Deb's Podcast

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...

Pentecost Sunday and its meaning.  Is in knowing and in accepting that the Holy Spirit is living within you.  Once we allow that truth to sink in, we can then move forward living in/out  this great truth.  If we have not yet  discovered this awesome and wonderful reality, it is something worth praying about, first with God.  That's a good start, and from there, you have a rock solid foundatio...

Our faith is so rich, we don't realize, just how rich it is, until we tap into the well of truth.  The well of truth  contains holiness, and it is truly ours for the journey.  If we live long enough and remain close enough to God, all the mysteries of our wonderful faith come alive.  Through the holy sacraments, through all of the wonderful traditions of the catholic faith, and during the sil...

God works in mysterious ways.  He invites us personally to be in his holy presence.  We are his children the flock he shepherds.  He wants only the very best for us.  The best life we could ever live is one that includes him at the very helm.  We learn from God what is truly most important.  We learn that our soul is everything to him, and we learn while on earth, how to feed our soul, and how to...

Formation is so critical if we are serious about the salvation of our soul.  After ten years of formation within the Franciscan charism, Saint Francis of Assisi introduced me to a dear friend of his, Saint Dominic.   My great grandmother, God rest her soul asked her priest during the II World War what she can do to help the men and women fighting on the frontline.  Her priest advised her to join t...

The importance of opening up ones heart and soul to another is a tremendous gift to both people.  To share the truth, to know deep down ones emotions and expressing those emotions in a healthy manner is a gift.  The giver and the receiver are blessed by the experience.  Although feelings change and grow, we can always count on Jesus to be our constant.  Jesus is not - flippy floppy, Jesus is rock...