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Claymore: Become Who You Are

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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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Jul 6, 2026

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#268 Men In Your Daughters Locker Room: Understanding Title IX and More with Thomas Hampson of the Truth Alliance Foundation 25.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Biden Administration is changing the definition of male and female in Title IX. We must act to oppose this now. https://youtu.be/GzvNaQiUOQQ The Transgender Trend. A complex cultural phenomenon is sweeping through schools throughout the country. Children are declaring that they no longer identify as their own sex, but as the opposite sex, a new m...

#267 "Call Me They"; What Happens When Our Young People Are Alienated From Original Love? 22.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Call me they"...the kids have a message for us. Do we have one for them? They are seeking transcendence, we all should be. This is St John Paul II's Audience # 27 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on May 14, 1980. As usual it is so relevant to today that he might have given it yesterday!...

#266 How To Spot a Hypocrite: "The Rich Man and Lazarus" 20.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home; Gospel Meditation for Sept 25 Scripture: Amos 6:1, 4-7 Psalm 146 1Tim 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II.      The John Paul II Renewal Center 's goal was to raise $2500...

#265: "Love Defined"; Is love just a feeling? A hook-up? Public Schools, Catholic Schools...HELLO Parents! What are the Schools Teaching Your Children?? 14.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Is Sex Anything I say it is? That's a warped Narcissistic view of reality. Love is so much more! We take a short break from following our regular Wednesday format to delve into John Paul II's teaching on love. As he said while working with young couples, "I have come to love human love." Does Truth matter? Does True Love matter? P...

#264: Ask yourself this fundamental question; "Who am I?" Yes really, pause and answer it. How does it relate to this statement from John Paul II, "Do good and avoid evil" 13.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Do good and avoid evil" is the first principle of conscience and also the elementary precept of all human practice. To "act" in accord with this principle, I must in my conscience constantly go out beyond myself toward the good. This is the basic direction of the transcendence that is a property of the human person. Without this...

#263: National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children; Jack's Presentation given at the St. Joseph Grotto 10.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Today we honor the memory of the more than 60 million unborn victims of abortion to ensure that our unborn sisters and brothers will not be forgotten. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you", Jeremiah Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II Please send your tax-deduc...

#262: LOVE IS?!?!..."The Law of the Gift"...Buckle up for love! 07.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Let's get real, cut through the distortions, and begin to navigate these sometimes daunting questions that the world is so confused about today: Who am I? What is Love? How do I know if I'm being loved or being used? What's the deal with chastity? What is my purpose in life? And why does my heart "ache"? Join us as we take a...

#261: God Loves Romance. He Created it. Sunsets, Flowers, Music, a Kiss--All His Idea! Our Sexually Confused Culture Needs to Hear This Story. 05.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint Augustine said, "to fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him the greatest achievement." This is Tuesday Night at the Smith Home for Sunday September 11, 2022 Includes highlights from Chloe Cole's story who at 15 years old agreed to let a "gender affirming" surgeon re...

#260: The Battlefield of the Human Heart Between True Love and Lust (part 2); the Conversion of Shia LaBeouf 01.09.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Part 2 of St John Paul II's Audience # 26 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" presented on April 30, 1980. It is so relevant to today that he might have given it yesterday! Scripture: Matt 5:27-28 1 John 2:15-17 Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family&qu...

#259: The Battlefield of the Human Heart Between True Love and Lust; To Encounter God, Stay In The "Ache"!! 31.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "I took off my backpack and sat down against the tree to take it all in. It wasn't long, perhaps a few minutes, when I sensed that the beauty before me was somehow drawing me into itself. I began to experience a deep "ache" within that moved into my heart. This is St John Paul II's Audience # 26 from "Man and Woman He Cr...

#258: The New Sex Ed Standards in Illinois Public Schools Have Declared War On Our Children and Put Targets On Their Backs 29.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parents must not only be aware of but must stand up against the war that has been declared on the innocence of children! Will we continue to stand by and allow evil to attack our children and not offer them any protection? If so we will all pay a heavy price for the annihilation and pulverization of their innocent bodies and souls. This is Tuesday Ni...

#257: "It's A Great Time To Be Alive!" Freedom Friday, August 26 year of our Lord 2022. 26.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The great Dr. Peter McCullough who courageously stood up and said , "first do no harm" when the Covid Vaccines came out. He urged caution until we could prove that the vaccines were safe. Incredibly he was censored and smeared for what in normal times would be good old common sense.  He soon came to understand that this battle is part of th...

#256: Sermon on the Mount; "But I say to you: whoever looks at a woman to desire her (in a reductive way) has already committed adultery with her in his heart" 24.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” John Paul II begins this Audience, “Let us recall the words of the Sermon on the Mount to which we are turning in this present cycle of our Wednesday reflections. “You have heard”—says the Lord, “that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you: Whoever looks at a woman to desire her, (in a reductive way) has already committed adul...

#255: "Creating Hell on Earth", The humility of Jesus versus the Pride of Man, (This is TNSH for August 28th) 23.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "My child conduct your affairs with humility" (Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29) What makes human beings so full of Pride? We are like the point of a needle in relation to the Universe or in relation to all of history. This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, a meditation on Scripture for Sunday August 28th. Luke 14:1, 7-15 link to Tuesday Night i...

#254: The Road Less Traveled Leads to a New Culture of Life and Human Flourishing; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (3) 19.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The United States Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." America is a grand experiment. One that flipped the world's prevailing...

#253: Christ Appeals to the Human Heart; Anxiety and Depression have become epidemic in our culture 17.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Christ has what the world seeks...if only the world  had eyes to see and ears to  hear.  The darkness that Pope John Paul II often called the culture of death can be overcome only by winning the battle raging in each individual human heart, what he called "the battlefield of the heart between love and lust. In the Sermon of the Mount Jesus said;...

#252: Take The Next Exit To A Better Life; Buckle up for TNSH for August 21, 2022 15.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” And Someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, "Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able." From the 3S Highway to nowhere, take the next exit that leads through the narrow door. This is Tuesday Night at the Smith Home for August 21, a...

#251: President Trump, Archbishop Vigano, Cardinal Burke, You and I; This is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Episode 2) 13.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Archbishop was right about Donald Trump! We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the culture of life and the culture of death. In this battle there will be no grand leader or political force riding in on a great white Stallion to rescue humanity. Yet there is a hero, or better millions of heroes. That hero is you, and millions of...

#250: Did Stacey Abrams really just say that about the life of a child? We are in a battle; let's define the battlefield!! 10.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Pope Paul VI warned us in Humanae Vitae, we didn't listen, but it all came true! Join Linda and Jack as they discuss St. John Paul II's Wednesday Audience # 23. This is a very important conclusion to where we have come so far...as we ready ourselves for the next part of the story! Jesus said to them, "if God were your Father, you would...

#249: Jesus said, "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would be that it were already kindled!" Buckle up for TNSH August 14th! 08.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday August 14th, 2022. The idea behind it? Pick a night of the week, any night that you can gather family or a few friends together for dinner.  No cell phones! Dinner, Jesus and Conversation! See the link below for more details of how to get the kids involved. link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Tod...

#248: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; "A" 3-step plan to take back our world from the grip of the culture of death... There is no plan "B" (part 1) 05.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the culture of life and the culture of death. In this battle there will be no grand leader or political force riding in on a great white Stallion to rescue humanity. Yet there is a hero, or better millions of heroes. That hero is you, and millions of others, who through their collective acti...

#247: Women and Men of today! "Be not afraid", Sexual Union is meant to be Beautiful! Life and Love is Stronger than Death; Choose Life! 03.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "The man had relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, 'I have produced a man with the help of the Lord'" (Gen 4:1). From the very beginning our bodies were created to express love. "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator created them male and female  and said, 'For this reason...

#246: Three Clear Signs of the Time Pointing to the Destructive Processes going on. Buckle up for TNSH August 7th! 01.08.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” America had been over-run and all of her Institutions infiltrated while the Boomers, Millennials and Generation Z slept. Thinking they were living on a Cruise Ship some are finally waking up out of their slumber to find out that its a battleship. Some it seems may never wake up. If you are waiting for a great leader or political force to ride in on a...

#245: "Knowledge" and Procreation; Two Visions of Life and Love. 27.07.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Includes a discussion of "feminine genius". A woman is radically relational yet she is told to put her heart on hold. Why? Will a hook-up fill the heart's desire to enter into the great mystery of life and love? Join Linda and Jack as they discuss St. John Paul II's Wednesday Audiences # 20-21. Book: Man and Woman He Created Them,...

#244: Super Bowl MVP and Lombardi Trophy Winner, Cooper Kupp, passed the glory of his achievement to the Lord above 25.07.2022

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Join Jack for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, Scripture Reflection for July 31st! After the game which saw Kupp make 8 receptions and score 2 touchdowns, including the game winning catch with 1:25 remaining, he posted a video of himself kneeling penitently in prayer captioned, "Do it to get a crown that will last forever". Scripture: Eccle...

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