19 06, 2019

RomeCast 11: Reclaiming St. Therese of Lisieux

By |2019-06-19T03:47:39+00:00June 19th, 2019|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

If things fall apart at the human level of the Church, we actually need St. Therese of Lisieux more than any other modern saint.  Was St. Therese just the "cute" saint of French rhetoric,  or was she the secret weapon of light God gave us to face the dark warnings of Fatima?  We consider her post-humous intercession in an exorcism that happened in 1928 in Iowa and consider how confidence in the goodness of God is the virtue between the vices of Pelagianism and Quietism.  As St. Augustine wrote, "God provides the wind; man must raise the sail."

18 07, 2018

A Formation Commensurate to Baptism

By |2019-04-04T20:34:58+00:00July 18th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature.  We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism.  How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments?   Two ways:  1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.

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