DrSusieQue's Podcast: Recent Episodes
DrSusieQue
Femininity is the divine adornment of humanity...
“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher
her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth,
justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The
history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
Bishop Fulton Sheen
Join Dr Sue Ellen Nolan for this talk on Authentic Femininity
photo from: unsplash.com@birminghammuseumstrust
We are created from love and for love. We are made to Image God. We Image Him most in a relationship with the one we're meant to be with, here on earth. It is a reflection of our true, eternal destiny with God.
This theology is written in our bodies...
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan on a brief talk on Theology of the Body
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash
These days God is not an option, He is a necessity!
When we understand our identity in God and we can exercise our free will we're called to surrender to God. How do we do this? How do we surrender to Him? We need to desire His will in our lives...
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan in this teaching on surrendering to God..
Artwork by Slava on Unsplash
Why do the good suffer? Job was a righteous man, yet great suffering came upon him. It was a paradigm shift in suffering, in Scripture.
Job suffered and he never doubted his innocence or righteousness, yet never gave up on the Lord. In his humanness, though, he railed against the Lord and he demanded the Lord show up for him!!! The Lord answered his prayer, but first showed him a great lesson!
Learn the principles of suffering like Job, that can transform our own suffering!
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan for this talk on Ash Wednesday
Photo by Mads Schmidt Rasmussen on Unsplash
The power of the ultimate gift of Free Will can be hard to understand. St Augustine says "good will is a will by which we seek to live a good and upright life and to attain unto perfect wisdom."
Free Will takes into account our freedom, but freedom in our society means the right to do whatever you want. The Church has a definition that respects our anthropology and our dignity as we combat the nature of original sin.
In this talk we learn about the Virtues, as well, as a means to develop the disposition and habitual perfections that lead us to govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct.
"But I learned fast how to keep my head up 'cause I know there is a side of me that wants to grab the yoke from the pilot and just fly the whole mess into the sea."
The Shin, Young Pilgrims
Who ARE we? Well, we are lost to ourselves unless we are aware that we are created in the Image and Likeness of God, called into existence by His love! We are made for this, it's written in our anthropology! This gives our life meaning and purpose!
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan for this presentation on Identity.
Occasionally I contemplate why I am Catholic. It comes up because being Catholic is COUNTER-CULTURAL, in this day and age. Mostly, it strikes me that the things that keep me in the Catholic Church have nothing to do with Theology or Apologetics but have to do with making me more human, more firm in my identity, and more fully myself! At some point God made it clear to me that I was meant to live in this exact era, culture, time, family of origin, etc and my life had meaning and purpose in the fact that He called me into existence. Anytime I lose perception of this due to crisis, tragedy, stress, family issues, etc I seem to walk away from myself. I "forget who I am" in God! When I come back - **God brings me back to myself.
“True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.”**
― Pope John Paul II
Catholic guilt is something we all have a sense of. What is it? Where does it come from? What does our conscience have to do with it?
Join me, a real-life Catholic person working her way through this life, busy being a human being, in all my glory and failure! How does God meet me in this??!
What does the Economy of Salvation have to do with shame, in the visible Church that Jesus established?
What about that Tree? The one in the Garden? The one with the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
What's the difference between consent and assent and where does God meet us in that as He woos us back to Him.
Dr Nolan continues the retreat for the Sisters of the Redeemer and intimately explores suffering and the mystery it contains.
There are themes and principles in suffering thatwill transform the way that you view suffering and allow you to use suffering as **a superpower!
Learn the three practical steps for suffering well through the model that Christ left for us! And learn how to pray in Suffering!**
“Suffering holds within it a hidden, transformative treasure, an unrecognized gem. Jesus demonstrates how to suffer in how He
walks from Gethsemane to Golgotha. Then, in the Word of the Cross,
He raises Suffering to a Redemptive superpower. Only if we give
assent to uniting our imperfect suffering to Jesus’ perfect offering
can we open to the superpower Redemptive Suffering contains and
alter the eternal destiny of those towards whom we unleash love,
by offering our suffering for them.” Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan MTS, EdD
Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan continues with a retreat for the Sisters of the Redeemers.
People are enthralled with the mystical. They are searching for answers about the spiritual world. In a series of extraordinary events I experience the world that is beyond this one which led me to know that God is REAL! Our Lady of Medjugorje showed up in my life in particular challenging times of suffering to bring me closer to her Son. Join me in listening to the incredible story that changed my faith in God forever.
Part One of a retreat for the Sisters of the Redeemer
Who is Jesus? In the Eucharist? Did you know the Eucharist is talked about in Sacred Scripture? And, in fact, it is Christ, Himself that teaches the most powerful teaching on it?!!! The Eucharist is the source and summit of our Faith; and Jesus is present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity! How do we know this? Jesus says so Himself!
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan in learning how to defend the teaching of the Eucharist using Scripture and the Early Church Fathers so you are prepared to share this most important teaching of our Catholic Faith.
"Suffering is a universal theme that accompanies man at every point on earth: in a certain sense it co-exists with him in the world, and thus demands to be constantly reconsidered...suffering seems to belong to man’s transcendence: it is one of those points in which man is in a certain sense “destined” to go ... beyond himself, and he is called to this in a mysterious way.”
Pope Saint John Paul II, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering
Join Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan as she explores suffering and the mystery it contains. Learn the key themes and principles in suffering and how suffering redemptively is a superpower! Learn the three practical steps for suffering well!
This teaching will transform the way that you view suffering and allow you to use suffering as a redemptive tool.
“Suffering holds within it a hidden, transformative treasure, an unrecognized gem. Jesus demonstrates how to suffer in how He walks from Gethsemane to Golgotha. Then, in the Word of the Cross, He raises Suffering to a Redemptive superpower. Only if we give assent to uniting our imperfect suffering to Jesus’ perfect offering can we open to the superpower Redemptive Suffering contains and alter the eternal destiny of those towards whom we unleash love, by offering our suffering for them.”
Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan, MTS, Ed.D
On June 25th, 1981, in a small village in Bosnia-Hercegovina, the Blessed Virgin Mary, has been appearing in supernatural apparition and giving messages to the world, through 6 young teenagers. She tells us that God has sent her to us as an act of grace. Mary bore Jesus into the world 2000 yrs. ago and this singular favor has been granted to her again, by God, to bring Jesus to us today! She tells us, "I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to enjoy this fullness and peace, you must return to God". The message one of peace and love and prayer. She has come to earth to help us convert and turn our lives back to God.
In my journey into the Catholic church I was given a singular grace of having Our Lady intervene in my life during near tragedies. She made God real and brought her Son to me! Join Dr. Nolan for an overview of Medjugorje and her own story when
Our Lady brought the mountain to her!
As a convert to the Catholic faith I began to appreciate the power of the Mass and the Truth of the Eucharist being the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of our Lord, Jesus Christ. He couldn't be denied in It as He revealed Himself to me. But it was a journey to this Truth...
Many Catholics however do not believe in the Real Presence. If you are Catholic or if you are a Protestant brother or sister I'm thrilled to show you what was revealed to me in Sacred Scripture about the Eucharist. It is there!!! Jesus said it clearly!!! St Paul backs Him up!! I challenge you to listen to this teaching with your souls open and enjoy the Truth that Scripture supports!!!
We are called into existence and held in existence by the Love of God the Father. This is an eternal, transcendent love. Who reflects that eternal love better than the creature called "women"? We have the ability to co-create with God. We create life and carry it under our hearts. We teach the world to love, whether we are physical mothers or spiritual mothers!
Listen to Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan break apart the beautiful theology of our true femininity and our ability to hold each other up in dignity and sacrifice as we journey with other women and help make God real to each other.
We are mostly terrified about confrontation! Very few are comfortable speaking up for themselves, honestly, often. This teaching takes us into the foundation of our Christian Anthropology in having the personal power to have a sane exchange of power with someone we are having conflict with. Conflict is not a bad word. It is intimacy! Confidence grows with continued practice in confrontation. When our identity is built on what is true and authentic then the ability to confront any situation is possible!
I don't have a normal life. My employer is God, and my life is His. In this first episode you will hear the major mystical events of my life that brought me into my present life. It's not a job I dreamed of or even knew to ask for. I had a completely different plan of how my life should play out. So. Much. For. That.
God has taken my life where He wants it. He has developed in me a foundation of trust and dependency on a providential God, Who is my Father, through a series of mystical events in the midst of tremendous challenges and suffering. His Mother has gifted me with her Son as my Spouse to be the authority over my heart and my deepest confidant for the desires of my heart.
These stories show that God is real and that He loves each of us and He will come into each of our lives and effect it. Believe it if you can!
Dr SusieQue