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Peace be with you.
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Friends, many years ago when I was a student at Mundelein Seminary, we had a great professor named Dr. Richard Issel.
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He was a psychologist, and he taught these courses in counseling, and one was called, I remember, the Psychology of Successful Parish Priesthood.
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I took all of his courses.
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He was a great teacher.
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And one principle I remember from Issel is this.
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He said, if you want to be happy, stop worrying about being happy and get on with with becoming fulfilled.
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Happiness — and Aristotle knew this too, a long time before Dr. Issel — happiness is a kind of byproduct of fulfillment.
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The worst thing you can do is to turn inward and fuss about, why am I not happy?
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How do I become happy?
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Forget about being happy.
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Become fulfilled, and the happiness will take care of itself.
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Something similar I found in Jordan Peterson's Reflections, where he says, self -consciousness is equivalent to misery.
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And what he means, I think, is this turning inward, the self -preoccupation, is equivalent with misery.
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So you want to be psychologically healthy, well, forget about yourself.
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Stop fussing about yourself and get about the business of fulfillment.
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It's a very helpful principle, I find.
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And I bet now those listening to me, when you find yourself most unhappy, it's that you're just fussing about yourself.
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You're turned inward.
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You're worrying about what might have been and mistakes you made.
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Forget about that.
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Forget about being happy.
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Get on with being fulfilled.
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In other words, there's a kind of extroverted quality that's associated with happiness.
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Well, I always think of this when I come across our reading for today.
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We're reading from the great
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Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' paradigmatic teaching.
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Jesus says to his disciples, "'You are the salt of the earth.
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You are the light of the world.
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You are a city set on a hill." So you say, okay, the sermon that Jesus gives is sort of the key to happiness.
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It begins with the Beatitudes, right?
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Beatitudo means happiness.
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So if I want to be happy, I better follow this.
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Well, look what he tells his followers to be.
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Something for the sake of the other.
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So look at the first one.
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You are the salt of the earth.
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Well, in Jesus' time in the ancient world, you know, long before refrigeration, if you wanted to preserve meat, well, you would salt it.
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You want it to enhance its flavor.
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And that's true today, of course, too.
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You put salt on it.
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What's one thing you never would do if you have guests over at your house.
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Well, I'm serving dinner, and here's a plate of salt for you.
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Well, because salt is not salt for its own sake.
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Salt exists for the sake of the other.
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What's the role of the Christian in the world?
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It's not to be fussily preoccupied with his or her own happiness.
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Rather, it's to become something for the sake of the other other.
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Salt makes things spicy and tasty and interesting.
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Salt preserves what's worth preserving.
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So what's the role of the Christian in the world?
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It's not, well, let me try to be as happy as I can be.
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Let me cultivate my own holiness.
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No, you will become happy and you'll become holy in the measure that you become someone for others.
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So what does it mean to be salt, to be the spicy element within the society.
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I mean that
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Christians would invade all the expressions of the secular culture —entertainment and sports and business and finance and everything.
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Christians invade that space in a spicy,
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salty way to bring something of the style and energy of Jesus into all these elements of life.
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See, a Christian should wake up every morning and say not, well, now, how can I become happier today?
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But rather, how can I make the world more Christ -like?
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How can I be salt for the world?
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How can I spice things up and preserve what's worth preserving?
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I think, everybody, your whole approach to the spiritual life will shift if you think along those lines.
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And look at the second one.
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He says, you are the light of the world.
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Well, you never see light.
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Light in itself is not visible.
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Rather, light is that by which we see other things.
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You walk into a dark room and you're disoriented until someone turns on the light, and then, ah, now I can see what's in the room.
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I always think here of the church in Rome has the wonderful Caravaggio paintings, and they're in the dark,
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and you have to put little coins in a machine to light up the picture.
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And then, boom, the light comes on, and there's Caravaggio in all its splendor.
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And you can see it for a few minutes, and the lights go out, and you've got to put more money in.
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You, my followers, says Jesus, you're the light of the world.
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You are that by which things become more visible and beautiful and appealing.
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People will see beautiful things because of you.
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Now, see, what if you thought about your spiritual life in those terms?
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So my goal today is not to make myself happier.
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No, it's to make others happier.
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being by my own style of being in the world, a light that illumines others.
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Or think of, you know, I often use the example of halos around the heads of saints.
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How come they're depicted that way?
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Because the saint is a light for others.
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How should I live?
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Well, I look to a saint.
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A saint becomes like a luminosity on the road.
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Let's say I'm stumbling around in the dark.
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I don't know what direction my life should take.
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Well, then I see a saint, and suddenly the light goes on, and I can see where I'm going.
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I think of the role that Thomas Aquinas played in my own life when I was a 14 -year -old kid,
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and Thomas was like a light going on.
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Or think of someone who's, you know, they lost their way,
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and they come across the story of a Maximilian Kolbe or a Mother Teresa or the little flower,
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and suddenly the luminosity of that personality and the humanity lights up their path.
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They see where they're supposed to go.
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Huh.
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That's your job, Christian, in the world.
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What if you woke up every day and said, that's my job today, is by my own sanctity to become a light for others to see?
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And then this last image that we might not get as readily.
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You're a city set on the hill.
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Well, see, we've got GPS and everything else and maps to navigate.
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But in the ancient world, they had to navigate in a more, I suppose, clumsy way.
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But one of the ways they navigated was they'd see cities on a hilltop.
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Oh, you've got to move in the direction of that city,
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or you have to come to that city and then you've got to move further west or whatever it was.
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The city on the hill was a means of navigation.
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It was a landmark that everybody could see.
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Huh, that's your job, Christian.
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to be a city set on the hill so that everybody can get their bearings from you.
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Does that make sense?
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We're all wandering around trying to make our way to God.
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Well, how do I find the way?
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Well, look, there's that city.
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Oh yeah, move in that direction.
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Well, that's exactly the role the saints play, isn't it?
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They give directionality to our lives.
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But what if you thought about your own spiritual life precisely in those terms? that your distinctiveness is not for you.
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It's for the sake of someone who's trying to find his or her way.
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Your salt, your light, your city set on a hill.
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You know, this has occurred to me with all of this in mind, is look at Catholics in America,
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so my home country, how we kind of oscillate back and forth between extremes in a way.
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When Catholics arrived here, you know, let's say middle of the 19th century and on, we were arriving at a very Protestant culture.
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And so it was important for Catholics to maintain their distinctiveness.
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And so parishes and Catholic schools and sort of a Catholic subculture developed.
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The stress was on distinctiveness, what makes us uniquely
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Catholic over and against the wider culture.
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Well, is that good?
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Yeah, because salt can lose its saltiness, right? and the light can go out,
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and the city built on the hill can be raised to the ground.
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And so, yes, you do have to be distinctive.
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But the purpose is not to rest in your own distinctiveness.
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The purpose is now to use your distinctiveness as a guide and a light and a spice for others.
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So think of this now.
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When Catholics first arrived here, they were kind of stressing distinctiveness.
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Now, the years I was coming of age, after Vatican II, we went to the other extreme.
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The Church was kind of so open to the world that it lost a sense of what makes it unique.
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The biblical principle is always this sort of tensive, healthily tensive principle.
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We are distinct, salty, luminous, elevated, uh -huh, for the sake of the other,
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not for our own sake.
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What's distinctive to us uniquely
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Catholic is for the sake of the wider world.
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I'm not meant to kind of crouch behind walls and cultivate my private Catholicism.
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No, no. Indeed, kataholos, Catholic, means according to the whole.
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The Church exists for the world.
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We're distinctive for the sake of the world.
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All of that is implicit in these great images that Jesus uses.
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Now let me just close by drawing some attention to reading number one, which is from the prophet Isaiah.
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So if you say, okay, what is it?
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What is this distinctive quality?
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What makes us salty and spicy and luminous and so on?
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Well, listen to what Isaiah says in our first reading.
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Share your bread with the hungry.
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Shelter the oppressed and the homeless.
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Clothe the naked when you see them.
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Listen now.
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Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your wounds shall quickly be healed.
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It's really interesting now in light of what we've been talking about.
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What's the light?
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What's the light?
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These actions.
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Now, building upon this, the Church develops the corporal works of mercy, which I've talked about a lot.
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Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the imprisoned, visit the sick, bury the dead.
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Concrete things.
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And when you perform these acts of love, what happens?
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Your light will break forth like the dawn.
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You'll be light for others.
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And then listen, though.
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And your wound shall quickly be healed.
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What's the wound?
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I'm just not happy.
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I'm just not content.
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What's the matter?
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Don't turn inward and fuss about it.
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Remember Dr. Issel.
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You know, you want to be happy, forget about your happiness.
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You want to be holy, forget about your holiness.
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You want the wound healed.
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Old, turn your life into a gift for others.
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Salt, light, city on the hill, and it looks like these concrete works of mercy.
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Here's just the last thing from Isaiah that I'll add to the works of mercy.
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Listen, if you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation, and malicious speech,
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then light shall rise for you.
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There it is again.
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Where's the light going to come from?
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Well, he adds these, which I think are very relevant to us today.
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Oppression, false accusation, malicious speech.
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Go online any time of the day or night.
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How often now in the social media context we engage in just this kind of malicious speech,
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attacking people's characters, going after them.
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Remove that.
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You want to be happier?
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Remove that from your life, and light will shine forth.
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Remember, everybody, it's the extroverted move.
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It's the move out from yourself.
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The Christian exists not for herself.
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The Christian exists for the world.
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Light, salt, city set on the hill.
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And God bless you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Become Someone for Others - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: salt, sake, Catholic, Christian, happiness. Deze video bevat 153 zinnen en 2005 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:40. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 147 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 26 van de 153 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| sake zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈseɪ̯k/ | -halve, wille |
| happiness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | blijheid, blijdschap |
| preserve werkwoord | /pɹəˈzɝv/ | beschermen |
| principle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | principe, beginsel |
| spicy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈspaɪsi/ | scherp, pikant |
| spiritual bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | geestelijk, spiritueel |
| arrive werkwoord | /əˈɹaɪv/ | aankomen, arriveren |
| mercy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɝsi/ | barmhartigheid, genade |
| heal werkwoord | /ˈhiːl/ | genezen, helen |
| fulfill werkwoord | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | vervullen |
| salty bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsɔlti/ | zout |
| navigate werkwoord | /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | navigeren |
| malicious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /məˈlɪʃəs/ | boos, kwaad |
| hungry bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | hongerig, honger hebben |
| concrete bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | concreet |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come across werkwoord | overkomen | |
| get on with werkwoord | aan de gang gaan met, doorgaan | |
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How do I become happy?
- It's a very helpful principle, I find.
- How can I be salt for the world?
- How come they're depicted that way?
- You want to be happier?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was called · being fulfilled · can be raised |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has occurred · I've talked |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 29 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, clothe /ˈkloʊð/, catholicos /kəˈθɒlɪkəs/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: malicious /məˈlɪʃəs/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, distinctiveness /dɪsˈtɪŋ(k)tɪvnɪs/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/, distinctive /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, naked /ˈneɪkɪd/, invade /ɪnˈveɪd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, parish /ˈpæɹɪʃ/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, paradigmatic /ˌpɛɹ.ə.dɪ(ɡ)ˈmæ.tɪk/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als sake, happiness, preserve.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.