Father Boniface Gives Matt Spiritual Direction For 3 Hours

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:30 - Spiritual Direction and Vulnerability
6:05 - Restoring Trust in The Cross
11:20 - Should I Have a Spiritual Director?
14:30 - Parts/Internal Family Systems
24:00 - Nature of Healing
27:00 - Receiving and Being Received
33:45 - Jubilee Days For Kids
36:00 - Some parts need to be kept in line!
38:00 - Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
41:20 - Setting Boundaries
45:35 - Praying at All Times
50:35 - Carrying Paradise
58:05 - Prayer of Descent
1:05:00 - Loving Others For Their Differences
1:11:40 - The Fruit of Her Womb/Marian Devotion
1:20:30 - Protestants and the Marian Consecration
1:23:40 - Accompaniment
1:30:00 - Monastic Life
1:40:26 - State-Owned Churches
1:42:40 - St Francis De Sales
1:47:30 - We Are One Body Radio
1:50:00 - Evidence for Catholic Miracles
1:52:40 - Trusting the Lord
1:58:00 - Growing in Virtue
2:07:45 - Nazirite Vows
2:10:50 - Forgiveness and Reconciliation
2:13:40 - Supporting Parish Priests
2:15:25 - Redemptive Suffering and Prayer
2:19:45 - Thinking During the Rosary
2:23:40 - Making time for prayer
2:27:50 - Jesus Speaking to You
2:33:50 - Wife Lead the Way?
2:38:30 - Starting Spiritual Formation
2:41:15 - Spiritually directing children
2:45:40 - Stay-at-Home Mom Spirituality
2:48:20 - Being Gentle with Ourselves
2:55:00 - Unimpressive hobbies

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@aidanlisney5546 6 ай бұрын

Fr Boniface is the living equivalent of a hug.

@catkat740 6 ай бұрын

That is so accurate. Is there already a patron saint of hugs? Because if not here he is.

@aidanlisney5546 6 ай бұрын

Well, if he dies before us we’ll be morally obligated to start his petition for sainthood under this pretense! His book on prayer alone is enough consolation for years to come.

@AngelBien 6 ай бұрын

That’s an amazing metaphor. I’m gonna use that someday

@MrMezorrillac 6 ай бұрын

Hi @@aidanlisney5546 is this Personal prayer?

@rushanbahati7945 5 ай бұрын

Right! He's so so nice and kind.

@angrypotato_fz 6 ай бұрын

32:28 "We don’t go to confession so that we never go to confession again. Confession is part of our relationship with God. I’m always bringing my weakness, my need for healing, the places in my heart that are still imperfect and just need His love." Important words for me, especially as a perfectionist. Thank you.

@emmadumais2337 6 ай бұрын

I feel you @angrypotato_fz

@reveilleamerica3589 6 ай бұрын

Todays movies, with minor exceptions, are mostly crap.

@tanyataff9442 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful to read this about Confession 🤔🙂.

@ghostofauntjemima816 6 ай бұрын

I love how Matt talks about his wife ❤️ My parent’s don’t have a great marriage, and Matt gives me hope that not all marriages are like the one I grew up around. It’s so beautiful to hear him talk about his wife so lovingly.

@anaclararodas4833 6 ай бұрын

Same here, let's pray for all Catholic marriages that are struggling!

@stefanifisher6047 6 ай бұрын

And pray for other marriages. Divorce is very hurtful especially to children

@MegaMackproductions 6 ай бұрын

All marriages are a cross to bear. Some people definitely have heavier ones than others but the heaviness makes little difference when you carry it with joy.

@thatfellowthere3634 6 ай бұрын

This needs to be mentioned: your name here is hilarious and I pray the Lord blesses you immensely 😂🙏

@ghostofauntjemima816 6 ай бұрын

@@thatfellowthere3634 Thank you 🤣 I always pray that my username brings a smile to someone’s face - it still makes me laugh! :)

@dragonfli13 6 ай бұрын

This is easily the best three hours I have spent in years. I have been hitting a wall, hard, with my faith as a newly converted Catholic because I know I am struggling to open my heart due to past traumas. This was a fabulous episode to get out of my own head. Ohh and that prayer exercise please cut that into a short so I can keep coming back time and time again!

@Quekksilber 6 ай бұрын

Glory be to God!

@tiscomplicated 6 ай бұрын

Thank the Lord for you and your story and the aid this episode gave you ❤ Keep going, we are in this together

@MayaRaimondo 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for that. 🙏🏼 I was contemplating the 3-hour podcast, but you changed my mind. ❤

@momoffive5606 5 ай бұрын

I'm finally listening and having the same exact thoughts.

@Selahsmum 6 ай бұрын

If there is someone passing messages onto Fr Boniface about how the prayer went, please tell him it was a divine intervention I desperately needed at this time, and thank you.

@estheroertel7715 6 ай бұрын

This may be the most beautiful interview I've heard on Pints with Aquinas. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Fr. Boniface. ❤

@LLOriginal 5 ай бұрын

Listening to Matt and Fr. Boniface is so beautiful but also breaks my heart. I've never heard men speak like this.... It brings me to tears and I don't know how to get through this video. Especially when Matt talks about how beautiful his children are when they confess to him. Makes me weep for my children and my own childhood.

@monikamoldvay6102 6 ай бұрын

"My weakness is always a near occasion of communion." How beautiful is that! Thank you, Fr. Boniface, God bless you!

@blackcrayon8 6 ай бұрын

1:47:05 Matt going “yum, yum, yum” to bourbon with 57% alcohol while Father Boniface just widens his eyes after he tries it is the very good laugh I needed today

@ubiveritasetamor 5 ай бұрын

"GaooOh easy, pahdre" 😂

@gretchenboyle481 6 ай бұрын

Matt, I’m driving home listening and at about 30:00 in I am weeping, listening to hall talk about vulnerability and communion, and how you want so much for your child. I as a daughter and wife and mother am sobbing for how beautiful all these things are. I treasure the expression of these thoughts in a format like this. I am not alone. We are not alone. Thank you for your conversations and that we can listen.

@elizabethgutierrez951 6 ай бұрын

I can listen to his voice allllll day! It gives me great calm and peace.

@MovedByBeauty 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, same here. ❤

@oscarcortez9190 5 ай бұрын

At 17 I enlisted and found myself over seas serving my country. The things I saw and did built a strong layer of stone over my heart. I got out and joined law enforcement which didn’t help the situation. It only hardened it further. All the while I had a longing for God, but I never felt worthy of being in his presence. After hearing this I found myself crying which I’m not very comfortable with. I found my defenses coming up hard, but the grace was just to much for my defenses to over come. Thank you Matt for all you do.

@ItaHayes 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant, Our Lady said, Harden not your Heart. Our Lady’s Mantle 46 day Rosary helped me a lot. ( get the booklet) and Fatima Crusade with Fr. Pilari for online support.

@DorothyGrace-or5iq 6 ай бұрын

The prayer exercise was very beautiful, it was an oasis of living water. Thank you Father Boniface and Matt. I have ordered ‘The Fruit of Her Womb’. I am an Anglo Catholic from Sussex, England.

@DorothyGrace-or5iq 5 ай бұрын

I went to Mass last evening after the meditation and seeing Jesus on my couch, in my heart was so beautiful. I still see him there today. I can’t always sit with Him but he is there for me all the time. Thank you so much.

@cloverkitkat6917 6 ай бұрын

I could listen to Father Boniface Hicks all day, he speaks directly to my soul

@weareonebodyradio 5 ай бұрын

There's a radio station for that :)

@cloverkitkat6917 5 ай бұрын

I know! That’s how I found him over a decade ago now 😄

@beastumfan 3 күн бұрын

He's brainwashed

@JezuUfamTobieMama 6 ай бұрын

PWA has been such a blessing in my faith journey and Fr. Hicks is such a wise, beautiful, gentle soul. Sending love from San Diego.

@CatholicSamurai 6 ай бұрын

Very grateful to Father Boniface and Saint Vincent’s Archabbey for their spiritual guidance! Much love from a Benedictine Oblate

@paulgemme6056 6 ай бұрын

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. -Jesus Christ

@scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal 5 ай бұрын

@@paulgemme6056this one is so old and tired. Jesus used the literary form of hyperbole to make his point that we must not seek to exalt ourselves, we've got no business trying to make ourselves important. He didn't mean literally never use the word father, and we know that for several reasons. St Paul "For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel". If it was a forbidden word how could St Paul have made such a mistake? The next verse says call no one teacher. Are you going to go around policing the little second graders at your neighborhood school? The origin of the word doctor has the meaning of teacher. Have you never addressed your physician as Doctor? If you have, looks like you have a problem under a literal interpretation of this verse. And what about the people that just a hundred years ago or less called their actual fathers "father"? Dad hasn't always been the default norm. This is also such an English language centered issue. We don't really have a good sense whether father is the perfect translation. What if the word used in the original could have been daddy just as well as father? What about languages where there may not be alternatives and there is only one word for father? How would their translations treat the situation? Are they just doomed to say parent instead? I doubt it. American protestants always have such an ethnocentric, English focused tunnel vision of scripture. It's so frustrating when y'all get pedantic about singular words like English is the only thing that matters instead of the big picture message

@aidanlisney5546 5 ай бұрын

“For I became your Father though Christ Jesus in the gospel”- St. Paul of Tarsus 1 Corinthians 4:15 If Jesus isn’t being hyperbolic then we’d be required to follow this law to the T and not call our earthly fathers our fathers.

@paulgemme6056 5 ай бұрын

@@aidanlisney5546 Never read anywhere in the bible where anyone ever called the Apostle Paul father. No one ever prayed to Paul, like Paul could intervene for them. There is only one mediator between the born-again believer and our heavenly Father. Christ Jesus alone.

@paulgemme6056 5 ай бұрын

@@scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal If we are not to make ourselves important why do some people treat the pope and priests like they are more important than others.

@JakeHansenMusic1996 6 ай бұрын

Comments on communion and solitude around 55:28 remind me of the Les mis line “to love another person is to see the face of God”. This is a beautiful conversation

@pan79166 6 ай бұрын

When it comes to those "instant gratification" expectations, we as a society really need a reset on what is realistic and kind when it comes to our expectations of others. People's perspective is shrinking rapidly and its tough to know where to try and draw that boundary. I love that they discussed the struggle to desire to be charitable vs draining yourself to the requests of others.

@viridianhughes219 5 ай бұрын

💯

@johnnyjordan9305 6 ай бұрын

I like the three hour spiritual lesson episodes.

@holbroni 6 ай бұрын

Like soft refreshing rain on my crusty soul and heart.

@BlarLarable-bx3xr 6 ай бұрын

Glory to Jesus Christ

@SonOfThineHandmaid 6 ай бұрын

Glory forever.

@irenecook6411 5 ай бұрын

I am in tears at listening to Freud’s revelation that we will always struggle with our weaknesses.

@09bamasky 6 ай бұрын

As a recent revert to Catholicism (from the cradle), with 15 years as a psychotherapist and many more years studying philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, I was recently connected with a spiritual director and will begin work on November 30th. I am so very, very excited to begin this new journey, and feel I may be called into spiritual direction at some point. I’ve found PWA to be such a great place to find reassuring and humbling conversations. Thank you and may God bless you, Matt and Father Boniface!

@niftyspiffyguy 6 ай бұрын

1:14:39 “Christians baptized into the womb of Mary until they are born into eternal life.” Hit me like a ton of bricks as I thought about what being “born again” might really symbolize. Mary’s been on my mind a lot this week.

@halleylujah247 6 ай бұрын

25:22 this was a powerful quote section. I remember when I heard Matt talk about in Locals. It was very powerful marking so I can come back. (Hopefully someone else finds it useful)

@gilbertcouto8537 6 ай бұрын

Only father that will teach me is our father GOD. He alone

@paulgemme6056 6 ай бұрын

Peace be with you! Jesus is the Prince of Peace!

@stjosephsgirl1229 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful interview! Their vulnerabilty and tenderness are food for the soul. The mystical diary of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarretta are all about Jesus living in us. Her writings are so beautiful for anyone interested.

@Catholiclady3 6 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful prayer experience at about 1 hour!

@elizabethgutierrez951 6 ай бұрын

Yes! I was at work and just stopped, closed my eyes, and it brought me a peace that was unreal!

@Mac_Nowalk 6 ай бұрын

I go to Saint Vincent’s. Father Boniface is a fantastic man & priest!

@MrJDadBlack 6 ай бұрын

I needed to hear this today so badly!! Thank you 🙏

@SonOfThineHandmaid 6 ай бұрын

I would love to see a conversation between Father Boniface Hicks and Father Gregory Pine. For some reason.

@j2muw667 6 ай бұрын

Fr Pine is above my ADHD head…. 😂. I need those who can simplify and get to the point! I continually try to listen to Fr Pine… but always mentally wander off a few minutes in…. 😳

@ubiveritasetamor 5 ай бұрын

This would be a 🐐 meetup

@ICSPublications 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Matt and Fr. Boniface, for the great discussion and the quotes from The Context of Holiness! The life of St. Thérèse demonstrates that healing and holiness aren't about becoming someone with more self-sufficiency to overcome temptation but becoming *little* ... someone who knows his or her littleness and brokenness, denies that voice to be self-reliant, and relies entirely on God and the transformative grace that comes from doing His will in the midst of our brokenness. Our wounds, like Jesus's on the Cross, are the contexts of our own transformations that will bring God glory! God bless!

@roseparente7839 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this. What a blessed 3 hours. I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a spiritual director. I am blessed and honored to know him and have him as my SD.

@Pilgrimofhope7 6 ай бұрын

I love when Fr Bonafice is on, speaking about IFS was nice to hear. I have found this particular form of therapy very helpful and easily integrated with Catholic spirituality. Thank you for having him as a guest.

@paulgemme6056 6 ай бұрын

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

@ubiveritasetamor 5 ай бұрын

Fr. Boniface, thank you!! Such a beautiful and helpful episode. You radiate Christ's love and peace.

@marystermer5983 2 ай бұрын

My favorite phrase: people seeking Mercy always receive Mercy ♥️

@tonicerta686 2 ай бұрын

This talk is so so good; it's like receiving my own spiritual direction as I listen. Just cannot Love it enough!

@kourtneyloves6765 5 ай бұрын

I am not a practicing catholic, but Iive in the area that his radio broadcasts and my husband and i are avid listeners - truly, truly beautiful.

@markkristynichols845 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely love your LOVING hands Father! They are so Christ Like that I’m drawn in to your heart 🙏

@TheBenRatch 5 ай бұрын

This is the video I really needed to see. I feel so full of joy and faith. Praise God! I have just started Spiritual Direction - we touched on a lot of these points in the video. Fr Boniface is wonderful. For too long I have found myself beating myself up for my tendencies/sins which in turn I just essentially stop praying and cut god off until I need him. I don’t know whatever has caused this to start happening to me in recent years but this is one great spiritual hug, I could almost hear God in my head saying ‘Yes, I have been trying to say this to you for years, I’ve got you and I love you!’. Nearly been brought to tears. How beautiful. GOD IS GOOD GOD IS LOVE 🔥 ❤️

@areview7132 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for welcoming protestants!

@leeshaffer9618 6 ай бұрын

Other idols are much more demanding than following God. Amen to this

@jeffdavidson3975 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt for talking about the Context of Holiness. It’s been on my to read list for a while and I recently bought it due to your conversation with Mother Iliana, bought her book as well, and I’m slowly going through it. It’s been great so far!

@some1faraway26 2 ай бұрын

Is it just me or you can see the soul and love in Fr Boniface' s eyes?

@meganhurlburt2175 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely wonderful talk!! May God Bless you both!!

@phil2d2 6 ай бұрын

I just loved this episode and love Fr. Boniface. Please have more shows like this one. Oh! And I love you too, Matt. 😊

@rosecorcoran 6 ай бұрын

I'm so glad Matt has discovered Wodehouse!!! His comedy is brilliant

@SonOfThineHandmaid 6 ай бұрын

Eh wot?

@andrewhartigan5342 6 ай бұрын

I love internal family systems

@SAD-ij8in 6 ай бұрын

I needed this articulation. Wonderful. Thank you.

@debbiekirk2999 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful!!! 🙏💕

@mkf628 5 ай бұрын

thank you !

@clairemeanslight8627 6 ай бұрын

Context of Holiness is a brilliant book! SO good.

@wreloise1 6 ай бұрын

Wow! “Tell me about your struggle “ “I can relate because of my own challenges “ “But tell me about your struggles “ Thank you so much!!!

@angrypotato_fz 6 ай бұрын

Timestamp: 1:24:00 Great part about listening and accompanying someone! "A lot of times when we speak about vulnerable things, we don't always have the language, and we stumble a little bit, if somebody else is ready to jump in with their own story and change the subject, we will never have the trust that we need to open up these tender places."

@aleksandrablaszczyk5971 6 ай бұрын

Hi Fr. your course about prayer at St. Paul center was beautiful. Thank you. 🙏❤️

@loesjedoherty9094 5 ай бұрын

This was beautiful, very helpful for me. Thank you. P.S. Matt love that idea about not punishing the kids for a night and getting them to open up. I’m going to try that myself.

@lindav1189 5 ай бұрын

I was deathly afraid of my abusive parents and NEVER told them anything. when I was 12, told them if they didn't lay off me, I'd kill myself, that's how depressed and desperate I was. My mother said, "I never want to hear MY CHILD say something like that", effectively, making it about HER. When I was 14, I attempted to end my life.

@trudiswanson9855 3 ай бұрын

❤🙏 hoping you are healing, growing in God's love.

@wreloise1 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Ok, focus on the Lord...stop trying, focusing on me…. “Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3‬:‭5‬ ‭AMP‬‬ How-to allow my weaknesses to assist others…. “It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed.” The Reading of the Law.” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭31‬:‭8‬ ‭

@mlong743 5 ай бұрын

Im glad you like it Matt! We handpicked it. Its a farm to bottle 1:47:32

@gretchenboyle481 6 ай бұрын

Matt you are a natural voice master. Your talent is masterful and amazing. I love listening to you.

@nexishadow 6 ай бұрын

This guy was great 🎉

@johnnyGoosePGH 6 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to watch this! My homie Sarah Lopez is probably even more excited than I am

@Thomasfboyle 6 ай бұрын

Love conquers all!

@TakeTheHighground 6 ай бұрын

Love the episode. Tbh. i don’t like the added stuff, like the picture of WhatsApp getting messages, or the quotes. They divert the attention from what the interviewee is saying.

@catkat740 6 ай бұрын

I agree! When did they start doing that? Nobody likes that, Thursday.

@Nicole_Marie_ 6 ай бұрын

Agree!!!!

@dynamic9016 6 ай бұрын

Peace

@BishoplyBlessings 2 ай бұрын

amen

@veronicakerin9379 6 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, this is pure GOLD. Can Fr Boniface please write a book? (Has he?) Thank you for this episode...

@veronicakerin9379 6 ай бұрын

Edit** lol, I asked about him writing a book before I got to that part! Hooraaaay!

@cloverkitkat6917 6 ай бұрын

He has written many books and has a wonderful podcast

@kelkabot 6 ай бұрын

24:00 quote from Fr. Matt Foley, Carmelite, about how working on ourselves can be an “insidious mask for self-hatred.”

@kelkabot 6 ай бұрын

*insidious mask of self-hate

@viscache1 6 ай бұрын

I like the idea that we carry an island of the work of Christ, grace and ‘Eden’ inside us in order to be lights in a dark world but I think the phrase “I’m Jesus” maybe takes that a step over the line of where the world it going to look at us as delusional rather than representatives of Christ. I’m not Jesus..but I’ve tasted and found that He is good, I’m filled with His Spirit and I carry Him around in me…but I never confuse my sin stained carcass with the one and perfect savior, Son of God.

@viridianhughes219 5 ай бұрын

👍

@martinarooney6102 6 ай бұрын

For children, ages 4 through to 10, there is the Family of Faith books, one for parents, one for the child. They're fun, insightful, full of knowledge and brings the family together

@cinnamonbona Ай бұрын

How do find a spiritual director when you live in the middle of nowhere and your church is not very active?

@TheBurningWarrior 6 ай бұрын

the section starting '2:27:50 to about 2:33:50 gave me some confirmation in discerning a matter from september. I knew, but it's helpful to hear someone else put the experience into words.

@eamonnmcmanus4785 6 ай бұрын

Good video

@cyberpunkworld Ай бұрын

I've seen him a few times.

@therightreads1561 5 ай бұрын

I think it would be very interesting to get Justin Marler on here for a conversation. He’s a guitarist who helped found the pioneering doom metal band Sleep, before leaving the music industry to become an Orthodox monk in the 90’s for 6 years. During which time he created an iconic zine called “Death to the World” which fused heavy metal aesthetics with the teachings of the church. He has since returned to life as a layman. I know he’s not catholic, but i think his story and journey are fascinating, and while he’s done a couple interviews, I think this would be the most interesting space to hear him recount his tales.

@monikamoldvay6102 6 ай бұрын

It's not only a general German practice to repeat the mystery in each Hail Mary after the name of the Lord Jesus. It is also how we Hungarians pray the rosary. I remember how surprised I was realising it's not a thing in other nations' practice.

@cyberpunkworld Ай бұрын

Yes, it is in the Proverbs I think.

@lordmaclennan1668 5 ай бұрын

2:18:00 couldn't help but think of Jesus asking Thomas to put his hand in Jesus' side...holes made in his body for our wounds to be placed in.

@Erin-ej3qj 6 ай бұрын

What was Fr. Boniface saying around 30:00 about a group demonstrating how to pray for healing for a miracle? It seems un-Catholic to me to expect that we can demonstrate how to wield God’s power like a presentation at a conference. Does anyone have more info on those encounter school of ministry intensives?

@scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal 5 ай бұрын

I was struck by the same comment. I don't know anything about them though. My assumption was that they would pray and the form of healing would be up to the Spirit. But we are called to make healing prayer as Christians

@luiiia 6 ай бұрын

❤

@jeanne8817 6 ай бұрын

Hello any help please ❤ trying to buy hubby a gift from your store! Coupon code?

@marystermer5983 2 ай бұрын

So often I feel like I need or would like/love a spiritual Director. The thought comes to me that perhaps I should take classes to become a spiritual Director because of the need. Does that make any sense?

@CICMCB 4 ай бұрын

My introduction to Fr. Hicks. So enjoyed this interview but I wish Matt would not have interrupted him so much.

@Poeina 6 ай бұрын

if you are looking for ways to grow your faith and serve God you can always ask your priest or the Legion Of Mary at your parish and they probably have all kinds of options of things you could do to build up your community and your faith at the same time.

@thecklagarcia6800 6 ай бұрын

Answer to supporting the priest question there is the 7 sisters apostle which is people pray 1 day week 7 or more people of course and they pray an hour a day for the priest I have it last for a year you can do it longer of course not shorter plunger and I have seen miracalls it is so good for a priest I recommend it with all my heart

@cyberpunkworld Ай бұрын

There's "the other guys" that "buy" you just like Joseph. :)

@angrypotato_fz 6 ай бұрын

1:42:10 Well, regarding money, in many parts of Europe we often don't use nor have cash (being paid by the employer directly to a bank account), so it's reasonable for a church to have donation options via some digital way. I have a friend who serves as a missionary priest in France (I think he leads about 6 parishes now). And while I'm terrified by the thought of the state being the owner of churches, especially with such an anti-catholic government as France has, my friend explained that it became sort of a blessing (God bringing good from a bad situation). Old churches need a lot of investment to keep them in good condition and the country is obliged to conserve them. With such a little number of parishioners it would be impossible to gather necessary funds - and the churches built after the act of claiming the churches by the country (because of this they are Church of France's possession) do face this problem gravely. Of course there are many risks connected with this situation (demolition, transforming churches into disrespectful places etc.), but for now a lot depends on the fact if the parish is actually alive and priest's decisions.

@gabriellelynch7154 6 ай бұрын

Nice shout out to ESM Encounter School of Ministry

@catkat740 5 ай бұрын

Thursday, you’re great but the sporadic images are distracting 🤪

@joshuacoll.6100 3 ай бұрын

Hey Matt, when is Fr Boniface going to read the Rule of St Benedict for Hallow? Here is a link to it on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNamhaeZ3pa2g2Q.html When you guys were talking about spiritual devotions and the one's that Benedictines keep, all I could think about is how it is The Liturgy and The Rule that help the heart ascend to Jesus. Either way take and God bless.

@sarahloffler Ай бұрын

I’m sure no one cares what I think, but I prefer simple camera work shifting between the two people without special effects, text overlays, b-roll that tries to “illustrate” what is being said. It cheapens the real conversation. It makes it feel doctored up, manipulated. It is inauthentic.