With Patti Brunner. When stress attacks the weak, the needy, it takes the intercession of others to bring the light of dawn into the situation. Wherever you are in the world there is a need greater than your own. Compared to most of the world, America is not poor. But poverty of spirit does not use financial wealth or “need” as its barometer and measure. The fruit of Christianity is a desire to take care of the needs of others. “Untold riches” is not based on money but on the Word of God. Managing the taking care of the needy is a responsibility of the Church leaders and that sometimes it is an overwhelming task.
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TOS052 Facing Finals Session III: Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal Life
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Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit for concluding Facing Finals Session 3:Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal Life. Saint Anthony of Padua wrote that “Nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the day and hour of our death.” Sue Yarbrough taught children, “The happiest day of your life is the day you die and get to go to heaven!” In this Facing Finals episode of Truth of the Spirit, Patti Brunner shares that a happy death does not mean an ‘easy’ death. In fact death surrounded by great suffering can still be a happy death.
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Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit guest Dc. Clarence Leis for Facing Finals Session 2: What Do You Leave Behind? & Preplanning Your Funerals. Many of us are heading into our senior season. In the winter of our lives it may be more difficult to complete various tasks. Take up those challenges and chores and see how completing your own tasks can benefit others. Yet even as one season ends the new is upon us as we reach for eternal life. What do you leave behind? What do you want to hand on to others? How has the paths of others affected you in the journey of life? Would you want others to follow your footprints? Now is the time, before time slips away, to walk in the paths worth following.
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Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit guest Dc. John Pate for Facing Finals Session 1: Bucket List & Forgiveness. Do you have a “Bucket List” somewhere that needs to be refreshed? As weather seasons change, we can see the same rhythm take place in our lives. In the winter of our lives it may be more difficult to complete various tasks. Take up those challenges and chores and see how completing your own tasks can then benefit others. The steps you must take to prepare for “final days” are similar for everyone. Not to worry but to prepare.
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The “Duties of a Christian” episode of Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner reminds us that we are not alone in our relationship with God. We are not alone in the Church. And so we need to know how to get along with each other in the Church. That’s why God, through the Fathers of the Church, gave all Christians rules to follow. These Church rules are called Canon Law.
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TOS006 Does God Love Me? (Part 3) ;for Audio
Life in the Spirit Series
Third show in the series on Life in the Spirit. Have you ever doubted that God loves you because you don’t think you are good enough? God’s love does not hinge on whether you are good or not. This show explores the Father’s love for you like the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son. Through Baptism we become children of God and heirs of the kingdom of God. His gift of love to us is salvation and life in the Spirit.
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