267 You Inner Outcasts Are Being Called to Encounter the Lord

Transcript Speaker 1: His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion. Speaker 2: Welcome back to Scripture for your inner outcasts. Today is June 1st, 2026, Monday of the ninth week in Ordinary Time. Today we are joined by doctor Jerry Crete, one of the co-founders of Souls and Hearts, the author of the book litanies of the heart, and a counselor with his own private practice, Transfiguration Counseling, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Speaker 1: Hey there, it is good to be with you on this memorial of Saint Justin Martyr. In Second Peter, we hear this line. His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion. Everything. Not just presentable things, not the parts of us that are already healed and all put together, but everything. And that includes you, you, you exiles, faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, endurance, devotion, mutual affection. All that we hear about isn't just a checklist. It's an unfolding. It's an unfolding for you. It is what it looks like when you exile parts, come home and are met with the healing presence of the inmost self. Perhaps we could even see this as the presence of the Holy Spirit, moving through the inmost self and bringing the exiles home. And in so doing, we hear Peter say we share in the divine nature. This is not about white knuckling or weight of virtue, you know, or suppressing parts of our inner world. This is about the knowledge of God who called us. It means a deep, personal knowing. It's an encounter you exiles are being called to. This beautiful encounter. And we get. The final part here I think is so beautiful in Psalm 91, in the Responsorial Psalm. You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Right. This is an invitation for God to dwell in us, to abide in us and us, to abide in him. Including our exiles. That it says that you are you who dwell in the shelter. So there is a place for you exiles. And even if you've experienced trauma, you've carried shame or grief or wounds of abandonment, they can't. I'm inviting you to a place that you can't Imagine. Otherwise you are being called into the dwelling place of God into a shelter within. So I invite you to receive this message. He shall call upon me. That is you, the exiles, and I will answer him. I will be with him in distress. Not after the distress, not despite the distress, in the distress, in the exile. Speaker 2: If you're enjoying the content of this podcast, if you're a Catholic who wants to deepen their human formation, then the resilient Catholics community might be a good fit for you. We're accepting applications for the most recent cohort, named after Saint Mary Magdalene, from June 1st to June 30th, 2026. Learn more in the description of today's episode. Speaker 1: Mary, our mother Untier of knots. Pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us. Saint John the Baptist pray for us. And Saint Justin Martyr, pray for us.