Deb's Podcast

Today we recognize the birth of our Holy Mother.  We as Catholics pray to her daily for her intercession in our life.  We know what we were taught in our youth and hold onto Mary very dearly in our hearts to help us through the trials and tribulations of life.  Mary is our Mother too.  We can pray to her and we know that our prayer will be given to her son on our behalf.  In Mary there is certaint...

The love of God living within you,  is unique.  And, if we take the time to seek out that special gift that only God himself has given to you - and use that particular gift for a need larger than the need in your own heart, only then, you are glorifying our God. "We truly live out our very best life when we live in and for and through Christ!" The great and most meaningful joy of living-...

In my heart of hearts, I truly believe, I am so much more aware - keenly aware of how I am  being directed everyday by God, my Guardian Angel, and all of God's Saints in Heaven.  I cannot see them per say however I can envision the thread of truth being woven into the words and stories that God is inspiring me to share with all of you.  For example,  we were all given an individual voice.  Wi...

For the past sixteen months I have had the honor of sharing with you my podcast.  The reason for having it,  has very little to do with me and everything to do with you.  It is all about recognizing this powerful and awesome God living inside of every soul, every heart, every mind,  he has ever created to speak, listen, live, responsibly, respectfully as children of God.  That is who we are and wh...

We never know the hour or the day when our Lord will come back for us to take us back to himself.  Our bags should always be packed and what I am really saying is our soul must be prepared.  Are you living in the state of grace?  God will one day come for all of us and he will automatically know the state of life we have lived all that was lived out in grace as well as the mistakes we may have mad...

Eliminate the uncertainty you are experiencing.  Bring yourself to the place of silent reflection.  Light a candle and invite the Holy Spirit to enter into your heart and spend an hour in silence with Him.  Silence is a gift.  It is there we can sort out all  the confusion that is within us.  Silence is where we find ourselves and our conversation with our creator begins.  Entering into silence we...

The Divine Office also known as the Liturgy of the hours is one of four volumes of leather bound books, mine is copyrighted in 1975 containing the Liturgical Days of the Year, the Proper of Seasons, The Solemnities, The Psalter, Proper of Saints, Commons, Office of the Dead, Appendices, Indices.   It starts with the general Roman Calendar for the year which includes the Memorial, Solemnity, Feast...

The Holy Rosary.  A most important prayer.  Cherished and loved by all Catholic's. It is said everyday and at different times of day and for different reasons.  It is also said before mass begins.  It is a great way to enter into a meditative state with God no matter what we are personally going through in life, this prayer calms everything down within us, to enter into Christs presence.  In...

Probably one of my most favorite prayers include the five Sorrowful Mysteries.  It was the first of the four Mysteries that I was able to recite by heart.  I think I am so drawn to this mystery because of the amount of sin that has entered into the world that we live in.  The sin is exponential however sin can be forgiven through showing our face to a catholic priest.  And when forgiven we can re...

Today we remember our Blessed Mother, and in her honor we reflect upon the first and oldest church in Rome Italy.  Saint Mary Major.  I have had the great honor of attending mass there with my spouse and my in laws.  There was a huge attendance of women and men that were born with down syndrome in the first several rows.  The church was jammed packed with people twenty years ago, and we were there...

This is the first I hope of many interviews on our podcast platform.  Today I invited a guest to speak about the holy presence of God.  What is the true presence?  Do we even know in our hearts who it is we are seeking?  Sometimes we can live our entire life and not question who is God?  Why are we here?  In the faith we are formed very young to know these answers, but not everyone is blessed with...

Prophetically God does speak to us.  He is the gentle voice that speaks directly to our hearts.  Sometimes we actually hear him speak and rush to listen.  Other times we ignore the voice and the important message he is trying to convey to us.  But when we are in that fortunate moment of complete surrender listening to the great I Am, something wonderful happens to us.  Without us fully realizing i...

Society as a whole has forgotten God. We have taken prayer out of our schools, We live in a nation divided between not choosing good but choosing evil.  Great confusion has come into play wreaking great havoc in the minds and hearts once created for and by God.  Immorality today continues to destroy the lives of our youth as well as adults of all ages.  We are in a constant crisis.  Lives are take...

Bishop, founder of the Redemptorists. Doctor of the church and patron saint of moral theologians.  The Eucharist was his strength.  How many of us catholic Christian's out there, truly desire and believe that when we receive Jesus in the form of the Holy Eucharist --  He Jesus himself, living inside of us becomes all that we will ever desire and need.    I wish I could say 100 percent of us b...

Today turned out to be quite special.  The Carmelite's were at mass and attending their monthly meeting and so were the Dominican's both on church grounds.  What made this day so unique was the mass we celebrated in honor of our Lady of Mount Carmel.   And both lay group members were in Mary's chapel praying and singing in Latin  together during the beautiful mass which  Father Paul...

We are the light of the world.  Created to do good things.  We are called by God to live in that light that is Jesus Christ himself.  Those who choose to live in the light live forever.  Those who desire the light go on to achieve greatness.  Goodness for the sake of others.  They die to their selfish tendencies in order to live truly -  live the life of Christ.  The joy, the grace, the happiness...

Take the time to realize Mary.  She has something special to offer anyone who calls on her intercession.  Mary was given by God many graces, and those graces can be known, and received, I believe, if we pray to her.  Mary can support our prayerful concerns, Mary can be more present to us, when we realize she is available to us, and for us, as we grow in our faith and grow as women, married with ch...

Back in January 2018 I was re-introduced to our blessed Mother Mary.  One of our dear and special parishioners  had decided to take a picture of a statue of Mary pregnant with Jesus, on loan to our church.   Here at the lovely,  Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, during the month of October, we are reminded of Mary, as a mother to be.  It is so beautiful of a reminder because for the month o...

Nine months we remained in our mothers womb and the waters broke, and we entered into the world.  The greatest sacrifice ever was taken on by our mother.  The love she and her husband gave became  a trinitarian miracle, as Father O Doherty would say.  Our parents, we only have one mother, and one father, who graciously loved us, however our Lord loved us first.  We were born healthy, beautiful, te...

For those of you reading this description of todays narrative, I have to ask you, what are you planning to do today in order to bless somebody else's life?  Would you be willing to set aside your want's this day?  Your schedule, can it be put aside for the day?  Good question.  Something to think about.  Some of us are shown how to volunteer, and fortunately I was shown as a teenager.  I...

To be like Jesus we have to surrender our life to Him.  Not too often do we find men and women genuinely willing to do something so sacrificial for God.  However, those of us who have crossed over that line, not so imaginary, realize the great value of receiving the gift of God's gracious nature over flowing to our very heart's and minds that are opened through the gift of the Holy Spiri...

Our Blessed Mother.   Her holiness leads us closer to her and her son.  Who better to know.  Who better to pray to.  Who better to research. I have truly enjoyed preparing this presentation on her through my vacation, which at the time I thought was such, but ended up becoming a wonderful holy pilgrimage to the holy city of our Lord's Mother!  I am truly so  very humbled and honored to share...

Our faith is a marvelous gift.  A profound mystery.  We know  so very little about it.  And yet we have this opportunity to discover what God is trying to reveal to us personally.  I believe he wants us to know everything humanly possible about faith and its mysteries.  Wouldn't be amazing if we all desired to go out on a limb just to find out some of the answers.  Would that change the world...

In my heart I believe we are all searching for God.  Finding him for some is easy.  For others it may take a lifetime, or dying on their death bed, or some may never seek him at all.  We are given the wonderful gift of life to figure out its wonders, its mysteries, and hidden treasures.  The most hidden of all treasures is the gift of life.  We are so busy living it, we don't actually take th...

Knowing the ramifications of a choice.  Something so simple, and equally complex.  When we choose what is right and avoid what is wrong we are either growing or setting ourselves back.  Our God is a God of truth.  He wants only what is best for us.  When we choose to make a decision that will involve someone else and their betterment, we receive a blessing.  When we put God in the forefront of our...