Welcome to the Become who you Are podcast , the production of the John Paul 2 Renewal Center . I'm Jack Riginger , host , and I have a message for you , for all of you who tune in every Wednesday as we unpack the audiences of St John Paul II theology the body . What an incredible body of work .
This was Such a blessing to us , especially in these confusing times that we're seeing today . But just a heads up that usually Linda and I are recording on Tuesdays and this and then the live session comes out . The podcast comes out on Wednesdays , of course , but this Monday and Tuesday I was traveling and I never got to a spot where I can record with Linda .
So I just want to apologize to everybody , say that we'll be hopefully catching up on the next episode on next Wednesday and in the meantime , poke around a little bit , find an episode that you haven't listened to before and use that as a filler , and God bless you .
What a bunch of crazy times , how things that are going on in Israel , ukraine , of course , the United States , all over the world . So stay with prayer .
You know , there's never been more of a time that I have just more of a conviction in the power of Jesus Christ and , in my faith , to change the world , and it's the only thing that's going to have the power to do that , because there's certainly a lot of this hydra of evil huh Just just raising its ugly head all over the world .
As long as I've got you for a couple of minutes here , I would just say you know I speak to a lot of people .
I'm very lucky in what I do every day with the John Paul to Renewal Center in my podcast , and I go out and presentations , in emails and texts and phone calls with people all over the all over the country A lot of think tanks and different things like that , and we all have a sense , I would say , in general , we all have a sense that things .
I wish I could be more optimistic here , but I'll have a sense that things are going to get worse before they get better .
I start , I think we're sensing that , and the reason is we've really just rejected God and of course , not you listeners that are listening to this and there is a remnant of faithful there's no doubt about it A very strong faithful and different pockets all over the world , and so you know , when we're looking out , though , at the world in general the Western .
The Western world has rejected Christianity . It's rejected Jesus Christ to a large , large extent and the faith that you see it under attack all over the world . And again , where it's not under attack , apathy and just a total rejection of Jesus Christ has manifested itself in the world . And this cannot stand .
And so we're seeing that right now , you know , as we even , as we go around trying to wake people up with stolen innocence , this presentation we give to people just in the communities , trying to wake parents up , trying to wake community leaders up to what's going on in our schools , and people just don't wake up .
It's very difficult to get people to take action . When they do , we all kind of want to just bury our heads in the sand and look at I don't blame people , but at the end of the day , look at , it's going to take courage , it's going to take strength , it's going to take supernatural grace for this to turn around . So what can we do right now ?
We have to just stand in the void , don't we ? You know , we have to go deeply into prayer , receive the sacraments and then we have to take that out in the world . You know , it's really through our action , through our body and soul being filled up with grace . That gives us the potential for human flourishing . And then we have to take action .
We have to bring what's true , what's good and what's beautiful into the world . So every day , read scripture .
I think one of the best ways to read scripture is following the Magnificat which follows the Daily Mass , because then you get an Old Testament reading a New Testament , reading the Psalms , so much richness with the saints and the meditations that they do . And so this is just a power pact .
And for 1995 , I get it on my iPad a year 1995 , it's the , it's the probably the biggest sale in the history of mankind for the resources that it brings .
So go deeply into prayer , be receiving the sacraments , often confession once a month , if you can , the Eucharist of course , at least on Sundays , but hopefully you can get the Mass once or twice during the week , if not every day . Very powerful stuff .
The Rosary every day I do a series of prayers , what's called the Auxilium Christianoarm prayers , and those prayers are for exorcists and the people that the exorcists are working with , and also for the Auxilium Christianoarm community , which there are all of us that are praying these series of prayers every day . They've been just powerful for me over the last years .
There's so much demonic activity I would really , I really think that maybe you want to look into those . If you're taking your prayer life seriously , you need a priest to okay that . There's an app you can get for your phone . Just make sure you get the one not for priests , but for the lady . Hey , god bless you .
Keep me in your prayers and I'll keep you in mind . Thanks , everybody . Talk to you again soon .