シャドーイング練習: Be Willing To Sell Everything For Heaven | Fr. Dan Reehil | 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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let's pretend that today when you get home God appears to you
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and says ask me whatever you want and I will grant it for you.
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What are you gonna ask for?
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Think about it really.
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Is it the mega millions numbers or perhaps longer life security, success, wealth, fame, fortune, whatever.
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A lot of us would pick the material over the spiritual.
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But that did not happen today in that first reading where Solomon stands before Almighty God and he's posed that exact question.
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What do you want from me?
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I will grant it.
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He asks for wisdom.
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He asks for wisdom.
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The ability to discern God's will and govern according to God's heart.
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And the Lord was immensely pleased with this response.
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So he granted Solomon not only wisdom but all the earthly gifts you could imagine.
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They all came pouring in to the treasury beyond anything that he requested.
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Why?
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Because Solomon loved the giver more than the gift.
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And that is what made God so happy with him.
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And that is also the lesson of today's gospel.
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Jesus says that the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field.
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A man discovers it, hides it again, and in his joy sells everything he owns to buy that field.
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Then he says a merchant searching for fine pearls.
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And the man who finds the pearl of extraordinary value, he gladly sells everything to possess that pearl.
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Now here's what's really remarkable about the two stories.
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Both of these men, neither one is mourning what they gave up.
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They're not even thinking about what they let go.
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They're only thinking about what they've attained.
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and they're both rejoicing in what they have gained.
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Now the world believes holiness costs just too much.
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Jesus says the opposite.
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The only tragedy is settling for something infinitely less than heaven.
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And today too many Christians bargain with God saying, Lord how little must I surrender and still be saved?
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What's the bare minimum to get into heaven?
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Jesus asked a far different What is worth giving everything up for?
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The answer is the kingdom.
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The saints understood this.
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St. Paul gave up his prestige, his influence, and his comfort.
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Yet we're still talking about him today.
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St. Francis abandoned all of his great wealth.
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St. Thomas More surrendered his office as governor to the king and ultimately gave up his life as well, rather than betray Jesus.
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The martyrs not only gave up their possessions, they gave their very blood because they discovered the pearl beyond all price.
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When you truly encounter Jesus Christ, sacrifice is no longer a loss.
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It becomes love.
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When you truly discover or encounter Jesus Christ, your sacrifice is no longer a loss.
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It is love.
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because that was love.
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That's why he did that, because he loved his father so much that he would do anything to please him, but also because he loved us.
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And that's why St. Paul proclaims with astonishing confidence in today's reading to the Romans, he says, we know that all things work for the good for those who love God.
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Not some things, all things.
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Not only the pleasant things, but all things.
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Our victories, but also our failures.
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our illnesses and our disappointments, our crosses and our tears.
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God wastes nothing when his soul belongs to him.
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Now I'll tell you something.
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If a man suddenly gets serious about Jesus, understand this.
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Something brought him to his knees before it brought him to God.
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And that is a blessing, even though it can be painful.
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It's a blessing if the end result is a closer relationship with Christ.
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But then Paul takes it even deeper.
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He says, those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son.
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So the goal of your life is not merely success or comfort or even avoiding hell.
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The goal is to become like Jesus Christ.
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Every grace, every trial, every sacrament, every confession, every holy communion, every hidden act of charity, shaping us into the image of the Son of God,
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so that one day we can forever share His glory.
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The cross always comes before the crown.
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Good Friday always proceeds, Easter Sunday.
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No pain, no gain.
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This is the message. And that's the treasure.
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That is the kingdom.
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No one reaches it by accident.
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And this is where Solomon's prayer can become our own.
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We desperately need God's wisdom because our culture celebrates intelligence but often rejects wisdom.
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Intelligence accumulates information.
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And that's like a big thing right now.
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It's just more and more information.
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Let's build these giant silos to get more information.
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Wisdom knows what is pleasing to God.
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And there's a huge difference between the two.
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And I'm not knocking intelligence.
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But intelligence always has to be under wisdom.
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You can earn many, many degrees, PhDs, and still lose your soul.
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You can build an entire empire and be spiritually bankrupt.
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And then Jesus asked a haunting question.
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What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
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The wisest investment you will ever make is in holiness.
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And the wisest decision you'll ever make is to commit to daily prayer.
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The greatest habits you can create are confession on a regular basis and receiving the blessed sacrament.
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That's the wisest food you can obtain.
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And the greatest friendship you'll ever have, whether you know it or not, is going to be Jesus Christ.
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Because he's the one who made you.
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He knows you inside and out, more than we know ourselves.
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Everything else will pass away.
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Only the kingdom will endure.
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Then Jesus ends today's gospel with a very sobering image.
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A fishing net gathering fish of every kind.
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And at the end of time, there will be a great separation.
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The good will be gathered in to the kingdom.
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And the wicked will be cast out.
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He speaks these words not to frighten us, but to awaken us from complacency.
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Because there's many in the world who are fully complacent and not really interested in pursuing a higher good.
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In growing in wisdom.
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In growing in God's wisdom.
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Every one of us is moving toward an eternal destination.
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The question is, where will it be?
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I'm a big fan of bumper sticker theology.
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There's some good ones out there.
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There's some bad ones too.
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You know, that coexist one.
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That's a big lie.
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That is a big lie.
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You can't coexist with people that want to kill you.
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However, one day I saw this bumper sticker.
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Where will you be spending eternity, smoking or on.
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That's a good one because it makes you think.
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The kingdom also is free.
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It's kind of a unique thing that God did in that your status doesn't matter, your wealth doesn't matter, your health doesn't matter.
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What matters is your heart.
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Do you desire to be with God and his kingdom?
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And if you do, you follow him and become a good disciple.
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That's it.
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It's simple, but it is not easy, not in today's culture.
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But when you stand before Christ at the end of your life,
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you will never regret the rosaries you prayed and the holy communions you took reverently, the holy hours before the blessed sacrament,
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the acts of charity, remaining faithful to your spouse, protecting your children, defending the truth, carrying your cross with courage.
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All these things you will be so happy you did, because they give glory and honor to God.
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Today, Christ points toward the buried treasure.
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He holds up the pearl of great price, and he invites you and I, each of us, to become wise.
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Not worldly wise, but heavenly wise.
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Pray for wisdom that sees eternity more clearly than today's headlines.
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More clearly than our bank accounts and our credit card statements.
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More clearly than our ambitions.
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Pray for the courage to sell whatever keeps you from Christ.
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Every attachment to sin, every idol, every resentment, every compromise we make with the world.
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It all has to go.
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It has to go.
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Choose the kingdom, choose holiness, choose wisdom, choose God.
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Because one day when the net's finally drawn ashore and history comes to a glorious conclusion, may Christ look at you and I and may we hear the words,
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well done, my good and faithful servant.
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Well done.
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Then we will discover that every sacrifice made for Jesus was not a loss at all, but the greatest bargain we ever made.
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For we will possess forever the treasure that can never perish, God and his kingdom.
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英語学習を楽しみながら、スピーキングと発音を向上させたい中級レベルの学習者にぴったりです。宗教的なテーマですが、日常的に使える表現やリズムが豊富で、shadow speech（シャドーイング）の練習に最適です。「天国のためにすべてを捨てる」という深いメッセージも、聴解力と思考力を養う良い機会です。
覚えておきたいフレーズとイディオム
- be willing to：～する覚悟がある。「Be willing to sell everything」は「すべてを売る覚悟がある」。
- discern God's will：神の意志を見極める。discernは「見分ける、判断する」の意味で、難しい状況での判断力を表す。
- all things work for the good：すべては良い方向に働く。ストレスfulな時に使える励ましのフレーズです。
これらのフレーズは、英語スピーキング練習で自然に使えるようになると、表現の幅が広がります。
発音を上達させるコツ
この動画のスピーカーはゆったりとしたリズムで話し、重要な単語を強調します。英語の発音を良くするには、以下のポイントに注目してshadow speechを行いましょう。
- wisdom：「ウィズダム」ではなく、「ウィズム」と短く発音する。
- surrender：「サレンダー」ではなく、「サレンダー」の「レ」を軽く発音し、「ダ」を強調する。
- 文の終わりの上昇調：疑問文ではないのに、感情を込める時に上昇調になることがあります。「What are you gonna ask for?」のように、驚きや興味を表す時の調子を真似しましょう。
動画を何度も繰り返し聞き、口に出して真似ることで、自然な発音とリズムが身につきます。動画で英語学習することで、楽しく効率的にスキルアップできます！
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。