A Calling to do "Great Things" for God

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

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Summary

In this podcast, Fr. Donncha helps us consider that the Christian vocation to holiness rests upon our ability to let God work in and through us. So often may believe that becoming saints is a matter of our own personal striving. Yet "holiness, to a great degree," he says, is "letting God work." He continues: "It's not a matter of gritting my teeth and straining my muscles...holiness is fundamentally going at God's pace. It's saying to Our Lord, with the spirit of Mary...'Let it be done unto ...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:07.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:16.0	I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins
0:23.6	and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:26.6	My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord.
0:31.6	My guardian angel intercede for me.
0:35.6	The letter to the Hebrews is a very interesting letter. angel intercede for me.
0:38.3	The letter to the Hebrews is a very interesting letter where the sacred rewriter is encouraging
0:46.3	a whole lot of Jewish priests or Levites who have become Christian.
0:53.3	And that's why the letter to the Hebrews has as its main theme, the priesthood of Jesus
0:59.3	Christ.
1:02.4	But at the end of the letter, there's a series of words of encouragement or councils that
1:10.4	the sacred writer wants to give to these Christians.
1:12.6	And among them we find these words. This is chapter 13 of Hebrews.
1:19.6	Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their life and imitate their faith.
1:33.3	Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Remember your leaders. Consider the outcome of their life and imitate their faith.
1:50.8	Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
1:56.8	Well, in this month of October, 2022, in which we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the canonization
2:05.3	of St. Hosie Maria, we can pray a little bit about what it means to be a saint. In other
2:12.4	words, what it means to live out the Christian vocation in fullness, within the limits of our human weakness, of course,
2:21.3	but counting on that fullness that comes from God's grace.
2:25.3	And in all the saints, and including St. Hosomuria,
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