Living the Legacy with Sister Bernadette Pike

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Sister Bernadette Pike MG leads us on a journey of exploration into who St John Paul II is and what the Holy Spirit has given the Church through the life and teachings of this much-loved Pope.

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Giving Witness to Christ in the 21st Century

“[Remedy for atheism is] achieved chiefly by the witness of a living and mature faith, namely, one trained to see difficulties clearly and to master them….this faith needs to prove its fruitfulness by penetrating the believer’s entire life, including its worldly dimensions, and by activating him toward justice and love…” GAUDIUM ET SPES Blessed John Paul II was a master communicator and a shining witness to the love and mercy of God. How can his example help us to proclaim the Gospel effectively...

Dec 24, 2013

How to Achieve Dialogue Without Compromising Truth

Many of us have been there: trying to explain Church teaching to someone with a different view, only to get a bit emotional and cause them to shut off completely. How can we help people make the right choices while respecting their freedom? How can we achieve dialogue without compromising the truth? Blessed John Paul II was called a ‘master of creating dialogue’. He had discovered that dialogue was essential in being a true missionary of the Gospel. In this episode of Living the Legacy, Sister B...

Dec 17, 2013

How to be Present to Your Suffering Friend

“In the weakness of the sick I saw emerging ever more clearly a new strength: the strength of mercy”. It’s not easy to be with someone who is suffering. You might find yourself lost for words, feeling guilty, frustrated or uncomfortable. What can we learn from Blessed John Paul II on how to approach these situations? In this episode of Living the Legacy, Sister Bernadette explores: • How to listen and be present without trying to find a solution • Learning to enter into the other person’s suffer...

Dec 10, 2013

Learn to Love Like JPII

How well do you love each person the Lord puts in front of you? Think of the person at the train station asking for change, or the door knocker who turns up at the most inconvenient time… do you see a person or a problem? In this second part of Sister Bernadette’s exploration of attention to the other we look at: • How Blessed John Paul II challenges us to affirm each person as unique and unrepeatable; • Our tendency to neglect the person by overemphasising the problem; • How we can follow Bless...

Dec 03, 2013

How to Ditch Distractions and Focus on Friendships

Do you find yourself avoiding eye contact with that person in the elevator? Or passing by strangers on your morning walk without so much as a ‘hello’? How is it possible that we live in a world with unprecedented connectivity, yet we suffer an increasing inability to truly make connections? In this episode of Living the Legacy, Sister Bernadette starts to bring the charism of Blessed John Paul II into the concrete, challenging us on how we can truly be present and attentive to others; after all,...

Nov 26, 2013

How You Can Lead Your Loved Ones to Christ

“St John of the Cross knew how to introduce people to familiar conversation with God by teaching him to discover His presence and His love in all circumstances, whether favourable or unfavourable, in moments of fervour and in apparent abandonment alike.” – Blessed John Paul II Blessed John Paul II had a particular gift in helping others to know and love Christ- what was it? In the 5th episode of Living the Legacy, Sister Bernadette Pike looks at the importance of relationship in the work of evan...

Nov 19, 2013

Made For Love: JPII & Our Call to Communion

“It is not good that the man should be alone. ” (GEN 2:18) Each of us at some point in our lives would have experienced the pain of loneliness and isolation. This experience is a reflection of the original solitude of Adam and shows us that man was not made to live alone, but is intended for relationship with others and with God. In this fourth episode of Living the Legacy with Sister Bernadette Pike we explore man’s call to communion which was core to much of Blessed John Paul II’s thinking and...

Nov 12, 2013

Blessed John Paul II and the Study of Man

“When Karol Wojtyła ascended to the throne of Peter, he brought with him a deep understanding of the difference between Marxism and Christianity, based on their respective visions of man. This was his message: man is the way of the Church, and Christ is the way of man. With this message… John Paul II led the People of God across the threshold of the Third Millennium, which thanks to Christ he was able to call “the threshold of hope”. – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI In this third episode of Sister B...

Nov 05, 2013

Who is Man, Why Should We Care?

“The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly-and not just in accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being-he must with his unrest, uncertainty and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ. ” – Blessed John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis In this second part of the introduction to Sister Bernadette’s Living the Legacy series we look at the context of Blessed John Paul II’s theological anthropo...

Oct 29, 2013

A Pope for Our Times: Blessed John Paul II & Contemporary Thought

Blessed John Paul II has often been called the Thomas Aquinas of our times, a bold statement indeed! When we understand the philosophies that have underpinned contemporary thought we can see the Holy Spirit truly at work in the life and teachings of this great Pope. In this introductory episode of our brand new Living the Legacy series Sister Bernadette sets the scene for the contribution and charisms of the late Pontiff, answering questions such as: • What is a charism? • Did Blessed John Paul ...

Oct 22, 2013

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