No One Takes My Life from Me

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How do you respond when you encounter difficult moments? Do you allow your life in Christ, your peace and joy to be taken from you? In this episode, Dr. Sri examines Christ’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane and explains how we can lay down our lives instead of having our life taken from us.

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Do not let the difficult moments you encounter take the peace and joy of Christ from you.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.2	Here in the middle of land, I've been pondering these mysterious words of Jesus.
0:19.8	No one takes my life from me.
0:22.7	I lay it down of my own accord, and I think in my life I know I don't want anyone
0:30.3	or anything to take my life from me, meaning my peace, my interior peace, my joy,
0:39.0	my life I have in Jesus Christ.
0:41.4	I don't want anyone, anything, any situation to take that from me, but I know because of
0:47.0	my weakness.
0:48.8	I often do.
0:50.8	I let these things rattle me in a way that a true disciple shouldn't do.
0:57.1	What do I mean by this?
0:58.2	Maybe you struggle with this.
0:59.2	How do you respond when your day is suddenly turned upside down?
1:02.8	You're planning to accomplish all these things, and it just doesn't work out at all.
1:06.2	How do you respond?
1:07.0	Or how do you respond when something you're really, really hoping for just doesn't happen?
1:13.9	Doesn't turn out the way you hoped.
1:16.0	How do you respond when someone lets you down, someone hurts you, some unexpected turn
1:21.6	of events comes your way, and it frustrates you, disappoints you.
1:25.0	How do you respond in those moments?
1:27.0	You see, I think the real test of Lent is in these moments, these things we can't control
1:34.0	that just happen to us.
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