114: Can You Really Suffer with Joy and Tame the Tongue?
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Join Matthew Leonard and Shane Kapler in a powerful discussion of how St. James teaches us to suffer with joy and tame our tongues...and a whole lot more (including why Martin Luther hated this book of the Bible).
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In this episode we'll discuss:
- How to endure suffering joyfully
- What to do when we suffer
- How suffering is related to deification
- How your speech can literally keep you out of heaven
- Why Luther called the book of James an "epistle of straw"
- Why James's nickname was "Camel Knees"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the Art of Catholic Podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | My name is Matthew Leonard. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm glad to have you along. |
| 0:19.4 | My guest today is Shane Kapler, who is an evangelist who's been catac chising and |
| 0:24.9 | evangelizing people |
| 0:26.8 | in the St. Louis area for the past 30 years. |
| 0:29.1 | You may have seen him on EWTN on the Journey Home, or the other Catholic outlets, radio |
| 0:35.2 | TV, Epic Pew, Catholic Exchange, things like that. |
| 0:39.6 | He's also an author. |
| 0:41.0 | In fact, we have had him on the art of Catholic a few years ago talking about his book on Hebrews, the epistle of the Hebrews and the seven core beliefs of Catholics. |
| 0:50.3 | He's also written, marrying the rosary to the Divine Mercy Chaplet. |
| 0:54.6 | And today we are going to talk about his newest book, which is James, Jewish Roots, Catholic |
| 1:00.2 | Roots. |
| 1:01.2 | I love the rhyming there, it's good. |
| 1:04.0 | And to be honest, I was kind of surprised |
| 1:05.1 | actually to see a book on St. James. An initial or one like this because for me |
| 1:10.9 | personally, the book of James, I think, is one of the most overlooked books in the |
| 1:16.4 | canon of Sacred Scripture. And I'm so moved by it that I took James as my |
| 1:22.2 | confirmation name, particularly because of this book |
| 1:25.9 | of the Bible. |
| 1:26.9 | It's always the kick in the pants that I need to get my life kind of back on track and |
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