Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Do good and avoid evil" is the first principle of conscience and also the elementary precept of all human practice. To "act" in accord with this principle, I must in my conscience constantly go out beyond myself toward the good. This is the basic direction of the transcendence that is a property of the human person. Without this transcendence--without going out beyond myself and somehow rising above myself in the direction of a...
Sep 13, 2022•44 min•Ep. 264
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Today we honor the memory of the more than 60 million unborn victims of abortion to ensure that our unborn sisters and brothers will not be forgotten. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you", Jeremiah Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II Please send your tax-deductible gift to: John Paul II Renewal Center 902 S Randall Road STE C #296 St. Charles, IL. 60174 Or P...
Sep 10, 2022•29 min•Ep. 263
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Let's get real, cut through the distortions, and begin to navigate these sometimes daunting questions that the world is so confused about today: Who am I? What is Love? How do I know if I'm being loved or being used? What's the deal with chastity? What is my purpose in life? And why does my heart "ache"? Join us as we take a short break from following our regular Wednesday format to delve into John Paul II's teaching o...
Sep 07, 2022•47 min•Ep. 262
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint Augustine said, "to fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him the greatest achievement." This is Tuesday Night at the Smith Home for Sunday September 11, 2022 Includes highlights from Chloe Cole's story who at 15 years old agreed to let a "gender affirming" surgeon remove her healthy breasts. "Because of that decision I made when I was a kid, I will never be ab...
Sep 05, 2022•37 min•Ep. 261
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Part 2 of St John Paul II's Audience # 26 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on April 30, 1980. It is so relevant to today that he might have given it yesterday! Scripture: Matt 5:27-28 1 John 2:15-17 Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Thank You to Fred from Florida who pledged $100 a month today!! And Dan from Illi...
Sep 01, 2022•35 min•Ep. 260
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "I took off my backpack and sat down against the tree to take it all in. It wasn't long, perhaps a few minutes, when I sensed that the beauty before me was somehow drawing me into itself. I began to experience a deep "ache" within that moved into my heart. This is St John Paul II's Audience # 26 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on April 30, 1980. It is so relevant to today tha...
Aug 31, 2022•37 min•Ep. 259
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parents must not only be aware of but must stand up against the war that has been declared on the innocence of children! Will we continue to stand by and allow evil to attack our children and not offer them any protection? If so we will all pay a heavy price for the annihilation and pulverization of their innocent bodies and souls. This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, a meditation on Scripture for Sunday September 4, year of our Lord 2022. Luke...
Aug 29, 2022•33 min•Ep. 258
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The great Dr. Peter McCullough who courageously stood up and said , "first do no harm" when the Covid Vaccines came out. He urged caution until we could prove that the vaccines were safe. Incredibly he was censored and smeared for what in normal times would be good old common sense. He soon came to understand that this battle is part of the great spiritual battle between good and evil. Between all that is true, good and beautiful and all ...
Aug 26, 2022•43 min•Ep. 257
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” John Paul II begins this Audience, “Let us recall the words of the Sermon on the Mount to which we are turning in this present cycle of our Wednesday reflections. “You have heard”—says the Lord, “that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you: Whoever looks at a woman to desire her, (in a reductive way) has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matt 5:27-28). “You shall not commit adultery”… we know the law…but Jes...
Aug 24, 2022•31 min•Ep. 256
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "My child conduct your affairs with humility" (Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29) What makes human beings so full of Pride? We are like the point of a needle in relation to the Universe or in relation to all of history. This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, a meditation on Scripture for Sunday August 28th. Luke 14:1, 7-15 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the ...
Aug 23, 2022•27 min•Ep. 255
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The United States Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." America is a grand experiment. One that flipped the world's prevailing power structures on its head. This would be a free people whose Rights and Dignity did not come from...
Aug 19, 2022•46 min•Ep. 254
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Christ has what the world seeks...if only the world had eyes to see and ears to hear. The darkness that Pope John Paul II often called the culture of death can be overcome only by winning the battle raging in each individual human heart, what he called "the battlefield of the heart between love and lust. In the Sermon of the Mount Jesus said; "You have heard it said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you: whoever loo...
Aug 17, 2022•32 min•Ep. 253
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” And Someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, "Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able." From the 3S Highway to nowhere, take the next exit that leads through the narrow door. This is Tuesday Night at the Smith Home for August 21, a meditation on Luke 13:22-30 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor!...
Aug 15, 2022•27 min•Ep. 252
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Archbishop was right about Donald Trump! We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the culture of life and the culture of death. In this battle there will be no grand leader or political force riding in on a great white Stallion to rescue humanity. Yet there is a hero, or better millions of heroes. That hero is you, and millions of others, who through their collective actions realize that Saint Irenaeus was correct when he exclaim...
Aug 13, 2022•37 min•Ep. 251
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Pope Paul VI warned us in Humanae Vitae, we didn't listen, but it all came true! Join Linda and Jack as they discuss St. John Paul II's Wednesday Audience # 23. This is a very important conclusion to where we have come so far...as we ready ourselves for the next part of the story! Jesus said to them, "if God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why ...
Aug 10, 2022•55 min•Ep. 250
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday August 14th, 2022. The idea behind it? Pick a night of the week, any night that you can gather family or a few friends together for dinner. No cell phones! Dinner, Jesus and Conversation! See the link below for more details of how to get the kids involved. link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Today's Scripture Meditation: Luke 12:49-53 Also LISTEN TO Podcast #227: 128: Lost And Found Along ...
Aug 08, 2022•31 min•Ep. 249
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the culture of life and the culture of death. In this battle there will be no grand leader or political force riding in on a great white Stallion to rescue humanity. Yet there is a hero, or better millions of heroes. That hero is you, and millions of others, who through their collective actions realize that Saint Irenaeus was correct when he exclaimed, "The Glory of God is man fully a...
Aug 05, 2022•36 min•Ep. 248
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "The man had relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, 'I have produced a man with the help of the Lord'" (Gen 4:1). From the very beginning our bodies were created to express love. "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator created them male and female and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will be one flesh'!...
Aug 03, 2022•45 min•Ep. 247
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” America had been over-run and all of her Institutions infiltrated while the Boomers, Millennials and Generation Z slept. Thinking they were living on a Cruise Ship some are finally waking up out of their slumber to find out that its a battleship. Some it seems may never wake up. If you are waiting for a great leader or political force to ride in on a white Stallion and rescue her and humanity don't hold your breath. Yet there is a hero in the ...
Aug 01, 2022•38 min•Ep. 246
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Includes a discussion of "feminine genius". A woman is radically relational yet she is told to put her heart on hold. Why? Will a hook-up fill the heart's desire to enter into the great mystery of life and love? Join Linda and Jack as they discuss St. John Paul II's Wednesday Audiences # 20-21. Book: Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology of the Body, Saint John Paul II , translation, introduction and index by Michael Waldste...
Jul 27, 2022•43 min•Ep. 245
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Join Jack for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, Scripture Reflection for July 31st! After the game which saw Kupp make 8 receptions and score 2 touchdowns, including the game winning catch with 1:25 remaining, he posted a video of himself kneeling penitently in prayer captioned, "Do it to get a crown that will last forever". Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 Cooper Kupp interview on Epoch Times link ...
Jul 25, 2022•29 min•Ep. 244
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack contrasts the wisdom of his grandmother who only went through 3rd grade with the darkened intellects of the so-called elite with PhD's. Pope John Paul II wrote, "Walk as people of the light...and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness" (Eph 5:8,10-11). In our present social context, marked by a dramatic struggle between the "culture of life" and the "culture of ...
Jul 22, 2022•44 min•Ep. 243
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In light of Roe v. Wade it seems that many have lost their mind. How sad to think that our bodies were created to express love and holiness. Instead we use one another and then destroy the life that comes forth. Join Jack and Linda as they discuss current events in light of St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. Our focus today is on General Audience #19 that was presented on February 20, 1980. Book: Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology...
Jul 20, 2022•45 min•Ep. 242
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home. Jack's Meditation on Scripture for Sunday July 24th. These were men who were already very religious, men who already prayed. Why would they ask that? It was because they wanted to pray with the same intimacy and confidence they observe in Jesus when He prayed. That is why they must have rejoiced when Jesus instructed them, "When you pray, say: Our Father." Luke 11:1-13 Genesis 18:20-32 Colossi...
Jul 18, 2022•32 min•Ep. 241
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The power of love as attraction... played out in real time... is this true love? Is this the happiness that your heart seeks? Entering into the mystery of another person will blow your mind. It was supposed to..."in the beginning". The experience of "Original Innocence" and "justice" before the fall. Mark Schmitt joins Jack to discuss how St John Paul II prophetically saw this confusion over the body and the distortion...
Jul 13, 2022•33 min•Ep. 240
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Meditation on the Gospel of Luke 10:38-42 for Sunday July 17, 2022 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN TO Podcast #232: What is "Sex"? What is "Gender Identity"? What is a Human Being? With Dr. Susan Selner-Wright and/or #186: You Are Invited to Pope John Paul II's Wednesday Audiences on the Theology of the Body! Join Mark and Jack for Audience #1! Please consider being a Sponsor of the show! "We need Y...
Jul 12, 2022•18 min•Ep. 239
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Nowhere is the dividing line between life and death, good and evil, made clearer than in abortion. We live in a Godless public square that has become a Sodom and Gomorrah, where anything goes. Jesus said, "If you would enter life, keep the commandments" (Mt 19:17) "You Shall Not Kill" Please consider being a Sponsor of the show! We need to raise $2500.00 a month to fund a new initiative to support parents and families. "The...
Jul 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 238
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Mark Schmitt joins Jack to discuss how St John Paul II prophetically saw this confusion over the body and the distortions that would follow. He cut right through the confusion with his teaching on the Theology of the Body. This is John Paul II's Wednesday Audience #17 presented on February 6, 1980. So many songs have been written about love, but over these past few years it seems as though people have gotten more and more confused about what L...
Jul 06, 2022•45 min•Ep. 237
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This Is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home where Jack shares his commentary on this weekend's shootings and Scripture reflections for Sunday July 10. We now live in a Godless public square, one that has been transformed into a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, where anything goes. A Country where politicians call for protests outside the very homes of our Supreme Court Justices and lead demonstrations calling for the mass murder of the most innocent...
Jul 05, 2022•34 min•Ep. 236
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Dr. Luke Arredondo shares his journey and discusses the life of Bishop Fulton Sheen and "The Hour That Will Change Your Life". Luke Arredondo, PhD, is from the St. Philip Institute, under the direction of Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. He can be contacted at the Saint Philip Institute . Please consider being a Sponsor of the show! "We need You!" Buckle up! Here is your Hero (Become a Saint) Homework! 1. Go to Mass, th...
Jul 01, 2022•43 min•Ep. 235
