I’m listening to a Catholic podcast while I peel potatoes. It’s hosted by somebody named Matt Fradd and I’ve noticed him, but not really listened before. It was a fascinating experience.
Fradd and his guest started off talking about how this American is going to Australia to speak at a purity conference. He was talking about keeping yourself sexually pure, and so forth, and he was attacked by covens of witches.
It was interesting the way these men were talking like they were devout Protestant Christians, throwing in Catholic terminologies and jargon, but the vibrancy of the Holy Spirit in their lives was very real. It was a broadening experience to listen to.
They got off on the talking about one of the “saints” in Australia, a man I’ve never heard of and don’t know his story. Evidently he was being persecuted and was locked up in a prison, not allowed to say the mass, and given menial tasks. They talked about how, while sweeping the cells, he prayed for people that he could hear screaming in other places, and he made it a spiritual time being locked up there. Then they said this,
“He turned it into a retreat.”That thought made the listening worth while all by itself. How often do we look at hard times as persecution and hardship? I hope I never experience real persecution but I hope I have the maturity to use the time to get closer to the Lord, to turn it into a retreat. I guess a ridiculous example of that would be listening to faith building podcasts while I do menial chores like peeling potatoes.
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