075: The Secret to Astonishing Faith: Surviving Your Sea of Galilee

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ever felt yourself sinking? St. Peter certainly did when after he briefly walked toward our Lord on the surging waves of the Sea of Galilee. And you have to hand it to Peter. He jumped out of the boat during a raging storm. All because Christ said, "Come." That's exactly what Jesus says to us every day…"Come." No matter what storm is raging in your life, you can walk over the crashing waves toward our loving Lord. That's not pious sentiment for a Hallmark card or an "inspirational" cubicle poster featuring cats. There's something in that passage most people totally miss that raises the whole story on a different level. Christ literally says, "Take heart, it is I: have no fear." These words are far more than mere encouragement. In this brief episode I recorded in Jerusalem, I'll tell you why Jesus' word's to the Disciples can totally change the way you view every struggle in your life. They're the secret to astonishing faith. God bless! Matthew P.S. If you liked this episode, you might like: 019: The Kenosis of Christ As Model for Us...What? P.S. As a special Lenten gift, I'm giving you "Beer, Chocolate & Value-Added Suffering" for FREE. It's chapter 5 of my book Louder Than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic. Click the image of the book or the link above and it will come right to your inbox. God bless!

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0:00.0	This is the art of Catholic.
0:05.6	But immediately he spoke to them saying, take heart, it is I have no fear.
0:21.1	Welcome to a mini art of Catholic episode guys, I'm Matthew Leonard. As you can probably hear, I'm not in my main studio in the States.
0:28.0	I'm actually looking over the city of Jerusalem as I record.
0:32.7	I've been shooting a new video series here for the St. Paul Center as well as leading a pilgrimage
0:37.4	with 70 wonderful people through the Holy Land.
0:40.9	It's been absolutely spectacular.
0:44.1	Yesterday, we celebrated Mass right in front
0:47.9	of Christ to him in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Two days before that we celebrated
0:53.1	Mass right in front of the rock of agony, the very stone upon which Jesus asked if the Father
0:57.9	would remove the cup of his crucifixion if it was possible. But of course, followed it up with
1:02.2	not my will, but yours be done. It was amazing. I
1:06.9	literally had my hand on the rock as I prayed after communion and Father Johnny, one of the priests,
1:14.3	Father Johnny and Father Peter, two priests that two of six tours set me up with after none of
1:20.0	my local priests were able to do it. These guys were spectacular, absolutely amazing.
1:25.7	And Father Johnny gave this homily right there at the rock of agony, talking about how
1:30.2	really the struggle of the human life for fresh Christians and Catholics is that struggle
1:36.2	between humanity and divinity, just like Jesus, who in his humanity was struggling with
1:41.8	what it is that he was going to face, even though he was
1:45.0	conforming himself to the divine will because he's the son of God. And really that's what it's all
1:49.7	about for us. You know, we're, we struggle with humanity. We have everything tugging us toward
1:55.2	this world when really we're trying to be a part of the next, which is why Lent is so important.
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