Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Linda and Jack are back and this is John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (16)! 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 Love is. God created people to be loved and things to be used, but our culture seems to have flipped this on its head, so that people are being used and things are loved. We are created for love...but ...
Jun 29, 2022•48 min•Ep. 234
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday July 3rd. As we approach Independence Day I consider what made the United States of America different, freer and more successful than any other nation in history. And how Roe v. Wade plays an integral part in our future as a nation. In the Gospel of Luke 10:1-20 Jesus sent his disciples as Lambs among Wolves to go out and proclaim the Good News to all of Humanity. And when they did so He told them ...
Jun 28, 2022•33 min•Ep. 233
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It seems that almost out of nowhere there is a sudden spike in sexual or gender confusion...What is going on here? Special guest Dr. Susan Selner-Wright is back with Jack to help sort out the confusion of the Transgender Craze that is targeting our young people and causing them so much pain. Susan Selner-Wright, PhD, holds the Archbishop Chaput Chair in Philosophy at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado. Her specialty is the ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 232
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 26, 2022 . link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN TO podcast #201: Without "Metanoia" We Perish with Father Timothy Vaverek and #190: The Eucharist; "on the night when He was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood" A Retreat with St. Therese of Lisieux (10) Please consider being a Sponsor of the show! "We need You!" B...
Jun 21, 2022•36 min•Ep. 231
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Two years before his ascendancy to the Chair of Peter in 1978, Cardinal Wojtyla, now Saint John Paul II, spoke these words in an address in Philadelphia: “I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. “This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providenc...
Jun 18, 2022•48 min•Ep. 230
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Book: Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology of the Body, Saint John Paul II , translation, introduction and index by Michael Waldstein, Pauline Books and Media, 2006 Please consider being a Sponsor of the show! "We need You!" Buckle up! Here is the game plan: 1. Go to Mass, the most important prayer! Try to make an extra Mass during the week. 2. Take the wedding bath...the Sacrament of Reconciliation at least once per month 3. Read Sc...
Jun 15, 2022•6 min•Ep. 229
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The year was 1995, I had been married for 13 years...three children, and our marriage was falling apart. A non-practicing Catholic I found myself on my knees asking, "God do you have a plan?" I would have an encounter with God soon after that, when our brother Danny, dying from AIDS, came back to life with a message that would forever change my life. This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 19, 2022 . The Solemnity of the Most Hol...
Jun 14, 2022•40 min•Ep. 228
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A whole generation of teachers has been indoctrinated to believe that their role is no longer to teach children to think but to turn them into activists for "Woke" Neo-Marxists whose stated goal is to destroy the United States of America by taking down the traditional family and infiltrating the culture with every sort of perversion imaginable. Jack's guest is Tom Hampson from the Truth Alliance Foundation. "One in four girls an...
Jun 10, 2022•45 min•Ep. 227
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Spousal Meaning of the Body speaks of Man and Woman's conscious experience of their bodies as a gift and sign of God's love--and, in turn, their sharing this love with one another in and through their bodies, through their masculinity and femininity. Join Linda Pieper and Jack as they discuss Pope John Paul II's General Audience #15 given on January 16, 1980. We are created for love...but today we have normalized the fall; "...
Jun 08, 2022•50 min•Ep. 226
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 12, 2022. This is the most important thing you will ever hear on what it means to be human! Cutting through today's sexual confusion and the relationship issues between married couples. My heart goes out to all of you... especially young people growing up in a very twisted, distorted and toxic culture. The solution "I am"... it's time for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home to be a part of ev...
Jun 07, 2022•33 min•Ep. 225
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack and bestselling author AJ Benjamin discuss LGBTQ+ labels, same-sex attraction, gender dysphoria, and much more. An invitation into the heart of the Gospel message, which is one of love. AJ Benjamins book: "When the Son Frees You: A Catholic Man's Journey of Healing From Same-Sex Attraction" Visit his website! AJ Benjamin's website: http://www.thesilentknight.net " I always knew I was different. I could never quite put ...
Jun 03, 2022•46 min•Ep. 224
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Indeed, if we discover the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospel's, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at...
Jun 01, 2022•29 min•Ep. 223
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” On the Evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." And when he said this, he breathed on...
May 31, 2022•30 min•Ep. 222
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” To see one another through the mystery of creation. To see the beauty around us, especially the beauty of another person, man for woman, woman for man. Our hearts "ache" to share the world/gift received, as God shared it with us! This is the Law of the Gift. Opening to the greatest desires of the heart! Especially for Beauty...even more...the Beauty of Love. Join Linda Pieper and Jack as they discuss Pope John Paul II's General Audie...
May 25, 2022•45 min•Ep. 221
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Scripture reflection for the Ascension of Jesus Christ! My heart goes out to all of you... especially young people growing up in a very twisted, distorted and toxic culture. The solution "I am"... it's time for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home to be a part of everyone's life! Scripture from the Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN TO OUR WEDNESDAY AUDIENCES OF POPE JOHN PAUL II's &q...
May 24, 2022•34 min•Ep. 220
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Letter to the faithful on the Notification sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on May 20, 2022 the she not be admitted to Holy Communion unless and until she publicly repudiate her support for abortion "rights" and confess and receive absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance. The line has been drawn in the sand between good and evil and this battle is about to get even more intense than it already is. But there is ...
May 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 219
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tom reports that today there are over 60 million adult survivors of sexual abuse in the United States alone. One in four girls and one in six boys have been directly abused and almost all of our children have been affected at multiple levels. I am grateful to have Tom Hampson back on the show. Tom has been an investigator for over 50 years beginning with intelligence work for the US Air Force and went on to be the Chief investigator for the Illinoi...
May 20, 2022•48 min•Ep. 218
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Intimacy! In-to-me-see!! "They were naked but did not feel shame. Who am I? What's my purpose? How do I find love... that lasts? These are the questions that we all ask! Pope John Paul II said that Christ and the Church have the answers! And he gave us this beautiful gift he called "Man and Woman He created them, a Theology of the Body". Join Linda Pieper and Jack as they discuss Pope John Paul II's General Audience #12 giv...
May 18, 2022•40 min•Ep. 217
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” My heart goes out to all of you... especially young people growing up in a very twisted, distorted and toxic culture. The solution "I am"... it's time for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home to be a part of everyone's life! Scripture from the Gospel of John 14:23-29 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN TO OUR WEDNESDAY AUDIENCES OF POPE JOHN PAUL II's " THE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY!!" Please consider being ...
May 17, 2022•24 min•Ep. 216
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” From Generation to Generation... you are invited to the School of Mary! In a world that has increasingly lost its grip on truth and is left simply manipulated by the spirit of the age, the School of Mary that St. John Paul II and the Church has handed down to succeeding generations, contains within it the gravitational center that can hold us together. This is a segment of the " Become Who You Are" Workshops. A Series that Jack is present...
May 16, 2022•23 min•Ep. 215
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” My heart goes out to all of you...especially young people growing up in a very twisted, distorted and toxic culture. The solution "I am"... it's time for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home to be a part of everyone's life! Scripture from the Gospel of John 14:1-6; 15:9-17; 13:31-35 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN TO OUR WEDNESDAY AUDIENCES OF POPE JOHN PAUL II's " THE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY!!" Please...
May 14, 2022•19 min•Ep. 214
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tom Hampson discusses the nature and scope of the problem of sexual exploitation of children and the social forces working against the family that are making children more vulnerable. He also helps parents know what a sexual predator looks like. Tom has been an investigator for 50 years and directed an eight-year investigation into the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Today our school systems have institutionalized grooming and the only ...
May 13, 2022•48 min•Ep. 213
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” They say that Philosophy starts with awe and wonder. Then asking the big questions of life, "Who am I?", "What's my purpose?", "How do I find happiness?" These are the questions that we all ask! Pope John Paul II said that Christ and the Church have the answers! And he gave us this beautiful gift he called "Man and Woman He created them, a Theology of the Body". Join Linda Pieper and Jack as they discuss...
May 11, 2022•45 min•Ep. 212
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Bishop Fulton Sheen said, "A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. If a time ever comes when the religious Jews, Protestants and Catholics ever have to suffer under a totalitarian state, which would deny to them the right to worship God according to the light of their conscience, it will be because for years they thought it made no difference what kind of people represented them in Congress, and because they abandoned the spi...
May 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 211
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is exactly what the modern culture and the confusion of Gender Ideologies don't understand. Bishop Fulton Sheen said, "It you want to know what is most sacred, look at what is most defiled." Join Mark Schmitt and Jack as they discuss Pope John Paul II's General Audience #10 given on November 21, 1979 We have normalized the fall; "In the Beginning it was not so"! If you don't know where you came from, and wher...
May 04, 2022•37 min•Ep. 210
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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 temptations? What I am about to suggest will help in all matter of temptations, but here I will specifically address the temptation of lust. First, temptation is not a sin! Jesus experienced temptations in t...
May 02, 2022•35 min•Ep. 209
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parish Missions, Retreats, Teacher and Catechist Training: John Paul II Renewal Center Presents: The “Become Who You Are” Workshops: Helping to educate the Laity Join Me and Bring This Series to Your Area! --Jack Rigert “And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard’” (Mt 20:3-4). From that distant day the call of the Lord Jesus “You too go into my vineyard” neve...
Apr 29, 2022•46 min•Ep. 208
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Pour a freshly brewed cup of coffee or a glass of fine Napa Cabernet Sauvignon! You owe it to yourself...relax, find a quiet place and enter into the joy of our creation with Linda Pieper and Jack as they reflect on Pope John Paul's Wednesday Audience #9, presented on November 14, 1979. Our human identity is grounded in love. In the fact that we are loved by our maker! And we are held so highly in God's eyes that we are invited to partici...
Apr 27, 2022•45 min•Ep. 207
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What is the solution for the insane ideologies and the morally corrupt who have once again fooled the masses with a thin coat of fresh paint over tired man-made schemes like the "Great Reset" and who spread Gender confusion? Introducing the "Become Who You Are" Workshops Workshop #1: The Apostolic Attitude of the Laity Also listen to Podcast # 205 "You're teaching my child what?" With Dr. Miriam Grossman Book refe...
Apr 24, 2022•34 min•Ep. 206
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This may be the most important podcast you listen to all year. Dr Grossman has one focus, the health and well-being of her patients. With tenderness and compassion, she speaks the truth in love. Miriam Grossman MD is a physician with board certification in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Dr. Grossman is known internationally for her courage in breaking ranks and calling foul on the Sexuality and Gender Education industry. The author of four...
Apr 22, 2022•52 min•Ep. 205
