Mother Angelica Live Classics - Psalms 139

[Music] next time on ewtn live connect with father john tragelio host of ewtn's web of faith 2.0 as he and father mitch answer frequently asked catholic questions on the next ewtn live ewtn live truth live catholic [Music] mother angelica live brought to you from the eternal word television studios in [Music] birmingham [Music] see in you the love the compassion of jesus glorious work of all to praise god in his kingdom moved by the spirit one who lives in love lives in god and god lives in him what a wonderful thing is our church this whole network is built on trust the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody jesus loves you we're all called to be great saints don't miss the opportunity well welcome if my veil seems suddenly to sprout out and cover my face tonight it's because i was very unmortified this afternoon i passed this place and we're coming into birmingham and i love cappuccino and i figured you know if i had a cup a glass of cappuccino i would be just very happy to get rid of this headache so we went in and i got it and i said oh brother this is so good i went like this but it wasn't going in my mouth it was all the way down and brother's looking at me and laughing and and i said oh no i didn't really need this cup you know i just no i not only had the cup i got this collar all messed up my habit was full of coffee so the sad story is that i took all the pins out of my veil and any minute in the middle of this whole program it may just fold out so if suddenly i become obliterated from the screen that you know exactly what happened it was not an act of god it was an act of angelica who couldn't wait to get her cup of cheeto so here we are no matter how we look so now i just want to talk to you tonight about the psalms i don't think catholics can read the song you all read the psalms yeah well the psalms are beautiful prayers that so often we miss and this is one of my favorite psalms and i just like to go over it with you tonight and just kind of have a praying time just to give our souls that peace that no one else can give no one else but god if you don't have peace in your soul tonight why don't you kneel down and ask why why say well i got a lot of troubles yeah we all do it's because mostly it's because we do not see jesus in everything we don't see the father or the son or the holy spirit and so i'm going to read you isaac and then we'll comment on it this is psalm 139 and sometimes we get so accustomed to praying for things don't you first thing you add hello jesus i need this i need that and then we go our way see i don't think your mom and dad would like you to do that if you got up in the morning and said mom i need a clean shirt seize the night then you'd come back and say i need this i need that she'd get kind of tired so would you see so i would like to praise god tonight i'd like you to listen and follow me and get yourself in a position where i don't think of anything tonight i want you think of any i don't want to think of your problems your aches your pain nothing just pretend you're all by yourself and you're talking to god all by yourself just try that and i'm going to repeat these and kind of make a little commentary on it it says yahweh you examine me and know me you know when i'm standing and when i'm sitting now can you imagine that you don't pay attention to anybody that's standing or sitting you're just happy they're there and quiet but he knows and it's such a little thing you know you examine me and know me some of you don't think god knows you you're not a surprise to god he decided you would be before time began you read my thoughts from far away wow you know that happened to when our lord called one of the apostles nathaniel i think and he said to the other apostle he said here's a man without guile and he heard him and he said how do you know me and jesus looked at him and said when you were under the fig tree i saw you wow i want you to think of that when you walked in your living room and sat in that chair or that sofa god knew you did it and saw you do it i mean that's the kind of attention you get from god so all this sin that you commit in the dark you ain't hiding from anybody and especially god you could rob a safe in the dark but it's as bright as the noon day sun to him because it says here you read my thoughts from far away whether i walk or lie down you are watching oh wow whether all you people feel lonesome in apartment houses listen to that huh you know every detail of my conduct no secrets from god you know sometimes you come home from work or you're tired and you think well i'll just lie down on the sofa for a few minutes and rest he sees you he knows you and he loves you see we don't have that kind of love do we we don't have the kind of love that loves everything a person does that's good and sorry for everything a person does that's not too good we don't have that kind of neither could we because we don't have that attention you can't give your attention tomorrow one thing at a time you can't and so we can't love like god loves and that's why it's to me it's so ungrateful for all of us to ignore this awesome god that knows all of these things about me with love in his heart oh play golly it says a word is not even on my tongue before you know all about it oh do you ever say something fast you just want to bite your tongue afterwards no you ever do that i mean you just thought why did i do that why did i say that yeah we all do one time a woman asked me if i liked your hat just years ago when they wore heads and before i could think i said oh i think it's ugly i wanted to bite my tongue because i could have said uh-huh just anything but i can but it came i was thinking ugly see and i said it what a terrible thing but see god he knows it's not even on my tongue and he knows it they make you feel uneasy good yahweh before you know all about it close behind and close in front you fence me round oh wow to know if we knew this one little truth about god you'd never be lonely again he fences me in he's in front of me he's in back of me he's beside me see these kind of truth about we call attributes of god this is whose god is he doesn't possess these things he is these things god is love and we possess love god is goodness and where we possess goodness god is merciful we possess mercy but he got in all of it all of it and it says you shield me with your hand it's like many times in our lives and we don't know it one day we will when something was going to happen to you and god put his hand there shielded you he shielded you but you didn't know it and we need to thank god for that we need to thank god for all the things that he does for us that we don't know i remember one time after my spinal operations just so many years i forget and this woman was shaking me for some treatments and she was talking talking and the hospital was here and we're here and she's about to turn into the hospital and all of a sudden in front of me on this side where i was passenger seat with the radiator of a big bus i could feel the heat because she didn't look on the side of her when she started turning that bus driver turned so fast and went up on the sidewalk that's the only way i was saved we'd have both been killed run over by a butt but see that god set his hand there and that's happened to all of you at some point in your life it may not have been a car may not been a bus maybe it was just something or someone and it says here shielding me with your hands such knowledge is beyond my understanding a height to which my mind cannot attain see god's love for you that's why you got to be good you can't offend somebody that loves you this much see we can't do that we got to stop offending god you know we that's not right it's just ungrateful see these two paragraphs if you memorize them or just read them often you would know how much he loves you and you would never want to offend him say we offend god like it was nothing we don't keep the commandments we lie and cheat we do not everybody but enough souls that are in danger but see if you know this and then the the psalmist says where could i go to escape your spirit nowhere but isn't it wonderful to have somebody that loves you that much always present he's not going on vacations he's not going to leave you he's never let you down he's always there and the psalmist says where can i go where could i flee from your presence you know when i was a young sister i was kind of ornery well i still am i guess and um river mother were teaching us how to meditate you know and um she said you place yourself in the presence of god and i would think to myself well i can't get out of his presence he's everywhere the smart nervous he the smart novice that suddenly entered the order and knew all these things it was stupid you know really stupid but it's true where can i go from his friend you can't see if we knew these little things even though we may be alone and even though people abandon us and your children don't pay attention to you you have god you have god and it says if i climb the heavens you are there and there too if i lie in showel everywhere nothing would exist if god were to stop thinking of me at this moment you would see a great big grease spot on this chair that's what you'd see he has to think of you every moment for you to exist they say why are you telling us all that because i want you to know god i want you to know his love this is a great psalm if i flew to the point of sunrise would you ever didn't want to do that huh did you ever see the sunrise we sure have i hope too many people don't they grouchy when they get up they're mad they have to go to work and they're looking at the clock nobody looked at the sunrise but this man said if life flew to the point of the sunrise or westward across the sea your hand would still be guiding me and your right hand holding me ah isn't that awful if you could that'd be wonderful if you could think of that first thing in the morning i bet you wouldn't want to tell me your thoughts first thing in the morning but see you have an opportunity to speak to god first thing in the morning if i ask darkness to cover me and light become nights around me that darkness would not be dark to you lord yahweh and night would be as light as day oh what a mind this man had one of mine that he not only could plumb the depths of the beauty and the existence of god and god's love but it that penetrated his mind you see penetrated his mind and allowed him to ask these kind of questions and to come to these conclusions but for you and i we're just too busy for god too busy about things that pass may never come back again too busy and now let's see what else he says it was you who created my inner most self you know one of the saddest moments of my life i've had a lot of sad moments but this was not so much the kind of sadness you have when something happens or it's disappointing but this woman came she had the most beautiful little girl i don't know about ages but oh she was maybe this tall just a little tight blue eyes and blonde hair and a beautiful smile and i said oh what a beautiful smile i didn't know you had a young daughter that woman looked at me and said she was an accident i looked at that young girl that young young little girl she put her head down i thought what a terrible terrible terrible thing to say to a child oh she was an accident you see how cruel we get how cruel we are isn't that terrible i've often wondered what happened to that little girl maybe she's listening oh no i'm sure she never forgot whether mother said the worst of verbal abuse the worst then when you compare all that the psalmist says about the lord god loving you thinking of you creating you you created my innermost self that's not an accident not an acton and you put me together in my mother's womb did you hear that are you pro-abortionists did you hear that did you hear that that knife and that salt water hits the lord god himself who is putting that child together do you hear that and you argue when does life begin oh we're in trouble no for all these mysteries i thank you for the wonder of myself for the wonder of your works there would never be another abortion clinic they would never be arguing and making it a law to be able to tear apart a child god is putting together oh please all of you think what you're doing think think you can't do that then don't be wondering don't be wondering when things begin to go wrong because they will we cannot treat god like that we can't interfere you want to take your bible and if you don't have one buy one most important book you need right now in these days let's go on and see no yeah here's some more here it says you know me through and through why i just got to know you through and through you want to know why from having watched my bones take shape oh what a horrible horrible horrible thing abortion has to be how horrible you know me through and through for having watched my bones take shape and when i was being formed in secret knitted together in the limbo of my mother's wool oh isn't that the most awesome paragraph you know doctors are running through their doctor books to see when does life begin oh how we hedged in him and hall we don't like god's way of doing things so that if you can decide this point there's nothing but a little plasm here we just take it out no you don't you know me through and through for having watched my bones take shape when i was being formed in secret knitted together in the limbo of my mother's womb you had scrutinized my every action you know how babies kick and remove they scrutinize all were recorded in your book just imagine this book and god's looking at your little body being formed and you kicked and he says one kick from susie one little kick from jot scrutinized oh my days were listed and determined oh now here comes euthanasia this one's true we won't give them medicine too expensive my days were listed then when he was watching my bones knit together and i don't give a hoot what doctor says anything different we can't help you're ignorant of god and his ways but you better sharpen up because that's the way it is look here all my days were recorded in your book my days listed listed how many and determined even oh it's awesome even before the first of them occurred let's see what it said before you were born as you were coming out of your mother's womb god began to list your days before that what do they do today partial birth abortion put a scissors or a knife in the back of that little child's head and suck out his brains oh don't you worry about earthquakes and tornadoes at all when humanity does that i guarantee guarnchy the lord yahweh who knows all things will not stand for it very long we don't know what we're doing we don't know what we're doing before god determined even before first of the one of them occurred you shut it off do you know what you're doing god has determined this shall shall be god is determined what he's either like and what color and his hair god has determined his personality god has determined the whole thing and determine how many days he would live and the moment he would die and you you say no don't do that don't do that see i i really don't feel we know i used to wonder why why did our dear lord forgive all of his persecutors and then excuse them father they don't know what they do well it's true it's true we don't know what we do but woe to all of us who were supposed to teach you and didn't woe to us now here's what else it says god how hard it is to grasp your thoughts how impossible to count them i could no more count them than i could count the sand i can't count the thoughts of god i can't like a little worm in an apple peek up my head and say god you can't do this and you can't do that and the author said suppose i could you would still be with me god examine me and know my heart probe me and know my thoughts make sure i do not follow pernicious ways that i do not believe the great lies that are told to all humanity today and guide me in the way that is everlasting everlasting this song should be in every home today because life is such a small value eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die well there's a there's a little thing missing here tomorrow you're judged that's what's missing and you see i think that's why our lady cries and these statues cry and i suppose some of them are a little bit fakey but not all of them why do statues cry why they don't understand how we can be so cruel to the god who created us loved us knows before time began knows before a thought is in my on my tongue knows when i sit and when i stand watches over me as a loving mother loves me forgives me has compassion towards me how a god who sent his son to suffer such a terrible death and rise from the dead when he rose to save me all of that and much much more how can we offend him i think that's why they cry how no we've had christianity two thousand one years when you look at the past and all the good and evil when you look at our lord's resurrection and life and so beautiful in the gospel and all you just have to wonder why maybe it's because we're so gullible you know we don't think do we we don't look at a thumb and go over it and and pray we're just little puppets you know guided by groups in new york and chicago california and all these other strange countries and places that all make decisions what you're going to wear next year this year everybody wears brown okay everybody wears brown this year you color part of your hair green and the other part yellow everybody goes for green and yellow this year we wear shoes that have five inches of heels and no toes so we all wear heels five inches high and no toes we're just gullible i know why our lord called a sheep they're dumb and smelly i mean we just don't catch on we don't cancel it so i i i just want you to read buy a bible buy a book of psalms this my this book i've had to die was a novice how many years ago i can't even remember 55 56 still a good book buy one just for psalm 1 5 39 139 if you're having doubt tonight about having an abortion would you read this psalm first please if you're thinking of it would you just just once just read this song one three night that's all i'm asking you read this song it would be terrible thing to destroy a baby that god decided should be i have a call hello hi hi mother yes my name is kathy yes and i'm from pennsylvania and um my mother died about two months ago and i'm very um respondent and despair over her death i can't accept it because she was a joy of my life and i we were always together and um i was her caregiver and i can't forgive myself i feel like i could have done more for her and i blame myself for her death and i god forgive me actually blaming god for taking her from me and my question is why do you why do you blame yourself for her death thing because i thought i could have done so much more for her i i did i did the best i could for her but uh i just sit and dwell and think of what i could have done yes and um i can't forgive myself for that and i also blame god for taking her from me and i am ashamed of that i'm losing my faith and my question is do you have any recommendations on how i could regain my faith and try to forgive myself for some of the thoughts i have well sweetheart and the first time in the first place i don't think anyone you love died that you don't blame yourself for something you know that's a common ordinary thing that happens to all of us you always wish well i i wish i would have done this i wish we would see this is because we forget this psalm here when it says he decides when you live and when you die your mother was created by god she bore you she had a time to live that's common to every human being that's ever created there is also a time we must go home and so sweetheart there's nothing we can do about that because we're going to a better place see if you could see where your mother is if she's in heaven at this point even if she were in purgatory she's happier why because she has seen god and that joy is so awesome see and that's why you have to stop thinking of yourself and your loneliness you did your mother well and now she's with her god as you will be and i will be and every one of us will be you see god does not create figments of wind and imagination when he decides to create there's a human being there that has a destiny a time to live a time to die and that determines her happiness in heaven see the amount of love she had and all the trials she bore with patients are all there waiting for as a crown of glory everlasting glory you have to think of truth and you see it's a little hard you know you can't get over somebody's death like that you can't but neither can you lose your faith in the lord god yahweh see you have to protect your faith by believing in understanding the truth and what is the truth the truth is your mother is happy no more pain no more suffering no more worry no more frustration no more tears she has seen god and as the fulfillment of our whole existence see so you have to think of the truth if faith is not a figment of imagination it's an ascent to truth that that's what's wrong with the world today we don't want the truth we want half truths fakey truth we want anything that makes me want to do what i want to do but don't no play don't lose your faith you want to be with your mother in heaven one day and don't blame god he created her out of nothing put her together in her mother's womb as she put you together in her womb and had a place for her in his kingdom so because you love your mother you want to talk to her and pray to her and pray for her but most of all rejoice that she has found real true everlasting happiness nothing can ever take it away now if you think of that because it's true then you'll feel better we have another call hello hi mother where are you from uh south carolina and what's your question what's your question uh how do you get closer to god and feel his presence i don't know if my faith is weak or doing it right or what we all hope we're doing it right however see you cannot get out of his presence that's why i read this psalm tonight god is always present to us always we are not present to him always why what we're busy we got a lot of things to do we get distracted by the world by politics by food by education a little bit you just go around in a like a whirling dervish you know so it's very difficult for us to concentrate on god but we must that's what prayer is for now in our poor human nature eventually as you get older you got an ache a new ache every morning a new pain every night all the young ones get on your nerves and all the old ones are reminders that you're on your way also so life in itself is pretty miserable you see so we can't kind of pull up some wonderful feelings about love love is not a feeling did you ever wonder why all these girls and these boys they're so in love and they go around just that and the other thing and a month or two later [Music] god where did i marry him lord where did i get her from why is that it was just lovey-dovey three months ago what happened a car hit you what what happened the feelings went you can't go around feeding hot tea tatsu all time you get tired you got to be normal and mature nobody can have a real happy happy feeling all the time you can't you know you just don't have it you get tired sometimes you know used to have fiestas and and and the porcion people would come from all over make indulgence i was smiling all day my ears hurt my ears move backwards when i smile don't ask me how i don't know but they do if i smile my ears just push right back i don't know why but i my ears were hurting at night see we're not made just to be joyful and feel good we're made to be human and sometimes we feel good and sometimes we feel god but we don't have to have to worry at all when we don't feel god you make yourself present through god through prayer silence helping your neighbor and you make god present to you by the same way if you help somebody there's a little little thing in here it seems like oh that was wonderful if you smile at someone that's depressed that's talking to god if you give somebody a cup of cold water he sees it and rewards you see it's not a matter of feelings if you have fine rejoice it's a matter of loving when you love someone you're always present dryness now is not a failure dryness is one foot up on the ladder of holiness because that's when you prove you love god for himself and not for what he does for you but he does everything for us everything we can't move without his help can't so i wouldn't worry about dryness you know we have little things going around say be kind to your neighbor today wonderful try being kind to god just say i praise you lord i thank you lord i thank you for my joys and my sorrows i thank you for the times you said yes to me and the times you said no i thank you for my life and one day i shall thank you for my death i thank you for loving me i thank you for calling me i thank you for your beauty for your goodness for your compassionate mercy towards me i thank you for all you are for all your attributes your glory your wonders your goodness your immensity your majesty your holiness and i thank you because it's all mine see a little flower used to say that everything he has is mine she'd say and everything i have is his you see that's how we want to talk to god i figure i don't like the gripe to him very much you two graped when i was younger now i'm catching on i'm catching up he don't need my gripes he needs my thanksgiving he needs my love he needs my compassion for his pain try that try that when you pray i think that gives him honor and glory makes him feel good and that's what we want to do huh and all over the world where tragedy hit suddenly and even for that let us thank god you say well that's pretty hard yeah but remember eternity is very very long and that's what you're here for so we'll see you tomorrow night and love god today [Music] to order this episode of mother angelica live classics from the ewtn religious catalog web store log on to ewtnrc.com 24 hours a day seven days a week or call 1-800-854-6316 the role of the tradition from the apostles the apostolic tradition is authoritative passing on of information that is not in the scriptures when it comes to interpreting the bible who better to turn to than father mitch pacqua the bible itself never claims that you use the bible alone join father mitch as he explores the deep connection between tradition and scripture in a weekly bible study we need them both and we don't understand the scripture very well without the tradition scripture and tradition with father mitch today at 2 p.m eastern on ewtn and follow on facebook i remember the day very clearly i just gave my life to allah and muhammad i said the shahada prayer there is only one god and his prophet muhammad three times i just became a muslim my life was about to change in a big way i went home that day from school and my mother said where were you and i said i was just at the local mosque so she told me go straight to the church and ask jesus if he wants you to be a muslim so i did i remember going to the church this huge weight on my shoulder it was the longest walk of my life it was only a ten minute walk but it felt like three hours i finally got to the church and i knelt down at the back of the church staring at that tabernacle and i asked jesus if you are really there show me do you want me to be a muslim or a christian about 30 minutes of dead silence then an old lady came in lit a candle and i remember saying to myself what a holy woman but instantly thinking according to islam only muslims go to heaven so this lady is not going to heaven that can't be right i look back at the tabernacle and a face appeared on the door of the tabernacle it was the shroud of turin i later discovered i never saw that image before and then a voice an inner voice spoke to me and said shabel are you going to give up all that i've done for you see i knew that voice to be jesus and he was asking me directly am i going to turn my back on his church i said right there and then in response no lord i'm not going to give you up and this huge weight came off my shoulders i could breathe again and i was at peace i'm a catholic i'm going to remain a catholic now i need to know why mother angelica the founders of ewtn her ever-faithful teachings and inspired writings have brought us closer to our lord throughout the years in a holy hour with mother angelica a new release from ewtn publishing mother shares the fruit of her years in prayerful reflection and adoration this collection of mother's personal 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kolisova our lady leads us to the lord that's what she's always done she gave us jesus christ the king god's one and only son but when our lady lived on earth humble meek and poor all her clothes could fit inside a tiny little drawer so visiting her cousin's house the handmaid of the lord could only wear a handmade dress tied with a simple cord but now in heaven mary has a mansion by the sea with a wardrobe filled with clothes of great variety and when she sometimes visits us she picks her clothes with care according to her travel plans she chooses what to wear on mount carmel she held her son all dressed in tan and brown she clasped a tiny scapular and wore a golden crown she formed a great community that still exists today of holy monks and holy nuns who serve the poor and pray in guadalupe mexico her dress was tinted red a turquoise veil with yellow stars flowed down from mary's head she put some roses in a cloak arranged them lovingly and left her sacred image there magnificent to see in paris standing on a globe and clad in blue and white her hands stretched out and from her rings came dazzling rays of light she asked to have a medal made and worn by everyone then miracles of every kind were granted by her son in ireland our lady dressed in shades of white and green to show that she would always be the emerald isles queen she stood in silence in the night and uttered not a word the howling wind and falling rain were all that could be heard she wore for little bernadette a french girl pure and sweet a frilly veil a long blue sash and roses on her feet she came from out a grotto and the little french girl kneeled then mary made a fountain spring where all the sick were healed in fatima our lady stood upon a holly tree she dressed in white like crystal light and held a rosary she then performed a miracle well known in history the sun came down and spun around and danced for all to see no matter what our lady does and where our lady goes she always takes the time to wear the most amazing clothes her clothes are proof that heaven is a truly wondrous place a land of beauty life and love in joy and truth and grace the queen of angels smiles now from heaven up above her face is so delightful and her heart so full of love she stands there shining like the sun in robes of blue and red a crown of 12 bright sparkling stars she wears upon her head oh mary queen immaculate please help us love your son please help us trust and serve him till our life on earth is done [Music] to purchase your copy of the book our lady's wardrobe by anthony de stefano log on to our webstore ewtnrc.com and type in item number 6261 24 hours a day seven days a week or call 1-800-854-6316 ewtn podcasts are the perfect companion for busy catholics everywhere your favorite ewtn programs are waiting for you to listen to on your time with on-demand access to audio you can pause and pick up right where you left off anytime anywhere which means you can enjoy at home while on the road 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