Trending with Timmerie - Catholic Principles applied to today's experiences.

Jim O’Day of Integrity Restored joined Timmerie to discuss how to overcome habitual practices picked up during the pandemic, as well as how to overcome the struggles of losing a job.

Issues: Increased time with porn; family abandonment; and fighting.

Things you can do in the moment when facing temptation.

How to overcome the feeling of loss of identity

What can you do to effectively look for a job?

Kiara called in with this question: What are some steps to take in starting a Christian club at your public high school?

Do you struggle with always trying to please others? Timmerie shares how to not be afraid to say ‘no’ when necessary.

Fr. Simon Esshaki joins Timmerie to talk about recent vandalism at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Peter in San Diego, CA.  What should our response be and how can we look to the example of the persecuted Christians in Iraq?  

What is the difference between joy and happiness? Insights from St. Thomas Aquinas.

How to manage toxic people from a Catholic perspective?

• What do you say when someone claims you’re only pro-life because of your religion?  Female attorney claims death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pushed her to join the Satanic Temple which advocates for access to abortion on the grounds of religious freedom. Timmerie lays out the science, psychology and sociology to demonstrate pro life is best for humans (born and unborn).
• Guest, Father Tim Grumbach: where does holiness come from? Discussing the lives of Saints Louis Martin and Zélie Guerin. The best sermon: watching your parents pray. The saints are there — pulling us into heaven!
• Friendships, emotional intimacy and chastity. Has the pandemic forced us into “long distance” relationship? Is that a good thing? Are these real friendship?
• Can you be “dropped” from Catholicism?
• Returning to the sacrament of reconciliation: it’s ok to struggle with sin and what you believe.

• How to call your spouse to a deeper relationship with Christ and back into the marriage?. What you do influences others around you – remembering the God given roles in marriage. 
• Guest, Cristina Pineda from Matchmakers in the City www.matchmakersinthecity.com welcomed the birth of her son Austin on Saturday and shares insight as a brand new mom. 
• How to handle confusing emotions in relationships: jealousy, nervousness, anxiety. Dealing with temptations toward infidelity within marriage. Listener question: how do you know if you and your spouse are sexually compatible if you wait until marriage?
• Do you need to forgive yourself or your spouse?  Our Lady of Mercy: mercy in marriage; let Mary ransom you; we are never beyond Mary’s Mantle and God’s mercy!

• BLM quietly scrubs web references to it’s goals to disrupt the nuclear family.
• Guest, Abby Johnson, And Then There Were None https://abortionworker.com/ : shares her journey toward Catholicism and her own struggle feeling like a ‘horrible’ mom.
• Abby’s husband’s conversion to the Catholic faith re-ordered their life and marriage. The more they journeyed together as a couple, the more they asked and found truth. Abby shares her recent discovery of the Traditional Latin Mass.
• Helping women to know, love and respect their body. Birth control is problematic, period. Why the copper IUD is bad for women’s bodies and not “natural” birth control.