Abundant: Recent Episodes
Sister Fiat Marie, CK
Pondering a life of full of abundant goodness.
You have put into my heart a greater joy than they have from abundance of corn and new wine. Ps. 4:8
Questions taken from the 92 Question used for Confirmation preparation for the Diocese of Lincoln.
Questions taken from the 92 Questions for Confirmation preparation for the Diocese of Lincoln.
What a gift to receive Jesus' forgiveness, love, and mercy!
You might feel nervous about going the first time. In this podcast we will walk through it so that you can hear what it sounds like and practice to help you feel less nervous and more excited.
The word grace can help lead you through the steps to recognize God's gifts and shine light on our sins - all to give us the joy that Jesus so wants to give us every day!
There are 2 steps to prepare your heart for confession and 2 steps to confession and then 1 step for after confession. All the steps are steps closer to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
When you pray, you are speaking to Jesus who is real! Here is a little explanation to help understand the words of this prayer so we can speak to Jesus from our hearts.
Jesus is the model of humility, love, and obedience. Staying close to Him and living a life in His Mystical Body, the Church, will make our heart like His.
A tip to enter into fasting in a way that will bring your heart a little closer to Jesus.
You can give gifts to those around you everyday to bring you closer to Jesus and to bring others closer to Jesus.
Jesus desires to be close to us - He chooses us. Let us listen to His words and watch his actions so our hearts will choose Him, too. Here we will listen to the Beatitudes.
We are made for communion, or unity. We are also made for Communion, receiving the Eucharist. This episode is a look at how Communion is really the reality of how to live our lives. In the Mass, we see how live our communion with nature and others so as to experience the deep for which we long.
Saints that longed to receive Jesus in the sacraments or felt long periods of burning love after receiving the Eucharist are inspiring...or maybe discouraging. This episode offers a few reflections and suggestions on exterior and interior blocks to respond to the reality that sometime our emotions and feelings do not match the immense grace of the Sacraments.
Each sacrament uniquely reveals the reality of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection and truly makes it present. This sacrament brings us to an encounter with truth. The truth of sin and the truth of a loving Savior. What joy!
This podcast focuses on the fourth point of the Kerygma - which is really a question - who will you choose? For those who say, "Lord, I choose You," it can be a struggle to then actually live it out in daily life. The truths, examples, and suggestions in this episode are offered to be an aid and encouragement to let the Lord train your heart to rely on Him as He works to enable your heart to receive love and give love.
This episode focuses on the third point of the Kerygma, Jesus is my Savior, the only way back to God. Another way to say this is that Jesus desires a relationship with you and to give you the fullness of life. Learn to be aware, understand, and take action as you go through your day as a way of responding to Jesus invitation and living in the abundant life of your Savior.
For more on Discernment of Spirits: Fr. Timothy Gallagher – Discernment of Spirits (discerninghearts.com)
*I inaccurately sighted my reference to the scripture about the hired hand, but I think the concept still applies.
This episode both acknowledges the reality that sin separates us from God and the joy that is proper to realizing we are sinners who are loved by God and that we have a faithful Savior.
"The Christian message is very simple: We speak about God and man, and this way we say everything." (Benedict XVI)
This episode uses the first point of the Kerygma, I am created and loved by God, to help ponder and notice where the Lord is desiring to enter in more and more.
Also referenced: ARRR prayer
This episode is an invitation to simply, and in the freedom of God's love, look at your relationship with the Lord as it is right now.
What if I lived embracing the statement God does not exist?
What if I really lived in the reality that God exists!