Mother Angelica Live Classics - St. Paul and the Folded Tent

gift today see who's coming to the pinto house on at home with jim and joy next time michelle fanley and emily jaminet advise women to deepen their prayer life through simple everyday solutions at home with jim and joy tomorrow at 1 30 pm eastern on ewtn at this time when the faithful cannot attend mass at their local parish ewtn is now offering the daily mass in its entirety on social media from our lady of the angels chapel live stream at 8am eastern on facebook and see it all day on youtube 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 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 [Applause] well i just have a wonderful group of family here tonight and what i really want to do is to say a prayer tonight for all those in the whole country suffering from hurricanes tornadoes floods droughts fires it's an amazing phenomenon there's hardly a place in this country that isn't suffering from something from the weather and so with hurricane george and i've heard it pronounced a thousand ways one says georgie another said george another said george and so whatever it is it's out there and it's dangerous but we have to put our shoes ourselves in the shoes of all those people who have no home tonight where it's pouring down rain where they have no water and not much to eat and we're in our comfortable homes which is where god has places and we thank him for that but we need always to remember those in our country good and bad together suffer for whatever reason god has ordained it huh and so i'd like to say a little prayer and nephew and we'll end with a hail mary to our sweet mother to help these people regain or keep their faith see that's the important thing is that we can always build and we'll always get something to eat and we'll get water and all those things can be replaced but if you start losing faith that's what's so important so we're going to say a little prayer before we start our program tonight lord god you know things you know when we sit and when we stand and not a drop of rain has fallen you do not know it lord we also know lord that for all our many sins in this country our lack of gratitude our lack of love for thee we deserve whatever we get lord we are weak human beings there are many lord who do not understand when they lose faith there are many who have lost loved ones grant that they may have courage and strength give courage and strength to everyone their lord and all the cities and countries that suffer from any kind of calamity let's look through the lord and though many times we do not understand grant our trust in thee may never falter that our love for thee may never waver and that our trust and faith in thy wondrous providence will always be strong grant eternal rest to those who have died those who are injured give strength and courage and let their heart and mind ever look up to thee who also suffered for our sake oh lord we bless you praise your holy name and we love you we ask thy guidance you know mary for the great amen say joseph pray for us well thank you for helping me out you know we we don't understand i think there's nothing quite a few people understand perhaps but i think the majority have a hard time understanding the cross tragedies like we have now and all the things that come to us that seem to us anyway to to be unfair you hear people say all the time why do these things happen to me i go to church every sunday i go to communion i go to confession i'm really a good person why these things happen to me do you ever say that yeah everybody's not in their head yo whoa well sometimes it's not for us so much as the country who knows our own salvation our purgatory on earth the strengthening of our faith our will to love god no matter what no matter what happens everybody here wants to be loved you know i've heard so many times in letters and phone calls where men will leave their wives when they find out they have cancer it's unbelievable and nobody wants i think it's very cruel if anybody's out there has done that recently and i'll make a bet there is one you better go home you married for better or worse and if you're only there for the better then god may treat you the same way think about it your wife loves you your children love you you can't get away from pain you make yourself miserable and so i would encourage any of you listening tonight if you run away from your obligations on any in any way then i would think about it you can't run you can't run because you're the one in the end that destroys yourself so many places you can run so many things you could do so many ways you can distract yourself but down in here you're not getting better you're getting worse you know it you're sitting there listening to me tonight and you're saying she's talking to me you're absolutely right i am talking to you go back do your duty be a man not a coward and the lord will bless you with strength and courage i just wanted to share with you a little bit from saint paul you know we we always are scandalized by tragedies our lady was not no one will ever tell me that if you saw your son there was a good young man who did good to everybody he's beaten up and killed by a a group of ruffians nobody would tell me you would understand the thing you'd say is why that's why i'm one of the many many many reasons i love our lady she never said why never if her son suffered she was willing to suffer with him and if you look at all the saints when i get done tonight you're going to say who wants to be one you do you want to be a saint you're not here like a little grain of sea on the sand on the shore you're here to be a saint and you know they say in the latter days whenever that it could be today who knows i do think our lord is patient if you read the old testament you find our lord's patience kind of worn out a little bit you stiff neck people i'm gonna fix you up these are my words not his but it means the same then he goes around and tell them how rotten they were pretty bad they used to sacrifice their children to the gods the pagan gods oh don't we today are we sacrificing millions of children today for the pagan god of pleasure trying to run away from reality responsibility never i don't think in the history of mankind has mankind itself killed so many children out of worship to a pagan god have comforts and selfishness whatever i cannot see the blood of all these children down drains and toilets murdered and torn to pieces in the most terrible way i can't see the our lord standing by much longer read the old testament great book kind of scary but what we're doing to the unborn is scary too isn't it huh yeah we do a lot of things we shouldn't do but i want to prove to you tonight that saint paul had a lot of problems that we have today and he was a good man a holy man didn't start out that way but i like the saints and i like all their faults and weaknesses i want to see how god socked a tomb why because when i get it i feel better not true sure you know i know saint paul had such a hard time makes me feel pretty good he was kind of griping but he wanted to boast a little bit he says this is fourth corinthians he says has anybody given you some special right what do you have that was not given to you oh oh you arrogant people out there did you hear that st paul was a theologian he didn't know it he didn't have a degree nobody called him dr paul he got it from the lord he was a man who hated the new christian gods and all the christian people went with him and all of a sudden he gets converted but what did the lord do blinded him he said why do you persecute me well he had to think a little bit now here's saint paul and he says if it was given you how can you boast as though it were not isn't that what we do when we're so proud huh you know you got to watch for human truth i told it to the brothers that less than the other last friday and they look to me like here comes the heresy no human truth will trip you up let's say that i had a talent for painting i don't i can't make a straight line with a ruler but say the lord suddenly gave me a talent to be another michelangelo a mrs angelo that even sounds right does it that was a dumb statement but anyway that i had all of this script and i painted a beautiful mural and you came up to me and said mother that is beautiful and i'd say yeah it is well the truth is i do have the talent the truth is i did paint it and the truth is ah it is beautiful so you say well what's wrong with that if i do not give credit to the one who gave me the talent and i don't know it and understand that truth a supernatural truth i'm going to get arrogant because then i attribute anything i have to me i can't do that so i have to add supernatural truth to human truth those of you that are arrogant have not done that yet you're the end and all of all things well you're not and you're going to rot into maggots like everybody else how you like that you're going to smell the high heaven that's why they bury you six feet underground you think it's because they just like to bury people six feet no it's because your smells are bad they gotta bury your six feet that's an honest to goodness truth isn't it so where is your arrogance going to be there oh you could say i got more maggot than anybody else you could do something stupid like that it would be kind of gross wouldn't it huh but you see it's so futile to be arroga about a talent that's what they paused to if it was given to you why you both you got to use it but you can never forget who gave it to you how you received it you see and so saint paul is they saying that is it that you have everything you want that you're rich already in possession of your kingdom it seems to me god has put us apostles at the end of this parade ah now you're going to see what paul suffered this will make you feel good you know the greatest humiliation that paul ever had mentioned it several times in the scriptures you know what it was he was let down in the middle of the night in a basket he never forgot it what a humiliation for this strong little guy they said he was very short all you short people ought to rejoice i think all you fed people need rejoice too because saint anthony was fat thomas the quietest oh what a what a brain huh now everybody said he had dropsy you know it kind of gripes me all the saints that were fat had dropsy how'd they get it they didn't have they just ate too much that thought i bet thomas aquinas with a brain working day and night with this pick why i think it would be such a a grace and a burden had that kind of mind but he wrote for god and the lord said to him one day thomas you have written well of me but he had his crosses like everybody else you know what one of them was he was scared to death of lightning lightning and when it was a terrible lightning storm he would open up the tabernacle and put his head in it and talk to jesus he was so scared isn't that encouraging huh wonderful which reminds me of the little boy it says naturally nothing to do with that i was saying i just came to my mind and since this is family night it doesn't really matter where we go does it no okay this little boy refused to eat his prunes and his mother threatened him and said okay god's gonna be very angry with you if you don't eat your proofs and he just sat there she's all right god's very angry with you go to bed and he went to bed he didn't care he would not eat his fruits and so in the middle of night came a terrible terrible chair of electrical storm and his mother went in to see if he was scared and he was standing with the wind at the window with the curtains pulled back watching the lightning and the rain and she heard him say all that fuss over two prunes i told you had nothing to do with the subject you'll catch on in the middle of the night somewhere okay so now paul is very very conscious of the fact that too many he's a nobody he said we've been put on show in front of the whole universe here we are fools for the sake of christ you are celebrities we're nobodies to this day we go without food without drink without clothes we're beaten and have no homes we work for our living with our own hands it was a tent maker when we're cursed we answer with a blessing when we're hounded we put up with it we're insulted and we answered politely we are treated like the scum of the earth to this day we are the scum of the earth that's saint paul and so we wonder sometime are the things that happen to us the will of god is it his permitting will or ordaining will i add one and it's only mine please don't look for it in a book i call it his teaching will i don't know if there's such a thing i call it that because it makes sense to me god permits many things in my life but he has a greater good in mind if i listen he loves us that's what we don't understand when you're cold i did when i was a kid when i was cold and hungry i didn't understand i didn't understand that god loved me i couldn't equate the hunger and the thirst with god but you know as i look back i wouldn't trade those awful days for anything in the world you know why because it makes me compassionate for all of you in the same boat it makes me compassionate for single parent families and the kids nobody knows what it means to be a child of a single parent unless you have one or have been one you don't understand millions of them today millions i was the only one in my school but today they're all over i know and that guy permitting will taught me something i would never never learn in any book never you can't learn in books you can learn other people's experiences you can explain pain you can explain suffering you can explain the rottenness of the world and the injustice of it all but you don't know it until you go through it you see that's the difference i would trade it because our lord now can give me compassion compassion many people like myself and my poor mother are on a survival course that they don't know god they don't think about god think about what do you how do you survive today it's rather cold and different type of life but that's all you got nobody cares they got their own problems and then you see you make a big mistake you don't turn to the only one that can give you hope and love and peace that's god's permitting wills he wants to do that he wants to do that for us all for us all he loves me he loves you and those who may be listening in a shelter somewhere tonight we have many fans and many many much many people that are family in puerto rico listen with the pounding of the waves and the rain is the sound of his voice it says i love you you won't understand it's okay it's hard to understand in the midst of pain we trust and our faith raises us above what i feel what i think and even sometimes what i say because he does love us i think in the other day you know i have a lot of worries frustrations you name it we got it i don't care what it is and i said lord how do you how do you overcome all the things that life brings us all in one day what what do we do and the lord enlightened me and let me understand that you don't do anything you become more and more aware the greatest gift of all he loves me and somehow all the frustrations and worries and all the other things that every day brings to each one of us no matter who you are whether you're very wealthy or very poor we're on the same boat we have to put up with ourselves we have to put up with other people and but if we could just for a moment recall helps me and those of you in shelters tonight where you just before you say anything else just sit there and say he loves me and think of saint paul he was thrown in the ocean a couple of times and almost died it's not that we don't do anything when the sun shines next week and it will and a warm breeze comes along and it will and you look around and everything is shattered and it will be so the fact that he loves you will make you build again you'll all work together and first thing you know it'll be even better than it was or you do something but you can't do anything unless there's something in here it tells you in spite of it all and because of it all he loves you he loves you you love more and you trust more in the midst of of chaos and this nation as you know is in chaos been that way a long time catching up with us though catching up and so we cannot we cannot ever become discouraged no matter what happens because saint paul's sisters were earthenware jars cracked pots he didn't want to say it that way but isn't that what he meant were a bunch of cracked pots he said it nice you know i don't know how to say things nice i wasn't brought up that way if you're brought up in an italian family yeah some of you around huh you say it like it is my grandpa was uh i mean hardheaded you know a real italian grandpa he wouldn't always say something nice but we all know i knew he loved me and if peter said something nice nice i'd have worried about him one time he said to me in italian hello hello my child i thought are you okay grandpa yeah what's the matter honestly i didn't want to remind him what he usually said but see that was his way of loving he didn't know how that was those old cracks in our pot that we hoped would feel and we hoped nobody would see but they're there we're not always perfect but we keep trying huh i don't believe people are destined to fail i don't believe that we talk about a born loser nobody's born a loser you just don't do things and even if you fail so what's wrong with failing you know i've learned my best lessons from the lord when i failed i find success hard to to take if you always run that danger of attributing success to yourself and that's the big lie now you don't know if you buy the big lie or not sometimes you might that's a worry for me it is but in failure you always learn something you feel humbled and you are did something very stupid but all of a sudden you feel clean inside all of us do that well here's saint paul again we are earthenware jars that hold this what treasure to make it clear that's just what i'm saying huh it's such an overwhelming power comes from god and not from us all of you are suffering from this storm or floods whatever now now's your time to give courage to those around you now here's some more thing paul huh let's look at it we are in difficulties on all sides ever feel that way huh yeah how many felt that now what's going to happen today difficulties on all sides but never cornered hey that's the secret huh that's where you are now you're on difficulties on all sides but never cornered he said we see no answer to our problems now this is one of the greatest saints of the first century he saw no answer to his problem how many of you have gotten to that point some of you are here because you don't have an answer to your problem you say well i'll go things can't get worse he had the same thing we see no answer to our problems but we never despair oh let's trust that we have been persecuted but never deserted we're knocked down and never killed wherever we may be we carry in our body the death of jesus and while we're still alive we're consigned to our death every day for the sake of jesus that's what you have to think about huh you got to keep your eyes focused on the lord you don't want a nation leaves the lord everybody suffers for it everybody does when the world leaves the lord the world will suffer good and bad indifferent we all suffer with our brothers and sisters it's because jesus does he does you know sometimes a parent has to chastise a child but sometimes the parent cries more than the child they really don't want to do it sometimes that's the only way we learn you know you know i had a kind of strange affliction when i was a young kid i call it affliction because nobody understood it it wasn't physical i hope it wasn't mental or spiritual i don't know what it was but i couldn't read a word but i read the whole page everybody's done don't you huh for example my i'd come home from school and my mother would say read this page and i'd read that whole page like that and then she'd say to me what's this word and it was like greek to me and i look at it and i say i don't know what do you mean you don't know i don't know read this page boom the entire page what's this word i don't know whatever you don't know i don't know this word right i can't okay read the page i read the whole page boy one night i got it wow i couldn't read one word you know what my mother did god bless her she got two jewish friends of hers that were teachers and they took me and they made little pieces of paper about this big and they put little uh they cut out little squares see and they would make me go word by word i felt somebody was taking my brain and going this way it was so hard for me to do that but you know my mother cried i think not only did she cry because she thought i was so stupid but she cried because she felt obliged to do this i don't know what i had i must have had some disease or something but i remember when those two teachers would grit me and they'd give me one line with all these little slits in them and i i could feel my brain turning this way and it's dirty that way it was terrible but it wasn't a punishment i learned that years later it was something she felt obliged to do for me and see we don't understand god's ways we don't understand why he does these things or permits these things whatever it's there and i have to suffer so through it off you and i must trust that no matter what no matter what god either ordains it or wills it permits it permits it no matter what there is something very good i can't think of anything in my life that i had to suffer through that god hasn't brought brought brought unbelievable good and and if you look in your life you'll find exactly the same and then he gives himself and i give you hopefully more courage tonight because he says for we know that when this tent my body and your body that we live in on earth is folded up that's a beautiful thing and my body on earth and your body on earth is folded up there is a house built by god for us and and that's that's the one thing you and i have to think about in our sometimes miserable existence that when this tent is folded up there is a house built by gods for us an everlasting home not made of human hands in the heavens see think of it our dear lord said it to the apostles he said i go to prepare a place for you there are many mansions oh wow god is up there preparing a place for you and i women are notorious for always wanting a bigger house a better house the mansion mansions on earth are fine for five six years ten years all of a sudden a piece of plaster comes down the window doesn't work water starts coming in the house where it doesn't belong [Music] everything happens to it you buy a new car take it around the block you lost a thousand dollars to now you lose almost five five thousand dollars by taking a car out of a showroom that's terrible all of these things are passing and so sometimes in our life things are disrupted and we just don't like it but this one sentence ought to give us courage the other night you know last week we went through the little thing of when you die they don't always come for the funeral but they're always there when the will is red even your enemies are curious i wonder what she did with it all and why didn't i get my share and why did somebody get more than i did but they've already gone through your chest drawers your car your garage your attic and the very hems of your draperies you're laughing but this woman said my mother was loaded but we never knew where she kept it and so one of the family they almost tore the whole house apart i bet she's up there looking down going you know where they found it they cut the hems off the draperies because they looked a little heavier than they should be there it was now i'm sure that poor soul thought she did the perfect way of perfect act of misery for the whole family and you're not doing too hot in that grape so the whole thing is where am i when it's all said and done when my tent is folded up where am i going yeah think of that because this life is short i'm 75 and i it's hard for me to believe i'm 75. let's read it because i feel the same as when i was 30 or 25 you know i mean i don't feel any different i make as many people miserable as i can i haven't changed that much i hope i will before he he folds up my tent but still we have our struggles and so you and i have to keep that in a mind what is it that he loves me that he has a mansion prepared for me may be in the midst of all the water and all the destruction everywhere and most of all we should lament the destruction of human beings in the womb never had a chance that we should cry about and i think they've got their little mansion what about yours where are you going you're going somewhere you are definitely going somewhere there's three places you could go you can go to purgatory you can go to heaven or you can go to hell i i'm sorry you said well i don't believe in god truth does not depend on your little mind believing facts are facts and they don't change because you don't believe we had dr raniel de ranon last week she was a riot but she was also full of truth and she talked about the student who didn't believe in god i believe we came from apes i could never say it like alice could say it i'm going to try and have her on so she can do it once more but she reminded the the young girl that she believes and she believes that since she came from france she is french that her great great great great great somebody or other may have been the quick the king of france a very holy man and she said i like to think of that louis ix and she said you when you think of your past your parents all you'll see is an ape going from tree to tree i thought it was hysterical but it was the truth you know i remember very little of what i learned in school but every day when i wake up i can see that ape going from tree to three and i thought [Music] god made me to know love and serve him well finally i'm finished so we have a call hello hi [Music] yoo-hoo there is definitely somebody there hmm well there's something you can't do on television it waits television goes on well we'll see if we can't get them there's a new caller okay there we hello oh hello hello ah where are you from i'm from uh san antonio my name is roger what is your question yeah i had a question about the blessed sacrament oh yes and about it where is captain that uh monastern yes and it's covered up during y'all covered up during the mass i was kind of wondering why wait a minute give me that again yeah it's covered up during the mass and and it's uncovered when the mass is over yes when you have mass that's the when when jesus comes down and and the priest says those awesome words and and bread and wine is turned into the body blood soul and divinity of jesus we're not permitted to have the plastic sacrament exposed our chapel for example in fact our order is totally dedicated to the blessed sacrament exposed on the altar you see and the blessed document cannot be exposed when we are about to enter into the sacrifice of the mass see so we don't see the end result of the mass which is the body and blood sown divinity of jesus we see now again calvary and calvary is it every man our dear lord you know there was an old spiritual it says were you there when they crucified my lord well the awesome thing is that you and i as catholics are there in the mind of the father all things are present all things are present there's no past no future everything is now so when you and i go to mass we are at calvary the one sacrifice you see and and so we we don't have the resurrection present that it comes in holy communion you and i receive the body blood soul and divinity of jesus it's an awesome gift from the father awesome awesome gift unfortunately we don't always appreciate it we have one more call hello hello mother angelica yeah where are you from um new jersey and what is your question um my first question is did the roman catholic church um uh implement the uh uh mary as co-redeemer yet no they did no i wish they would i personally think this is my opinion the lawyers say i have to say that you see they're afraid i get in trouble every time i say something so i have to it's my opinion i think if our lady was declared at the dogma the the co-redemptrix mediatrix and advocate i think the world would change so fast we wouldn't know what happened because that's the last marian dogma that's needed i think if needed to say to our lady we're so grateful that you stood beneath the cross and offered your son for us we're so grateful sweet mother that you intercede for us that you're a real mother and you pray for us we're so grateful sweet mother that you not only intercede for us that like a good mother many gifts come from you given to you by your son jesus see whatever we call our media tricks of all grace because whatever we get she gets from jesus huh she can't give it to us herself but it comes from jesus and so the dogma to me makes sense a lot of people think it's not the time when is there time to do anything you you you can't do anything everybody approves that everybody say we would lose the entire protestant faith to we'd never have any kind of unity if we declared her assumed into heaven well we did it nobody had a nervous breakdown who had a nervous breakdown over that made sense to me you can't wait for people to approve i would love to see it i may not in my lifetime somebody will though i think it'll be done either this century or the beginning of the next i may be wrong but it's okay you can have your opinion and i wish she is because i think our dear lord you know way back in genesis the lord promised she would crush the head of satan well i think this is a great time to crush it i think there's no greater time i talk to our lady every day and i say sweet mother what are you waiting for you're the greatest woman ever lived ever created by god how long are you going to let this monster roam the earth well i don't know god not god bless you and like the irish say may you live a thousand years bye now [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 7 days a week or call 1-800-854-6316 launching ewtn news in-depth has had an incredible impact on my life and on who i am as a person and as a catholic it's forced me to think about courage in a very different way because one thing is thinking and praying about the issues that we all have to encounter and how i feel about the church and another thing is talking about it and engaging with other people publicly in a way that millions of people are watching around the world that takes a special kind of deep reflection and prudence and prayer that i never had to do before ewtn news in depth engaged informed catholic friday at 8 pm eastern here on ewtn in scriptures we often see jesus the messiah the good shepherd the author of life and the wonderful counselor after all who knows our minds better than our savior and what behaviors and actions lead us to holiness in jesus the master psychologist listen to him popular catholic psychologist and ewtn radio and tv host dr ray guerendi directs us to the root of all healthy counseling found in the words of the creator himself in his own down-to-earth style dr ray explores modern psychology and the light of christ and his church to identify the therapy tools worth trying and what to avoid experience the gospels on a deeper level with jesus the master psychologist listen to him by dr ray garendi the latest release from ewtn publishing now available at ewtn ewtnrc.com or call 1-800-854-6316 for a thousand years his throne sat empty the one who would gather his people build a temple enlighten the nations and put all enemies [Music] under his feet but when one among them claims the title messiah must decide can this captive really be king

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