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46 Shame and Tragedy: Judas Iscariot and You

Episode 46 Published 5 years, 3 months ago
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  1. Intro: Welcome to the podcast Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem!, where by God’s grace, you and I rise up and embrace the possibilities and opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth right now, in these days, all grounded in a Catholic worldview.   We are going beyond mere resilience, to rising up to the challenges in our lives and becoming even healthier in the natural and the spiritual realms.  I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.  This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor -- it short, this podcast is all about relationships -- it's all about becoming much more relational in our lives and in our faith. 
    1. This is episode 46, released on December 14, 2020
    2. and it is titled: Shame and Tragedy: Judas Iscariot and You
    3. it is the tenth episode in our series on shame.  
    4. Thank you for being here with me. 
    5. Last episode we discussed how shame can lead to idolatry.  
      1. Now we are going to look at an example of how shame did lead to idolatry 
      2. the rejection of the true God for a false god
      3. the story of Judas, whose life ended in tragedy, the tragedy of abandoning and betraying Jesus Christ, true God and true man
    6. Really excited about this episode
       
      1. Really going to look inside of Judas' mind, heart, body and soul today
    7.  
      1. Really focus on understanding what happened in his life, why did he act the way he did. 
        1. Why did he do it?  
        2. I don't accept the typical explanations for Judas' behavior because they seem too simplistic, they don't resonate at all with me.  

      1. In our fallen world, in our fallen human condition, all of us have elements of what Judas struggled with.  
        1. I believe that there is the potential in you to repeat what Judas did.  Fallen world, fallen natures.  
        2. There but for the grace of God go I.  Origin unknown, often attributed to John Bradford, Evangelical preacher of the 16th century.  
        3. We can learn from Judas' tragic end.  

    10. We are continuing to really immerse ourselves in the spiritual dimensions of shame.
       
      1. How shame on the natural level can impact us in spiritual ways 
        1. Grace builds on nature -- disorder in the natural realm undermines the spiritual life.  

      1. I like to teach through familiar stories, weaving stories together.  
        1. Especially through Scripture, really getting into the Word of God.
        2. Deeper understand of the people in the Bible stories, to see them in three dimension, bringing them to life
        3. Scripture is a gift from God to us -- a precious gift
           
          1. a way that God reveals himself to us
        4.  
          1. And a way that God reveals you to you.  If you look carefully, you can see aspects of yourself, parts of yourself in the people of Scripture 

          1. You can connect with their experience, and I am here to help you with that. 

        7. Stories help to illustrate the concepts we are learning and connect with them.  Stories give us tangible examples so that we can really grip on to what we are trying to understand.  

  2. Judas was an important, powerful, evocative and mysterious figure to me growing up from when I was 5
     
    1. I remember being about 5 years old and insisting to my mother that Good Friday should really be called "Bad Friday" because of how Jesus died.  
      1. Deeply impressed by the story of the passion and death of Jesus.  
      2. 5 and 6 year old think in bl
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