One of the Most Inspirational Talks of Our Time by Fr. Jim Blount, SOLT

[Music] on the day i called for help you answered me in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit alleluia nothing less than that brothers and sisters a relationship with the living god amen and you know we be very careful in our beautiful catholic church the one true church that jesus founded because we have so many gifts you see and so many wonderful structures you might say and even the code of canon law is a gift and yet what can happen is that you and i become centered on secondary things and forget the primary thing everything in the catholic church all the structures all the dogmas and the doctrines and all the sacramentals and the prayers the hierarchy it's all pointing to one thing get ye into the heart of god amen none of you make sense without that the very center is that you and i enter into the heart of the most holy trinity and there unite with him amen and we have to keep that in mind because without that the whole thing is boring that the whole thing falls down he came beloved to be united with us in nothing less than a marriage vow amen isn't that amazing you could say i'm married to god you are indeed he is our spouse amen and by the way that's doc final isn't it it's scriptural that saint paul even tells us in sacred scripture that marriage itself matrimony is a symbolism of the wedding of jesus the god-man with the church amen hallelujah well i love in particular beloved these kinds of psalm verses lord on the day i called for help you answered me but now would you say this after me but say it you know with oomph say it with it from your gut would you say this after me lord on the day i called for help you answered me say yes beautiful lord on the day i called you answered me you love me you're beautiful you're awesome you will always answer me i hit the jackpot amen didn't we hit the jackpot now here's an example let me give you an example here maybe even two but here's an example how on the day that i called for help he answered me can i give you an example that happened in my travels this time in mexico is that okay this is what happened i was leading a pilgrimage of my good parishioners from belize i was a missionary priest in belize for many years which is you know right next to mexico and guatemala and honduras and we were traveling from belize through mexico to guadalajara where there was with the international eucharistic congress some years ago so we took a bus from belize into mexico then we took a smaller plane and then another plane to get all the way to guadalajara so at one of the airports it was in i believe was in chateau mall in southeast mexico we were there getting ready to board our plane to mexico city and i had i believe about 45 pilgrims with me from my my parishes in belize and we were there lined up and they were spitting out you know our tickets from the computer and they called them out and everyone getting their tickets but it turns out as they were giving out the tickets that one of my parishioners her name wasn't called and so we had at least 45 of us there plus myself but there was not a ticket for miss julia it was kind of funny she was like the shortest of all of us the shortest one and she was a quite a smart gal she was an rn and she was definitely a part of our pilgrimage but she was left out now i know just a little aside that when we get left out of something there's a reason don't get upset will you knock it off we all get left out now and then so god may be testing you you see what i mean and seeing do you have enough faith that is divine love for you that even when you get left out let's say everyone gets a bowl of ice cream but you and you don't cry you remain firm in your faith saying the chocolate chip ice cream might come tomorrow you remain strong in your faith that he still loves me despite persecution when you remain strong in his love then your love grows amen so when you do get left out of something do your best not to get angry you know what i mean or vengeful or mean god has allowed it for a reason he's trying to make you into a saint give me a break amen so julia got left out i know there were reasons for that so my people they all had their tickets they were getting right they're boarding the plane and so the people in charge they were hurrying us on and they they all went through you know the security and went through to go through that door and now all over the other side and they're back getting to me my people and they say come on father come on you're going to miss the plane and i said well julia doesn't have a ticket he said come on father but we need you you can't stay behind and then the young man behind the desk working for the airlines he agreed with him he said father you better you better listen to your people you better go with them better get on that plane now it's about to take off i said well i i can't i need to make sure that julia has a ticket and my people are saying come on father and i i told them no you go on i'm going to stay with julia now you know what i mean a priest is a shepherd right how could i leave one behind and go with within 99. i'd be reversing the gospel wouldn't i so i said you go on i do my job i just stay with my little sheep right isn't that right so i stayed with her you go go on well the young man behind the counter got mad at me i don't know why he got mad but he started chastising me so i mean he's like 30 years younger than me he's chastising me in public and he said father get on that plane you you don't care about julia i got to get on that plane because i have a ticket he says now listen if they're going to close that door in one minute and when they do it's against federal law to open it once they close that door you got to get on the plane now listen no one has ever gone on that plane once that door is closed you got to go now i said i i've got to stay with my thank you i got to stay with my parishioner he got really flustered at me and sure enough they all went on the plane and they closed that steel door and that was it and i'm there with julia and julia is so grateful because i know even though she's a tough little girl tough lady i know that she was secretly frightened you know what i mean to be left behind in a foreign country so i was standing there with her the door is closed now they're all on the plane and julie was wondering what are we going to do he says well we can catch another flight but let's try something julia give me your hands so we're there in the airport right near the counter and i took miss julia's hands and i began to pray with her and i said lord jesus we need your help we're kind of stuck and i don't have any more money to buy any new tickets either and of course what's going through my mind is today's scripture verse lord on the day i called for help you answered me amen i don't care where you are or what it is if you call for help he's going to answer you amen i don't care where you are even if you made a boo-boo and you're in the wrong place cry for help and he'll rescue you amen i don't care where you are or what you've done you say jesus i'm a big fat sinner forgive me and now rescue me too amen he's beautiful isn't he the lord says challenge me and i'll prove to you my love amen so challenge your beautiful jesus he want to be involved in your life amen we don't call upon him enough and that's why we don't see miracles beginning today pray for a miracle today amen because when you get one you have faith to pray for the second one it starts getting bigger and bigger amen so i took julia's hands and i prayed and they're holding her little hands and we're praying and there's the counter over there and [Music] jesus we need you to help us would you do something right then when i said that prayer with julia a lightning bolt came out of the sky and the whole airport became overcast on a bright sunny burning hot day in mexico i'm not kidding you everyone saw it boom and julia jumps and i look at julia and i go like this [Laughter] amen hallelujah and i'm telling you why the whole place became dark in the middle of the day and mexico has a lot of bright hot sunny days very few rainy days everything's overcast that lightning bolt came down and i heard the announcement it was like an emergency they stopped all the planes on the tarmac you could hear the announcement you know i know a little bit of spanish everything and i could see as i looked out the windows that even our plane was just started taxiing down the driveway or the runway it stopped our plane stopped and no planes could land or take off everything stopped and looking there i'm looking at julia and i i've been thinking this you're up to something aren't you i knew it i knew it i knew it you see listen when he's your best friend you know don't you when your best friend wings at you you know what he's up to don't you i knew he was up to something so i'm looking at julia i'm looking outside i know that god's at work again when i notice walking down the hallway of the airport is a gentleman in a nice suit and a tie and he's walking down he has a little name tag on he's walking this way he just happens to see me there you know they have you know more piety sometimes in central america more respect for the priesthood so he saw me as a priest he said padre padre can i help you are you today can i help you give it to me i said yes sir i said miss julia doesn't have a ticket so we can't get it on our flight he says oh okay let me help you his sign said he told me he was the president of the airport i kid you not that's what the tax said and that's what he told me so he he's made the young man step aside and he got there to the computer went like this the ticket popped her up in five seconds there was her ticket [Music] and he said here you go julia here's your ticket then he turned to the young man in front of everyone and he said to the young man you get the golf cart open the door put father and julio on the golf cart and drive them out to the plane and put them on the plane [Applause] he did it again you did it again he did it he did it amen hallelujah are we blessed listen that's your best friend it's not just for me that's for you too amen that's for all of us not just for me for all of us he is our best friend amen and beloved that's not just theological or poetical or analogical it's real it's real he wants a real friendship with you and i amen you got to invite him into your life we got on that plane which by the way according to the young man had never happened once in the history of the airport not even once but see i know the big boss i know the boss of his boss you see we got on that plane on the tarmac i mean right there on the tarmac when we get on the whole plane explodes in applause we sat down as soon as we sat down and put on our seat belts the sun came out again within seconds the sun came out and we took off alleluia when i was in need i called upon his name and he answered me amen alleluia could i give you one more example that happened just a month ago it's kind of fun when you serve jesus you see and i always tell my good people listen are you bored if you're bored you're not following the same jesus amen i'm telling you right now if you are bored you are not living your catholic faith because to live with jesus i mean it's like jumping on a white stallion and running through the country that's what it's like to follow jesus if you're not excited there is something definitely wrong amen because he is not boring i remember once one of my sisters asked me years ago she said to me jimmy she asked me about her husband i won't say his name she said to me jimmy do you think so and so her husband do you think he's boring now you you know that the marriage is in trouble when they have to ask you if their spouse is boring you know there's trouble in the land amen so i looked at her and i said sis no i said i was trying to be as polite as i could be i mean because she was right on target but he had a doctorate degree by the way a phd you know what i mean oh my gosh that can be make it even worse so i said no sis no he's not boring he's bored that's the holy spirit amen i had to find a way to answer her honestly but also give her some insight you see and that's the truth there's no such thing as a boring person there are only those who live their life in boredom you were meant for great things you were meant to be a saint as one writer said the only tragedy of human life is not to become a saint the only tragedy of life is not to become a saint amen and each one of it was meant to shine forth with the refugees of god and each one of us sort of shines forth a different virtue or aspect of god right like francis what humility and poverty right but thomas aquinas what brilliance right and the purity of a little boy chastity each saint has their own brilliance they all shine forth with god you shine forth some aspect virtue or characteristic of god that i don't we each shine forth with something beautiful amen it's absolutely true isn't it some are like long-suffering like can't see like in mother teresa the virtue of long suffering about 40 years within darkness and still smiling 40 years amazing right how about john paul he's sort of the light of the charismatic the light of the holy spirit he would radiate to all the nations amen each one of us has a virtue or a gift that we shine forth for god the only tragedy is not to become a saint amen and by the way saints are amazing they're beautiful and they're marvelous you were meant to be a saint amen you have to grasp that today the eucharist is the bread of angels and the bread of saints it's meant to transform you into a saint amen tell the lord today lord scoot over on that saddle i'm jumping on with you amen tell them today you're going to become the saint he made you to be amen would you put your hand on your right on your heart like this and say jesus i was made to be a saint i want to be a saint fill me with sainthood i want to do your will be my everything forever through mary amen now don't take it back don't take it back keep that amen well i have a lot i have a lot of miracles at airports for some reason because i travel a lot you know i mean wherever if you're a baker you'll have a you will have a lot of miracles right there in the bakery depends where you are you see what i mean which reminds me about the donuts don't you love donuts oh boy my brother father tony he loves doughnuts and let me tell you he had he had a miracle with doughnuts once did i tell you that ever tell you that story so before i go on to my second airport story let me tell you about my brother we were at madonna house in canada father tony and i before we were freeze we traveled there from this country on foot to try to live by faith so we traveled for months on foot with no money with no id we just wanted to live like the apostles by faith we made it all the way to madonna house and we're there and it's kind of a rigorous way of life they have a disciplined way of life it's in the middle of winter there's snow on the ground and he and i are working outside every day in the snow and my little brother said to me one day he says you know what jim he says man you know i really miss doughnuts i mean all we have like you know it's kind of a simple food simple fair nothing too tasty you know what i mean and he's like boy i i wish i could have a doughnut is i i said well anthony we'll pray for it you know pray pray for radona and i remember that reminds me of my favorite poem as you wander through life my friend whatever be your goal keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole amen hallelujah as you wander through life my friend whatever be your goal keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole amen there's a lot of wisdom in that one too let me tell you a lot of wisdom you don't always aim directly for what you're going for trying to aim around it amen well my i said anthony pray so my brother prayed to a saintly priest named father eddie father eddie doherty because he was he was the spouse of catherine doherty the founder of madonna house an eastern right priest and a rather saintly man he had gone to his reward my brother prayed to father eddie because he was known for his practical jokes he was kind of a jokester you know like saint philip neary so father tony prayed to him and said father eddie i need a doughnut could you please pray to jesus and mary to bring me some donuts and he actually prayed that well that evening we got all done with our work and we're inside like the big meeting hall we have our dinner at the end of dinner there's usually community announcements you know it's like 250 people at least there those who live there and those like my brother who were visiting so they made the announcements and then the gentleman he says that one more announcement is kind of unusual he said because as you all know we do we receive shipments here of of food from different places he says i don't know it's never happened before but um today we got in um a truckload of donuts dude it's true this has never happened before but a truck came in from montreal with a with a huge load of don't just donuts he says so they're in giant hefty bags you know like that 50 gallon size he says and would every every representative from every cabin we all had our own houses you see across the property so we need one representative from every cabin to come forward and take your hefty bag of doughnuts and bring it bring it to your cabin this must have been like like 500 donuts in our bag alleluia so lord when i am in desperate need i call to you for help and you answer me even if it's donuts with jelly on top amen isn't it true but doesn't every daddy do that do you just get your child what they need or do you splurge on them every now and then come on let's get a banana split you and me right he's just like that isn't he in fact we fathers we were made in the image and likeness of the heavenly father he made us after his own image the reason we like to splurge on our kids is because he likes to splurge on his kids amen he put that in us because he had it first amen so the lord says don't be ashamed to ask for doughnuts for extra things amen hallelujah well i'll tell you one more quick story before i go to the airport one more funny little one just the short one i when my mother was still on this earth i used to love my beautiful mother her name was maria and my mom and i and one of my nephews adam we were we went to go to a book signing in tampa florida my hometown i was visiting went to a book signing because my cousin johnny had written like a beautiful little book about the history of tampa he's a wonderful fellow so johnny had this book that's being published we went to the book signing to support you know my cousin my mother's nephew and afterwards you know i'm about as poor as they come and i don't have any money and no salary and no stipend and i was thinking because i know my mom and i know my cousin it's like we've been there for several hours we're in downtown tampa and you know i know they're hungry and be nice to sit down and have a meal you know what i mean and we're italian so find a good italian restaurant down there and have some spaghetti and maybe a glass of red wine i was thinking you know like i was a millionaire or something like that i wish we could like go do and i don't have a sent to my name and so i was thinking you know i see my beautiful elderly mother and my nephew adam and i said oh jesus jesus if it's okay would you do a miracle i need some money for a good italian meal it just it just moved my heart and my mom looked so tired and she had a walker you know what i mean she looks so tired and my nephew adam has had a rough time in his life and i'm there with him and i want to do something fun you know i mean it can't all be serious we got to have fun too and i want to have a lunch with him i don't have anything to my name lord would you give me a miracle i want to take them out to lunch somewhere show me do something would you please and so when i said that prayer johnny my cousin was all done and we helped him bring the the books into his car he went to hug us to say goodbye to my mom and i and adam and johnny said oh jimmy he says oh look i forgot i have a card for you here in my trunk mrs so-and-so from that church over there i saw her like she said give this to whenever i would see you this is for you and he gave me the card right then and took off and i thought i bet you did it again i bet you did it and i slowly opened it and it was a 50 bill i said mom we're getting spaghetti amen hallelujah i called for you to you for help and you answered me amen alleluia that's a little one but you see what i mean it was kind of important because it was motivated by charity my mother was tired and hot and my my nephew was kind of lonely he was motivated by charity god heard that prayer and gave me spaghetti and meatballs too amen well just a few weeks ago i was traveling to wyoming i had to preach out in wyoming and my flight was from atlanta i'm stationed outside of atlanta so i go from atlanta to denver and from then from denver there to wyoming a smaller plane to wyoming and as i was getting ready to leave my little parish my little church there in georgia father john and i are stationed there outside of atlanta i have a beautiful little chapel and i was saying mass there and after the mass several people needed to talk to me it's always kind of dangerous that way because i have a lot of flights to catch and yet it was kind of serious one was a young man who involved in something satanic and we had basically had set him free we were still working with him and another person as well a religious sister a nun and so i i didn't know how to say no to them it was so serious so after the mass i sat with a young man i said you know i gotta catch a plane can we keep it to five minutes you know famous last words so like 25 minutes later i'm still with him and then i get finished and one more person and then i give her the blessing and i run into my room and get my suitcase finished zipping it off and get jump in my car to go and i got to the airport just in time to miss my flight and i missed my flight from atlanta to denver then i have a connected flight from denver to to wyoming and so the lady behind the counter says i'm sorry father that uh you've missed it there's no other flights there to wyoming today you'll have to go home i think and come back tomorrow i could probably feature on tomorrow on the waiting list tomorrow and i said well how about the halfway point like denver like can i just get to denver tonight maybe another that's a big city get to denver maybe spend the night there or get to wyoming in the morning and she looked on over everything she said well you know there are two flights to denver later this afternoon but i would recommend that you go home and because you'll be stuck all night and we we might be able to get you on a flight to wyoming the next day but not for sure and so it's up to you father what do you want to do so in all things the bible says pray in all things so i prayed lord what shall i do and immediately the lord gave me an answer and he went like this to me over my head and over her head i saw the arm of the lord he went like this which means go forward young man don't go back like this go forward so you know the lord said that writing one of his parables if you put your hands to the plow and you look back you're not fit for the kingdom amen so the lord said go for i said i'll take it let's go to denver i knew what god was telling me i'm gonna get the neighbor i'm gonna trust said okay she found me a flight and indeed there was one like three or four hours later to denver i said okay i'll take it so i took the flight to denver went through security and lo and behold i still had like two and a half hours i had not had a bite to eat that whole day so i went to a nice restaurant in the airport i had a donation in my pocket from that day had the most wonderful meal of my life i sat there and enjoyed my miss flight to the heights you mean i just enjoyed it so much i ate a wonderful i thought maybe that's part of the secret plan give father a meal you know what i mean so i enjoyed this meal immensely and got all done and then i went down to my gate and it was boarding and it took off and i landed in wyoming you know excuse me in denver many hours late no way to catch my flight the last one leaves like at six in the evening last one because it's kind of dangerous there when you land there in wyoming uh you have to i think it was cody cody wyoming it would go down over the mountains and into like a little valley in between a circle of mountains so it's kind of dangerous especially at night you see so no more planes were going at all they stopped like at six i'm getting i'm laying there at 9 30 at night and so i get off the plane i said well if i have to i'll sleep in the airport maybe i can find a hotel i have some emergency money with me on this particular trip i have to get a hotel so i get off the plane and i walk and i look for an outlet to charge my phone i go to charge my phone and check my messages when the holy spirit interrupts me and he says to me so very gently so very kindly he says not now not now like that like don't charge your phone now it might take 45 minutes to charge it up not now okay so i put my wire back thinking that he's trying to tell me go get your suitcase you goofball before they lock up the suitcases that's what he's trying to tell me you see okay so i'll go find my suitcase so as i'm walking to get my suitcase there's a beautiful young lady in front of me you see she was beautiful like the virgin mary i had seen her on my airplane from atlanta to denver she was dressed so modestly a beautiful long dress and a beautiful hat on not a rich hat but like a humble hat and she looked so holy and she was all to herself but in a beautiful presence of god about her when she got off the plane she just she's walked all to herself except for one second she stopped and looked at me and our eyes met like god a holy spirit look between she and i then she walked off a very mysterious young woman very mysterious so as i'm in the denver airport and i'm walking now to get my suitcase i see the young woman in front of me who looks like our lady and she's there she's looking at the reading the reader board but they have all the flights and she's looking and i thought wow if it's good enough for mary it's good enough for me so mary's looking up i don't was married or not but you could feel a divine presence around this young woman and so i said wow mary is looking up i'm going to look up so i look up to see what she's looking at you see it's a good good idea where mary is you want to be amen so i'm looking at all the flights for that day taking off and oh i see wyoming these are the flights that are still waiting to take off wyoming and i'm shocked and i look and she's gone only because she stopped that young lady she looked so holy was looking up i decided well if mary's looking at it i'm gonna look at it whatever it is so i looked not thinking not having a clue wyoming taking off in five minutes it's 9 30 at night i thought it says gate something said okay well i'll walk towards that gate then and i realized it was like by the number is far from where i was but i decided i'm going to walk there like a gentleman i'm going to walk like a son of god i'm not going to run like a chicken with my head cut off none of that no no no no i see that all the time and i can't stand it no i belong to god he's my father i'm his son he's the king and i'm the prince i'm gonna walk like a prince my father owns this airport so i'm going to walk like and trust you know what i mean i walk with trust and i go and say well five minutes i'm not going to make it because they closed that gate you know what i mean but who cares at least at least i saw it for a reason it's kind of fun even dreaming so i'm just walking and there's another reader board that turned the corner another one and it says wyoming 20 minutes it just got delayed like maybe the seventh time 20 minutes oh i can make it so i keep walking like a prince i'm not gonna run if he got me this far he'll get me the rest of the way amen hallelujah and so i look around and i finally make it there about 12 minutes later to where that gate is and i see something like um one e everything was 2e something like that and i see one e and three e four e five e but i don't see any two e that's my gate two e and i'm almost nobody in the airport it's like close to ten o'clock now at night i don't see and i hear a voice behind me say father can i help you there's nobody in the airport i look around and there's a young man there dressed in a suit over here talking he says father can i help you god sends you the help you need when you need it amen i couldn't find 2e i said yeah i'm looking for 2e he says it's right there i don't see it i see 5 4 1 honestly 2. he's right there i said okay thank you i'm just going to trust so i walked like a prince and i don't see it but i i go by this this wall here there it is hiding behind the corner there's 2e it's like a little tiny door hiding behind the corner and it says wyoming final boarding but the door is closed you know how do you know what that means it is time for a miracle amen the door is closed and this is u.s we're even stricter here in the u.s on those rules the door is closed and the young man who's running that counter is walking away as i'm walking up and i say hello and he looks at me he says hello are you on this flight i said i think so so he he ran to the counter he ran and he's like what's your name blunt and he took it oh come on and he opened the door and he ran down like come on and he ran down and he opened the door to the outside and i heard him scream one more one more and i can't keep up with him i'm getting old he's like in his 20s i'm just walking along like a prince you know what i mean okay one more okay and the door is open and he screams and they they get me on the plane and they close the door and i get on and turn the prop on as soon as i get on the plane had been sitting there for four hours and started when i sat down mamma mia hallelujah praise you jesus lord on the day i called for help you answered me amen and sometimes lord on the day even when i don't call for help you answer me amen beloved he is good amen god is good amen all the time god is good all the time god is going amen the lord says to tell you very respectfully he says to tell you challenge me the lord says i say that to you god says to tell you challenge me if you need a miracle or a blessing ask me amen and don't forget the final lesson in today's gospel that's the lord beloved sometimes he'll make us ask him fifteen thousand times in a row sometimes you have to keep on asking and by the way that scripture verse translated from the aramaic into modern english where it says ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be opened unto you i heard an expert in the aramaic language a linguist he taught me this he says father that's not the correct translation you know what it really should read it should say this if you translate correctly from ancient aramaic to modern english keep on asking and you shall receive keep on seeking right and you shall find keep on knocking and the door shall be opened he says the tense form is incorrect it should be that like progressive perfect progressive it's a different form of the verb keep on asking the lord said keep on seeking keep on knocking amen god i'm going to tell you a secret god cannot say no especially if that beautiful mama is standing next to you amen keep on asking keep on seeking keep on knocking jump on the horse with god today let the flame of love empower you beginning today because life with jesus is a flame of love amen hallelujah hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus spread the effect of grace of thy flame of love over all of humanity mama says to tell you you cannot lose you can't lose she says tell them that's the gospel amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] you

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