Opening Our Hearts: The Journey to Healing
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1. "What might I need to be opened up inside of me? Like what interiorly in me isn't working right? And because, and this doesn't come to a surprise to any of us, because life is the way it is and things happen and because of sin, like there are things in us that aren't working right. We all know it. Like my physical ears might be fine. There might be nothing wrong with my tongue. But maybe on a deeper level, on the level of the mind maybe with anxiousness or fear or something that I've been longing for to have kind of rooted out of me, or maybe it's on the level of the heart and it's like I'm emotionally cut off or there's something emotionally wrong." [01:01] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "It's different. It's more noisy. There's a greater tendency for us to prioritize material possessions, to prioritize comfort. It's kind of like the idea of the origins of suburbs. But there's a greater tendency for us to prioritize material possessions above spiritual things, the spiritual realm. There's a greater pressure. It's busier. It's faster. Don't hear what I'm not saying. My intent up here is not to bash the suburbs, okay? I'm not suggesting we all go out and build houses on the prairies. But can we see? That the suburban or city living does have, it does impact us on living at a deeper level." [03:54] (63 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Technical progress, especially in the area of transport and communications, has made human life more comfortable, but also more keyed up, at times even frenetic, frenetic, right? It's, it's, it's that pace that's so wild. It's even seems uncontrollable. He goes on and says, urban life, suburban life is almost always noisy. Silence is rarely found in them because there's always background noise in some areas, even at night. And then he speaks on the media and social media recently. He says in recent decades, moreover, the development of the media risk predominating over reality. Unbeknownst. To them, people are increasingly becoming immersed in a virtual dimension because of the audio visual messages that accompany their life from morning to night." [04:45] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "What's needed is withdrawing into silence and solitude. Human beings, so to speak, expose themselves to the reality of their own nakedness, the void within, he says, or that spot in us that's closed up in order to experience, instead, fullness, the presence of God, which is the most real reality that exists. The Lord calls each one of us daily to leave the crowd and to encounter the living God. Our souls and need it. We crave it. It's the first crucial step in order to hear again, in order for us to open up the things that need to be opened up. Is anybody feeling frenetic or you're keyed up? We've got to exit the crowd." [05:53] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Can you see how personal it is? How like intimate it is? It's almost as if it's, it's tailored for him. Jesus is almost using like a sign language for this guy. The guy couldn't hear him. So Jesus is using a sign language to say, I know what hurts. I know what's needed. I know what you're closed up. So let me give you this very particular treatment that I've tailored for you." [08:21] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "When you and I have things in us that are closed up, that need to be opened up very often, it needs to be, it needs to receive a very particular treatment. Something that's tailored for you. Because he knows what's wrong. He knows the cause of the reason why it's wrong. Like he knows what happened. He knows what's there. And he wants to give you a very particular treatment to touch it, to even like, to even caress it. And to say that, like, be open, epithet, be open." [11:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Are you frenetic? Do you feel frenetic? Do you feel keyed up? What's in you that's closed up? That you long for? That you long to be set free and to be opened? Do you know that an encounter with Jesus can bring it and can give it because he knows exactly and he's real? He's alive. He went to the cross to die for our sins and he lives in you and me. Can we turn to him? Can we turn to him even now?" [12:42] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "Note that the man did not just discover Jesus, but a group of people, it says like some people, some people brought the man by the hand, the deaf man and the mute man, the mute man to Jesus. And they begged him, Lord, our buddy, our friend, our family member, he's closed up. Please heal him. Increasingly for us, for this, for us at Notre Dame, we need to increasingly lean in to the missionary mandate in which every baptized believer has. And that is, that is to bring people to him whose life, maybe sometimes even taking them by the hand." [13:57] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "It's different. It's more noisy. There's a greater tendency for us to prioritize material possessions, to prioritize comfort. It's kind of like the idea of the origins of suburbs. But there's a greater tendency for us to prioritize material possessions above spiritual things, the spiritual realm. There's a greater pressure. It's busier. It's faster. Don't hear what I'm not saying. My intent up here is not to bash the suburbs, okay? I'm not suggesting we all go out and build houses on the prairies. But can we see? That the suburban or city living does have, it does impact us on living at a deeper level." [03:54] (63 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Technical progress, especially in the area of transport and communications, has made human life more comfortable, but also more keyed up, at times even frenetic, frenetic, right? It's, it's, it's that pace that's so wild. It's even seems uncontrollable. He goes on and says, urban life, suburban life is almost always noisy. Silence is rarely found in them because there's always background noise in some areas, even at night. And then he speaks on the media and social media recently. He says in recent decades, moreover, the development of the media risk predominating over reality. Unbeknownst. To them, people are increasingly becoming immersed in a virtual dimension because of the audio visual messages that accompany their life from morning to night." [04:45] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "What's needed is withdrawing into silence and solitude. Human beings, so to speak, expose themselves to the reality of their own nakedness, the void within, he says, or that spot in us that's closed up in order to experience, instead, fullness, the presence of God, which is the most real reality that exists. The Lord calls each one of us daily to leave the crowd and to encounter the living God. Our souls and need it. We crave it. It's the first crucial step in order to hear again, in order for us to open up the things that need to be opened up. Is anybody feeling frenetic or you're keyed up? We've got to exit the crowd." [05:53] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Can you see how personal it is? How like intimate it is? It's almost as if it's, it's tailored for him. Jesus is almost using like a sign language for this guy. The guy couldn't hear him. So Jesus is using a sign language to say, I know what hurts. I know what's needed. I know what you're closed up. So let me give you this very particular treatment that I've tailored for you." [08:21] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "When you and I have things in us that are closed up, that need to be opened up very often, it needs to be, it needs to receive a very particular treatment. Something that's tailored for you. Because he knows what's wrong. He knows the cause of the reason why it's wrong. Like he knows what happened. He knows what's there. And he wants to give you a very particular treatment to touch it, to even like, to even caress it. And to say that, like, be open, epithet, be open." [11:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Are you frenetic? Do you feel frenetic? Do you feel keyed up? What's in you that's closed up? That you long for? That you long to be set free and to be opened? Do you know that an encounter with Jesus can bring it and can give it because he knows exactly and he's real? He's alive. He went to the cross to die for our sins and he lives in you and me. Can we turn to him? Can we turn to him even now?" [12:42] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "Note that the man did not just discover Jesus, but a group of people, it says like some people, some people brought the man by the hand, the deaf man and the mute man, the mute man to Jesus. And they begged him, Lord, our buddy, our friend, our family member, he's closed up. Please heal him. Increasingly for us, for this, for us at Notre Dame, we need to increasingly lean in to the missionary mandate in which every baptized believer has. And that is, that is to bring people to him whose life, maybe sometimes even taking them by the hand." [13:57] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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