Purified by Fire with David Suess

Purified by Fire with David Suess

"Purified by Fire" with David Suess, who will show how practical the Catholic Church is to building the peace, love and joy in family and work life while deepening their relationship with God through the transformative power of Catholic spirituality, sacraments and Church teaching.

Episodes

February 24, 2019 46 mins
Life really sucks, but do you ever wonder why? In this episode of "Purified by Fire," we are going to discuss why life sucks, why there is evil and why God allows it. The suffering in this world is made for us to grow in holiness and love. All we have to do is embrace it and allow it to chisal and mold us into the great loving saint that God is calling us to be. Every day we are "Purified by Fire" to become what God wills us to b...
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Millions of Americans will be celebrating St. Valentine's day this year with candy, flowers, romantic dinners, cards, etc. But does this really help us find true love and deepen our relationships? Those who are married, engaged, or even dating understand that they were at first attracted by something that made them get more intimate with the other person. Maybe it was their looks, or conversation, or some suffering that made the r...
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Have you ever been all chained up, either emotionally or intellectually or feel Paralyzed or limited. As Catholics we tend to bottle ourselves up and see the world as a "don’t do this" or "what not do" as opposed, to wow we can do so much, there is so much we can do. God only gave us 10 Commandments of "do nots" and yet most Catholics think the world revolves around millions and million of "do nots". In this episode you will fin...
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Today's episode is about our talents that God has given us. How we can discover them, and how we can use them, in the service of God, even in a hostile environment. We sometimes have this idea that we can only evangelize if we are doing apologetics or preaching about our faith, but our talents whatever they are - music, acting, business, entrepreneurship or leading/managing - can be used to evangelize. I have a guest speaker, Andre...
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Have you ever been in a crisis situation and just seemed to get paralyzed by fear or became extremely angry and started lashing out at others rather than trying to help others? We have all seen it. The parent who is yelling at his teenage son for getting into a car accident rather than helping the teenager resolve the accident. Or maybe it is the charity organizer who is so overwhelmed with crises that he/she lashes out at others....
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Today's episode is about helping to cure your identity crises. I think so many people have identity crises that they really do not know who they are. They are either chasing after something, like money or a career, or they want to be something else other than themselves. They might even be running away from something, such as the past or other people. The cure to identity crises is reflecting on life, so you can really discover who...
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Our destiny for greatness and putting meaning into our lives. If I asked you right now what is your greatest attribute or accomplishments, what would it be? Would it be your talent as a musician or actor, your beauty or your intelligence, your career, what is that great attribute or accomplishment of yours? The American Dream says "we can do and be anything and be success with hard work". The problem with all of these attributes ...
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What makes a really great relationship and how to build one in a family. How many of us really know how to build a beautiful relationship or even identify what a truly beautiful relationship is? I think we have this idea that once we get married, we will instantly have a great marriage and family. I call it the fairy tale syndrome. "And they lived happily ever after….". And then as soon as they don't live "Happily ever after…" an...
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Today's episode is bringing peace into our lives; it is the advent season and a season of hustle and bustle where the world pressures us to buy presents and do so much in a short period of time. If you are like me, I tend to wait the last minute to get those items. But how to bring peace into our lives in this season? (December 21, 2018)
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Today's episode is an interview with Dominick Pepito about Catholic entrepreneurship and how it plays and important role in evangelization. We are also going to discuss the crises of the Church and how they affect Catholic businesses and evangelization and how Catholic entrepreneurship can help heal the massive heart attack in the Church caused by the scandal. (December 14, 2018)
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Today's episode is about sense of belonging, teamwork, and fellowship and how our actions effect those around us. God has given us a desire to belong and be accepted among people. We see that in childhood development where kids will join groups and socialize and don't want to be considered different or unusual. Being ostracized or having a stigma is considered bad. All of us are deeply hurt when our sense of belonging is destroyed,...
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We are going to compare the Marine Corps dramatic change of embracing of maneuver warfare in the 1980's to Vatican II. There are great similarities between the two changes. Both of them greatly impacted how "sub-delegation" and the authority/obedience chain got disrupted, which was a game changer, both negatively and positively. The Marine Corps was able to adapt with a simple but effective sub-delegation method. This method can...
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Most of the issues of the Catholic Church, government, business, society, and even family is this little to no understanding of "sub delegation". Anarchy in any organization, whether in a family, business, or government, is because of the breakdown in sub-delegation. Sub-delegation gives the purpose or meaning for both authority and obedience. Sub-delegation is the middle layer or life blood between authority and obedience. It h...
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Today's episode is about giving up. We give up because we don't have the patience or drive to keep going on. We give up on work, marriage, business, our dreams, but more importantly some even give up in becoming a saint. It is so easy to give up because life is difficult. But as Christians, we don't give up, we don't back down, we always move forward, and we have the hope and love of God to carry us on. (November 16, 2018)
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What is the meaning of life and why are we born? To answer those questions, we must understand death and what happens to us after death. It's ironic that to put real meaning and purpose to our lives, we must contemplate death. (November 9, 2018)
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There so many questions, fears, and hopes about death. Why is there death? What is the meaning of death? What is it to die? How many of us block out the idea of death, until a tragedy occurs or death in a family member. And yet even when we block it out, we flaunt with death, by watching war movies or horror movies, or even dramas like CSI, NCIS or other shows that talk about autopsy. We have plenty of memorials to understand how p...
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Today's episode is about a sense of belonging, teamwork, and fellowship and how our actions affect those around us. God has given us a desire to belong and be accepted among people. We see that in childhood development, where kids will join groups and socialize and don't want to be considered different or unusual. Being ostracized or having a stigma is considered bad. All of us are deeply hurt when our sense of belonging is destroy...
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We sometimes limit Truth as telling the truth or perhaps theological truths that divinely reveled by God through either the Bible or tradition. But Catholics are not gnostics. Knowing the truth is not he objective of our Faith. Truth is more then "telling the truth" or theology, Truth is not a something, but some one. Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." So truth is al...
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Episode 34: What is trust and why do we trust others and God. Can we really trust God? Why is it so difficult for even pious people to trust God. Many of us want to trust God, but wanting to trust God does not mean we really trust Him. Hopefully, this episode will help identify what the road blocks in trusting God are and how we can overcome them, so that we can truly say "Jesus I trust in You". Guest speaker Fr. Terrance, FL (Oct...
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Episode 33: Mercy is so important to relationships. It is the "buffer" between individuals in a relationship so relationships don't fall apart. Many Families fall under the "spirit of criticism" rather then the spirit of mercy, which can tear down a family or another person self esteem. This spirit of criticism can hit even pious families. Guest speaker Fr. Terrance, FI. (October 5, 2018)
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