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#52 – Kings, entrepreneurs & St Simon

March 27, 2018 by Andy Lesnefsky 1 Comment

St. Francis de Sales writes, “Be who you are, and be that well.” You were anointed to be a King and this episode takes a look at what that means.

What did Kingship look like for Jesus? Mark 10:45 “For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Bishop Robert Barron explains our role as a king is to be “like the general of an army or the conductor of an orchestra: he coordinates the efforts and talents of a conglomeration of people in order to help them achieve a common purpose.”

Featured saint is St Simon of Cyrene. He reminds us of:

  • Our invitation to encounter the cross
  • That one moment can change everything
  • To not just be a passerby

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You can be holy. You can be a saint. Be a hero.

 

Filed Under: Catholic Heroes Podcast Tagged with: Catholic Heroes, Easter, Kings, St. Simon of Cyrene

#50 – You, a priest? and St. Matthew

March 12, 2018 by Andy Lesnefsky Leave a Comment

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In this episode, Andy Lesnefsky talks about how in our Baptism we are anointed priest, prophet, and king. This episode focuses on what it means to live out our calling as priests in the world.

Priests:

  • Make things holy
  • Are bridge builder “pontifex”
  • Bring the church to world “holy contagion”

The saint this episode focuses on is St. Matthew/Levi. Matthew is a reminder that Jesus came “not to call the righteous but sinners.” St. Matthew also reminds us of the importance and challenge of community.

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Filed Under: Catholic Heroes Podcast Tagged with: Catholic Heroes, Priest, St. Matthew

48 – How to Pray with Someone & St. Albert Hortado

February 24, 2018 by Andy Lesnefsky 1 Comment

Praying with others is powerful. Don’t be afraid. This is not something reserved for people with a special gift.

A few tips:

  • Ask God for help and ask them for a prayer request.
  • Listen
  • Thank
  • Intercede
  • Longer prayer – Silence is okay
  • Close with communal prayer

Featured saint this episode is St. Alberto Hurtado.

Alberto Hurtado, SJ, served the poor in Chile. Born in Chile on January 22, 1901 and died in 1952.

He loved the poor and found his own organization for poor and abandoned young people, Hogar de Cristo.

Hurtado was beatified in 1994 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 23, 2005.

Quotes:

  •  “Christ is without a home! Christ roams through our streets in the person of so many of the suffering poor, sick and dispossessed, and people thrown out of their miserable slums; Christ huddled under bridges, in the person of so many children who lack someone to call father, who have been deprived for many years without a mother’s kiss on their foreheads…Christ is without a home! Shouldn’t we want to give him one, those of us who have the joy of a comfortable home, plenty of good food, the means to educate and assure the future of our children? “What you do to the least of me, you do to me,” Jesus said.”
  • “If we don’t see Christ in the person we rub elbows with every moment, that is because our faith is tepid and our love imperfect.”
  • “I hold that every poor man, every vagrant, every beggar is Christ carrying his cross. And as Christ, we must love and help him. We must treat him as a brother, a human being like ourselves. If we were to start a campaign of love for the poor and homeless, we would, in a short time, do away with depressing scenes of begging, children sleeping in doorways and women with babies in their arms fainting in our streets.”
  • “You ask how I manage to put some balance into my life. This is a question I ask myself, as each day I am swallowed up more by my work – letters, telephone calls, articles, visits: the wearing routine of business – congresses, study sessions, conferences agreed to out of weakness, because I could not say no, or because I did not want to miss an opportunity to do good; bills to be paid, decisions to be made in the stress of unforeseen circumstances. Then there is some pressing apostolate, the urgency to arrive before materialism gains a complete victory. So often I feel I am on a rock, battered from all sides by rising waves. The only escape route is heavenwards. For an hour or a day, I let the waves beat upon the rock; I stop looking out to the horizon and only look upwards towards God. . .”
  • “In God I feel a hope that is almost boundless. My worries disappear. I let them go, and I let myself go completely into his hands. . . I belong to Him, and He takes care of me and of myself. At long last my soul can surface once more tranquil and serene. Yesterday’s worries, the thousand and one preoccupations about ‘Thy kingdom come,’ and even the dreadful torment I felt just now fearing the triumph of his enemies. . . everything gives way to calmness in God, the rock against which all waves break in vain, God, the perfect radiance marred by no shadow, God the all-conquering victor, dwells within me. I can reach him fully as the highest aim of my love. My whole soul is within him. And then, sweetly and surely, it is as if all life’s trails, all the insecurities and uncertainties, had left me completely. I am bathed in light. He fills me with his strength. He loves me.”

You can be a saint. You can be holy. Jesus loves you. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus today!

Filed Under: Catholic Heroes Podcast Tagged with: Catholic Heroes, Praying with others, Saints, St. Albert Hortado

#39 – The Church and the Good News

November 17, 2017 by Andy Lesnefsky 3 Comments

We can’t love Jesus and hate the church. Why? Jesus full identifies with the Church.

The Gospel  must include the Church. As we get towards the conclusion of our series on the Gospel, this episode of the Catholic Heroes Podcast focuses on the Church.In this episode, St. Paul is also discussed. His conversion reminds us that the Church is the body of Christ.

You can be a saint. You can be holy. You are called to be a part of the Church! Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus today!

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Filed Under: Catholic Heroes Podcast Tagged with: Catholic Heroes, Church

#35- The Incarnation and the Gospel

September 15, 2017 by Andy Lesnefsky 1 Comment

Life is messy. Jesus enters into our mess. Join us for part 4 of our series on the Good News as we talk about what the Gospel means.

God doesn’t wait for us to come to him. He comes to us.

The incarnation means to put flesh on. Jesus fully reveals God to man, but he also fully reveals man to himself. Get to know Jesus. Get to know who you were created to be.

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In this episode, Andy Lesnefsky also takes a look at St. John the Baptist. St. John the Baptist reminds us to prepare the way of the Lord and to be bold in proclaiming the good news.

You can be a saint, in fact this is what God asks of you. Be a holy. Be a Catholic hero today. Don’t Settle.

Filed Under: Catholic Heroes Podcast Tagged with: Catholic Heroes, Incarnation, St. John the Baptist

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