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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- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#358 Can I Lust After My Wife? Purity as "Life according to the Spirit"
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A person is never to be reduced to use. The only way to look at another person is with love.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God" …
#357 Praying With Temptation; The Key to Winning on the Battlefield of the Heart
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Includes Father Ryan Browning's Meditation "Praying with Temptation"
Father Browning began his meditation, "There are temptations that assail me all the …
#356 The Question Of Why? Why Is The Sexual Exploitation Of Children So Important To The Godless?
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The Culture is pulverizing our children. The sexual exploitation of children by Netflix and Disney, the Porn industry, Social Media, Big Tech, and Gover…
#355 Set Free For Love; Dennis Prager, Pornography, and the Redemption of the Body
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It is sad to think that many women may have never experienced love making from the perspective of the redemption of the body?
In the Sermon on the Moun…
#354 Stolen Innocence "Is the Pendulum Reaching It's Outer Limit?"
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There is something about the challenge of raising children in a world gone mad that is finally motivating the slow learners (some of them at least) to e…
#353 What Is The Teachers Union In Colorado Smoking? "John Paul II and Karl Marx"
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Two consistent questions I get "What is CRT.?.. and once understood...but why would anyone seek to divide humanity?"
Marxism claims that some groups and …
#352 The Problem Of Erotic Spontaneity
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We are invited to a full and mature spontaneity in a relationship that is born from the perennial attraction of masculinity and femininity. The fruit of…
#351 Love & Responsibility; Understanding The Two Sides Of Love
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The Italians have a beautiful expression for Love: ti voglio bene. Though commonly translated as "I love you," more literally it means "I want what is g…
#350 When God Is Forgotten The Creature Itself Grows Unintelligible
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"We must face the difference between two philosophies of human nature which must be traced back to fundamental differences in their philosophy of God--a…
#349 Eros as the Source of the "Erotic"
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Eros, which according to Plato, is the impulse, or desire, of pure ideas that lifts the soul toward the transcendent...and all that is true, good and be…
#348 Love & Responsibility; "How Could Mr. Right Turn Out To Be So Wrong??"
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Many Young people, and many older people... have had the the experience of feeling they were in love with someone who at first seemed absolutely wonder…
#347 The "Heart" Under Suspicion?...and the three Masters of suspicion
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Is the Heart accused or called? Since Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, we find not simply skepticism...for they are surely the three great 'destroyers' of th…
#346 Author AJ Benjamin joins Jack to discuss his life with Same-Sex Attraction
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"I always knew I was different. I could never quite put my finger on it but I always knew that I was not like the other boys. I always felt disconnected…
#345 Gender Ideology; A Civilizational Issue With Dr. Jay Richards
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Jay W. Richards, PhD, is Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow i…
#344 The Road To Emmaus Is The Road To Sanity
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The abortion pill and human remains to be used as fertilizer. We are spiritual being living in "disconnection". The Eucharist is the way to "Communion"…
#343 Love And Responsibility; The Attraction Of A Woman's Body
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"A man, eating lunch at a restaurant, notices an attractive woman at another table and is immediately drawn to her beauty. His heart stirs, and he finds…
#342 Wednesday Theology Of The Body Update And This Weeks Feature
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Linda and I will resume our regular program next Wednesday beginning with Audience #46 "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body"
This Wedn…
#341 "The Trans Quagmire--How We Got Here" with Author and Crime Investigator Thomas Hampson
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"The controversy over transgenderism arose a few years ago seemingly out of nowhere. But when it did arise, it erupted like a cultural Mount St. Helens.…
#340 Good Friday Special Episode: The Eucharist! Man Made Evil and The God-Made-Man Solution
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Pope John Paul II wrote, “Many problems darken the horizon of our time. We need but think of the urgent need to work for peace, to base relationships be…
#339 Love and Responsibility; Beyond The Sexual Urge
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What is wrong with Bill and Sally having sex outside of marriage if each person consents and each person derives some pleasure from it?
In a culture of …