that you're doing this year, helping podcasters. And let's just talk about like, how did you bootstrap it? And then we'll get more into podcasting, but I think our listener today is probably thinking, not every one of them, a lot of the listeners might be multi millionaires, who knows, but some of them need to bootstrap. So let's talk about what did you do? What do you suggest? What have you learned on your podcast? Let's just say the top three takeaways, perhaps about bootstrapping a business before we jump into podcasting. Oh, sure. So one thing is when someone's starting a business, they think that they need to go all in and spend the most money. Say, for example, they're starting a podcast. Let's just use that as an example. They'll think that they need to spend 5 grand, ten grand on the best podcast equipment that you would see in maybe a radio station. But I recommend just starting, I started mine with a hundred bucks, which was the microphone I use as an ATR 2100. There's a Samsung Q two U, these mics are like 60 bucks. USB mics. And then, you know, just having I recommend headphones, which most people have.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. John Paul the second, day 9. A reflection by St. John Paul the pilgrim church on earth lifts its gaze to heaven and exultantly joins the choir of those with whom God shares his glory. It is the communion of saints obesity. We thank you for having graced the church with St. John Paul the second, and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care. The glory of the cross of Christ and the splendor of the spirit of love to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy, and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the good shepherd. He has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore through Christ our lord. Amen. We pray with St. John Paul's second, a prayer he composed. Jesus said, abide in me and I and you, for apart from me, you can do nothing. I leave you now with this prayer that the lord Jesus will reveal himself to each one of you that he will give you the strength to go out and profess that you are Christian. That he will show you that he alone can fill your hearts. Accept his freedom and embrace his truth and be messengers of the certainty that you have been truly liberated through the death and resurrection of the lord Jesus. This will be the new experience, the powerful experience that will generate through you a more just society and a better world. God bless you and May the joy of Jesus be always with you. Amen. St. John Paul the second, pray for us. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"We now return to St. John of the cross, master of contemplation with father Donald haggerty. On spiritual sloth too, I mean, that's something that we have to be very mindful of, don't we? Yes. Again, and his expressions in this too to be careful not to give up, not to just get accustomed to what's easier and not to,
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. John Paul the second, day 7. A reflection by St. John Paul. Certainly the whole mystery of Christ is a mystery of light. He is the light of the world. Oh bless eternity. We thank you for having graced the church with St. John Paul the second, and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care. The glory of the cross of Christ and the splendor of the spirit of love to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the good shepherd. He has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life, and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore through Christ our lord. Amen. We pray with St. John Paul's second, a prayer he composed. Lord, from you every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you are, love, and life. Through your son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, the fountain of divine charity. Grant that every family on earth may become for each successive generation, a true shrine of life and love. Grant that your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families, and of all the families of the world. Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love. Granted love strengthened by the grace of the sacrament of marriage, may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass. Through the intercession of the holy family of Nazareth, grant the church may fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family and through the family. We ask this of you who are life, truth and love, with the son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. St. John Paul the second pray for us. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. John Paul the second, day 5. A reflection by St. John Paul. As we ask for forgiveness, let us also forgive. This is what we say every day when we recite the prayer Jesus taught us. Our father, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Obla sa Trinity, we thank you for having graced the church with St. John Paul the second, and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care. The glory of the cross of Christ and the splendor of the spirit of love to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the good shepherd. He has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore through Christ our lord. Amen. We pray with St. John Paul's second a prayer he composed. Save us from grieving your spirit. By our lack of faith and lack of readiness to witness to your gospel, indeed, and in truth by secularism and by wishing at all costs to conform to mentality of this world. By a lack of love which is patient and kind, which is not boastful, which does not insist on its own way. Which bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Bad love, which rejoices in the right, and only in the right. Save us from grieving your spirit by everything that brings inward sadness and is an obstacle for the soul by whatever causes, divisions. By whatever makes us fertile soil for all temptations. Amen. St. John Paul the second, pray for us. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. John Paul the second, day four. A reflection by St. John Paul faith is strengthened when it's given to others. It is in commitment to the church's universal mission that the new evangelization of Christian peoples will find inspiration and support. Oblast at Trinity, we thank you for having graced the church with St. John Paul the second, and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care. The glory of the cross of Christ and the splendor of the spirit of love to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy, and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the good shepherd. He has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore through Christ our lord. Amen. We pray with St. John Paul's second a prayer he composed. By your faith be strong, May it not hesitate, and not waver before the doubts, the uncertainties, which philosophical systems or fashional movements would like to suggest to you. May I not descend to compromise with certain concepts, which would like to present Christianity as a mere ideology of historical character, and therefore be placed at the same level as so many others, now, outdated. May your faith be joyful because it is based on awareness of possessing a divine gift. When you pray and dialog with God, and when you converse with me, may you, manifest the you of this enviable possession. Amen. St. John Paul the second, pray for us. Amen.
Mark Levin
Gov. DeSantis: Water Levels May Continue to Rise, Even After the Storm
"Governor desantis earlier today had this to say cut three mister producer go Right now if you look in Central Florida you're looking at potential major flooding and orange and seminal counties St. John's river all the way up potentially into northeast Florida and Jacksonville the amount of water that's been rising and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing Is basically a 500 year flood event And I know Seminole county has done evacuations I know they've opened shelters but we're going to see a lot of images about the destruction that was done in Southwest Florida And obviously we have massive assets there but people should just understand this storm is having broad impacts across the state and some of the flooding you're going to see in areas hundreds of miles from where this made landfall are going to set records And that's going to obviously be things that will need to be responded to So that is a really unfortunate but they're very lucky to have a hands on smart governor there I know governor desantis quite well He's a personal friend I knew him before He was governor when he was at congressman And I've decided at least for the time being not the contact him To come on the program I know others are having them on their programs And I think that's a good thing So we can get the message out But I've just decided to let him do his work and not to be one of those lining up to try and bring him on the program I hope you'll continue to be generous in helping the people of Florida who need our help The Florida disaster fund dot org Florida disaster fund dot org
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st john" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Discerning hearts dot com presents St. John of the cross. Master of contemplation was father Donald haggerty. Father haggerty is a priest of the archdiocese of New York, who serves as Saint Patrick's cathedral. He taught moral theology and worked as a spiritual director in seminaries for 20 years. He has directed numerous yearly retreats for the missionaries of charity. He's the author of contemplative provocations, the contemplative hunger, conversion, contemplative enigmas, and St. John of the cross, master of contemplation, the book on which the series is based. St. John of the cross, master of contemplation, with father Donald haggerty. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Father haggerty,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Writer Andrew Klavan Describes the Ultimate Freedom of Christianity
"And we're back one on one with Andrew Cleveland. Let's go there. I wish we had hours to discuss it, so let me see if I can couple two things together. You talked about your 50 year journey towards Christ and towards the foundation of this civilization, which is our savior. Then you use the phrase in your last podcast. Mental slavery. That the left has created that woke ism is a form of mental slavery. Can you artificially strain this? But let's talk about that concept of mental slavery, and let's talk about why Christianity is the ultimate freedom in terms of, yes, it's about sacrifice. Yes, it's about pain. Yes, it's about the authority of God. But as the St. John Paul said, freedom isn't the freedom to buy Playboy. It's making the choice to do the right thing. That's the beauty of freedom. Right. I'll let you free. I think the most important meant not the most important one of the important things about Christianity is it's a path to forgiveness. And if you have a path where you can say, oh, you know, I did that wrong. And God says, hey, turn around, start doing it right. The prodigal son, the minute the father sees him on the road. He runs off to meet him. That's the way God treats us. That's a beautiful thing and it's an incredibly liberating thing because it means you can make mistake after mistake mistake and say, oh, I'm turning around. I'm going home. If you can't do that, if you are committed to lies if your whole philosophy is based on an untruth, you have to keep going deeper. And so you start with this stupid little lie, a man can become a woman and you wind up with children being raped. It's an amazing path into darkness. This little bit of intellectual corruption will take you right down the road to hell and it is I've seen this again and again because you have no way of turning back. You have no way of saying, you know what? I'll take the shame and God will take that shame off me. You have no way of saying it. You just stuck with the shame. And people will do anything to avoid
AP News Radio
Bucks Bounce Back to Defeat Nets 104-89 and Force Game 7
"The season was on the line for the box and they came through and forced a game seven by beating that's one oh four eighty nine it was a wire to wire win for the box fending off several runs bay throughout the second half they were led by Khris Middleton's playoff career high thirty eight points Middleton says the box never felt any anxiety don't think about any type of pressure at all I mean it's a basketball game simple as that I mean I know it's loser because home at St John's basketball Middleton kept hitting shots of the second half keeping the nets at bay Middleton was eleven of sixteen from the field young the son of the couple had thirty points Kevin Durant had thirty two for the nets game seven is Saturday night in Brooklyn Chuck Freeman Milwaukee
The Dan Bongino Show
Liberals Burn Their Own Cities, Calling Riots as 'Peaceful Protests'
"You know, I live in a relatively conservative part of Florida. We had no problems down here at all. Weird How liberals live in these cities and they go and burn your cities down and you're like, Oh, this is great. They're peaceful protest as your city's burning down behind you kind of strange, right? I'm sure you remember. They've called Trump a coward because the secret Service took him into the bunker. Remember that they said, Oh my God! She was overreacting. President Trump. He was a chump, not a trump. What a coward into the bunker. That's weird because the Biden administration now is defending that decision. Defending the decision to expand the perimeter around the White House. I thought there was no threat. I thought they were peaceful Protesters didn't MSNBC. Your CNN imply that Don't worry, folks. These air, largely peaceful protest. I'm sorry. I just got punched in the face a largely another. That's a bottle hit me and it's okay. It is a largely peaceful riot. It's largely peaceful. It is a largely peaceful burning down of ST John's church in front of the White House. It's burning, but it's peacefully. But matter of fact, what do they call fires was cave Man television. It's actually pretty peaceful of you. I look at that we could you hear the crackling It is a peaceful, burning down off Washington D. C. No
First Light
Florida High School Slammed for Sexist Yearbook Edits
"Portrait photos of female students at uncover to their chests and shoulders. It was done without their consent, even as photos of the teenage boys wearing bathing suits and girls wearing less clothing than they were in the portrait shots were published in the yearbook. Bartram Trail High School is in ST John's County, Florida near ST Augustine. The controversy comes as the school has already been embroiled in a debate over its handling of the district's dress code, which critics claim is sexist and unfairly targets Girls. First light headline News Monday. Sports Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Championship at
Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"st john" Discussed on Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"Did still. They allow us to discover in his actions shrouded in silence as they are an aura of deep contemplation. Joseph was in daily contact with the mystery hidden from ages past and which dwelt under his roof. This explains for example. Why saint theresa of jesus the great reformer of the carmelites promoted the renewal of veneration to saint joseph in western christianity. The total sacrifice. Joseph surrendered his whole existence to the demands of the messiahs coming into his home becomes understandable. Only in the light of his profound interior life it was from this interior life that very singular commands and constellations came bringing him also the logic and strength that belong to simple and clear souls and giving him the power of making great decisions such as the decision to put his liberty immediately at the disposition of the divine designs to make over to them his legitimate human calling his conjugal happiness to accept the conditions the responsibility and the burden of a family but through an incomparable virginal love to renounce that natural conjugal love. That is the foundation and nourishment of the family. This mission to god this readiness of will to dedicate oneself to all that serves. Him is really nothing less than that. Exercise of devotion which constitutes one expression of the virtue of religion the communion of life between joseph and jesus leads us to consider once again the mystery of the incarnation precisely in reference to the humanity of jesus as the efficacious instrument of his divinity for the purpose of sanctifying man by virtue of his divinity. Christ's human actions were some vic for us causing grace within us by merit or by a certain efficacy. Among those actions. The gospel writers highlight those have to do with the paschal mystery. But they also underscored the importance of physical contact with jesus for healing and the influence jesus exercised upon john the baptist. When they were both in their mothers wounds as we have seen the apostolic witness did not neglect the story of jesus's birth his circumcision his presentation in the temple..
Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"st john" Discussed on Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"The oft repeated formula this happened so that there might be fulfilled in reference to a particular event in the old testament serves to emphasize the unity and continuity of the plan which is fulfilled in christ with the incarnation. The promises and figures of the old testament become reality places persons events and writes interrelate according to precise divine commands communicated by angels and received by creatures who are particularly sensitive to the voice of god. Mary is the lord's humble servant prepared from eternity for the task of being the mother of god. Joseph is the one whom god chose to be the overseer of the lord's birth the one who has the responsibility to look after the son of god or deigned entry into the world and accordance with divine dispositions in human laws all of the so-called private or hidden life jesus is entrusted to joseph's guardianship the census journeying to bethlehem for the census in obedience to the orders of legitimate authority. Joseph fulfilled for the child the significant task of officially inserting the name jesus son of joseph of nazareth in the registry of the roman empire. This registration clearly shows that jesus belongs to the human race as a man among men the citizen of this world subject to laws and civil institutions but also savior of the world. Origin gives a good description of the theological significance by no means marginal of this historical fact since the first census of the whole world took place under caesar augustus and among all the others joseph to went to registered together with mary. His wife who was with child. And since jesus was born before the census was completed to the person who makes a careful examination it will appear that a kind of mystery is expressed in the fact that at the time when all people in the world presented themselves to be counted christ to should be counted by being registered with everyone. He could sanctify everyone inscribed with the whole world and the census. He offered to the world communion with.
Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"st john" Discussed on Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"Council teaches the obedience of faith must be given to god as he reveals himself by this obedience of faith men freely commits himself entirely to god making the full submission of his intellect and will to god who reveals and willingly assenting to the revelation given by him this statement which touches the very essence of faith is perfectly applicable to joseph of nazareth therefore he became a unique guardian of the mystery hidden for in god as did mary in that decisive moment. Which saint paul calls the fullness of time when god sent forth his son born of woman to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons in the words of the council it pleased god in his goodness and wisdom to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will his will was that men should have access to the father. Through christ the word made flesh in the holy spirit and become sharers in the divine nature together with mary. Joseph is the first guardian of this divine mystery together with mary and in relation to mary. He shares in this final phase of god's self revelation in christ and he does so from the very beginning looking at the gospel. Tanks of both matthew and luke one can also say that joseph is the first to share the faith of the mother of god and in doing so. He supports his spouse in the faith of divine annunciation. He is also the first to be placed by god on the path of mary's pilgrimage of faith it is a path along which especially at the time of calvary and pentecost. Mary will precede. In a perfect way. The path that was joseph's his pilgrimage of faith ended. I that is to say before. Mary stood at the foot of the cross on golgotha and before the time after christ returned to the father when she was present in the upper room on pentecost the day the church was manifested to the world having been born in the power of the.
The Authority Project
"st john" Discussed on The Authority Project
"How do you get to the point where it confident in building a business when they have to pay the bills to survive. What do you say that the well. What what gives you certainty when when you started out after a while. What gave you the certainty. Yeah so what. I recommend so if you currently have a fulltime job but you want to start a business i recommend starting it on the side. I i guess you could call it a side hustle if you want and that business is generating enough income to matchel salary or at least pay your bills them. I personally recommend doing it on the side evenings weekends. That's what i've been doing and and build up the income. I know a lot of people they they when they start a business. They have to quit their full time job and jump right in and or some people do that and i guess for some people are probably worse because in a way will. Then that's just extra motivation to really hustle. Hard real fast. But i i i. I'm one of those. I like to play it safe. I guess to a certain extent. And so i guess i recommend kind of starting on the side and build it up gradually maybe a year or two years or whatever it takes and then if you some people. They want to keep their fulltime job. And just have extra income on the side or they have a passion or a hobby that they just wanna get paid for basically so yeah i guess it depends on which route you wanna go but i personally don't recommend like diving in full force in up and quitting your job but i think i think when people think of the term entrepreneur they think of or they think there's a a a connotation with that whereas if you're a true entrepreneur i believe you don't have a day job quit your day job. No fire your boss. Kind of thing you on those things and i think a lot of people don't see that that's always the case there's a guy who has a podcast called the psycho podcast and he has. He's been doing his. I'm not sure we still still doing it now. But i know for a very long time. He still had his full time job while he was doing that. Podcast and working hot side side-hustle lucky he's professing for for a long time. So do you think that a lot people get mixed up when they say. I'm going to be entrepreneur. But i'm still still going to have this job. People like wait a minute. That's not really a real real entrepreneur. Easy that kind of gets them you know sidetracked on what that means..
Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"st john" Discussed on Catholic Culture Audiobooks
"He is the one true christ. It was an expectation of this great messiah. The chosen people the jews or israelites or hebrews for these are different names for the same people looked out from age to age. He was to come to set all things right and next to this great question which occupied their minds mainly when was he to come was the question who was to be his mother. It had been told them from the first noth- that he should come from heaven but that he should be born of a woman. At the time of the fall of adam god had said that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head who then was to be that woman thus significantly pointed out to the fallen race of adam at the end of many centuries it was further revealed to the jews that the great messiah or christ the seed of the woman should be born of their race and of one particular tribe of the twelve tribes into which that race was divided from that time. Every woman of that tribe hoped to have the great privilege of herself being the mother of the messiah or christ for its duration since he was so great the mother must be great and good and blessed to hence it was among other reasons that they thought so highly of the marriage state because not knowing the mystery of the miraculous conception of the christ when he was actually to come they thought that the marriage right was the ordinance necessary for his coming hence was if mary had been as other women she would have longed for marriage as opening on her the prospect of bearing the great king. The chain was to humble and too pure for such thoughts. She had been inspired to choose that better. Way of serving. God which had not been made known to the jews the state of virginity. She preferred to be his spouse to being his mother. Accordingly when the angel gabriel announced to her her high destiny shrank from it till she was assured that it would not oblige her to revoke her purpose of a virgin life devoted to her. God thus was it that she became the mother of the christ not in that way which pious women for so many ages had expected him but declining the grace of such maternity she gained it by means of a higher grace and this is the full meaning of saint elizabeth's words when the blessed virgin came to visit her which we use in the hail mary. Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of the womb and therefore it is that in the devotion called the crown of twelve stars. We give praise to god the holy ghost through whom she was both virgin and mother. Mary is the mater salvatori. He's the mother of the savior here again. We must understand what is meant by calling lord savior saviour in order to understand why it is used to form one of the titles given to mary in her litany the special name by which our lord was known before his coming was as we found that of messiah or christ thus he was known to the jews but when he actually showed himself on earth he was known by three new titles the son of god the son of man and the saviour the first expressive of his divine nature the second of his human the third of his personal office thus the angel who appeared to mary called him the son of god the angel who appeared to joseph called him jesus which means in english savior and so the angels to cold him a savior when they appeared to the shepherds but he himself specially calls himself the son of man. Not angels only call him savior but those two greatest of the apostles saint peter and saint paul in their first preachings. Saint peter's says he is prince and a savior and saint. Paul says a savior jesus and both angels and apostles. Tell us why he is so called because he has rescued us from the power of the evil spirit and from the guilt and misery of our sins thus the angel says to joseph thou shalt call his name jesus for he shall save his people from their sins and saint peter god has exalted him to be prince and savior to give repentance to israel and remission of sins and he says himself the son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost now. Let us consider how this affects our thoughts of mary to rescue slaves from the power of the enemy implies a conflict our lord because he was a savior was a war year. He could not deliver the captives without a fight nor without personal suffering. Now who are they who especially hate wars a heathen poet answers wars. He says or hated by mothers. Mothers are just those who especially suffer in war. They may glory in the honor gained by their children but still such glorying does not wipe out one particle of the long pain the anxiety the suspense the desolation and the anguish which the mother reversal feels so. It was with mary for thirty years. She was blessed with the continual presence of her son name she had him in subjection but the time came when that war called for him for which he had. Come upon earth certainly. He came not simply to be the son of mary but to be the savior of men and therefore at length. He parted from her. She knew then what it was to be. The mother of a soldier who left her side. She saw him no longer. She tried in vain to get near him. He had for years lived in her embrace. And after that at least in her dwelling but now in his own words the son of man has nowhere to lay his head and then when you had run out she heard of his arrest his mock trial and his passion at last she got near him when and where on the way to calvary and when he had been lifted upon the cross and length she held him again in her arms yes when he was dead crew he rose from the dead but still she did not thereby gain him for he ascended on high and she did not at once. Follow him no. She remained on earth many years in the care. Indeed of his dearest apostle saint john but what was even the holiest of men compared with her own son and him the son of god. Oh holy mary. Mother of our saviour in this meditation. We have now suddenly passed from the joyful mysteries to the sorrowful from gabriel's enunciation to the to the.
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"Being deceived. Mary is the newel. Cheney the gate of heaven. mary is. Cool the gate of heaven because it was through her that our lord passed from heaven to earth. The prophet ezekiel prophesying of mary. Sands the gate shall be closed. It shall not be opened and no man shall pass through it. Since the lord god of israel has entered through it and it shall be closed for the prince. The prince himself shall sitting it now. This is fulfilled not only in our lord having taken flesh from her and being her son but moreover in that she had a place in the economy of redemption it is fulfilled in her spirit and will as well as in her body. Eve had a part in the fall of man though it was adam who was representative and who sinned made us sinners. It was eve who began and who tempted adam scripture says. The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and fair to the eyes and delightful to behold and she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and to her husband and he did eat. It was fitting. Then in god's mercy that as the woman began the destruction of the world so woman should also begin its recovery and that as eve opened the way for the fatal deed of the first atom so merry should open the way for the great achievement of the second adam even our lord jesus christ who came to save the world by dying on the cross for it hence. Mary is called by the holy father's a second and a better eve. As having taken that. I stabbed in the salvation of mankind which eve took in. Its ruin how and. When did mary take part. And the initial part in the world's restoration it was when the angel gabriel came to her to announce to her great dignity which was to be her portion saint. Paul bidzos present our bodies to god as a reasonable service. We must not only pray with our lips and fast and do outward pennants and be chased in our bodies but we must be obedient and pure in our minds and so as regards the blessed virgin. It was god's will that she should undertake willingly and with full understanding to be the mother of our lord and not to be a mere passive instrument whose maternity would have no merit and no reward. The higher our gifts the heavier. He's it was no light lot to be so intimately near to the redeemer of men as she experienced afterwards when she suffered with him therefore weighing well the angels words before giving her answer to them i she asked whether so great an office would be a forfeiture of that virginity which she had vowed when the angel told her no then with the full consent of a full heart. Fool of god's love to her and her own loneliness she said behold the handmade of the lord be done unto me. According to the word it was by this consent that she became the gate of heaven. Mary is the motto. Create aures the mother of the creator. This is a title which of all others wishing have fought it impossible for any creature to possess at foresight. We might be tempted to say that it throws into confusion our primary ideas of the creator and the creature the eternal and the temporal the self subsisting and the dependent and the ad on further consideration. We shall see that we cannot refuse. Tidal to marry without denying the divine incarnation. That is the greet and fundamental truth of revelation. That god became man and this was seen from the first age of the church. Christians were accustomed from the first to call the blessed virgin the mother of god because they saw that it was impossible to deny her that title without denying saint. John's words the word that is god. The son was made flesh and in no long time it was found necessary to proclaim this truth by the voice of an ecumenical council of the church for in consequence of the dislike have mystery the error sprang up that our lord was not really god but man differing from us in this merely that god dwelt in him as god dwells in all good men only in higher measure as the holy spirit dwelt in angels and prophets. As in a sort of temple or again as our lord now dwells in the tabernacle in church and then the bishops and faithful people found. There was no other way of hindering. This false bad video being taught but by declaring distinctly and making it a point of faith that mary was the mother not of men only but of god and since that time the title of mary as mother of god has become what is called a dogma or article of faith in the church but this leads us to a larger view of the subject. Is this title as given to mary. More wonderful than the doctrine that god without ceasing to be god should become men. Is it more mysterious. That mary should be mother of god than that. God should be man yet. The latter as i have said is the elementary truth of revelation witnessed by prophets evangelists and apostles all through scripture. And what can be more consoling and joyful than the wonderful promises which follow from this truth that mary is the mother of god. The great wonder namely that we become the brethren of our god that if we live well and die in the grace of god we shall all of us hereafter be taken up by our incarnate god to that place where angels dwell that our bodies shall be raised from the dust and be taken to heaven that we shall be really united to god that we shall be partake of the divine nature that each of us soul and body shall be plunged into the abyss of glory which surrounds the almighty that we shall see him and share his blessedness. According to the text who so ever shall do the will of my father that is in heaven. The same is my brother and sister and mother. Mary is the motto christine. The mother of christ each of the titles of mary has its own special meaning in drift and may be made the subject of a distinct meditation. She is invoked by us as the mother of christ. What is the force of thus addressing. Her it is to bring before us that she it is whom from the i was prophesied of and associated with the hopes and prayers of all holy men of old true worshippers of god of all who looked for the redemption of israel in every age before that redemption came. Our lord was called the christ or the messiah by the jewish prophets and the jewish people. The two words christ and messiah mean the same. They mean an english. The anointed in the old time there were three great ministries or offices by means of which god spoke to his chosen people the israelites or as they were afterward called the jews that of priest that of king and that of prophet those who were chosen by god for one or other of these offices were solemnly anointed with oil or oil signifying the grace of god which was given to them for the due performance of their high duties but our lord was all three a priest prophet and king a priest because he offered himself as a sacrifice for our sins a prophet because he revealed to us the holy law of god and king because he rules over us thus.
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