Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The story begins with a bang and within a few paragraphs its central plot is revealed in an earthly paradise, Marriage . By chapter three the reader is presented with the human train wreck, sin and death, the result of the fall from grace instigated by an evil power. All of human history can be summed up as a battle between those who seek to normalize the fall and “ live according to the desires of the flesh” and those who walk by “ Life in the Spi...
Jul 28, 2023•23 min•Ep. 384
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Are you ready to embark on a faith-filled journey that will transform your understanding of your body, your identity, and society as a whole? St. John Paul II, the Prophet of our time, understood that our current culture, starved of the gospel, will not stand. Join Jack and Linda as they discuss the power of Theology of the Body to make sense of the complexities of identity, purity, and self-gift. We examine the ways our faith-based identity impact...
Jul 26, 2023•47 min•Ep. 383
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Join Jack and Deacon Mike Alber as they discuss the the Eucharist and connect the Old Testament Passover with Jesus' profound words in John 6. Hear how Jesus encourages us to consume His body with a hunger that parallels that of someone who hasn't eaten in days. Join us for this journey of faith and discovery, and the great Gift of Christ! Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Please consider bei...
Jul 24, 2023•41 min•Ep. 382
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Consider this: there is a concerted effort to shape our children's minds, to feed them a perception of truth that could be detrimental to their mental health. That's the stark reality we'll be confronting today in our compelling discussion with Tom Hampson. Together, we'll unpack the pervasive ideologies undermining the education standards, giving rise to a disconcerting cultural revolution. We're diving headfirst into the ...
Jul 21, 2023•27 min•Ep. 381
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Can you imagine a world where we truly understood the divine design of our bodies and the profound purpose of our creation? That's the journey we're embarking on in today's episode as we delve into the heart of St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. Unveiling the truths found in these 129 lectures, we connect our human experiences to the Gospel, shedding light on our creation as male and female, and the eternal quest for true ...
Jul 19, 2023•38 min•Ep. 380
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Gazing at the fiery orb of the sun, its splendor always reminds me of the divine beauty and bounty that God bestows upon us. Despite the strife and evil man brings into the world, I find solace and peace in prayer, a practice as natural and life-sustaining as breathing itself. I'm Jack Rigert, your host, and today, I am eager to share my reflections on the power of prayer and how its absence can lead us to seek fulfillment in finite worldly th...
Jul 17, 2023•17 min•Ep. 379
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Synod of Synodality: Is this a Trojan Horse brought in to undermine the Gospel and the Traditions of the Church? Join Jack as he dissects its controversial attempt to expand the Church's tent, and its potential ramifications for traditional Church teachings. What if something you thought was accepting and inclusive was, in fact, the opposite? We delve into the Synod of Synodality, the appointment of Father James Martin made by Pope Francis...
Jul 14, 2023•45 min•Ep. 378
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Unless you look out at creation with a sacramental lens to discover with awe and wonder what these icons are pointing us to discover, you run the danger of living like a Cut-Flower, disconnected from the Source of all that we discover through our senses. What we see, smell, hear and taste…what are they telling us about this mystery of life and love? In the Lord of the Rings, Sam Gamgee, devoted friend of Frodo…about half way through their perilous ...
Jul 12, 2023•32 min•Ep. 377
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We hear ad nauseam about the need for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. What's really behind this constant barrage of propaganda? Joining me today is former undercover crime investigator and author Thomas Hampson to unpack his recent article Pride Month . Tom writes: In his proclamation creating what has become known simply as Pride Month , President Clinton made this comment: “ America’s diversity is our greatest strength . But, while we have ...
Jul 10, 2023•24 min•Ep. 376
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We just finished PRIDE month, but Racheal Levine, a man who dresses as a woman, invited us to extend PRIDE for the whole summer…a summer of PRIDE he called it. It's more than that isn't Richard Levine? It is a life of PRIDE that you seek. One that the so-called wise and learned, the arrogant and the proud, seek for the whole culture...a culture of “WOKE”. Lets define “Woke” culture. It is made up of so called Modern man, men and women, wh...
Jul 08, 2023•44 min•Ep. 375
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Today we learn to respond to one of "Woke" cultures greatest lies. Welcome to “Woke”, simply the newest version of a very old story, mans rejection of God…In Genesis Soon after the fall, Cain kills his brother Abel. And in Chapter 11, we hear the story of the House of Babel. Men already building an earthly city without God. And like all revolutions “Woke” culture comes with a number of slogans and Trojan Horses. Dei, diversity, equity and...
Jul 06, 2023•38 min•Ep. 374
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Learning to Love in the Truth, and Speak the Truth in Love, is the fundamental path that Jesus Christ has provided for us in the Gospel. Unless we learn to walk this path with Christ humanity as a whole, but especially children, will continue to pay a heavy price. Modern culture, having been hijacked and debased, is no longer a culture of life, but has become quite literally, a culture of death. A culture that has has profaned, and ultimately seeks...
Jun 30, 2023•47 min•Ep. 373
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jesus said, "but from the beginning it was not so" (Matt 19:3-8). And then He points us to the beginning, to the book of Genesis. "Our hearts are a battlefield between love and lust", Pope John Paul II. How many children must be sacrificed at the altar of "Woke" before we "Awaken"? How many woman? How many men? Sex trafficking, hook-ups, rape, pornography, abortion, gender ideologies...and the millions upon m...
Jun 27, 2023•48 min•Ep. 372
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Grandma Agnes would have loved the brilliant star filled sky. She grew up on a farm and loved Gods creation...nature, the family and the Church. …Last night reminded me of her. The crescent moon and Venus were spectacular as were the incredible array of constellations. How someone could have looked up at that sky filled panorama and not be filled with the awe and wonder of the Cosmos truly amazes me. As I stood there, in humility and thankfulness ,...
Jun 24, 2023•48 min•Ep. 371
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Part 2 of Making Sense of Woke “Woke” is the world, “life in the flesh” as St. Paul called it, a world without God…St Augustine would go on to refer to as “the City of Man”. The “Gospel” then is life, St Paul called it “Life in the Spirit”, Per St Augustine, the “ The City of God.” And here you have it, two opposing sides, that in a sense all comes back to Adam’s fall from grace in the garden of Eden that is told in Genesis. God made everyt...
Jun 21, 2023•40 min•Ep. 370
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” “Woke” is the world, “life in the flesh” as St. Paul called it, a world without God…St Augustine would go on to refer to as “the City of Man”. The “Gospel” then is life, St Paul called it “Life in the Spirit”, Per St Augustine, the “ The City of God.” And here you have it, two opposing sides, that in a sense all comes back to Adam’s fall from grace in the garden of Eden that is told in Genesis. God made everything, and it was good. The Crown of His...
Jun 16, 2023•38 min•Ep. 369
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1013) Lord, for your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place in heaven (CCC #1012). Join Linda and Jack as they discu...
Jun 14, 2023•41 min•Ep. 368
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” I call it, “ Crossing the Bridge”, opening the smaller story of your life to the transformational power of “Connection” . The bottom line is that we were created for eternal life in God, but original sin separated us from the tree of life. It is as though we are left stranded on the bank of a deep, fast-moving river that we cannot cross. We thirst for the peace, happiness and eternal life that is offered to us on the other side, but our broken huma...
Jun 09, 2023•27 min•Ep. 367
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is an extremely important episode. Here is the answer to the many currents of evil that surround us today. Christ has come to set us free from sin and death. The oppressor is not found in an economic model as the early Marxists proclaimed. Nor is it in Critical Theory as the later disciples of the marxist philosophy stated. Christ has come to set our freedom free. Only in liberation from sin and ultimately liberation from death will man find e...
Jun 07, 2023•36 min•Ep. 366
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack 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 Jack: BWYR Podcast is a production of the John Pa...
Jun 05, 2023•33 min•Ep. 365
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” When we allow children to be sexually exploited to serve an ideology that is irrational we know that we have entered a new historical moment. It is a great time to be alive! Evil is out in the open. Do you see it? Then let's have the courage to make a stand and say, "enough is enough!" Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! &q...
Jun 02, 2023•40 min•Ep. 364
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” John Paul II begins with a question. What is the meaning of the Statement: “the flesh has desires contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires contrary to the flesh” (Gal5:17)? Then he addresses the human heart. And specifically Jesus Sermon on the mount about how we look at one another, and the battle for purity of heart. Now St Paul JPII says opens horizons before us that are even vaster. Christ came into the world/fallen world, world no lo...
May 31, 2023•43 min•Ep. 363
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” ..we would have gone on, but thankfully dad, a 96-year-old world-war II veteran, wondered out loud, “most of this just doesn’t make rational sense.” He is right of course. It never does when the morally corrupt rule the world. I answered him, “dad, what is even more disconcerting is to think about how many citizens of our country not only vote the corrupt into office but go one further; they accept and condone their practices and policies. Do you w...
May 29, 2023•48 min•Ep. 362
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me....I am the way, and the truth, and the life." (John 14:1; 6). "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you." (Romans 8:11) For more on living "Life in the Spirit" #360 So many lies; unless we choos...
May 26, 2023•42 min•Ep. 361
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Life in the Flesh" or another way to put it, "the World without God," has desires contrary to the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. This life of sin and death runs deep within man. Original sin forms in us along with our body and soul and a conflict ensues. The body/flesh easily gets the upper hand. Our desires are impure (Romans 1:28-32). Our action confirms this in the evil man does to man. The man who lives "according to the fle...
May 24, 2023•39 min•Ep. 360
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A few weeks ago at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park Illinois a physical education teacher, who was assigned to teach "health" to the middle schoolers, got himself into trouble by going off script. Apparently, he asked questions that were not supposed to be part of the sex ed teaching for the day. Health class is where our children learn all about sex. Before starting the discussion, the teacher decided to have the students play &qu...
May 19, 2023•31 min•Ep. 359
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A person is never to be reduced to use. The only way to look at another person is with love. "Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God" (Matt 5:8) In the Sermon on the Mount Christ speaks in the perspective of the redemption of men and women and the world. This is, in fact, the perspective of the whole gospel, of the whole teaching, even more, of the whole mission of Christ . Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #5...
May 17, 2023•42 min•Ep. 358
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Includes Father Ryan Browning's Meditation "Praying with Temptation" Father Browning began his meditation, "There are temptations that assail me all the time; I feel like giving up. I'm never going to escape their grip. Have you ever had thoughts such as these as you try to live out the faith? Does it seem hopeless at times to escape the grip of temptation? What I am about to suggest will help in all matter of temptations.&...
May 14, 2023•20 min•Ep. 357
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Culture is pulverizing our children. The sexual exploitation of children by Netflix and Disney, the Porn industry, Social Media, Big Tech, and Government Institutions is well known. But what surprised so many is that this is being carried on right under parents noses in the public school system. Many are asking a question, and it is a good one. Why? Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Ja...
May 12, 2023•38 min•Ep. 356
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It is sad to think that many women may have never experienced love making from the perspective of the redemption of the body? In the Sermon on the Mount Christ speaks in the perspective of the redemption of men and women and the world. This is, in fact, the perspective of the whole gospel, of the whole teaching, even more, of the whole mission of Christ . Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #49 that Pope John Paul II presented on December ...
May 10, 2023•37 min•Ep. 355
