How to Live as Strangers in a Strange Land
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How do we remain faithful to Jesus amid those misunderstandings, pressures, and even persecutions that we face living in a secular culture? It's not easy being Catholic today, but if we look at the story of Israel in Salvation history, we can find great strength and consolation. Today, Dr. Sri teaches us how to live as strangers in a strange land by looking at prophet Daniel in the Bible and how he remained faithful to God in times of persecution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. Do you ever feel like you're a stranger in a strange land? You're trying to live your |
| 0:19.4 | Catholic faith in the midst of a secular culture, but maybe you have some family members that just don't understand. |
| 0:25.0 | Why are you so religious? |
| 0:27.0 | Or maybe have people in the office, some coworkers or neighbors, or sometimes even fellow parishioners. |
| 0:33.3 | There may be other Catholics that wonder, |
| 0:34.4 | why are you so Catholic? |
| 0:36.3 | I mean, can't you just tone it down a bit? |
| 0:38.6 | And they really look at life in the secular world. |
| 0:40.8 | People look at life through different lenses. They have a different |
| 0:44.4 | way of living. And there's a lot of pressure to conform and live like everybody else. And if you |
| 0:50.5 | don't, people think you're a little weird they feel uncomfortable and you |
| 0:54.3 | might even be persecuted in the midst of this. How do you live your Catholic faith |
| 0:59.2 | in the midst of a strange secular pagan world. You know in this time of advent I'd really like to think |
| 1:07.3 | about the prophets that God sent to Israel to help them when they were going through times like this. |
| 1:13.5 | I think about that period in biblical salvation history known as the exile. |
| 1:18.4 | You may recall this period from around 605 BC to B.C. the Jewish people were suffering tremendously. |
| 1:25.7 | What happened was there was a powerful nation from the north, a great kingdom, Babylon, that |
| 1:30.4 | came in and took over the land and destroyed their temple, brought an end to all the temple |
| 1:36.1 | liturgies, destroyed the dynasty of David and carried the king off into exile, and they carried people away. As they destroyed the city of |
| 1:45.0 | Jerusalem they carried the people off into captivity and now the Jews find themselves |
| 1:49.9 | living in Babylon, far from their home, far from their temple, and they're surrounded by all these people |
| 1:57.5 | with different lifestyles, different belief systems, different values, and there's a lot of pressure for them to conform a lot of pressure to live |
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