Episodes
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Love of a Father
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Have you really thought about how much God loves you? Do you understand how His love for you should transform your expectations of prayer and how your life can be?
Monday Oct 15, 2018
United In Him
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
United with Christ. How sweet that revelation is if we will only take the time to really understand it.
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
More than just a minimum
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
What does it take to be saved?
Do you only want a one and done? Or do you crave more from God?
Our lives are meant to be full and meaningful. The way to find that is to develop more than just acquiring the things of life and from God, but to really experience God in a relationship.
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Relating by Faith
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
The most fundamental relationship we can have with God is one depicted in the parable of the Vine. As we really understand this the way we are Christian can become something more than just a past victory or momentary thing we do like a chore or job. For as a branch we find a deeper relationship than a mere religion. We find a more abundant way to live.
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Abiding in Faith
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Our abiding in Jesus as a branch does to a vine is the ongoing work of faith in our lives. Everything that makes Christianity more than just another religion is based on understanding just how this abiding is the continual work of our faith in God as an ongoing relationship. Have you wondered what separates the Christian faith from other -isms that present a list of does and don't?
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Church Teaching on Prayer
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
What does the Church teach about praying? It might surprise you but I encourages us to have faith in the certainty that God will answer prayer. In fact, it did so with many great prayers of confidence like the Novena Prayer to the Sacred Heart.
This prayer is very effective in teaching that every prayer should be prayed in faith:
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace ….
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O Mary, Mother of God and my dear mother too, obtain for me this grace from the Sacred Heart of thy dear Son.
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace …
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O Mary, Mother of God and my dear mother too, obtain for me this grace from the Sacred Heart of thy dear Son.
O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away.” Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace …
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
O Mary, Mother of God and my dear mother too, obtain for me this grace from the Sacred Heart of thy dear Son.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, Your eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Branch on the Vine
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
We have a unique relationship with our loving Savior. A relationship that unites us with Him like a branch is united to a vine. When we truly understand this, the whole of Christianity takes a deeper meaning that has been promoted from the pulpits. A meaning that is founded in an ongoing relationship with our God.
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Answered Prayer
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Does God answer prayer or is there the possibility that God will say "No?"
Most people say that they have prayed and given up on Christianity because they did not receive an answer to their prayers, But when we truly understand the reality of what Jesus taught about prayer the one thing that becomes obvious is that all prayer is meant to bring an answer. Ask, and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened. Everyone who asks, seeks, and knocks will receive, find, find an open door.
The only reason it does not work, to borrow a phrase from Chesterton, is that prayer "has not been tried and found wanting, but it has been found difficult and not tired."
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Marriage and God
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
This Sunday's readings give us a chance to consider the relationships that we have with each other and especially with God. In considering who marriage reflects our relationship with God we are drawn to see how each one of us is united with one another by the union we have individually with God in the gospel.
Friday Oct 05, 2018
The Model Prayer
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Friday Oct 05, 2018
The Our Father is the model of how to pray. For many, it seems like a form rather than an actual prayer, but like the scriptures, it is both.
In giving us words we can pray, Jesus shows us how we can pray in our own words as well. Just like the scriptures can be repeated and meditated on, formal prayers can be as well.
Let us consider the words of the Our Father and see how it teaches us how to pray in our own words to God!