#594 The Question About Eternal Life: What Must I Do So That My Life May Have Value, Have Meaning?

Again , jp , the number two , reneworg . It's our website . Go under resources . There you're going to see that Claymore sword that's behind me , boxed around there in red . Just click on that and you're going to be able to download this . It's it's it's like seven pages , but really it's only four and it's double . You know it's not a lot on each page .

So this is our battle plan and then the last three pages are just a summary of the first three , just kind of a quick summary . I almost didn't put them on there and then I left them there because it did some good for me , so I thought it might be do some good for you too . Anyways , I just got up off my knees from first thing in the morning .

Before you look at that phone boom hit the ground . Get on my knees . Let it be done to me with our Blessed Mother . She's kneeling right there with us . Let it be done to me , according to your word , just like in the first chapter of Luke . And really , what she does her ? Yes , she's impregnated with Jesus Christ , with God himself .

So I'm impregnated with God . I mean , that's what we're all called to do , right , to be impregnated with God in a spiritual way , but in a very real way , huh , when I'm sitting there , when I'm kneeling there with our blessed mother , that's the narrow gate .

If you read in Matthew 7 , verses like , say , 14 and on , you'll see Jesus talk about the broad road that everybody else is on . And now we're going to enter through the narrow gate . Well , how do we do that ? Well , through the cross itself . And here is where that image comes in . So we get down on our knees , we say that .

Then we remember excuse me , temptation is not a sin , temptation is an invitation to prayer . St Catherine of Siena and these beautiful mystics , they talk about this . You know , god created us in his image and likeness . That's our reason . Our reason seeks the truth .

And then our free will , and when it's working together with our conscience , our free will is like a motor to choose the good . Well , only God is good . That's what we've been listening to on these Fridays , right ? And so what happens with that ? She said nobody can take that away from us . The temptations are there , but nobody can make you sin , nobody .

You can get tortured and God will give you the grace , look it . I always think to myself if I really get tortured , would I be able to stand it ? Some brutal tortures that these saints and martyrs went through . But anyways , day to day are the temptations that we're going to be facing most of the time , and we offer those up , we open those up .

And because she said , those passions and desires come through your reason , through your free will , through your sensual , this sensual . You know this nature within us and these passions and desires are not to be put down . God gave you those passions and desires .

There are passions and desires would be the rocket fuel actually to get you all the way to your destiny , to heaven itself , and along the way we'll become persons of love . Right , and so we were opening those up . To what To ? Then we get to the divine mercy , divine mercy image . The link is right there , right ? Number two so temptation is not a sin .

Use every temptation as an invitation to prayer , and then we download the divine mercy app . When you first start listening to that . You're only getting little snippets and you're going to come into the middle of it , you know , and so it won't really always make sense to you . But just open yourself up . Open yourself up . That's the divine image right there .

This is very , very important to us . Today we are given that divine image of God's mercy . Jesus wants to pour this mercy out . So today , on my phone , I open it up . I usually just close my eyes and click it . I like to listen to Sister Faustina and Jesus talk . It just takes a minute and then there's a little prayer at the end .

So today , this is Jesus saying I desire that that image be publicly honored . Everybody should get that . You guys should each have that image . Find that image and put it in your house . Hang it up right . You should hang it up right .

As soon as one of you walks into your room , your office , your house , they see that divine image and I'll ask what is that all about ? And you'll be able to tell them . And I'll tell you how you're going to be able to tell them in a second , after seeing the image come alive .

I heard these words Sister Faustina says and then Jesus says that mercy that he came here on that cross . Mercy is the second word for love . God of the universe cares enough to not only redeem us and save us himself in his own body , but the second word is mercy . What he's pouring out on the cross is his love and his mercy .

When you see that , raise again , right , the red and the white . The white is baptism huh , the water that cleanses us . Confession then after that . And then the red is blood huh , the eucharist blood . It's the blood that we're receiving into ourselves . This , this , so , body and soul , without disgrace , without this connection , is sin and death .

That's just the reality . We fall into sin and then , ultimately , we all have a six-foot hole waiting for us out there , a whitewashed tomb with a chisel poised to put our name on it . In between , we're to be men of Christ , we're to rise up , and so this is a beautiful thing , isn't it ? So , body and the soul .

Now , with that image , we look at that image and we see that image and Jesus says take that , let it come alive for you . You need to know that I'm pouring out my mercy to you . You're baptized , you're coming into the story . Now go to confession , keep getting washed . This nuptial bath , this union and communion with God .

Experience it in yourself , in prayer and in the sacraments . That's what this formation is . This is page four of this . Again , I got notes all over the place , but then I read the divine mercy , so I'll leave you with this before I get into the meat of today's session . Go on X on our JP2 Renewal X site .

That's where I post everything Some good posts there and so yesterday I posted that image . It's a beautiful , stark image of the Divine Mercy . You'll see it there Right before that . So it would be underneath . It is actually a thread that somebody put up to tell the whole story . It's really beautiful . It won't take you long to go through it .

But then you can share that , read it , get it , take it in and then share it with other people and then later on you can read the whole diary , the diary of Sister Faustina . And again , when you start the diary it seems a little wow . It takes you a little while to get into it , but once you do you start to look forward to it .

It's Sister Faustina's dialogue with God . It takes a little while , these things , you know , to unwind . So you don't read a lot , you just read a little bit , maybe before you go to bed and meditate on it . It's just really beautiful . Over time it'll be really beautiful , okay . So , x , you're going to go through , read the thread , et cetera , et cetera .

So today I'm going to put my glasses on here . The question about eternal life . This is John Paul II is getting ready to meet young people and one of the things he wants to talk about with them is the question about eternal life . You know , right before I came on the air , I'm drinking coffee and I got it down the wrong pipe , right .

So what's the solution ? More coffee . Thank you for that . Indulging me , yeah . So the question about eternal life . So let's go through this . You have the rich young man again coming up to Jesus and he says what must I do to have eternal life ? So the question what must I do that my life may have value , have meaning ? George Orwell said this in 1984 .

He didn't say it in 1984 , but he wrote 1984 . And he said this looking at all these generations , each generation now , gen Z imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it . Each one , right . So you come into this world , you came into a story .

It's amazing when I talk to people oh , I got it handled , I don't need anything else , I got this thing , and they're anxious and nervous and getting blown around by the spirits of the age . You're sucked into all of this propaganda and stuff today . Easy to do .

You really have to work to be able to discern , to open up your reason and so that your free will can be a motor to the good . How do you do that If you don't have the spiritual formation that we're talking about ? That we're just talking about previous , and then this is again . This is what we call doctrinal formation in this battle plan .

But really it's opening , just opening up the larger story . Right , we're connecting the dots , and so that's what this is . What must I do that my life has value , have meaning ? This earnest question comes from the lips of the young man in the gospel in the following form he says to Jesus again what must I do to inherit eternal life ?

Good question , right , we're looking at that six foot hole . I want to have meaning and purpose in my life here . What must I do ? Is a person who puts the question in this form speaking a language still intelligible to the people of today ? That's what John Paul asked .

Is it Because when you speak about that oh , I don't want to speak about the end of life this and that you know it's the only thing that's guaranteed in your life ? You know , you don't know everything that's coming , but you don't know that you're going to die at some point .

Well , death shouldn't be a fearful thing If you're in union and communion with Jesus Christ , like we were talking about . It's just a veil that's going to open up and Christ promises he'll be there with us .

If we venerate the divine mercy , if we kneel with our blessed mother , think about the Hail Mary it ends like this Holy Mary , mother of God , pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death , Be there with us , right ? So in the beginning , our bodies and souls should have never been separated , but they are . Sin came into the world , huh .

And then you go back . You'll become dust again . We're going to get a glorified body , but anyways , in between we have a life to live and it has to be filled with meaning and purpose . And so John Paul says , when I ask that question what must I do to inherit internal life ? People don't even believe today , do they or don't they , or whatever .

Well , we're here because we're saying what is this all about ? What is my life all about ? What must I do ? Are we not ? Now he's talking about the Generation Z . Now are we not the generation whose horizon of existence is completely filled by the world and temporal progress , aren't we ? No , that's not that's . You guys are waking up . You guys are awake .

I would say the millennials before you are . They're the harder ones to wake up and the boomers were starting . I mean , you know , this has been passed down through the generations . Nobody , no particular generations to blame , but certainly the millennials . God bless them . You know , I now look at I . I don't want to throw them all under the bus .

My kids are all millennials . Some of them get it , some of them don't , you know . But but you see the suffering that those , their kids , their generation z kids and and even younger than that , are going through right now . This is a very evil world that can really suck you away .

But I like it because it's easy to see the battleground right between good and evil . That's why you're here . You sense there's got to be something more to all this . So we think primarily in earthly categories , right , materialistic view . This is all there is .

If we go beyond the limits of our planet , we do so in order to launch interplanetary flights , rockets and stuff right ? Transmit signals to other planets , send cosmic probes in their direction , right ? All this has become the content of our modern civilization .

Science , together with technology , has discovered in an incomparable way man's possibilities with regard to matter , and they have also succeeded in dominating the interior world of his thoughts , capacities , tendencies and passions . So again , science , together with technology , has discovered a way . You know all these possibilities with matter .

We're saying you know we got this all figured out . Well , well , you know what we found out with these vaccines , that it's coming out more and more and more . Uh , in , you're going to see , with robert kennedy doing this , we've been lied to a lot , right . We've been lied to about continuous wars .

We've been lied to and twisted about who our identities are , what marriage is , what love is I mean all the basics , along with everything else . And the government's been stealing all of our money all this time . Well , we knew those things . And at the end of the day you go what is real ? Well , it's not all about matter .

The government would love to have you , society and Satan would love to have you think that this is only matter . But we know our hearts are made for more . And then he goes on to John Paul said in a statement .

He said so besides the exterior things that they're doing , you know outside of us , the interior world , our hearts itself , our thoughts , our capacities , our passions , those right have been also taken over by these phones . Pornography , addictions , the phones , the social media Look , I'm on my phone .

I travel with my phone so it can do positive things , but I too have to have periods of time where I just say no , no more of this . I have to contemplate , I have to read . I love books . If I showed you a picture of all the books that are around me , they're piled up all over .

I love books , I love to feel them , I love the taste of them , I love the thoughts and ideas in there . Get some books , get some great books , get the diary . Speaking of books , here's a great book for you Christopher West Fill these Hearts . Christopher West , fill these Hearts . It's really good . It looks like a woman's book , right ?

Well , it's more than that . It's really talking about the passions and desires God , sex and the universal longing . Really a good book and not a really difficult read , not overly theological or anything . Christopher West did a really good job with that . So if you're looking for something to read , get the diary , get that one .

Go to X and read some of those clips that I put in there . But anyways , don't let this culture take over your heart . That's why we hit our knees first , right . Open these temptations up , start connecting to the transcendental , moving past this to what's true , good and beautiful .

All right , do you find it interesting that while man searches for answers in the sky , his heart has lost its ability to soar and is tethered horizontally in two dimensions to the world ?

We've talked about this many times , right , this two-dimensional existence that we have Now , when we get it down on our knees , when we open up to our temptations , we're entering into 3D , no longer stuck in a cycle of trying to be good starvation diet , indulging , starvation diet , indulging . Now we open up our passions and desires .

You know , boom , that rocket fuel takes us . If we're the rocket , that's that rocket fuel that connects us body , soul plus grace . That's what we get from that divine image . Right there , the grace pours into us . Huh , gives us the potential for human flourishing , potential for human freedom , but freedom is always for something . That's the third thing .

We get up off our knees and we become persons of love , but we can't give what we don't have right . So this is what we're talking about here . So we are no longer tethered to this world . We have forgotten our story . If we are , we were made for more . This is what our hearts are telling us .

Men have forgotten God , and you see the ramifications around you . We're reminded of John Paul II's reflection on the 20th century , which began with the hope of unlimited progress but ended as the bloodiest century known to history . Modern man had placed his hopes for a Messiah and his own genius in science , technology , medicine .

Whenever man loses sight of the great mystery and sets his sights only on this world , he always meets disappointment , even despair . The world , john Paul said , is not capable of making man happy . It's not capable of saving him from evil in all its forms illness , epidemics , pandemics , catastrophes and the like .

This world , with its riches and its wants , needs to be saved . It needs to be redeemed . It seems that all of us would have caught on to the story by now . Right , good versus evil , light versus darkness , love versus lust , and seek a better way . That's been revealed to us .

Yet somehow we missed the larger story and we get caught up in this much smaller one of our own making . Again , you came into a story , but if you don't look around , what is truth , what is good , what is beauty ? Why do I have these past ?

If you stay in your little tiny circle and you don't open yourself up Satan loves you like this you just stay in your own dark , selfish little world of your own making . I can be like God . I'll decide You're not going to find happiness there , you're not going to find fulfillment there and you're going to waste your life .

The result's always the same You're always going to end up with a broken heart . Look around us . Recently , as our team at John Paul II Renewal Center was wrapping up with a group of teens , I asked them if they had anything particular they liked us to address . When we came back , the topic requested Mental illness . Why they wanted to know .

Do so many of our friends and classmates suffer from anxiety , depression , gender dysphoria , cutting anorexia , even suicide ? In fact , suicide rates among young people have now surpassed middle-aged men , who had been the highest . They've heard the culture's message , or lack of coherent message , loud and clear there is no truth beyond your truth or my truth .

There's no meaning and purpose for your life beyond the one you invent for yourself . They're sensing , in their pain , that which mankind has known since the dawn of history pain that which mankind has known since the dawn of history . The human heart was made for more , and it does not function in a world void of meaning and purpose .

The human heart doesn't function well without meaning and purpose . So in the midst of their brokenness right , and that's what you guys are in In the midst of this brokenness you see around us , along comes some very good news . The path to meaning , healing hope which leads to authentic love and profound happiness can be found .

First , know there's a reason for your deep ache and your thirst for more . Men have forgotten God , wrote Schultz . And but St Augustine counters with an important clue to the solution . He says , counters with an important clue to the solution . He says our hearts are restless , lord , until they rest in you . There's a message , there's a path .

It begins with your restless hearts , both yours and the Redeemer of man , jesus himself also has a restless heart . He has a restless heart for you . Isn't that amazing if you think about that and the message , the path was amplified and developed for the subsequent 27 years of John Paul II's leadership .

He was always thinking about this , always thinking how can I make this open , how can I bring you into the story ? The path is the way of man , mankind , men and women . It involves a proper understanding , he said , of conscience , education and human dignity itself . But at the heart of it all , it's a path of love .

It is the path of Christ , it's the path of the saints , it's the universal call to holiness and the sanctification of everyday life . Remember , eternity doesn't mean tomorrow , eternity means forever . We're eternal beings already . We are here to be filled with divine life and love and then to sanctify life , everyday life all around us . It's a beautiful thing .

You know I have a lot of respect . You hear a lot about Elon Musk today , right , I have a lot of respect for him . I lot about Elon Musk today , right , I have a lot of respect for him . I mean , he's doing some crazy , amazing things with Doge Department of Governmental Efficiency and you know , this deep state has to be broken up .

It's really just taken over like a cancer , but , but , but in his personal life , man , the guy's a mess in so many ways , but he's a genius on many levels , certainly not without flaws and imperfections . He's a seeker with big desires and appetites . He's the man behind Tesla , spacex , ex-formerly known as Twitter . He's got other projects going . It's amazing .

Actually , in an interview with Rolling Stone some years ago , he said that he had a rough childhood . His parents divorced when he was nine and he went to live with this estranged father , who he called a terrible human being .

He struggled all his life with loneliness , was mercilessly bullied growing up and adding when I was a child , there's one thing I said I never want to be alone . Well , now he's been divorced three times , I believe . He said he had five sons with his first marriage , has , I think , 13 children now with four different women . Musk said this .

And you see , this disconnection . As smart as I can be , if I want to go to the stars , but I'm only shooting at Mars , god says why stop at Mars ? Come all the way . Your desires are for more than that , right . If you don't understand this foundation of what love is , what our sexuality is and the sacramental sign of Trinitarian love , you become selfish .

I mean , you know those first five sons . He left them right and I'm not making a judgment call on this , but he called his own father a terrible father who abandoned them , got divorced and then he did the same thing , you know . And so we follow these patterns . And again , I have a lot of respect for him . I really like him .

I would love to become friends with him and share this divine image with him . Right , maybe we should send him one . Huh , if you're running to Elon , send him my thread or buy a couple extra pictures of that divine mercy and give it to him . He needs to come into the faith , be really something he would really be able to turn that life around .

But think about those children . Now he's so busy . How much time could it be spent ? Again , I'm not judging . I'm just saying when you're disconnected from God himself , from mercy , from love , the grace is not flowing in . Somehow he's being protected . I think God can use any of us . He can use Trump , he can use me , he can use you .

God will use us , but if our hearts are going to be aligned with his , then most of this work gets done by Christ himself , because our objective is eternal life , right ? So he said if I'm not in love , if I'm not with a long-term companion , I cannot be happy , I will never be happy without having someone .

See , it's not just having someone , it's loving , right . And what is love ? Going to sleep at night kills me . It's not like I don't know what it feels like being in a big empty house and footsteps echoing through the hallway . No one there . Well , he's talking about after he got divorced from his wives , who keeps the children , et cetera , et cetera .

You know no one on the pillow next to you . How do you make yourself happy in a situation like that ? And again , you don't make yourself happy . You give yourself away as a gift . Young people you know John Paul said your life has meaning to the extent it's given away as a gift to others . You know , focus on the other , not on yourself .

Today , his sight set on Mars and he plans to permanently resettle the red planet . He says he thinks there's a 70% chance in his lifetime that they're going to make it to Mars . I wouldn't put it past him . Musk said that his desire to colonize Mars is driven by the same passion that fuels people to climb mountains for the challenge .

Driven by the same passion that fuels people to climb mountains for the challenge . I don't know Yet , because everyone I know my son climbs mountains and I know everyone who climbs mountains is never satisfied . It's always the next mountain , don't ? We all know people like that . If I get an A on my report card , I'll be happy .

If I make the team , I'll be happy . If I get accepted by this or that group , I'll be happy . If I get that car , I'll be happy . If I get accepted by this or that group , I'll be happy . If I get that car , I'll be happy . Iphone , the job , et cetera , et cetera .

If only I get that boy , if only that girl will say hello to me , if I only have the courage to say hello to her right , if I get that pair of jeans or whatever , then I'll be happy . Then I feel the ache in my heart for that something more .

Well , john , paul and the church would say that what we're seeking is eternal glory , life and love , and we're only getting little tastes of it here on earth . In fact , all of the cosmos was created . Good is meant to be a sign . Small B beauty leading our hearts and our minds , our souls , our whole passions to big B beauty , to God himself .

Small B beauty , huh , leading to God . The crowning sign of creation is the primordial sacrament , it's marriage in the family . This is the point that Elon misses , the biggest point . He misses that his let's just say again , his first wife , with those five children maybe would have had a couple more children , right ?

That is the icon , the sacramental sign of Trinitarian love itself . The father who gives his love to the son , the son receives that love , so beautiful and profound . It comes out in the form of a person . A man offers his love to his wife . His wife receives that . It's so beautiful and profound .

It comes out in the form of persons , right , these are called children , and so this is the fullest sign . But you can't leave one and go get another and leave another , because Christ , god , the Father , the Holy Spirit , will never leave you .

The covenant with you is eternal , and so this is a little tiny taste , a little reflected sign of that covenant forever . That's why , when we're on the altar getting married , we say I give my life to you forever , in sickness and in health , et cetera . Right ? So that's the crowning of sign in all of creation is that we are persons of love .

See the creatures out there . They can reproduce and they do reproduce , but we procreate , we open ourselves up with God himself . We're the only ones with reason , free will , that can bring love , authentic love of God , into the world .

So that's the difference , right , it's meant not only to point us to God but , if properly understood , allows us to enter in God's co-creative act and participate in it . What is Elon missing ? One of Poland's great poets said something like this His last name is Krasinski , and I took some poetry that he was writing and I kind of made it for Elon .

Elon , sometimes , an engineer and a scientist needs to listen to a poet . We must accept and acknowledge that all of the talents we possess , the greatest is that of humanity itself . We are our greatest talent , and to flower , to open ourselves up .

If God asks us to give an account of how we used our various talents , he will ask from this point of view , how have we used that fundamental talent , the talent of humanity ? This is the greatest talent . Why ? Because God himself paid for our humanity . The price that was paid reveals the meaning of humanity , the value of the work of art that is mankind .

John Paul II , also a poet , might add . As Genesis has it , all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life . In a certain sense , they are to make a work of art of it , he said , a masterpiece . You are here to make your own life a masterpiece . How do you do it ?

You have to be connected to the source of all that creativity and that grace as a person . The artist labors on various works of art , as well as the masterpiece of love and the work that is himself . Whoa , as somebody , is bringing art and beauty into the world .

And while he actually does that using his own talents , when he's connected , he's actually created himself . Self-determination . As I do good , I become good , I am good . Or if I choose evil and I start to do evil , I am evil . That's the deep state , you know . I'm sure there's good people right , so we don't want to throw everybody under the bus .

Obviously that works for the government . There are good things that they do , but at the end of the day it's these small things . I get a little lazy , I get used to the security of the state , I don't work very hard , I try to get a cushy job with a big paycheck and all these things .

If I'm not connected to the source of love itself , I start to really deflower . I'm not that masterpiece of love . I'm not that work of art . I have to go out and push myself to bring Christ into the world , to bring the beauty of God into the world . And again , I'm not judging any individual people .

I'm just trying to set up a concept for you to see that , no matter what you do , if you're connected to Jesus Christ , if you're connected to the Trinity , if you're expressing yourself in love , whether you're married , single , all of those things don't matter . I become a person of love .

How you do that is gonna unfold for you and your life becomes this story unfolding . But the masterpiece is what you're working on , that's the work itself , and the work itself is going to be done with you and God together . So that's why that image is so important . Get that image in your house and look up at it . Jesus , I trust in you .

Are the words there . So , our brother Elon , I would say go to Mars , but don't be satisfied with Mars . Why stop at a planet when the eternal life , the whole of heaven , is our destination ? The desire for God is written on the human heart , because man is created by God and for God , and God never ceases to draw man to himself .

That's why you're here you hear that Only in God will man find the truth and happiness . He never stopped searching for it was St Augustine , again as a womanizer , as a young man who never married and he never married the mother of his son either . A man of the world who was never satisfied , always seeking , who one day heard St Ambrose preach the gospel .

It touched his heart and he proclaimed later on you have made us for yourself , oh Lord , and our heart is restless until it rests in you . He was restless going around the world trying to figure this thing out when he heard the word , when he heard Jesus speak . Jesus will say my people , my sheep , my people , they hear my word and they know me .

We know him in the word . That's why reading scripture again is part of spiritual formation . When you start reading scripture and you start doing the Lectio Divina and again this is all in the Claymore Battle Plan . The notes and stuff are there to find these places to go Again .

If you go to the Claymore Battle Plan , you're gonna see two things very , very important there . One , praying . You go to the Claymore Battle Plan . You're going to see two things very , very important there . One , praying with temptations . Get that , print it out . That might be something you want to read in the morning again after Divine Mercy .

And the second one is Lectio Divina how to pray with scripture , because this is the word , we're hearing this word and you're just going to pick out a phrase or so and it's going to lift your heart and over time , it's amazing how God can speak to you very , very quickly .

Elon Musk , like so many of his contemporaries in the so-called modern world , speak and dream of even transhumanism . It's an illusion , of course . Yet another clue that , with the restless heart of man , it's yearning for eternal life . That's what transhumanism isn't it ? It's a yearning for eternal life without the giver of eternal life .

It's absurd , but this is the pride of man , right For all of us who wish to talk to Christ and accept all the truth of his testimony . It is true that on one hand , you love the world , for God so loved the world that he gave his only son .

At the same time , you must acquire interior detachment with regard to all this rich and fascinating reality that makes up the world . In other words , god gave us all this beauty and stuff , like I said , to show us to him . But it is beauty , it's all wonder of what's around us .

It's discovery , but the real power , this discovery comes in when I'm filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and I see small B beauty pointing right as a pointer to big B beauty , I feel my heart restless .

And I know that restlessness is there and I'm in touch with it because it's leading me to God himself and to do good things in the world while we're at it .

So that's what we say you can love the world , but you have to detach from it enough to know that this is a temporal space and the only way to really change it is to become a person of love and then walk into the story . Right , that's what Claymore Miletus Christi is all about . So God loved the world .

At the same time , you have that interior detachment . You must make up your mind to ask the question about eternal life , for the form of this world is passing away and each of us is subject to this passing . Man is born with the prospect of the day of his death in the dimension of the visible world .

At the same time , man , whose interior reason for existence is to go beyond himself , also bears within himself everything whereby he goes beyond this world . So we're in the world and we know that it's good to contemplate . How do I get eternal life ? How do I gain eternalate ? How do I get eternal life ?

How do I gain eternal life , how do I find eternal life ? Because that pushes you on beyond what you see , beyond the material world , to make that connection and its interior , that interior with God , and then we take that and we walk into this material world .

It is explained by the image and likeness of God which is inscribed in humanity from the very beginning , in this primordial sacrament . Christianity teaches us to understand temporal existence from the perspective of the kingdom of God , from the perspective of eternal life .

Without eternal life , temporal existence , however rich , however developed in all its aspects , and in the end brings nothing other than the unavoidable necessity of death . Elon's going to get that , bill Gates is going to get that , the richest man in the world is going to get that . I'm going to get that . So what is this all about ?

How do I find joy and happiness , knowing that I'm filled with eternal love ? Today , human experience , left to itself , says the same as sacred scripture it is appointed for men to die , once . The inspired reader adds but after that comes judgment and Christ says I am the resurrection and the life . He who believes in me , though he die yet , shall he live .

And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die . That's the reality . You know the veil . When you talk to people that had near-death experiences , you know , you feel this death . You look at the body and from the outside they look like they're dead . Right , and they are dead , I mean for all practical purposes .

But yet they talk about everything that they see , everything that they open up to . As soon as you go through the veil , you know and this is what he's saying After that comes judgment . I am the resurrection and the life . I will be there . Whoever believes in me , though he die yet , shall he live . And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die .

You really don't die . I mean your body's not there anymore , but boom , you're off and running right . I'm going to finish with St Catherine of Siena . St Catherine of Siena , I have to remember to bring up a book or two for you . I don't want to give you too much here today , but she just was passionate for Christ .

She had the stigmata , she didn't have a big education I think it's third grade but she was just incredible . Her mind , her spirit , very passionate . She talks about this . She would go into ecstasy . She was from Siena , italy , and her secretary and people would record or write down , I mean , what she said . She would be speaking out loud .

This is one of those . In Christ's blood we are made strong , even though weakness persists in our sensuality . So we can see how the strength is gained , since all our weakness is in the sensual side of us . We're talking about this sensuality , the flesh side , right , and what we see here materialistically , and you know these passions and desires .

This is our weakness , but it also can be our strength . Here , I am saying , is how we gain this glorious virtue of strength and steady perseverance , since our reason is made strong . We just talked about this . How , in Christ's blood , right there , in that image , our reason seeking the truth is made strong .

In Christ's blood , body , soul , plus disgrace , we must drown ourselves in this sweet , glorious ransom .

How , with our mind's eye and by the light of most holy faith , we see it within the vessel of our own soul , in the knowledge that our being comes from God and that God created us anew to grace , in the blood of his only begotten son , ooh , body , soul , blood filled with grace . And in that blood , right White , is the baptism confession .

In that blood we are freed from our weakness . Oh , look and be happy , she says , for you have been made a vessel that holds the blood of Christ crucified , if you are but willing to taste it in the affection of love . You know I'm recording this on a Sunday . I am going to go to Mass in just a little while .

I pick up my 90 , almost 99-year-old father with one of my brothers and we go to Mass together . I'm going to taste that Eucharist and I'm going to bring it to myself , right , and I'm going to remember to just open my heart up , like St Catherine said just now , if you are willing to taste it in the affection of love .

So ask Christ , like the young man in the gospel what must I do to inherit eternal life ? Then turn your heart with all of its concerns , dreams , anxieties and worries over to the sacred heart of Jesus Christ , who is the great physician of human hearts . It's a beautiful thing . You've stepped into a greater story , haven't you ?

This is what we're doing , and God will pull you deeper and deeper and deeper and give you more and more and more . If you're willing to do that . You have to get used to this discipline Every morning . One other thing I'll add is I always give up something , you know dessert , or this , or that , whatever , fasting for the day , whatever it is .

I like to do that because it helps me discipline myself .

And also , you know , when you are tempted with different things food , sex , et cetera , blah , blah , blah , blah , blah those temptations become this invitation to pray again , and so , ooh , I feel like eating right now I'm fasting today , just black coffee and water or something , and then I open that up , and so it's in that sacrifice .

I join Jesus in a little tiny way , with the sacrifice of the cross . Right , be kind to someone that's not kind to me . We're called to love even the crazy Joe Bidens of the world that have done so much damage and wrecked so many lives with abortion and this trans ideology . But we're called to love him .

We're called , to the end of his day , to pray for him , him . We're called , to the end of his day , to pray for him . Our Pope Francis seems to be unless something miraculous happens , maybe on his last legs . We're called to pray for him , even though there are times where I get angry , and with a righteous anger .

I think about not being clear on things , but it's up to God to judge at the end . I can say though I can judge people's actions , I can judge my own actions , and we need to do that . At the end of the day , I can give the last final judgment of the person's soul , of their interior life , which I don't know .

I can give that to God , I give that to Jesus Christ , I give that to our blessed mother to take to him . I'm filled with the Holy Spirit and I become a person of love . It's really good because I don't have to get angry . I don't have , you know , I can . Just Jesus said don't lose your peace . You know , in the world there'll be troubles .

He said there's plenty of troubles in the world , but don't lose your peace , you know , keep opening yourself up to me and we'll get through this together . I mean , that's the encounter that you're going to have , If you haven't already . You're encountering Jesus Christ now in the word , in prayer .

Sometimes you'll have this really powerful encounter when things come to you . Just journal those , remember , it's not a diary , it's a journal . I have these journals that I've kept since high school and there's a whole stack of them now , and sometimes I don't write for a whole year . But then something will happen . I go ooh and I start to write .

Sometimes I'll write every night for a little while . It's good to remember that , because when you're 15 , 16 , 17 years old , you'll forget all these things or they won't be clear to you and you say , oh , that really happened to me . God was already watching for me , even when I wasn't loving him back like I should have . Hey , god bless you .

Great to be with you . Talk to you again soon , everybody . Bye-bye .