Mother Angelica Live Classics - 10-11-2011 - The Silver Lining - Mother Angelica

yeah like a live brought to you from the Eternal Word television studios in Birmingham I see in you the love the compassion of Jesus glorious work of all to praise God in his kingdom by the Spirit who lives in love lives in God and God what a wonderful thing is our church his whole network is built on trust the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody jesus we are all called to be great Saints don't miss Kappa Church now it's so good to be here with you this evening this weekend Friday Saturday Sunday Monday and I know all of you up north where I come from and live dead see 17 2008 to tell you how many years it is 37 years in northern country where it's cold with blizzards and when I went to school I used to walk through blizzards and you have to put your head down you know and I just saw you saw with white and you hope to her in the right direction so I'm used to that I'm used to those kind of storms and well you just have to walk and three four feet of snow and one foot goes up and yeah that goes up and well the South is not accustomed to this type of thing and I've been in so many storms as a kid I didn't know what to do about it at the time but it didn't seem like much you when you're up north storms and storms right you all your people from up north and east you take them in your strike this storm is different not just because it was in the south and we're not a custom this is March and we're a custom the flowers and trees and blossoms and but this was different not only was there a lot of snow I maybe you have but I've never seen lightning and thunder in the midst of a 50 mile an hour wind in the bazoo now maybe they have them in Alaska I don't know I never saw it up north there was there were a time we didn't have water that was scary you find it tell me you didn't have water because water is so necessary for so many things most of all for life electricity luckily we had a generator for part of the monastery I wear very hilly here so you just can't go up or down but it brought out something very good and everybody we've had people who had wall-to-wall people sleeping on old mattresses on the floor everybody did something people with four-wheel drives brought other people to hospitals and there was a sense of carry crow Madhuri I personally think it's just a bikini I know I know you get her to go they get that by today don't turn your die Alice I was so happy at least we were somewhat prepared but I really feel in my heart God brought so much good and that is the heart of purification you see I do Lord must purify our country and it's a good thing it's not a bad thing you have to be afraid it's a good thing if you had cancer wouldn't it be good if somebody operated on you I'm going to be terrible if every doctors or go that's cancer I'm not going to pray on that and that's how I look madam world looks on us he said oh you're in bad shape you're really not getting closer to me you're getting further and four and further away and and and I want you to come closer we belong to a community and we have to suffer together because we're one we're one body and in Jesus we share the same father and if there's if there's great chastisement in a world in the country we all suffer together sit and it's so wonderful because it makes us good again it makes us pure makes us holy it makes us closer to God nobody wants it although we were all kind of shivery there for a while we tried to think of other people see and sometimes we feel that well I don't mind suffering but I don't like to see those I love suffering well but my mother broke her hip I didn't want to see her suffer but I was happy the doc topper hit on it was hard for me but see the point is there's a unselfishness that has to come about in this world today this is you know our family night and I I'm just discussing this that I thank you some of you say well what makes you think a bad storm is chastisement I don't know well the governors and he said that to everybody had a feel that this storm was not like any other storm it had a message yeah as a message and it says come back to me come back to me and you won't have to go through all these down to thickness so if you if you want to talk about it tonight you want to talk about the need for purification or why you think there should be one or while you're afraid or did you disagree with me that's fine well all know for sure won't we yeah and you know why we should not be afraid because if it comes from God you should never be afraid of anything it comes from God even ill-health it doesn't ordains many thing but he does permit him and he promised these things for our good I don't think of one thing a dotted answer to my prayer that hasn't been preceded by it and suffering always know when I get a special something at oh boy some Goods around the corner then we can't be afraid if you love Jesus you should never be afraid if you love the father should never be afraid he is your father he loves you by the head I remember one time when I was a kid I've gone to school walking to school good three miles and it was a blizzard beside that I had holes in my shoes and had cardboard in my shoes I didn't want my mother to know I had a hole so I put cardboard in there but by the time I walked a half a mile they were soaking wet and cold and all of a sudden I heard somebody behind me who had some young man in the neighborhood who had been behind mean he came up and he took me by the hand I think I was in a fourth grade fourth or fifth is come on we're good together he didn't stop the storm he didn't make my feet dry he didn't take the chill off my back but he held me by the hand and he said come on we'll do this together that's how God is you see some stars we have to go through you just can't stay where you are and buddy eat you there you see it takes you by the hand we have a phone call hello hello Wayne fell hi did rain some and suburb of Chicago Illinois okay what is your question I don't have a question I have a comment again they were talking about storms in life yes and it recalled I recall the storms I went through and the trials and tribulations that I went through and in my surgery I put I have it I have a shunt and I had neurosurgery not ten years ago almost ten years ago and I have a shunt in my head and I had it had to be done to be done twice and I the comment I made to the producer before the show was it that it brought me closer to the Lord and through our pastoral care minister it brought me closer to the Rosary too and I write another right now see that's it that's what but God does we do I don't need that oh yeah you do some of you people are in such bad shape and you don't even know it that's what's a bad you don't know it we have to know and that's why we should never have any fear but whatever happens because his hand I never forget that young man that came back I was scared for a moment because I know what but I recognized him and sometimes we don't know who it is but Jesus is always there and the father is always there and he doesn't want to purify we need must you can treat a newspaper oh why you can't watch the news so you everybody knows don't you all sense that something has to happen to change it don't you'll sense it huh you you have to know you must be out of this world if you don't know they have isn't it better that God does it than someone else huh I would rather suffer under God than anybody else we have another call hello Yes Mother Angelica I'm calling from Wisconsin yes and I'm a convert to the faith on three years going now and I love it I find that it's the most fulfilling and rich thing I've ever had in my life speaking about storms right now I have a storm in my life and it's called sex education that is my Catholic school and I know that it has been condemned I'm wondering if it was ever uncondensed and he said it's not even up to him that he more or less told me that I'm crazy I'm conservative path like whatever it's taken to and I go hey do Jews at me thank you Jesus excuse me do you do can you have a homeschool well yes I I mean I you know I can I mean if there's nobody else in this area who is doing it I have gotten together with some others up there only starting in at the 5th grade right now but it is so explicit and so bad that it scares I wouldn't I wouldn't have my child go to a class like that I wouldn't because they don't think of God that's all they begin to think about whatever you feed a young mind that's what they're going to think about for centuries people lived married had children and it didn't have to have 12 years to find out about it that's so terrible they want to save all the ways well if we teach them they won't do this won't do that night isn't true because you deal with something that is within every human being and it is an emotional thing and you you used to you make them curious they won't teach the Trinity because that's too exalted but they teach something is so base doesn't need to be taught married sex is for married life it's a holy thing and it doesn't mean it has to be so explicit I wouldn't holler it that's something you should do and not have in school day after day year after year it's all right now I know tell me one of you well you know don't you have enough of God in you that you know these kids are not going to not going to benefit by this how how far they can they ruin the church how far they going to go to destroy the beauty and the the majesty of our faith what else are they going to do take aware of saints take away our sacraments take away our churches take away the sacredness of our churches take away our music and substitute it for what Barnes and and and places that look like auditoriums don't give them God give them sex don't give them virtue give them social gospel well we're all suffering from the effects of that so-called education over the years I think it's time sometimes that people begin to say I've had enough why'd you have to start fourth fifth grade why do you have to start it it's cool my grandmother had 11 kids I don't think she took one lesson and there was a certain amount of of chastity in my day I know they sport to by the time they get the high school they've lived a full life and that's why you have so many suicides they've done it all they've experienced everything they're worn out they looked like they look like they're 30 years older than they are they smoke they drink they have sex everything now you tell me that's education it is education on how they're going to help then you hear there's no sin oh boy I mean this is quite a life we live there's no Eucharist there's no Mary there's nothing more which can't you see can't you all see we need to be purified we need to be brought back but by Jesus dancer your question sweet lady teach them yourself I recommend home-school there must be a lot of you in your state or city euros and your child to school to be gift sex maniacs not Todd God to religion God nothing pray that there is a Catholic school or a Catholic Church in your area I know I'm going to get in trouble say what I'm saying but somebody has to say it somebody has to say it God didn't die for us for that now I don't believe that they died for us to be virtuous to live this life to live this book to know that I carry in st. Pauls that I am a temple of the Holy Spirit not a garbage can I'm not a garbage can I'm a temp of the Holy Spirit I'm not an ashtray I have the dignity of God in me I have a right to know the truth of the church the beauty of the church the majesty of the church I have a duty to know I have a right to know that there is a Eucharist that is Jesus that his body and blood soul and divinity is in that hose I have a right to know that I am required by God to be chaste and holy I have and you have the right to know the truth not somebody's opinion where do they lead you I don't know but we have plenty of proof in the church what's happening when you're not taught the truth and not taught the truth I'm as a call hello yes father how are you I'm fine where you from Arizona good we had the floods in January in February and you got the storms now and I have two questions here too the first question I am working with hospice for the dying and I had a vision I'm not a Roman Catholic I'm Eastern Orthodox but in my dream I had a dream of the Virgin Mother and I was at one of your churches here in the desert and she appeared like the Virgin of Guadalupe my dream yeah and when I walked into the church the church was Alma all it up with candles and she's in the center aisle I went down the center aisle and she had her hands hands outstretched towards me just come to me and I says I was unworthy to come to her but she said no now you're not you're more welcome to me come to me and in the Eastern Church we say the merry prayers a lot and when I saw that my dream I woke up and I was so happy that she said come to her so working with the dying at least go to her to help these people to make a peaceful not my question is this mother in the Middle East and Lebanon which is a Christian country this poor nation has be steward for 20 years and the Blessed Mother has periods in the Middle East and she's and yet these Christians are killing each other and they're there the Muslims are killing Christians and Jews are killing Muslims there's no doesn't anything come out of this but the Blessed Mother has to tell these people can't they you understand what's going on a lot of people don't want to believe in the supernatural it bothers them they were talking try to talk to about Jesus to a religious I'm sad to say they don't take it you ever talk to anyone about a miracle pearl it said but nobody wants to change their life see if I believe in the church if I believe in Jesus and the Eucharist if I believe in that wonderful Immaculate Mary now they destroy our Lady they say the worst things about her and these are some time by women religious Oh anyone in here Christian fights Christian the Lebanese have troubled have suffered for a long time because they were Catholic because they love 30 they've been destroyed they've had to flee their country has been destroyed not just now but for centuries see Christianity is a treasure see this is a treasure it's at Pearl in the desert in the field and we don't like what it says so we don't bother with it because this book says you must be chaste this book said there is sin this book says there is a God and that God has requirements of us called commandments this book said there is a heaven waiting for us the Jesus redeemed us this shows God's compassion and love and forgiveness it requires discipline but we don't want discipline why don't Christians love one another greed power desire for more land desire to take what others have away from them all of that is the consequences of original sin if we do not follow the wondrous gives the baptism if we do not follow the Lord Jesus I don't care what you call yourself you cannot live that life a total Christianity if we don't follow the Lord if we're not have a sense of sin otherwise I don't know what's right and wrong in my life see we have to live this gospel we have to live what Jesus asked us to do if we don't we won't destroy us our country is slowly the whole country slowly committing suicide like a moral sabor ssin approved and by law that's how Rome was destroy wasn't it huh is that how Rome was destroyed Rome hasn't died is with us Rome is still with us but as it died it hasn't been destroyed totally the seed of the Roman Empire lives today everywhere that's why when little storms are big storms or super storms happen like it did here and people begin to care then we become Christian then it is that we begin to live this book that's why it's so necessary that's why so needed Lord Jesus come come and deliver us from the world from the enemy and from ourselves we have another call hello hello hello mother where are you from I'm from Pennsylvania mothers you think we would sworn your comment about stuff okay within the last year my husband had asked me for a divorce and I turned to the Lord I knew he was the only one that could help me and in turning to him I realized that there were problems in me that I wasn't totally what God wanted me to be and in that I somehow won my husband's love back and our family is on its way back at being a family that the Lord wants a family to be and there are some difficult times but my faith in God keeps me going and EWTN has helped me so very very much and you especially mother good I thank you well you see there's another example of not to fear something so ever be it ever so tragic every search that God is going to be good he's going to bring good out of it if you trust him I've never had a pain I've never had a disappointment or a tragedy happen in my life when I didn't bring something wonderful out of it and getting closer to him is the most wonderful thing that can happen that I can I can literally get close to him in the midst of a storm and somebody you have super storms in your life but don't fear don't fear he is holding your hand like that man held my hand through this going to school they left me at the door and I went in and he went his way but that hand that hand of God is with you and you can keep going forward don't fear anything we suffer from it we have to change we have to think of others but we have his hand in ours we have another call hello oh yeah where are you from and what is your question earlier you said that God doesn't necessarily make certain things happen but he permits them to happen my question is there are so many good people that have so much suffering right here on earth and God apparently allows this to happen and if we see so many people who were basically evil the drug dealers your pornographers and everything that seems to come up roses for them whatever they do seems to work out right it's not funny well I began to bomb with everybody huh everybody's got that same problem the psalm said that he's I looked around all the bad of good times and look at me until he said I saw their last and their last in why do the good suffer the same reason Jesus suffered he suffered to redeem us we suffer for ourselves we suffer for others but the end is what's important so you're looking at this life only the bed why are these habits are good they may be the only good they'll ever have they're only good they'll ever see but no person bad as you say has peace inside I don't believe that I've known murderers that I've known prostitutes I known every kind of people that do every possible thing they never had peace those who killed fear kill being killed those who steal fear others will steal from them those on drugs fear they'll never have another one those who push drugs are fearful that they won't get paid that the one over them will kill them those would indulge in prostitution are so fearful fearful they're PIMs feel free of the man they picked up that night thieves and robbers are fearful that as they have robbed they will be robbed and those lers are fearful that they will be caught the man who suffers justly has peace peace he knows where he's going he knows how to get there and he knows that all the evil of this life that he must suffer justly or unjustly permitted ordained by God will be waiting for him in that Kingdom now the others who seem to enjoy what do they enjoy because trips I went to Las Vegas when we were having a first time first couple of years we had our our network and I had a big cable convention there and I went with the marketing department because we were just a couple years old and everybody thought I should go and I got off the plane and these all women that were at look like they I one foot in the grave ran in an airport for the slot machines couldn't wait to get the crummy hotels you know smoke-filled music that was enough to blow your brains out women doing dances half dress and there was so many people drunk for what so I'm having a good thought I know is this one man you seem to be having a good time we had a pass if all this stuff there was no way back 60 minutes was with me taking all this oak they go look at 6:00 maybe running through the casino but there's no other place you have y'all in order to get your own tell they make you go through these crummy places say well I saw this woman at breakfast dinner supper she didn't pocket in book full I just kept on putting quarters and nickels whatever they are and then I I saw her the next morning she looked a wreck probably lost though she'd had maybe drank too much there she was sitting in the lounge I felt so sorry for and then I saw her clatter waddle over to the next slot machine that's not right that's not living blessed are those good people who suffer in this life with peace and joy who have loved to give even if love is not rendered back who have nothing to steal because they don't have anything worth stealing who'll love even when they're not loved who have faith in the midst of darkness in hope when all seems lost sand love and then not loved in return blessed are those well the rest we pray for hoping that somewhere along the line your prayers your prayers the little prayer that you say before you're going to get Lord help poor sinners will give them a light to say what am i doing I'm wasting my life there's a difference both choose because God has given us free will the other that you talked about bad people are not happy I haven't seen one I wish them happiness but they're not happy I suppose when you say bad people you're talking about those who lie or cheat we can't judge motivations of anybody that's bad we don't know their education we don't know how they were brought up we don't know anything we can judge my fruit though you're right but we can't say that they're happier or have more even though they seem to just things go and they pass if I were you I would accept what you have but I would look forward to that Kingdom that has so much more than we'll ever think about we have another call hello hi hi mother where are you from Alameda California and what is your question I have been hearing these prophecies about you know the coming chastisement and its effects on California you know with a great earthquake and will be like broken off into the ocean and I have a lot of fear around around myself around myself and the chastisement like you know what's going to happen to me and it's we're going to be with me we're kind of paying am I going to have to go through and even the actual act of dying I offer for chronic pain I have for a lot of years and most of my life is a matter of fact but it's still I still have a lot of fear yeah yeah well I think we would all be fearful I said that thing about the galilean fall into the ocean when I was giving defending our dear Lord it when during that terrible movie The Last Temptation of Christ y'all remember that I was in Hollywood defending our Lord and I got so mad one day I said you continue making these blasphemous movies and this whole this whole section the country is going to fall into the ocean well everybody laughed at me then and they're laughing at me now but God is not going to tolerate continue to tolerate the things coming out of Hollywood I just don't think he is I don't think you have a prophecy for that though thinking it a prophecy God loves his people he's going to stop all that terrible stuff on television they're going to stop our little ones from being so polluted I was going to do it I'm not saying I'm right but I wouldn't be afraid huh I wouldn't be afraid when you're in the hand and the heart of God you never have anything to be favored that would our Lord said so often so often he said don't be afraid this is during history after his crucifix why were you so frightened why are you afraid was it not necessary that the son of man go through this and so redeemed the world he told the disciples gone to Emmaus is it not necessary that the whole world be purified because we have strayed from our Creator we you have nothing to fear swear nothing at all just ask our dear lady to take away your fear but it's unfounded you've already suffered a lot don't have any fear give yourself to Jesus say Jesus I give myself to you and I leave everything in your hands and then forget it again because our dear Lord is so gentle so lovely so compassionate then even when he purifies us he does it loving hand we have another call hello hello hello Mother Angelica why are you son I'm from Texas and what is your question well it actually is twofold and I've tried to visit with my priests on several occasions and he's just not very available but basically the storm I'm going through after being married for twenty years and throughout the course of this marriage my spouse battled alcoholism and over the years he just moved in and out of the house and finally moved out and filed for divorce and became involved in another relationship well after the tour's I received custody of the kids and you know to the best of my ability I try to give them guidance on what's right and wrong and yet they see the opposite from their mother and somehow I believe they think this is acceptable yes the two questions I have is one how can I teach my children the gospel and what's right and wrong without degrading their mother and secondly of course I'm still very much in love with this woman and I feel like I'm still married in God's eyes yet I don't know what my obligation is to her yeah well I think you should continue you know to to love her my opinion is that if you teach your children good things very good things continue teaching him the gospel continue teaching them the ways of the Lord and and follow those ways yourself you see then even though they may be attracted by an opposite way some point in their life they'll remember everything you said I don't think there's anything different you can do I think the fact that you still love your wife is good because that means you're going to continue loving her and you're going to pray for her and that's what she needs she needs prayers she tuned his lights you have to be the father of this family and the father of a family is to give light leadership he he shows the path he shows the way to what to God to heaven that is your duty now whether is your children less or not you can't do anything about that they have a free will and and right now the easy path seems to be the easy path and we go that way the line of least resistance is available to everyone but don't get discouraged even though you may not see much fruit now you will you will every storm ends every storm every super storm as an ending at some point the Sun will come out and you'll forget to start keep close to Jesus that's what's so important now we have another call hello good evening mother hoodie doing fine where are you from calling from New Orleans uh-huh what a lovely thing to see your face on my television thank you God bless you rather happy y'all made it through the storm mother there's a question I'd like to ask you I believe that our lady asked a special favor for me you know to consecrate my life to her and this is how I see that God is working in my life after my married life and mother all of a sudden it seems like so much tragedy is coming into my family and I I'd like to ask God that you know I'd like to find out if maybe I'm maybe my prayer life might be lacking some parts because I'm having a hard time understanding it and I understand that we must accept sufferings with love and I do the best I can with so maybe is there something you can help me to understand better well you see you're having a hard time accepting your sister's illness the fact that your brother is an addict and got tests all of us but what you I think what you're forgetting you know about suffering and that's wonderful you've offered it to the to God you have beautiful children you forgotten hope though you see your faith is great but hope is a little shaky you're not understanding that God brings good out of everything you are not responsible for your sister's illness you are not responsible for your brother's addiction they have made their choices good or bad or indifferent we have to take all responsibility for our own choice but they need your love they need your prayers you can't take that burden on yourself because God doesn't want you to have that you you have to be that's wonderful Catholic mother then wife and give them your love give your brother and sister all that love we when we do things that are not right we suffer consequences but many people perhaps like your sister who suffer her illness maybe further it for the salvation of many many souls a soul that is close to Jesus and suffers much creates an tremendous amount of power in the world because at the prayer of a suffering soul brings many people to have it gives a light for many people the Lord the Father looking down upon that soul and seeing the image of his son so bright will give grace to people all over the world who have lost their faith or even atheists agnostics and we as Catholics have to pray for our church and everyone in we have to see the light in the darkness we have to call a spade a spade and we can't go around pretending nothing's wrong that's a lot wrong but we must love our church we must pray for those who don I've lost that feeling of love for our mother the church and so maybe your sisters suffering for that the Apostles could not stand the thought that Jesus was going to rule and add to Jerusalem mother and he was going to be scourged and crucified and died and he never remembered that he said any will rise on the third day we have to keep that in our mind he had his passion we have ours but we like him shall rise one day before that day we shall go to heaven and we shall see him face to face and all of this will go away our Lord said like a woman who has a child she forgets all the rest it will all be gone don't lose her keep your hand in Jesus we have a lifetime for one more call hello hello mother yeah where are you from Pennsylvania and what is your question mother I'm the parents mother of a child with a year of degenerative disease yeah with no good ending um I please I do not mean to be disrespectful I know but when you speak of life everlasting and putting my life in his hands yes I believe I don't mean to be rude right now that means nothing to me the hope of life everlasting as little effect on me why when I must endure this life and more importantly we must endure this life but you realize that his eternity will be so great you see you I think you're taking your eyes off of Jesus but what what fruit do you have now you see there's a little bitterness there's little anger to down to that we have to accept our suffering it's so much harder to accept the suffering of a son who is dying but okay you got to have hope you have to know that I mean I don't understand going into the kingdom but that's okay I want to say a prayer for you so bad I wish you had you here I'd give you a big hug and say hey you need hope don't despair not from moment to spare pleased up your son is holy before God you're suffering for whatever ways in whatever way it can be made holy and you too don't miss this wondrous opportunity don't the Lord Jesus I ask that you bestow upon our sister in her grief anger the peace of Jesus the realization that she is closer to God and then she thinks Lord give her peace touch her heart Lord she reaches out to thee the fish you think she doesn't sweet mother Mary you know what it is to lose a son you know what it is to Phi in Anna see him die give her peace let her son peace and all of you hope good you Oh

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Length: 53min 41sec (3221 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 12 2011