Why is friendship with Jesus crucial? Find out now, with Fr. Hugh Barbour.

Questions Covered:

 

19:55 - My RCIA candidates keep thinking that the Old Testament God is different from the New Testament God. How can I help them see they are one and the same? 

30:00 - In adoration, I feel like I am not getting a good enough connection with God. I am going to adoration tonight and I really want to make the most of the time. How can I effectively pray and connect with Jesus in adoration?  

35:40 - How does Jesus find the balance between discipline and mercy or grace in his friendship with us? I have Baptist friends who go to Jesus for forgiveness, but never for permission. 

42:55 - How can I become friends with Jesus and how can I make sure he’s alive and in heaven? 

47:30 - I’ve had a priest say that you can’t offend God because he is God. Is this true? I want to understand so that I can have the best relationship with God. 

51:20 - Is it alright to receive Jesus in Mass more than one time a day?

In today's passage Jesus continues to discuss retaliation in a way that seems odd.  He tells us to be generous.

Cy Kellett is his own guest in this episode. On the 56th anniversary of Lumen Gentium, he discusses what the Church proposes as the way to personal relationship with Jesus. This process — Encounter, Conversion, Communion, and Mission — brings the person into intimacy with Jesus while cementing the person into the life of the Church.

In what sense is Jesus available to us in the Eucharist? Can anyone understand it? And why is his presence in the Eucharist central to our salvation? Father Hugh Barbour explains.

It’s Jesus Week, and we talk about Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament with Father Hugh Barbour next.

This Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King. I've been thinking a lot about the Kingdom of Christ within me, how I surrender to the power of the King, how I turn my life over entirely to the reign of the Kingdom. As we close this year, it is a perfect liturgical Feast to prepare us for Advent and Christmas. Both an end and a beginning.

Join Paul Murano and his guest Kent Niebuhr to delve beneath the surface on the practical and spiritual elements of the 2020 presidential election.

Jesus spent a large portion of his earthly ministry as an exorcist, casting out demons.

Questions Covered:

17:57 - Can fasting drive out demons? 

22:22 - How do we know whether an evil spirit is telling us the truth? 

32:57 - Are there rabbis in the Jewish faith today who are exorcists? 

35:42 - Should we preach in our churches more about the existence of the devil? 

44:30 - Can you help me to understand why Jesus sends the demons into the swine and then they run into the sea? 

47:00 - Under what authority do other faiths cast out demons? 

50:37 - Can broken relationships cause demonic possession? 

52:40 - Can people cast a spell on another person? I have been experiencing really strange things. 

Resources Mentioned:

 

The Truth About Exorcism Focus episode with Fr. Lampert

Exorcism: The Battle Against Satan and His Demons by Fr. Lampert

Is there hard evidence for Jesus Christ’s existence?

Questions Covered:

 

15:37 - Is it a good defense to say that Christianity is true because it points back to the person of Christ, who is God, whereas other religions point to mere humans or myths? 

18:30 - Why don’t people believe in Jesus when there is historical evidence of his existence? 

31:00 - When Jesus ascended, he was in human form. Will we see him in human form or spirit form in heaven? 

34:48 - Isn’t the fact that the year is based on Jesus’ birth a huge piece of evidence that he lived? 

45:25 - In a glorified body and in experiencing the Beatific Vision, would we experience more than the three dimensions that we experience here on earth? 

52:38 - Why is the Eucharist real?

In today's passage Jesus begins to tell us the rules about personal retaliation.  We have the right to defend ourselves, but we also have to use right judgment.