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

Esif. 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.

See, the message is our identity.

So that what is a Catholic?

What is the identity of a Catholic?

If it is not identified by their baptism in confirmation, uniting them, making them one with Jesus Christ.

If that's not the message, then we haven't gotten it yet. And that everything else falls into place

and makes sense with regard to the sacramental system. But everything else is like unconnected dots

if you don't come back to that,

and it remains in the head.

It's not a lived experience.

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