Saints: The Spiritual Mutual Fund (Part 1)

The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a relationships with the saints? In this two-part series, Jeff fouses on the concept of the 'communion of saints' and compares it to a 'spiritual mutual fund.' He explains the importance of the saints, their role in heaven, and how they intercede for us on Earth. With references to the Catechism and the teachings of St. John Paul II, Jeff delves into why the saints are essential along our faith journey.

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The Communion of Saints is a spiritual union of all the members of the Church. In Christ, we cannot be separated from each other.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization,
0:07.2	putting it all together and living as activated disciples.
0:12.7	This is show 432, Saints, the Spiritual Mutual Fund.
0:23.2	Welcome to the show this week.
0:24.8	I'm Jeff Kavens.
0:25.8	Thank you for joining me.
0:27.4	Hey, I know that your time is valuable.
0:30.4	And so I just want you to know that I really value our time together.
0:35.2	And I thank you that you've carved out a little bit of the time in
0:38.1	your week to come together and talk about the things that I think are most important. And that is
0:43.4	the Word of God and discipleship, walking in obedience to God's will, and taking a look at the
0:50.2	treasure in the church that we have. We have so much to celebrate. And I've always said this,
0:56.7	and that is that we can study all of this, and we can buy books and go to conferences and listen
1:03.8	to YouTube videos and podcasts. But the bottom line is that faith without works is dead. And if you listen to the word of God and don't do it,
1:12.7	you deceive yourself. And so really the goal of all of this is to put our faith into practice
1:18.8	so that we are pleasing to God. We do His will. And, you know, the fruit of that is we live a
1:25.8	happy life. And that is, that's just the fruit of it, right?
1:29.6	That's what happens when we walk with God.
1:31.8	And we're in union with God.
1:34.3	Well, today I want to talk about, and next week, by the way, this is a two-part series,
1:39.4	is I want to talk about the communion of saints and particularly this aspect of building a posse.
1:46.9	Now a posse is in modern vernacular, you might say crew, right?
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