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Discerninghearts.com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John

Essev. Monsignor Esif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a

retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and

retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity.

Monsignor Asif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him.

He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the pontifical missions, a Catholic organization

established by Pope St. John Paul II,

to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor.

He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, and sisters,

seminarians, and other religious leaders.

Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essive.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

We join Monsignor John Essive discussing the 4th Sunday of Easter

and the gospel passage concerning the Good Shepherd.

In these Sundays, after Easter, which are... passage concerning the Good Shepherd.

In the Sundays after Easter, which are so important that it's called Mystogoga,

when we begin to experience that we are in union with Jesus Christ, both those who have been received into the church where they begin to flex

their spiritual muscles and begin to see with the eyes of Jesus and hear with the ears of Jesus

...