Women of Grace with Johnnette Williams - Feb 1, 2022

3986 that's the way that you can join us live here it is a toll-free for you right here in north america again that number is 833 288 ewtn we have matt gabinski on the phones today please do give him a big old howdy hey when you call in and he will welcome you to the broadcast and he'll get your question up on the board as well as your information too and we'll retrieve it and we will chit chat about it another way that you can communicate with us is to get out there to ewtn radio's youtube channel and facebook page chat feature there allows you to put your question or comment in and jeff berson who is our social media manager as well as being our producer we'll also retrieve that question or comment that you leave for us and he'll put it up on the board phone lines are wide open for you right now i'd like to see them populated i'd like to see your name pop up there 833 288 ewtn that's 833-288-3986 i want to wish you a happy first day of february today i is the feast day of st bridget of sweden a tremendous uh tremendously powerful woman tremendously powerful intercessor a great woman of the faith you know and we're encouraging all of you to live that abundant life in our lord jesus christ and to share that abundant life with others that's what the saints did it doesn't mean that they were perfect from the moment of their uh you know birth until their death no it's not anything like that whatsoever they too had struggles they had trials they had imperfections they sinned they just didn't stay there they got up again they accepted the the grace of god they accepted the help and the guidance that comes by way of the holy spirit they worked they worked in cooperation with the grace of god uh to to allow themselves to be filled with his presence so that they might be a light shining in the darkness and we see that over and over and over again in the lives of the saints well you my friend i want to tell you you are called to be a saint that's why god gave you life he wants to spend all eternity uh with you in heaven and he wants for you to experience that abundant life in his son our lord jesus christ to know him to love him to serve him here that you might spend all eternity with him in heaven and what does it mean to serve god it means to serve him through the the the ways in which we cooperate with that grace daily to achieve the call and mission that he has in mind for us i've already identified that common mission it's nothing short of of being a saint being a saint of our day and time and so i really want to encourage you today i really want to encourage you to look to the lives of the saints and and you know i misspoke at saint bridget of ireland not saying bridget of sweden you know to look to the lives of these great saints these great men and women many of yesteryear but many who have lived in our own contemporary times saint john paul the second saint teresa of calcutta we look to those beautiful men and women who have shown us the way in which we should go that have set fine examples some who are not canonized yet but great men and women our own mother angelica are foundrest for example we've had many great priests that we would look at and say this is one who led us in truth father john hardin another example people who they they might not be canonized yet or saint-like in the way in which they lived their lives and and became inspiration for each one of us who are you inspiring today who has inspired you most in our current day is there a public person who has inspired you to live according to the law of god who is offered to you a way in which you should go that is regaled you know with the salvific action of our lord we want to hear about it here so pick up the phone give us a call 833 288 ewtn that's 833-288-3986 we're wide open for any question that you have we see that jasmine is with us in california we're going to come to you jasmine as soon as we come back from our break but i want to encourage you friends 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radio one time somebody said to me why don't you air these people and i said no but i don't think they're catholic he says by what right do you have to say that i said i own the network [Music] mother angelica live classics tonight eight eastern on ewtn television and radio have you heard about church pop church pop features new online christian content that's fun and inspiring every day find it on snapchat instagram and on the web at churchpop.com the women of grace phone lines are open 1-833-288 ewtn 1-833-288-3986 [Music] welcome back everybody well you just heard those numbers being given to you and i'm going to give them to you again 833 288 ewtn that's 833-288-3986 encouraging you to pick up the phone and give us a call eager eager eager to hear from you also available for you out there at ewtn radio's youtube channel and facebook page use the chat feature jeff burson our producer and social media manager will retrieve your questions from social media and we've got matt kabinsky on phones today and he's eager to hear from you we like to keep the man busy help us to do that give us a call 833 288 ewtn jasmine you've been waiting since the beginning of the program jasmine's out there in mountain view california everyone good morning to you good morning how are you doing i'm doing fine thank you i'm getting ready to go to work but i figured i'd call i love listening to your show and i am a first-time caller um so this morning it actually i've been thinking about this a few days now um i have a half sister who i've you know just recently um got to meet and develop a relationship with her i didn't grow up with her and we've been talking and yesterday she let me know that she worshipped the holy dead [Music] and i um it kind of stopped me in my steps you know and and so i figured you know i just don't you know i want to proceed with her and talk to her but i don't want to um confirm that what she's doing is good so do you have any ideas on how i can proceed with that relationship and navigate through that knowing i do love her and i want to cultivate my relationship with her well you know isn't that a beautiful sentiment of heart that you have there jasmine and in this i really think that maybe god is at work and maybe the reason why you and she have formed this relationship at this point in your lives is because she is involved in something that's very dark and something that is very sinister at its base and it may well be that through your tutelage your witness and your guidance you can help to lead her out of this you know cult-like uh activity that she's involved herself in uh so when we meet someone who has a um a perspective that's very different than our own or actually is involved in something that is occult and dark like this is you know the the question is well what do we do and i think that first the very first thing you can do and it's something that you should do like not first and then it's over with this is an ongoing thing pray for her and i would pray the rosary specifically for her i would pray and ask for our blessed mother's intercession because in a certain way the santa muerte is is is like um what would i want to say it's like the the the polar opposite of our lady right uh this is a a a you know a female figure at this point it started off as a male figure but it's now a female figure it's a skeletal female figure um and and it's it's kind of like taking the beauty and the wonder and the glory that is our blessed ladies and turning it on its head so we pray to our blessed lady uh that that she would smite the head of this serpent that is actively uh you know drawing your uh sister to her uh and and we would ask that we would seek to be an instrument that brings peace and brings grace and so if the conversation comes up you might say well you know you worship this santa muerte i worship only god in his triune person father son and holy spirit but i have a deep devotion and effect affection for our blessed lady i would love to tell you about santa maria right i'd like to tell you about saint mary about our holy lady and um and and you might be able to begin to inspire her what you don't want to do is become involved in any of this uh and and to allow what it is that she's believing in to um in some way you know darken your own understanding of all that is good all that is true all that is beautiful so i would offer you that pray the rosary for her i would try that i would try to continue to keep the lines of communication open would not involve myself in any of her activities uh and might want to meet her you know in a you know in a in a setting outside of your own home or something like that what do you think okay that makes a lot of sense thank you yeah you're quite welcome you're welcome and and the fact that you love her i mean you know what is love love and this is part of uh you know this this look towards valentine's day love is willing the best for the other it's wanting the absolute best and you must love her because you want the best for her you don't want her to stay bound up in this kind of occult uh idol worship of something that is so dark and so sinister so i i you have a beautiful heart there and i would just let the lord lead and guide you thank you so much you have a great day you too jasmine thank you 833 288 ewtn that's 833-288-3986 is the way that you can join us right here on women of grace live where we love to have that holy conversation with you this is ann in wall township new jersey hey anne how are you annette it's me i know okay okay listen i have a a very serious story um we have a young woman living in her home she's only been here a week and i'm already she's already in my heart um she's got a really tragic story which i didn't know she's slowly telling me although she is open she keeps saying ask me anything you want i'll tell you but i'm just trying not to she uh she's only 21 years old and uh i've come to learn that her father um he fed sex trafficked so i'm presuming he kind of like prostituted her for nine years of her life and her mother was was there um then i went then i learned that she was raised catholic then i learned that all the while they were doing this for her they were going to mass every sunday oh my goodness she received her sacraments um and she was going to mass every sunday i mean that is so special satan is evil so she said to me that every ever she said catholic things remind me of them so she really is not practicing you know in the faith right now but i do believe you know i did say to her because she i believe that her heart is good she's got such good heart there's no malice there's no bitterness ah she doesn't want anything to do with her parents which is understandable she has legally had her name changed from her given name to another name that really isn't a name but um you know yes um so i wanted to know i want i asked her her confirmation name because i think and i asked her she was able to choose that name for herself because you figure her given name and her baptismal name were given to her by her parents so her confirmation name she said sophia so i said okay so i wanna i said i'm gonna do a little research on on that and uh i i did that well saint sophia i'm i'm you probably know is a powerful she's uh she's a martyr as well as her three daughters faith hope and love are their names and they are also martyrs for the faith so what a powerful intercessor um i do intend to mention this to her i don't know if she is actively praying um but i'm gonna you know i do want to say to her you know you've got a powerful intercessor there if you ever want to start praying in your new life um and anyway but i was hoping that we could pray to saint sophia to intercede for this young woman um her given name is sarah which when i when i do pray for her i i talk to god and i say you know your daughter sarah um because that's uh that's how i believe he knows her um even though she does not want to be known by that name anymore yeah but anyway if we could pray for her she's got a lot of she's got i can tell she has a good heart but she's you know and she says you know she said i can talk about it she said but i'd still have my moments but there's there's brokenness you can't you can't it's she's 21 and this happened to her until she was 17. that's not that long ago that is not that long ago so while she seems to be doing well considering there's so much brokenness and and it's like she i i we know she needs to come back to the faith in his fullness in what it is not the way her parents perverted it um so i you know i yeah i i'm also praying for guidance for myself that i don't you know uh be a tidal wave well you know you're doing a beautiful beautiful spiritual and corporal work of mercy here and inviting her into your home and we cannot begin to imagine the devastation that a child experiences when they are betrayed in horrible ways like this by their own parents and you know it's interesting because the name sophia in addition to being the name of this great saint what does the name mean well it means wisdom and in in you know in greek literature uh you know especially catholic literature etc you know it's it's a it's a name that's often given to the holy spirit right because it does mean wisdom so there's something in that and so i would i think that the holy spirit would have you uh you know obviously asking for the guidance that you need to shepherd this girl along to mother her along to nurture her but it's probably not a task that should be devoid of some serious catholic counseling when she's ready and here i don't mean teaching the faith here i mean working on those wounds of the heart that she's experienced um and it's easy to understand why she would she would have a um you know a reluctance and maybe even a you know a a revulsion uh towards catholic things given the fact that that her parents were clearly making a pretense of religion but engaging in very dark dark horrible sinister sinful and criminal activities so you can understand how in a little child's mind that gets all twisted up and the reality is that we often as adults carry those perceptions of childhood into our adult life until those wounds are remedied and healed right so yeah so um this is a very very serious matter and um you know i i certainly would encourage you to uh speak maybe with a priest or someone who can can can basically guide you along if she's residing in your home but we certainly want to pray for her and this human trafficking and and this prostitution of children is so common today and we don't realize it and it exists there's no it applies to every demographic it cuts across all religious expressions all age groups all ethnicities um it's a terrible terrible thing and you know and we've it's it's the scourge it's a scourge it's a scourge so father god we come before you in this moment and we lift your daughter up to you first i want to lift up your daughter and to you and i am so aware of the fact lord that she is named for the mother of our blessed virgin mary father god you gifted saint anne with the insight and the wisdom that she needed to be able uh to nurture this young child that you entrusted to her to her to be the mother of the one who is the god man and so when we look at our lady we see the influence of saint anne in her life a glorious influence a holy influence a godly influence and i pray that you would bestow through the intercession of saint anne all of the spiritual gifts and graces that your daughter anne right now there in new jersey needs to nurture this child that you have entrusted to her though she'd be 21 this little girl in the heart of this woman that needs to know true maternal love true maternal affection that needs to experience that that unconditional love that only comes by way of the holy spirit father god we lift this young woman up to you uh sophia we lift her up to you in this moment lord god calling upon saint sophia to be with her uh to to stand by her to intercede for her to bring to her through her intercession every spiritual blessing in the heavens that god desires that she receive to be healed father we know this could well be a lifelong process but you are the god you are the god who takes us by the hand emmanuel god with us throughout the course of our life and you make right what was wrong father god you were good out of all things you tell us that through your apostle saint paul and we know that this is a horrible thing that's happened to this woman a defiling thing a putrid thing a thing that reeks and smells of hell itself but you god only you can take all of that and make it into something that leads to life that leads to wholeness that leads to truth that brings forth a fragrance of of holiness in you and we're praying for that through the intercession of saint sophia we're praying for that through the the maternal guidance that you give through our blessed lady we ask lord god that this one who was so injured in her young years might live through those wounds that no longer draw blood but draw life so that she might be an inspiration to all who meet her father i ask that in this moment uh that which is most needed at this moment for your daughter anne uh would be made present to her and that you would put good people into their lives to be able to put the pieces of this this this broken and fractured life back together again in a way that is more resplendent than it would have been had this terrible tragedy never visited this woman and we offer you this prayer father in the name of your son our lord jesus christ by the merits of his cross through the power of the holy spirit and with the maternal beatitude and intercession of our blessed lady amen thank you so much you're welcome anne and um you know do keep us posted you know any prayers that you need you know how to reach me you know get in touch and uh of course the the radio is open to you too okay thank you so much jenna that was beautiful and i can i can tell it's going to bear fruit so thank you oh my god we praised for that thank you anne yes god bless you now bye-bye bye-bye you know we we live in a day in a time where um we see such enormous uh attacks against the human person that we can't even believe that it's true and it's real and what we have to guard ourselves against is a desensitation that we do not become desensitized to these things that we allow ourselves to feel with all of our humanity but also uh with with that grace of god to feel the pain of others that are living through this right now and to be part of the solution yes indeed through our prayers but in any other way that god opens a door for us and i do believe i have to say that this all goes back to abortion which i think is the fruit of contraception we have a total disregard for human life total disregard at its most vulnerable periods at the beginning in a mother's womb and then at the end of life but even that beginning in the mother's womb requires an openness to the one that god would place there and entrust there so one of the other ways in addition to praying that we can be of great effect in the world today is to get ourselves straightened out in these areas i want to encourage you if you contracept to please stop i want to encourage you if you have aborted please go to the sacrament there is no sin that is greater than god's mercy and we can bring great grace through our repentance into the world we're going to be right back 833 288 ewtn that is the way that you can join us live here on women of grace we're looking forward to hearing from you stay with us it's really awe inspiring to know that take two with jerry and debbie has the impact that it does we know from what our listeners share on the air but also from corresponding with them outside of the show via email and social media there's no better feeling than knowing you've helped someone maybe many people at a time work through various situations and more clearly see god's purpose and plan for their lives take two with jerry and debbie today noon eastern on ewtn radio and now the ewtn family prayer with father joseph family a prayer that we pray together is a powerful prayer so please pray together with me our ewtn family prayer today we pray for those who are suffering with parkinson's disease [Music] lord jesus christ consolation of the afflicted you are our refuge we pray for those who are suffering the effects of parkinson's disease as they lose their physical strength and abilities increase their spiritual strength and abilities renew their inner spirit day after day and through their share in your sufferings give the grace of conversion to sinners and their weakness reveal your strength give peace and joy to those who care for them amen this is john at williams if you missed part of today's show catch the encore tomorrow 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control um you know pregnancy um i don't understand how um you can um you know ignore the fact that that people teenagers will have sex and not offer them any type of other um you know option to control birth and pregnancy um as you're against birth control you're against abortion and it's it's just hard to ignore that children you know young kids young young adults will have sex um and i just don't understand that that viewpoint i guess i'm i'm just i really wish i i want it to be explained i guess um i'm not coming from a place of of judgment i i genuinely want to understand so thank you well thank you for your call and it's an important question um and it's a complicated question really because we've got to ask ourselves you know what is it that's causing our young people to engage in sexual activity before marriage um at a rate or or you know a frequency that was not seen in past generations we have to acknowledge that people are weak and we have to acknowledge the fact that people all often give in to sin there's no question about that and and we acknowledge the fact that in past generations young people did have sexual relations before marriage it would be foolish to say otherwise but what we face today is is a is a complete total disregard for the virtue of chastity for the virtue of remaining chaste uh and actually chastity is not just a virtue that applies to individuals outside of marriage it's one that applies to couples in marriage are coming together as husband and wife is meant to be chased and by that we mean in full concert with the dignity of the human person and it is supposed to be a sanctifying moment in a marital relationship by which grace comes to us when we uh come together in that in that conjugal embrace but for young people for young people uh to to live a lack of chastity um with with uh a total disregard for for what they are engaging in is a very sad consequence of much of what we see in our culture today and i have to say that um the birth control pill is the primary reason why so many young people engage in sexual activity a common deterrent in the past was the fact that a young woman could become pregnant and and that wouldn't have been the the the uh motive that we would have liked to have been the chief motive in keeping young people chased but it certainly was a motive we have removed all of the barriers in addition to that we as a culture have encouraged this kind of activity we've encouraged it in our classrooms we've encouraged it uh in in in preschools we've encouraged it in in kindergarten by revealing images to young children that they have no business seeing by talking about things that their little emotional capacities are not ready to accept or understand so in a certain way you know we have desensitized our children um to to uh to to sexual images and and this has created its own problem i i would say that we have a general mindset in the culture today that says well listen kids are going to do it anyway so we've got to protect them no here's the thing we need to talk to our children uh our biological children the children that we have adopted we need to talk to them about the beauty and the wonder of the of the virtue of chastity we need to encourage them in the way in which they should go instead of paving that road with means by which they can walk to perdition we don't want to do that but we have done that the images that we see throughout the culture the things that are that the story lines of programs that we view on television or see at the movies all of these things have have tried to normalize sexual relations outside of marriage and they've been successful so we do not want to be part of the problem we want to be part of the solution and we want to talk with our children at a young age about the beauty and the splendor of the way they were created in the image and likeness of god we want to talk with them about their gender we want to express that to them um when it it it's age appropriate and emotionally appropriate developmental stages so that we don't incite in them an unnatural curiosity which much of our educational system has done today through the programs that it presents to them as i mentioned from the very little and the very young all the way up through high school and then into college life uh we we want to talk with them about about the uh sacredness of the human person created in the image and likeness of god we want to encourage them to to live in that dignity that is theirs by way of that and and to in no way live against the dignity that is theirs you know so we we we're living we're swimming in in a soup of relativism and we're swimming in a soup of of of of immorality but we have got to in some way rise above that and present the truth to our children in a way in which they can understand so that they can rise above it too not every person has sexual relations before marriage many remain chaste many hold on to that virtue that they carry with them into their marital life together and so that that would be my answer to it you know um is it ever right to take a to kill a child in the womb of a mother it is never right to do that it is never right that's non-negotiable right it's intrinsically evil and and and i don't want to offend anyone who's had an abortion what i want to tell you is that god loves you and he wants for you to bring that sin to the sacrament and he wants you to experience new life in him as a result of your opening your heart to him and divesting yourself of the sin to receive the grace that he wants you to know but we cannot any longer you know worry about the sensitivities of the human person in terms of their emotions and being offended we've got to speak the truth in love so as to be able to move forward and be a cause a conduit of grace for the redemption of our day and time so we don't want to tell to our children oh you know it's okay for you to do this well don't do this but here if you're going to do this here's a birth control pill don't do this but here here's something to use to create a barrier to you becoming pregnant don't do this but if you should you know and and you become pregnant here's here's a way to take care of that what a mixed message we're giving our children what a mixed message so that's what i would say to you i mean no offense to you either but by the same token we've got to ask ourselves you know am i leading my children to light or am i leading them to darkness in a sense to the extent that we lead them to darkness we we share in the culpability of any sin that they commit and i don't think that we as parents think about that i don't think that we do we don't think about it long and hard enough so it's it's time for us to get real with ourselves it's time for us to get real with god it's time for us to get real with our kids so i hope that that helps you we're going to go to bradley he's in easton pennsylvania we're eager to hear from bradley and we're eager to hear from you too 833 288 ewtn that's 833-288-3986 where you get to bradley in just a minute you know i don't think that we hold ourselves to a high enough accountability again we live in a day and time of excuses and pats on the back and a type of pseudo compassion it's a pseudo compassion to allow people to remain in sin it's a pseudo compassion to try to rationalize behavior that we know is reprehensible it's a pseudo compassion to allow ourselves to become so tied up in in the maxims of the world in the ways of the world that we become uh you know a darkening agent a darkening influence in the world in which we live we need a serious examination of conscience i mean a very serious examination of conscience and and it has to be according to you know where am i leading people am i leading the to truth or am i leading them to lie and if i'm leading to the to lie why why am i doing it is it because i have this this this framework of understanding that that i've incorporated worldly views into that which i consider to be true and good and right and proper or you know have i allowed myself to to begin to walk a darkened path and i'm being influenced by that christian is out kristen is out there on facebook uh she was asking for prayer my car is stuck at the bottom of a steep hill covered in ice my goodness and i'm tearing it up trying to get it up the hill the weather is supposed to get worse after noon i have no one to help and nothing and no money everyone in my life everything in my life is falling apart and i think this is a metaphor of my life i keep almost getting to the top then fall all the way back down and my car got tore up already well kristin i am so sorry there are so many people like yourself that are experiencing this inclement weather and i know that when we go through these difficult and rough moments in life sometimes we feel as th as if everything is falling in on us but i want to encourage you your metaphor is a very good one i want to encourage you to continue to strive to move forward now i don't know if that's good for your car but i know that it is good for your life and when we feel as though we're getting knocked down what do we have to do we have to get back up again the beginning of the program i was talking about the lives of the saints that's what they did was it easy no did it cost them yes was it worth it most definitely so when you feel as though everything is falling apart that's when you cry out to god and say everything's falling apart lord as far as i can see but i know you are in this mess with me and i ask you to help me to cooperate with grace to put it back together again i need your blessing at this moment lord to help me to strive to move forward instead of allowing myself to remain stuck in in the frigid cold and the ice of of of this current situation that i am facing as for the car kristin you know you you may you know you you don't want to tear up your car i i can't advise you on this i'm not a mechanic i don't understand these things i haven't lived in snow and ice for a long long time but i do remember that we can do a whole lot more damage by trying to move it when it ought not to be moved so you might just have to wait uh and and lord i'm just going to ask that you would send a good samaritan to kristen to help her to get this car out of this mess if it is retrievable at this moment but a good samaritan if it isn't retrievable at this moment a good samaritan will help her to be about the business that she needs to be about so that she herself doesn't get stuck in in in the avalanche of difficulties and problems that are she's perceiving father i ask that you give her that grace and i pray to my guardian angel to ask christian's guardian angel right to be with her in this and and to whisper those words of comfort and consolation but also guidance and direction as she seeks the next step that is available for her and we offer this prayer to you father in the name of your son our lord jesus christ by the merits of his cross through the power of the holy spirit and with the maternal beatitude and intercession of our blessed lady amen let's go to mary she is in urbana illinois today hi yes mary oh john ed it is so good to listen to you uh i i just read better um you are the voice of reason and you are so such a voice for the lord bless you and thank you so much here's my issue um on topic of sexuality i have a 17 year old autistic son now we are orthodox catholics and we are trying to teach him the faith as best we can let me tell you john that it is a narrow corridor to put those three words together autism catholic and sexuality um there's nobody out there who's written for the disabled community intellectually disabled and sexuality i mean can you help i don't know what to do i don't know what to do my goodness you know i know how difficult this must be and i know that you know this because you you know your faith and that is that when we are compromised uh in such a way as your son is that we are not fully accountable for our sin right i mean our culpability is greatly lessened and can in some cases be you know completely non-complicit because the understanding is not there to be able to make a decision according to the laws of god and even according to to to man's laws so so we have to understand that but we also know that there uh needs to be some way in which the um the the autistic community to the to the extent that they are capable of understanding and we know that there's a you know a spectrum here um it can begin to absorb this and i know that there are catholics out there who have written for the um for the autistic person and i'm going to have to do a little bit of research i'm trying to do it while i'm on the air with you and and i can't find it at the present moment but i will do some research and i will um i will um give you the information if you listen tomorrow i'll do my very best to get that information for you because i think that this is a this is a very important issue that you bring up in a very important question that you bring up yes yes thank you it's always so good to talk with you janet i just so appreciate your ministry and uh i don't know why we just don't hear what you have to say from from others as well god bless your courage and uh your faithfulness i'm so grateful well thank you mary and and please do pray for us we we do the best we can and we know that that's very little in light of all of the difficulties and struggles that we're facing in our world today but you know i am a woman of hope and i thoroughly thoroughly believe that god has an answer for us in the midst of these things and we are called to be the light shining in the darkness and we've got to do our part each one of us together so thank you for your prayers okay yes you betcha we just love you well thank you my dear god bless you now you know we do face these difficulties today there is no question about it and and we're striving to the best of our ability to meet those uh areas that that we are uh uh facing today uh unprecedented in so many ways part of which because of the proliferation of of sin that is immediately available to us through technology i found what i was looking for here's what i want you to do i want you to go out to womenofgrace.com in the search feature at the top of women of grace put in autism and you will find that we did a number of programs on autism with kathy labosch and she gives us great insight about some of these areas she has written books for the autistic person so i want you to get out there and take a look at it the numbers begin with wgr10813 but if you just put in the search feature there autism these programs will come up and you will be able to watch them right there so there we go thank thank you holy spirit amen thank you so much you're welcome and god bless you you too oh i just love when the holy spirit shows up so quickly so thanks mary for your call today may it help you it may help all of you out there too so if you have an autistic child these would be programs that you would want to watch and as i say kathy labosch understands this personally and she gives us very good insight and very good advice so get on out there and take a look um we uh have vicki with us in dallas texas we're gonna go to her in just a moment we're inviting you to give us a call as well 833 288 ewtn that's 833 do we have vicky with us there she is hey vicky how are you hey jimmy good morning good morning i just wanted to um one um add a little thanks to your comments to the person that left the recorded question yes and um it seemed to me she wasn't catholic so a lot of people that are not catholics do not understand that contraception is accountable deficient and so we do not recommend uh contraceptives we only teach purity which is abstinence and marriage and so you know um going through the different forms of contraceptives they all are against church teaching and this is a catholic program where they're going to it but i taught natural family planning and i could explain it but for the sake of families and children probably not yes well what we do know is that the birth control pill makes the mother's womb hostile to the implantation of a fertilized egg and that in and of itself is is you know against church teaching because the conjugal embrace every act is meant to be open to life because that's that's why god gave us this great gift so there is that uh but then it there is as you say an abortifacient aspect to this that if that egg should implant that that's going to be sloughed off so it you know it's a twofold kind of a thing that goes on with birth control pills and we know the birth control pills are not good for women we also know that there is a connection a big connection between birth control pills and breast cancer this has been suppressed but but we we also know that it's a it's a it's a category one carcinogen but how many women ever hear that when they go to their doctors also uh the reproductive system ages twice as fast on contraceptive pills and so if a girl begins using an age you know 15 let's say by the time she's 30 her reproductive organs are of a woman of 45. see and that's why we have a lot of people trying to get pregnant not being able to that's exactly right yeah we know that there is nothing good about the birth control pill nothing good about the birth control pill so vicky thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us today we really appreciate having you with us and now our phone lines are all lighting up and we're getting very close to the end of our program i don't know that we even have time to take another call right now uh we're into that last minute so i'm going to ask you if you're calling in today please call tomorrow we're going to be back with you in the meantime i want you to get out to our website womenofgrace.com as i mentioned to mary about the programs that we've done on autism we have done jillions of programs on all kinds of different topics well i guess jillian is a slight exaggeration but i think that we can safely say that we've done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of programs on a variety of topics that are all available for you out there we're coming up on 35 years uh being on ewtn television and those programs the majority of them are there for you at our website womenofgrace.com so use that search engine see how it is that you can learn more about our faith and how to live that faith in this contentious time that is ours friends it's been great being with you looking forward to being with you tomorrow it'll be a wacky wednesday with sue brinkman bye-bye now faith is a precious gift from god

Channel: EWTN

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Length: 53min 5sec (3185 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 01 2022