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IDL83 Part 3 Chapter 39 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks, and God bless. Part 3, Chapter 39 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 39 The Sanctity of the Marriage Bed. The marriage bed should be undefiled as the Apostle tells us, for example pure, as it was when it was first instituted in the earthly paradise, wherein no unruly desires or impure thought might enter. All that is merely earthly must be treated as means to fulfill the end God sets before His creatures. Therefore, we eat in order to preserve life, moderately, voluntarily, and without seeking an undue, unworthy satisfaction therefrom. The time is short, says St. Paul, it remains that both they that have wives be as though they had not, and they that use this world as not abusing it. Let everyone, then, use this world according to his vocation, but so as not to entangle himself with its love, that he may be as free and ready to serve God as though he used it not. St. Augustine says that it is the great fault of men to want to enjoy things which they are only meant to use, and to use those which they are only meant to enjoy. We ought to enjoy spiritual things and only use those which are material, but when we turn the use of these latter into enjoyment, the reasonable soul becomes degraded to a mere brutish level.
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"That is a moral line for me. And what this is I'm saying. And I think that applies to everybody, doctors, politicians who really are exploiting the platform they have. That's really not OK. And look, this is the thing that we have to as a society. You know, you play tar. Let's hear it. But I don't want to hear your opinion about a whether vaccine works or not. It's crazy. Yeah, no, that's what I mean about this is not that like, you know, opinion class in school. There's science and facts and math. And then there's the you know, fill out the blue book with your opinion. Yeah. And by the way, I have no problem celebrities with talking about a politician they like or don't like or why, why they think that that's fine. You know, political analysis is not just something for pundits. All of us have to vote. Yeah. So we have to think about issues we make up our minds. And Bruce Springsteen is allowed to make up his mind about who he wants to vote for president. If he wants to talk about that, probably fine. But I don't really want to hear from him, which he had. I mean, he's a vaccine supporter, he was not the right example for this, but you get what I'm saying. Talk about what you do. Talk about what you think about issues with the thinking, the subjective impression matters. Don't talk about medical expertise. So speaking of which, medical expert, a lot of people have questions. they're So saying this is not actually a booster. It's a new vaccine, the shot that we should be getting. And what's on going with that? Because I'm hearing lots of stuff that, you know, the rollout's been bumpy because of insurance, you know, not knowing if cover it. Well, it's bumpy because there's a lot of resistors. It is kind of a booster. it's another shot that's been modified to deal with the latest variants, which are Omicron variants. So whatever you want to call it, it really is important that people get it and they should get it, you know, relatively soon and certainly by October when should they also be beginning or in October and they should also be getting the flu vaccine. And is insurance covering it? I thought I heard CBS linked a hold up there. You know, there are problems with the testing, problems there are with coverage, there are problems because they jacked up the price of this new vaccine. A lot of people with insurance, and certainly obviously people with no insurance, have a financial burden which should not be a factor in a major public health initiative and which is what this is. So first of all, people have to want it. But if it's difficult to get and financially unaffordable, plus you have the anti access, pushing them to forget it, the motivation for pushing for it it evaporates. I've heard that if you don't have insurance, it's like $200 for the shot. I think it's 120 Arthur, But maybe that's just the cost of the vaccine, not the cost of administering it. And it turned out to be at the same time or $200. Yeah. Okay, quickly, Judith and St. Paul, Dr. Doom, how quickly can you get reinfected? What problems go with being reinfected? A 30 something friend of mine times now. That's unusual. And typically, Let's say you had COVID, you tested positive in the last couple of months, like during the summer, you will have protection that will last a few months. you And don't need to get the booster right now. It would be kind of a wasted shot. If you haven't it had and your last booster, you know, you got the initial series and your last booster was four, five, six months ago or more, you should get the booster shot as soon as you can. You know, we all know by now, hopefully, that there's been a surge, an uptick in COVID cases and COVID hospitalizations. And even if it's less lethal than it was, it still makes people very sick. You can affect other people. You lose work or you're out of school or whatever it is, but it really is time to think about making sure that your series is up to date, except that, like I said, you've if had it, uh, if you've had the disease, you have some time. Okay. Got it. I'm so sorry.
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A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
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Fresh update on "st paul" discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts.com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks, and God bless. Part 3, Chapter 39 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 39 The Sanctity of the Marriage Bed. The marriage bed should be undefiled as the Apostle tells us, for example pure, as it was when it was first instituted in the earthly paradise, wherein no unruly desires or impure thought might enter. All that is merely earthly must be treated as means to fulfill the end God sets before His creatures. Therefore, we eat in order to preserve life, moderately, voluntarily, and without seeking an undue, unworthy satisfaction therefrom. The time is short, says St. Paul, it remains that both they that have wives be as though they had not, and they that use this world as not abusing it. Let everyone, then, use this world according to his vocation, but so as not to entangle himself with its love, that he may be as free and ready to serve God as though he used it not. St. Augustine says that it is the great fault of men to want to enjoy things which they are only meant to use, and to use those which they are only meant to enjoy. We ought to enjoy spiritual things and only use those which are material, but when we turn the use of these latter into enjoyment, the reasonable soul becomes degraded to a mere brutish level.
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A highlight from POA5 Know your Commander and Comrades Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare w/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. Paul, thank you again so much for joining me. Thanks for the invitation to be here, Chris. God bless you. Well, in our previous conversations, we've kind of delineated what the battle is and who the enemy and some of the different ways he and those evil spirits, essentially the diabolical spirits, can assail us. But in this particular series of conversations, we want to talk about the commanders and our comrades who are just incredible in why the victory has been won. And it's so important because it's the warfare can be intense. And you start thinking about the power that the devil has and his demons and those kinds of things. It could be easy to get terrified or intimidated. But the good news is that he's already been defeated and that our Lord, by his passion and death and resurrection, has already defeated him. And that's why St. Paul could say to the Corinthians, thanks be to God, who's given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So that's so incredible. We would be lost without him. It would be terrible. You know, I think back to the days when my final days as an atheist and where I had begun to encounter demonic powers, but still didn't believe in God. And it shocked me out of my materialist position that all that existed was kind of what you could see in here, matter and energy. And I finally realized there are other things out there that are beyond this nature that I see around me and they're evil and they're out to eat my lunch. And, you know, came close to despair at that moment. If those things are real, I don't have a chance. And yet I realized, but, you know, the same people and the same books that told me so long ago that these things were real also said that there was a God and a Lord Jesus Christ who conquered them. I'm going to go back and read and I'm going to go back to those people and talk again. If there's a devil and there's no God, I'm really in trouble. But if there's a devil and there is God, then there's hope. And that's that's the message. There's hope because of our commander. In the manual for spiritual warfare, over and over and over again, you cite scripture passage upon scripture passage that really helps us to kind of like our Lord in the desert, just identify constantly what that is and then talk back to it in the sense that it's not our words, but it's his words. And of course, I mean with a capital H. And it is so much more powerful. There's, you know, it's one thing for us and our own words are important, too. But it's one thing for us to resist the enemy and tell him to flee or contradict what he says to us. But when we do it in the words of Jesus himself, our faith is so much greater, our confidence is so much greater that that what we say is true. And the enemy goes to accuse us and we take the words of scripture that the accuser of the brethren has been cast down. He is an accuser and he's been cast down or that in his glorious triumph he'll come with all the saints in the armies of heaven or Saint John's words, which I come to again and again. He says, you are of God, dear children, and have overcome him, the devil, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. And how many times have I had to say that to the enemy? The one who's in me is greater than you are. So get lost. That's right. And that's something that we always have to remember. We had those two incredible witnesses, and in so many of the writings and scriptures, but in particular of Saint Paul and Saint John, Saint Paul says, it's not I who live, but it's Christ who lives in me. And here, just as you cited in 1 John, John the Apostle tells us once again, he who is in you, he is greater than he who is in the world. Who is in us? The great commander, our Lord Jesus Christ. In the end, the enemy is only a creature. He's a very powerful one. He has powers we don't have, but he's not some God of equal power to the good God. You know, so we're not dualists. We don't believe that there's a good God and a bad God who have to fight it out through history. He's a creature who went wrong, and even though he's very powerful, God is still God. There's only one God who's omnipotent, who's all -powerful and all -knowing. And as Saint Paul says, that he will soon crush the devil beneath your feet. And that's such a powerful promise to hold on to. And you alluded to earlier as well, those armies of heaven, which consist, as Saint Paul said in the letters to the Thessalonians 1 and 2, it's with all his saints and it's with the angels. It's that beautiful reference in Revelation that talks about Christ coming back as a warrior. And I know a lot of folks aren't comfortable with that image of Christ as warrior because we just think of him as the suffering servant and the lamb of God. And all that's true, but the book of Revelation shows him not just as the lamb who was slain, but also as the conquering warrior at the end who does finally totally crush and corral all the enemies of the saints, all the evil that we're fighting against. And talks about when he comes, he comes with the armies of heaven. And so you ask, well, who would be the armies of heaven? Well, Saint Paul then comes in and he specifies that in 1 Thessalonians 3, 13, he says he will come with all his saints. And in 2 Thessalonians, he says he'll come with the angels of his power. So those are like the two great divisions, you might say, of his army, of his host. Those are the comrades we have in battle. The queen of the saints, the queen of the angels, Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, she is also referred to as the queen of humility. And yet it's in that humility that the irony of it, can we say, that she is able to crush the head of the servant. You know, I think it's important for us to see that what Our Lady did was to undo what Eve had done and to undo what the devil had done. How did the devil fall? Through his own pride. You know, we get in the book of Isaiah, the words that I will ascend to the mountain of the Lord, you know, and he wanted to take God's place. And so his great pride gets undone. It gets overturned by Our Lady's humility, by, you know, his fiat was, I will rule, and her fiat was, let it be done to me according to thy word. And so her humility overturns his. And she undoes what the devil did. She unties that knot that the devil tied, so to speak. And you get that predicted, prophesied all the way back in Genesis, when the Lord speaks to the serpent, who, of course, represents the devil, says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. And that's why, of course, we have all these wonderful images of Our Lady, not just with the crown of stars above her head and the moon beneath her feet, as we get the image in the book of Revelation, but also with the head of the serpent crushed underneath her heel. Because though Jesus did the direct battle, she, by her fiat, by her agreement with the Lord, yes, of course, do what you want and I will bear your son. By that fiat, she also took part in that crushing of the serpent's head. And Eve gave a yes to the enemy's temptation and brought death and the devil's domination to the world. But Mary's yes to God instead of the enemy opened the door for the ultimate victory of her son over Satan. That's why we call her the new Eve. By her obedience to God, she undid what the first Eve had done by her disobedience. Well, one of the great saints that you mentioned here is not only a doctor of the church, but a loyal son of St. Francis, that St. Bonaventure, who writes so very strongly that, and he was a brilliant, brilliant, intelligent man, but even he had to acknowledge that men do not fear a powerful, hostile army as much as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. And we get that, you know, it's not just a speculation. There's all kinds of experience of that and exorcisms. A recent exorcist who talks about how an enemy, a demon, was protesting over the praying of a Hail Mary and saying every time, I'm paraphrasing, but every time you say that Hail Mary, it's like a hammer hitting my head. They have such a hatred for Our Lady, and they know that she's overcome them. She's the Queen of Angels, and as I say in one of my prayers in here, she's the Queen of Angels, and she's the bane of devils. They fear her and they tremble before her. Her name is terrible and powerful, it's the name of Jesus. Well, to them particularly, it's so beautiful that in the Manual for Spiritual Warfare, you have a whole section on prayers to Our Lady.
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"97 7 your station information with eric heights eric's out this morning i'm brian calvert sitting in on this thursday morning it's the 21st of september frank lindsay at the editors desk new numbers on crime put washington at number seven on a top 10 list jim feuda of crime crime stoppers of the puget sound blames changes in the justice system for limiting criminal accountability the decriminalization of drugs and of all a sudden no harm no foul it just coincides with the vandalism the larceny the vehicle grease theft to in support the habits you believes actual crime numbers are much higher in washington and they became more and more because people don't report crime anymore these numbers were taken from the years 2019 through 2021 state health officials have closed a restaurant in kirkland after dozens of people got sick following an event that the restaurant catered health officials say 34 people showed symptoms of gastrointestinal illness after eating at event the catered by tacos el guero on september 14th officials say on september 18th investigators visited the restaurant and food trucks there they found inadequate equipment improper reheating and lack of oversight managerial on top of that the food at the event was served out of an unpermitted food truck officials say investigators will revisit the restaurant before allowing it to reopen como 4's mary nam the nation lummy will spread the ashes of southern resident orca tokatay who was also known as toki or her performance name known lolita into puget sound during a private ceremony over the weekend tokatay died at the miami aquarium august 18th as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park back to puget sound in the near future tribes says ceremony the will not be open to the public the u .s coast guard will be present to ensure that there is no parents starting next month federal student loan borrowers will once again have to start making monthly loan payments some startling new data reveals how that move might impact many people's bottom lines como force karen digs into the numbers an estimated 43 million borrowers nationwide will start repaying their original bills next month when the more than three -year pause on federal student loan payments finally ends the impact expected to be widespread I racked up quite a bit of student loans during my time there it was just me trying to support three people and um it's pretty difficult a new survey by the national endowment for financial education fines nearly half 49 % of borrowers are worried the end of the repayment pause will impact their lives many expected to make deep cuts in their current budgets nearly one -quarter anticipate cutting 500 to a thousand dollars a month and one in ten planning to cut more than one thousand dollars it's gonna be a significant impact on budgets many will have to make tough choices I hate saying that because we're already living two -thirds of us sort of paycheck to paycheck as it is the the impacts may not be as significant for borrowers in Washington State according to wallet hub Pennsylvania Mississippi and Hampshire New will be the top three states most affected by the moratoriums and Washington ranks near the bottom at number 50 it's never too late to start the process and to inform yourself Hensley tells me a good place to go is student aid .gov it has a calculator to help simulate your financial situation and it makes recommendations on how best to move forward with the repayment pause ending soon Steve McCarron, Commodores according to the data company J .D. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Dot best of america dot com after the hour welcome back here with america in the morning jd power has released their annual airport satisfaction study with factors including food and retail options to claim and the terminals the top airports among survey travelers were detroit's wayne county airport minneapolis st paul and las vegas slightly ahead of dallas and miami international at the bottom of the list newark the best of the mid -sized airports Indianapolis the fed says not just yet on an interest rate hike cnbc's jessica edinger that and more in thursday business wall street opens this morning after no action by the fed interest on rates yesterday but they signaled another interest rate increases likely coming before the of end the year the major averages were all lower tech stocks tanked with the nasdaq down more than 200 points one and a half percent the federal reserve maintaining its interest rate at five and a quarter to five and a half percent on the economy economic growth was upgraded to solid from moderate job growth was said to have flowed but remains strong inflation remains elevated and the committee repeated its commitment to a two percent inflation target cnbc senior economics reporter steve leasman here's holy we have the higher for longer uh... medicine being applied but i don't think this is a game changer today didn't and i don't think he wanted it to be a game changer gm and jeep parents delantis laid off two thousand workers as u a w member strike at other plants as there is nothing for employees down the line work to on today is day seven of the u a w strike against the big three u s auto makers gm elantis and ford clavio shares jumped twenty percent yesterday in their debut on the new york stock exchange the IPO initial public offering was from a boston -based software vendor but the IPO from a day before on tuesday instacart those shares gave back all of their gains in their second day of trading weekly mortgage demand increased driven by strange a surge in refinancing last week applications to refi a home loan jumped thirteen percent compared with the week before according to the mortgage bankers association it may be that lots of with americans arms adjustable rate mortgages are quickly refinancing into fixed rate loans now afraid that rates are going up and that's just what the fed said was going to happen jessica some signals that the gas prices now should be lowering with summer over yes actually there is good news for drivers u u s crude oil is at ninety dollars a barrel that's down from ninety three gas prices should start to pull not really because of that according to the head of petroleum analysis at gas buddy we've made the transition in now forty nine of the nation's fifty states the cheaper winter gasoline that's going to help give consumers some sort of in break the next couple of weeks as we kind of work through those refinery issues in the west coast previously there were also refinery issues in the rockies and the corn belt we should see a little bit of a breakthrough in gas prices may decline gas buddies patrick dehaan on cnbc on today's watch list earnings are coming from olive garden parent garden restaurants we find out how many existing homes sold last month and we get a read on the job picture with the
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A highlight from Episode 10 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Ignatius Press and the Augustine Institute present the Formed Book Club. Catholic book lovers unpacking good books, chapter by chapter. If you like us, please help us by subscribing, and by reviewing us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you might listen. And don't forget to sign up for weekly updates and study questions at formedbookclub .ignatius .com. Welcome again to the Formed Book Club. We continue to discuss Ari de Dubac's extraordinary book here, The Drama of Atheist Humanism. We've done enough now that we can maybe situate where we are as we go forward. You know, the first part, called Atheist Humanism, focused on Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche, with a side note on Kierkegaard, but now part two is Auguste Comte and Christianity. And covered we the first chapter here, the meeting of Comte and Atheism. We're on the second chapter, Christianity and Catholicism. There's four sections, we took antisocial Christianity, where he claims that Christianity is antisocial, because it's basically the soul and God and eternity. Part two is section two is Jesus and St. Paul, where he says St. Paul corrected Jesus and set things straight. Now we're on two interesting parts here, the work of the Catholic priesthood and the Holy Alliance. So we begin again on page 192, section three of chapter two, chapter one of part two. The work of the Catholic priesthood. Joseph, take it away. Well, again, right at the beginning of the first paragraph of this section, towards the top of page 193, it's his weird understanding of history. He seems to believe that Catholicism, strictly speaking, did not come into being until the 11th century, and which by the 13th had already passed into the phase of decadence. So basically the Catholicism didn't even come into being until a thousand years after Christ and only lasted for a couple of hundred years before it basically decayed. So if you're going to begin your understanding of the church with such a warped understanding of history, it's no surprise that all sorts of odd conclusions are going to be the consequence. And the reason why he dates it that way has something to do with what Father said in his introduction. He thought Christianity, in its essence, was something that just had to do with the individual and God. And so if what he wants to worship is the collective, well, that reaches its apex, if you will, in terms of social organization in Christendom, right? So what he thinks is the essence of Christianity are these exterior forms holding together a cohesive society. And that just comes and goes, right? It came and it went, in his view. But if you're looking at worshipping the collective, it makes sense that that's why you would look at it that way. He's mistaking the tree for the fruit, isn't he? I mean, this good thing was a consequence of a thousand years of of inheritance, and it took that long for it to actually mature into the fullness of what you might call the High Middle Ages. But it's obviously a fruit of the thing, which is Catholicism. The thing didn't come into being as some sort of spontaneous combustion, evidently. Yes. I mean, the first quote in that paragraph at the beginning on page 192, where Cope says, since the year 1825, our writings have shown an increasing respect for Catholicism, as he understands it, the immediate and necessary precursor of the religion that has, above all, to consolidate and develop the structure that first took shape in the 12th century. And again, you have this theory of Catholic history that it was just a kind of amorphous movement of Jesus, you know, love and be kind and compassionate. And then after it became a state religion or approved by the state under Constantine in the fourth century, it became hardened in its structure. Oh, but then we have what secular theologians call the Dark Ages. And after the fall of the Roman Empire, there was a lot of confusion, but the church was still present in her God -given form during that period. But he sees, as you said, Vivian, at the end of the Dark Ages, he'll call your Middle Ages, 12th or 15th century, here's where there's a consolidation, and you see the social character of the church in Christendom. By the way, you know, de Lubac writes this during the 40s, his first major work was in the 30s called Catholicism, the social aspects of dogma, in which he made very clear that from the beginning, the Catholic faith has had an intrinsic social connection, which makes sense as a church, after all, we're not an aggregate of individuals who have no relation to each other, except for the fact that we happen to hold the same attitude towards Jesus. Sorry, I'm wandering on there. As Chesterton said in, I think, The Everlasting Man, it could have been orthodoxy, that the church was the only thing that was the bridge that connected the civilization of Rome with the civilization of the High Middle Ages. The church was the connector between the two, the bridge, so it's not as if it just arises out of, as if by magic. And that's what he, he's an everlasting man, where he calls Christ the Pontifex Maximus, the greatest builder of bridges. This Pontifex, pontiff, we have in English, means pawns, bridge, fatre, to make, to build. So it's basically the bridge builder. But he reduces the papacy to being the centralized authority of the church. And, and so he actually wants to replace the pope with himself. But he's actually going to require such total obedience and control, unlike anything the church ever did or ever desired to do. But yes, he talks about on the top of 196, it was by this means, meaning the papacy, that the bonds of society were strengthened. He sees that you can't have the strong bonds of society that he aspires to, you know, a humankind in love with itself without a total authority at the top. Yes, and as we're progressing into the heart of Auguste Pont, you know, Burubak has all these citations that really back up what he's saying about him. I just wonder, he's a brilliant madman. And it kind of like Nietzsche was a brilliant madman, you know. And as we said before, hardly anyone knows that name now. Whereas Nietzsche, Marx, even Feuerbach, those are somewhat household words among the intelligentsia. And we have to ask ourselves a question, we could finish them off. Was he really influential or was it just that he had the thoughts he had ended up being part of the signs of the times and because he, I mean, his life and his writings and his philosophy kind of foreshadow the whole great reset, globalization. Yeah, and some of it sounds very Orwellian in the sense of it also seems to prefigure totalitarianism of the 20th century, you know, where the system, so politics and sociology united in a tyranny. And that seems to be what he's calling for. Obviously, he wanted to be the Fuhrer and that didn't happen. But basically other people became Fuhrers in his wake, so to speak. Well, the reason why his thought is a big part of the air that we breathe is because he wanted to turn all knowledge of everything into a concrete science, including the knowledge of man himself, the knowledge of the universe, everything he wanted to reduce down to a science. We wouldn't have the expression political science if it had not been for Comte. So the whole, in fact, social science, you know, every university has a social science department, as if these things are sciences in the same way that physics and chemistry. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head there, because as we see later on, he actually, he criticizes empirical science. So in other words, he criticizes the hard sciences because the hard sciences should subject themselves to sociology, to society, to an understanding of anthropology. So, you know, so he's actually becomes, he begins by being someone who uses the empirical sciences as a method of beating God. And then when he seeks to establish his own sociological religion, he then attacks the sciences because they are a threat, because they've got to question some of his presumptions and he's not into being questioned. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Father Joseph Fessio, Vivian Doudreaux, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. on the Discerning Hearts free app. Did you also know that you can stream Discerning Hearts programming on numerous streaming platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and so many more. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has the YouTube page? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts. Everything is yours. Do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me. Amen. Amen. We now return to the Forum Book Club with Father Joseph Fessio, Vivian Doudreaux, and Joseph Pierce. He's not so much attacking the sciences for the inability to get the truth, but rather, he has what I think is a legitimate criticism. That is to say, the hard sciences progress by specializing more and more and losing often the larger picture. And so he's in need for something synthetic because science takes things apart and makes small and smaller areas where people, I mean, I live with a Jesuit in Germany. They call him Blitzlach because he was so slow. I mean, in his thinking and walking and everything. But he did his doctorate on the heat -sensitive organs in cockroach antennae, but a specific species or variety of cockroach. And in Germany, you have to do a second doctoral thesis called a meditation to be a professor. So he did his second thesis on the moisture -sensitive organs in cockroach antennae. Well, I mean, there's no question about it. This was the world expert on the antennae of these cockroaches. But where does that fit? Big picture thing. And so, you know, Kant would say, look, we have to unify this some way. And therefore, he sees sociology and he's the father of sociology. That's right. As the master of science.
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A highlight from S13 E06: Luna's Path: Poetry, Authorship, Life's Wonders
"Hello, welcome to The Elone Show. I'm your host, John Mayelone. In this episode, don't have any regulars, because... reasons. As for our guests, they are from Minneapolis St. Paul's and they are an author. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Luna Ray Hall. Hello, hi. How are you? Going great. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. How's life? a Life is lot. You know, I'm glad it's almost fall. Yeah, it's been a whirlwind of a summer with this book coming out and a bunch of other things. So it's been good, but it's been a lot. All right, then. Very good. So... How did you become an author? Yeah, um, yeah, so I kind of think I'd go back to... It really started in college. I was never really a good, like, English student or a big reader when I was a kid. So when I got into college, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. And I had to take English courses, so I ended up taking a poetry class and that really struck a chord with me and I went from there. Went to grad school for poetry. That's primarily what I write is poetry, except for my most recent book, The Patient Routine. That's a horror genre mix with poetry as well. So really, I mean, it's I think it's just a good a good thing for me to get out a lot of emotions and feelings and it's also, I mean, I love telling stories, I love showing people how I see the world, how I imagine life looks like to me and yeah, I think that's kind of, you know, there's a lot of things that being an author and writer gives you that you can give to other people. I think that's kind of where I lean to why I keep doing it. Okay, sounds good. What was life for you growing up? Yeah, um, I guess I kind of have a standard Minnesotan experience. I come from a medium -sized suburb of the Twin Cities to a lower middle -income you know, household raised by, you know, both my parents were there and I have two older older siblings, a younger sibling so I kind of, you know, it felt very average to me throughout my childhood. So I don't really have anything to like, you know, nothing like wild happened to me. I kind of feel like I just went to school and came home and lived, you know, did my homework and kind of did other things but um, yeah, I, you know, I don't really think it's anything special, you know, I don't think there's like anything that like that I look back on and I'm like, wow, that was really unique. Alright then, that's cool.
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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.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Great to be with you, Chris. I'm really looking forward to talking about our next doctor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Tell us why he's really quite special in the rankings of the doctors. Well, he's known as the Doctor Malifluous. He's known as the Ophthalmaturgist. In other words, he's a healer and a miracle worker. He was also kind of one of those doctors that was all -encompassing for his era, but who also imparted then important lessons for us today. He was a reformer who helped build the Cistercian Order, who helped reform much of monastic life. He was also a brilliant theologian who defended the teachings of the Church. He had a particular devotion to the Blessed Mother. But there's also one other thing that we're going to talk about, and that, of course, was his impact on the society of his time. And it came, as we're going to see, especially where the Second Crusade was concerned, at great price to him personally. And that's one of the other hallmarks of the Doctors of the Church. We always think of them as brilliant, as magnificent writers and theologians, but they were also saints. They were also people who put themselves totally at the service of Christ and his Church. And there, I think, was one of the areas where St. Bernard of Clairvaux really shined forth across the medieval sky, but it's a brightness that we can still see today. Help us to understand a term like mellifluous. What we mean by mellifluous is somebody who is perfectly capable of speaking, who's gifted as an orator, who is a brilliant speaker. Somebody who, we always say that the words just seem to roll off their tongue. Well, that certainly was St. Bernard. But there's also implied in the use of the term mellifluous, a smoothness, an elegance. Now, it's something of an apparent contradiction to think of somebody who lived a life of such severe austerity as St. Bernard of Clairvaux as being elegant. And yet, his theology, his mind, his love for the Church were indeed very elegant. He had a beautiful turn of phrase. He had a way of expressing himself that was indeed intellectually elegant. So mellifluous, I think, really works quite well when we're discussing a Doctor of the Church like this. What do we know of his upbringing? Well, we know that he was born into a noble family. And he, in France, he was born probably around 1090 to a very prominent family. His father, in fact, was a nobleman, a lord of what was known as Fontaine. His name was Tesselyn and his mother was named Alith of Mont Barde. They were part of Burgundy. So when we think of France, we think of the Burgundy region as creating these beautiful wines, the Burgundy wine. Burgundy, during this time, was emerging onto the French scene and then the European scene as one of the most prominent of the great duchies in medieval Europe. It was positioned sort of between France and Germany, but then the Burgundians would also influence the great and terrible Hundred Years' War in a couple of centuries. So the family itself enjoyed quite a bit of prominence, which meant that Bernard, as one of seven children, was given the opportunity for a great education. He was then sent to a very prominent school of chatillon that was run by a group of canons. And he quickly showed himself very capable of great learning. He enjoyed poetry. He had a skill, an aptitude for literature. And he demonstrated that ability to speak well, to be mellifluous. And he had two interesting devotions. The first was a great love of the Bible, and then the other was a particular devotion to the Blessed Mother that was going to carry him forward for the rest of his life. What led him into the Benedictine Order? Yeah. Well, Bernard himself always had a rather low opinion of himself. He was tempted by the great opportunities of life, by the temptations of the flesh, but also of the mind. He was somebody who probably would have excelled, and boy we have seen this with so many of the Doctors of the Church, he could have excelled at anything he chose to do. He could have become a very, very powerful and prominent leader in the secular world, in the world of the nobility of the time. He understood that about himself though, and I think his mother had a great deal to do with that. His mother helped ingrain in him an abiding love of the faith. And when she died, when he was 19 years old, he understood that he was being called to something else. And as we have seen with other Doctors of the Church, he felt called by Christ to escape the world, to live a life of prayer, of solitude, of contemplation. And so, in order to control himself, he used the phrase that he was aware that his body needed strong medicine. And what he meant by that was that he needed strong spiritual medicine. He turned himself over to the Benedictine order. Now, as it happens, when Bernard was only 8 years old, a very famous saint at the time, named Robert of Mollem, had founded, near the great French city of Dijon, what was known as the Abbey of Citeaux. This was the foundation of the Cistercians. Their objective was very simple, to restore the rule of Saint Benedict. Now, there's no implication that the great house, for example, of Cluny, that was the dominant institution of the time from monasticism, was corrupt. Rather, it simply did not have the same devotion to the rigor of the rule of Saint Benedict that there were some who felt it needed to have. Robert of Mollem was one of them. So, the Cistercian monastery really looked to recapture the vigor of the original rule of Saint Benedict. And it began attracting many people, many young men, who also sought what Bernard was seeking. And, as it happened, in 1113, another saint, by the name of Stephen Harding, became abbot of Citeaux. And Bernard arrived, along with a group of other young noblemen, who followed him from Burgundy and the surrounding regions, with a desire to enter the Cistercians. And Bernard proved himself, really from the very beginning, a most apt postulant. And he found his true life in Citeaux, in the Cistercians. And it was clear, in short order, that the Cistercians saw in him somebody with almost unlimited potential. You mentioned his great love for scripture. He's known for some of the most beautiful teachings, from one book in particular of the Bible, that being the Song of Songs. Yes, yes. What's interesting about his love of scripture is that he was able to reflect on scripture, but how did he do it? He did it through a series of sermons, in particular, as you note, on the Song of Songs. Now, the Song of Songs is one of the most controversial, so to speak, of the texts of scripture, of the books of the Bible, because so many people interpret it in almost exclusively sensual terms. And yet, here we have Bernard preaching on this beautiful book of the Old Testament. And for him, it was not just simply a rhetorical device to use sermons, but it was a way of imparting to every possible audience some of his most important teachings. And so we have, aside from his sermons on the Song of Songs, we also have in excess of a hundred sermons that he delivered throughout the year, throughout the liturgical year. And then he gave sermons as well on a variety of other subjects, and then of course we also have his letters. We'll be talking more, I know, about his writings in a little bit. What are some of those marks of those early years in his involvement with the Cistercians, or his living out that Cistercian call? We know, as I said, that Bernard was acutely aware of his own failings, of his own temptations, and the need, as he said, for strong medicine. The environment, Cistercian with its stress on prayer, on contemplatio, on contemplative prayer, on discipline of the monastic life, on the full embrace of not just the rigor, but also the deep humanity of the Benedictine rule, of the rule of St. Benedict, I think had a really profound influence on him. He was able to control himself, to focus his mind as he needed to have it focused. And within a short amount of time, I mean, consider that he entered around 1113, what happened within three years. He was chosen by the Cistercians to set out and do something that was almost impossible to imagine at the time. This young man was sent out to establish a new house, and it became the great founding of Clairvaux. Now, where he was sent was in the Diocese of Langres in France, in what was called the Valley of Desolation. It gives us a little visual of what we're actually talking about. This was a virtual swamp where they chose to establish this new community. And this is around 1115. And it soon became a place of almost ceaseless toil. But imagine trying to convert a swamp into a new community of religious life, and yet this is exactly what Bernard was able to accomplish. But he did it with austerity, with prayer, with almost ceaseless toil, and that took its toll on him. And always of a somewhat frail disposition, he consistently embraced austerity to the point that he wrecked much of his health, but he saw it as a worthy gift in order to get this institution of Clairvaux up and running. Now what you've just described sounds so unappealing. We're really honest with ourselves, and yet it attracted so many to the extent that it would thrive. Yes, that's the thing precisely. The harder the life was at Clairvaux, the more people seemed to be attracted to it. Now, it's not a sense of, oh, I want to embrace suffering. What it is, rather, is I want to conform my life to what the Cistercians, what Clairvaux had to offer. Think about the Sons of Nobility, who a century from now would be joining the mendicant orders of the Dominicans and especially the Franciscans. We're seeing a similar impulse toward a lifestyle of the rejection of the self, of giving up everything we have, picking up their cross and following Christ. This was the appeal of Clairvaux. This was the appeal of the Cistercians. And it was accomplished. Why? Because Bernard was able to create an environment that, yes, it was difficult, there was work and toil for everyone. But two things. One, that prayer life, but also the joy. The valley, which had once been called a place of desolation, a valley of desolation, soon acquired the title of the Valley of Light. Why? Because it was a place of prayer. It was a place of joy. And young men in growing numbers came to Clairvaux to embrace that life, but also to place themselves under the spiritual direction of Bernard. Among them were Bernard's brothers. His father, after the death of his mother, of course, embraced this life. And even his sister, Humboldtine, remained out in the world and yet she eventually, with the permission of her husband, became a Benedictine nun. This is the influence of Bernard. Bernard's brother Gerard became the master of the cellars of the Cistercians. And, of course, what soon happened, this small community of Clairvaux was bursting at the seams. They simply had no more room for the young men. So, they themselves then went out and found, established new houses, new Cistercian communities based on the model that Bernard had established at Clairvaux. And by the time of his death, more than 160 new establishments were flourishing across, not just France, but increasingly across the whole of Christendom. And if we want a testament as to what the Church thought of all of this, one of the Popes came for a visit one night and he was asked, Bernard was asked, to make it possible for the Pope to dine at Clairvaux. And he certainly gave what was a very warm welcome to the Pope and the whole papal court. Well, what was the meal? It was a humble meal of bread and a few fish. The analogy, of course, being very obvious to the Pope. Wine was not really served, but rather he received water that was filled with herbs to give it some taste. So, in other words, the Pope came to this monastery and he was not served a feast. He was given loaves in the fishes and a cup of bitter herbs. And yet, the Pope was grateful and found the entire experience to be so powerfully edifying that it confirmed once again Bernard's value to the Church, but also his value to the Popes. And that was something that many Popes availed themselves of. We'll return in just a moment to The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Monson. Did you know that Discerning Hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite Discerning Hearts programming? 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Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to The Doctors of the Church, The Charism of Wisdom, with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. Is it possible for us to underestimate the power of the foundational element in all of this, of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict? And in particular, that very first paragraph, that very first exhortation by Good St. Benedict to listen with the ear of the heart. As you're describing this, that's exactly what Bernard was doing. Yeah, and in that sense we see in Bernard not something extraordinarily new, but something wonderfully old. In the sense that here was a reformer, here was in the great tradition of the church, a reformer who wanted to go back to recapture the original zeal, the fire of St. Benedict. But what was it that was always so remarkably successful about Benedict's rule? To pray, to work. All of these rules of St. Benedict are aimed at bringing the soul to Christ through work, through prayer. But there is this underlying practicality to Benedict's rule. Benedict knew people. He knew humanity. So that the rule itself was able to take a person, form them in Christ, and help them not to become less than they were with rules and other things, but rather through the rule to form them into more fully created humans, living as Christ really wants us to. Authentic freedom in giving up of ourselves for Christ. But in a way that still accommodates human frailty and human weakness, not by catering to it, but by understanding it and forming it. To use that word again, forming an authentic human person. And I think Bernard, while incredibly tough on himself, helped create an environment that was truly faithful to what Benedict had in mind. He's visited by the pope and the papal court. From this point forward, he becomes quite a, can we say, influential person within the life of the church. Very much so. In Bernard, we have one of those great voices within Christendom. And what did he use his voice for? He always placed it at the service of the popes. He defended the church against secular interference. He worked to diffuse potentially violent situations. Despite the fact that he wanted to stay at Clairvaux, he wanted to give his life exclusively to his monks, to his life of prayer. He was constantly being called out of the monastery to travel, to go forth on behalf of the popes. In 1128, for example, he took part in the Council of Troia that had been convoked by Pope Honorius II. Its was purpose to settle controversies that had developed among some of the bishops in France, as well as to try to make some sense of the ecclesiastical life of the Church of France. The church at the time in France was growing, but it was also being beset by the demands of secular rulers, of the need for internal reform. And what was Bernard given the task of doing? Well, he served as secretary of the council. He was asked to write the statutes of the synod. And as a result of it, one bishop was deposed and a real effort at reform was implemented. It's notable that coming out of this particular synod, though, there were those who did not like him. There were those who found him excessive in his call for reform. There were others in the church who felt that as a monk he had no business interfering in the life of diocese. And in one particular instance, a letter was sent to Bernard describing him as sounding like little more than a noisy and vexatious frog sitting in his marshes. Which of course was a phrase sort of going back to the very origins of Clairvaux. So here was this noisy and difficult frog croaking in the marshes and annoying as this one cardinal wrote the Holy See in the cardinals of the church. Well, of course, Bernard, using his sharp mind, made a reply to this cardinal by the name of Harmeric. And he said that he was the one who was asked by the pope to do this. And so he said, if you wish, forbid the noises of this vexatious frog. Don't allow him to leave his hole, to leave the marshes. And if that's the case, then your friends of the Holy See in the cardinals will not be forced to endure the accusations of pride and presumption that this frog is croaking in their direction. What it did was to diffuse the entire situation. And Bernard actually rose in the estimation of people because it implied two things. It showed that he had a sense of humor, which he did. He was able to do a fraternal correction of a cardinal, but in a way that everyone could appreciate. But it also pointed to his humility. It pointed to the fact that he'd been given these tasks against his will. There were other things that he would rather be doing. And yet he took up that task and he did it exceedingly well. And so in the next years, two years later, what happened? With the death of Pope Honorius, you had a new schism in the church. You had two popes who were rivals and, of course, Bernard entered the fray and helped to settle many of these issues. And then, of course, in the next years, he was so profoundly trusted that he was summoned to the second laddering council in which the schism was decisively put down. In which the rights of the real pope were validated. And then, in the coming years, he was asked by the pope to bring about the second crusade. And this, of course, became one of the great crosses that he was forced to bear. With some of the doctors that we've explored, their lives are so full and their teachings so rich that it takes us sometimes two, maybe even three episodes. And I think this is what we're encountering with St. Bernard of Clairvaux. So in conclusion of this particular conversation on his life, what's a final thought? The final thought is that we can trace in the life of St. Bernard from his earliest days a love of the faith, a desire to serve the faith. But as we have seen consistently with doctors of the church, serving in the way that God wills, not what he would rather do. And he was called, felt deeply the love of the contemplative life, but God had other plans for him. The wider service of the church. And he spent those years, his early years at Clairvaux, serving the church. And he was asked to serve on a wider plane. And he was going to give the rest of his life to that, regardless of the cost. And there, I think, is the lesson for all of us. I look forward to our future conversations, particularly about St. Bernard. So do I. Looking forward to it, Chris. God bless. Thank you.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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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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A highlight from IP#494 Fr. Thomas Morrow Straight to Heaven on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"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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Mark Levin: Proudly Use the Phrase 'Two Tier Justice'
"Now if you say it, you're appropriating language from a bygone era. I'm not appropriating anything. I wasn't even saying it. Say whatever the hell we want. You're the racists, you're the demagogues, you're the bigots, you're the anti -Semites. We believe in liberty. We believe in getting other people. You believe in classifying us. The hell do think? you What, you're going to tell us what we can say? Screw you! Screw comes into this country first generation hates America. Supports defunding the police, right Van? May I call you Van? Dis destroys what used to be a mid -sized beautiful little town frankly from my perspective. Really two towns. Minneapolis, St. Paul. All of a sudden it's the center of the overthrow of the United States you
The Eric Metaxas Show
Is Pope Francis the Antichrist? Eric and John Discuss
"Ago. Eric Bolling invited me on his Newsmax show. I guess I'm their go to religion guy, whether I'm a Catholic or not. He wanted to ask me about the something happening in the Vatican right now. And John, you probably know the details, but they it seems that Pope Francis, who may be the anti pope, I don't know. I don't know what he is officially, but he's pushing somehow the LGBTQ. My name is Legion Agenda. Yes. And when I I hear this, what I said on Eric Bolling's program on Newsmax is that it really does seem like end time stuff, like it's hard to know how to process it. I'm not a Catholic, but on any level, it's very difficult for me to process this. And I thought, wouldn't it be great to get John on the program? Maybe he can help us. So, John, what are you thinking? Well, what we're seeing is whether the religion of Antichrist will take over the seat of the Church of Christ in Rome by religion of Antichrist. I'm referring to St. Paul's words where he said, if anyone comes and preaches you a new gospel, he is he is Antichrist. Pope Francis repeatedly has reversed authoritative teachings of his predecessors, grounded in scripture and grounded in early church tradition. The most egregious is where he says, where he said that capital punishment is always wrong and has always been wrong, is intrinsically bad.
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Cal Thomas and Eric Reminisce About Kitty Carlisle Hart
"I were together. It was the 96th birthday event for Kitty Carlisle Hart. And I remember I went there, she sang at her 96th birthday. This was at what? It was one of the hotels on Park Avenue here. And I went there with Dick Cavett, and I look over and there's Cal Thomas. I've known you from long before that. But it's hard to believe that the woman who was singing was in a night at the opera, the Marx brothers film from 1935. So I just, I'll never forget that evening, I'll never forget seeing you there. Well, let me take a quick Kitty Carlisle Hart story. Some years ago, I was attending the national conference of editorial writers in St. Paul, Minnesota. And the gentleman who was heading it up the editorial page editor of the St. Paul pioneer press called me and desperation. I had another event that night. I wasn't going to go to this particular event. And he said, look, you got to come back and help me out. I said, why? Well, our speaker who was supposed to debate Kitty Carlisle Hart has been held up due to bad weather at the airport. And I don't have anybody. I said, you're asking me to come in and debate an old lady. Are you crazy? So no, no, please. Come on, you got to help me out. So hold on, hold on. Tell me again, what was this here, roughly? This was in the early 90s, as I recall. In the early 90s, and what in the world was the subject of the debate to be? Because she was once the head of what? The national endowment of the humanities or something like that? Right. There was a big controversy then whether a federal money should be used to underwrite some of these agencies that featured scatological and other things anti Christian things. Yes, I think you may be referring, I believe it's called PBS or NPR. So yes, that was a hot debate. And she was on the wrong side of it. Poor kitty.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak: A Society Without Justice, Is a Society Like New York
"We are talking to John S mirak about the film opening in theaters this weekend got to see it nefarious. Okay, continue please. Sure. So I was saying that the question of the death penalty is a really important one. And I was critical of Pope John Paul the second when he said the state should not execute anyone if it's possible to keep them locked up for life. Because the only justification for the death penalty is protecting society. That's wrong. That's one of the justifications. The other one is enacting divine justice. Pope Pius the 12th, who was the most lucid Pope of the 20th century. He said, the state is the legitimate avenger of crime. The legitimate avenger of prime. And when it says in the Bible, vengeance is mine, says the lord? That's true. But that happens through the state. The sword, which God did not give Caesar in vain, according to St. Paul. So when the state imprisons a criminal or executes a criminal, that is the lord's vengeance, being enacted on this earth. That is a good thing. That's something we as Christians should affirm. That is something we must cling to because the society without justice is a society like New York. Where the district attorney can turn loose violent criminals, but can prosecute a former president because he doesn't like his views. Where criminals walk the streets, the only way to go to prison is to be a law by citizen who has a gun. You actually had your district attorney in New York, prosecuted someone for defending himself. He was attacked by somebody with a gun, took the gun away and shot the person attacking him. Your DA, Alvin Bragg, tried to send the victim to prison for attempted murder with an unregistered firearm. The gun he took from the guy who was attacking him. This is the same guy trying to send Donald Trump to prison for being a victim of blackmail.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Socrates in the City With Eugenia Constantinou
"My conversation with eugenia Constantino at Socrates in the city from a few weeks ago. This is amazing. I hope you're listening and enjoying it. One of the things that's so powerful that was powerful for me as a Christian reading these Jewish sources is how it's so obvious to us about the meaning of Christ's life and sacrifice, but the Jews are still debating it because they don't believe in him and it reminds me of what St. Paul said about the veil being over their eyes because they don't read the Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures the way we do. So when you think about the fact that Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, something that we as parents can not begin to imagine the Jews have discussed this story endlessly for 4000 years now. So what did they say? Why is this story in the Bible? They can't understand why is this story? Why did God ask this of Abraham? He knew what Abraham was going to do. He knew that Abraham would pass the test, why is the story even in the Bible? And we know, because as Christians, we realize that this was a foreshadowing of how God the father would give what he asked of Abraham, he didn't demand of Abraham, didn't go through with that. But what happened later, God would give his only son
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Barry Meguiar: "Our Growth Spurts Are in Times of Trouble"
"My friend Barry Maguire, the book is ignite your life, defeat fear with effortless faith, sounds like a lot of baloney. Here's the problem. It's 1000% true. And there are people out there that say, I don't know, I don't know. And I believe you have to be around people who live this way because if unless you see it, you can't believe that they're the people who do this way. So I began that when I first became a Christian in 1988, I was at St. Paul's Darien. We've had my friend Keith junta on the show. I saw people who live this way, and then we all started going to Times Square church. And the people at Times Square church tended to live this way. David wilkerson, who was your friend for 40 years, lived this way. And I remember he preached a sermon. We talked about it at dinner last night. The sermon was titled right song, wrong side. I love it. And I was so affected by this sermon that over 20 years later, when I was asked to preach a Times Square church, I said, I bet you most of the people in this room have never heard this. So I halfway preached that sermon again. And that sermon sums up what we're talking about. David wow, because I mean, it's such a brilliant idea. He says that when the Israelites were trapped at the Red Sea, and pharaoh's armies coming down on them, and they're freaking out. Well, we know what happened. God parts the Red Sea. They go through. They come out the other side. The seas come back together. Pharaoh's army is drowned, and then when they're on the other side of the Red Sea, they sing the song. Then they sing. They sing the song praising God and praising God, and David wilkerson preach a sermon talking about they should have sung that song of deliverance before God delivered them because if you know who God is, you praise him in the midst of trouble. Yes. When bad things happen, you say, ah, this is a Friends are perfecting us. I thank God for every bad thing that's happened in our lives. Karen and I both do because we see our growth spurts are in times of trouble. We don't grow when we're in the mountaintop. It's during those tough times that we learn who God is. I thank God for all the tough times, including the death of our daughter. She's in heaven's celebrate. She's having the time of her life right now. And I'm going to be with her for eternity. So a thousand people came to her funeral. And I spoke at the funeral. There's a video of her funeral, okay? Nicole Maguire celebration of life. 11 thousand people have watched that video and hundreds have been saved. By watching the video of funeral. You know why? Because it was like, I knew most people watching me would not be Christians. And I wanted to say that my joy was not affected by circumstances. You know there's an interesting happiness and joy. We can be happy and unhappy throughout every day. That circumstantial. Joy, when you have joy, you just know God is there. It never leaves you. You have joy no matter what the world throws at you.
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"st paul" Discussed on The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"What we testify <Speech_Male> is what the church <Speech_Male> testifies. <Speech_Male> What we profess <Speech_Male> is what the church professes. <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Silence> And, <Speech_Male> you know, <Speech_Male> C. S. Lewis even talks about <Speech_Male> this. He said that <Speech_Male> back in <Speech_Male> the day and this is <Speech_Male> in the 30s, 40s, 50s. <Speech_Male> <Silence> People would describe <Speech_Male> someone as a Christian <Speech_Male> if they were simply <Speech_Male> nice. If they're simply <Speech_Male> polite, if they're simply <Speech_Male> kind. <Speech_Male> And Louis says, <Speech_Male> that's <Speech_Male> great. 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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st paul" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"That is the Greek term for the word sacrament. We were initiated into the mystery, and that was through baptism. We look back and we know that our lord was one of the very last commands he gave the apostles, go out and baptize them. Go out and why, because what happens at baptism, Christ comes to dwell in us. We are ontologically changed. As St. Paul would say, it is not I who live, but Christ, who now lives in me. And so that happens to each one of us. Imagine that the mystery of that, we become a part of the mystical body of Christ. Well, if you're a part, you're not just a member of a club, and you can't just you can't leave the affiliation. No, you've become a member when you're a member of a night of Columbus, you're a night. But if you're part of the mystical body, what do you become? You become a mystic. You become part of Christ. You are Christian. And so that divine communication. I mean, isn't there is nothing more mysterious than the fact that he will make his dwelling in us. Now, you're right. Some people will say, well, that sounds kind of new agey. Well, then be careful about when you read the gospel of John. And you get to that chapter 17. And he's talking about how the father and he are one. And that he will, they're going to come and we will come and dwell with them. And at the very last of that, Christ says, and I will dwell in them. Okay. So a mystic is you and me in a very real way. And every time we go to the sacraments, particularly the eucharist, when we receive what we know to be the full presence, not just a portion or a piece of Christ, he is fully present, even in the smallest little kernel, the little portion, that is fully the full presence of Christ, and when we consume that, oh my gosh, think about that. There was an explosion of grace. If you're aware, now many of the women that we've come to know as women mystics, and even men, like John of the cross, and saint Bernard of clairvaux, and so many others seen Augustine even talks about how that in our prayer, it becomes when we're aware, but we're receiving, and we're open, you know, because he's not going at the door. He's not going to do it in all of us.
The Bible in a Year
"st paul" Discussed on The Bible in a Year
"So whenever you've asked for something to be blessed, you've asked for it to be set apart. Now it is no longer for a normal thing. It's no longer for ordinary thing. It is now extraordinary. It is now a set apart for a specific purpose. So if you have a cross that was blessed, that means it's no longer jewelry, it is. Set apart for a purpose. And it must be worn that way, right? It must be treated that way. And that's what God is saying here in throughout the vicious and throughout exodus. What he's talking about is when something gets set apart, it is no longer to just be used whenever we want to use it. It's no longer just to be used however we want to use it. Even when it comes to the oil, the anointing oil, or the incense mixture. If you noted that in the book of exodus, one of the things that God had said is, okay, this is the incense mixture. Do not copy it. And don't just have it to perfume your homes. This is the oil mixture. Do not copy it. This is a mixture that is set apart. There's a mixture that is dedicated to a specific purpose. And that purpose is anointing the purpose is ordination, that purpose is to fill the presence of God with that sweet smelling smoke. And so that's just like that recognition. And I want to read this little quote. It's a quote from saint Pius the tenth Pope saint pie is the tenth was a Pope back in the day, and one of the things he talked about is when it came to priests. And when it comes to anybody, when it comes to anybody, when it comes to sanctity, when it comes to holiness, he says this, sanctity alone makes us what our divine vocation demands, namely, men crucified to the world and to whom the world is crucified. Men walking in the newness of life, who has St. Paul tells us, show themselves to be ministers of God and laborers and in sleepless nights. In fastings, in innocence, and knowledge in long suffering and kindness in the Holy Spirit, in unaffected love.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"st paul" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"And that you have whatever you have, you have it to give. I was just talking to a priest last night and his attitude toward his sister is so listening to him. And I wasn't trying to judge him. I really wasn't. I was just praying my heart. But I find so many who he's looking forward to today, and he's going to be with her. But the attitude he has. If it doesn't break out in an argument, it just will, it's just going to cause a lot of pain. And somehow that attitude gets communicated. And that's the kind of feelings of rejection and the burden we carry. Because if this is the way you are in your heart, then that's what's going to happen. You know, another place, too, besides just the family, gathering on a holiday like this is when we go to church on Sundays. Sometimes even being in the pews, the people next to us, the people that maybe this is where our kids go to the Catholic school or this is my neighbor or I'm not real happy with this priest. Isn't it amazing how we can right when we go to worship, we still have all these things churning up inside of us. See, we all have leprosy. And we're all members of that leper colony. In one way or another. So we all have this disease of leprosy. And so did this Samaritan have it, too. But he has the relationship now. So I really the example that's here in this gospel and what you're saying, here we are with Jesus. And here he is. We're at mass. And we're at the eucharist, here he is, and we even could receive communion, and he could get that close to us. But I could be that close and not have the relationship. What is the relationship that we have? It's in our hearts. Jesus can be on our altar, Jesus can't even come to us in holy communion, but my mind and my heart and my attitude is not really gratitude. And it's not really my need for him to come into that spot. Where I could take on his attitude, his disposition, because that's what I have in me by my baptism. The disposition that every Christian has in his heart is the disposition of Jesus, I am one with him. St. Paul says I live no not I, but Christ lives in me. This Samaritan picked up and had, in his cleansing, the attitude of Jesus Christ, that's the greatest gift that he received, then Jesus said, stand up and go. Once you have this, if this is what you have, and you're listening to me, then you can do this and have this for your mother. Who has rejected you? Or maybe even tried an abortion with you, and you know even from childhood. She rejected you. I can have an attitude toward my because God wanted me. God wanted me in this life. Maybe you're an adopted person that's listening to me today. And you have always felt in this family that you really weren't totally accepted, and you always felt isolated. If you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, then you have a power in you. A gratitude in you, to your biological father, who rejected you and mother, and also it too your adopting parents. Because you have an ABBA. You have a father. You have a mother, Mary. You actually have the disposition of Jesus Christ. What is the greatest gift that this Sumerian God, a relationship with Christ? What does God want to give you this Thanksgiving Day, a relationship with Jesus Christ? Wow. So that will now from now on and the rest of your life, you will have a spirit of gratitude, not because of yourself, but as Paul said, you have fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. That's what God has offered to all the world. All the world. I'm really happy, you know, some people think if you're outside the United States, you think maybe this is kind of a self centered world, self serving world here in the United States, and maybe images sometimes of America go out there. You know, I am here, and those of you who are listening, we have a magnificent country that God has given us. And I today want to thank God for America. I want to thank God for the United States. I want to thank God for the blessings and the goodness he has given to us. And I, there used to be a lady that sang this song, and I would like to have all of you who hear this. Praise and thank God. For this day, this opportunity in which all of us can agree, God is the giver of all good gifts and God has certainly blessed us here in America. God bless America land that I love stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountain. To the Prairie, to the ocean, white with fall God bless America my home sweet home God bless America my home sweet home God continue to bless us, we have many flaws we have many things that would need to be corrected. But you have given us a wonderful home. Thank you so much, Monsignor. God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving Day to
TuneInPOC
"st paul" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Oh, merciful God. The father of our lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life. In whom, whosoever, believeth shall live, though he die. And whosoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally. Who has taught us by his holy apostles St. Paul. Not to be sorry, as men without hope. For them that sleep in him. We meekly beseech the O father to raise us from the death of sin, unto the life of righteousness. That when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is, this our sister death. And that, at the general resurrection, in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight. And receive that blessing which thy well beloved son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee. Saying, come, Ye blessed children of my father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Ground this, we beseech the immersive father through Jesus Christ, our mediator, and redeemer.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"st paul" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Prime minister Liz truss read passages during a special service at St Paul's Cathedral. We do not live to ourselves. And we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the lord. And if we die, we die to the lord. So then, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the lords. Earlier in the day, trust met with King Charles at Buckingham Palace. President Joe Biden will be among the world's leaders who will attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. He told reporters today that, quote, I don't know the details yet, but I'll be going. The president is sounding hopeful about the future of semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., he visited Ohio today where he participated in the groundbreaking for the world's largest Intel factory near Columbus. We need to make these chips right here in America to bring down everyday cost and create good jobs. Biden says the plant shows that the industrial Midwest is back. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Circle is bringing together developers and entrepreneurs from around the world to continue building on the momentum of the ecosystem surrounding USD C we'll hear from thought leaders and change makers on where the digital asset industry is today and more importantly where it's headed. Join us in San Francisco for circles converged 22 from September 27th to the 30th to shape the future of money and a digital asset ecosystem. Go to converge that circle dot com to register and learn more. G three assistants through Virginia's community colleges is your pathway to a new future. Get a skill. Get a job. Get ahead. You can learn more at Virginia G three dot com. You see the value in worldwide market news. Stocks in Asia saw some heavy selling overnight. And you wanted first several fed officials beat the drum for higher interest rates. Crypto is in
Eu tava la
"st paul" Discussed on Eu tava la
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MyTalk 107.1
"st paul" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"And welcome to the seven o'clock hour of Jason and Alexis in the morning on my talk and streaming around the world are my talk app. I'm Jace. Well, Lex, Dawn and Kenny. Thanks for being here. We appreciate you hope you have any good. Good commute in on the 35 w 35 e 4 94 6 94 3 94. 2 80. Syria name Kenny. What's the What's the award for the worst road right now? What's the worst commute? Where? Where? Just absolutely is hell on road right now. Like always, until the construction is done. It's westbound 94 through downtown ST Paul. Every day from Mounts Boulevard over to western, its bonnet to boot. Armpit to armpit, but You know what? Really, But you know what, But do you know what hashtag human scent appeared? Okay, well, there we go. There's the worst road of the day award. We've never done it before. But congratulations to 94 West ST. Paul. Yeah, big honor. I just learned something, Jason, but I don't want to derail the show. Please go ahead. Have you heard us? We're going to have to schedule a segment on this in the future. I want to do a little research on the matter. Dawn really, really hates Jennifer Lawrence. Hmm. Oh, you probably haven't been here when? Yeah, we which they know. And, yeah, We are very familiar. Uh huh. Maybe we're going to devote the entire crabby coffee shop podcast to Jennifer Lawrence. And how fun she is Great. Let's let that audience hate me. Awesome. By the way Election we check in with our friends at the crappy coffee shop, which friends? We don't have a lot. But, um, let's check in with our friends of the crabby coffee shop and see how their podcast is going. Yes, friends. Here's the question that Alexis and I have Did you guys record a new episode? Yesterday..
KTLK 1130 AM
"st paul" Discussed on KTLK 1130 AM
"Down now we might have you work. It will maybe. And it will calm your dog down. CBD does some really amazing things for dogs, especially dogs that are experiencing anxiety. So definitely check out Twin cities. Cannabis for that. Yeah, I use the roll on CBD. I just rub it all it all over Artemus. Just rub it all over. There might be better applications. What's funny is you put if you put it on the tip of her tail, she just chases it to smell Really good. That's not right. It is bacon flavored. I'm not making that up that oil. That is not what John is referring to. Since George Floyd's murder, according to the story, from Carol 11 members of the movement to have been at 38th in Chicago. Now they're at the center of the push to reopen the area to traffic. We have some details and comments that they made yesterday during some press conferences. First off the Let's go to the phones. Mike in ST Paul. Good morning. Go ahead. Hello, Mike. Hey, How's it going, guys? Good. Question I have. How come we're putting up with these people that are controlling that area? Why not just take them out? Because they're gangbangers did nothing but terrorists. Okay. I'm not sure what I mean. Would you be more specific? You want to just go in there and just started with guns a blazin and take out anything that moves. Are you? We've been waiting for How many weeks now? Sure. And all we're doing is, uh, catering to the mob. No. Yeah. No, I mean, look, you're you're you're talking about what? What we're talking about. You still have a situation where you can only go and like and and take someone into custody. If you catch them doing something wrong, that's still a part of this process, right? I think ultimately You should have been able to go in the autonomous zone. Tear it down, begin to enforce the law. That's that's that's and that's what we're we're all hoping happens with this, but But to be fair to the truth is to Mike's point, if the will was there They could. They could eradicate this problem pretty quickly. You all you got to, you know you go in there and I'm sure Amy and Brian. You guys can both vouch for this. You go in there. You start talking to members of the community. They'll tell you who's in the gang. They'll name them. They'll point you the point right to right where they live. You ask, you know who was involved in this shooting? Whatever you know, hypothetical a week ago or who was involved in this And you can find people in the community that will tell you they just won't tell cops. It's a small percentage by the way again the day after 95% of the people in that square were there to mourn to grieve and to to talk about what went on, and it was a very vocal noisy 5% that disrupted you know was were disrupt, disrupting everything but it ultimately You know, drove the day well, and you have to look at to whose benefit is the chaos. I mean, you know, little finger taught us chaos is a ladder. There are people and there are groups who need to feed into the chaos because it helps. You know either their entity or their gang or their whatever gets them on TV Gets the money gets them power. Might some of those groups be? I don't know. Not for profit. Some might might. Might. Some of them be nonprofits. Might some of those nonprofits be actually getting government funding? To help deal with some of these problems certainly seems to be the case. Uh and what they're preventing are the legit nonprofits who want to come in who need to rebuild that area who need to make it so the existing businesses and the next wave of businesses can come in, But that's not going to happen when you have no transportation through that area. That's not going to happen when there is no public safety in that area, and and that's just gonna keep perpetuating. Um, you know the problem and that kind of answers the question of the caller. Why aren't they actually going in and doing something about it is because the powers that be right now, I mean, you boil it down. They just don't want to. Yet A cop's motto is transforming street energy into community energy. Many of them are former gang members who are now reaching out to those whose shoes they once walked in. They do have a contract with the Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention, and we'll get to that in a in a moment. It ain't cheap. No. Well, there's kind of like to hear this is what's interesting. We'll give you some of the comments they made. But according to Minnesota reformer they, the city responded to a public records request. So a gap has a contract, One contract for $25,000. For outreach work with youth affected by violence. A city spokesperson later said that I got could receive up to $359,000 for its work, assisting the city and reopening the intersection around 38th in Chicago, but has not provided the contract as a result, um they they made a mistake in the previous version of the story, and this was a This was a correction on this, so it sounds like they for sure have a $25,000 contract. The Office of Violence Prevention. But there also is this potential 359,000. That's there. But there's not an official contract with it, and I think that speaks a lot to what we were talking about. Before the show started. Marcia Howard, who was the sort of the self proclaimed leader down there, just declared it now she's just trying to keep up her tiktok fame. Right, And she's got more tiktok videos out there trying to keep her profile up because she knows that without 38th in Chicago and the autonomous zone, she's gonna lose. You know all of that power that she has been able to grasp via her, You know, cult of personality, but we talked about was like, what's the motivation here, and you nailed it before the show started. It's what we just mentioned. It's money. It's dollars. Yeah, like and you know they were talking about yesterday. Economic investment. Things like that. I mean, at the end of the day, that's kind of what it all comes down to. This was shortly after The city had had had been cleared out all the barricades. Marcia Howard goes on Tiktok, and you can see people in the background, bringing barricades back and setting things back up again. Greetings from GFS. You see that square behind me? That's where my guard shack ones. But you know what's there now? That right there, take away a barricade. Get a new barricade. And.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"st paul" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Street in Old Montgomery in a couple minutes away from news here on 700 wlw and 10 35. Mr. Do Mr Don't when it comes to pranks. And that includes yesterday's A Super Bowl streaker. If you didn't see that we've got the welts on him. We've got a Long story. I don't know how we get you know, in our ago it made sense when until the start down our latest like, Wait, So we don't have the guy who was streaking because you want to see a guy running around. But you want to see a woman streaking. That's that's on the block. 700 wlw Comet is all tied back to the same Russian dude who put the guy who street yesterday up to it. So he can get views for his YouTube page, which is also part of the Mr Do Mr Don't when it comes to pranks because a lot of the prank star be driven by youtubers or people, you know, Tic tac, whatever it is to try and get their 15 minutes of fame. Except when it fails, it fails miserably, and I've got a great story for you coming up on that. At 10 30 this morning he was slowly on 700 wlw. Thanks again. A geo Bernard for popping on a little bit there, although he's really got nothing going on these days anyway, Uh, this is that right? Work working out looking pretty anyway. Yeah. Mardi Gras 2021 down organs, the website there we do Have this a couple of things related. Sports Wise. And I think this is more covert than ending the Xavier ST Paul game. It was scheduled or dip. All games are Xavier to Paul was scheduled for Thursday. After now let's say like a 3 30 tip here on 700 wlw. They have canceled that. Because I'm guessing postpone because of Cove it I'm sure they don't.
KTLK 1130 AM
"st paul" Discussed on KTLK 1130 AM
"A wall the teachers union accusing the city of walking away from negotiations after the mayor says the city has made its last best final offer. The union calls the offer woefully inadequate, flagging a plan to Paul In person classes on Lee. If half the public schools have covert outbreaks, America is listening to Fox News Minimal. 70 Times. Bill Warner Governor Tim Walz this afternoon by executive Order authorized the Minnesota National Guard to assist with public safety efforts in Minneapolis and ST Paul during the upcoming trials of the former officers charged in the death of George Floyd. But Wall says $35 million he's requesting from the Legislature is a critical tool to ensure that there are enough sworn law enforcement officers available requirement to deploy the National Guard. Republicans say Minneapolis must reimburse law enforcement agencies elsewhere in Minnesota for assistance they provided during last summer's riots. The governor says the $35 million appropriation would ensure that happens. Sub zero cold returning in Minnesota this weekend if you need to travel Carrie Carlson, guest with the American Red Cross says, Be sure to pack a winter survival kit have things like extra blanket or whatever the emergency Mylar blankets, extra hats, gloves, scarves, your ice scraper, snow brush, cell phone charger and protein bars, Things like that. Also that sand and cat litter. Carlson Guest recommends putting the Windows survival kit in the back seat, where it is easily accessible. Minneapolis Man is charged with second degree murder in the death of a man found in a snowbank and infer Grove Heights earlier in the week, 42 year old Gabriel Cruz Accused of fatally shooting 38 year old Bryant Lukins of Burnsville. Prosecutors say it was the result of a drug.
MyTalk 107.1
"st paul" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"And hours can be found on our website at select surfaces dot com. We hope to see you in the show room. Let us take your business. My top 171 is keep him, Wyatt them ht one Coon Rapids Saint Paul Minneapolis. Okay, So we've cleared a bunch of wrecks in the last hour and there I I think you deserve a word of warning. If you live in Oakdale, North ST Paul Maplewood, that area the Carjacking crew. They've been working overtime up there this morning. There have been a ton of Carjackings in the North ST Paul Oakdale area and one actually, in the last two minutes, a Carjacking at gunpoint, So please be aware Don't let your car warm up if you're in your car. Keep the door locked and just be careful of caution and only one big item on the board. Right now. It's a semi being dragged out of the ditch on the right side south on Highway 65 73rd on Lee. The left Lane is getting by traffic in jamming briefly sometime after Osborn, but certainly not a big delay there. You do have a couple of breakdowns parked in the right shoulder Westbound 94 in the Brooklyn's one prior to 81, then a semi on the right shoulder at 1 69 and then up in Maple Grove, the Maple Grove Rogers border. We have right lane blacking construction. Thankfully, no delays there as you work your way into Roger's Ken Barlow is five eyewitness news forecast Mostly cloudy high near 10. Today It's the warmest It's gonna be for at least the next eight days for below.
MyTalk 107.1
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"All rallies. You're driving dawn. Not good. Because westbound 94 was closed at Keats. Where do you enter the freeway from Woodbury. Oh, um Century. So it wasn't close to where you were. No, no. Okay, good, good, you know, but it still was like I go so slow that it's annoying to people. I hate it when people are on my tail, But I got like 45 on the highway. When it's like this. I tested out on other streets where you know I brake hard, so that when no one's around to see what my car will do, Yeah, totally. And it is not good, you know, and you end up sideways in the road. You're like Okay, That's the way the roads are. So it's like halfway. They've salted and they haven't done the other half. Once you get into ST Paul, it's It's a lot better, but, yeah, I still go slow after that, So it did take me probably twice as long to get in and Not, apparently because I knew it was coming. Yeah, That's nothing. You need to be a ashamed of dawn. I think the people that drive that speed or the ones surviving and crashing from what I've seen because there was rain and sleet overnight. Now there's snow on top of that, and there are some wild spin out Rex all over the system right now. Including including this crash on westbound 94. It was an overnight crash, semi versus Minda plow truck that have the freeway closed for a number of hours. They just opened one lane past the scene. The crash happened it Keats. And traffic has been jamming at Manning. So there's a bit of a push to get through there. The Woodbury Well, I was surprised on Lee because I looked at the the thermostat. It said, like.
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"Aware of that. And then North found 52. It's no big deal, just hosting a stall on the right shoulder at South View in South ST Paul. Can Marlys five eyewitness news forecast presented by Minnesota and Ecology Mostly cloudy today We might see a few sunny breaks 30 degrees the high back down to 18 tonight and then mostly cloudy and 34 tomorrow. It's still 21 degrees that might talk. Jason Alexis, Don and Kenny. It's Jason and Alexis. In the morning on my talk one of 71 everything entertainment, Brendan, everyone out back. You can relax. The girl told me she Oh, thanks So alive like you and you take what you get. You come over unannounced. Dressed up like you're welcome back where Jason and Alexis in the morning. I talked one of 71 everything entertainment. Everything. Sea bass. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Mm. Quality Fish sea bass. When you make. I immediately thought of that weird guy in dumb and dumber, which one? He's in the diner, and he fights with him, and then he's in the toilet. Oh, yeah. I always think of Oprah..
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"FM HD one Coon Rapids, Minneapolis, ST Paul ABC News. Now I'm Derek Dennis Cities up and down the East Coast of preparing for a massive winter snowstorm. The storm is expected to pummel the area from D C to Boston. New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, has directed state agencies to assemble more than 1600 snowplows had £5000 of salt in preparation on Long Island, Nassau County Executive Lord current since it's going on for so long. I'm going to need to have our county guys out. There are an urge those who may be traveling anywhere from Sunday night through Monday night to change their plans. We're asking you to stay off the roads as much as possible for your own safety. The storm is expected to dump around 7 to 14 inches of snow in and around New York City. Todd at DBC News New YORK protests are underway on streets across Russia, calling for the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Some 900 people have been arrested at the protest across the country, most of them in the capital Moscow. The 44 year old Navalny is an anti corruption investigator and well known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is ABC News. Ready to create your own income with your own home based business where there's no such thing is getting laid off. If a billionaire entrepreneur spent five years in $20 million searching for the next big trend, wouldn't you want to know what he found? If you're serious about making money from home without having to leave home, then write this down. W W W dot go here next dot com You decide your income. Get the.
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"Why. FM HD one Coon Rapids, Minneapolis, ST Paul. Mm hmm. ABC News Now I'm Dave Packer Fortress D. C. A. B. C Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Washington is in near total lockdown more National Guard arriving at Andrews Air Force Base yesterday 25,000 will be here on Inauguration Day. Their military vehicles and police cars on every corner. Streets are shut down fences with razor wire erected. The National Mall is essentially closed, drove in this morning Constitution. Abdul was blocked. No traffic allowed. Impeached for inciting that Ryan on the capital that prompted the lockdown. President Trump Democrats building their case to convict him in his second impeachment trial. Some Republicans circling wagons around the president, Senator Lindsey Graham, This is insane at every level, it will create further division in the country. What good comes from impeaching Donald Trump after he leaves office? The Trump administration continues to be criticized for the sluggish rollout of the Corona virus vaccine as the U. S approaches 400,000 deaths no winner Powerball, pushing Wednesday's jackpot 2 730 million. This is ABC News. I absolutely loved my dog, but the constant shedding not so much, but then I got a Swiffer sweeper, pet kid, and it is amazing. These super thick cloths pick up a crazy amount of hair. Just look at all that. And that was from just one swipe and the best part sweepers so much easier to maneuver than a broom or a vacuum easily getting around chairs and under the couch your rights Now I can focus on you not you're shedding Swiffer sweeper packet because should happen..
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"Live from NPR News. I'm Barbara Klein. Washington D. C and the country's 50 state capitals are bracing for armed violence ahead of Wednesday's presidential inauguration. As pro Trump extremist threaten more assaults. Like last week, the U. S Capitol. Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Backs reports. The Capitol building in ST Paul is ringed in fencing and a stepped up presence of law enforcement will last well into next week, A National Guard unit has joined members of the State Patrol and local law enforcement in an effort to deter violence in the run up to the presidential inauguration. Minnesota's capital is among those that the FBI says should be on guard for demonstrations by militant groups. Although state leaders say they have uncovered no credible threats, Lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan says officials aren't taking any chances. We're not panicking. You're concerned. We are alert and we are prepared. Security has been tight at the Capitol since last brings protests after the police killing of George Floyd, Minneapolis for NPR News. I'm Brian backs in ST Paul. FBI investigators have fanned out across the country searching for suspects in the U. S. Capitol assault. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports. It's a wide net more than 300. People are under investigation, and prosecutors have already filed criminal charges against about 100 people. Some of them are pretty serious. There's an Arkansas man caught on tape. Allegedly beating a police officer with an American flag pole. There's another case involving two off duty cops from Rocky Mount Virginia, one of them had allegedly posted online about their actions inside the Capitol, then deleted the post. Washington, D C's top federal prosecutor says investigators have not found direct evidence that some riders wanted to capture and assassinate officials contrary to allegations made by prosecutors in Arizona. Several states are scaling back vaccine distribution plans because of shortages. At the same time, California is opening what are being called Corona virus vaccine super sites in an effort to speed up the administration of shots. Kevin Starke of member station KQED reports, officials are scrambling to set up vaccination sites at places like Disneyland Dodger Stadium in L. A. And the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Governor Gavin Newsom said the federal government further complicated the effort to speed up distribution this week by promising the state hundreds of thousands of doses from a stockpile that is reportedly used up. Speaking outside at Dodger Stadium, Newsome said he is now unsure when more vaccine will arrive in California are result is to get all of the existing Doses that are in this state administered as quickly and efficiently as possible. The state has received a total of more than three million doses so far for NPR news..