S03 Episode 22: Book Study - Gaudete Et Exsultate Chapter 2 & 3 (Part 2)
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🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we discuss chapters 2 & 3 of "Gaudete Et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad)" by Pope Francis. We talk about our tendencies to fall into judgmentalism or self reliance and how these creep into our spiritual life. We also talk about the beauty of the Beatitudes and our call to get honest with ourselves about our pride and embrace poverty of spirit so as to fully live the Christian life and embrace grace more fully.
One Thing We Love This Week:
- Sr. Miriam's One Thing - A Meditation on Givenness by John Paul II
- Michelle's One Thing - Celebrating Good and Faithful Priests especially the newly ordained
- Heather's One Thing - Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
Discussion Questions:
- Do you tend to struggle more with an intellectual approach to your spirituality that leads to judgment or with acting more on your own power and not relying on grace?
- What is your favorite Beatitude and why?
- What do you think about when Pope Francis says "the Beatitudes are like the Christian's identity card"?
- Pope Francis says we can only live the Beatitudes with the power of the Holy Spirit. What is one Beatitude that you need the power of the Holy Spirit to help you live today?
Journal Questions:
- What holds you back from loving the poor in a personal way?
- Who do I need to show mercy to this week?
- How is my life working for other people?
Quote to Ponder:
"Yes I have many human faults and failures...But God bends down and uses us, you and me, to be his love and his compassion in the world; he bears our sins, our troubles and our faults. He depends on us to love the world and to show how much he loves it. if we are too concerned with ourselves we will have no time left for others" - St. Teresa of Calcutta
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Pasco Media Production. Please visit PascoMedia.com. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together Podcast where we desire to provide a place of |
| 0:16.2 | connection, rest and encouragement for those of you who are on the journey with Jesus Christ |
| 0:21.2 | as we are my name is Sister Miriam James and I am joined as always by my lovely illustrious |
| 0:27.6 | Spillended Co-host Heather Kim and Michelle Benzinger. It sounds like I have a stuff that |
| 0:32.4 | knows is because I was crying my eyes out right before we started recording so I'm just |
| 0:35.5 | going to like totally come out there with that. Heather and Michelle were very awesome |
| 0:40.4 | receiving my blow of broken heart so that's why it sound like this y'all is because I was |
| 0:44.5 | crying the nun was crying her eyes out so that's all I am today. The reality is I feel |
| 0:49.6 | like we just take turns everyone's be talk it's my turn to cry it's Michelle's turn to |
| 0:53.6 | cry that's what real journey is like you know with each other it's beautiful missy |
| 0:59.6 | sometimes but beautiful oh yeah it is messy and it is beautiful and so Heather speaking |
| 1:04.9 | of you had quite a little adventure the day on a school bus is that true oh my gosh this |
| 1:10.1 | is the season up here it's like the last month of school the weather is good and all the |
| 1:15.0 | teachers decide to do all the field trips packed into one month so we get like six permission |
| 1:21.0 | forms for for different field trips happening all the next few weeks so I just went on one |
| 1:26.1 | and it was like a two hour ride it wasn't supposed to be that long and the bus driver seemed |
| 1:31.4 | to like accelerate into stop signs and then slam on her brakes as quick as possible and then |
| 1:36.5 | all the kids would scream it was amazing I had to restrain myself a little bit internally but we |
| 1:43.7 | got their safe and sound and it was a super cool field trip so I can't really complain about it |
| 1:48.6 | but my son was confirmed this week and that was really awesome it was such a beautiful experience |
| 1:54.8 | and he was so excited and just so happy for him and his classmates and we just have such a great |
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