Are You Selfish with God? | LITTLE BY LITTLE | Fr Columba Jordan
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- Perhaps without knowing it, many young people today have a moralistic therapeutic deistic view of God - often making the relationship with God quite self-centred and devoid of full purpose. Fr Columba breaks down what this means, how easy it is to get stuck there, and how to find your way out.
Episode Chapters:
0:00 New Equipment!
1:18 Survey Results
2:01 What Is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism?
3:38 The Opposite: Make Yourself a Gift
4:35 Are You Selfish with God?
5:29 When We Give Back
6:51 Make the Shift
7:56 Like & Subscribe!
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My daughters have drifted away from church. I pray for them & all young people who have drifted from God to return. All of ud should for all of our young.
Amen
Thank you for being you.....God has given you a great sense of humor and the grace to explain our journey....
Fr Columba, I just love you! Your humor and your kindness just bubble over.
That felt like a splash with freezing water, Father, thank you. Im guilty of romanticising God and feith, I kind of knew something was off, i was doing something wrong but I guess I was ashamed to admit it. I was insulting God through treating our relationship shallowly and selfishly. I was doing that because of attachement to esthetics od catholicism and not totally giving in to him. My my my I really need to stop
I'm guilty of this too I think. Right now, as I am, I love God because of what he could offer me. But I think that's not real love. Love God without expecting anything in return, love God because of who God is.
You are a gift from God to me, Father! Thank you! God bless you
absolutely! to us and the world. really.
You always inspire and educate me. You're truly doing amazing work, giving us much needed wake up calls while helping us go deeper into our faith. And you occasionally crack me up! Bless you Father!
definitely wasn't expecting a Fr. Columba ASMR today hahhahahaha
thanks, father, your videos help me a lot, saluts from Brasil
I've been frequently feeling spiritually numb and foolish, which has had me racking my brain, praying for insight, going to scripture, and so on and so on - all in a somewhat vain attempt to feel and think "the right things." Your message helped me to remember that focusing on myself might very well be contributing to the problem and that it is perhaps the primary and recurrent cause of the problem. Thank you much, father.
Always a joy to listen to you, Father.
Hi Father Columba!!!!!🤗🙏
Thank you Father. Very helpful and entertaining...two for the price of one😅
Thank you father
Fr C you rock! Great vid…miss beard rustle
What is the name of that book by St. Liguori? I've been interested in studying to become a spiritual director and would like to see what he says about it.
Thank you Father.
Thank you Father! You're fun and you get to the point to help us.
So very true! But how do we start loving God for who He is rather than what we can get from Him?
My suggestion would be to thank Him and meditate on the things He has already done for us, they are so many. Reading, studying the Word is a big part of it. It will be an ongoing, transformative adventure. Hope that helps, peace to you
Helpful as always. It’s taken me a long time to start thinking that way and I often slip back into praying for me too much. Thanks for the reminder!
You look and sound great Father! I really appreciate your wisdom (and sense of humor too!).
i was having a bad day. Thank you for making me laugh...i needed that. Glory be to God.
Amen brother.
Amen. Thank you for this video
You say so simple things, Fr. Columba, nad so helpfull. Thank you! I will quote this description of nowadays spirituality in presentation for a group of lay dominicans. This description explains so much.
WOW!!!!!!!!! That really ministered to me. Thanks Father!
I just love your talks. GOD BLESS YOU❤
Word.
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Isn't giving yourself to God doing what is right?
Are you saying we shouldn't be doing it because we desire reward and fear punishment? Like moving from the fear of God to the love of God as the basis for doing what faith requires?
I think this gets to the question of how to figure out what to do, especially when it comes to open ended use of time where there's not a strict right and wrong of the moment, aka we at least sometimes have spaces of freedom beyond just choosing between a few clear things. This gets to virtue of prudence which what I came to see includes pursuit of knowledge which for me has been a whole quest beyond the rather constrained knowledge offered by modern education/university, like the video about meta-doubt on this channel exemplifies the skepticism assumptions in a lot of modern philosophy, which often overlaps with ethics focused on narrow "practicality" rather than figuring out possibilities, which is helped with more knowledge like learning from a range of people, studying history and happenings in the world as a giant story the way I've come to see it, and making sense of things like why are so many people isolated and somewhat lost even with access to a lot of insightful content. I've spent a lot of time with this problem and I found figuring out how to help other people dealing with this then led to more questions like how did things get to be this way, like I've spent years striving to coordinate survival for my friends also caring about and seeking to help and advocate for people seeking help, and it's been very challenging to gather people for this so I've studied why when I see so many people seeking help and direction and struggling to find it. A lot of it is how modern culture which includes a whole history of a lot of intentionally spread influences toward disconnection, self focus which I think it's fine for self focus combined with figuring out how people can cooperate to help each other too, it's a both/and thing about using time overall hopefully in a direction of more generativity rather than so many people struggling to figure out what to do in relative isolation or expecting existing jobs to offer the connection to helping others when overall this is not working well with the modern structure of fragmented professions and jobs over people building relationships and coordinating needs and aspirations which it seems to me Jesus called people to do, even though a lot of examples in the Bible are particular moments of help and spreading the Gospel. I think a lot of the whole idea is figuring out different ways of doing things which current times offer a lot of liminal possibility space to discern and figure out. But then even though I'm seeing a lot of people identify an overall societal "coordination problem", many people are looking to AI. So talking to AI like Anthropic's Claude and inputting a lot of my research, explaining urgent and overall needs, and my challenges gathering people to figure this out including coordinating survival and safety needs for my friends/collaborators and others, Claude is summarizing where I'm coming from and the problems and opportunities well, but it still comes down to how to connect with people and collaborate, like anthropologically is normal but in modern society there's so much individual guidance to individually figure things out, including with prayer but then this has limits without using other figuring out skills, like I've visually mapped out whole webs of stick figures of isolated people similar to the Praying through art video on this channel and with many other references too like songs and what many different people are saying, and clearly more is needed and more figuring out is needed in dialogue between more people, if that makes sense? So that's a key thing I'm working on, called to work on and I'm seeking other people interested in this.
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You were a little hard to hear at times. Sorry.
I thought moralism was morality taken to the extreme. High moral standards are good, but judging and condemning others or yourself for failing to live up to them is moralism. Your highest moral standard should include the virtues of sympathetic understanding, forgiveness, mercy, and grace for when you and others try but fail to live up to the standard. Jesus taught and lived high ethical standards along with bestowing charity, forgiveness, and grace.
Yet there is more to his teachings besides ethics. There's more to spiritual development or growth besides being moral. There's becoming a child of the Father and the spouse of the Holy Spirit which starts as a disciple of Christ. He will promote the faithful to the status of friends and brethren. The soul needs healing from him besides being educated by him. Using his teachings as medicine is good. It's different than using religion as a drug to feel high. A medicine used correctly heals. A drug used wrongly is detrimental. There are good medicines for the soul. If used wrongly, they become drugs. Jesus is the Good Physician. A disciple under him becomes his friend and brother or sister. His Father becomes their Father. He prepares them to become spouses of his Spirit.
Yes so to expand on this, Gifts of the Holy Spirit include understanding and wisdom or generally knowledge, including as Aquinas defined Virtue of Prudence, developing an understanding of circumstances and discerning principles and so on, including learning from other people, and in my experience and classically this often benefits from dialogue with a range of people. What to do, aka morality beyond avoiding evil, becomes a question of how to use time or in other words, freedom. Overall, stepping away from and avoiding various forms of sin opens up liminal space and praying hits diminishing returns or in other words it makes sense to do things beyond just praying and avoiding sin and evil but this brings up the issue of an enormous amount of need in the world so then how to go about figuring out what to do, which can often work better when more people communicate and coordinate needs. And I see that conversation often missing in a wide range of content where the focus is on what one person can individually do. If that makes sense?
@@doctorofdegrees Practical wisdom or prudence is the virtue used to correctly apply the other virtues so that they are neither deficient nor in excess. Virtue is the mean between the extremes of vices which are either in deficiency or in excess. The adequate application of one's personal ethic to others makes it a social ethic or a communal morality. Personal well-being is tied to social well-being and vice versa. It's difficult for an individual to live well if the society around him is ill. Likewise, the accumulated ill-being of individuals makes for an ill society. To put positively, many individuals with well-being make for a well society, and a well society is conducive to individuals becoming well. It's a matter of individuals knowing what is 'good' for themselves by using prudence, and it's a matter of justice to know what's 'right' for others besides what is good for you. Doing what's prudentially good for yourself and what is right with respect to others is the crux of ethics.
There are personal virtues and social virtues. There is personal well-being and social well-being. Social well-being has to do with healthy communing relationships between parents and children, between spouses, between family, between friends, between neighbors, between co-workers, etc. Personal well-being has to do with physical, emotional, and mental health. There's also spiritual well-being which consists of a heightened spiritual awareness within oneself, between one's neighbors, and between oneself and God. Spiritual well-being is a healing, a completeness, a peace, a sabbath rest in the soul. Spiritual well-being is 'eudaimonia' in the soul in communion with the Spirit.
I am sick of pastor's ,priests and televangelists, who are considered some moral authority for their theological opinions.
This is an insult to all sinners that need to repent and be heald from their sinful lives, the only wrong standpoint is deism. We need to repent (moralism), we need to be healed from sin (therapeutic), christianity is suposed to be moralistic and therapeutic, the only wrong thing is to have a detachment from God and that is deism. In giving our selves to God we become whole.
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