Episode Details

We reflect on Saint Alphonsus Liguori as a teacher for anyone weighed down by guilt, showing how God’s mercy meets us without denying the truth about sin. We contrast Herod’s love of spiritual “inspiration” with the real conversion the Gospel demands, and we ask what it looks like to let grace redirect our lives. 
• Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s journey from undefeated lawyer to priest and bishop 
• A single humiliating loss becoming the turning point for conversion 
• Fear-based preaching and why it keeps people from confession 
• God desiring our salvation more than we do 
• Jeremiah and John the Baptist speaking truth without chasing approval 
• Herod as a warning about listening without changing 
• The devil’s two lies about sin being too small or too big 
• Why conversion needs truth joined to mercy 
• A practical examination of where we resist God’s call to change 

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