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
#239: Becoming a Christ Centered Family, "Tuesday Night in the Smith Home" Meditation for Luke 10:38-42
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Meditation on the Gospel of Luke 10:38-42 for Sunday July 17, 2022
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#238: Why Are President Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Pope Francis Confused? Cutting Through The Cultural Fog Of Moral Relativism
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Nowhere is the dividing line between life and death, good and evil, made clearer than in abortion. We live in a Godless public square that has become a …
#237: We live in a world that says the body has no meaning. The Church proclaims that the body reveals ultimate meaning.
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Mark Schmitt joins Jack to discuss how St John Paul II prophetically saw this confusion over the body and the distortions that would follow. He cut righ…
#236: Another Mass Shooting in My Hometown; We Are Living in the Culture of Death. There Is Only One Solution; "The Culture of Life"
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This Is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home where Jack shares his commentary on this weekend's shootings and Scripture reflections for Sunday July 10.
We no…
#235: Bishop Fulton Sheen, "The Hour That Will Change Your Life" with Dr. Luke Arredondo
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Dr. Luke Arredondo shares his journey and discusses the life of Bishop Fulton Sheen and "The Hour That Will Change Your Life".
Luke Arredondo, PhD, is f…
#234: "We Cannot Live Without Love", said John Paul II. So... What is Love? A Feeling? Romance? Sex?
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Linda and Jack are back and this is John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (16)!
So many songs have been written about love, but ove…
#233: 4th of July, Roe v. Wade, Speak the Truth Among Wolves, and Rejoice For Your Names Are Written In Heaven; Meditation on Scripture for July 3
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This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday July 3rd. As we approach Independence Day I consider what made the United States of America different…
#232: What is "Sex"? What is "Gender Identity"? What is a Human Being? With Dr. Susan Selner-Wright
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It seems that almost out of nowhere there is a sudden spike in sexual or gender confusion...What is going on here?
Special guest Dr. Susan Selner-Wright…
#231: Where do you live? In the City of God or in the City of Man? Meditation on Scripture for June 26
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This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 26, 2022.
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#230: Naive, Apathetic Or Evil? Pro-Abort Socialists Versus The Heroes Of Our Age
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Two years before his ascendancy to the Chair of Peter in 1978, Cardinal Wojtyla, now Saint John Paul II, spoke these words in an address in Philadelphia…
#229: John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body, (Summer Schedule Update)
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Book: Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology of the Body, Saint John Paul II, translation, introduction and index by Michael Waldstein, Pauline Books…
#228: What if you knew for certain that Jesus Christ was present in the Eucharist. Would it change your life? It changed mine.
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The year was 1995, I had been married for 13 years...three children, and our marriage was falling apart. A non-practicing Catholic I found myself on my …
#227: "Woke" Neo-Marxists are Destroying Our Children's Future and Taking Down Our Country
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A whole generation of teachers has been indoctrinated to believe that their role is no longer to teach children to think but to turn them into activists…
#226: "Freedom of the Gift"--Foundation of the Spousal Meaning of the Body; John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (15)
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The Spousal Meaning of the Body speaks of Man and Woman's conscious experience of their bodies as a gift and sign of God's love--and, in turn, their sha…
#225: Jack Shares his meditation on the "Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity" for June 12, Our creation in the Image and Likeness of God. This is the most important thing you will ever hear on what it means to be human!
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Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 12, 2022. This is the most important thing you will ever hear on what it means to be human!
Cutting through toda…
#224: LGBTQ+ labels, Same Sex Attraction, Sex Ed in Schools...Speaking the Truth in Love with Best selling author A.J. Benjamin
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Jack and bestselling author AJ Benjamin discuss LGBTQ+ labels, same-sex attraction, gender dysphoria, and much more.
An invitation into the heart of the …
#223: The Beauty and Discovery of the "Spousal" Meaning of the Body; John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (14)
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Indeed, if we discover the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospel's, it would seem that Our Lord …
#222: Jesus came and stood in their midst' "Peace be with you" and he breathed on them, "Receive the Holy Spirit". Tuesday Night at the Smith Home for Pentecost, June 5!
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On the Evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their …
#221: Intimacy (in-to-me-SEE)--The Hidden Meaning of Vision; To see the beautiful! John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (13)
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To see one another through the mystery of creation. To see the beauty around us, especially the beauty of another person, man for woman, woman for man.…
#220: "What is the unforgivable sin?" Scripture Reflection for May 29th; Tuesday Night at the Smith Home
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Scripture reflection for the Ascension of Jesus Christ!
My heart goes out to all of you... especially young people growing up in a very twisted, distort…