Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Join Linda and Jack for Audience #33 of Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body, presented on July 30, 1980. But like all of John Pauls work, it is so timely that it might as well have been presented 15 minutes ago! Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our work to: John Paul II Renewal Center 902 S Randall Road STE C #296 St. Charles, IL...
Dec 07, 2022•36 min•Ep. 294
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The confused, toxic, and dark culture we are living in is having a ill effect, as it always does, on the most innocent among us, our children. But young couples too! Its time to discuss the truth about human sexuality, the good, the bad and the ugly. Join Jack as he explores God's Original Plan for human sexuality. It's key for explaining and discussions the Catholic Position. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The ...
Dec 03, 2022•40 min•Ep. 293
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” “For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1). The fundamental question which the moral theories pose in a particularly forceful way is that of the relationship of man’s freedom to God’s law; it is ultimately the question of the relationship between freedom and truth . According to Christian faith and the Church’s teaching, “only the freedom which submits to the Truth leads the human person to his true good. The good of the person is to be in the ...
Dec 01, 2022•44 min•Ep. 292
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The so-called Respect for Marriage Act has pushed the issue of gay marriage back into the spotlight and, with it, the slogan :The right side of history."--Father Paul D. Scalia Link to Father Scalia's article, The Lord of History I've been speaking on Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body for fifteen years and as dense as it can seem at times it dawned on me...It's always been a love story...and I knew it in second grade...
Nov 30, 2022•36 min•Ep. 291
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is General Audience #32 Presented by Pope Saint John Paul II on July 23, 1980 but it might as well have been this morning. Our bodies are created to express love but sin limits and deforms this objective mode of existing...we needed a redeemer and thank God that He sent us One. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The Essence of WHO WE ARE and OUR VOCATION TO LOVE. Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of human...
Nov 23, 2022•48 min•Ep. 290
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "If Catholic Schools were a state, they would be the highest performing in the nation on all four NAEP tests."--Kathleen Porter-Magee The data reveals that Catholic Schools outperformed national, charter and public school averages for black, hispanic, and low-income students as well-on all four NAEP tests. "Kathleen Porter-Magee is the superintendent of Partnership Schools, a network of urban Catholic schools in Harlem, the South Bro...
Nov 21, 2022•56 min•Ep. 289
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 in this story, or better, millions of heroes. This is continued from Episodes #285-286 Buckle up...In 1976, in a speech given in Philadelphia for our nations bicentennial, John Paul II, then Cardinal Karol ...
Nov 18, 2022•48 min•Ep. 288
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Linda and Jack are back together after a short break to continue Pope John Paul II's General Audiences that he presented in 129 small talks that make up his incredible "Theology of the body". This is Audience # 31 that he presented on June 25, 1980. It could have been given this morning, it is so relevant. If you are looking for Audience # 30 it was presented on October 12. Podcast 275. Answering the big questions...Who am I? What is...
Nov 16, 2022•42 min•Ep. 287
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 in this story, or better, millions of heroes. This is a followup to #285. Buckle up...In 1976, in a speech given in Philadelphia for our nations bicentennial, John Paul II, then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, spok...
Nov 14, 2022•39 min•Ep. 286
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint Lucia of Fatima wrote back to Cardinal Caffarra and Pope John Paul II. In that letter we find written: "The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the Family. Don't be afraid, she added, because whoever works for the sanctity of Marriage and the Family will always be fought against and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. Then she concluded: nevertheless, Our Lady has a...
Nov 10, 2022•28 min•Ep. 285
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The People of the United States are in a spiritual war...we have enemies. Who is our enemy? Most people mislabel the enemy that they are fighting. They think the enemy is the Donkey (democrats) if they worship the Elephant (republicans). Or the enemy is the Elephant if they worship the Donkey. Many in our culture worship at the altar of Self, Sex and the State...The 3S Highway leading to Nowhere. The true enemy does not care where we worship, as lo...
Nov 07, 2022•39 min•Ep. 284
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” On September 21, 2022, Texas Judge Mary Brown decided that a woman could take a 10-year-old boy away from his father to be castrated. The insane have escaped and are now running the asylum while the rest behave like frogs sitting in toxic sewage while they mindlessly gaze at their tiny reflecting screens, oblivious to the fact they are are already dead inside. In 1976, in a speech given in Philadelphia for our nations bicentennial, John Paul II, th...
Nov 04, 2022•39 min•Ep. 283
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Too often Christians attracted by Socialism tend to idealize it in terms which, apart from anything else, are very general: a will for justice, solidarity and equality. They refuse to recognize the limitations of the historical movements, which conditioned by the ideologies from which they originated." --Pope Paul VI, Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens, May 14, 1971, No. 31. "The governments own data show less than a third of its...
Nov 01, 2022•39 min•Ep. 282
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In Mere Christianity, in the chapter he titled "The Invasion" C.S. Lewis said, "One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe." A link to NEA LGBTQ+ Resources https://www.nea.org/resource-library/nea-lgbtq-resources Epoch Times : article on Jon Tigges Parents are becoming aware that their kids are not alright. The transgender craze ...
Oct 28, 2022•42 min•Ep. 281
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parents are becoming aware that their kids are not alright. The transgender craze seducing our daughters and the pornography seducing our sons is taking its toll. Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our work to: John Paul II Renewal Center 902 S Randall Road STE C #296 St. Charles, IL. 60174 Support the show Email me with questions! Contact J...
Oct 25, 2022•44 min•Ep. 280
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Having been adopted as a baby, I knew almost nothing about my birth mother. At 18, I requested my mother's "non-identifying information" and learned that a serial rapist had brutally raped her at knifepoint. This is how I was conceived. I remember feeling ugly and unwanted, and wondered, "Who would ever love me?" "As for your birth, the day you were born your navel cord was not cut; you were neither washed with w...
Oct 23, 2022•45 min•Ep. 279
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Pope John Paul II and the "Feminine Genius" and the Crucial Need For the Woman Prophet to go to war against the Culture of Death. John Paul II wrote, "Man cannot live without Love." The key, then, to remedying the crisis caused by the widespread depersonalization is to see others primarily as like the self, that is, as a person who ought to be loved." Please consider being a S...
Oct 21, 2022•38 min•Ep. 278
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It's Christianity or Chaos. The world is so insane that the upcoming election is not about left or right, nor is it about the Donkey or the Elephant. This election is about human dignity and human rights. It's about a dream for mankind that was turned into reality: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. This election defines us as a people. Will we stand at the tree and once again choose the "prince of power, the spirit that is ...
Oct 18, 2022•47 min•Ep. 277
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We either have a "Spiritual Awakening" or we can call it a day. "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it." (1 John 2:16-17) Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our work to...
Oct 15, 2022•48 min•Ep. 276
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint John Paul II's Wednesday Audience #30, "The Insatiability of the Union" as a symptom of mankind's "detachment" from Divine Live and Love. The Body Is Created to Express Love. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The Essence of WHO WE ARE. Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our work to:...
Oct 12, 2022•36 min•Ep. 275
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Can you actually meet God in this life? Jesus made it clear that we were created for just that reason. In fact if you don't journey with God, you have missed the whole purpose of the story! Buckle up and go deeper than you may have gone in a long time! This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday October 16, 2022 and I have to be honest, in all humility, the Holy Spirit took this show over. Thanks for joining me. Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:1...
Oct 11, 2022•42 min•Ep. 274
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Andrew Comiskey has worked extensively with the healing of the sexually and relationally broken. He founded Desert Stream/Living Waters Ministries as a multi-faceted outreach to the broken (all of us!!). His Ministry grew out of his own commitment to overcome homosexuality. He is married to Annette and they have four grown children and eight grandchildren. Marco Casanova, who is engaged to be married, shares his own past struggles with same-sex att...
Oct 07, 2022•53 min•Ep. 273
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint John Paul II's Wednesday Audience #29, "Corruption of the Consciousness of the Unitive Meaning of the Body. The Body Is Created to Express Love. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The Essence of WHO WE ARE. Linda Pieper is BACK!!! And what a gift she is! Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our work to: J...
Oct 05, 2022•41 min•Ep. 272
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for October 9, 2022. Scripture: 2 Kings 5:14-17 (I expanded this to 5:1-17) Luke 17:11-19 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Address: John Paul II Renewal Center 902 S Randall Road STE C #296 St. Charles, IL. 60174 Support the show Have you already listened to these shows? Please share them! Her...
Oct 04, 2022•23 min•Ep. 271
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Body Is Created to Express Love. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The Essence of WHO WE ARE. Linda Pieper is BACK!!! And what a gift she is! This episode seems to me to be a direct GIFT of the Holy Spirit...you decide and let us know! This is St John Paul II's Audience # 28 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on May 28, 1980. As usual it is so relevant to today that he m...
Sep 28, 2022•52 min•Ep. 270
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday October 2, 2022. Scripture: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. The John Paul II Renewal Center 's goal was to raise $2500.00 a month to fund a new team member whose focus will be to support the culture of life by ...
Sep 26, 2022•32 min•Ep. 269
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Biden Administration is changing the definition of male and female in Title IX. We must act to oppose this now. https://youtu.be/GzvNaQiUOQQ The Transgender Trend. A complex cultural phenomenon is sweeping through schools throughout the country. Children are declaring that they no longer identify as their own sex, but as the opposite sex, a new made-up “gender,” or no sex at all, creating serious challenges for K-12 schools. https://childparent...
Sep 25, 2022•56 min•Ep. 268
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Call me they"...the kids have a message for us. Do we have one for them? They are seeking transcendence, we all should be. This is St John Paul II's Audience # 27 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on May 14, 1980. As usual it is so relevant to today that he might have given it yesterday! Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--Joh...
Sep 22, 2022•40 min•Ep. 267
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home; Gospel Meditation for Sept 25 Scripture: Amos 6:1, 4-7 Psalm 146 1Tim 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. The John Paul II Renewal Center 's goal was to raise $2500.00 a month to fund a new team member whose focus will be to support the culture of life by helping to su...
Sep 20, 2022•37 min•Ep. 266
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Is Sex Anything I say it is? That's a warped Narcissistic view of reality. Love is so much more! We take a short break from following our regular Wednesday format to delve into John Paul II's teaching on love. As he said while working with young couples, "I have come to love human love." Does Truth matter? Does True Love matter? Parents this episode is for you! Get educated...it is not the schools responsibility to teach your ch...
Sep 14, 2022•51 min•Ep. 265
