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Do you know the “five speeches that changed the world”? Matthew recorded five discourses in his Gospel, including the famous Sermon on the Mount. For good reason, they’ve been called the five speeches that changed the world. Learn more on this episode of The Road to Emmaus.

Are you confused by trying to figure out whether it’s better to pay off debt or invest?  The answer is to do both in an organized approach. Just like losing weight includes both diet and exercise, a solid financial plan includes both paying off debt and investing for the future.  

Before you start investing aggressively, there are some basic financial principles to put into place, such as tackling credit card debt, having an emergency fund and setting up a spending plan.

Listen in or click on our blog link for suggestions on getting your debt paid off so you can invest and meet your long term goals.

Questions Covered:

 

08:21 - I have a brother who is civilly married to a Muslim, not through the Church. Is he allowed to receive Communion? 

15:14 - How do we distinguish between prayer to the saints and pray to God? How can we know which is worship and which is not? 

18:17 - Is the symbol of the bent cross, like the one that JPII used to carry, a negative symbol for a Catholic to have? 

22:15 - My husband has recently come back to the Catholic Church. How can I respond to him about things he’s reading about the pope and goings on in the Church that he is now really upset about? 

30:40 - If there is an apparent contradiction between Sacred Scripture and Tradition, how is that solved? 

34:22 - In Genesis, Adam and Eve had children, but who did their children marry? 

43:20 - I have a Jehovah’s Witness coworker. We are talking about the Trinity. What can I use to explain to her the Catholic understanding of it? 

48:33 - How can I explain to Protestants why Catholics believe that you can lose your salvation? Also, how can I explain confession to them if it is not in the Bible?

Questions Covered:

 

03:26 - When was Moses born? 

06:19 - Did Moses use hallucinogens to speak to God in the burning bush? 

11:54 - I am currently a Lutheran but am contemplating the Catholic faith. Something that is holding me back is the assurance of salvation that I get in the Lutheran Church. How can I better understand this? 

23:16 - Does the Catholic Church approve of a woman taking vitamins and teas to help her overcome her infertility? 

28:44 - I have recently learned about humans who have two people’s DNA. Would this human being have two souls? 

31:27 - I am an atheist. I am not convinced that God exists. How can God exist? If he did, he would be all loving and not allow evil in the world? 

43:37 - What is the great apostasy? 

48:22 - If you attend a gay wedding, are you accepting that lifestyle?

Join us for a reflection on the start of Jesus’ ministry and how His immediate response to God is a model for us to follow. Listen here for a great discussion on Sunday’s Gospel for January 26.

This week we talk about the hope that can be found in desolation. When we are dealing with the mundane and the everyday-ness of life we can tend to lose our drive and excitement in our mission. When we have patience in the desolation and seek to be in a continuous state of grace we can be fruitful even through our times of desolation. Christ is the light and we are called to bear Him to the nations.

The man who wrote the book Persuasive Pro-Life gives us a primer on how to share arguments against abortion. Use these effective techniques to move yourself and others closer to the truth about tiny, little, unborn people.

We all have a concept of love. From the time we are very young children we have a strong sense of what love is. Our concept of love changes as we get older. But, what is God’s perspective on love? In this podcast Tony discusses love.

Scripture: “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.”   –1 John 4:7-10

We love because he first loved us.”  –1  John 4:19

“He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”  –Luke 10:27

God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.”  –1 John 4:16

Reflections: How has your perspective of love changed over the years? What do you do to emulate God’s love? How’s your love life?

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Today, I speak about a bit of wisdom from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross on evangelization. To evangelize means we must first be evangelized. So, what does that mean? I wrestle with that question in the episode today.

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