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Peace be with you.

Friends, many years ago when I was a student at Mundelein Seminary, we had a great professor named Dr. Richard Issel.

He was a psychologist, and he taught these courses in counseling, and one was called, I remember, the Psychology of Successful Parish Priesthood.

I took all of his courses.

He was a great teacher.

And one principle I remember from Issel is this.

He said, if you want to be happy, stop worrying about being happy and get on with with becoming fulfilled.

Happiness — and Aristotle knew this too, a long time before Dr. Issel — happiness is a kind of byproduct of fulfillment.

The worst thing you can do is to turn inward and fuss about, why am I not happy?

How do I become happy?

Forget about being happy.

Become fulfilled, and the happiness will take care of itself.

Something similar I found in Jordan Peterson's Reflections, where he says, self -consciousness is equivalent to misery.

And what he means, I think, is this turning inward, the self -preoccupation, is equivalent with misery.

So you want to be psychologically healthy, well, forget about yourself.

Stop fussing about yourself and get about the business of fulfillment.

It's a very helpful principle, I find.

And I bet now those listening to me, when you find yourself most unhappy, it's that you're just fussing about yourself.

You're turned inward.

You're worrying about what might have been and mistakes you made.

Forget about that.

Forget about being happy.

Get on with being fulfilled.

In other words, there's a kind of extroverted quality that's associated with happiness.

Well, I always think of this when I come across our reading for today.

We're reading from the great

Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' paradigmatic teaching.

Jesus says to his disciples, "'You are the salt of the earth.

You are the light of the world.

You are a city set on a hill." So you say, okay, the sermon that Jesus gives is sort of the key to happiness.

It begins with the Beatitudes, right?

Beatitudo means happiness.

So if I want to be happy, I better follow this.

Well, look what he tells his followers to be.

Something for the sake of the other.

So look at the first one.

You are the salt of the earth.

Well, in Jesus' time in the ancient world, you know, long before refrigeration, if you wanted to preserve meat, well, you would salt it.

You want it to enhance its flavor.

And that's true today, of course, too.

You put salt on it.

What's one thing you never would do if you have guests over at your house.

Well, I'm serving dinner, and here's a plate of salt for you.

Well, because salt is not salt for its own sake.

Salt exists for the sake of the other.

What's the role of the Christian in the world?

It's not to be fussily preoccupied with his or her own happiness.

Rather, it's to become something for the sake of the other other.

Salt makes things spicy and tasty and interesting.

Salt preserves what's worth preserving.

So what's the role of the Christian in the world?

It's not, well, let me try to be as happy as I can be.

Let me cultivate my own holiness.

No, you will become happy and you'll become holy in the measure that you become someone for others.

So what does it mean to be salt, to be the spicy element within the society.

I mean that

Christians would invade all the expressions of the secular culture —entertainment and sports and business and finance and everything.

Christians invade that space in a spicy,

salty way to bring something of the style and energy of Jesus into all these elements of life.

See, a Christian should wake up every morning and say not, well, now, how can I become happier today?

But rather, how can I make the world more Christ -like?

How can I be salt for the world?

How can I spice things up and preserve what's worth preserving?

I think, everybody, your whole approach to the spiritual life will shift if you think along those lines.

And look at the second one.

He says, you are the light of the world.

Well, you never see light.

Light in itself is not visible.

Rather, light is that by which we see other things.

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.

I always think here of the church in Rome has the wonderful Caravaggio paintings, and they're in the dark,

and you have to put little coins in a machine to light up the picture.

And then, boom, the light comes on, and there's Caravaggio in all its splendor.

And you can see it for a few minutes, and the lights go out, and you've got to put more money in.

You, my followers, says Jesus, you're the light of the world.

You are that by which things become more visible and beautiful and appealing.

People will see beautiful things because of you.

Now, see, what if you thought about your spiritual life in those terms?

So my goal today is not to make myself happier.

No, it's to make others happier.

being by my own style of being in the world, a light that illumines others.

Or think of, you know, I often use the example of halos around the heads of saints.

How come they're depicted that way?

Because the saint is a light for others.

How should I live?

Well, I look to a saint.

A saint becomes like a luminosity on the road.

Let's say I'm stumbling around in the dark.

I don't know what direction my life should take.

Well, then I see a saint, and suddenly the light goes on, and I can see where I'm going.

I think of the role that Thomas Aquinas played in my own life when I was a 14 -year -old kid,

and Thomas was like a light going on.

Or think of someone who's, you know, they lost their way,

and they come across the story of a Maximilian Kolbe or a Mother Teresa or the little flower,

and suddenly the luminosity of that personality and the humanity lights up their path.

They see where they're supposed to go.

Huh.

That's your job, Christian, in the world.

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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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «Become Someone for Others - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon». Чаще всего повторяются слова: salt, sake, Catholic, Christian, happiness. В этом видео 153 предложений и 2005 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 13:40. Говорящий держит ровный темп — около 147 слов в минуту, удобный для шедоуинга. 83% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием. Вопросов здесь 26 из 153 предложений, так что это хорошая тренировка вопросительной интонации и коротких ответов.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
sake существительное	/ˈseɪ̯k/	причи́на
happiness существительное	/ˈhæpinɪs/	сча́стье, ра́дость
preserve глагол	/pɹəˈzɝv/	защища́ть, защити́ть
principle существительное	/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/	при́нцип
distinctive прилагательное	/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/	осо́бенный, осо́бый
spicy прилагательное	/ˈspaɪsi/	о́стрый
fuss существительное	/fʌs/	суета́, сумато́ха
spiritual прилагательное	/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/	духо́вный
arrive глагол	/əˈɹaɪv/	прибыва́ть, прибы́ть
mercy существительное	/ˈmɝsi/	милосе́рдие, поща́да
heal глагол	/ˈhiːl/	лечи́ть, вы́лечить
fulfill глагол	/fʊlˈfɪl/	исполня́ть, испо́лнить
salty прилагательное	/ˈsɔlti/	солёный
malicious прилагательное	/məˈlɪʃəs/	злой, зло́бный
hungry прилагательное	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	голо́дный

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
get on with глагол		приступа́ть, продолжа́ть
go out глагол		выходи́ть, вы́йти
light up глагол		свети́ть, освети́ть
wake up глагол	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	просыпа́ться, просну́ться

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

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?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	was called · being fulfilled · can be raised
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	has occurred · I've talked

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 29 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, you're, they're. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, clothe /ˈkloʊð/, catholicos /kəˈθɒlɪkəs/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: malicious /məˈlɪʃəs/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, distinctiveness /dɪsˈtɪŋ(k)tɪvnɪs/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: wander /ˈwɑndɚ/, inward /ˈɪnwəd/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, heal /ˈhiːl/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/, distinctive /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, naked /ˈneɪkɪd/, invade /ɪnˈveɪd/

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Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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