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The Litany of Humility is one of the hardest litanies to pray.
Why? It addresses our pride, whether we want to admit we’re proud or not.
It’s not easy to pray, but if you struggle with pride like most of us do, it’s a must.
In this episode, we take a look at the desires that chip away at our humility. You can’t get to heaven without being humble.
IN THIS EPISODE
- Desire to be esteemed;
- desire to be loved;
- desire to be extolled;
- desire to be honored;
- desire to be praised;
- desire to be preferred to others;
- desire to be consulted;
- desire to be approved.
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The Great Cardinal Robert Sarah, in his powerful book, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, discusses the Power of Silence and how God speaks to us in the silence.
In this podcast, we focus on a chapter in the book called God Does Not Speak, but His Voice is Quite Clear. This chapter includes a section on how God speaks to us through creation.
Because there is a global, radical, climate-change, cabal, some of us shy away from looking at nature at all, because we do not want to be lumped in wih the tree huggers.
However, God created this beautiful creation for us and gave us dominion over it, as an act of love.
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In the great devotional, In Conversation with God, Fr Francis Fernandez discusses why it's so important that we take venial sin, not just mortal sin, seriously.
Because unlike venial sin, mortal sin does not sunder our relation with God, we sometimes see it as a normal part of life - almost a defect, but in fact it's much more serious than that.
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Many of our recurring sins are linked to our predominant faults, such as pride, envy & other faults. If we know to conquer these passions, we will make great strides in the spiritual life.
IN THIS EPISODE
- What are predominant faults/passions?
- How St Frances de Sales Conquered Love & Anger
- Why we should be patient in our fight.
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Lent is the perfect time to work on abandoning our wills abandon ourselves to God’s will. Yes, we must be read to bury our wills. But it isn’t easy. Yet, there are some small ways we can bury our will daily. Show Notes
Ven. Fulton J. Sheen was such a prophetic preacher. He spoke of signs of the time, which we are actually seeing today.
Today's Episode contains a recording of Bishop Sheen's "Times of the Times".
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A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
Our Lord tells us that we are to be meek and humble of heart.
Since we are flawed humans, we find a way to mess that up.
Oftentimes when we try to be humble in words or deed, a little seed of pride, starts sprouting before we know it.
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
Our Lord tells us that we should learn from Him because He is meek and humble of heart. This admonition does not mean we should be doormats.
In this Episode
- What is meekness
- When meekness is just wrong.
- How we can we be meek, but not doormats.
Show notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
After our Lord was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane, he was brought in front of the authorities. They flogged him and put a crown of thorns on his head. They mocked him and spit in his face.
Do you know that we spit in our Lord's face every day - sometimes unintentionally, but sometimes with full knowledge
Possible ways of "spitting in the face of Christ"
- How do you spit in the face of Christ
- The Mystery of the Crown of Thorns by a Passionist Father
- Why Purity of Intentions Matter
Show notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
What a wonderful thing it is to have great Zeal for the Gospel, but is it true zeal?
Did you know mistaken zeal can destroy souls?
In this episode we take a look at three types of zeal
- The zeal that destroy souls.
- Mistaken Zeal
- True Zeal
If you ever thought you might be doing too much, or you might be doing it all wrong, listen to this episode.
Show notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
When you're thinking about instructing the ignorant or admonishing the sinner, make sure you're the right person and that you're saying the right thing, at the right time. Otherwise, it's best to mind your business.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is curiosity?
- The difference between good curiosity vs bad curiosity.
- When to instruct/admonish in the right way, at the right time.
- When to speak and when to be quiet.
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
Rash Judgment is something that's come up recently in discussion because of the hasty reporting on the Covington Catholic boys.
However, it's something that we all do from time to time.
Did you know that rash judgment is a sin? Why do we do it?
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is rash judgment?
- How does confirmation bias come into play?
- The Three Roots of Rash Judgement
- The Remedies of Rash Judgment
Mentioned in the Episode
An Introduction to the Devout Life
The Covington News Story
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
This is Part III of this series on the Litany of Humility, it is a hard litany to pray because it directly attacks our pride.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Fear of being forgotten.
- Fear of being ridiculed.
- Fear of being wronged
- Fear of being suspected
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
This is Part II of this series on the Litany of Humility, it is a hard litany to pray because it directly attacks our pride.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Fear of being humiliated.
- Fear of being despised.
- Fear of being rebuked.
- Fear of being calumniated.
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
The Litany of Humility is a hard litany to pray because it directly attacks our pride.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How do we know that we should practice humility?
- What is the one thing Jesus asked for us while on the earth?
- Deliverance from the desire to be esteemed, loved, extolled, honored, praised, preferred to others, consulted, approved.
Show Notes
A More Rigorous Lent is a Lenten reflection program, produced by Beautysoancient.com.
As Catholics, why should we embrace death?
We must embrace death because death comes to everyone and the sobering thing is that we don’t know when it’s coming. That’s why it’s so important to rememeber that we will die at some point (memento mori).
“The Holy Martyrs embraced death with a very ready will for the same intentions, I accept and embrace death with my whole heart, in whatever form.” St John Eudes
IN THIS EPISODE
- Is Catholicism a death-obsessed religion?
- Why must we embrace death?
- An experience that showed me how much I fear death.
SOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Exercise of Preparation for Death by St John Eudes
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