How Real Is Christ?

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Are you aware of Christ’s presence? As disciples, it is essential that we have a connection to Christ. We must always be aware of his presence. So, what makes that difficult? What are problems in the modern world that make it difficult to see the reality of Christ? Mike “Gomer” Gormley tackles these questions and more in today’s episode.

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The world obscures our vision of the Church and of Christ.

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0:00.0	Without a sense of our Savior's personal closeness to us, salvation itself will seem remote and abstract.
0:08.2	We must never write off the difference he makes, not solely by what he has done or said, but by what he is.
0:15.3	Our faith can be no more real to us than he himself.
0:19.1	How real is he?
0:32.2	Music real to us than he himself. How real is he? Welcome everybody to Every Knee Shall Bow, your seasonal Catholic Podcast on Evangelization and Discipleship.
0:39.2	I'm Mike Gomer Gormley, and I'm here to walk you through the essentials of what it
0:43.1	means to follow Christ as a Catholic disciple.
0:45.8	Let's begin.
0:49.8	Last week, we introduced this season by talking about the individual calls of each of the apostles that Christ made.
0:56.4	For instance, Matthew's call was not Peter's call, was not Paul's call.
1:00.5	Matthew was a collaborator with Rome as a Jewish tax collector, which he had to leave entirely behind.
1:07.0	Peter was a fisherman, fishing with his family business.
1:09.2	He caught a super abundance of fish in Luke
1:12.1	5 and he had to leave that behind. Paul was out to arrest and murder Christians and let's be
1:18.7	thankful he had to leave that behind. The context of the call is as individual as every person,
1:25.0	but the objective of the call is always the same. Come, follow me. So what we want to do
1:32.2	today is ask a new question. What is the problem for which Catholic discipleship is the solution?
1:40.8	What I mean by that is this. There is a crisis in the church today.
1:44.6	I don't know if you've noticed it.
1:46.4	We all know this.
1:47.3	We all know there's a horrible crisis going on in the church today.
1:50.3	There's widespread confusion, doubt, skepticism, deconstructing discipleship.
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