Is following Jesus just another self-help plan? The Beatitudes flip that idea upside down. This isn’t about fixing yourself; it’s about letting God meet your needs. In this episode, the friars explore how the Beatitudes aren’t a checklist for spiritual success but an invitation to profound dependence on God. They explore how true blessings often appear as weakness, surrender, and a poverty of spirit because that’s where grace breaks in.
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Restoring Our Mission
What’s the mission that Jesus is calling you to do? We all have a mission that we are picked to do, and that mission should be something that we share with Jesus. We are invited to love like Jesus and, ultimately, love like The Father – we are invited to live in greatness and give our lives to something that matters. In this episode, we look into what it means to be restored as sons and…
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Discipleship Is a Team Sport
Discipleship is a team sport. Family—both through our natural families, and our supernatural family through baptism—and communion with others is an essential ingredient to the Christian life. Not that it will be easy…it won’t be. It is simple, but not easy. An encounter with family lived well is redeeming not because it’s perfect, but because…
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The Asceticism of Silence
What’s the most prevalent voice that you hear in your life? Is it God’s or someone’s/something else? We long to teach people how to pray, contemplative silence, inner recollection, and interior stillness are ways to live in a relationship with God. But, there’s a silver bullet to make people live in chaos and noise, exteriorly or interiorly. Every day, through general media…
