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| 22 Oct 2020 | St. John Paul's Five Loves | 00:23:40 | |
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| 18 Mar 2024 | The Necessity of Prayer | 00:24:11 | |
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| 11 Jan 2024 | Truth and Leadership | 00:22:41 | |
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| 08 Oct 2020 | Forgiveness | 00:26:48 | |
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| 18 May 2024 | The Certainty of Faith | 00:27:03 | |
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| 08 Nov 2021 | God Speaks | 00:24:37 | |
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| 04 Oct 2021 | St. Francis of Assisi | 00:26:00 | |
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| 21 Mar 2021 | The Trinity In My Soul | 00:20:09 | |
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| 01 May 2023 | St. Joseph the Worker | 00:31:13 | |
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| 06 Apr 2023 | Holy Thursday | 00:25:05 | |
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| 17 Oct 2019 | Consecrating Ourselves to Our Lady in Jerusalem | 00:24:18 | |
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| 30 Aug 2023 | The Sacrament of Anointing | 00:23:07 | |
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| 20 Mar 2020 | The Luminous Mysteries with Archbishop Naumann | 00:35:38 | |
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| 14 Mar 2021 | Doctrine of John of the Cross 4 | 00:25:37 | |
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| 26 Dec 2021 | The Feast of the Holy Family | 00:19:27 | |
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| 05 Aug 2019 | Our Lady of the Snow | 00:21:54 | |
Today, August 5, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Snow. It commemorates a powerful intervention of the Mother of God in the world.
In 352 AD, there was a Roman aristocrat named Giovanni. He and his wife, having no children, made a vow to donate their possessions to the Virgin Mary. They prayed that she might make known to them how they were to dispose of their property in her honor. Mary appeared to Giovanni in a dream on August 4 and told him to build a church on the site where he would find snow the following morning. Bewildered, he went immediately in the morning to tell Pope Liberius of his dream. But that same night, Mary had also appeared to the pope and told him he would find snow on the Esquiline Hill, and there he was to outline the dimensions of a new church. On 5 August, at the height of the Roman summer, snow fell during the night on the summit of the Esquiline Hill. In obedience to a vision of the Virgin Mary that they had the same night, the Pope outlined the size of the Church and the couple built the basilica of St. Mary Major in honor of Mary on the very spot that was covered with snow.
Everything in the Old Testament was a preparation for something in the New Testament. The manna or bread from heaven that fed the Israelites as they journeyed through the wilderness to the Promised Land is fulfilled by the Eucharist, the True Bread from heaven. Mary is the fulfillment of Noah’s Ark. Mary is the New and Eternal Ark where we are to find refuge from the flood of evil that is swamping the world today. From October 13, 1983 to February 11, 1990, Jesus and Mary appeared in San Nicolas, Argentina. This apparition has become fully approved by the Church. On December 30, 1989, Jesus said to the visionary: “Formerly, the world was saved by the ark of Noah. Today the Ark is My Mother. Through her, souls will be saved, because she will lead them to me. He who rejects My Mother rejects Me! Many are letting the grace of God pass by in these days.”
The Flood is a good image because we all may experience or are experiencing a Flood that appears to be on the verge of swamping our lives. It come in the form of tackling a major investment or business venture; it may be the stress of your job; seemingly unresolvable difficulties with a child be it physical, mental, or emotional; maybe your own chronic illness; maybe an addiction that that has you on the brink of drowning. Or maybe it’s just the onslaught of evil in the world and, well sadly, even within the Church that has you feeling like you’re are sinking…It really doesn’t matter what form the flood takes in your life, what matters is that just as God told Noah to build and get into the Ark, so now God has given us the Ark, Mary our Mother, refuge of sinners and Our Most Merciful Mother. Go into the Ark by Consecrating yourself, your family, your profession and your country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Give yourself and all the things you cannot control to Mary and she will save you from drowning in the Flood.
St. Maximilian Kolbe is a particularly close friend of mine. What I love most about him is his indefatigable (isn’t that a great word – it means untiring) confidence in Mary. Kolbe was convinced only one thing was necessary – belong entirely to Mary and she would help you to know and do the will of Jesus. Just as Mary worked out all the details for the bride and groom at Cana, Mary will work out all the details of our lives – if we go into the Ark, if we entrust everything to Mary.
In a letter of his from May 8, 1938, Kolbe writes: The concern is over, isn’t it? But you were worried…I am not surprised my friend that sometimes in weakness your hands fall. My hands also fell. In such case the best thing to do is to commit the matter to the Immaculata, to greatly restrain oneself, and not to interfere with the Immaculata, for difficulties which we have turned over to her are no longer our concern.
I see Mary everywhere. I see difficulties nowhere.
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| 28 May 2022 | Vanity | 00:22:15 | |
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| 04 Feb 2023 | God's Plan for Sexuality | 00:24:43 | |
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| 26 Mar 2021 | Peaceful Anticipation | 00:26:41 | |
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| 11 Jul 2021 | Winner or Sinner | 00:24:16 | |
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| 15 May 2022 | What We Owe God | 00:22:16 | |
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| 10 Aug 2024 | Wolves and Trees | 00:27:31 | |
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| 12 Oct 2021 | Obstacles to Living the Movement | 00:25:38 | |
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| 04 Mar 2024 | Distraction and Anxiety | 00:28:20 | |
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| 02 Feb 2020 | The Transfiguration | 00:22:05 | |
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| 11 Mar 2022 | God is Our Father | 00:22:24 | |
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| 12 May 2022 | Taking Back Sunday | 00:22:47 | |
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| 09 Aug 2023 | What Children Owe Their Parents | 00:22:53 | |
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| 17 Dec 2020 | Trust and the Experience of Evil | 00:23:46 | |
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| 17 May 2023 | The Catholic Position on LGBTQ | 00:39:55 | |
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| 09 Aug 2022 | St. Edith Stein | 00:23:20 | |
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| 25 Jun 2022 | My Word Will Not Pass Away | 00:21:10 | |
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| 01 Apr 2023 | The Luminous Mysteries by Fr. Josh Johnson | 00:33:13 | |
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| 28 Sep 2022 | The Devil and Demons | 00:24:36 | |
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| 08 Aug 2019 | Why is Jesus God? He is Preannounced | 00:23:48 | |
In your average Comparative Religions course at your run-of-the-mill college, Jesus Christ will be presented in a lineup of major religious founders. He’ll be there with the likes of Zoroaster, Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, and maybe Martin Luther. And the similarities between all these people will be emphasized. They were all persons of strong character, who presented a world-view and preached a moral system. Many suffered for their beliefs, and all of them urged people everywhere to unite in serving a Higher Cause.
The problem is, emphasizing similarities is sometimes more misleading than emphasizing dissimilarities. As C.S. Lewis pointed out, milk and urine are similar in that both come from a cow, but you wouldn’t really want to make too much of that similarity when the differences are so much more striking and important. So too with Christ. It’s an enormous mistake to emphasize the similarities between Himself and other religious founders when the differences between Him and them are so much more extreme. What is so special about Jesus? Why do we believe Jesus is God? There are four reasons. We will meditate on the first reason today.Jesus was the only person ever pre-announced for centuries
If someone is planning on coming to your house for supper, you’d probably be grateful if they didn’t just drop in unannounced. That is doubly true for someone important: My wife hates it when I invite the Archbishop without giving her some advance notice. If God were coming to earth, wouldn’t be nice to have a little heads up – some advance notice. Jesus Christ is the only person in human history to be preannounced. Quite a few details were known about Him before he came like: How he would be born (Isaiah 7:14), where he would be born (Micah 5:2), when he would be born (Daniel chapters 2 and 7), when His public Ministry would begin (Daniel 9:2-27), and that he would work specific miracles
(Isaiah 35:5-6
). Isaiah 53, written 500-700 years+ before Jesus describes in an uncanny way how the Messiah would suffer and die to save many from their sins:
Isaiah 53:3 He will be a thing despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering…; he was despised and we took no account of him. And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried…Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and Yahweh burdened him with the sins of all of us. Harshly dealt with, he bore it humbly, he never opened his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter-house, like a sheep that is dumb before its shearers never opening its mouth… They gave him a grave with the wicked, a tomb with the rich, though he had done no wrong and there had been no perjury in his mouth. Yahweh has been pleased to crush him with suffering…By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself.
The first reason we know Jesus is God is that he is the only person ever to be announced for centuries in advance down to every detail of his life. When the two disciples walking on the road to Emmaus were in confusion and despair about the identity of Jesus, he approached them and brought them out of their confusion by showing how he had been predicted and prophesied. And they believed:
Luke 24:44 Then Jesus told them, 'This is what I meant when I said, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets and in the Psalms has to be fulfilled'. He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, 'So you see how it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses to this.
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| 21 Jan 2021 | John Chapter 4 | 00:22:32 | |
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| 23 Apr 2021 | Anointing of the Sick | 00:23:41 | |
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| 14 Jan 2024 | Listening to Gossip | 00:34:42 | |
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| 04 Jun 2020 | Our Lady's Message in Akita, Japan | 00:27:51 | |
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| 24 May 2020 | The Ascension | 00:25:16 | |
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| 15 Apr 2024 | Poor in Spirit | 00:31:56 | |
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| 03 Nov 2019 | Aim Higher | 00:26:57 | |
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| 27 Sep 2019 | Divine Providence and My Stupidity | 00:22:52 | |
Divine Providence is the way God guides all things with Wisdom, Love and Power to reach the purpose for which he designed them. CCC 321 This is so liberating – see – last night I was feeling like a caged animal because I can’t exercise with this muscular skeletal problem that causes breathing issues – but I thought – sure I can do some simple exercises – so I did and it was simple – and it was dumb as…because I cant breathe today. Idiot, idiot, idiot…Why do I do such stupid things. Then I reflected on the multiplicity of stupid and even worse sinful things I say and do: idiot, idiot, idiot. But even my stupidity and even my sin are not more powerful than the Providence of God who works all things, even my stupid choices, and my sins for my good if I love Him. Oh there are consequences, physical, moral and spiritual, but we never have cause for despair because God can even work our bad decision and even our sinful decisions for our greater good and the greater good of others and the whole world. That doesn’t give me license to do stupid or sinful things, but it does mean that I don’t have to be perfect. I can be imperfect with the will to better and God will take care of the rest. Excessive sadness and discouragement over our bad decisions are not good and we must not view our own faults too tragically because God is able to draw good from them. Thérèse of the Child Jesus loved greatly this phrase of Saint John of the Cross: “Love is able to profit from everything, the good as well as the bad that It finds in me, and to transform it into Itself.” Our confidence in God must go at least that far: to believe that He is good enough and powerful enough to draw good from everything, including our faults and our infidelities. When he cites the phrase of Saint Paul, Everything works together for the good of those who love God, Saint Augustine adds: “even sins”! Of course, we must struggle energetically against sin and correct our imperfections. When we have been the cause of some evil, we must also try to rectify it to the extent that this is possible. But we must not distress ourselves excessively regarding our faults because God, once we return to Him with a contrite heart, is able to cause good to spring forth, if only to make us to grow in humility and to teach us to have a little less confidence in our own strength and a little more in Him alone. So great is the mercy of the Lord that He uses our faults to our advantage! Ruysbroek, a Flemish mystic of the Middle Ages, has these words: “The Lord, in His clemency, wanted to turn our sins against themselves and in our favor; He found a way to render them useful, to convert them in our hands into instruments of salvation. This should in no way diminish our fear of sinning, nor our pain at having sinned. Rather, our sins have become for us a source of humility.” Let us add also that they can just as well become a source of tenderness and mercy toward others. I, who fall so easily, how can I permit myself to judge my brother? How can I not be merciful toward him, as the Lord has been toward me? Accordingly, after committing a fault of whatever kind, rather than withdrawing into ourselves indefinitely in discouragement and dwelling on the memory, we must immediately return to God with confidence and even thank Him for the good that His mercy will be able to draw out of this fault! We must know that one of the weapons that the devil uses most commonly to prevent souls from advancing toward God is precisely to try to make them lose their peace and discourage them by the sight of their faults… Let us understand this: For the person of goodwill, that which is serious in sin is not so much the fault in itself as the despondency into which it places him. He who falls but immediately gets up has not lost much. He has rather gained in humility and in the experience of mercy. | |||
| 28 Dec 2020 | The Holy Innocents | 00:25:54 | |
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| 30 Nov 2019 | Consecration Day 25: 5 reasons to pray the Rosary | 00:23:39 | |
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| 19 Jun 2021 | The Foundation of Justice | 00:27:52 | |
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| 15 Apr 2020 | Divine Mercy (Part III) | 00:27:12 | |
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| 28 Mar 2020 | Repent and Believe in the Gospel | 00:24:16 | |
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| 13 Mar 2020 | Our Lady of America | 00:22:04 | |
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| 24 May 2022 | The Martyrs of Lyon | 00:23:19 | |
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| 03 Jul 2021 | Thomas the Apostle | 00:25:04 | |
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| 01 Feb 2024 | Dementia | 00:33:55 | |
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| 26 Nov 2020 | Gratitude of the Ten Lepers | 00:24:56 | |
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| 15 May 2024 | Theological Virtues | 00:23:26 | |
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| 23 Jul 2021 | St. Bridget of Sweden | 00:23:35 | |
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| 26 Aug 2024 | The Eucharist | 00:30:02 | |
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| 24 Sep 2023 | Saints or Good People | 00:29:54 | |
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| 25 Jun 2020 | Envy is | 00:20:57 | |
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| 26 Feb 2020 | Growth in Prayer | 00:22:47 | |
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| 14 Jul 2022 | St. Kateri Tekakwitha | 00:21:59 | |
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| 28 Jul 2020 | Living in the Present Moment | 00:23:57 | |
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| 06 Jul 2024 | St. Maria Goretti | 00:36:57 | |
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| 14 Sep 2019 | Gratitude Flows from Contemplating the Truth | 00:25:23 | |
Thomas Aquinas wrote that the greatest of all pleasures consists in the contemplation of truth. Now every pleasure assuages pain as stated above: hence the contemplation of truth assuages pain or sorrow, and the more so the more perfectly one is a lover of wisdom. And therefore in the midst of tribulations men rejoice in the contemplation of Divine things and of future Happiness. So the act of careful reflection on ultimate truth is pleasing, and the truth God has revealed enhances that pleasure immeasurably. Furthermore, the only adequate response to a consideration of the goodness of God, and to His boundless extravagance towards us is gratitude. Gratitude can refer either to a feeling of appreciation or to a display towards our benefactor – and where the display is absent the feeling will quickly evaporate. In other words, when you stop saying “thank you,” your pleasure in the things you’ve been given won’t last. What have you been given? Well, of course, there’s what we all have in common: goods of the body (life, food, clean water, a roof over your head, safety and security); goods of the mind (friends and books and music and memory); and goods of the spirit (you have God’s divine life dwelling within you making you truly a son or daughter of God, a partaker in the divine nature, you have a knowledge of the Father’s love, and the prospect of heaven). God gave all this freely – some of it cost Him a slow, torturous death – just so we could enjoy it. But here’s a first suggestion for cultivating gratitude: make your own list. Many of us, when we hear the phrase “count your blessings,” count like a toddler – we maybe thank God for three or four things, and then we quit. Try this instead: take half an hour and a pen and a piece of paper and write down the top twenty or thirty things you’re most grateful for. Then hang on to that list for a while. Keep it in your purse, or your pocket. I’ve done this with a lot of groups, and I always find it makes a complaining or self-pitying attitude much harder to justify throughout the day. Since we tend not to be grateful, we don’t acknowledge our gifts or say “thank you.” This is, according to Aquinas, a failure in justice: we owe God an explicit recognition of His divine generosity. So why do we fail? What are the primary sources of ingratitude? I think the obstacles to habitual thankfulness can be categorized under two headings: a) dissatisfaction with our spiritual condition; b) dissatisfaction with our worldly condition. Dissatisfaction with our spiritual condition. Of course, in one respect, dissatisfaction with our spiritual condition might be interpreted as the proper guard against self-complacency. We do have a lot of work to do in getting rid of vice and being more conformed to Christ, and there’s no sense denying it. On the other hand, focus on our own faults can easily become so consuming that it prevents a more primordial awareness of how much the Lord has done for us – and for the world – already. Dissatisfaction with our worldly condition. If we’re always looking for more money or more health or more security or more praise, we won’t be grateful. If we say “I just need to make it through today, or to the weekend, or the end of the semester, or the next couple years” or “I just need to get a job, or a house, or make it to retirement” or “I just need to get the kids to bed, or get the kids ready for school, or get the kids to college, or get the kids through college,” – as though achieving any of those things would bring us peace and contentment, we won’t be grateful. Let me suggest two practices for growing in gratitude and happiness. First, the greatest way to thank God is to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist. Eucharist literally means a sacrifice of Thanksgiving. Second, begin your day by thanking God in prayer. | |||
| 05 Apr 2022 | The Grain of Wheat | 00:21:32 | |
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| 15 Jul 2020 | The Glorious Mysteries | 00:22:37 | |
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| 22 Feb 2023 | Blessed are those Who Suffer for the Sake of Righteousness | 00:21:03 | |
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| 20 Jul 2019 | The Christian Meaning of Work | 00:21:56 | |
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| 30 Jun 2022 | The Work of the Holy Family | 00:25:09 | |
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| 28 Jan 2020 | A Conversation with Pilate. | 00:27:08 | |
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| 21 Feb 2020 | Temperance, Pride, Envy, and Anger | 00:25:24 | |
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| 21 Mar 2023 | St. Photina | 00:22:00 | |
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| 27 Jul 2020 | Three Aspects of Faith | 00:23:30 | |
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| 01 Apr 2023 | BONUS: A Conversation with Fr. Josh Johnson | 00:30:34 | |
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| 15 Sep 2019 | Our Lady of Sorrows | 00:23:43 | |
Redemptive Suffering and the Sacrament of Anointing
CCC 1499 By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to the suffering and glorified Lord, that he may raise them up and save them. And indeed, she exhorts them to contribute to the good of the people of God by freely uniting themselves to the Passion and death of Christ.
Romans 8:17, “If we are children (of God) we are heirs as well: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory.”
2 Corinthians 4:17, “The troubles which are soon over, though they weigh little, train us for the carrying of a weight of eternal glory which is out of proportion to them.”
Colossians 1:24, “It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church.”
Why does Jesus want us to participate in His suffering?
Our suffering can be good for us
Our suffering can be good for others
CCC 1500 Illness and suffering have always been among the gravest problems confronted in human life. In illness, man experiences his powerlessness, his limitations, and his finitude. Every illness can make us glimpse death.
1501 Illness can lead to anguish, self-absorption, sometimes even despair and revolt against God. It can also make a person more mature, helping him discern in his life what is not essential so that he can turn toward that which is. Very often illness provokes a search for God and a return to him.
1505, During his lifetime, Jesus healed many who were sick.
“But he did not heal all the sick. His healings were signs of the coming of the kingdom of God. They announced a more radical healing: the victory over sin and death through his Passover. On the cross Christ took upon himself the whole weight of evil and took away the ‘sin of the world,’ of which illness is only a consequence.
CCC 1505 ends with, “By his passion and death on the cross Christ has given a new meaning to suffering:
it can henceforth configure us to him
and unite us with his redemptive Passion.”
CCC 1506 Christ invites his disciples to follow him by taking up their cross in their turn.
Matthew 10:38, “Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me.”) By following him they acquire a new outlook on illness and the sick.”
CCC 1508 Reminds us that we should pray and do all we can medically to be healed. “But even the most intense prayers do not always obtain the healing of all illnesses. Thus St. Paul must learn from the Lord that “my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,” (2 Corinthians 12:9) and that the sufferings to be endured can mean that “in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his Body, the Church.” (Colossians 1:24).
Cross-Reference 618 speaks of Our participation in Christ’s sacrifice:
The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ…the possibility of being made partners in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery is offered to all men. He calls his disciples to take up their cross and follow him, for Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example so that we should follow in his steps.
In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries. This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering. (cf. Mk 10:39, Col 1:24)
The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering
What do people need to know in suffering?
God is all good, all knowing, and all powerful
Evil and suffering are not more powerful than God
Nothing can happen to you or a loved one that is beyond the power of God to turn it to the greatest good.
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| 17 Mar 2022 | St. Patrick's Day | 00:22:24 | |
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| 13 Apr 2024 | Experiencing The Holy Spirit Through Mary | 00:24:07 | |
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| 30 Sep 2019 | Our Lady and Saint Michael | 00:25:32 | |
1 Peter 5:8 Be calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. In this spiritual battle the is a very important alliance between Mary, the Queen of the Universe and St. Michael the Archangel. The Book of Revelation 12 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown…Then a second sign appeared in the sky, a huge red dragon which had seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail dragged a third of the stars from the sky and dropped them to the earth, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was having the child, so that he could eat it as soon as it was born from its mother. The woman brought a male child into the world, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne…And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had deceived all the world, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him…Let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, trouble is coming - because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that his days are numbered.’ …Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, that is, all who obey God's commandments and bear witness for Jesus. St Faustina experienced the help of St. Michael: “September 29. On the feast of St Michael the Archangel, I saw by my side that great Leader, who spoke these words to me – ‘The Lord has ordered me to take special care of you. Know that you are hated by evil; but do not fear – Who is like God!’. And he disappeared. But I feel his presence and assistance.” (Diary of St Faustina, para.706) “O glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, defend us in battle, and in the struggle which is ours against the Principalities and Powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against spirits of evil in high places (Eph 6:12). Come to the aid of men, whom God created immortal, made in his own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil (Wis 2:23-24, 1 Cor 6:20). Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee, nor was there place for them any longer in Heaven. But that cruel, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan, who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with all his angels (Rev 12:7-9). “Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of man has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of God and of his Christ, to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out, as a most impure flood, the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart, the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity, and of every vice and iniquity. “These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions (Lam 3:15). Arise then, O invincible prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and bring them the victory. Amen.” | |||
| 27 Oct 2019 | The Sea of Galilee | 00:22:23 | |
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| 13 Jun 2020 | Fortitude - Attack and Endurance | 00:22:23 | |
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| 15 Sep 2024 | Our Lady of Sorrows | 00:31:11 | |
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| 27 Jan 2021 | What the Heck Is Going On? | 00:24:00 | |
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| 29 Apr 2022 | Catherine of Siena | 00:22:08 | |
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| 29 Jul 2019 | The Fall of the Angels | 00:23:10 | |
THE FALL OF THE ANGELS
391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy. Scripture and the Church's Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil". The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."
392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our first parents: "You will be like God." The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies".
If Satan was originally created as a good angel, why did he fall, why did he reject God? Teresa of Avila writes: I believe His Majesty desires to bring us along this way (the way of suffering, trials, crosses and difficulties) for our own good so that we may understand well what little we amount to. The favors that come afterward are of such great worth that He desires first that before He gives them to us we see by experience our own limitations so that what happened to Lucifer will not happen to us. Life 11:11
The devil, because he has no physical body, did not experience his limitations through suffering
He thought he was without limits
Therefore, he thought he did not need God
So He did not want God
Why is Lucifer in Hell? He did not want God
Christianity is declining in first world countries, they are turning away from God, because they have everything so they think they do not need God and therefore do not want God and never set out to pursue friendship with God in prayer. This is pride which can only be overcome by grace and humility.
Humility is recognizing two things
I have limits
I have a divine potential
I need God, therefore I want God, so I pursue a deep friendship with God in prayer.
CCC 393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. "There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death."
This seems pretty harsh or frightening that the angel’s sin is irrevocable and there is no repentance for us after death. However, we must realize we create a reality by our choices that cannot be undone at some point. Because their knowledge was complete and because there was no material component to their person, the angel’s decision was definitive immediately. Our choices forge our character and destiny over time, bit by bit.
In giving you a soul, God has given you a lump of clay that you are forming, choice by choice into either a God-like or demonic statue. As time goes by that clay, your statue, your soul, gets harder to change. The more you chose good actions that become good habits or virtues the more the statue becomes God-like. The more we make bad choices that become bad habits or vices the more the statue become demonic. At some point it cannot be changed for good or for evil. Even now it is getting harder to change. What kind of statue are you shaping?
CCC 394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father. Likewise, the devil wants to divert you away from the mission you have received from God, the devil wants to turn you away from doing the will of God. The greatest weapon we have to help us stay focused on the will of God is to go back to meditation each day, beginning with a brief examination of conscience – did I do the will of God yesterday. Do I want to do the will of God today? Yes, ok, now do your meditation, reflect and think about the Word of God, then make a simple concrete resolution.
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| 04 Jul 2020 | Marxism in America | 00:22:22 | |
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| 14 Dec 2021 | Advent With John of the Cross | 00:20:36 | |
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| 12 Oct 2022 | Three Powers of the Soul | 00:24:30 | |
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| 20 Apr 2024 | Blessed are the Pure of Heart | 00:33:02 | |
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| 28 Aug 2019 | Why Pray? The First Reason | 00:24:25 | |
Why would anyone want to pray? I want to pray because I want to be happy. Happiness is to possess the good things that complete or fulfill our human nature. In general, God designed the Human Person to need certain good things to be satisfied. We need: physical goods, psychological goods, family and friendship, knowledge, meaningful work, beauty, and identity. If you had all these would you be perfectly satisfied? No! And that is the right answer because even though the things of the world are good…the Problem lies in this: Nothing is perfect, lasting, or enough. I desire more - union with God. We were made for union with God. Today is the Feast of St Augustine and he summed up this desire for union with God when he wrote “you have made us for yourself, O Lord and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” The good things in life are the cups – Jesus is the Living Water. The good things in life we need to be happy – physical, emotional, family, friends, meaningful work, knowledge, beauty, ect… are like cups. But Jesus is the Living Water that needs to fill the cups. Without the Living Water, without a personal relationship with Jesus, then we might have all the right cups, but they are empty. Then we become unsatisfied with our spouse, our house, our job, our health and wealth and everything else. The danger is that we think the problem is with the cup. The cup is empty so we think the problem is with the cup and we think we can solve the problem by getting rid of this cup and getting a different cup, a different spouse or house or vacation or better health or whatever. But the problem was not with the cup The problem is not with the cup, the problem is that the cup is empty of the Living Water, empty of the personal relationship with Jesus that comes through prayer. A different or new cup wont solve the problem. The solution is to fill our existing cups, fill our lives with the Living Water that is Jesus that comes through prayer. A Personal relationship with Jesus is the Living Water that can fill up every area of life so that we can be satisfied. In John 7 Jesus stood and cried out: 'If any man is thirsty, let him come to me! Let the man come to me and drink…For My heart is a Fountain of living water.” The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church are the Fountains from which the Living Water flows. The Eucharist is the Fountain par excellence because the Eucharist is literally the Heart of Jesus. If you want to drink the Living Water, then you must to come to the Heart of Jesus. The sacraments, especially the Eucharist, is the Fountain. But it is possible to come to the well and not drink. Not only do we need to come to the fountain, but we need to open up and Drink the Living Water. We drink in the Living Water of Jesus by Prayer. Pope Benedict writes: “Prayer is the self-opening of the human spirit to God.” (Jesus of Nazareth vol 2, p. 233) Many people come to the Fountain of Living Water but they do not drink in the living water because they do not have a personal friendship with Jesus in prayer and they spend little or no time in prayer. Prayer is friendship with God. What does friendship take? Time… time talking, listening, and just being together. The Great Teresa of Avila writes “Prayer…is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; its means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.” Prayer is friendship with God: it is talking, listening and just being together. This corresponds to the three major expressions of prayer: Vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplation. Prayer is friendship with God, talking to him from the heart, listening and just spending time with Him. We want to drink the Living Water, but have you ever experienced that you cant talk and drink at the same time. We can't drink the living water unless we spend time drinking and listening. | |||
| 24 Nov 2023 | Born of Water and the Holy Spirit | 00:22:09 | |
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| 24 Oct 2020 | Am I Doing the Will of God? | 00:22:45 | |
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| 11 Apr 2020 | Holy Saturday | 00:25:30 | |
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| 07 Aug 2023 | What Parents Owe Their Children | 00:21:25 | |
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| 31 Jan 2022 | The Right Kind of Dreamer | 00:20:34 | |
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| 12 Apr 2023 | Splinters | 00:31:57 | |
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| 09 Oct 2021 | The Church is Born in the Home | 00:30:06 | |
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| 30 Apr 2023 | The Count of Monte Cristo | 00:27:37 | |
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| 15 Oct 2019 | Saint of Teresa of Avila | 00:21:12 | |
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| 02 Dec 2022 | God in Nature | 00:22:02 | |
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| 19 Jul 2024 | Consequentialism | 00:31:49 | |
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| 21 Jul 2019 | 5 Steps to Heaven | 00:24:03 | |
Heaven is the goal of life. Heaven is transforming union with God. Why wait, why put it off? Nothing less than union with God can satisfy the deep longing of your heart.
Five simple steps to achieve union with God: Do and accept the will of God; flee from sin; develop a deep friendship with Jesus; have a profound interior life; belong to Mary.
If we want to be united to God, then we must strive to do His will in everything. But just saying I want to do the will of God is too general, too vague. There are areas in your life you know you are not bringing God into because you are not thinking about it or because you don’t want Him in there. It could be work, relaxation, family, friends, your summer, vacation…You know what you are doing wrong. What are you going to do the make a change?
If we want to be united to God then we must flee from every sin, both serious and small sins, and flee from every occasion of sin. Be intentional about identifying and rooting out the deadly vices: pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust. we are scandalized by the way other so-called Christians acct; yet we excuse our own bad behavior – or we don’t even notice it. This is case of plank eye. Take the plank out of your own eye before you call out the speck in my eye.
Don’t be discouraged, these things are a reminder of our personal powerlessness and the need for constant surrender to and reliance on Jesus and Mary. The point is not to live a mediocre, lukewarm life. Be determined to reach union with God here!
Our Goal is Heaven and Heaven is transforming union with Jesus through the Holy Spirit. We want to say, like St. Paul. “I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me.” Therefore, we seek to know and do the will of Jesus because we want to be united to Him. We accept our own crosses as a way to help Jesus carry His cross and save souls. We flee from sin because sin is a personal offense to Jesus and I don’t want to offend Him. I become virtuous so that I may love Jesus better. I want to go to Mass to enter into the sacrifice and thanksgiving of Jesus and to receive Him in the Eucharist, the closest possible union with Him this side of death. I see prayer as friendship with Jesus; talking to him from the heart, listening to him and thinking about him by reading Scripture and just being with Him. And as my friendship with Him grows, I want others to experience the same happiness meaning and fulfillment, so I act to help others to friendship with Jesus.
To reach heaven we need a profound interior life. Things in this world a good; but nothing is perfect, its not lasting and it can never satisfy our longing for God. And where do we find God? He dwells in your soul. But we never look for him there because we are too busy doing things or too busy with entertainment. We don’t find God in our soul because we are addicted to work, kids, entertainment, news…on and on it goes.
Stop – put away the excuses and distractions. Go into silence. Talk to God from the heart. Read the life of Jesus in the Gospels. Think about him. Be with Him. At first you will go crazy as you suffer withdrawal from your addictions. But don’t escape back into the addictions. Admit to Jesus you are powerless, surrender to Him and beg Him to do it for you.
I you want to reach heaven, then give yourself to Mary. The Holy Spirit brings us into union with God and the Holy Spirit works through Mary. The more you belong to Her, the more the Holy Spirit will unite to Jesus. Develop a personal relationship with Mary – a real concrete friendship and dependence upon her. St. Maximilian Kolbe said: I see Mary everywhere, I see difficulties nowhere. Live continuous friendship with Mary; have complete confidence in her.
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