Take Courage!
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to think of courage as something we only need when facing our greatest fears, but in this episode Fr. Mike explains how courage is necessary to live out every virtue. He shows how cowardice can seem harmless in the ways it sneaks into our thoughts, and shares words from great saints who commissioned the faithful to practice fortitude in our everyday lives.
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| 0:00.0 | How are names father-mixements and this is essential presents. |
| 0:10.1 | So I've been reading a lot lately about World War II and it's been fascinating but |
| 0:13.7 | one of the characters that is just I've been reflecting on a lot is man named Neville |
| 0:21.8 | Chamberlain. |
| 0:22.8 | Neville Chamberlain I believe the prime minister of Great Britain as Hitler was coming to power. |
| 0:28.1 | In 1938 Neville Chamberlain adopted when it came to the Nazis he adopted what they |
| 0:32.6 | called the policy of appeasement. |
| 0:34.5 | The policy of appeasement was we're not going to declare war in Hitler and we're just |
| 0:38.9 | going to continue to negotiate with them. |
| 0:40.8 | We're going to compromise with them. |
| 0:42.1 | People will say that makes sense. |
| 0:43.6 | Kuwait is Chamberlain his family. |
| 0:45.8 | The whole country of Great Britain they had lived through a war one. |
| 0:49.5 | They did not want to go to another war. |
| 0:52.5 | If they could avoid war at all that's what they wanted to do. |
| 0:56.9 | It kind of makes sense that they would say whatever we can do to avoid a fight let's |
| 1:02.3 | do that. |
| 1:03.3 | To care for our people let's do that thing and yet this is so important and yet what |
| 1:09.1 | were they doing they were having a policy of appeasement they were compromising with |
| 1:12.5 | a man who made it very very clear that he did not respect other countries borders but |
| 1:17.3 | oh oh oh I'm going to respect your border. |
| 1:20.2 | That even Chamberlain knew this. |
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