Become Who You Are
What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us.
Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire".
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- 2020 - 2025
#378 The Synod and the Church of Woke: "Enlarge the Space of Your Tent" and Make Room For Fr. James Martin
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The Synod of Synodality: Is this a Trojan Horse brought in to undermine the Gospel and the Traditions of the Church? Join Jack as he dissects its contr…
#377 We are back for a new episode of Saint John Paul II's Theology of the Body!
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Unless you look out at creation with a sacramental lens to discover with awe and wonder what these icons are pointing us to discover, you run the danger…
#376 Making Sense of "Woke" 8; With Thomas Hampson, "Is Diversity Always a Good Thing?"
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We hear ad nauseam about the need for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. What's really behind this constant barrage of propaganda?
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#375 Sunday Scripture Readings, A Study In Contrast; The "PRIDE" of Man versus the "HUMILITY" of God
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We just finished PRIDE month, but Racheal Levine, a man who dresses as a woman, invited us to extend PRIDE for the whole summer…a summer of PRIDE he cal…
#374 Making Sense of "Woke" (6); Responding to the Trojan Horse of "diversity, equity and inclusion"
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Today we learn to respond to one of "Woke" cultures greatest lies.
Welcome to “Woke”, simply the newest version of a very old story, mans rejection of…
#373 Making Sense of "Woke" (part 5); Responding in Love To The Systemic Attack On Our Nations Children
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Learning to Love in the Truth, and Speak the Truth in Love, is the fundamental path that Jesus Christ has provided for us in the Gospel. Unless we lear…
#372 Making Sense of "Woke" (part 4); The Distortion of Human Sexuality
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Jesus said, "but from the beginning it was not so" (Matt 19:3-8). And then He points us to the beginning, to the book of Genesis.
"Our hearts are a batt…
#371 Making Sense of "Woke" (part 3); Grandma Agnes and the Star Filled Sky
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Grandma Agnes would have loved the brilliant star filled sky. She grew up on a farm and loved Gods creation...nature, the family and the Church.
…Last ni…
#370 Making Sense of "Woke" (Part 2); A Tale of Two Cities
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This is Part 2 of Making Sense of Woke
“Woke” is the world, “life in the flesh” as St. Paul called it, a world without God…St Augustine would go on to re…
#369 Making Sense of "Woke;" A Tale of Two Cities
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“Woke” is the world, “life in the flesh” as St. Paul called it, a world without God…St Augustine would go on to refer to as “the City of Man”.
The “Gosp…
#368 Death is the end of our earthly pilgrimage; the time of grace and mercy given to us by God to work out our ultimate destiny
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Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the…
#367 "Crossing the Bridge"...Opening the smaller story of your life to the transformational power of "Connection"
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I call it, “Crossing the Bridge”, opening the smaller story of your life to the transformational power of “Connection”. The bottom line is that we were …
#366 Oppressor/Oppressed? The True Oppressor is Satan. True Freedom is liberation from sin!
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This is an extremely important episode. Here is the answer to the many currents of evil that surround us today. Christ has come to set us free from sin …
#365 Man and Woman He Created Them; Elon Musk and Adam, "What Do You Seek?"
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#364 Laws On Trans, Nonbinary Student Pronouns Put Teachers At Risk?!? Humanities Tragic Fall From Grace
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When we allow children to be sexually exploited to serve an ideology that is irrational we know that we have entered a new historical moment. It is a gr…
#363 TODAY GOD SENDS YOU THIS MESSAGE; St John Paul II said that St Paul opens horizons before us that are so vast and beautiful! Something New! Christ offers us not the law, but "Life in the SPIRIT"
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John Paul II begins with a question. What is the meaning of the Statement: “the flesh has desires contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires con…
#362 We will not forget. We accept the torch from our fallen brothers and sisters and stand for all that is true, good and beautiful.
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..we would have gone on, but thankfully dad, a 96-year-old world-war II veteran, wondered out loud, “most of this just doesn’t make rational sense.” He …
#361 A friend asked me, "Jack, where is the hope?"
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Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me....I am the way, and the truth, and the life." (John 14:1; 6).
"If the S…
#360 So many lies; unless we choose "Life in the Spirit" humanities default position is captivity to sin and death
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"Life in the Flesh" or another way to put it, "the World without God," has desires contrary to the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. This life of sin and death r…
#359 Grooming by Proxy; The Systemic Abuse of Children by the State
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A few weeks ago at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park Illinois a physical education teacher, who was assigned to teach "health" to the middle schoo…