Into The Deep #49: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 21-23
Episode #49. Sensitive 90s appetites. Pleasure itself isn’t bad; only when it is for its own sake… then Complete Corruption. Mmmmmm…. Aristotle. The True, the Good, and the Pleasurable. God is THE. ULTIMATE. CAUSE. We can’t reflect on those things about which we have no knowledge - so we need to get a clue. Mmmmm… [...]
Into The Deep #48: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 20
Episode #48. Sloth. It’s not all about the TV. Making war against sloth is of the greatest importance. Going to the big guns… St. Thomas! Sloth is a sluggishness of the mind and sorrow over doing something for God’s sake. Refusal to do the good that God wants us to do. [...]
Into The Deep #47: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 19
Episode #47. Lost luggage. Fighting impurity. Special tactics. Greater resolution. Sin against our own selves. Disunity with God through unity with something else. Sin of a different quality. Dangers of over familiarity. The phases of temptation: before, during and after. Avoid near occasions of sin. Don’t presume on your own strength. Examination of conscience. Attacking [...]
Into The Deep #46: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 14-18, Part 2
Fight or Die! Heaven Can Wait. Like Jimmy Buffet says, “… it could be my fault.” No really, we mention Star Trek this time! News Flash: History repeats itself, and we are fallen souls. Have we made our own Anti-Christs? Get spiritually vaccinated, it’s ALWAYS sin-fluenza season. Avoid unnecessary risk: Run Away! Run Away! (Brave, [...]
Into The Deep #45: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 14-18, Part 1
Where’s the beef, and tranquilized dogs. Fight, fight, fight! Are you just laying there on the couch, waiting for it to come to you? It’s just like Star Trek: The Next Generation, really! Do we have ears to hear?
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Into The Deep #44: Special - Prepare The Way Of The Lord Make Straight His Path
A special teaching given by Mike Lee during a visit to Holy Apostles Catholic Church in Meridian Idaho.
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Into The Deep #43: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 13
Repugnant? The parameters of the spiritual combat. Tactics! Checking the first impulse. Tastes like chicken. Checking it again. War is not the time to train for war. Cultivating a desire through contempt for the appetite. An example. Coming to like the trials. Engaging the opposing virtue.
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Into The Deep #42: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 12
Turning points and exhortations. Mmmmm, tastes like chicken. Suspended in tension, we are “violently attacked” by Divine Grace. The three-layered man. We were made for union with each other and God. Are you letting birds build nests in your hair? Persevering in perseverance. Remote controls and garage-door openers as occasions for sin or virtue. Is [...]
Into The Deep #41: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 11, Part 2
The depth of God’s love in the Incarnation and the Passion. Why in the heck am I doing this? Reflecting on Christ’s sufferings. Soft, middle class, suburban Christianity. Christ did not come to bring heaven on earth. He came to proclaim the Kingdom. Participating in the suffering of Christ. Choosing between [...]
Into The Deep #40: The Spiritual Combat - Ch. 11, Part 1
God loves me. yada… yada… yada… Going deep. Tremendousness of God’s love. What does it mean that God created us? The intimacy of God and his creation. If we don’t accept God’s love for us, we can not love God ourselves. Starting a mediation on God’s love.
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