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We are going to take a break from the mini three part serious looking at sin and focus on prayer with a fantastic work from St. John Mary Vianney

Topics: Prayer, Jesus, Saints, God, how to pray, Catholic, Christian

The work from St. John Mary Vianney
From the Catechetical Instructions by St. John Mary Vianney, priest

The glorious duty of man: to pray and to love

My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then ought to be directed to where our treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. When one has a heart that is pure and united with God, he is given a kind of serenity and sweetness that makes him ecstatic, a light that surrounds him with marvelous brightness. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness allowed us to speak with him. Our prayer is incense that gives him the greatest pleasure.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

Prayer also makes time pass very quickly and with such great delight that one does not notice its length. Listen: Once when I was a purveyor in Bresse and most of my companions were ill, I had to make a long journey. I prayed to the good God, and believe me, the time did not seem long.

Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God. There is not division in their hearts. O, how I love these noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette used to see our Lord and talk to him just as we talk to one another.

How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to the good God like this: “I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of you.” I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would ask with living faith and with a pure heart.

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Today's podcast follows King David as he is seated on the throne of God's Kingdom and his decent into sin. We examine many questions on the nature of sin and how to avoid by carefully looking at how David falls from sin to sin.

Topics: Scripture, how to avoid sin, David, Sammuel, Bible, Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba, Murder, Adultery, Forgiveness

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Today’s Podcast goes through scripture. We start out in the Old Testament at Exodus, when Moses receives The Ten Commandments, and Israel creates for themselves the god who freed them from the Egyptians. Here we find a curious detail that points us back to an earlier story in Exodus, and eventually bring us back to Genesis with the story of the first brothers, Cain and Abel. Finally, after discussing why Cain’s offering to God was less worthy then Abel’s and how that relates to our Exodus story, we take a look at Judas in the New Testament to examine his betrayal of Jesus. Interesting stuff! Hope you enjoy the episode.

Topics, sacred scripture, the Bible, grace, sin, advice on how to fight sin, reality of the devil

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Today's Podcast goes over my advent and I invite you to share in how you are entering into the season.

Also we go over the Gospel of Mark Chapter 8 starting at verse 11, where we talk about Gods goodness, and how the hardness of our heats can be effect our ability to hear God's word.

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I found it! Finally, I have an answer that explains why the Gospels of Matthew and Luke have different genealogies for Jesus. Please join me today to hear from Agustin on why the Bible does not contradict itself.

Topics: Saints, Scripture, apologetic, family history, Adam, Abraham, proofs for the Christianity, why I speak too fast

(Link to full work: Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament 1-10 | EWTN )

(St. Augustine of Hippo. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, 29, 30.)
Added to this; there is another way peculiar to the Jews, in which a man might be the son of another of whom he was not born according to the flesh. For kinsmen used to marry the wives of their next of kin, who died without children, to raise up seed to him that was deceased. (6) So then he who was thus born was both his son of whom he was born, and his in whose line of succession he was born. All this has been said, lest any one, thinking it impossible for two fathers to be mentioned properly for one man, should imagine that either of the Evangelists who have narrated the generations of the Lord are to be, by an impious calumny, charged so to say with a lie; especially when we may see that we are warned against this by their very words. For Matthew, who is understood to make mention of that father of whom Joseph was born, enumerates the generations thus: "This one begat the other," so as to come to what he says at the end, "Jacob begat Joseph." But Luke--because he cannot properly be said to be begotten who is made a child either by adoption, or who is born in the succession of the deceased, of her who was his wife--did not say, "Heli begat Joseph," or "Joseph whom Hell begat," but "Who was the son of Heli," whether by adoption, or as being born of the next of kin in the succession of one deceased.(7)

30. Enough has now been said to show that the question, why the generations are reckoned through Joseph and not through Mary, ought not to perplex us

(Deuteronomy 25: 5-6)
When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not marry anyone outside the family; but her husband’s brother shall come to her, marrying her and performing the duty of a brother-in-law. The firstborn son she bears shall continue the name of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.

(Genesis/38: 8-10)
Then Judah said to Onan, “Have intercourse with your brother’s wife, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother’s line.” Onan, however, knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he had intercourse with his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid giving offspring to his brother. What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too.

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This episode of the CatholicPleps Podcast explores the teachings of Saint John Chrysostom on the Christian life. He reminds us that we have nothing to fear, not even death, for this world and everything in it belong to the Lord. And we also learn the secret to this saint’s faith.

Topics: Saints, early church fathers, scripture, love, Jesus, how to live a faithful life, the church

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Link to article: https://catholicplebs.wixsite.com/home/post/mary-immaculate-mother

I have been working for few months to write an essay on Mary's Immaculate Conception and motherhood. It explains how the Immaculate Conception make sense, as well as Mary's motherhood. The essay also has two objections and response to the objections as to help further vet these ideas as well as supplementary material from Sanit Pope Pius the VI, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Athanasius, Saint Andrew of Crete, Saint Cyril of Alexandria and many scriptural rational! It is awesome! I hope you enjoy!

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