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Episode #59: Stressed out? Tired? Suffering from troubles? Jesus said (Mark 2:27), “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” Sabbath rest is a gift from God for our healing and renewal. It’s so vital to our well-being that God commanded it. To keep the day sacred, we need to do more than go to church. We need to make ourselves fully available to God so he can minister to us. Why does the story of creation in Genesis say God rested on the 7th day? Not because he was tired! God doesn’t need to rest. But we sure do. Terry Modica reveals why obeying this commandment is a gift from the Lord. She also explains why our day of rest is Sunday and not the Hebrew tradition of Saturday. 

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It’s a joy to welcome Tim Lucchesi, stay-at-home dad, director of Chaste Love, and co-host of the new podcast, Home But Not Alone, to the show. 

Tim brings us a quote from Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. This quote comes from the 101st talk in the series, given on November 24, 1982, titled “Christ Opened Marriage to the Saving Action of God.” Here’s the short version:

"He (Jesus) assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman." 

And here’s the long version: 

“Christ, in the Sermon on the Mount, gives his own interpretation of the commandment, ‘You shall not commit adultery’—an interpretation constitutes a new ethos—with the same lapidary words he assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously (even though this can be deduced from the text only in an indirect way), he also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man. Finally he assigns to every one—both to man and woman—their own dignity, in a certain sense, the sacrum of the person.” 

Here, too, is the purported C.S. Lewis quote that Lindsay mentions (which, it turns out, he never actually said; sorry): “You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” 

Learn more about Tim’s ministry at chastelove.org and @thechastelove on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And be sure to check out Home But Not Alone, co-hosted by Tim and Sara Estabrooks (who we welcomed to the show S2:E1).  

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Until next time, God bless you!

In today's Gospel, we hear Jesus start His ministry in a powerful way.

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Today is for non-Catholics to ask any question about the Catholic faith!

Questions Covered:

 

04:12 - I enjoy the Catholic faith until about the Middle Ages. How do you reconcile with those bad times? 

13:08 - Aren’t all presbyters and bishops the same? 

 19:31 - I read Behold Your Mother and love it. My question is, is Eve symbolic or real? If she is symbolic, how can Mary, who is very real, be the New Eve? 

28:30 - I have been receiving the Eucharist at Mass for 30 years but am a baptized Protestant. I never went through RCIA or officially became a part of the Catholic Church. Am I going to go to hell for this? 

34:02 - How can Catholics believe in justification by faith and works? It seems like Catholics are less forgiving. 

41:22 - If the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one person, how do you reconcile that with John 17:3? 

47:56 - Can you clarify why Catholics confess their sins to a bishop when that is God’s job to forgive?

Today is for non-Catholics to ask any question about the Catholic faith!

Questions Covered:

 

06:22 - I was baptized a Lutheran but want to become Catholic. Will I receive all the sacraments at Easter? Can I have the sacraments at another time of the year? 

14:41 - Out of the 10 plagues, which was the most effective? 

16:56 - Do Catholics believe that all animals go to heaven? 

28:37 - Why is it that the Catholics place so much focus on the Virgin Mary? 

36:45 - How can I better understand Romans 3 and 4? Some use these as an argument against justification. Also, If the Catholic Church is seeking unity, then why would it deny the Eucharist to non-Catholic Christians?

Chapter 8 Borrowing a Rote Faith, What is love if there is no joy?

Today is our final reflection on ways to live the new year in a new way, to seek the new you in the present, every present moment of the coming year. We'll talk about a practice I began to address the negative thoughts that I find myself thinking.... And did I discover how many negative thoughts I had! Jeannette and I talk about how quickly things start to change when a simple practice gets put into place that catches our mind whenever it is engaged (or kidnapped may be better) by a negative thought.

 

 

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Category: Then Sings My Soul, A Vision for 2020Tag: Bible reading, obedience, Paul

 

“It is certain that when the husband and wife are subject to one another ‘out of reverence for Christ,’ a just balance will be established such as to correspond to their Christian vocation in the mystery of Christ (Pope St. John Paul II, General Audience of Wednesday August 11, 1982).

How to Really Love Your Child, by Dr. Ross Campbell, explains the three ways children receive and feel love. They are 1) loving eye contact; 2) loving physical touch, and; 3) quality time. Because women feel and receive love similarly, they are often inherently better at communicating love to their children, whereas men sometimes have to work harder to communicate their love to wives and children, as this type of communication sometimes does not come as naturally to them. Ross goes so far as to say parents should never punish their children for misbehavior until they have cycled through these three ways of love, since misbehavior is often the child’s way of communicating their need for love. I have found this to be true in my own experience with my kids.

From our recent Sunday reading from Matthew chapter 4 we heard about the places and tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali. One can easily race over these names to the call of the apostles by the seaside, but these names tell us something about the light of Christ that all nations are called into via Christ. I speak about those names in the episode today. Enjoy!

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