"You Meant EVIL Against Me, But God Meant it for GOOD" | Mthr Natalia

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mother gives a meditation on the Exaltation of the Cross. She talks about how the Crucifixion and other stories from the scriptures can teach us to trust in and rejoice in our suffering.

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0:00.0	Glory to Jesus Christ. I'm Mother Natalia, a Byzantine Catholic nun from Christ to the Bride Grimm
0:04.4	Monastery, and this is Pines with Aquinas.
0:08.0	Yesterday we celebrated both East and West, those who are on the new calendar,
0:12.4	the exultation of the Holy Cross.
0:16.3	And as I was thinking about the day that this episode was coming out and what I could talk about regarding the cross. I thought, well in
0:28.2	addition to the Feast of the Exultation of the Cross we have during the Great Fast during Lent we have the Feast of the Great Fast, during Lent, we have the Feast of the Veneration of the Cross.
0:37.2	Every Wednesday and Friday during the year, we commemorate the Cross. We have special hymns on Wednesdays and Fridays to commemorate
0:46.4	the cross and then we have obviously great and holy Friday or good Friday and
0:51.0	on August 1st we celebrate the procession of the Honorable Cross and I just thought
0:58.4	we have so many feasts about the cross and at first glance that seems kind of morbid like we're we're
1:10.6	holding up we're holding up, exalting this place of so much suffering and so much pain and
1:20.8	and yeah that just seems like really morbid and and I thought maybe I should talk about why we have such a focus on the cross. In order to do that, I prayed about this.
1:37.0	And so what I'd like to share about why we focus so much on the cross is really just that it's really just the fruit of my
1:46.0	prayer and in reflecting on how keeping the cross in my sight is so good for me and so good for those that I love.
2:00.3	And yeah, so I hope that in some way it can be helpful for you as well.
2:07.0	The first thing that came to me as I prayed with this is the story of Joseph in the
2:19.6	old testament when his brothers just totally abandon him and sell him into slavery.
2:27.0	And then as we go through this story, I don't have time to do that now, so if you're not familiar with this story,
2:32.0	I would encourage you to look it up it's one of the most
2:34.2	beautiful stories in scripture in the end of this story though as the brothers come and they realize that Joseph is alive and they realize
2:45.8	that he's doing so well and all of that they're they're just so remorseful and
2:51.6	even and even more than remorseful they're afraid.
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