Pratica di Shadowing: Why Be A Catholic Priest? | Conversations with Fr. Matt & Fr. Daniel Ep. 1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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So, Father Daniel, it's great to be here with you.
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Thank you.
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As we are co -workers in the...
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Why a Catholic priest today?
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I mean, we live in a world where there are a lot of examples that are, like, utterly opposed to God.
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We need examples, which flows from an authentic call of men who are utterly, like, for God.
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People are trying to discover where to find that love with the priesthood, this is a perfect channel for that.
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And men who have experienced the healing from their wounds don't know how to reciprocate that love except by answering God,
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going back to the radical call.
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Father Daniel, it's great to be here with you as we labor together in the Lord's Vineyard in Southern California.
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We're hot off ordination season.
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dioceses around the world are welcoming new priests
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and just to kind of set up like what the priesthood
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is i mean basically we experience a call we enter the seminary
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that could take anywhere from like seven to ten years we
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renounce marriage we don't get married we make a promise of
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obedience we place our lives in the hands of our bishop
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or whoever the ordinary will one day be to send us
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where he you know senses the lord calling us to go
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so like we we give up a lot it might sound crazy to people today, like why be a Catholic priest?
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Why not be a Catholic priest?
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I mean as a man if you believe in God and you want to live your best, you want to give him your best, why not be a priest?
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When you're saving souls directly, I think that's the greatest gift and gratitude for what God has given us in our lives.
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There are certain people that are needed in this world to to help mediate and help people to make the connection
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that God is here for us.
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God wants to love us and to offer us his mercy and salvation.
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Because a lot of people are so busy living, they forget that reality.
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And so God has called certain men to be that mediator.
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And that's us.
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And it's awesome.
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So God calls each of us in a very particular way
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and so it's amazing always hearing each priest's vocation story yeah
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but the reality of how he calls us and extends
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that invitation to us to help save souls it's a hard
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pill to swallow at first i just came back from paris
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i was at an ordination for a foreign missionary of paris that's the organ that's the order
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that was initially founded by propaganda fide the first actually um missionary order a missionary order
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but they're actually secular priests so it's technically society okay
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but they're sent off and the amazing thing is
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when you're ordained chrism oil is poured on the priest's hands
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and he becomes consecrated to jesus yeah right
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but after ordination there's a custom the priest gives his first blessing
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and after he gives his first blessing people tend to venerate
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his hands by kissing them realizing these hands are solely dedicated to christ they're configured to christ
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but in this order of missionaries they also kiss their feet
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the reason being once you become a missionary you're sent somewhere anywhere in the world
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and you're sent there for life so you never come home
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so the idea is that these feet are also venerated knowing
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that this man has committed his life to saving souls of
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people whom he has no idea who they are it's amazing i think just those people
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that i've met while i was at paris
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and how the priests have impacted their lives and now that my friend father joseph is going to hong kong
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and how he's going to impact the lives of all these souls over there
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the radical commitment the sacrifice that he had to make to take on that call that vocation
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in one sense is a mystery
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but in another sense is purely just gratitude he's grateful for the life he was given
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and he wants to return it in a very heroic way absolutely i mean you've mentioned a couple words
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that i think are worth maybe dwelling on for a moment you said like consecration you said radical commitment.
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Sometimes you hear the word radical we think like he's a fanatic or he's just an extremist.
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Like is that what a priest is?
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Is he just like an extremist?
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Some sort of fanatic out there you know in a world
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that's just inundated with you know fanatics of all sorts right across the spectrum.
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Yeah.
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But I think like the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, which means root.
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and so i think that radical commitment it's not some fanatical ideology
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that we embrace
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and now we're like yeah waving the flag no it's like
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we are radically rooted in christ right god has called us
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to stake everything on him you know to like yeah slam the flag down with jesus
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and god is going to use us in amazing ways to bring many souls to heaven
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and god's working in a variety of vocations and all
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that marriage is beautiful right different forms of consecrated life uh you know apostolic celibacy for lay people
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but like we're priests yeah
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and god is using us as these radical witnesses rooted in christ to bring many souls to him
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and like it's a huge gift
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and it's amazing i mean we are consecrated men right god
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has god has chosen us for himself yeah i was recently
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talking to someone who was struggling to understand like how we don't get married
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and like how we don't you know what are these urges
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just disappear like what's like it's weird she was struggling to understand like what is that about
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and it reflected a deeper you know kind of spiritual question in our own heart about God in general whatever
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but like like yeah do these urges just like does our humanity disappear in the midst of this call yeah
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and that's a great question I I think a lot of
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people can get jaded just by the lives of priests who maybe were not such good models in the past.
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But then you also have priests who live very heroic examples.
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And we're pointing others, going back to the idea of being mediators, we're pointing them to life after death, to eternal life.
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And the problem is sometimes people get, I think, misunderstood thinking, oh, now that the priest is this kind of mediator,
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all his natural tendencies, concupiscence, all these things are just, they disappear, which is not true.
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But when we are that much more intentional to stay rooted in Christ,
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I think there is a very particular grace that does come with the call that helps us,
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elevates us to live a higher level of moral, being more intentional about our moral life.
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I think the idea of a father being faithful to his wife, the same way that as a priest we are wed to the church,
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there is a certain level of fidelity that comes with sacrifice.
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And I think for someone who has a hard time understanding how priests are able to commit themselves to the church,
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it's good to think about that relationship of husband and wife.
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And in that regard, the only one that can mess up is us.
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God is faithful.
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Yeah, God is faithful.
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So we too have to be faithful.
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But it's so beautiful because he always meets us halfway.
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And we have the support of our priestly brothers, like our support, to make sure that we're in this together.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it would just be crushing to imagine the priesthood all on my shoulders.
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Right?
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It's a burden too heavy to carry.
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And we hear that in the seminary.
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Oh, it's like, it's a heavy load.
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You know, it's a burden of responsibility.
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You're like a pastor, the yoke of Christ upon your shoulder.
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And like, we kind of get it.
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But once we're ordained and then we receive more and more responsibility, we can see, wow, it's beyond us, man.
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Yeah.
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It's like beyond us.
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And it would be crushing if it were just on us.
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And yet we know, as you were saying, that God bestows every grace we need to be faithful.
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If we're open and if we're disposed and if we really give ourselves, He is faithful, right?
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And He will see us through and help us grow through all the challenges and struggles or whatever it is, the joys, the blessings, you know?
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And, you know, I would say with the response to the call, the Holy Spirit equips us with so much grace
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that none of us could have accounted for prior to responding
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that far surpasses the sacrifices we make right and
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when you just reflect on those blessings
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and how powerful they are the idea of persevering is not it's not suffering yeah right
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or I would say it's it could be painful at times
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but it's so fulfilling yeah which is why I think like you know talking to young men in a place of discernment.
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It's like, be not afraid.
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You know, like why a Catholic priest today?
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I mean, we live in a world where there are a lot of examples that are like utterly opposed to God.
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Yeah.
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Like not of God.
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And I think in this world, we need examples, which flows from an authentic call of men who are utterly like for God and with God.
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This idea of consecration totally set aside for the Lord.
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And that that witness today is so important as, you know, the light of the gospel continues to shine.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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I think because the world is so broken, and more and more, we just see how broken the world is.
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I think social media highlights so much of it, right?
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And people are trying to discover where to find that love,
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this authentic love that they can only ultimately find in God, right?
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That selfless mercy.
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But I think with the priesthood, this is a perfect channel for that
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and men who have experienced the healing from their wounds don't know how to reciprocate
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that love except by answering God going back to the radical call, right?
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And I see that that's how so many men, especially today, have responded in a very heroic way of being faithful
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and just wanting to be faithful to the church and her teachings, right?
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Like this is who the bride is, Holy Mother Church, and I want to commit myself to her as best as I can
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and if I don't understand these teachings
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but this is what she says I need to align my heart through my prayer to get it
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and once I get it I'm all in right amen yeah
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I think it was Pope Benedict who reflecting on like what's needed in the world today
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and you know there's so much possibility with technology
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and we have such access to people doing like really incredible things
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that each one of us can think like i have to
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like move mountains in order to have some sort of impact
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and i think pope benedict invited us to step back
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and say you know what what's really needed in the world today is fidelity
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like simply by being faith like as us as priests right
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by being faithful to our commitments yeah to our people to the call
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that the lord has placed on our heart like focus on fidelity
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and you will you will move mountains like you will do
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amazing things for the gospel right sometimes appearances are deceiving it's
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that mustard seed underground no one is even seeing
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and yet it's blossoming and it's bringing forth in god's time
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and in god's way abundant fruit exactly yeah it's kind of
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like um the butterfly effect except there isn't really it's not always natural
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or physical right because with grace it goes beyond nature so
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when we are being faithful to the lord
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and nobody sees the sacrifice we're making yeah
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but god who is always with us is blessing that
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and he's using
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that sacrifice for whatever is needed in this world to to
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share his love with someone who's really in need like
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that i see with the priesthood man we have
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so many holy men all over the world that are
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so faithful and on external it looks like the church is suffering
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and she's dying but i'm so convinced what pope benedict shared about the church being purified
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it's happening right now yeah like in real time even though the church
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and the priesthood has shrunk dramatically over the last few decades
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to see the new crop of young holy men being ordained
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it's an exciting time it's like once again as priests we
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have this huge gift of being able like we're in God's hands his instruments here now in this world
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and I'm just thinking like you know the principal ways we do
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that I mean the mass
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and hearing confessions I mean what powerful moments right yeah the
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consecrating of the host with these hands you know I think a lot
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when we elevate the eucharist and we say the words um behold the lamb of god
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and everyone responds lord i'm not worthy
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that you should enter under my roof i think at the same time lord i'm not worthy
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that i'm offering this mass that these hands are consecrating but the fact that you've let me
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right it's there are times i'll admit when it's 6 30 a .m
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and i'm celebrating mass
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and i'm still i'm just trying to get through the words i'm half awake my brain is cooked
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and i'm just thinking lord i'm sorry this is where i'm
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at have mercy right like this is all i can offer
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i'm offering you what i can exactly there's something beautiful and then there are other moments
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when you're saying those final words at the consecration this is my body
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And just to realize that this is actually Jesus Christ.
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I mean, locked in.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I think everyone in the church who's really actively participating in the sacrifice is right there with us.
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Yeah.
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With all the angels and saints, feeling the true presence, right?
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And that right there is so, it's so powerful.
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I think the Holy Spirit is really just kind of invigorating every soul present, and that's not something that can quite be explained,
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but that leaves a clear mark on the priest's heart that this is his responsibility.
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Yeah, I mean, a moment for me that I just love is Holy Communion.
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And I don't always think in this, you know, deep of a way as I'm distributing Holy Communion.
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But I think the church invites us as priests in particular to see ourselves as like Christ the Good Shepherd, like feeding his sheep in that moment.
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That these are those who are labored and weary and burdened.
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And who do they come to?
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They come to Jesus.
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And they could be anywhere in this moment, yet they've come right here and to see their piety and their love for him as we literally are giving Christ.
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This is their food for their souls, right?
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And in that moment, to see them receive him with such love, it's like, to me, that is so powerful.
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It's like, you know what, Matt?
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This is beyond you, right?
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This is about Christ and that you are Christ now and you are giving Christ now as they are being fed.
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to go out and sanctify the world i mean yeah i think mass i mean
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if i were to do nothing else in my day
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and that's all i do like it would be absolutely worth
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it you know it's above anything i could ever say
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or you know do for the conversion of souls
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or whatever like they need christ and it's right here right here in the mass
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that christ comes to them that makes me think of going back to fidelity to priesthood.
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And I think of how people receive our Lord in Holy Communion and how it affects you.
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When I see someone receiving our Lord reverently, there is just this love.
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Like, oh, you're so good.
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But then when someone receives him irreverently, how much it fires my heart.
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Zeal for my father's house.
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Yeah.
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But it also makes me think of how much in the church expanding her mercy has reduced
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the requirements to receive Holy Communion, right?
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From like pre -Vatican II, the fasting requirements, how you would have to fast the day before, and even with drinking water, right?
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So how moms would put towels over her faucets to make sure the kids don't get
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that last sip before their first communion, right?
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So little Johnny can receive Jesus.
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But to see the piety and to see, like, sometimes how we take our Lord Jesus for granted.
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Yeah.
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And as the priest, how intentional am I to make sure the Persians don't lose that love, that zeal?
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I think of a father and his fidelity to his wife.
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And when he does a good job of being faithful to her, the children are very intentional to honor her, to honor mom.
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But when the father's not in front of the children respecting his wife, the kids will just run around and do whatever they want.
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It's not mom's home.
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This is my house, right?
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I think it's so similar with the priesthood and
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when the priest is truly faithful to what the church asks
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and when he honors her and he honors the sacrament of the Eucharist with that same piety, then the parishioners know this is the real deal.
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And I think that way of approaching the Lord so often, right, that way is paved through my favorite thing to do as a priest,
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which is hear confessions.
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What I love about confessions is like you know this is where it's real like people come
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and I've only had very very very few experiences I can
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count them on one hand where someone has come to confession with like a bad intention
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or they are you know trying to just I don't know go through the motions
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or something yeah yeah people buying they are real
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and they are seeking God yeah
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and the Lord's mercy we can't talk about it right the seal of confession yeah
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but to be able to just say like the miracles of mercy that happened in the confessional, which paved the way for people to approach our Lord in the Eucharist with what you were talking about, right?
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That disposition of just love at the end of the day.
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I mean, it is the best part of my.. my life honestly i
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think as a priest i think as men um of course everyone comes from a different walk of life
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but we all have uh certain wounds
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that we needed to receive healing from our lord through the sacrament
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and to imagine those confessions that were very difficult for ourselves
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and to receive god's mercy from the priest just freely offering it yeah and then to imagine how difficult it is,
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like you're saying, for a penitent to come in and to make a confession, no matter how they sound.
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It's just, I wish parishioners could understand,
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like, the heart of the Father of just knowing how proud we are when someone comes into the confessional.
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That is such a victory.
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Yes.
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And, like, for me, a call to conversion, like, I've been
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so edified by the confessions of people who have come in there like oh my gosh like
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and you know I don't really say it to them in
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that moment but what I'm praying in my heart is like wow thank you God for like this witness
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that is calling me to be more in love with you like to be more attuned to my own weakness
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and sinfulness it's awesome oh yeah it's powerful oh yeah it's funny because like exactly Exactly,
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like you're saying, there are many times when penitent humbles me, literally, right?
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Whoa.
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I gotta be better.
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I gotta be better, right?
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Absolutely.
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Step up your game, Father.
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Exactly.
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Come on here.
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Exactly.
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Lastly, Father Daniel, I'm just kind of curious, I mean, what advice would you give a young man who's trying to discern his vocation and is open to the priesthood?
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If any young man has just a thought, maybe, maybe God's calling me to be a priest.
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That thought isn't by accident, right?
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It's not by chance.
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Yeah.
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So I would encourage you to go to your local vocation director and to really talk to him.
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Don't hesitate.
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Don't overthink it.
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Don't, you know, the Holy Spirit only calls us with his grace for a particular period of time
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when he calls you you just got to respond have courage and and be generous thanks father daniel awesome
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 296 frasi e 3565 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 22:10. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 161 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| priest sostantivo | /ˈpɹiːst/ | prete, sacerdote |
| faithful aggettivo | /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/ | fedele, ligio |
| radical sostantivo | /ˈɹædɪkəl/ | radice |
| confession sostantivo | /kənˈfɛʃən/ | confessione |
| mercy sostantivo | /ˈmɝsi/ | misericordia, pietà |
| sacrifice sostantivo | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | sacrificio |
| blessing sostantivo | /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/ | benedizione |
| communion sostantivo | /kəˈmjuːnjən/ | comunione |
| commitment sostantivo | /kəˈmɪtmənt/ | impegno, promessa |
| reflect verbo | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | riflettere |
| pope sostantivo | /poʊp/ | papa, pontefice |
| wound sostantivo | /ˈwund/ | lesione, ferita |
| burden sostantivo | /ˈbɝdn̩/ | carico, fardello |
| heal verbo | /ˈhiːl/ | guarire, sanare |
| disappear verbo | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | sparire, scomparire |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| get through verbo | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | superare, farcela |
| give up verbo | arrendersi | |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori | |
| go through verbo | attraversare | |
| mess up verbo | incasinare | |
| set up verbo | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | preparare, installare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have experienced · has given · has called |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are needed · is poured · are also venerated |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | men who are · men who have · radix, which means |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 66 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: faithful /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: confession /kənˈfɛʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, conversion /kənˈvɝʒən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, bishop /ˈbɪʃəp/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, seminary /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/
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