The Bridegroom Speaks

Father Michael Stalla helps us to understand Jesus's teaching on the sacredness of the human person and why we must not tolerate the desecration of our bodies.

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Scripture refers to the heart as the place of prayer more than 100 times but what is the heart, really? Laura begins this episode with the Catholic Catechism's beautiful explanation of the heart and then helps us ponder the landscape of our hearts in relation to the Heart of the Bridegroom.

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What was God's intention for marriage "in the beginning"? What did Jesus mean when He said, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so."?

Father Michael Stalla gives us a brief introduction to St. John Paul II's teachings known as the Theology of the Body and then answers the above questions through this lens.

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Laura reads the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition of the Song of Solomon to us. You are invited to be still and rest on the Heart of the Bridegroom as you listen to His divine love song.

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Jesus desires for us to open our hearts to hear the sound of His voice. So often we get stuck in our minds but with the Bridegroom it is all about the heart.

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The Holy Scriptures are God's love letter to you. Father Michael Stalla describes how we come to know God's love language as well as the language of our own hearts through prayerful reading and meditation on God's Word.

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Do you recognize the voice of the Bridegroom? He knows the language of your heart and delights in heart to heart conversation with you. In this episode, Father Michael Stalla speaks from his experience as a spiritual director and teaches us how to recognize the quiet tender voice of God.

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The Holy Eucharist is the Bridegroom, Body and Blood, soul and Divinity. And the Bridegroom is the remedy for all that ails us in this fallen world. The gift of the Holy Eucharist is God's remedy, divine medicine, for the sickness of sin and the redemption of Adam and Eve's disobedience.

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Have you ever thought of salvation history and your own story has a love story in which the divine King and Bridegroom relentlessly pursues His Beloved? In this episode, Laura does just that.

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Dive deeply into the varying interpretations of the first verse of the Song of Songs, "Let Him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth."