One Soul Podcast: Recent Episodes
One Soul Podcast
While working on my relationship with God, I share my insights and experiences in the hope of helping one other soul along the way.
To be magnanimous is to be great in mind and heart; to refuse to be petty or resentful. To be high-minded and noble, willing to face danger for a just cause. May we all strive to embody this virtue!
It's not about ticking the boxes; it's about persevering with our Lenten promises. It's not too late to start again - today, now!
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matt 5:6
Obedience plays a significant role in our path to sanctity, our apostolate, and in our overall well-being.
To be audacious is to be willing to take risks. For that, we must be prepared, and that preparation doesn't come by chilling on the couch.
If we really want to live the gospel, we need to have a desire to learn from our tradition and those who came before us.
Jesus showed us what a good friend is and what it means. Now, we need to put it into practice.
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Piety is the virtue that will help us to fall in love with God. As with any virtue, we need to be consistent in order to acquire it.
The Truth will make you free. The ultimate truth is Christ, only when He is in the center of our life can we truly live.
If we can master the virtue of temperance, we will be able to follow Jesus with a heart in love for the world to see.
The virtue of fortitude is to be strong. But this strength isn't about never falling; it's about getting back up to continue the fight.
The virtue of justice helps us to give others what is due to them, but in order to give justly we must be inspired by the Supreme Good.
The virtue of prudence is acquired, among other things, from our learning of the past. Also, this virtue will help up to be witnesses of our faith in God through our actions.
Prudence can't be confused with timidity. It is a demanding virtue which is often misunderstood.
We each have a story and we all have some kind of daily battle to face daily. Perseverance: that's what will predict whether we will make it through the war.
We are a unity of body and soul. Just as our soul should glorify God, so should our body. Everything we do with our bodies must be for the glory of God.
Mary was present at the very beginning of the Church, and today she is still here with us and for us.
Our lives grow, develop, and so should our relationship with God and with those around us. To keep everything going, be diligent, get up now, and give glory to God.
All sins distance us from God, but the sins of impurity tend to desensitise us so that it becomes harder to love him properly.
We are each called to be a reflection of God's light to the world - and it all comes down to how much kindness we put into our daily interactions with others.
Sometimes, often even, we lose our peace. It is in those moments that we can practice the virtue of patience so that when really tough times arise, we'll have the ability to sustain our interior peace.
We're all attached to something, even if it's not obvious at first. Discovering what it is that we are attached to can help us to become freer when we work on letting it go.
Humility is one of the most precious virtues in all human relationships, and it should guide all our actions. The alternative is to be a slave to pride.
This lent, let's put all our focus on the person of Jesus Christ, remembering that he is the reason of all our goals during this time.
It is because of our Faith and the active expectation of our Hope that we ought to Love; to exercise charity in all we do, just as Jesus did in each moment of his life.
Hope is a virtue - an act of the will. A longing and an expectation for eternal happiness!
The first Theological virtue, Faith, is key to getting to heaven, but it is a gift; a gift we should look after and never neglect. This faith needs to be the stamp in all our actions every day.
It's easy to get caught up in the season of Christmas without Christ - let's find little ways to keep the focus on Him this year.
Our Lady, the most beautiful woman who has ever existed on this planet, is another gift from God to us. He made her our mother, your mother, and my mother. We ought to love her and build our relationship with her. There is so much we have to learn from her.
Advent means preparation. It is a time in which we can take the beautiful opportunity the Church offers us to build this relationship with God that we are looking for. Let's not waste our time and get to it!
Through baptism, you have received a calling: "Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel". You are an apostle of the 21st century Just where you are doing what you do, bring the name of Jesus to those God has put around you.
God is great and has given you everything you have. On top of that, he has a plan for you. That plan is your vocation. And your vocation, whichever it is, has God in its centre.
After the original sin, sin seems to be a partner of human beings on this earth. You and I have the option to change that, to make the grace of God our company on the way to heaven because sin will only lead us to hell. This is possible, but first, we need to know what sin is.
As the saying goes, only 2 things in life are certain: death and taxes. We will all face God at the end of our lives, and when we go before him, we hope that we've lived a saintly life so that he takes us straight to Heaven. However, even the smallest imperfection cannot enter Heaven - so we may need to spend some time in purgatory first. Just as we would want, let's pray for those there who long to see God and who rely on our prayers to get there.
Society tries to teach that joy and happiness can be found in ways that take us far away from God who is the ultimate source of joy. We need to be a reflection of the real joy that can only be experienced by living a life of faith and always be able to model and teach it through positivity and cheerfulness.
Our spiritual life has ups and downs and sometimes it seems that we lose the direction in which we are meant to go. This can become an issue if we neglect ourselves and our souls by not correcting our actions toward God. Consequently, we should evaluate our day daily, make some amendments, and continue to grow spiritually.
Since we fell with original sin through our first parents, we struggle with our weaknesses, and we tend to fail our Lord over and over. However, his unconditional love has no limits, and his mercy has no end, to the point that he craves that we get back up and reconcile with him. No matter how many times we fall, He wants to wash away our sins so we can be in communion with Him.
We live in a constant battle between good and evil. The enemy does not rest, and in order to hold our place on God's grounds, we must be aware of their power and influence, and how they work to make us fall.
Another wonderful gift we have been given, but which we often forget, is our very own guardian angel. From the moment we begin to exist, they are by our side to advise, accompany and cooperate with us so that we can accomplish our mission: to reach heaven.
God teaches us from the very beginning of the bible to the end that, in the Eucharist, the bread and wine truly become the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. And as he said, "Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you."
We are loved in a way that is beyond our capacity to ever comprehend. We were literally loved into existence. Our God has given us his heart and it's up to us to correspond to that gift and to share it with those around us.
Our one goal in life is to get to Heaven. The surest path there is by embracing the difficulties, small and big, of every day, and turning them into an encounter with Christ at his Passion.
Communication is key for all interpersonal relationships. It's the same with Our Lord. When you spend time with him in prayer, he reveals himself to you on a deeper level. This episode will give you tips and examples of how you can develop this friendship.
Life is busy. There's always so much to be done. But we need to get back to basics. This episode walks through the most important relationships we have, and how we can nurture them to live a more purposeful life.