In today’s episode I share a great quote from Pope Benedict that reminds us that the encounter with Christ always leads to sharing that joy with others.
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Speaker:I'm keeping with my current interest in Pope Benedict 16, I think a.
Speaker:This is like the old saying the gift that keeps on giving his theology.
Speaker:His writing is going to be blessing us for centuries and centuries to come.
Speaker:Like so many of the great men and women in church history, but
Speaker:today's a really simple quote that goes to very much to the heart of
Speaker:what you're doing every single day.
Speaker:As a Catholic educator, listen to this.
Speaker:He says anyone who has discovered Christ.
Speaker:Must lead others to him.
Speaker:A great joy.
Speaker:Cannot be kept to oneself.
Speaker:It has to be passed on.
Speaker:Uh, great joy cannot be kept to oneself.
Speaker:It has to be passed on so many thoughts.
Speaker:Go through my mind at this point.
Speaker:From the new Testament alone.
Speaker:Think of when the, you know, the first disciples.
Speaker:Encounter Jesus.
Speaker:And they come and see the one.
Speaker:And Andrew says, come and see the one that the prophets wrote about,
Speaker:you know, they encounter Christ.
Speaker:And then they go to Peter and say, we've, we've found the Messiah.
Speaker:We've found him.
Speaker:Have you seen that recent awesome show?
Speaker:The chosen.
Speaker:You remember that moment where, you know, Peter's like really,
Speaker:you you've found the Messiah.
Speaker:Of course you have.
Speaker:And you found a two headed fish as well.
Speaker:But there's this joy in Andrew that Christ has been discovered.
Speaker:I think, uh, you know, I'd love to try and pray the rosary every day and
Speaker:the joyful mysteries are so beautiful.
Speaker:Think of the visitation.
Speaker:What's Mary's first impulse.
Speaker:I've often joked on stage that if I was married, And, uh, you know, you
Speaker:find out that the, uh, that God himself is coming into the world through you.
Speaker:You'd be straight on Instagram, right?
Speaker:You'd be hashtag theater, cos hashtag mother of God.
Speaker:And, uh, and, and showing everybody be on Tik TOK straight away.
Speaker:What does Mary do?
Speaker:What's a first impulse ma Mary's first impulse is to go
Speaker:to her kins woman, Elizabeth.
Speaker:And the news goes with her, the joy.
Speaker:And of course, Elizabeth in the, in the visitation runs out.
Speaker:You.
Speaker:You know, there's joy is infectious.
Speaker:And it has to be passed on.
Speaker:I think of, uh, you know, some of you would know Karen and I were,
Speaker:were desperate to start a family when we were married and we weren't able
Speaker:to have children for a long time.
Speaker:Over six years.
Speaker:Of a journey with infertility.
Speaker:And then, uh, I think it was.
Speaker:We joked that we had a, we had a great relationship with the sisters of life.
Speaker:If any of you, sisters of life listening, welcome a board.
Speaker:And we asked them to pray for us.
Speaker:And all of a sudden we started getting pregnant.
Speaker:We had three kids in three and a half years.
Speaker:And I was wondering if we could.
Speaker:Ring ring the sisters of life and say, okay, you can stop praying now.
Speaker:But, um, the kids kept coming.
Speaker:But I wanted to share with you the exact moment.
Speaker:When we found out we were pregnant with our first child, who's now
Speaker:a teenager who incidentally.
Speaker:Yesterday asked me to teach her to drive.
Speaker:Oh, my gosh, that's a big step.
Speaker:And, uh, you know, Karen coming home from the doctor and knowing we were pregnant
Speaker:and that joy, that infectious joy that you immediately begin to share with everybody.
Speaker:So I love this quote from Pope Benedict, because if you've encountered Christ,
Speaker:he says, you must lead others to him.
Speaker:A great joy cannot be kept to oneself.
Speaker:It has to be passed on if you do one thing in Catholic education.
Speaker:And if that just one thing is to help one young person be or
Speaker:encounter Christ, come to know Jesus.
Speaker:Come to.
Speaker:Build their life upon him.
Speaker:Then that is a remarkable achievement and something that you should
Speaker:be incredibly proud of and find great solace and consolation in.
Speaker:So my friend, if you have encountered Christ in your own life, I ain't on
Speaker:the spiritual, life's a long journey.
Speaker:Isn't that?
Speaker:We have highs.
Speaker:We have lows.
Speaker:We have times when cross feels incredibly close.
Speaker:And other times it's like the transfiguration when he, when, when
Speaker:the cloud covers him on the mountain and we go, ah, Jesus, where did you go?
Speaker:Kinda need some help right now.
Speaker:But, uh, if you've encountered him, the imperative is to lead others to him.
Speaker:So how do you do it?
Speaker:It's every class it's just.
Speaker:You know, I, when I was teaching, I would often just really take prayer
Speaker:seriously at the start of the list.
Speaker:And especially things like silence, giving students a little moment of silence.
Speaker:And modeling for them that you take Christ seriously modeling
Speaker:for them that you invite Christ into the start of every lesson.
Speaker:And those little things can make a huge difference.
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