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It's fascinating how Mary in Scripture unties the knot Eve helped us get into. She is the new Eve inasmuch as she is the un-Eve that repeats the opposite of her predecessor.

Christ the Physician is able to heal all wounds and is willing to go into the darkest corners of our society to bring that healing. Grace Williams is among a growing number of Christians involved in healing the traumas of the sex trade. She shares her story with us and answers caller questions about what more can be done.

Questions Covered:

9:43 – How much is pornography linked to sex trafficking?

35:20 - I wanted to know what saints inspire Grace’s work? How can we support Grace and her work?

50:40 - I have an apostolate that has to do with the same thing but I do preventative and making families aware of the issue and I wanted to ask what type of information we should be giving families to help protect families and their children?

If you would like to learn more about Grace Williams and support her ministry, Child of the Immaculate Heart, please go to childrenoftheimmaculateheart.org

Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.

Questions Covered:

04:21 - I’m a practicing catholic, I go to church every day, what would be your argument for God without quoting scripture, just using your own theological reasoning?22:22 - I read an article that uses the future tense, but I fail to see how it helps the catholic position.28:25 - Is it okay to ask for the intersession pray of a Catholic who is not canonized as a saint yet?32:03 - I recently discovered that the Jewish tradition of mezuzah, a door frame tradition, is there a way to observe that as a Catholic?37:04 - Will we still have relationships (father, mother, wife, etc) in heaven, or will we be more like angels?

Born and raised in a staunch Norwegian Lutheran family. Paula’s journey led her away from the Lutheran faith and into a long period of spiritual disengagement. A change meeting introduced her to a community of Camaldolese Benedictine monks and the beauty of the Catholic Church was opened up to her. The gentleness and devotion of these holy monks paved the way for her to become a Camaldolese Benedictine Oblate – a decision she not only hasn’t regretted, but whole-heartedly embraces.

Priests have a unique and important role in the mystery of the Eucharist. As participants in the headship of Christ, they share Christ’s life in a particular way. On this episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn is joined by Dr. Lawrence Feingold, author, professor, and scholar. Go deeper into the mystery of the Eucharist and the priest’s relationship to this great sacrament.

My guest this week is friend of the show John (JM) Kraemer.  He is the founder of The Lego Church Project.  We discuss how the pandemic has hampered his project, the state of the faith, how the world needs hope, why we must keep evangelizing, and so much more!  It is always fun to have him on.  Learn for about John and his amazing ministry at https://prayingbricks.blogspot.com/

This episode Emma goes over her need to be loved. She explains how she made herself miserable by staying in broken relationships, and hopping around from guy to guy so that she wouldn't be alone.

Jeannette and I talk today about an experience at prayer and selection of my journal:

I am acting:within what breaks, I am vast Abysswithin the falling, I am depthless Depthin the emptying, I am the Silence

StopShed your mind’s unconscious gossip and still your HeartTouch your forehead to the earth   …My carpet       a floral carpet Crimson Red       on which you bumble and tumble

in My Glory.

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“Who could have thought my shrivel’d heartCould have recover’d greennesse?George Herbert, The Flower

We aren’t born being content and it seems that our culture tries to make us more and more discontent as we grow older. How many commercials are disguised as TV shows and movies targeting the youngsters in our life to get the stuff they are selling? And keeping up with the neighbors can be a lifetime pursuit for some adults.

 

Learning the secret of contentment can free you from all the pressure to spend money in an effort to acquire more and more stuff. Being content is a conscious learned habit!

 

The Compass Catholic Blog has more on learning the virtue of contentment.