#11011 Relationship with Jesus - Marcellino D'Ambrosio

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 13:55 – I’ve been Catholic all my life but I’m still mystified. A part of me embraces his mercy and another part of me is afraid of him. Can you help give some insight? 20:14 – What is a relationship with Christ? How does one relate that to protestants? 31:53 – How does God use guardian angels to bring us closer to him? 35:07 – Am I focusing too much on the Father rather than Jesus? 40:18 – Has your knowledge of the Church Fathers helped you with your relationship? 43:38 – You mentioned reading the bible to help with a relationship. I struggle with reading the bible because I fear that I’ll misinterpret it. Can you give me some advice? 46:45 – Don’t have a relationship with Jesus and am no longer believing. I’m only remaining Catholic because I fear hell. Is this wrong? 50:17 – How do I help my four children have a relationship with Jesus when I struggle with having one with him? 52:37 – How do you make having a relationship with Jesus sound fun and exciting when talking about it? …

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Katha Gantz's Live. I'm Psych Hill at your host, so happy to be back
0:19.8	here on a Friday afternoon getting to do this again. Thank you so much for being with us
0:24.0	and making it possible for us to do this again. And I got to tell you, this is my favorite
0:29.8	topic today and two of my very favorite guests today. So I am very much looking forward to this
0:35.1	Monday show. What can you, can you get a better topic than Jesus? I mean, the first hour
0:40.0	we'll talk about having a relationship with Jesus. Second hour, we're talking about specifically
0:45.2	his how the, the be attitudes are the core of what Jesus teaches and what is that core. So second
0:52.8	hour Father Sebastian Walsh will join us. He's got a new book called Heart of the Gospel,
0:56.8	how the be attitudes show us God's plan for happiness. And this hour,
1:02.0	Marchalino Dambrosio. So that's a pretty good deal, huh? That is, if you don't know Dr.
1:06.1	Dambrosio, you maybe you know him as Dr. Italy. He's a professor of theology. He's got five kids.
1:11.0	He's a performer, a speaker of New York Times bestseller and he hosts pilgrimages. If you haven't
1:17.3	got his book and video set, Jesus the way, the truth and the life you're missing one of the very
1:23.9	finest resources in the world on the person of Jesus and a whole bunch of other writing as well.
1:29.2	Dr. Italy, Dr. Marchalino Dambrosio, thank you so much for being with us.
1:33.4	I am delighted to be with you. And you know what? The opening music for Catholic
1:37.2	Answers reminds me of my rock and roll days. You know what I mean? Yeah. When I said you were a performer,
1:44.7	you were a rock, you were in a rock band. I was in many rock bands, but just be
1:51.2	just as I was coming to a conversion point. I was in one of the largest rock bands in Southern
1:55.6	New England. And I was only 16. All the guys were in their 20s. But it was it was an awesome
2:00.6	experience. And God made me realize that following Jesus is even more exciting than stardom
2:05.8	in the rock and roll world. It was easy for me to see that believe it or not. And so put down my
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