A Catholic perspective on depression and anxiety with Deacon George Urenas, police veteran and hospital chaplain. Discover how faith, forgiveness, community, and daily prayer bring hope and healing.
Discover the four temperaments God gave you and how they shape your spiritual life, leadership, relationships, and growth in holiness. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of choleric and sanguine personalities and how grace perfects nature.
Joy, anger, and sadness can intensify spiritual warfare. Fr. Francis Ching explains how to discern desolation, stop anger from becoming sin, choose deep Christian joy, and bring emotions to Jesus with trust and conversion.
Why does a loving and powerful God allow suffering? Discover the Catholic explanation rooted in free will, original sin, and the redemptive meaning of suffering united to Christ.
Fear is not from God. Discover how Catholic spiritual warfare, surrender, and inner healing lead to true freedom and peace in Christ.
Desolation is not spiritual failure but a moment of testing and growth in the Catholic spiritual life. When consolation is withdrawn, the soul is called to remain faithful, resist discouragement, and persevere in prayer, trusting that grace is always present even when it is not felt.
St. Paul wrote Ephesians from prison to a community facing real spiritual pressure. In chapter 6, he reveals the armour of God and teaches how truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word of God, and prayer prepare us for daily spiritual warfare.
What is the most dangerous game the devil plays? Not open attacks, but subtle deception. This episode reminds us that evil works most effectively when it draws souls away from prayer, trust, and life in grace. True protection is found in fidelity to Christ, the sacraments, and a vigilant spiritual life rooted in the Church.
Many Catholics imagine that the devil targets those far from God, but spiritual tradition teaches the opposite. The most subtle attacks are aimed at those striving for holiness, using deception disguised as good intentions. This episode explores how false zeal, disordered priorities, and confusion between feelings and God’s will can slowly undermine the spiritual life, and how humility, obedience, and fidelity protect the soul.
Saint Ignatius teaches that the enemy works in secrecy, whispering thoughts he hopes we never reveal. When we bring these hidden struggles to the light through humility and wise counsel, his deception collapses. Vigilance, openness and discernment safeguard the soul on the path to holiness.
