Mother Angelica Live Classics - 2012-11-19 - True Friendship

yeah like a live brought to you from the Eternal Word television studios in Birmingham see in you the love the compassion of Jesus warriors work of all to praise God in his kingdom by this period live in love lives in God and God what a wonderful thing is our church this whole network is built the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody jesus loves you we are all called to be great Saints don't miss the opportunity well welcome through our family and we have a lot of family here tonight and tonight we're going to talk I asked the producer when I came in what do we talk about and she said sir I did see right here it's Iraq the sixth chapter and the fifth verse it's about friendship and and I think today we need to know what is true friendship and you know if you look at our dear Lord you'll find that the place he was hurt the most within his heart that's an awesome thing now he was not accepted when he came so he was born in a stable and the only friends he had was his mother and Joseph and we're talking about years like thirty years and some of you that are lonely you've lost everyone you've lost your husband or your wife and the friends you had are either going or on the way out you ever get that feeling that you just kind of look up and see might I might be next because they're all gone well you want to understand that our dear Lord had the same problem the same problem he came and to his own st. John said his own did not receive him awesome that the Son of God would come down there was no one around they missed they missed the signs you know today we have a lot of people all over the world looking for science they're right in front of you we're always looking for science and and Jesus had been prophesied for hundreds of years by great prophets Isaiah all the products and yet the ones who kept studying every single day missed it not awesome that the thing they've been waiting for for hundreds of years was right in that city they didn't know it never even guessed it you know a woman wrote to me other day she was going to marry this man and what happens well he asked her to go snow said he what do you call these toboggans though he called they're coming down the hill and she hits a rock and she tumbles over and she's unconscious for three months now they're about to be married she only saw him twice when things got difficult he was nowhere to be found you see you have to measure your friends this is what could see Rock says so this man she was going to marry but not a friend are you a friend with your friend with your daughter or your son or are you just the father or a mother are you a friend with your relatives can they come to you and tell you their heart up story and you've heard it 500 times 500 times you heard about their gallbladder their liver condition their migraine headaches you know it by heart soon as you see them coming down the road you say AHA here comes the migraine but be a friend to that person is to listen for the 1500 time see we're so self oriented today we don't know what it means to be a friend and you know I've often wondered about that but what we hear so often is well I don't have to love you I have to love you but I don't have to like you what does that mean we don't have a concept of friend anymore because we're not honest with each other we're not true to each other and we don't have the faintest idea the first one that has to be your friend is Jesus Jesus has to be your friend the one you go to for everything you know when we go and get our groceries we put something on the altar so you can go in the cloister Chapel and you will find a big hunk of salami or you'll find some olives or you'll find some breads and I know that he knows we got it you can't surprise God you know but you know what the Lord said the Lord said unless you become as little children you shall not enter the gate them he wants us to treat him as our dearest friend suruc says here let those that are at peace with you be many we don't know what peace is today peace is an absence absence of war an absence of problems an absence of pain an absence of everything so often people say well if it wasn't for so-and-so I'd be happy would you know they're your dearest friend and you don't know it the person that bugs you the most is your dearest friend but you don't treat them like that we have an idea that the my dearest friend will always agree with me no way because no two people think alike we have a lot of acquaintances you notice that huh but how many friends do you have how many friends can you go and confide something and they dies right there that's why I know for sure women cannot be priests because they don't have the ability to keep a secret they don't I've never met one I live with 30 of them then you can and it isn't they they mean to be untrustworthy they just can't keep it it just terrified of what would come to me one time and she said she wanted to make a sacrifice for Lent so I said to her or don't gossip she said the whole of lint I said yeah the whole of live she said forty days that forty days well while I talk about I said I don't telling me that you cannot say a word except the gossip she said well what would you talk about I said try God that better than what you're safe see we get into habits and that's why we never keep a friend because soon as they begin to work then you begin to change friends and that's why he says here he says if you if you find a friend you will date him through testing and you know I dear Lord sometimes test us did you notice that huh he tests us to be sure that we are able to bear the next cross that God is so good to us we've learned that here a million times a million times if God wants us to do something great he has to prepare us way down here we grow we go through one test after another one test after another you wonder sometimes how you can accept the big crowd big crosses and tragedies if I don't understand and if I'm not a friend of Jesus how am I going to accept a tragedy heartache if you were going to run a race you would have to start running months ahead of time we're going to have the Olympics here in Atlanta pretty soon next month the people from Europe and Australia came here two months ago just to get accustomed to the heat I don't know what they're going to do in July running a marathon when it's a hundred degrees but if they hadn't come when they did they'd never be able to do it all the problems in your life are all exercises of faith and hope and God loves you and so many people don't know that and he is your dearest friend in fact to the Apostles he said one day he said I you are no longer servants I call you friends I want you all to be a friend of Jesus I want you to trust him in everything talk to him in everything I talked to him as a child speak to a child you don't have to say long prayers all you need to do is to talk to him if I get a new pair of shoes I go before the bed segment and I say Lord thank you for my new shoes I know he knows I got new shoes it's not I don't enlighten him he knew that 20 million years ago that I was going to get new shoes he wants me to tell him sometimes I think some of you never strive for holiness because you don't think God calls you to be holy but he does he calls you and called you from all eternity to be holy and I think it's because we have so many imperfections huh they say it takes us safe to live for the thing I hope that isn't true but you're all saints in the making you may never be canonized besides it's too expensive costs almost $100,000 we can indict did you know that too much to do too many people have to work to find out did she make it did she really have a right virtue and where is the devil's advocate buy time to go through all that that's where the money is you and I are called by God to be Saints exactly where you are in your home in your work everywhere we're called by God to be holy and this is what sir X is he says a friend is a table companion a table companion somebody do feel comfortable eating with you know there's some people you don't feel comfortable eating with Jerry find somebody like that you just don't feel comfortable and then there's some people are you can eat chicken and corn with that's friendship see if you can take a big leg of chicken and who you got a friend in a restaurant you slice it see but if you're eating with the friend it doesn't matter you're at home and that's what Zurich is saying he says a faithful friend is a sturdy shelter meaning you can go with that or to that person with anything at all you can tell them everything and anything and they will understand and that's Jesus Jesus is your personal friend it says here there is nothing so precious as a faithful friend and no scales can measure his excellence and Jesus is first of all your first faithful friend and then he says whoever fears the Lord directs his friendship aright we just had Pentecost a few weeks ago and Pentecost is that awesome time in our lives when God gives us an indwelling presence more and more strong stronger and stronger and stronger so that in the Heart of Jesus you and I live see you and I live in the Heart of Jesus you and I were created by God in his mind we've been there for centuries for centuries and all of a sudden out of nowhere one day we became aware that here we are he was aware for centuries he waited patiently for you and me to be born ah most people wait for other people to die God waited for you and I to be born and he gave us himself gave us himself don't be don't be disheartened by this veneer we all have you know some people are very thin some people are very fat some people are beautiful some people are ugly some people are nice and some people are terrible but they're all created by God we would not have wars if we knew that one fact I think the thing that God is looking for today is a family that understands each other that love each other and listens to each other and bears each other's burdens I tell the sisters upstairs often it doesn't matter what we accomplish doesn't matter it matters only that we as a community love each other and do things for each other and that love of Jesus is our purpose of being here our goal our aim and you have to set the same thing you must be a friend of Jesus and when you are then other people become your friends why because you attract them to you everybody is looking for God today from the very richest to the very poor we hunger for God in our hearts we want the Lord we don't want to pay the price but we do seek that and when we don't seek God we're miserable you ever notice that huh you go around like you lost your best friend and maybe you did maybe you did we have a friend in our lazy also those of you that have had terrible tragedies in your life go to our lady this man here in front gave me a beautiful painting of a religio quadruped it it's all in silver but it's so heavy I can't show it to you but there was a lot of love put into that and our lady is your dearest friend next to Jesus she loves you she's always with you and she prays for you you know I dear Lord said one time to these apostles do not be afraid I am with you always all right that's a friend when he rose he said why do you fear you know these apostles we would have never chosen these men as apostles Peter always thought after he spoke always Thomas was a doubter if someone that one of the Apostles came back and he had just healed someone Thomas would go up to him and say well how do you know it was born blind were you there he was a doubter Juris was very jealous and he was greedy he didn't want Jesus to be Lord Messiah John and James were always close to Jesus and bragging about the beloved one I wouldn't that gripe you huh put an egg crepe you he was always the one whom Jesus loved it's if you didn't love anybody else that would have gotten on your nerves all the apostles had terrible faults and after Pentecost when the Spirit came they were changed people changed Oh Peter got so brave he opened those doors he said men of Judea listen to what I have to say oh that's not the Peter I know he changed one time a heretic was in the baths where John was and he got out of the baths he said I can't have a bath with that man he's a heretic his temper he was there to defend Jesus all of us have the very best inside of us we don't always show it but it's that some of you out there listening to me tonight have all kind of problem with people with those you work with with your family look at yourself and say Lord what's wrong with me he'll tell you try to be loving and kind if a person is not your friend that doesn't matter be a friend to them there our Lord said one time if you do good to those who do good to you pagans do that see it doesn't matter really if you have friends be a friend forgive as you are forgiven that's a hard thing to do today we live in a world that's war-torn and hates is everywhere everywhere we have people who hate you for your color hate you for your religion hate you because you're some particular denomination or hate you because you're some nationality they don't like and you and I as Christians we are called by a God to change the world you are I am and you are called by God to change the world I must be compassionate when I not shown compassion I must be lovely when I'm not showing love I must be patient when I have to wait even for God I am the one and you are the one as a Christian and if you're a Catholic Christian you have more responsibility than anyone does because you have all the sacraments you have all the sacraments and the Eucharist oh you can go to any Catholic Church and talk to God face to face do you know that have you have you lost the reality that you can go and speak to the Lord God face to face in the Eucharist huh do you know that it's a Catholic do you know that he died just for you do you know that every time you go to Mass you're at the same sacrifice is on Calvary today you know we got balloons up there we got people dancing around nobody danced on Calvary the mass is Calvary do you know that now that's what Jesus showed his friendship for you and me he went through that terrible agony so you and I could be with him forever he said my father's house has many mansions if it were not so I would tell you it's the same sacrifice as Calvary I am present there and you are present there if we knew that there would be no wars in the world at all we have lost our enthusiasm for the faith and I sometimes think Americans especially our deadheads you know what a Deadhead is they lost it that's all just lost it we're not enthused I admire my Protestant brother the little he has he's enthused of it when was the last time you said to someone that was sad oh come on come and see Jesus ah you wouldn't say that if you were somebody had a gun in your face you're so afraid we're ashamed and afraid to talk about Jesus and what we believe in I keep telling you what my old mom would she say my good Italian mother had a lot of little things she used to say and one of them some I can't tell you and television one of them was everybody has to bring his own carcass to market I bet I heard that a thousand times see my grandmother had something else to say to me she looked at me as a tester daughter hard head but you see we're all like that we're all like that we lost the spiritual realities of our life all we do is act by what we see well hear what people say what we read in a magazine what you see in a movie that's all we know if I ask you to quote a part of scripture you wouldn't know anything if I asked you to quote as the world turns from yesterday you could tell me soap operas are indelibly impressed upon your mind but not God now doesn't that seem kind of strange huh you follow those things like they were real before you die you will probably have one third of your life before the television to the other third asleep what are you doing with the last third well I bet you're saying what I think I hear you say I don't know well that said you and I have to look at where am I going why did God put me here what does he want me to do we're nearing an election I think we are we got to pray we have to pray so many of these politicians are so afraid to be pro-life you know 75% of the Catholics in America that's a lot of percentage 75% I read today cannot explain partial abortion to anyone they don't have the slightest idea what it means to know what it means it means just as the baby is being born he's turned around taken out and a citizen's put right here the base of his brain and his brains are sucked out for experimentation how is it with 70 million Catholics in America that's about 25% of the Catholics in America very few say anything about such an atrocity see our concept of friendship is so low those poor babies don't have a chance don't have a chance they don't have a friend in the world let's think about that pray hard very hard for this nation who was at one time under God now it's under science and it's under the world not under God you and I if there's ever been an election you prayed over it should be this one that somebody will have the courage and the strength to be a friend of the unborn right now I don't see any politics or very few that are friends of the Envoy and if you're not a friend of the unborn you can forget the elderly because then you're judged by your quality of life let's think Who am I a friend to and who is a friend to me we have a call hello hello where are you from I'm calling from Terre Haute Indiana oh good what are you to question I have a question first of all I might state that I'm a Baptist that's all right and I have I have a question on what you believe is the way to heaven you what what is what is your thought on the weight a way the person gets to heaven well that's not hard just to know I'm sure you know it's a good Baptist you know this book inside up and you know this book is like I must obey the laws of God I must be faithful to the Lord I must believe what he said as a Catholic I must believe in the Holy Father in the Magisterium of the church I must have that deep faith in the sacraments that no one can shake you are the Baptist's have to seek the truth you must seek the truth if you have any doubt about your religion you must seek the truth you must follow the laws of the Lord do your work for him do everything you do for him radiate Jesus to your neighbor that's a sure path to heaven we have another call hello hello mother where are you from I'm from Florida buddy I have a question we were talking about friends mm-hmm I know that Jesus was turned away by many as she said but was the Blessed Mother because she was his mother although shunned by the people I you have to repeat that I said because Jesus was shunned by something even by his own what his mother all her life all his life shunned as well Our Lady was our Lord's best friend his mother and his friend and she had to suffer from the ridicule of entire passion and the ridicule at the cross at the cross there's no woman ever ridiculed as much as our mother was she suffered awful and ridiculed by the soldiers by the Jewish by the women and I would imagine her whole life she would suffer from the ridicule the church shot she suffered from the marchers because the people did not believe she was not a a woman that was a popular woman of the town she wasn't she suffered with her son and if you were a friend of anyone a dear friend you suffer what they suffer in fact I think sometimes you suffer more our lady knew pain she knew ridicule and persecution we have another call hello hello mother yeah where you from reporter and what is your question um I'm 16 years old and devout Roman Catholic you speak a little louder yes ma'am thank you I'm 16 years old I'm a development Catholic and a follower of the Church of the teachings of the church hmm and I've suffered a lot of persecutions because of it I was recently asked to leave a Catholic High School because I was a liar to the bishop and they felt that I was doing something that was none of my concern that was their job and a lot of people don't understand what I'm doing and I hear that I'm fighting a lot of lost cause a lot and I'd like your prayers mother you have vocation yes ma'am I certainly feel that I provocation to the priesthood and they don't understand well they understand my vocation but they don't understand why I fight so much to preserve the teachings of the church because like I said because for them it's easier to just to go along then to fight for the church fight for truth everybody in general takes the easy paths and and you you make them feel guilty when you stand up for the truth you make of others around you feel guilty they just assume you shut up but don't if you're a good Catholic you've got to be a thorn in somebody side I make a lot of people absolutely miserable and I enjoy doing it I do I don't care if you hate me at least I have made you angry you see that's a good thing yeah it's a good thing because now you're going to start to think what am I doing with my life we're not here to win friends and influence people we're here to be true to be like Jesus to be loving compassion but you got to say the truth you keep on saying it don't be a priest if they're going to chicken out now go with it be strong be strong and you stand up for Jesus he'll stand up for you and persevere I'm going to say prayer for you okay my god here is the son of your Lord who wants to be a priest when it gets ridicule and persecution give him strength give him courage give him hope give him perseverance enlighten his friends who walk in darkness give them the strength to accept the truth we ask this in Jesus Holy Name and his mother amen we have another call hello Yes Mother where are you from Kansas and what is your question um I was raised Catholic and I'm still a practicing Catholic but I feel like I have lost my faith and I feel like I have lost my love for my family and love our nature thank you last night due to some circumstances that happen I made some wrong choices and I had quit praying and I just feel like I've lost my faith oh no you haven't lost your faith honey you wouldn't be crying now if you lost your faith it you wouldn't feel hurt now if you lost your faith you know Jesus loves you find a good confessor and just sit down and just talk to him and just tell them and maybe you did go but you don't feel better well you got to go to Jesus and sit down before the Blessed Sacrament and just say Lord I don't have any more faith i i'm dried up i've made bad decisions i've done bad things but sweetheart he's looking for you too to come back to him and you have to have faith in his mercy because it looks to me like you went to confession but you don't have faith in his mercy i said this on the air before but I think it for your sake is a to get in the life of one of the great saints nobody believed she was seeing the Lord and this confessor she had said to her look I don't really believe that the Lord appears to you if he does tell him to tell you my last mortal sin - when the Lord appeared to her she told him she said my confessor doesn't believe what and he asked me to ask you what was his last mortal sin and the Lord looked at her with great love and he said tell him I don't remember see I don't remember and that's what you need to do you just go in all your misery and sit before the Blessed Sacrament and you walk out a different person and don't wait for some feelings to come along they don't mean anything you want your faith back you wouldn't be listening to me if you didn't want your faith back go to Jesus say Jesus I want to be your friend please be my friend we do that good we have another call hello hello where are you from I'm from Orlando Florida mother my name is Leslie wonderful one is your journey your question well I have a statement I'm first of all very privileged to have the Blessed Sacrament exposed in our church 24 hours a day from now into eternity and every time I go before the Blessed Sacrament which is several times a week your name is first that I whispered to him thank you we love you mother you had said earlier that all the apostles had tremendous faults are a lot of faults and I was wondering st. John the Beloved which fault did he have was he ha ha what's he is that he may be that he was said well you know he had a cup of Biggie's one time they went into a city and the city did not accept the Lord so he goes up to Jesus and he says Lord shall we call down fire from heaven and consume all these miserable people he didn't have power to do that you know what our Lord said to him oh you don't know what you're talking about but he said to it you don't know what you're talking about ah John and James let's put James in with John now looking at all these apostles and I think this is my rendition now you're not going to find this in Scripture I've got to make this up but it'll give you an idea cuz these were men man automatic so I can see James and John looking around a Peter and they're saying to us up you know some of these are wackos we need to be right next to our Lord in his kingdom they don't know what they're doing now neither one of them had the humility to ask shall they go through their mother chicken and they say you go and ask him if we can be one on the right and one on the left now the mother goes she said Lord he said what can I do for you she said Lord grant that my two sons may be one on your right and one on your left they looked him so nice you know like ah and the Lord said well it's not for me to give what a disappointment huh it's not remitted yet the father has chosen the one on my right and my left and then he said can you drink of the chalice I shall drink it's at all yeah we could do that did it there's three nice big faults in John and James that should make you in the rest of you feel good they were men and men have different faults that women's pride being one of them and I even after you know it kind of I get tickled a John I love st. John don't misunderstand me but I get tickled at him because even in his epistles in his gospel he keeps rubbing idiot and the disciple who the whom the Lord loved saw all of this happen he's always saying that's it well he had his faults you have yours I have mine sometimes I dream of myself being patient I don't think there's an italian-born that way and I have never grown into it yet I have to work at it you see so everybody has a fault or many fault many of you are great sinners listening to me tonight come back home Jesus is waiting with great love and mercy and compassion come home don't be afraid once he forgives he forgets because He loves you so much see so please go to confession we had a man who went to confession the other day after 62 years and you know I thought to myself this entire network was worth that one fish if we did nothing else all these 15 years that one was worth it all so please don't postpone going to confess it but please get a confessor a confessor who believes in sin otherwise you're going to walk out wondering why you went in you need somebody to be tough on you eyepatch on the back but he needs to know yes that wasn't sin and that's pretty bad but you can change I dear Lord always mixed compassion with justice there was never one or the other it's always both together well don't forget put us between your gas and electric bill this network is brought to you by you by you I want to thank all of you that give and I want to pass all of you that don't give somewhere but not on the back because we need you to continue this network god gave us such an awesome gift so right to be will you write to Mother Angelica Irondale Alabama 3 5 to10 you and I together must build the church wherever you are defend her whatever you hear that you know is not true or right when she is maligned by her own build her up build her up when people speak against her say something nice when the whole world persecutes the church you stand tall even even if you're alone so don't forget I'm not going to be here the next two weeks I made a special tape for you for next Tuesday and next Wednesday please don't stop your contributions because I am NOT here last time I went out of town we almost went hip so if we're talking about friendship be a friend while I'm gone and pray for us last week we were in New York in Long Island and this week this coming week will be in many places places that we needed to be to save souls I'm going to say prayer for you before I leave Lord Jesus I ask to take care of all these people and those that are listening to me tonight keep them close to your sacred heart be with them wherever they are take good care of them Lord while I'm gone and take care of their loved ones stop abortion or save the babies and Lord bless my sisters and brothers and all those that come here and please Lord make them generous while I've got I want to come home without all the worry that with cause by my last trip so anyway I love you and we'll be together and father Pavan will be here the next two weeks so give him a big welcome when he comes god bless you I'll see you again bye now you

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Published: Tue Nov 20 2012